LainTrain

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, but until that’s clear I remain quite skeptical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I don’t disagree. However, in practice the tool is what it’s used for, e.g. guns. I’m pro-gun, but it’s foolish to not understand where the gun control people are coming from. Religion is the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. Broken economy, broken world, etc etc. it’s like a bad dream that won’t end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am serious, and don't call me Shirley⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t get it, is it meant to be a joke about how the experts (most famously engineers) have terrible spelling (tbf in my experience it’s more so the grammar)?

  …or is the joke that the man in the comic thinks everyone on social media who talks about a subject like they’re an expert is an actual expert which is seldom the case, despite the poor spelling giving away that they might be in fact just opinionated 14-year olds (or in a more contemporary sense accounting for birthrates likely senile 84-year olds)?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  For me, even graduating in 2022 with an MSc, 6 months is a short time to find a job

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Well believe it gramps, most of the open source projects contributors now either just do content creation as a side hustle or are permanently looking for work, at least in my experience

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, no. Once I saw this kind of bullshit was needed for programming jobs I just pivoted to IT and cybersec.

  These days the pay is just as good, and chances to find a job are even better, the environment is much lower pressure and this gross techbro exploited/exploiting attitude that somehow programming is special and not just a modern day 9-5 factory job is non-existent.

  You do have to deal with corpo boomers though, but if you’re lucky they mostly realize they’re just cogs that got lost and they better not make too much noise or they’ll be let go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Buddhist nationalists do genocide all the same, like in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_genocide

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨choosing a NIC for OPNsense⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Bump. Would also like to know

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Secure Boot, TPM and Anti-Cheat Engines⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Shame. Someone needs to steal these.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Secure Boot, TPM and Anti-Cheat Engines⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Great article.

  Probably a dumb question, but my mobo has an option in the setup utility to “enroll hash” and it seems to let me pick an .efi executable.

  Can I just use that to sign any bootloader (or efi executable for that matter) I want, e.g. HackBGRT, GRUB2, and if so, would that allow me to play Battlefield 6, or would the other features like TPM attestated logs indicate the chain loading and flag me for a ban (or simply not let me launch the game) ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI to cut paperwork to free up doctors’ time for patients⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure if the medical records keeping can get any worse than it already is to be honest. It is borderline impossible to get anything done when despite endless records half the time the medical staff just ask you for your entire life story, only to proceed to not understand it and usually set you back a step or two.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nicolas Sturgeon book reignites trans row with JK Rowling⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Only in hours the Overton window is far to the right the BBC will just publish JK Rowling’s anti-trans propaganda just because a cis woman prime minister dare exist and speak about her character assassination.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨President Trump’s War on “Woke AI” Is a Civil Liberties Nightmare⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly pretty glad to be woke and not them. I’d rather hang out with the most vapid preachy liberal talking about alien feminism than these fucking losers and their coffin dodger in chief

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exposing docker socket to a container⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is the container exposed to the internet?

  If yes, do not.

  If no, I think it will be ok so long as it’s actually not exposed to the internet, e.g. ideally behind NAT with no port forwards and all ipv6 traffic turned off or some other deny all inbound firewall outside the system itself that sits between it and the system on which the container runs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I support it only if it's open source" should be a more common viewpoint⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree.

  Even more broadly, politically - copyleft in general is very unpopular with people, even amongst leftists and self-identified communists who you’d think would be all about that since y’know, good of the commons and the fact that communist states literally didn’t give a fuck about copyright and the literature seeing it transparently as another government method of enforcing corporate power, especially apparent today when it comes to pharmaceuticals snd the fact that capitalism needs this intellectual property monopoly as an added incentive for R&D is an issue with capitalism’s broken incentive structures, not cost of it.

  Few people seem to understand the power of intellectual property, and various critics of corporate technology either omit mentioning or openly defend intellectual property, despite corporations having monopolies being the reason enshittification is such a phenomenon in the first place.

  It seems like a lot of arguments about the role of technology in society instead boil down to more-stuffism vs. less-stuffism, usually based on emotionally charged preference for modern aesthetics or how much they believe the noble savage/appeal to nature fallacies.

  When it comes to AI for instance, anyone reasonable can see that if it’s open sourced for everyone to use then it’s just a simple common good like a public library, use it (responsibly) and there’s no issue.

  Closed source private models in use by corporations suck up the environment (which belongs to everyone) and use the capital they steal from wage workers who actually produce the things they sell to give themselves leverage over said consumers/workers and other corporations, and this is not fair to the 99%.

  Picture a world where AI is good enough to where it actually provides value to use it in a good chunk of jobs, and the best AI is corporate and closed source, and they just enshittified it and jacked up the prices, but if you want to get a job, you better know how to use it well. It would mean that corpo has an enormous power over your life now and you got little choice but to pony up, and they can raise prices whenever they want and snowball that capital into more and more.

  I think the reason in this instance is that a lot of artists are bourgeoisie themselves and they understand that. They may be progressive as a personality strait/gimmick/style and talk about “empathy” but they understand the material reality of things.

  They had the opportunities and the room for failure necessary to go into such a high risk field, and their ultimate form of commercial success is essentially using that privilege to create intellectual property they could make money from, hence the “concerns” over “style theft” and moralist fearmongering over vaguely defined concepts like “soulless”, which is usually as arbitrary as “white” for racists (not implying equivalence here).

  I find generally that a lot of the anti-AI viewpoints are simple self-serving veils of bourgeoisie who’s capital is threatened, no different from the culture war fearmongering about vaping, a dying grasp of the tobacco companies of old threatened by shenzen gadget slop factories.

  The material reality is that digital goods are effectively infinite, copying an image isn’t a crime nevermind copying a style or some such, it is transparently absurd to imply otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh ofc we heard of it, but as I said, I don’t think I, nor the folks I know actually know what it really is, as in: what’s it about or what you do in the game, or if it’s a social thing and not a game etc etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s…wild. No one in my 27 year old age group of friends knows what Roblox really even is or has ever touched it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but today’s industry problems are way different than collector’s editions with that, of anything that feels quaint enough to peak my curiousity

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re thinking of Gen Alpha. GenZ was born starting '97, most of us are closer to 30 than 13, they don’t play Roblox or know what that is. All they know is eat hot chip and twerk and cry for a world that never was yet feels was taken from us while watching old vine compilations and being able to recite them word for word with impressive if slightly concerning accuracy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just to add a contrasting perspective I feel like it’s been an absolute golden age of gaming for me lately personally:

  No Man’s Sky still getting relatively fun updates. Cyberpunk 2077 was great on launch and arguably much better now.

  The Last Of Us Part 2 on PC is incredible and I’m happy that the port exists so I could experience it. You haven’t really played the game till you replay it with both protagonists wearing their Hotline Miami shirts in all the cutscenes. PS4 Spider-Man on PC was prolly the best superhero game I’ve played.

  MSFS2020 opened a whole new world of flight sims to me, especially when it comes to doing fun VOR2VOR navigation with littlenavmap charts printed to PDFs and attached in VR, and Assetto Corsa did the same for racing sims.

  Speaking of VR, H3VR is stronger than ever. I have many fond memories of VRChat just a few years back.

  Victoria 3 has a really fun thriving modding scene. Indie games like Sea Power, Flight of Nova, Stray, Ultrakill, World of Horror, Nuclear Option, Descenders and Crisis In The Kremlin: The Cold War have been a big timesink for me lately as well as classics of indie like Suzerain and actual art masterpiece DEFCON.

  It’s also been great to go back and play old classics and PS3 emulation now that PC hardware is much cheaper after the crypto/scalper crises circa 2018.

  Also, with Steam play and the steam deck, PC Gaming is easier than ever and just hassle-free.

  I never played the popular junk so ig to me all this gacha mtx horse armor crap just doesn’t really relate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This criticism is genuinely like 10-13 years out of date, gramps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tuition fees are rising again and nobody is happy – it’s time to actually fix our broken university sector⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh it’s time now? Wasn’t the time before? I don’t think it’ll be time again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do neurotypicals like AI slop?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see AI as a positive because it undermines the monopoly on intellectual property of capitalists, but I don’t like it because it seems to be making people braindead consoomers of “content” that doesn’t seem to cultivate the intellect

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do neurotypicals like AI slop?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s also a pretty valid framework for examining it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do neurotypicals like AI slop?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s absurd, we’d never build a civilization if everyone was at this level of dysfunction or anywhere near a majority, nevermind one with such rigid specific rules.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do neurotypicals like AI slop?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting! Thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do neurotypicals like AI slop?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Except this isn’t how language works, “Why do all the Asians wear black jeans?” invites both questions, unless the former is explicitly stated as a fact. It is obvious that any such thing is an unfalsifiable observation.

  People aren’t robots. “you’re making everyone do extra work” - not how people work, not how reasoning works. Viewing something through a framework of even incorrect assumptions can provide unique insight. That is inviting speculation.

  On the other hand - you’re continuously asserting my claim is false but have provided no proof of this.

  You have only questioned the proof of my claim, which yes - is anecdotal only, pure observation, as I readily admitted, and was never intended as a fact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there no universities/colleges that start in the afternoons?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk about the US but there are definitely both online and evening lectures schedules available at university. At my CompSci BSc it was more common to just not go and watch the lectures later.

  Bear in mind our higher ed doesn’t have any “general” education classes, only ones related to the degree, and we don’t really have the same system of a wider selection of courses and it’s the name of the institution that matters, like it seems to be the case in the US, in the UK, if you have a degree, you have the degree, there’s no explicit difference between one at QMUL and UoW.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do neurotypicals like AI slop?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And you reckon asking why something is true isn’t the same as asking if something is true?