Bob_Robertson_IX
@Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Big tech companies agree to not ruin your electric bill with AI data centers 1 week ago:
Oh cool, so then they won’t mind if we make what they’ve said they have agreed to as binding laws?
- Comment on Major airline bans ‘barebeaters’ across all 24 daily flights from UK airports 1 week ago:
I was in a work trip once and got on the plane, put on my noise cancelling headphones and started listening to music. My co-worker sitting next to me had his headphones on and was playing Angry Birds. After about 5 minutes I realized that I felt like I could hear the Angry Birds music… I removed my headphones and my coworker was blasting his sound, and apparently didn’t realize that his headphones had never connected. I let him know and he was very apologetic and embarrassed. When he fixed it several people sitting around us thanked me.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
My mom is what’s known as an ‘unreliable medical historian’… she very often hears something completely different from what her doctor tells her. I don’t want to say that she lies, because I think a ‘lie’ is a conscious choice that people make… but I also don’t think she’s incapable of understanding what her doctor tells her. I think she just has an idea of what the doctor is going to say, and when it is different she has a hard time letting go of her expectation and replacing it with reality.
I have no idea if this relates to your mother or situation in any way… but if I took everything my mom said her doctor told her then she is the most unique medical specimen ever. Her diabetes is unlike anyone else’s because she can still eat whatever she wants, when she wants… her doctor said that it’s not a problem. And her diabetes has changed from type 2 to type 1. As she was preparing for spine surgery she was convinced that she’d be back home, on her own in 2 weeks (it was closer to 9 months). She swears that the only surgeon that her primary care doctor wants her to see is 2 states over, 6 hours from any of her family (I’ve looked him up, he’s decent, but by no means a unique surgeon). And lots of other strange stuff over the years, including when I was a child.
- Comment on Usually a horrible interaction for all involved 5 weeks ago:
Horrible for all involved.
I’ve been the boss in this situation, and it sucks.
And a year later I was there with HR and my boss.
And a year later my boss was there with HR and his boss.
Fuck HR.
- Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App 1 month ago:
God only asks for 10%… shows you what Apple thinks of themselves.
- Comment on Self-hosting in 2025 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure 2 months ago:
It works in Europe too. It uses LoRa (A Long Range radio protocol) to be able to send messages out to other nodes, which can bounce them out to further nodes. A node can be configured to relay through the Internet to reach people in other areas.
I ordered the radio shown below from a kit on Amazon (it’s a Heltec v4 and came with a battery that isn’t pictured) and it took about 5 minutes to setup. Attaching the antenna to the board was the hardest part.
- Comment on Self-hosting in 2025 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure 2 months ago:
Great points, and there’s some amazing discussions going on here!
One thing I’d like to add is EVERYONE needs to start setting up some meshtastic nodes. It’s really easy to setup (just hook up a USB cable from your computer to a esp32 board, visit a website to get the configuration, and that’s pretty much it), it’s cheap (as little as $30) and it is secure. Build 2 nodes (one to leave at home, and another for your backpack). This way you’ll be able to communicate should the Internet become unavailable or unsafe. You can also use this at a protest so that you still have a means of communication without needing to bring your phone that the Feds will be able to track.
- Comment on Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards - X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull it? 2 months ago:
Not them… their family members. Spouses, siblings, parents, kids. There are no rules any more.
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 2 months ago:
True power comes from not using the power.
I can stand and piss… but for many reasons I prefer to sit.
- Comment on How AI broke the smart home in 2025 2 months ago:
Doing the right thing could earn them millions
But enshittifying the product will earn them hundreds of millions.
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 3 months ago:
It amazes me that so many people bought this product from Meta. When the Oculus Rift was first announced I was so excited and hopeful that we were finally going to get VR right… then they got bought by Facebook and I knew right then that I’d never own one. Here’s hoping the new Steam headset can live up to the hype.
- Comment on Calling all Dickheads! 3 months ago:
Reblog?
- Comment on We have one at home 3 months ago:
I went all in on it… I fully drank that Koolaid and was an early backer, got an extra controller and really thought it was going to be amazing. But their whole launch was so bungled that by the time I actually got it I was so disillusioned with the whole company that I couldn’t enjoy it. It sucked to have bought into the kickstarter and financed the project, and then see the product on the shelves at Target while I was still waiting on mine to be delivered. I had mine for a couple of months before reselling it at a loss.
Several years later when Stadia was announced I felt that little familiar glimmer of hope pop up, but I didn’t let myself get too excited for it. I did eventually get a couple of Stadia controllers and really enjoyed that service (and I still use those controllers today).
- Comment on Microsoft is turning Windows into an ‘agentic OS,’ starting with the taskbar 3 months ago:
Oh, I agree and that’s one reason why I think putting it into Windows is a huge mistake!
I am having fun with it because I find the tech interesting and I love seeing what I can get it to do… but it is so dumb and frustrating. But so was 3D printing 12 years ago, you’d have to fiddle with the settings, do some test prints to make sure everything was setup right, deal with a warped bed, and every print was an experiment. It was shitty, but when you got a good print, that was the best feeling. That’s how I feel about LLMs, it mostly sucks but when it works, it’s great.
I also support several open source LLM projects because that is where I think the real innovation will come from, and the technology is only going to get better like 3D printers now.
- Comment on Microsoft is turning Windows into an ‘agentic OS,’ starting with the taskbar 3 months ago:
I added Opencode to my Linux terminal and have it powered by Ollama and it has made my Linux computer even more amazing. I just tell it what I want it to do and it does it. It knows all of my servers, services, applications and scripts, has access to all of my config and data files. So when I tell it that I have some files stuck in the ‘download’ directory inside my ‘movies’ directory, I don’t have to tell it which computer that directory is located on or how to access it. I also don’t have to tell it that the files get into that directory using Radarr. So when I was having issues of my files not properly being moved from ‘download’ to ‘organized’ it could have just moved the files, which is what I was expecting… instead it looked at the config file for Radarr and suggested how I can fix it. That was pretty incredible.
Now, if Windows had done that using Copilot I wouldn’t be thrilled because that means that Microsoft has way too much knowledge about my personal network structure.
Adding agentic AI to the OS can be amazingly powerful, but it really should only be done with an LLM that you control.
Also, agentic AI is going to cause a LOT of problems because as great as my above example is, I later had an instance where I added several .docx files to my Opencode directory and asked it to convert the files to a format it can read (plain text) and then ingest the information from them. It did that, and then it wanted to delete the .docx files. I told it to leave the files alone and I’d delete them later. A couple of minutes later it again tried to delete those .docx files (it was literally trying to run the command ‘rm **/*.docx’, which I really don’t like it using wildcards with the rm command). So again, I told it not to, then I told it that I do not want it to ever remove any .docx files without my explicit permission. It apologized profusely… and then immediately tried to run the rm command again.
It’s a handy tool, but if you get lazy and let your guard down it’s going to bite you.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved 4 months ago:
Oh, I know … and that’s what makes it sad is because he could help to make the world a better place.
- Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approvedwww.businessinsider.com ↗Submitted 4 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 239 comments
- Comment on Elon Musk awarded nearly $1 trillion pay package by Tesla shareholders 4 months ago:
So he’s going to have SpaceX buy a million robotaxies and robots to drive them.
- Comment on Y'all seem to have lost track of the correct response to people crying about dead baddies 4 months ago:
So that’s the thing… in the US even our poor are rich compared to the global poor.
But you’re right, people in the US making $50k a year aren’t really the problem. The problem is the people who have the average income of the 1%. That’s people making almost $500k a year. Which is crazy to think that the income needed to join the global 1% is so much lower than the average income of the 1%.
- Comment on Y'all seem to have lost track of the correct response to people crying about dead baddies 4 months ago:
70 million people.
That’s what it will take to rid us of the top 1%.
Of course, if we’re going after the global 1% then that will be anyone making over approximately $55k USD per year.
- Comment on AI has had zero effect on jobs so far, says Yale study 5 months ago:
This study is from 2015.
Right?
- Comment on 'No one can find him': Trump drops from public view again after 'slurring' military speech 5 months ago:
“And don’t you dare celebrate!”
- Comment on pick your side 5 months ago:
My brother-in-law has a POW / MIA license plate. He lets people know that he was a POW in the War on Drugs.
- Comment on They're coming. 5 months ago:
Southern Florida shows us that the only way to defeat them is with alligators.
“We know how to take them out, General. Spread the word.”
- Comment on I felt you needed to see this 6 months ago:
I used to have a couple of hedgehogs as pets when I was younger and when I got my own place I decided to just let them run free in my apartment. It was so amazing to be chilling on the couch, watching TV and then a hedgehog scurries past.
I’m not generally for invasive species, but when I see huge murmurations of starlings this time of year I have a hard time being mad at them… I think I’d feel the same way if hedgehogs were introduced in the US.
- Comment on Space jazz music plays in background 6 months ago:
Jizz was first mentioned in canon in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi junior novelization, authored by Ryder Windham and released in 2017.
I can assure you, jizz was mentioned long before 2017!
And how the hell did someone get permission to make anything called ‘jizz’ Star Wars canon? Let’s just make ‘queef’ a popular brand of deathsticks next.
- Comment on I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate 6 months ago:
A couple of nights ago I was in the car with my 8 year old daughter and Killing In The Name Of by Rage Against the Machine came on… my instinct was to skip to the next song, but then I thought “No, this is a song she needs to hear” because if she has questions she knows that she can ask.
A couple of songs later, it was Closer by NIN… I immediately skipped to the next song.
- Comment on Four wheels good, two wheels bad: why are there no exciting cycling games? 6 months ago:
I was cleaning out my garage a few weeks ago and came across my old Commodore 64 Paperboy floppy.
- Comment on Breaking The Creepy AI in Police Cameras 6 months ago:
The trick is to tap into that power, while keeping things looking nice and neat. Most vehicles now have the license plate lights tucked away in housings. It would be nice to be able to have something that only uses the 2-4 screw holes that are used to hold the plates on since those are universal on vehicles sold in the US.
- Comment on Breaking The Creepy AI in Police Cameras 6 months ago:
The issue I see with that is you’d need to supply power to the lights, which wouldn’t be impossible, but isn’t exactly trivial.
I wonder if having a license plate frame that changes it to not be a rectangle would work? Maybe even cover the frame in reflective tape to help blind the camera?
