rekabis
@rekabis@lemmy.ca
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 5 days ago:
Sooo… he works multiple part-time jobs?
Weird how a forced technique of the ultra-poor is showing up here.
- Comment on Porsche Cars in Russia Shut Down After Satellite System Failure 1 week ago:
And this is why I will never own a vehicle manufactured after 2006.
I have just too little control with newer vehicles, be it having to auth with the mothership with every repair I do at home just to get it to start up, or even failing to start up in the first place when the mothership could not be contacted.
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 1 week ago:
I start off with Win10Privacy (which also cleans 11) and then follow up with Win11Debloat. The two work pretty well.
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 1 week ago:
And Microsoft is stuffing AI straight into Windows.
Betchya dollars to fines that this will happen a lot more frequently as normal users begin to try to use Copilot.
- Comment on Thieves are starting to steal RAM now that it's as expensive as gold — a memory kit disappears in the snail mail at four in the morning with a bogus signature 2 weeks ago:
That’s what I am saving up for, actually. The numbers of surplussed high-end compute just in my sparsely populated region could probably let me open my own datacentre.
- Comment on Please tell me this is shopped. 2 weeks ago:
I am sometimes forced to wear size 11 shoes, despite having 9½ feet, because so few manufacturers put out 9½ size shoes in an EEEE (quintuple wide) or oversized EEE (quadruple wide) width.
At least a size 11 in a W (wide) is comfortable enough for me, and most shoes come in at least a wide.
I think out of all the shoes I have ever bought, only two styles in 40 years have been wide enough to allow me to wear a 9½. I recently found that second style in a work boot that was being surplussed and no longer being produced, with the marketing that it was wide enough for any foot. Once I confirmed the comfort, I immediately bought three more pairs for a lifetime supply. That brand was Terra. Highly recommend, they’re fucking awesome work boots.
- Comment on Rybbit - Open source Google Analytics replacement 3 weeks ago:
OpenBSD does not have a docker engine. Can this be installed without docker?
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 3 weeks ago:
There is only
ownershipparasites and labour.FTFY. You’re welcome.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Well, a lot of that is processed foods and…
Oh.
Oh, Myyyyyy…
- Comment on Learning to drive 4 weeks ago:
Yes,because dad cool, mom uncool.
Funny sexism from the 50s.
Or maybe mom responsible adult, dad irresponsible man-child?
It’s the funny anti-male gender bigotry of this century.
And I don’t think great-grandpa could make a meme like this, so your characterization is probably going to be the much less likely source.
- Comment on Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords 4 weeks ago:
Just don’t take away passwords + TOTP 2FA for those of us who are actually using it correctly.
- Comment on FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site 5 weeks ago:
The FBI is probably going nuts here because someone inadvertently archived the Epstein files and everyone at HQ is panicking. They need to purge it for the Internet before someone discovers that archived content, and so they’re using CP as an excuse.
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 5 weeks ago:
everyone can see the AI BS right out in the open
To me it is four things in particular:
- How AI use erodes skills in the subject AI is being used to assist in. This is a 100% occurrence, from software developers to radiologists.
- How AI use shuts down critical thinking, and makes users more stupid. This is a 100% occurrence, and has been clearly demonstrated by MRI scans of the prefrontal cortex.
- How AI use makes the user slower. This is the only user point that is not 100%, as only less than 2% of the most senior and skilled users show a slight increase in work completed… after more than 12 months of using AI. Projections have been made on the other 98%, and over 90% of them will never work faster with AI than without it, regardless of training or experience.
- The gratuitous hallucinations, which are only increasing in scope and severity with every AI generation. It arises entirely from the constraints the AI are rewarded with - providing no answer is weighted just as negatively as a wrong answer - and anywhere from 60-80% of all responses are hallucinatory in some fashion, depending on the current model.
In prior generations, any industry with such performance would be laughed clear out of the boardroom.
But because capitalism is desperately seeking a solution to what they perceive as a problem - how to obtain labour without having to pay said labour - AI is being adopted hand-over-fist.
After all, the underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.
- Comment on Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships 5 weeks ago:
Both platforms have problems, and some of those problems are big ones, but Google’s actions with the Play Store makes Apple’s shenanigans look like that of a choir boy or Boy Scout:
howtogeek.com/how-google-tracks-and-scans-everyth…
I have no clue how this doesn’t creep everyone right TF out.
And saying “I have nothing to hide” is the answer of cultivated ignorance:
- Comment on 28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower 5 weeks ago:
This looks small enough to be installed within the wheel hub itself. Imagine a car with four motors, one inside each wheel. The entire floor pan could just be one thin battery, and everything above it could be passenger and storage space.
- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 5 weeks ago:
The irony being that putting all of a user’s eggs in one basket makes things far riskier for the user, and not less.
- Comment on Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app 1 month ago:
Treat the cause,
Right. Like obtaining a controlling interest in Apple is just so easy to achieve. Now, where did I leave my random trillions?…
- Comment on Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app 1 month ago:
On iOS you can install a system-wide DNS configuration profile for AdGuard without having to install any app.
It doesn’t deal with ads served up from the exact same API/domain as the content, but any source of ads that is drawn from a different domain can be blocked and usually is blocked.
About the only apps I still see ads in are YouTube, Pinterest, and Facebook. All apps that use third-party advertising feeds have those ads blocked.
- Comment on Tragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site 1 month ago:
Damn, that’s promotional material that SanDisk would probably not want to have.
- Comment on I would give my life savings for something that eradicates them from my apartment 😌 1 month ago:
Animals go where the food is.
This is why ants invade homes and create nests out in the yard. This is why spiders set up shop inside your home and mice scurry in the corners.
If you don’t want animals like insects and rodents in your house, eliminate all possible sources of food. While some will always work their way in, the lack of food will mean they’ll always die quickly or leave just as fast as they came.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 2 months ago:
I might even start making mix tapes again.
This is when having a high-end 1989 Technics cassette deck in your 1986 VW Jetta Carat comes in really handy.
- Comment on How do I stop sleeping through everything? 2 months ago:
You would hate me.
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 2 months ago:
Aside from the Rotary Un-Phone, there are pretty much no dumb phones anymore. Those that market themselves as dumb are just reskinned full-fat platforms.
Even almost all flip phones are smart phones with a dumb skin, as they run either Android or KaiOS.
The main reason why I would switch is for device security - a true dumb phone OS that operates purely out of the ROM and has no ability to install anything that could survive a reboot.
And for something that primitive, it would be a flip phone on par with the Motorola StarTac. Simple black-on-green screen, low-res display, with a calendar and address book as the only non-phone functionality.
- Comment on The school shooting industry is worth billions — and it keeps growing 2 months ago:
Meanwhile, in Canada, we have had less than a dozen school shootings in the last century.
And that’s including post-secondary institutions.
And no, plenty of us own guns. We just don’t own guns that can send 60 bullets a second downrange, and easily-concealable handguns are highly restricted.
- Comment on Data Backup Solutions 2 months ago:
I kept reading about people having trouble during the restore process.
It is Duplicati, and IMHO restores work best if they aren’t restores-in-place. As in, dump the restores in a central location then drag-and-drop the data into place. Most of the issues I have heard of involve restoring data and settings back to where it originally was backed up from, and restoring directly back to those places - other than fully user-controlled directories, such as Documents or Photos - seems to be problematic.
Other than that, I have been using it for nearly a decade and have done a number of restores - after total drive deaths, so not just accidentally deleted files - to great success.
The downside is that tweaking backups from within the hidden
C:\Users\[username]\AppData\directory involves many days of whack-a-mole to exclude untouchable normally-in-use files so you don’t get scads of errors in the backup process. Plus, there are a fair number of entries in there that don’t really need backing up. But once you get that to settle down, it’s largely smooth it’s-set-so-forget-it sailing. - Comment on Is there no good inexpensive CAD software? 2 months ago:
The last free version of Sketchup is from 2017, and ironically you can download it from the official website, you just have to dig for it. It isn’t immediately available, and they try their best to sell you the latest version.
- Comment on Good news. :) 3 months ago:
Looks like the future country of Cascadia is finally starting to make some moves.
- Comment on Good news. :) 3 months ago:
The agreed-upon future name is Cascadia.
- Comment on Something we all can agree on 3 months 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 months 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.