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Anything and everything Amateur Radio and beyond. Heavily into Open Source and SDR, working on a multi band monitor and transmitter.
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- Comment on Buck the Billionaires. Create Your Own Internet Services. 13 minutes ago:
I have no problem with the idea of self-hosting, there’s a time and place for it.
What I have an issue with is proclaiming the idea of getting away from “Big Tech” under the banner of “Buck the Billionaires. Create Your Own Internet Services.” and jumping into a corporate VPS without any self awareness around the reality of that, let alone a hint, nevermind a deeper discussion, around the far reaching implications, such as legality, payments, administration, outages, getting hacked and myriad other “would have been good to know before I jumped”-scenarios.
Is paying for a VPS part of self-hosting, sure, for some, but is it “Buck the Billionaires” … hardly.
Is the article good for promoting self-hosting … I would argue … not.
- Comment on Buck the Billionaires. Create Your Own Internet Services. 3 hours ago:
This is drivel of the highest order.
The solution proposed by the author is to host your own fediverse instance on a … wait for it … corporate VPS.
There’s no discussion about terms and conditions that apply to hosted content, no discussion about legal liability, no discussion about credit card company censorship and what happens if you host something objectionable.
The author proudly proclaims that they’ve been booted off multiple platforms.
Here’s a thought:
“If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you’re the asshole.” - Elmore Leonard
- Comment on 2 days ago:
This is hilarious.
On Bkuesky they’re posting that researchers are flocking to substack:
- Comment on I'm "use NFS forfilesharing old." what's the current optimal solution for shared drives if I have like 3 linux machines in the house? 3 days ago:
I use sshfs.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
There’s a thing called an Advanced Health Directive in Western Australia, legally outlining who and under what circumstances is permitted to make decisions on your behalf.
I would talk to your medical team and ask them how this works in your country. It’s also when you discover what the cultural beliefs your team has and if they align with yours.
I’d be doing this sooner rather than later.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
If it were my problem to fix I’d ask an independent building inspector since the company who built it is unlikely to tell you that they fucked up.
Under no circumstances would I touch any of this myself until a qualified independent professional had fully documented the situation.
Consider what the impact is if you repair something incorrectly and it all comes falling down.
- Comment on Just reheating my pizza 5 days ago:
This is also how you can flow surface mount solder paste …
- Comment on Macaroni and cheese 1 week ago:
Yes
- Comment on Bruh 1 week ago:
For those wondering in amazement, this is a perfect example of why the current crop of Assumed Intelligence is not intelligent in any way.
This is an obvious example of incorrect information confidentially presented. Though funny and disturbing, this is is not an isolated example. It does this when you know about the topic and you notice, but it also does it when you don’t.
- Comment on Argentina wants to monitor social media with AI to ‘predict future crimes’ 1 week ago:
Seems that someone needs to re-watch Minority Report.
- Comment on Here’s What Happened When I Made My College Students Put Away Their Phones 1 week ago:
The study:
- Comment on Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems 1 week ago:
Or you can inject a bot:
- Comment on Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems 1 week ago:
Wow. This is a doozy.
- Comment on Anyone know why this weird CD won't fit in my CD drive? 1 week ago:
Poke yoke?
- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 1 week ago:
It’s also making people deskill.
- Comment on Do we need a crawler to load content from other lemmy instances? How are we supposed to federate without one? 1 week ago:
Make sure you’re aware of any legal liability implications for content posted by your users.
- Comment on top 5 lies in epstein footage - voidzilla 1 week ago:
Only those?
What about all the other Epstein files?
- Comment on Why do i tip my bartender $2 per drink and per bar food order but 20% when I order food from a waitress? Am I tipping wrong? 1 week ago:
This discussion around what to tip hides an employment system that values employees to the point of underpayment and poor working conditions.
Perhaps you should instead frequent establishments where tipping is not expected because the employees are paid a proper wage.
That way, you don’t have to argue about tipping your bartender too much, or not enough, instead you can focus on drinking a superbly crafted concoction of your choice.
I’ll also note that tipping is not universal.
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 2 weeks ago:
I think as a society we need to go through this, watching companies fail and shareholders losing their shit before the perpetrators of Assumed Intelligence end up in court.
I have mixed feelings about the employees who are caught up in this … let’s call it what it is … scam.
It’s easy to say … you lost your job because your boss is an arsehole, but how much influence did each individual really have in the overall process?
I’ve been looking for the next paid challenge for five years … well before this AI scam was perpetrated on the world. Despite having 40+ years industry experience and an aging population, my own age appears to be a barrier for the HR teams relying on the same tools that is causing them to lose their jobs.
As I said, I think this needs to blow up before it gets better, hopefully before I’m too old to do meaningful work.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It’s an insult with a poor attempt at pretending that it’s not.
Recommendation: Find a better friend.
- Comment on Arizona court sanctions lawyer for AI-generated false citations: Judge revokes attorney's pro hac status and imposes multiple sanctions after majority of legal citations were fabricated by AI. 2 weeks ago:
It’s happening in Australia too. The headline in this article needs some work.
I propose:
“Soon to be disbarred King’s Council used Assumed Intelligence instead of Actual Intelligence to argue a murder case”
- Comment on Parallel Empires 2 weeks ago:
… together with power, bidirectional audio, external display, storage and potentially human interface hardware like keyboard, tablet and mouse, not to mention plenty of other devices, smart or otherwise.
- Comment on Parallel Empires 2 weeks ago:
You can push Gigabit Ethernet through USB-C too, so a single USB-C connection will likely be our future port allowance 😇
- Comment on Would we be able to use the measles virus to reset the immune systems of people with autoimmune disorders like MS or rheumatoid arthritis? 3 weeks ago:
That may well be true, but in my experience every single scientist asks stupid questions every day. The difference between them and politicians is that they write it down and pursue answers relentlessly, while politicians do neither.
In other words, don’t be afraid of silly questions, everyone is in the same boat.
- Comment on Would we be able to use the measles virus to reset the immune systems of people with autoimmune disorders like MS or rheumatoid arthritis? 3 weeks ago:
If this is a new stupid question, perhaps you should make it a separate post.
- Comment on Would we be able to use the measles virus to reset the immune systems of people with autoimmune disorders like MS or rheumatoid arthritis? 3 weeks ago:
This seems like a question that you might ask in an askscience or science community.
- Comment on Would we be able to use the measles virus to reset the immune systems of people with autoimmune disorders like MS or rheumatoid arthritis? 3 weeks ago:
And you’re basing your comprehensive and systematically argued in depth response on … what exactly?
- Comment on It's probably for the best that mosquitoes havent evolved so they're bites aren't itchy 3 weeks ago:
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
Mosquito bites itch after they bite, not while they bite. The itch is your body responding to the saliva it injected.
- Comment on Why doesn't the US build a bridge here to connect Alaska to the mainland? Are they stupid? 3 weeks ago:
They built a land bridge. They even named it. Canada.
- Comment on Yeasty 4 weeks ago:
At least they didn’t pour it down the drain.