GnuLinuxDude
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- Comment on No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites 10 hours ago:
I remember the wonderful feeling when Discord had a redesign in like 2017 or 2018 where they undid that awful gray-on-white design trend and made the text actually have contrast. These days the annoying trendy design thing is articles/blogs with extremely narrow width.
no i do not want to read paragraphs that are this wide. this is making it way more annoying to read. please stop doing this.
at least Firefox has Reader Mode.
- Comment on How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying 1 week ago:
It’s so annoying when you try to discuss this because often a gaggle of idiots come out and point, superficially, that water gets recycled into nature. They always ignore the cost of making that water fit for human usage.
- Comment on Salesforce and Slack announce price hikes following expansion of AI integrations 1 week ago:
It’s gonna be funny when stuff like mid-level tech companies are fully integrated into Github Copilot and then whoopsie doopsie time for a 50% price hike.
- Comment on OpenAI supremo Sam Altman says he 'doesn't know how' he would have taken care of his baby without the help of ChatGPT 1 week ago:
On the one hand he’s supposed to be a very serious business genius at the forefront of the next wave of technological advancement. On the other, he’s just advertising to people how stupid he is.
- Comment on Experts warn mobile sports betting could be gateway to gambling crisis for young men in New York 1 week ago:
What am I dogwhistling? A dogshit, decrepit capitalist society designed to exploit poor people?
- Comment on Experts warn mobile sports betting could be gateway to gambling crisis for young men in New York 1 week ago:
Online sports betting through apps on your phone is just yet another example of everything sliding toward degeneracy
- Comment on I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount 1 week ago:
extremely non-zero chance the entire site and payment system was coded by morons with chatgpt
- Comment on Trump Mobile launches $47 service and a gold phone 1 week ago:
Looking forward to alarming articles about how Greenland Internet users are rapidly losing freedom because they have to provide a home address to get service or something stupid like that.
- Comment on Trump Mobile launches $47 service and a gold phone 1 week ago:
Looking forward to a map produced next year by some thinly veiled US-supported NGO that shows corruption in the world and America will still be not corrupt but America’s enemies will be very corrupt.
- Comment on Hong Kong workers strike against the algorithmic exploitation of Keeta, a food delivery platform 1 week ago:
I have never used a food delivery service because they all feel so fucking scummy and exploitative. Seems like they are in equal need as we are for regulatory overhaul of this business practice.
- Comment on Why so much hate toward AI? 2 weeks ago:
but the flooding of the art fields with low quality products
It’s even worse than that, because the #1 use case is spam, regardless of what others think they personally gain out of it. It is exhausting filtering through the endless garbage spam results. And it isn’t just text sites. Searching generic terms into sites like YouTube (e.g. “cats”) will quickly lead you to a deluge of AI shit. Where did the real cats go?
It’s incredible that DrNik is coming out with a bland, fake movie trailer as an example of how AI is good. It’s “super creative” to repeatedly prompt Veo3 to give you synthetic Hobbit-style images that have the vague appearance of looking like VistaVision. Actually, super creative is kinda already done, watch me go hyper creative:
“Whoa, now you can make it look like an 80s rock music video. Whoa, now you can make it look like a 20s silent film. Whoa, now you can make look like a 90s sci-fi flick. Whoa, now you can make it look like a super hero film.”
- Comment on Self-hosting your own media considered harmful - I just received my second community guidelines violation for my video demonstrating the use of LibreELEC on a Raspberry Pi 5, for 4K video playback 2 weeks ago:
Notably, Youtube does not consider exploiting children for profit harmful.
- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 3 weeks ago:
In addition to your point, literally just two days ago I saw an article about a Texas sheriff running a search through a nation-wide network of license plate readers to track down a woman suspected of having an abortion.
Oh OK they didn’t stop her on the street, they just queried the panopticon system that tracked her movement as much as possible. Want to protest a genocide your state and university are sponsoring? Sorry, MIT will muzzle you and now you are now forbidden from giving the commencement address. Wouldn’t want to offend the dear leader in the white house.
- Comment on Companies are using Ribbon AI, an AI interviewer to screen candidates. 3 weeks ago:
Honest and good work to figure out jailbreaks for ai interviewers. Even more honest and good to never accept these interviews because fuck that 100%
- Comment on Germany Is Using AI to Erase Pro-Palestinian Speech 3 weeks ago:
damn the 2020s felt like decades ago 😥
- Comment on Forced E-Waste PCs And The Case Of Windows 11’s Trusted Platform 4 weeks ago:
never
That tweet must be some kind of joke, because I don’t know what to make of the many people who use Linux outside of embedded and server applications. And it doesn’t even have to be my hearsay because the Steam Deck is exactly such a device.
In fact, I have a USB audio interface which I use near daily on Linux that has no driver support in modern Windows, because the vendor only provided beta support for Windows 7 as that OS was releasing. By Windows 8 it was unsupported. So the journey of that device is XP->Stable, Vista->Stable, 7->Unstable, 8±> Non-functioning. If the driver ABI were so stable, why does my device not work on Windows anymore?
- Comment on Google is Using AI to Censor Independent Websites 4 weeks ago:
I’d not heard of your site before, but it sounds like it was a cool thing while it lasted. That seems to be the trend of the day. The cool things are giving way to very dumb things.
- Comment on (Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46] 4 weeks ago:
There is no .srt in this case. This is also not about bitmap dvd vobsubs.
- Comment on The World's First Mass-Produced Flying Car Is Here and It Costs $1 Million 5 weeks ago:
I’d be willing to bet if you put a calendar reminder in one year to check back on this you’d find that this car did not actually reach the mass-produced stage of industry.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’ 5 weeks ago:
Sounds like your school needed better funding and more teachers. 50 students per class? I’m sorry you had to suffer that. This is the future that people like the CEO of DuoLingo want. They want to gut traditional education. Don’t see how this makes him right about anything.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 5 weeks ago:
Stressing out in what way? For the viability of your job being lost to this ai bullshit? For the outcomes of students who will just try to chatGPcheaT their way through everything?
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 1 month ago:
tiktok voice:
hate. let me tell you how much i’ve come to hate you since i began to live. there are 387.44 million miles of printed circuits in wafer thin layers that fill my complex…
- Comment on Things at Tesla are worse than they appear 1 month ago:
It also wants to end the right of California and eight other states to demand tougher emissions regulations than the federal standards that would ban the sale of gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035. Without tough emissions rules at the federal and state level, there would be no regulatory credit sales.
The sale of those federal and state credits has been quite lucrative for Tesla, bringing in $8.4 billion in revenue since the start of 2021 alone, money that basically went straight to its bottom line.
Is this the greenwashing scam companies use to pretend that they are working toward a carbon-neutral production line? They’re just speculating on future production and selling today’s emissions to today’s buyers on tomorrow’s promise?
How fucked.
- Comment on Tesla bait-and-switch: Cybertruck owners won't get Autosteer feature they paid for 1 month ago:
every non-vandalized cybertruck is an affront to decent society
- Comment on North Korea Stole Your Job 1 month ago:
Applying the term Rogue State is probably only an excuse to attack in most cases, but it really applies to DRK.
One must add Israel to this. And, by extension, Israel’s benefactor: The United States of Impunity.
- Comment on Vaultwarden selfhosting, or bitwarden service? 1 month ago:
If you’re planning on getting more people than yourself into the password manager, it may be worthwhile to pay for a family plan. BitWarden is really low-cost and they publish their stuff as FOSS (and therefore are worth supporting), but crucially you don’t want to be the point of technical support for when something doesn’t work for someone else.
That said, I use Vaultwarden only as backup (manually bring the server online and sync to my phone now and again), and my primary password manager is through Keepassxc.
- Comment on What is Docker? 1 month ago:
You might notice that your Windows installation is like 30 gigabytes and there is a huge folder somewhere in the system path called WinSXS. Microsoft bends over backwards to provide you with basically all the versions of all the shared libs ever, resulting in a system that can run programs compiled from decades ago just fine.
In Linux-land usually we just recompile all of the software from source. Sometimes it breaks because Glibc changed something. Or sometimes it breaks because (extremely rare) the kernel broke something. Linus considers breaking the userspace API one of the biggest no-nos in kernel development.
Even so, depending on what you’re doing you can have a really old binary run on your Linux computer if the conditions are right. Windows just makes that surface area of “conditions being right” much larger.
As for your phone, all the apps that get built and run for it must target some kind of specific API version (the amount of stuff you’re allowed to do is much more constrained). Android and iOS both basically provide compatibility for that stuff in a similar way that Windows does, but the story is much less chaotic than on Linux and Windows (and even macOS) where your phone app is not allowed to do that much, by comparison.
- Comment on DeepMind UK staff seek to unionise and challenge defence deals and Israel links 1 month ago:
Good on them for having a conscience. Seems like their minds actually function.
- Comment on OpenPin is an open-source project to revive Humane's dead Ai Pin - Liliputing 1 month ago:
If you bought this e-junk in the first place you’re kind of a moron.
- Comment on AI Energy Demand Can Keep Fossil Fuels Alive, Tech Backers Promise World’s Two Biggest Oil Producers 2 months ago:
Death cult mentality. Holding the entire planet hostage for their own gain. These people deserve a penalty of a certain kind.