clif
@clif@lemmy.world
Just a geek, finding my way in the fediverse.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 5 days ago:
I just referred to the BOFH in class last week.
… Nobody caught the reference but it made me happy.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 5 days ago:
Me too
- Comment on You no longer need JavaScript: an overview of what makes modern CSS so awesome 5 days ago:
2005: Because server side is PHP… Obviously.
- Comment on You no longer need JavaScript: an overview of what makes modern CSS so awesome 5 days ago:
Life hacks. Get on board.
- Comment on Taco Bell Says 'No Más' to AI Drive-Thru Experiment 1 week ago:
Me to all restaurants, stores, basically anybody : I’m not installing your fucking app.
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 3 weeks ago:
Somewhere out there is a person with a single folder named “music”, with zero sub folders, containing thousands upon thousands of tracks with names like “1.mp3” and “1 (1).mp3” and they’re totally okay with it.
Just thinking about it makes my skin crawl.
- Comment on ‘We didn’t vote for ChatGPT’: Swedish Prime Minister under fire for using AI 4 weeks ago:
Something I found today - ask it for the lyrics of your favorite song/artist. It will make something up based on the combination of the two and maybe a little of what it was trained on… Even really popular songs (I tried a niche one by Angelspit first then tried “Sweet Caroline” for more well known)
The new gpt-oss model replies with (paraphrased) “I can’t do that because it is copyrighted material” which I have a sneaking suspicion is intentional so there’s an excuse for not showing a very wrong answer to people who might start to doubt it’s ““intelligence””
… Like they give a flying fuck about copyright.
- Comment on Corruption fetishists 2 months ago:
Hey! You can’t say that on the internet! You have to say
fuck - Comment on Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital 2 months ago:
Promise in one hand, shit in the other, let me know which one fills up first.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 3 months ago:
I cut my teeth on Linux when red hat was trying to make things “user friendly” with control panel like guis but they consistently couldn’t do what I wanted so I had to learn the terminal anyway.
25+ years later, I’ll use a gui if it works and it’s easy, but I still have trust issues that I don’t have with a config file. You put shit in a config file, it’s going to do what you asked (right or wrong) or sigterm trying… And I appreciates that.
That said, I do mostly gui config on my daily driver these days. Servers however… No gui, no problem.
- Comment on Unpowered SSD endurance investigation finds severe data loss and performance issues 4 months ago:
At least you didn’t have to worry about Ruin manipulating it.
… Sorry, I’ve been reading the Mistborn series and just finished “The Hero of Ages”
- Comment on Lemmy has the ideal number of posts for me. Just enough to have a good time but not too many that I'm scrolling forever 4 months ago:
I appreciates that about you.
I don’t know if I’ve actually seen one of your posts, but thank you nonetheless.
- Comment on Lemmy has the ideal number of posts for me. Just enough to have a good time but not too many that I'm scrolling forever 4 months ago:
The cycle continues
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #7 5 months ago:
Don’t mind me, I’m just going to keep up voting these posts because they’re so well done.
- Comment on What host names do you use? 5 months ago:
Mine are named after the penguins from the Madagascar movie : Skipper, Private, Kowalski, and Rico.
Unfortunately there’s only four so I often supplement with a suffix. For example, I’ve got an old windows laptop kicking around that is “rico-w”
… I should really commit to a naming scheme with a wider array of options.
- Comment on Do the ultra-rich consume popular media? 9 months ago:
I’ve never met a mason that didn’t watch TV and listen to the radio but my sample size is only a few hundred.
- Comment on Votes won’t be counted for Arkansas medical marijuana ballot measure, court says 10 months ago:
This is accurate.
They pulled similar tomfuckery with the abortion amendment ballot initiative.