clif

@clif@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify to raise prices in September⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The cycle continues

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck / Gaming News #7⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is accurate.

  They pulled similar tomfuckery with the abortion amendment ballot initiative.