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@4grams@awful.systems
- Comment on Make a note 1 day ago:
I too have been to Jamaica. That second bite of brownie was an experience.
- Comment on Growing up in a conservative house hold where as far back as I could remember running away from these people was my strongest instinct. Its good to know I was 100% correct. 3 days ago:
I didn’t mention parties, shit for brains.
- Comment on Growing up in a conservative house hold where as far back as I could remember running away from these people was my strongest instinct. Its good to know I was 100% correct. 4 days ago:
But think of the internet points. You are hoarding all of them, Abundance114 needs some too!
Aside… I totally agree with your original post. 40 years I’ve been bitching about my awful family. For 39, the rest of them have been telling me what an asshole I am for speaking my mind. For some reason, they have been agreeing with me more and more over the past year.
- Comment on If you had any doubts that Know-Your-Customer laws were evil, here is one very good reason: personal data of 1 BILLION people just leaked. 5 days ago:
And it’s all part of ai training data now too.
I used to wonder when I watched “Star Trek TNG” as a kid, how they could ask for and get such detailed biographical information of a long dead person, enough to recreate that person convincingly, in a holodeck. Well, I guess I have my answer.
I really thought I’d be living in something like the federation one day, instead I’m here boning up on the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition.
- Comment on Facebook is absolutely cooked 5 days ago:
I garnet been on facebook in like 10 years, but sounds like it’s exactly as I picture it.
- Comment on Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State 1 week ago:
As a working dad with kids, I like my doorbell cam. My self hosted, non-cloud, local only doorbell cam that is.
My f’ing camera feeds are mine.
- Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? 1 week ago:
People should think about a NASS or Home servers like they do about owning a vehicle.
I wholeheartedly agree. Hell, home server/nas should be more common than cars, I don’t drive every day, but my data is used every minute of every day.
- Comment on Website 2 weeks ago:
Why it was funny in the first place. I knew I was messing with the best.
- Comment on Website 2 weeks ago:
I swear on my life this happened to me but I don’t care if you believe me or not.
- Comment on Website 2 weeks ago:
This goes back some years, back when the ping of death was still a thing. I used to hang out in IRC channels and someone decided they needed to show me what a real hacker could do. The dork asked for my IP which was hilarious to begin with, so I replied “127.0.0.1”. About 2 seconds later I see them disconnect from IRC.
A minute goes by and they are back online, spitting mad. Tells me the m lucky their computer crashed but I’d better get ready…and disconnected again.
Back again and folks are dying laughing thanks to my 1337 teenage hacker skills but eventually someone spills that 127.0.0.1 is localhost. Instantly I’m talking to zero cool again and was too scared to give out my actual address. Being a hardened nerd, this time I complied.
I was on slackware and had already figured out their game from the get go; oh and I actually knew how to find an IP. So right in the middle of this future titan of industry’s insults and threats…they disconnect one last time. 😎
- Comment on More than 135,000 OpenClaw instances exposed to internet in latest vibe-coded disaster 2 weeks ago:
Nope, nothing useful. Right now I am playing with making some skills to do some rudimentary network testing. I figure it’s always nice to have a remote system to ping or nslookup or check a website from a remote location. I have it hooked to a telegram bot (burner account and restricted to just me) and I can ask it to ping or get me a screenshot or speedtest, etc. from anything it can reach on the internet.
Only purpose right now is to have something to show off :).
- Comment on More than 135,000 OpenClaw instances exposed to internet in latest vibe-coded disaster 2 weeks ago:
lol, straight from the redundant department of redundancies.
I do words good.
- Comment on More than 135,000 OpenClaw instances exposed to internet in latest vibe-coded disaster 2 weeks ago:
I am playing with it, sandboxed in an isolated environment, only interacting with a local LLM and only connected to one public service with a burner account. I haven’t even given it any personal info, not even my name.
It’s super fascinating and fun, but holy shit the danger is outrageous. Multiple occasions, it’s misunderstood what I’ve asked and it will fuck around with its own config files and such. I’ve asked it to do something and the result was essentially suicide as it are its own settings. I’ve only been running it for like a week but have had to wipe and rebuild twice already (probably could have fixed it, but that’s what a sandbox is for). I can’t imagine setting it loose on anything important right now.
But it is undeniably cool, and watching the system communicate with the LLM model has been a huge learning opportunity.
- Comment on DVDs and public transit: Boycott drives people to ditch Big Tech to protest ICE 2 weeks ago:
I’m know kids these days who are preferring a dumb phone, now physical media is making a comeback.
Has our surveillance economy finally backfired enough that people are starting to reclaim ownership? God I hope so.
- Comment on Believing you will retire before you die now requires the same faith as believing in heaven 3 weeks ago:
I have. I’m working on consolidating and figuring out a plan. I’m admittedly less astute financially than I should. Didn’t really expect all this shit to happen.
- Comment on Believing you will retire before you die now requires the same faith as believing in heaven 3 weeks ago:
I’m late 40’s right now, always assumed social security was a pipe dream so I’ve diligently put away money in 401ks and IRA’s. I no longer believe they will be worth anywhere much longer.
Was a nice country, for a little while, at least that’s what my parent’s generation tells me, I’ve never been here for it.
- Comment on Microsoft lost $357 billion in market cap as stock plunged most since 2020 3 weeks ago:
Pretty sure they already have been. I’m convinced more money makes you more stupid.
- Comment on Does self hosting your own internet count? 3 weeks ago:
It’s a lot of fun, but not an internet replacement yet. They did just come out with a new dial band that has enough bandwidth to do something useful. Can’t wait to give it a try.
Still very worth setting up. I have a node that runs in my attic, I can get good single most anywhere in my neighborhood, and I have enough nodes nearby that I can pretty much communicate with people all over the metro area (I’m in the twin cities).
- Comment on Most of the misery in the world is the direct result of too much money in too few unscrupulous hands. This is not only the cause of the vast majority of human suffering, but also of climate change, wh 4 weeks ago:
Right, it’s not just capitalism, many systems reward such behavior. But we are in a capitalist society now, that does not work for those reasons. Yes, bad laws and regulations are the problem, but they are there because the unscrupulous set them in favor of themselves.
I’m no fan any ism, they are frameworks that all need careful, strong laws and regulations. Don’t get me wrong, some are better starting points but it takes diligence and an engaged populace to keep them working.
The problem is, normal people got complacent while the malignant ones continued to ruthlessly play the game.
- Comment on TikTok claimed bugs blocked anti-ICE videos, Epstein mentions; experts call BS 4 weeks ago:
Why doesn’t anyone see this for what it is. They put monitoring for certain keywords but fucked up the code and it blocked some users through incompetence. They fixed the filters, but I guarantee they are sending reports to the White House…
- Comment on Most of the misery in the world is the direct result of too much money in too few unscrupulous hands. This is not only the cause of the vast majority of human suffering, but also of climate change, wh 4 weeks ago:
What got us here is a complicated but simple story. Those without morals have no problem cheating the system and using other people. Capitalism rewards this behavior so it as inevitable that the unscrupulous will continue to vacuum up the money and power. We are experiencing the end game of this social construct.
- Comment on Do you have a plan for your self-hosted data if you die? 4 weeks ago:
I figure by then, it will all be part of some AI training set one day. Hopefully my shitty writing and bad opinions poison the shit out of it.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I like it, do it! Have you read Altered Carbon? Has some similar themes. I loved the book, might be some good inspiration. I’ll read yours when it’s out, love that genre :).
- Comment on London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia for governments and billionaires 4 weeks ago:
The rush are the problem, something needs to be done about them. I’m hungry.
- Comment on Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim 5 weeks ago:
Thanks, I’ll look there. I usually just go Amazon or Newegg (easy returns if bad) but I’m sure there are better deals out there.
- Comment on Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim 5 weeks ago:
I used to pay like $69 for them in the US. Looks like they add a hundred bucks or so to the price…
- Comment on Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim 5 weeks ago:
I’ve got 30tb or so made up of 4 and 10tb used drives. All I’ll buy anymore. In fact, I need to change out of of my parity drives. Hopefully used market is still somewhat affordable.
- Comment on How to gain outside information / communicate safely if your government becomes oppressive and shuts down the internet? 1 month ago:
I already have my nodes up and running. It’s been picking up like mad lately, mic more chatter than this time last year.
- Comment on Elijah Radcliffe 1 month ago:
he’s got harry potter money, takes roles for the fun of it now…
- Comment on How do you feel about the removal of tokens from arcades ? 1 month ago:
They arrived when arcade machines started charging more than one quarter per play. They are there to make it easier to spend money, I mean once you bought them, why not spend them all?
I’m old though.