Technus
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- Comment on Welcome to the thunderdome? 10 hours ago:
That’s probably based on the first definition because you can play either an ascending or descending scale.
Also the music staff kinda looks like a ladder.
- Comment on On dasher! 3 days ago:
Didn’t know doordashers could contact you through whatsapp
- Comment on It's not a whack jack, it's a... 6 days ago:
I was thinking about this the other day and realized something:
Back when the modern Santa character was first being developed, coal was a genuinely useful thing. It was fuel for the stove which heated your house and cooked your food. It was a basic necessity of life.
If you were naughty, Santa didn’t just give you nothing. You weren’t going to get an awesome toy, but he made sure you weren’t going to freeze to death on Christmas, either.
Santa believes everyone deserves to live. That having a warm place to sleep is a basic human right.
This might be /r/im14andthisisdeep material, but I just thought that was interesting.
- Comment on WHO STOLE MY FUCKING BARS? 1 week ago:
Yeah but on the second incarnation, wouldn’t that put you right back where you started?
- Comment on WHO STOLE MY FUCKING BARS? 1 week ago:
What happens to the guy that was driving it? Does he just blink out of existence when the car shuts off? That’s my question. You might argue that there is no such thing, but my own conscious experience proves to myself that there’s something else there. I want to know what happens to that part.
Hell, for all I know, you might just be a soulless meatbag automaton, and there really is no one in the driver’s seat for you. Or I could just be the only actual human talking in a thread full of bots. With 90% of the training data going into LLMs being vapid contrarian debates on social media, I could easily see that being the case here.
- Comment on WHO STOLE MY FUCKING BARS? 1 week ago:
I’m not expecting or planning for anything, that’s kind of the point. I’m not expecting one specific outcome. It’s actually really freeing, because I’m not stuck searching for meaning in an existence that offers none.
And if it turns out that it does all just go black, it won’t be my problem anymore, will it?
- Comment on WHO STOLE MY FUCKING BARS? 1 week ago:
I don’t agree that the cessation of brain activity necessarily means the end of the subjective experience. That doesn’t mean I purport to know what actually happens at that point. I hope it’s some sort of reincarnation but that’s just because there’s more I want to experience in this universe than I possibly could in a single lifetime.
“You only have one life, live it the best you can” is a nice motivational mantra, but however well I live my life, it’s highly unlikely I will live long enough to experience interstellar travel, for example, or first contact with alien life. I think that really fucking sucks, and I really hope I’ll have a chance on the next go-around. But if it’s something completely different, I’m cool with that, too.
- Comment on WHO STOLE MY FUCKING BARS? 1 week ago:
The lack of memory of past existence isn’t evidence of anything. We have clear evidence that memories are physical things, stored as connections of neurons in the brain. They can be lost to disease or injury, and they’re destructively modified every time we access them.
- Comment on WHO STOLE MY FUCKING BARS? 1 week ago:
My whole point is that I disagree with the certainty of that claim. It’s not grounded in empirical evidence, because we don’t have any.
- Comment on WHO STOLE MY FUCKING BARS? 1 week ago:
I’m an atheist but I don’t actually preclude the existence of an afterlife. “There is no heaven or hell, it just all goes black and that’s it,” is just as patently unfalsifiable as any claim made by any religion.
It’s just as likely to be something completely different and alien from anything conceivable in our limited world view. In an infinite space of probabilities, the likelihood of it being “literally nothing” actually seems pretty low.
That kind of uncertainty is exactly what scares most people, but not me. I’m looking forward to finding out one day.
- Comment on WHO STOLE MY FUCKING BARS? 1 week ago:
I think with a capful of Adderall I could ascend to a higher plane of existence
- Comment on Bursting AI bubble may be EU’s “secret weapon” in clash with Trump, expert says 1 week ago:
As an American who hates AI, fucking send it, EU.
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 4 weeks ago:
I’m not saying there’s no people trying it, or that the actual number is negligible. I’m just saying I highly fucking doubt that 780,000 people have actually installed Zorin OS in the last month.
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 4 weeks ago:
That “780,000 Windows users” number is just made up for the title as clickbait.
That number is never mentioned in the original blog post.
All they said is they have a million downloads and “over 78% of these downloads came from Windows”. At no fucking point did they imply that means 780k unique users. There’s no reason to assume that everyone who downloaded the ISO actually went on to install it.
They also want $48 for their Pro version which comes with a “professional-grade creative suite” consisting of… GIMP, Blender, Inkscape, Kdenlive, and… Audacity (?), going off the screenshots they show:
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They’re shamelessly reselling free software as some sort of comprehensive package, and it’s not even their own distro. They’re just piggybacking on Ubuntu.
And their premium support only covers… installation?
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But hey, they support this edition with updates until 2029!
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Of course, pay no attention to the coincidence that the Ubuntu LTS version it’s based on also hits end-of-life around then:
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So I’m not really sure what you’re actually getting out of this purchase besides some extra themes and some really formulaic desktop wallpapers, and a couple proprietary apps. They say they “contribute to upstream Open Source projects” but offer zero evidence; their site doesn’t even have any Github/Gitlab links.
- Comment on I finally understand Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels 5 weeks ago:
I know, after I posted that I was looking at their outages and worrying that my 1/month estimate was an exaggeration cause they hadn’t had a big one in a bit.
- Comment on I finally understand Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels 5 weeks ago:
I wasn’t the original person that replied.
- Comment on I finally understand Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels 5 weeks ago:
Could start with the fact that they go down about once a month now and take half the Internet with them.
- Comment on No More Robot’s new cruise ship management sim is hella bleak, despite the input of former Overcooked devs 2 months ago:
All that flowery bullshit, and I still have no idea if the game is any good or not. Sure, it didn’t sound fun, but lots of good games sound really boring if you describe them the wrong way.
Games journalism at its best, clearly.
- Comment on As Microsoft lays off thousands and jacks up Game Pass prices, former FTC chair says I told you so: The Activision-Blizzard buyout is 'harming both gamers and developers' 2 months ago:
I’ve been incensed about this since I first heard about the merger over two years ago. The fact that both the US and EU rubber-stamped the deal is easily one of the biggest regulatory failings of the tech sector in the past ten years.
I still can’t believe that the only stipulation was that CoD had to remain available on Playstation.
- Comment on What's the real danger of opening ports? 2 months ago:
If someone’s self-hosting, I’d be willing to bet they don’t have the same hardened config or isolation that a cloud provider would.
- Comment on What's the real danger of opening ports? 2 months ago:
No. Docker containers aren’t a full sandbox. There’s a number of exploits that can break out of a container and gain root access to the host.
- Comment on Could we survive eating only humans? 2 months ago:
Prions and population collapse aside, your cannibal population would eventually succumb to simple nutrient deficiency as the human body can’t synthesize a number of essential vitamins and amino and fatty acids. Without any outside food sources, those nutrients would eventually be completely exhausted.
So if you’re going to start eating people, only eat people who have been a fed a diverse, nutrient-rich diet.
- Comment on Reports: EA set to be sold to private investors for up to $50 billion 2 months ago:
Every time private equity buys out a public company, they saddle it with debt, gut its intellectual properties, turn its products and services to shit then close up shop for good.
Given that EA has already managed 3/4 of those things on its own, I wonder how much this will actually change.
- Comment on OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws 2 months ago:
Beyond proving hallucinations were inevitable, the OpenAI research revealed that industry evaluation methods actively encouraged the problem. Analysis of popular benchmarks, including GPQA, MMLU-Pro, and SWE-bench, found nine out of 10 major evaluations used binary grading that penalized “I don’t know” responses while rewarding incorrect but confident answers.
“We argue that language models hallucinate because the training and evaluation procedures reward guessing over acknowledging uncertainty,” the researchers wrote.
I just wanna say I called this out nearly a year ago: lemmy.zip/comment/13916070
- Comment on Vibe coding has turned senior devs into ‘AI babysitters,’ but they say it’s worth it | TechCrunch 3 months ago:
I’m a senior dev and I want nothing to do with AI. By the time I understand what I want well enough to describe it in a complete sentence or paragraph, I can just write the fucking code myself. I figure it out as I go.
The whole point of having devs under you that is to be able to trust them to get the job done and do it right. You want to be able to delegate tasks to them and not have to peek over their shoulder every five fucking minutes to be certain they’re not making a mess of things.
I seriously doubt AI will ever be able to replace that. Not until they figure out how to make it afraid of fucking up.
- Comment on No weirdo's please 3 months ago:
What’s the number, OP
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Futurama s2e5: I Second that Emotion
- Comment on 4 months ago:
“Yeah, right. You’d have to be some kinda genius to count that high.”
“… He’s seven.”
- Comment on 4 months ago:
It’s an old meme, sir, but it checks out.
- Comment on Y tho 4 months ago:
We used to make these all the time as kids. You need a second pair of magnets in push configuration on the back for this to work.
