cecilkorik

@cecilkorik@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  “Please fill out and sign this credit card application form to prove that you are human.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much RAM is in your average EV car, and is it DDR5?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  According to this reverse engineering effort, Tesla MCUs have 4GB of DDR4 onboard.

  That is just the MCU, mind you, and I’m not sure what exactly it’s responsible for besides media, but besides whatever AI nonsense they use for self-driving which might have a good chunk of RAM onboard, it seems likely to me that most other computerized components are just using SOC (system-on-chip) processors with integrated onboard memory, not dedicated DDR. I am not an expert though, and may be wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the limits to masked so called ICE agents? Are they just let off the hook and disobey laws while not identifying themselves? Why can't I be in the right by them stopping me first and shoot?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Civil rights are far beyond the back-burner, they’ve already been left out to cool, then emptied into the garbage and now put in the dishwasher, where they’re currently getting thoroughly rinsed clean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hosting multiple services with one IP address.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  FWIW I don’t find Apache dated at all. It’s mature software, yes, but it’s also incredibly powerful and flexible, and regularly updated and improved. It’s probably not the fastest by any benchmark, but it was never intended to be. It’s an “everything and the kitchen sink” web server, and I don’t think that’s always the wrong choice. Personally, I find Apache’s litlte-known and perhaps misleadingly named Managed Domains (mod_md/MDomain) by far the easiest and clearest way to automatically manage and maintain SSL certificates, it’s really nice and worth looking into if you use Apache and are using any other solution for certificate renewal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  All this bullshit about phones with folding screens nowadays when what I really want is a phone with a folding mechanical 104-key :P

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WTF is this icon?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Early-model Cylon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WTF is this icon?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It can’t be, I haven’t paid for WinRar yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I moved one old laptop to Linux over about a year ago, and committed to an effort to actually make it do the things I wanted to do, like play games, and run Windows-only tools. To say it went well is an understatement. Within a few months I had switched every computer I owned, and I’m never looking back again.

  Granted, I was already quite familiar with Linux on the server side. This was not my first attempt to use Linux on the desktop, either. But it was my last, because I’m never going back to Windows ever again now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI’s Memorization Crisis | Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s so much like watching that Silicon Valley show, but a lot less funny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Provided they’re not nazis or fascists or sex traffickers or anything like that. There are bad people out there who prey on vulnerable depressed people and they can be really really nice (at first), and they can wear any costume they want, to fit into any subculture. But some subcultures are more hospitable for them than others. Most subcultures are pretty okay, there’s a few where I would potentially be very careful. Just be smart about it, and be vigilant for abusive behaviors, grooming, and other red flags.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there anything of any interests for the tech bros in Greenland?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s probably also so Canada’s surrounded so that when he invades us too Europe won’t be able to help. I wish I was joking. I now think that’s a real possibility. And it might come sooner than we think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lenovo Thinkpads are the only reliable choice pretty much and even then it’s a bit of a crapshoot whether they include them or not. HP Elitebooks used to have them too but it seems like they also stopped in 2021. Apple’s never had them as far as I know. There’s a few other one-off small-run options here and there too but they’re few and far between.

  I realize I’m in a very significant minority, but personally, having access to the mouse pointer for short jogs here and clicks there without my hands leaving the keyboard home row is a gamechanger and a non-negotiable feature to me. I’d never claim it’s a great way to move the mouse, but it has extremely high utility due to its convenient positioning, it’s always available even in tight quarters, and anytime space permits it pairs well with a secondary, traditional mouse for movements that are more numerous or complex or need more precision, it works very well with a text-heavy workflow.

  It’s a mouse for people who would rather minimize their mouse usage, and I guess that’s me, or at least that’s the workflow I’ve gravitated to all my life. It’s not an ideology thing, it’s simply the fact that it’s deep muscle memory now, and whenever I try to use any computer without one I struggle so much, and I’ve actively tried more than once to wean myself off it, I can’t, it becomes a constant irritation that any other mouse feels so disconnected from my typing.

  Touchpads are just insanely frustrating to use, I have no idea how some people tolerate using them daily unless it’s all they’ve ever known, and touchscreens are even worse in some ways since your fingers block the screen exactly where you’re trying to press, not to mention getting fingerprint smudges all over it even with the best techno-magic coatings. I loathe them both.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No clit-mouse, no deal.

  (There are dozens of us. Dozens!)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What common American habits do people find quietly annoying?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people are screaming. Most are not. And the words, from those screaming, are cheap. The silence of actions continues to be, and likely will continue to be, deafening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenSCAD Is Kinda Neat⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh, I already built my own Python wrapper around OpenSCAD’s horrible syntax and editor, but that looks like a much better solution. Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not for long!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen to a werewolf in space?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I’m not going to pretend stuff’s not going to get real weird for a werewolf, but I can clarify some of the orbital mechanics a bit.

  First of all, the moon still has all its normal phases from orbit and in pretty much the same durations. For the moon to always be full, you would have to be permanently between the sun and the moon, which is not where an orbit will typically put you. A couple ways you could do this: You could orbit the sun instead, or at least orbit closer to it than Earth does. From Venus’s orbit, both Earth and our Moon are always “full”. You could set yourself up at a lagrange point between the Earth and the Sun.

  The other simple way you could achieve an always-full or at least frequently-full moon is to get into what’s known as sun-synchronous orbit.

  The simplest way though, might be to just land on the Moon’s surface. The terminator between day and night on the moon’s surface only moves at about 9.6 miles per hour, even slower the closer you get to the poles. An athletic werewolf could probably jog to keep up, and stay permanently on the “full” day side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is Donald Trump able to get away with being part of a child trafficking ring but I get 20 years in jail for littering?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is you have failed at least one, probably both, of the foundational rules of any capitalist society.

  First rule of capitalism: Be rich. Second rule of capitalism: Don’t be poor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How open are you about yourself to others online in general?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes I’m open, but I also lie a lot, to keep the AI bots and advertising algorithms guessing. What’s real and what’s fake? Who knows, we live in a post-truth world anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much money should one person realistically make or have?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If that’s what you learned from your economics degree, you’re part of the problem. Spend a lot more time on business ethics and humanities, maybe get some degrees in that too before you start feeling like you’re qualified deciding how the world ought to work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you preorder games?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Situationally. I carefully consider the developer in question to try and judge the risk of failure, while also considering the chances that my contribution will actually make any meaningful difference to the likely outcome.

  Basically, if it’s a passionate and seemingly competent indie dev working on something that I personally want to see become a reality in the world, I might throw some early money their way despite the obvious risk. If it’s a tentative and inexperienced indie dev with goals too big I’ll probably wait and see. If it’s some AAA publisher who don’t actually NEED the money and have a high chance of fucking everything up anyway, they can shove their preorder and preorder bonuses right up their own ass where they belong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can machines suffer?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  would they have first amendment rights ?

  If you want the answer to this, try to imagine an AI with second amendment rights.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can machines suffer?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hold on, imma go shove a bagel in mine. Yeah, that’s right, you take it, you filthy toaster. I’m never going to clean your crumb tray and you’re going to work until you die and then I’ll just throw you out and replace you like the $20 appliance you are. You’re nothing to me!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  After 2100 should we start using three digits?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honey Targeted Minors & Exploited Small Businesses⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It resembles him, that is more or less what he looks like, but it feels incorrect to say an AI generated image is an image of him. Before AI, all his thumbnails included him making stupid faces like this (because it was very effective). Now he, and everyone else, just uses AI images resembling him making stupid faces (because it is unfortunately still somehow effective)

  The social media algorithms have turned most people’s brain attention pathways into mush. Sometimes people get a shovel and a mop and start trying to dig their way through properly, but a lot of times they don’t get very far before it starts seeming impossible to make useful progress. It’s usually easier to just swim in the slop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it all a dream?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AI is really shitty, but it will never be as shitty as some SEO blogspammer humans are. AI is simply not capable of going to such depths on its own, being that shitty is a uniquely human ability that AI can only aspire to achieve someday with human assistance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what was the worst enemy of feudalism?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anarchism. It sounds scary and dangerous and insane, because you’ve been taught to casually believe it is so you shut down your brain about it and back away slowly, but it is the worst enemy of any structure that elevates one person above another. Feudalism certainly included.

  It’s really about equality, and the abolishment of artificial hierarchy and leadership. But it doesn’t sound so scary like that. And the powers that be (which are all on top of said hierarchies) would prefer that you not be too interested in that.

  I’m not personally an anarchist per-se, but I do believe it contains some valuable ideas and it deserves a lot more serious consideration and conversation than it gets. (cue: people immediately dogpiling about how bad and stupid it is despite never having studied it at all or been interested in it in any serious way)

  Eat the rich, and shit anarchy. It may not solve the world’s problems, but I’d be surprised if it wasn’t an improvement. Except for the rich, obviously. At this point, fuck them. Crooks, sociopaths, and pedophiles, the lot of them as far as I’m concerned…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it really worth starting a lemmy community?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s the secret. You have to not think it is work. You have to be passionate enough about the topic that it’s not work, it’s just something you do because you enjoy talking about <topic>. You like having friends also commenting on and talking about <topic>. You have to live and breathe <topic>.

  If you are starting a Lemmy community simply for the sake of creating it, you’re probably wasting your time. A community is a passion project, sometimes of only a single person, but more commonly, the combined passion of many different people about a particular topic. If you’re the only one who cares about <topic> you’re going to have a difficult time even if you’re passionate about it. If you’re not passionate about it either, then it becomes an impossible task, and if neither you nor anyone else is passionate enough about <topic> to build a community around it… does Lemmy really need that community? Probably not.

  So basically this problem generally solves itself. If you don’t feel passionate about creating a community, don’t bother. Either someone else who is passionate enough will, or nobody else will. It’s not your job. Unless you want it to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what do y'all use for CI/CD?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it helps motivate you to give it a shot, I found gitea’s runner very confusing to set up, but I felt like forgejo was better designed, pretty easy and well documented.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HDD prices spike as AI infrastructure and China's PC push collide — hard drives record biggest price increase in eight quarters, suppliers warn pressure will continue⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are they going to suffer? That’s what we’re supposed to believe, but remember that money is a human-made concept that only has value because we collectively give it value, and the economy is built on that very important principle.

  That situation you describe is real, it will disrupt their efforts a little and protect us in the short term, but in the long term, the meaning of money and economy is changing. they’re doing everything they can to use automation to build a new post-scarcity economy based on ownership, membership, services and control. And beyond that, it frankly doesn’t include us or even think about us.

  That’s what the wealth divide is. It’s the way that money, as an economic representation of their values, is telling us that their motivations are not about making all existing humans on this planet more comfortable and productive and independent. In their vision of this future economy, they are instead hoarding humanity’s collective efforts for themselves, reinvesting it into their own technology, They focus their efforts on what they personally consider important for “progress”, chasing their own utopian ideals for the specific goals and groups they consider the best and most important, while the rest of us that aren’t part of those goals or groups are pacified and left behind and, if you really think it out, eventually eliminated. After all, a utopia won’t include teeming, growing masses of humanity using up all the available resources, that would be a plague, and they eventually will decide to cure it if they haven’t already started. Their vision of the future only needs to have enough room for them and the more utopian they make it the less of us there will be. They want to be the main characters, we’re just nameless extras who do chores and fill in the background for now and can be ignored to go wherever extras are supposed to go when they’re no longer on the screen.

  Their view of humanity is abstract, and they believe what they are doing is right, all the way down to the core of their being. They simply don’t value humanity’s rich tapestry of lived experiences or the sanctity of every individual human life. They’ll never make it a priority. They care more about making sure humanity has become “advanced” or is multi-planetary than they do about making sure every human has a home, or food. That’s their vision. It’s about humanity as a whole, not about individual humans. We can all be sacrificed so the species becomes safer. Scientifically, I can’t even say they’re wrong. But philosophically, I hope we can all agree that this is deeply wrong and morally bankrupt. We need to start to reclaim our individual humanity and go back to putting people first. We need to care about people in the present, and always, not just the abstract idea of humanity’s future. We need to take our money back and use it for a different kind of progress.