rekabis
@rekabis@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Good news. :) 1 day ago:
Looks like the future country of Cascadia is finally starting to make some moves.
- Comment on Good news. :) 1 day ago:
The agreed-upon future name is Cascadia.
- Comment on Something we all can agree on 2 days ago:
Before you reuse it, please crack open an image editor and correct the last word in the title by removing the apostrophe. Anyone who took English classes past Elementary school will thank you for that correction.
- Comment on Something we all can agree on 3 days ago:
Apostrophe is possessive. The facts do not possess themselves.
When there are a number of them, however, they are just facts, without an apostrophe.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 3 days ago:
Sure, it takes a bit of effort. But if you replace your routers with ones that have open-source firmware or actual workstations acting as gateway routers and running business-class open-source software, you can create a personal VPN between everyone involved that shows only one exit point to world+dog.
The trick is with ensuring that all YouTube stuff gets properly and comprehensively funnelled through this exit node - VPNs can easily leak data if not configured properly, and sometimes do so despite good configs - and implementing this even on other devices that require individual VPN connectivity (roaming, like phones).
Plus, having a mobile device’s VPN auto-recognize when it’s connected to a known good network, and have it automatically disable itself in favour of the VPN on that network, is not something that’s easy to do.
Finally, doing so without a high-quality, high-speed ISP plan can easily lead to an unusably slow VPN. The “mothership” exit node, in particular, would have to be gigabit or better because it has both the node and connections to other homes and devices. If everyone started suckling the YouTube teat at the same time, things would likely slow down pretty fast on anything significantly less than gigabit.
- Comment on berk 3 days ago:
…And? Elephants are terrified of bees. My dog is terrified of beetles. I’ve known horses who were terrified of mice, and nearly killed themselves panicking in their stables.
Just because it’s small doesn’t mean it can’t do significant damage on a psychological scale.
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 1 week ago:
But getting vaccinated doesn’t really prevent you from spreading it, it just prevents you from not dying from it.
LOLWUT is this antivaxxer shit? Go back to your anti-reality, anti-evidence, anti-facts hellhole, bud.
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 1 week ago:
They key point is density. The denser the population, the more people need to be immunized for herd immunity to be effective, because the more people the average person comes in close contact with even only in passing.
It’s like the difference in walking six blocks in a sleepy town vs six blocks in downtown Manhattan. Even in “rush hour”, with the sidewalks at maximum typical capacity, the former might net you a dozen close encounters while the latter could easily net you 1,200 close encounters. If you are immunocompromised, the same level of herd immunity in the general population makes the former a much safer environment than the latter.
Statistics can be wild.
- Comment on 80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed 1 week ago:
Abandon your monetarist goldbug worldview, the gold decoupling and subsequent floating of the international exchange rates are downstream of the actual policy decision that have emiserated the population.
I never said they were directly related, I just wanted to point out that they both occurred in the same year.
This needs to be exactly reversed, the poorer you are, the easier it should be to acquire but the more you have the harder it gets. Up until a point where it becomes nearly impossible to go beyond the “capital horizon” some kind of equilibrium state where wealth can lo longer be acquired faster than you lose it.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Absolutely.
- Comment on 80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed 1 week ago:
The 80s were already the second decade of the decline after the gold standard was revoked in 1971 and wages became decoupled from productivity. Everything was on a slowly accelerating slide downhill from there, although it took until the 90s for the first people to truly notice things were going sideways.
You want a real economic golden era? Try the 50s and the 60s, where a single wage earner could work a low-end service-level job (selling shoes, for example), and make enough to own a detached SFH, a car in the garage, support a SAH spouse and several children, go on modest vacations every year with at least one more ambitious one every few years, and still have enough left over to save generously for retirement.
- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 2 weeks ago:
- Your code will be significantly more insecure. Expect anything exposed to world+dog to be hacked far quicker than your own work.
- You will code even slower than if you just did the work yourself.
- You will fail to grow as a coder, and will even see your existing skills erode.
- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 2 weeks ago:
Once again we see the Parasite Class playing unethically with the labour/wealth they have stolen from their employees.
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 2 weeks ago:
“Microsoft Excel is testing a new AI-powered function that can automatically fill cells in your spreadsheets.”
Every year, Microsoft gives me more reasons to permanently leave their products.
Unfortunately, due to compatibility with financial and other Windows-only software I still need to run Windows, but I am down to two rigs and it might go down to one in the new year.
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 2 weeks ago:
CEOs are invariably the parasites in virtually any company where they earn more than 10× than their median employee.
Nothing that can be done inside the business can justify compensation like that. Ergo: parasitism of the profits, of siphoning away more and more value that the workers produce just for themselves and those of their fellow parasites.
- Comment on Leaving religious people speechless 3 weeks ago:
There are a lot of reasonable people who can get behind that statement…
- Comment on Tried naming the states from memory as a European 3 weeks ago:
“Desert Racists”
“Swamp Racists”ROTFLMAO 🤣🤣🤣
Bloody accurate, you are.
- Comment on Going to waste: two years after REDcycle’s collapse, Australia’s soft plastics are hitting the environment hard 4 weeks ago:
When you really look at it, only type 1 & 2 plastics are recycled with any real frequency (80+%). And even then, there is a subset of plastics marked with those two types which cannot be easily recycled.
Meanwhile, while types 3 through 7 are “recyclable”, in reality these are actually recycled in the very low single-digit percentages. Most of the rest are incinerated or shipped off to third-world countries for “processing”.
As such, most any plastic that are not marked type 1 or 2 should be binned with the trash, especially if said trash is going to be effectively and correctly entombed in a landfill.
Not only does it contain said plastics so they don’t contaminate the wider environment (especially if the landfill is correctly designed with a liner), but it also puts them all in one spot for when technology unlocks effective ways of recycling these types - there are emerging companies that foresee a time when we will “mine” our landfills for resources, and our best current strategy is to contain and concentrate our waste in as convenient a manner as possible.
- Comment on Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds 1 month ago:
IME it is more devs and managers going wild on the “golly gee wiz” features that are meant to dazzle site visitors, rather than on actual content (or to obscure a lack of actual material content).
Sure, what you mentioned is a problem, and a serious one at that. But your issue arises more from marketers and bean counters and C-Suite execs than devs and managers.
- Comment on Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds 1 month ago:
And yet, developers still build sites that load 500kb of JS just to display 5kb of text.
We don’t need faster speeds, we need more reasonable and thoughtful site design. Most sites are ridiculously overengineered, and don’t need a lot of what has been stuffed into them.
- Comment on Meta Takes Hard Line Against Europe's AI Rules 1 month ago:
I would love to see Europe ban/block the API endpoints that AI communicates over.
Then ban all Meta endpoints if/when meta moves AI communication onto the same endpoints as non-AI communication.
European laws are not perfect, but they at least make an effort to put the needs of the people ahead of corporations and the Parasite Class.
- Comment on Dik Piks 1 month ago:
I would gladly send a dik pic of my own, provided she appreciates diminutive mammalian ruminants.
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 month ago:
Markup pro tip: to have multiple separate lines appear as a single block quote, have the separating new lines have a quote signifier as well.
so this
is one giant
block quote
despite the newlines.
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 month ago:
I have been using the same web browser, in terms of ideology, codebase and heritage, since the release of NCSA Mosaic.
That was 32 years ago. And holy f**ck, that dates me.
Sure, I dabbled around with others. There was the original Opera, back when Netscape cratered and the only other real option was IE. Opera’s tab behaviours made me install Tab Mix Plus for FF, and I still find that extension to be the second-most critical extension FF has, right after UBlock Origin.
And lately I took a shine to Vivaldi, but I have been weaning myself off of it once I realized that the Manifest v2 shutdown was unavoidable for it as well.
And the only reason why I even have Chromium is as a sandbox for any Google services I access and as a “naked” web browser for those websites who implement malware and spyware in the name of “website security”.
And of course, I also run forks, such as Librewolf and others, also with the appropriate anti-malware and anti-spyware add-ins. It can be useful having multiple web browsers up at once.
But my main will always be Firefox.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 1 month ago:
Read the comment more carefully… while IT was most certainly not at their posts, this implementation team was actively monitoring the rollout and witnessing the carnage.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 1 month ago:
Never said it had to be you.
But a threat to do exactly that would have likely called IT’s bluff long before the four-month mark.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 1 month ago:
And in those four months, did no-one think of firing up WireShark to see what was floating across that network during that time period?
Seems like someone dropped the debug/analysis ball…
- Comment on In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. 2 months ago:
So the UK is now officially pro-genocide?
Good to know.
- Comment on Trump Team Has Full Meltdown Over CNN Story on ICE-Tracking App 2 months ago:
I love how the Streisand Effect works. They just made this app the hottest thing out there.
- Comment on Men are opening up about mental health to AI instead of humans 2 months ago:
Allowing men’s issues to even be addressed risks giving legitimacy to the fact that they even exist. And if they exist, men can no longer be that evil monolith that exists only to be torn down and used as the cause for whatever is wrong with the world.
After all, the zero-sum game must be properly reinforced with an appropriate evil that cannot be allowed to have any weaknesses or redeeming attributes.
- Comment on User says access to ’30 years of photos and work’ in OneDrive denied by Microsoft, can't get a response after filing form 18 times — 'Microsoft suspended my account without warning, reason, or any leg 2 months ago:
You’re conflating syncing with backing up
Every syncing service I know of offers versioning. Some offer a high degree of versioning customization (retention, etc.) with their paid tiers, making said sync indistinguishable from a hot backup.