Bahnd

@Bahnd@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have a look around. Anything that brain of yours can think of can be found...⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  We’ve got a million different ways to engage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xAI Data Center Emits Plumes of Pollution, New Video Shows⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We have similar products where I work as well, they are just expensive thermal imaging cameras. They would not be able to identify the chemical contents of a gas cloud at a distance, just that there was a cloud. The point is that in the age of digital media, its very hard to prove anything is what you say it is. Between photoshop and AI making a mess of the digital media landscape, it makes things increasingly difficult to validate, and shouting “do your own reaserch” will only add to the ambiguity as the internet is not static and can be changed by anyone at any time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xAI Data Center Emits Plumes of Pollution, New Video Shows⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You misconstru uninformed for skeptical, an eco-themed news site will have a bias against anything related to data centers, supreme leader musk, or burning hydrocarbons. So apologies if I took the article with a grain of salt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xAI Data Center Emits Plumes of Pollution, New Video Shows⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Compared to the data center sprawl in other areas, yes. As others have pointed out, this appears to be a gross over-utilizarion of the local utilities and is just burning shit to make the building work where noone is paying attention to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xAI Data Center Emits Plumes of Pollution, New Video Shows⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This article and what they are doing feels fishy, for a few reasons.

  • Data centers usually have steam plumes, but only with older cooling systems, newer designs dont vent off nearly as much water vapor and even newer designs have liquid-to-chip, and im not sure how those vent the heat, but its definitly not venting their treated coolant+water. (Because that would be dumb and expensive, but that seems to be the flavor of the day, so lets roll with that)

  • If the building was not designed by a monkey, then this is likely just a generator test. I want to put the emphasis on “TEST” because a data center only runs its very inefficent generators when utility power fails. (They will generate exaust, but usually its diesle generators or something with cheap fuel). Fancy gas turbines sounds very “extra” because the reason that deisle generators are used is that they can turn on and hold the load of the building quickly (and the building should have a battery bank to hold that for exactly what ever that time is)

  To me, one of two things is wrong, either the camera is just imaging thermals and thats a normal steam plume and they are being sensationalist. OR (and more likely answer). Musk is building some bespoke data center in the middle of bum-fuck nowhere without the local infrastructure to support it and is doing all sorts of expensive additions to make it do what it would be able to if it was clustered with other data centers that share utilitites.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨10000 hours to become an expert, avg person poops for ~12 minutes a day. It would take 137 years to master.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  [Sing in the voice of Elmo] My boss makes a dollar I make a dime That is why I poop on company time.

  UK version: My supervisor makes a pound. I make a pence That is why I shit at the companies expense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The new Helldivers 2 "Force of Law" war bond is dropping on June 12th.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like explosion resist, chest HP, and bleed prevention. Neat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The new Helldivers 2 "Force of Law" war bond is dropping on June 12th.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Any indication on what the armor perk is?

  Also emp on stratagem call-in seems fun, but is a much lower priority than the usual (enhanced stims, pod optimization, anti-chip damage, and stamina recovery)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hot spaceships in your Lemmy instance⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  SPACESHIP!!!

  Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If it ain’t broke…⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Daniel Radcliff famously did something like that when he was on broadway. Got 10 sets of the same shirt, hat, and jeans, left half at home and half at the theatre. Came and left wearing the same thing for year so the images coulden’t be dated. Paparazzi made no money off him and threw a fit over it, twas glorious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where's your towel?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, there is a Hoopy Frood

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 305 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My nerd herd likes the game, although we quickly have been adding mods to ramp up the difficulty and add some quality of life stuff. For a social game, I like it over Lethal Company because everyone gets to participate and there is no designated AFK role that watches the cameras or activates the teleporters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WoW's Leeroy Jenkins, one of the internet's oldest memes, turns 20 years old—and after looking back on what we wrote in 2005, I feel like we've failed Leeroys everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like Leeroy Jenkins is the millenials “Jeronimo”, I 100% shout it in its place and I can assure you some shouted it while jumping out of an airplane and their instuctor or officer had no clue what they were talking about, and that will always make me chuckle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would totally take one for 15k (only if its used, never from tesla itself) take the batteries out, sell those and put the frame on a truck and drive it out to an event or protest and let people smash whats left. Let people rent a sledge hammer for a bit and vent, would be a fun and very public statement. Once thats done sell it as scrap. The batteries should alone should cover the next one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhatsApp provides no cryptographic management for group messages⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That study was 3 years ago, features to create private (invite only) group chats are supported now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhatsApp provides no cryptographic management for group messages⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or Matrix (warning some assembly required)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Put him on the cart.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  [insert monty python “Bring out your dead” sketch here]

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Checkmate, Atheists!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The historic context that makes Inferno so damn funny is that Dante wrote most of it while in exile from Florence and had a massive axe to grind with the people responsible for it. Glossing over the boring parts you can find on his wikipedia page, his family, and by extension Dante were supporters of a political party within the papal states (early 1300s) and they got ousted from their positions. While traveling around Italy, he penned “The Divine Comedy”, a story about himself bumming around the christian afterlife with the Roman poet Virgil.

  Overly Sarcastic Productions has a good overview of the basic plot Link, and Im quite a fan of their work (this is one of their older videos). The part that this meme is calling attention to is that Dante wrote several recently deceased popes and many of his political rivals into his self-insert fan-fiction of hell (Inferno). In modern parlance, he was being a massive troll, but that work is also so influential that many practicing christans can’t tell the difference between the afterlife according to their own scripture (which there is very little actual description of) and its pop-culture interpritation by our Italian mad lad condeming people who screwed him over in life to enternal torment in his own renaissance live-journal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this is not satire this is not satire this is not satire⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thats the scary part, in 2023 that was a good way to identify AI slop. Its getting tricky bow and you need an eye for detail and lighting. By 2027, I fear people wont be able to tell the difference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can't believe it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this what yall think poutine looks like?!?

  Canadadians, shield your eyes!!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is why we have a defense budget⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, im well aware that their design was a problem and they corrected it in their current cars. Old streotypes are hard to overcome, but at this point its just friendly ribbing about peoples choice in vehicles, like all hiking trails have an orange Subaru at the trail head and Carolla drivers like vanilla ice cream.

  We all can collectivly egg on Tesla drivers because <gestures broadly to everything>

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is why we have a defense budget⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In terms of driver/car steotypes, I would prefer seeing this dork using their turn signals over any BMW or Tesla driver.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Heck is just "hell" and "fuck" combined⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy forking shirt balls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Embrace this Truth and enjoy life⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We know, but we can choose to carry on anyway in spite of it, revile in the absurdity, dance in the moonlight and be very very French.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  14…yall know half this shit is still valid or required.

  Paper checks and faxes are still in use and Japan got rid of floppy disks in govt right before plague. (Shit, that was 5 years ago…)

  WHAT DECADE IS IT!?!?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two Open Source Projects Combine to 3D Print a Working Replica Key Using a Flipper Zero⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Think of it like one of those 3-inch swiss army knives, but for IR tech and radio. If you mean to do work. Use the correct tool for the job, but there is no reason you cant acomplish what your trying to do. They are great for learning, if I was teaching a kids about cyber security, a flipper zero would be on the required tool kit.

  Yes, you can do harm with them, per the previous analogy its still a knife. However, devices not hardened against simple replication attacks or brute force acomplished by something barely more powerful than a TI-84, those manufactures and customers needs to take the security of their products more seriously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are you feeling?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I get you. In light of recent events I ended up looking for answers in a philosophy text book and landed on Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his social contract.

  There were two points to me that stuck out, the first was that Rousseau how systems of governance become increasingly difficult the larger the group (modern communication would probably make this easier) and that the public will must be inclusive of all, not exclusive.

  Looking out at the US today, I feel like it utterly fails in this philosophy (even though founders like TJ were a fan of his work), and while lot of places also fail, but the US at this point in time feels completly anathema to the concept of empathy, ethics, and the public will. Unfortunatly, the solution that historically tended to go hand in hand with these enlightenment ideals also got a bit choppy with kings, fairly revolty and that is a hard pill to swallow. (Citation: the french revolution)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Appropriate settings for a private matrix server⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Open registration is a flag in your config file. Its normally not there by default. Plus half the mobile apps do not support account creation pages of you have the flag turned on.

  Room settings are what controls view/join roles from federated instances.

  Im pretty new to this space, so if your up for talking shop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Global VR headset shipments fell 12% YoY in 2024, with Meta's market share rising to 84%; Vision Pro shipments fell 43% QoQ in Q4, but its enterprise sales grew.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Plus the early adopters are not going to be lay-people, they are going to be tech enthusiests and people who know what they are shopping for. Having Meta and their data harvesting gadgets all over your home is something they would be very concious of, and in my case, avoid entirely for that reason.

  The outcome, is dispite the lower cost to get a VR headset, a lot of people still havent entered the space yet, due to the security concerns and refusal to accept the data collection terms of more afordable devices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord going public. Plz help a future refugee.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We believe in you, there are other write-ups and guides on how to get it working. Its was great learning expirence for VMs and Proxmox (thats what I did and it did make it harder, but I feel more confident when im cosplaying as a sys-admin)

  Guide

  This one is pretty close to whats needed, but go into it expecting each step to open a new tool/application that needs to be researched before you press enter. Also look up how to set it to a PSQL db before you start inviting users, it defaults to SQLite and that will cause problems eventually.