theparadox

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a great idea⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Going early and going late often helps a lot with avoiding people who meander around blocking movement through the store.

  Unfortunately, where I live is pretty heavily populated so the shelves are also a lot more empty if I go late or go too early.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How we get to 1 nanometer chips and beyond⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not an expert but… typical computers do what they do by transmitting (primarily) electrical signals between components. Is there electricity or isn’t there. It’s the “bit” with two states - on or off, 1 or 0. Electricity is the flow of electrons between atoms. Basically, we take atoms that aren’t very attached to some of their electrons and manipulate them so that they pass the electrons along when we want them to. I don’t know if there is a way to conduct and process electrical signals without using an atom’s relationship with its electrons.

  Quantum computing is the suspected new way to get to “better” computing. I don’t know much about the technical side of that, beyond that they use quantum physics to expand the bit to something like a qubit, which exploits superposition (quantum particles existing in multiple states simultaneously until measured, like the Schrodinger’s cat metaphor) and entanglement (if two quantum particles’ states are related to or dependent on each other, determining the state of one particle also determines the state of the other) to transmit/process more than just a simple 1 or 0 per qubit. A lot more information can be transmitted and processed simultaneously with a more complex bit. As I understand it, quantum computing has been very slow going.

  That’s my shitty explanation. I’m sure someone will come along and correct my inaccurate simplification of how it all works and list all that I missed, like fiberoptic transmission of signals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m afraid the best I can give you is a proprietary, always online, underpowered, half-assed piece of spyware that will probably end up costing you a yearly subscription fee if you don’t want advertisements.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The upvotes have been removed for your safety ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just another layer - the button did nothing to begin with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The richest people in the world are morally bankrupt⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bill Gates who has more or less devoted his life to saving as many lives as possible.

  …

  Buffett who last I heard had donated some 50 or 60 billion to different foundations.

  …

  Even Musk, for all his recent evil got rich trying to reduce our dependence on gas cars

  Maybe they are happier than OP suspects - I’m not them so I can’t really comment on that. As far as your framing of their motives and achievements though… Hard disagree, especially Musk and Gates. All three fucked over tons of people to get their obscene wealth.

  I’d go into great depth as to why, but it usually ends in nothing being learned and a lot of my time wasted so I’ll just hard disagree and bow out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The few times I’ve used LLMs for coding help, usually because I’m curious if they’ve gotten better, they let me down. Last time it was insistent that its solution would work as expected. When I gave it an example that wouldn’t work, it even broke down each step of the function giving me the value of its variables at each step to demonstrate that it worked… but at the step where it had fucked up, it swapped the value in the variable to one that would make the final answer correct. It made me wonder how much water and energy it cost me to be gaslit into a bad solution.

  How do people vibe code with this shit?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When the AI bubble bursts..⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But if you fire half your staff while only making 400 units…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tuvix - Self-Hosted RSS Aggregator⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  FYI, a few typos in “3. Organize with Categories” first paragraph in the getting started tutorial/blog post.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you pay low enough wages and workers are too exhausted to do anything about it, lower productivity is profitable. It’s about the bottom line.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the demonstration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For instance, I too voted for Harris, and I’ve been called a gEnOciDe suPpOrTeR, a bOoTLiCkEr, and. bLuEmAga™. Just for voting against a fascist.

  The hatred between left leaning Lemmy users over the last election is crazy to me. Instead of focusing on getting rid of the current fascist regime together, so many just dogpile on anyone based on whether they voted for Harris. I feel like every other political post has a flame war that starts with a comment blaming the news on anyone and everyone on the left who didn’t vote Harris or criticized dems during the campaign.

  There are those of us with a bit of nuance though. I was and still am disgusted and disappointed with the Dem’s positions and empathize with those who sat out in 2024 but I voted Dems them over the party looking to fast track fascism and white nationalism. I regularly get flamed for suggesting we move on from blaming each other and focus on getting rid of the fascists here and now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If the workforce makes a pittance and is too exhausted to rebel, the bosses win.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The reason women cover their drinks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  He is. He’s more or less the USA’s shadow president - he maneuvered himself to be Trump’s right hand man and has the clown president’s trust for many domestic issues, particularly anything related to non-white people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a leftist, not strictly a Democrat. I’m not happy with Democrats, but R’s and D’s are not the same. You are just taking any opportunity to stir shit up like some kind of paid troll.

  Kindly fuck off.

  Thanks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So it’s the finger wagging that’s uncomfortable?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2 - A USB adapter that plugs into your Home Assistant system and opens up a world of smart device options⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I grabbed a TubesZB and it has made things so much easier. I can put it wherever I need it and if I need to migrate my HA VM to another host there is no fuss. Literally did it the other day and it worked flawlessly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Your banal chattering is unnecessary. Are you able to grasp the importance of my experiments? Begone from my sensory range, lest I have you disassembled for servitor parts

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I finally understand Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you have any solution for services that aren’t over a browser? I’ve been using Tailscale but I’m looking for alternatives. Pangolin only seems to work for either browser-based services or opening ports to the Internet, unless I’m missing something.

  Ex. How do I connect a client app on my phone to my subsonic server for music without opening my home server to the net?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just work a little harder⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Free access to healthcare goes a long way, and it changes the system in a number of ways.

  In America, imagine an entire parasitical industry exists. It exists by collecting money from people in exchange for offering them access to healthcare. The more treatment someone receives, the less profit that industry makes. The more hurdles they place between a patient and the services they need, the more money they make.

  Imagine having a medical condition but knowing that if you lose your job, you might lose access to the treatment for your condition.

  If you are poor enough here in the US, you might qualify for MEDICAID. Depending on where you live, you likely have to jump through a ton of arbitrary hoops to keep your coverage. If you get a job, maybe a raise or extra hours, even a slightly better job? You might lose your MEDICAID.

  Or some politician decides to cut the optional state expansion to MEDICAID. With less income from these sources, the only hospital near you might decide it’s not profitable to stay open and now you have to travel an extra hour or two to the nearest hospital.

  It doesn’t need to be a utopia. It just needs to be better than this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are we now protesting that they reversed their decision?

  …no? I’m not really protesting so much as offering what I think the other person is trying to say. I think they are saying that Google crossed a line, and walking it back doesn’t change that fact.

  In my opinion, Google has crossed countless lines over the last 5-10 years. I’m looking for alternatives that meet my own needs. That search has accelerated over the last few years, when the things Google has done have been most egregious. This isn’t a protest. This is disillusionment. I’m abandoning ship.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using Fail2ban to protect exposed services⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had a pretty good experience with it aside from this recent problem with my phone. It’s a big deal right now - I have a number of self hosted services I use on my phone. When I left it enabled, it would happen multiple times a day, though it would get fixed if I just quickly disable-enable it… at least until it randomly happens again in an hour or two.

  Unfortunately, my mother has been having a number of health issues so there is no fucking way I’m going to risk missing calls and texts…so I just deal with being disconnected for now. I really wish there was a solution or something I could do to figure out what’s going wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using Fail2ban to protect exposed services⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had to stop using it. In the last few months I have more and more suddenly lost all connectivity outside of my tailscale network. I tried excluding apps but I still will randomly fail to receive SMS or calls, suddenly getting them delivered in a rush when a disconnect from tailscale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it was fairly obvious that the move was going to piss people off, they just misjudged to what extent. Modern business strategy is to claim to listen to customer feedback and just quietly plan to implement it anyway, just do it more subtly, more quietly, and more slowly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is very hard to make a device that is affordable, compact, efficiently cooled, and modular. Offering complete support is also infinitely more difficult when hardware is not controlled for. GPU and CPU are both customized AMD chips.

  If you want to swap your GPU, build your own SFF. Hopefully they’ll have SteamOS available for general use soon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why all the free-stuff Facebook groups you’re part of just changed their name⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Much of it was all posted in a short period of time. I ignored him after he picked it up and told me what it was for. I’m just always saddened and frustrated that there seem to always be people jumping to take advantage of any situation, be a middle man.

  In the long run, it’s again at least better than wasting it. I don’t have the patience to deal with trying to sell most things. It’s not like I went out and bought the stuff with the intent of giving them away to someone who needs it for free. It just… doesn’t feel as rewarding as knowing it is actually going to help someone besides a middle man.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why all the free-stuff Facebook groups you’re part of just changed their name⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was honestly really put off when some old guy nabbed a ton of stuff I had on there so that he could sell it all at his church’s fundraising auctions. Like, I’d rather not throw it away but eww.

  He was almost always the first to respond to my posts when I was trying to downsize.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Had an issue with Comcast today. They forced me to use their Xfinity app, but what I needed to do wasn’t an apparent option within the app. The only option I saw was a support chatbot. The chatbot listed a link to the option I was looking for. The link opened a webview within the Xfinity app, in which there was a link to download the Xfinity app.

  Unnecessary Apps and chat bots. Two of my least favorite things referring me back and forth, forever, in an endless loop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the hoops… [they]… make you jump through with regard to layering

  I played around with a few atomic distros and it seems like rather than layering, running things in containers is the preferred solution.

  It won’t be the solution for everything that layering could “fix”, depending on your situation, but it is something that I wasn’t initially aware of when I started playing with Bazzite, Fedora Atomic, and now Aurora.

  Basically, if you could just run whatever you need to run in a container, that might be another solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rockstar Just Fired Over 30 Employees From UK and Canada in an Attempt of Union-Busting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Money, or more importantly the power and privilege that money provides, has always been more important than humanity, if you have enough of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rockstar Just Fired Over 30 Employees From UK and Canada in an Attempt of Union-Busting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s extremely profitable. If you have a problem with that, I’ll fucking ruin your life. If you look like you might be able to make ruining your life difficult and it’ll cost me a lot to ruin your life, I’ll just save myself the trouble and spend it to give you enough to make you forget what you were upset about. It’s a cost benefit analysis, really. Yay capitalism!