BakerBagel
@BakerBagel@midwest.social
- Comment on AI crawlers cause Wikimedia Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%. 1 day ago:
I recently started as a graphic designer despite knowing absolutely nothing about it, so i am constantly searching how to do stuff in Adobe suite at work. Half the time Google’s AI can’t even keep “Cmnd” and “ctrl” straight, telling me to use’ “cmnd+shift+H” on Windows or “ctrl+shift+H” on Mac’. I don’t even know how it botches that, but it does it about 25% of the time.
- Comment on Terrorists 1 week ago:
- Comment on Dad demands OpenAI delete ChatGPT’s false claim that he murdered his kids 1 week ago:
What models are youseeing where things are 99% correct? Google’s search chat bot can’t even keep Windows vs Mac hotkey commands straight.
- Comment on Dad demands OpenAI delete ChatGPT’s false claim that he murdered his kids 1 week ago:
So then what’s the use of the program if it uses a bunch of energy to just make shit up?
- Comment on $16bn health agency managed finances with Excel spreadsheet. 3 weeks ago:
'Why do we need a backup when we have a RAID?"
The accounting head when you try to explain that your backup systems are woefully insufficient.
- Comment on You guys have to end it 4 weeks ago:
Not to mention the DUI rates in the US are astronomical. Over 1/3 of motor fatalities are alcohol related in the US.
- Comment on Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026 - Microsoft Support 4 weeks ago:
Oh joy. I already have to deal with printing crap people didn’t know how to make properly in Publisher or Canva. I’m super pumped to get emailed an excel file and asked if i can print off as a business card
- Comment on This speaks for itself 4 weeks ago:
Todd and Margot
- Comment on Buying a $250 Residency Card From a Tropical Island Let Me Bypass U.S. Crypto Laws 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Buying a $250 Residency Card From a Tropical Island Let Me Bypass U.S. Crypto Laws 4 weeks ago:
I just know where to buy the drugs i want here in town, and then i offer cold hard cash that can’t be traced back to me if the dealer rats me out. Much safer and more secure than buying them online.
Yobs like this always come out the woodwork when Bitcoin hits an all time high, talking about how cryptocurrency isn’t all bad, but once you push them it’s the same tired old talking points. They don’t want to help you financially. They just want you to hold their bag while they cash out.
- Comment on Buying a $250 Residency Card From a Tropical Island Let Me Bypass U.S. Crypto Laws 4 weeks ago:
I’d say you’re right for 99% of it, but there is 1% that’s genuinely useful.
I asked what that 1% of useful applications are and he gave a whole dog and pony show to avoid giving any examples. He said that there are times where cryptocurrency is better than your government’s currency (assuming you are in a stable country with a stable currency).
Bitcoin was developed by dudes upset by the 2008 financial crash who wanted to be the ones on top the next time everything imploded. Bitcoin is 100% useless at anything other than speculation.
- Comment on Buying a $250 Residency Card From a Tropical Island Let Me Bypass U.S. Crypto Laws 4 weeks ago:
A small bit of inflation encourages people to spend their money and keep the economy moving. Because if your currency is going to be worth more tomorrow than it is today, your incentive is to hoard it and mever soend a dime unless absolutely necessary.
Way more people have lost everything because where they keep their cryptocurrency went under than their bank freezing their accounts. Banks only close your account if they suspect you are doing highly illegal and fraudulent stuff. And of i forget my credentials, my bank has a process where i can access my money again after 5 minutes of KYC. If someone DOES fraudulently access my account without my authorization, the bank will fully restore my account and go after the fraudster.
I dont trust the US goverment any more than you do, but Uncle Sam isn’t interested in what his greenbacks are worth compared to other currencies. All he cares about is that i pay my taxes in USD.
You posted all that text, and still haven’t given an actual example of where cryptocurrency out performs USD for someone just going about their daily life.
- Comment on Buying a $250 Residency Card From a Tropical Island Let Me Bypass U.S. Crypto Laws 4 weeks ago:
And i have been using my bank account and cash to pay all my bills since i have had bills to pay. What’s the advantage of using something that is less convenient, less secure, and more resource intense than a normal checking account with direct deposit? You keep dodging the question on what use cases you think crypto currencies have an advantage over fiat currency.
- Comment on Buying a $250 Residency Card From a Tropical Island Let Me Bypass U.S. Crypto Laws 4 weeks ago:
So you don’t have an actual use cases then.
- Comment on Buying a $250 Residency Card From a Tropical Island Let Me Bypass U.S. Crypto Laws 4 weeks ago:
Please elaborate on what this magical 1% that you feel is useful and worth expending the same amount if energy as Australia
- Comment on Good afternoon I choose thoughts you've never had before. 4 weeks ago:
I’m a single guy. I’m not cooking dinner for 1 two nights in a row.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 4 weeks ago:
Your spending that much on a used phone? I can’t phantom paying more than $600 for one
- Comment on Good afternoon I choose thoughts you've never had before. 4 weeks ago:
I just take half the box and boil that, eat half of that, then eat the other half the next day
- Comment on nets 4 weeks ago:
Stuff falls out of garbage trucks, trash cans get tipped over, stuff gets blown out of the bed of a dumptruck at the landfill, landfills erode and take trash with them. Trashcans aren’t just magic portals that take trash into the nightosphere
- Comment on Meow 5 weeks ago:
I took in a stray kitten that someone dumped at my work back in the fall. I wasn’t sure if i would keep her or not, but i felt obligated to clean her up and feed her while i figured out what to do with her. As soon as she started interacting with my other kitten, they became best friends and i couldn’t in good conscience seperate them.
Another friend of mine slowly took in a stray cat over the fourse of a summer. Leave out food for it of it hangs out around your house until it starts to nuzzle up against you. Then you can pet it, maybe pick it up, and then take it to a doctor to get it checked out.
It sounds to me though, that you just don’t like animals.
- Comment on I love the future. 5 weeks ago:
You mean a libertarian? Yeah we know
- Comment on EU consumers don’t trust US goods: a look into Trump’s trade deficit claims 1 month ago:
Olive pil wasn’t a thing on the states until the 80’s. We get all the shittiest olive oil that is produced in the Mediterranean because they can sell their inferior products at a markup here.
- Comment on Man, their reputation really has gone to shit 1 month ago:
If tou look into the plans and wacky shit the CIA has tried to do over the years, you realize they are just daycare for Ivy League grads. They are absolutely useless at anything beyond intelligence gathering
- Comment on We still have three eggs up for auction. 1 month ago:
Because the hens provide eggs and are less quiet than a dog in a back yard. Roosters just scream randomly from just before dawn to just after dusk and are territorial and aggressive as all hell
- Comment on We still have three eggs up for auction. 1 month ago:
It really depends. I live ina rural town with about 17,000 residents. You are allowed chickens in the city limits, but not allowed roosters. I know a few people that have chickens in their yards, but there isn’t really enough apace for a chicken coop and activities in the yards since house are packed in pretty tight within coty limits. Outside city limits i would say about half the farmers have chickens as far as i can tell, but they are fairly reclusive
- Comment on Germany hits 62.7% renewables in 2024 energy mix, with solar contributing 14% 2 months ago:
Australia is just an oil company, a coal company, and a mining company disguised as a trench coat. The Liberal party (essentially just American Republicans opposed to guns) spent 2 decades killing any green energy initiatives in favor of fracking the Outback
- Comment on Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds 3 months ago:
Their creditors would sue because thats an asset that can be sold to refund them.
- Comment on Time for a road trip 4 months ago:
I’m from Engagement Ohio. It’s right between Dayton and Marion
- Comment on Niche Communities won't be able to reach their true potential until lemmy adds a sort that takes engagement into account. 4 months ago:
The balkanization is a massive problem though because instead of one, active, community we have 3 or 4 dead ones. There needs to be a critical mass of users before communities can afford to start splintering, and that just isn’t here.
- Comment on somebody has to do it! 4 months ago:
It can be both.
