r0ertel

@r0ertel@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Agent Lands PRs in Major OSS Projects, Targets Maintainers via Cold Outreach⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s already a thing: rentahuman.ai

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I would wonder if it would be illegal to promote your live of the country by hanging a giant flag directly in the viewing path of the camera. Would you get arrested for being too patriotic?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is too defeatist for me. I am upset to see these all over town, but too small minded to do anything about it. I want to start something to pressure community leaders to change, but i worry that i’ll make a lot of noise then drop it like i do with everything. I’d love to join with a group.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Homeland Security has reportedly sent out hundreds of subpoenas to identify ICE critics online⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The minnesota attorney(ies) isn’t pressing charges because they are derelict in their duty

  This then becomes a voter issue to install someone who will represent the people. Alternatively, protests to hold elected officials accountable to their duties or promises.

  democrats do that with every issue opposed by powerful interests they promised to do something about, they make a performative gesture, get stopped, then say well I tried

  I’ve seen this far too many times. Again, holding elected officials accountable may be the only way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Homeland Security has reportedly sent out hundreds of subpoenas to identify ICE critics online⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember the “have fun with that” quote. It was oddly smug and childish, which is why it stuck out.

  Perhaps it’s naive of me to think so, but I read that the Minnesota District Attorney is deliberately not pressing charges (at least for the 2 murders) until the chance of a presidental pardon is nil.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you describe that post sneeze smell?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the smell of daemons leaving your body.

  God bless you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Homeland Security has reportedly sent out hundreds of subpoenas to identify ICE critics online⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I read a speculation somewhere that DHS want to declare all opposition to their activities as domestic terrorists and then remove their right to vote. There have been multiple articles detailing how the people who follow agents around and report their location are served papers later declaring them to be domestic terrorists and then they are placed on a no fly list. I’m sure more is to come. Reportedly, all the agents use facial recognition cameras to sweep the crowds for logging in a database, but another report suggests that the recognition part isn’t working so well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Push to repeal Section 230 raises stakes for how social media moderates content⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You could be right, but I read an opinion piece a while back that suggested that removal of 230 would allow the government to indirectly censor speech online by selectively punishing the platforms that don’t moderate in the way that the administration would like. This may not be a problem under the current administration, but what if a wanabe dictator were to somehow become president?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helm chart installable solutions?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have something similar to host paths with node selectors: an NFS provisioner for PVs. The provisioner is tied to the node with the large disk. It’s not resilient to node outages, but allows me to spread pods across the nodes. For my deployments, I’m preferring to use S3 storage wherever possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helm chart installable solutions?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Excellent write-up. I had Nextcloud running on K3s with its files on a NAS which were shared with Minio and it worked well. I’m looking into Longhorn, but only have 2 nodes and it wants at least 3. I’m reevaluating my resiliency needs in favour of simplification.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you backup your docker images?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been looking to do this, but haven’t found a good, easy to use pull thru proxy for docker, ghcr.io and some other registries. Most support docker only.

  This one looks promising but overly complicated to set up.

  A few times now, I’ve gone to restart a container and the repo’s been moved, archived or paywalled. Other times, I’m running a few versions behind and the maintainer decided to not support it, but upgrading would mean a complete overhaul of my Helm values file. Ugh!

  I was considering a docker registry on separate ports for each upstream registry I’d like to proxy/cache.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I read an opinion piece that suggested that he is upset that Minnesota is the only blue state in a region of red. Given that Minnesota is primarily white, he felt that he could use the Somali fraud as a way to turn [white] people against the democrats using xenophobia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it normal for mothers to constantly talk to their children about their experience (particulary the part about their pain and suffering) of their pregnancy and giving birth?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, it’s not normal. We will reminisce about events during the pregnancy and birth as a way to suggest that our child’s personality was present well before birth.

  Maybe go to the thrift store and get an old donated metal from track and field or something and etch something witty on it and maybe that’ll make your point for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK Tips for a Winter Storm⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lots of great advice here and in the comments. To add some clarity to driving carefully, imagine that you are driving with an open fish tank on the floor of the passenger side and you don’t want to lose any fish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't understand how Trump gets away with all his senial BS. How come everyone is telling him to piss off or use the constitution to shut him the hell up?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you have any references to podcasts or books that articulate this well? I’m not interested in one person’s story, but the overall processes of a cult are fascinating.

  I’ve been listening to the Conspirituality and You Are Not So Smart (specifically “how mids change”) podcasts, which are good and would enjoy any others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Little repost bot⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Generally speaking, I’ve found that the techie forums are pretty healthy but the normie ones tend to be lacking in content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that taking advice from youtubers and podcasters is a terrible idea. Only take advice from research universities⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought that this is how we promote Darwinism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Techie banned from client site for outage he didn’t cause⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have 3 cordless drills and 1 corded. Every time I need to use one, the cordless ones are out of batteries despite charging them before putting them away. The battery pack is stored for a couple of months between projects. These are the second set of batteries and they weren’t cheap.

  Oh, and I’m cursed for batteries. I’ve had two instances of a brand new car battery failing after a few months due to fused plates. The mechanic says that it never happens.

  I’d love to get an electric car, but feel that that would be tempting fate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's it going to take to truly stop the US?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You forgot about all intra-continental internet cables going through US routers and oil being traded in USD.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is self-hosting becoming too gatekept by power users?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m self hosting to learn. I’ve been hacked before and I lost stuff and then I refined my technique and started over again. Nothing I do is “mission critical”, so I now have the mindset that it will fail, I will lose data and time and I will get hacked. Honestly, it’s helped me to be better at home and at my workplace to have this mindset. Always plan for failure (and keep backups).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With how shitty some Christians are, you really have to wonder if Lucifer or Satan is truly "evil"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Being Christian or going to church doesn’t make you a good person any more than a speed limit sign prevents people from speeding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The People’s Answer to ICE: Crowdsourcing Community Defense⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not 75%, just 3.5% is needed (probably).

  source

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You have a lot of good points and I may have missed the intent of the article, but a knee jerk reaction of “lower traffic = AI is bad” is not helpful either. My point is that I frequently find myself hitting a page just to check a reference, quote or remember something. AI search results can be useful here. It’s no different than how DuckDugkGo has a sidebar if the results are from StackOverflow. It’s nice to get quick answers. I would like to see a fair solution to the content creators being able to stay in business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This will be unpopular, but hear me out. Maybe the decline in visitors is only a decline in the folks who are simply looking for a specific word or name and the forgot. Like, that one guy who believed in the survival of the fittest. Um. Let me try to remember. I think he had an epic beard. Ah! Darwin! I just needed a reminder, I didn’t want to read the entire article on him because I did that years ago.

  Look at your own behaviors on lemmy. How often do you click/tap through to the complete article? What if it’s just a headline? What if it’s the whole article pasted into the body of the post? Click bait headlines are almost universally hated, but it’s a desperate attempt to drive traffic to the site. Sometimes all you need is the article synopsis. Soccer team A beats team B in overtime. Great, that’s all I need to know…unless I have a fantasy team.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨crop candles⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Electric heaters are wasteful. How about spending that energy wisely while also generating heat?

  fedia.io/m/nottheonion@lemmy.world/t/2828343

  (Sorry for the full link, I can’t figure out how to reference an article on another instance on the mobile app.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You just described most tech stocks.

  As Cory Doctrow explains:

  the fundamental duty of every CEO of every high-growth tech company: explaining how his company will continue to grow. These growth stories are key, because growth stocks trade at a huge premium relative to the stocks of “mature” companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Street racers are not criminals⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I came here to say just this. I used to belong to a hobbyist group that would reserve track time for races. They were timed trials for safety and had tow trucks and medics on standby. The best was when they watered the track in the winter and let it freeze overnight. Those were the slowest races I’ve ever seen. In addition to being safe fun, they taught how to handle your car in extreme situations.

  Here’s an example race: www.onelapofamerica.com/#!HOME

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨thick skinned employees, how can you be so thick skinned?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This may not help at all, but I worked at a toxic workplace. I got good at recognizing when I was being manipulated. Eventually, I learned that if I hid the hurt and acted as if the jabs didn’t hurt, it would send the toxic folks into a toxic rage, but the ironic part is that they could not complain to management about me not being affected.

  One day, I was called from one of the people from a recorded line (certain customer facing phones were always recorded, you could even hear the beeps). After the call, I told my manager, we went to HR, who pulled the recording and that person was moved to another area. I left shortly after for other reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI adoption rate is declining among large companies — US Census Bureau claims fewer businesses are using AI tools⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This contradicts what I’m reading in that AI model costs grow with each generation, not shrink.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I came here to see if it was the early signs of the demise of YouTube. I secretly want all these content producers to move to a privacy-respecting platform, especially those who produce tech or privacy related content.

  Now, for why I don’t watch videos anymore, the medium isn’t as easily consumed by me. I prefer text. At home, it’s noisy and I get interrupted every 90 seconds. I lose interest quickly and fast forwarding isn’t as easy as scanning text for a topic shift. My mind wanders on some topics, internally exploring that topic deeper. With text, i can just stop reading. With video, i need to realize that I’m processing a thought and hit pause, then rewind a bit. I get interrupted a lot. On the bus, I need to remember headphones and I hate when people shoulder surf. That’s harder to do with text. Give me a plain text RSS feed that I can read anytime.