wise_pancake
@wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
- Comment on A ban on state AI laws could smash Big Tech’s legal guardrails 6 hours ago:
I thought they cared about states rights?
How are they able to even ban states from passing laws
- Comment on Mammal 3 days ago:
Every time we try to draw a reasonable classification the platypus is just there, mocking and judging us.
- Comment on Backup for important files/pictures? 3 days ago:
I’m new/planning to get more into self hosting
I have a crappy NAS in the basement I archive to and copy my borg repos to.
Then I pay for a Dropbox style cloud service and I copy my borg archives there. It’s kind of janky but it’s cheap and works.
- Comment on Is there any good decentralized cloud storage for personal backups as a self-hoster? 3 days ago:
- Comment on Is there any good decentralized cloud storage for personal backups as a self-hoster? 4 days ago:
If you set up something like Garage with borg with a bunch of other people you could create a network where you essentially swap hard drive space to ensure you’re all backed up.
But I think Garage assumes very high trust with your fellow hosts, so this doesn’t scale beyond direct social connections.
- Comment on Fallout from Trump trade war takes toll on U.S. economy, OECD says, as it lowers global outlook 4 days ago:
Just wait for section 899 of the new budget bill to kick in.
$500B of foreign investments will start exiting US markets and we (non Americans) will start seeing taxes on US digital services get ratcheted up in retaliation.
I’ve already exited a significant portion of my US positions to front run this.
- Comment on Correct Grindr Response 4 days ago:
That’s actually kind of sad.
I remember doing a ton of stuff on my core 2 Duo iMac with 2gb ram.
Sure, you won’t be playing cyberpunk, but it ran all the creative suite apps, a few games, and I did a ton of image editing, made movies, and did programming on it.
- Comment on Reddit sues Anthropic, alleging its bots accessed Reddit more than 100,000 times since last July 4 days ago:
They actually quite that in a real legal filing?
Jesus.
Did they ask /r/pettyrevenge to write that?
- Comment on Trump ratchets up steel tariffs to 50% 5 days ago:
As a Canadian all I have to say is🖕🖕
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly (30 May 2025) 1 week ago:
The object storage (S3-compatible) platform MinIO created a bit of a stir this week with a PR that removes a ton of functionality from the interface of its community edition. When questioned, users were directed to the enterprise version of the platform. In unsurprising open-source fashion, a fork has already been created by the community while others have started migrating to existing alternatives like Garage.
How are people finding Garage? Does anyone have a good comparison vs seaweedFS?
- Comment on Video apps like Hulu “cannot be used on Nintendo Switch 2,” says support page 1 week ago:
They probably don’t have to test most of those games since they’re just thirst trap anime romance reskins
- Comment on Google is going ‘all in’ on AI. It’s part of a troubling trend in big tech 1 week ago:
Gemini.
The twins.
Castor and Pollux.
They were tricked by their cousins and started the whole Trojan War.
- Comment on Do you actually audit open source projects you download? 1 week ago:
I don’t hate AI, I hate how it was created, how it’s foisted on us, the promises it can do things it really can’t, and the corporate governance of it.
But I acknowledge these tools exist, and I do use them because they genuinely help and I can’t undo all the stuff I hate about them.
If I had millions of dollars to spend, sure I would try and improve things, but I don’t.
- Comment on yalls done seen any bugs round these' parts? 1 week ago:
That’s a Wikipedia image hall of fame candidate there
- Comment on I am not a builder… but that does not seem right 1 week ago:
I don’t have the willpower to not make this joke to my wife.
- Comment on No looky for you! 1 week ago:
I can see myself meeting that guy in a bar and both of us complaining about shit for hours and hours
- Comment on respect dandelions! 1 week ago:
We to drank way too much, got way too drunk, and it had an awful hangover
- Comment on YSK you can permanently hide entire domains from your search results with DuckDuckGo/Google/other engines through this user script 1 week ago:
I love this feature
“Oh, you scraped the docs from the real host and added ads? Well, I’ll never see you again”
- Comment on respect dandelions! 1 week ago:
I thought dandelions were now recognized as not a great food source for bees
We converted most of our yard into a native wildflower garden and I see a lot of bees these days. We also get fireflies in the summer now.
- Comment on respect dandelions! 1 week ago:
A friend’s dad made this and we stole some as teens.
He wasn’t mad, he knew we learned a lesson.
- Comment on New dwarf planet spotted at the edge of the solar system 2 weeks ago:
This far-flung orbit may be the result of an encounter with a giant planet, which ejected the candidate dwarf planet out of the solar system, say the researchers.
Poor guy. Hopefully he’s out there finding his own family.
At least it doesn’t have to deal with the toxicity Pluto does, being in the family one day and then coldly rejected from the family from the planet club the next. And we wonder why it’s exterior is frozen…
- Comment on JUST DO PSYCHEDELICS LIKE NORMAL PEOPLE 2 weeks ago:
We all talk about how high dimensional space is cursed, yet we still try and use it for personal gain.
It is folly I say.
- Comment on We pink inside too :( 4 weeks ago:
Achually it’s named after Salmon Rushdie and is the true colour of Satan’s flesh.
- Comment on If it's good enough to keep your house warm, it's good enough to keep your insides warm 5 weeks ago:
Im 40% insulation.
- Comment on Stock Market Today: Trump Vows 100% Tariffs on Foreign-Made Movies; Dow Slips — Live Updates 5 weeks ago:
Sounds like Trump accidentally turned on subtitles and can’t get rid of them.
- Comment on Federal Reserve likely to defy Trump, keep rates unchanged this week 5 weeks ago:
Does Trump want inflation or something?
Slash rates, increase COGS, decrease supply!
Any of those policies alone mean inflation. All of them together is disaster.
There’s a reason central banks don’t cut rates when times are good. Though one would argue times are not good at the moment…
- Comment on Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads 5 weeks ago:
Who the fuck comes up with this stuff?
- Comment on Trump tells business chiefs he needs 'little bit of time' as US economy shrinks 5 weeks ago:
He is right on that, I can’t share my source, but I do know for a fact that broadly companies have been stockpiling.
Seasonal industries like fashion are going to be first hit. Manufacturing is already hit. Now that the spring season is running out the apparel industry is going to come into the brunt of tariffs and we’re going to start seeing the pain ramping up through the summer.
Expect big changes in what’s on the shelves soon.
- Comment on Prehistoric sex toys are kind of hard to look at 5 weeks ago:
If you drew eyes on them, any of the lady image could become characters in a Ghibli movie.
- Comment on Shein Hikes Prices by Up to 377% Thanks to Trump’s Tariffs War 5 weeks ago:
Good
That shit has always been awful for both consumers and the planet.