SirQuackTheDuck
@SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world
- Comment on UK needs cyber security professionals, but won't pay up 3 weeks ago:
The US does pay significantly higher, but with enormous costs. My senior full stack engineer position would be about 60k/year at the government, which is a significant income to Dutch standaards.
My monthly costs are around 1400 per month, the rest used for savings and fun.
- Comment on have you ever been given a warning or suspension for using profane language at work? 3 weeks ago:
1 out of 4 is fence?
- Comment on The ability to be spontaneous in life is directly proportion to the size of your bank account 4 weeks ago:
Ah yeah, as a DINK, this is a great formula
- Comment on SpacebarChat - a selfhosted, Discord-compatible communication platform 1 month ago:
It’s a convenience over privacy thing. If the api is discord compatible you lose the e2e on that channel / server, or make the api e2e but then existing bots need modifying
- Comment on Project Analyzing Human Language Usage Shuts Down Because ‘Generative AI Has Polluted the Data’ 1 month ago:
Imagine being an author whose sole income is writing books.
Here comes an AI that stole your work and is asked by a customer of OpenAI to summarise your books. It does so perfectly and the issuer is able to use your results freely, since they think it’s AI generated and doesn’t require attribution.
You receive nothing in return.
Good luck making a living.
- Comment on CrowdStrike unhappy with “shady commentary” from competitors after outage 2 months ago:
Hey, they gave some people an Uber Eats coupon
- Comment on If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"? 2 months ago:
A place I used to work at had that… The corp had rolled out a non-delete policy with something akin to
*master, so when someone made a `abrv_master’ branch it got protected and couldn’t be deleted anymore. - Comment on Shart, not fart 3 months ago:
That’s just a metal concert though
- Comment on Dutch toilets 3 months ago:
You’d be shit out of luck
- Comment on Headlines 4 months ago:
Side note that this graph is already 10 years old. It might be a trend…
- Comment on After appeal to Musk, X suspends accounts that outed neo-Nazi cartoonist 7 months ago:
Alt+F4 it is then.
- Comment on xkcd #2905: Supergroup 8 months ago:
Most xkcd’s are perfectly fitting for this magazine:
- Comment on This should be fun 8 months ago:
The key to a successful marriage
- Comment on Am I still in time to jump on the Taylor Swift train... *ahem*... plane? 8 months ago:
PoopDrone™
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 8 months ago:
This is Windows 11 though
- Comment on Another “patent troll” defeated by Cloudflare and its army of bounty seekers 9 months ago:
Yes, that was Blackbird Technologies in 2019 (it’s mentioned in the article).
- Comment on This coffee shop uses AI to measure the productivity of their employees and the time spent in the shop per customer. Welcome to capitalist innovation. 9 months ago:
This is just the machine learning-powered pattern recognition we’ve had for at least a decade now.
AI has become an umbrella term, but this isn’t new tech.
- Comment on Which OS do you use for your homeserver? 9 months ago:
I disagree
- Comment on Government bonds anyone? 9 months ago:
doesn’t show up somewhere
Oh look, it’s a scheme.
You’re 99.5% sure getting screwed over - Comment on Making a PDF that’s larger than Germany 9 months ago:
There’s probably an emacs plugin for that.
- Comment on Ultraviolet light can kill almost all the viruses in a room. Why isn’t it everywhere? 9 months ago:
Ah, a fellow user of the Kitchen Gun? Good to meet you
- Comment on Beeper users say Apple is now blocking their Macs from using iMessage entirely 10 months ago:
As said by noodlejetski, iMessage usage in the EU is very low. It hasn’t been excempt completely though, it’s pending investigation.
- Comment on greenland for the win 10 months ago:
Ice With Spice™
- Comment on Republicans slam broadband discounts for poor people, threaten to kill program 11 months ago:
Oh wow, I have 5G on my phone and it served its purpose when the cables were being repaired (which took a few months), but I’m not pulling 1000/1000 mbit with latencies of under 6 ms from the air, and it only costs like 35 eur / month
- Comment on My dear Doctor, it's all true 11 months ago:
Found it on Instagram: www.instagram.com/jkr.art/p/CvvBvm8t091/
- Comment on None of these anchors are real: Channel 1 plans for AI to generate news, broadcasters 11 months ago:
Here’s a marker to the promotional video embedded in the junk; youtu.be/yRFDG1QltBI?t=29
- Comment on Steve Jobs Rigged The First iPhone Demo By Faking Full Signal Strength And Secretly Swapping Devices Because Of Fragile Prototypes And Bug-Riddled Software 11 months ago:
The final goal in life: the eternal slumber.
- Comment on Should I move to Docker? 11 months ago:
I learned “creating a zip” the hard way when I submitted an exam but forgot the -r on creation, meaning all the to-review code was gone.
- Comment on Manager: This task only takes 30 minutes. Why did it take you the whole day? 11 months ago:
Nah, most commits don’t need a body
- Comment on Elon Musk on X antisemitism controversy: “Don’t advertise. Go f*** yourself” 11 months ago:
Desperation affects everyone, even the cocky, far-right, ultra-rich extremists.