voracitude
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- Comment on The Generative AI Con. 4 days ago:
antithetical to the spirit of silicon valley
Tell me you haven’t been paying attention without telling me you haven’t been paying attention.
- Comment on Why doesn't phones numbers have a "DNS" servet so we can just type in words like we do with the internet? 5 days ago:
I laughed out loud when I read the title of this post. When I’m helping my customers with their domain DNS records, I always analogise DNS to “a phone book for the internet”. I love that we’ve come full circle and phone books are “DNS for the phone system” 😂 (also goddamn does this make me feel old 😭)
- Comment on This is basically it. The stunlock intensifies 1 week ago:
If only conservatives gave as much of a shit about the constitution or the rule of law as they claim. Fucking hypocrites.
- Comment on “That’s what I thought until I met my boyfriend!” 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, that sort of statement is really reductive, as though your experience conforms to theirs. Not cool, I’d hope for better.
Objectively speaking it’s possible that you could meet the perfect man for you, fall in love, and be perfectly content with him for the rest of your life. The likelihood is vanishingly small even if you were looking for a male partner though, and it sounds like it’s a lot more probable this would happen with a woman instead, so at least you probably won’t have to put up with those people being smug about it.
But even if you did end up meeting this mythical dude, even if you fell in love and yadda yadda - it wouldn’t change your preferences. You wouldn’t suddenly find attractive a man you found unattractive before, just because you got some dick. That’s just dumb.
- Comment on Australia doesnt exsist 1 month ago:
I know you said it’s the ice cream mate but I’m still pretty sure this is a trick question
- Comment on Afghan women turn to entrepreneurship under Taliban 2 months ago:
I appreciate you explaining - could have been a poor-taste reference to Jared in Silicon Valley, or worse. I understand why you say you’re disappointed they found meaning in commerce, as well. If it helps to think of it like this, being able to sell the things one makes does impart a sense of purpose and meaning. People thinking your products are worthwhile enough to trade valuable resources for them is very validating.
- Comment on Afghan women turn to entrepreneurship under Taliban 2 months ago:
That is a pretty fucked sentiment to post here, bud, with the history behind those words. If it’s a joke, I get it, but it’s fucked up and not particularly funny.
- Comment on brains! 2 months ago:
EFTPOS is the fastest payment system in the world for identifying Australians on the internet. If you need to camouflage, you can use “card reader” instead. I don’t know when you’d need to camouflage like that, but these are interesting times.
- Comment on How far away are we from someone using AI to create an animated TV show by themselves. 3 months ago:
Not too far, or its possible right now depending on jow you want to define “animated”. I feel like there uses to be really low-budget cartoons on air which were really just still frames with some shake added, couple soumd effects, and voice acting. A lot like SolidJJ on YouTube now. Those wouldn’t even be too hard to do, if the AI were just one tool in the set - could probably crank out a few a week, anyway.
If you’re looking for twenty minutes of animation that doesn’t shift around like a fever dream while you’re watching it, maybe six to eighteen months. I do think human voice actors would be required, but you could do the music with Suno.
- Comment on Where to start? 3 months ago:
I’ll throw my hat in for DS9. I’m just finishing the final season with my partner now - her first watch - and it’s really cemented why its my favourite Trek. It holds up incredibly well.
- Comment on Windows Recall is secretly installed on non-Copilot+PCs (Privacy Nightmare) 3 months ago:
It’s funny you say that, because in my experience what you’re describing is Arch. Mint, meanwhile, was the first time I’d used Linux and had it “just work”. What distro are you using that you don’t have to “fiddle-fuck around” with it at all?
- Comment on Windows Recall is secretly installed on non-Copilot+PCs (Privacy Nightmare) 3 months ago:
No joke, that’s the distro I’m going with 🙌 Mint is great!
- Comment on Windows Recall is secretly installed on non-Copilot+PCs (Privacy Nightmare) 3 months ago:
Even if all the processing remained on my devices, I still wouldn’t want or trust it. Microsoft could change that policy at any time, claim something like my logging in to my local account constituted agreeing to their new terms, and expose screenshots of my password manager in an unsecured public data store.
Fuck Windows Recall, and fuck Microsoft generally for being so fucking awful to their customers but mainly fuck them for forcing me to finally make good on my threat to switch to Linux. I’ve been using Windows for over thirty years and switching off their spyware for ten, but this is the final straw.
- Comment on Resource efficient AI model for LocalAI 3 months ago:
This worked, thank
- Comment on Resource efficient AI model for LocalAI 3 months ago:
Hello I would like to run a neural network to play Cyberpunk 2077 at max settings, only catch is my rig is a month old potato, my monitor is a cracked windshield I ripped off the wreck of an old Pontiac at the local junkyard, the night attendant feels bad for me so he lets me scavenge sometimes, plz help
- Comment on Is Andrew Yang involved at all in Harris's campaign? 3 months ago:
If you knew why you got downvoted you wouldmt have had to ask. But you asked, and you got an answer, so what you think isn’t really relevant here.
- Comment on So bad it was actually entertaining 3 months ago:
Must have been run by those parrots
- Comment on Proud globohomo 3 months ago:
Oh, don’t you worry, they’ll identify themselves for you without any additional encouragement.
- Comment on Satan throws a hell of a party 3 months ago:
The real Satan was Ticketmaster, all along!
- Comment on What happened to the turn based RPG and RTS genres? 4 months ago:
Check out some trailers for Falling Frontier, it looks like it has a lot of potential at least.
Also, Star Sector: fractalsoftworks.com
- Comment on Stem cells reverse woman’s diabetes — a world first 4 months ago:
Like the custom endocrine systems of combat sleeves in Richard Morgan’s Altered Carbon! Need to be strong or fast? Just give yourself a little squirt of adrenaline! Time for slow heart rate and low energy use? Slow-release a skoche of acetylcholine.
You make a good point about subscriptions. The repo when you stop paying would be pretty grim.
- Comment on AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs 4 months ago:
Training complete! Next challenge: fold this prion into a viable protein.
- Comment on Steam does the opposite of forcing Arbitration on its users 4 months ago:
Accurate. In order for this to stop the punishment needs to be more than the cost of doing business. Thankfully, Valve seem to be hell bent on doing right by their customers, in most cases at least (just to leave room for scandals I haven’t heard about or forgot 😅)
- Comment on Steam does the opposite of forcing Arbitration on its users 4 months ago:
If you think that an arbitration company isn’t going to end up sympathetic to the people signing their cheques after some amount of time in operation, I’m afraid I have some bad news for you.
I don’t assume arbitration wraps up in any arbitrary amount of time (🥁). I say it’s quicker than litigation because it is, every single time. Because it is quicker it is also cheaper, every single time. Small claims court is different again, and not at question here, just to head that off at the pass.
You however do assume a lot like my location and the location of the suit I brought though, based on my vernacular, and I’d recommend against that. “Mate’s rates” could put me in the UK, or Australia, or New Zealand, or even some places in South Africa and other former colonies. None of those would be accurate.
- Comment on Steam does the opposite of forcing Arbitration on its users 4 months ago:
If you push everybody into arbitration, you’ve already got the arbitrator in your pocket and your costs will still be less than litigation in 99% of cases - even class action. I don’t think you understand just how long and expensive and unpredictable litigation can actually be, but I’ve brought suit before so I do. It took four and a half years to get an initial court date from first filing the complaint. Not the trial, just a date so the judge could hear the facts of the case and opening statements from attorneys. Four and a half years of paying my attorneys, as a private individual, with a lot less money than you might think. And they were giving me mate’s rates; I’ve worked with companies where the legal work billings were in the tens of thousands per day for a single participating law office.
Maybe Valve did this to fuck their customers, but they don’t really have a track record of that, and since in the majority of cases arbitration is without question an anti-consumer move, I’d say that if your aim is to paint Valve to be the villains for this then it’s going to be an uphill battle.
- Comment on Steam does the opposite of forcing Arbitration on its users 4 months ago:
Arbitration is always cheaper and faster than the courts, because the courts are very backed up especially since the pandemic, and there’s a lot of admin cost which doesn’t exist in arbitration. That is why almost every other company is trying to force arbitration. So if the goal was to save money, forcing court would have the opposite effect.
- Comment on Gullfriends - A place to appreciate friendly sea gulls 4 months ago:
My Gul isn’t very friendly at all, he keeps trying to genocide pastoral societies, is he broken?
- Comment on MKBHD is getting cancelled over $12/month wallpaper app, ad overload, and excessive permissions 4 months ago:
I didn’t know it could turn your desktop into a toy, I thought it was more like all those other wallpaper apps which just “help” you switch between images. Have you found the live wallpapers to be much of a battery drain on Android?
- Comment on MKBHD is getting cancelled over $12/month wallpaper app, ad overload, and excessive permissions 4 months ago:
Okay, genuine question: why pay for an app like that at all when you can make any image your wallpaper for free? I mean, I like mine:
Spoiler
- Comment on Up against a 'ghost network' for mental health care? Here's what you can do. 4 months ago:
Literally right there with you bud. Same boat, exactly, to a T. My sister is a healthcare provider herself and couldn’t find a therapist for me in my network who specialises in adult autism, and is taking new patients.
They’ll call me when they have space. In the meantime, I smoke a lot of weed and don’t blame myself too much for my meltdowns, is I can’t remove myself from the stimulus in time.
