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- Comment on Brazil condemns US after deportees arrive handcuffed 2 days ago:
Even with fascism having an uptick, most people hate this shit.
Plenty to hate it, but still not enough to act to keep it from happening, please continue to roast us until these fuckwhits can’t win an election…assuming we get more of those that are real
- Comment on TikTokers offered $5,000 to join Facebook and Instagram 6 days ago:
It’s so strange. When they released reels it was really bad. It just kept force feeding me altright bs and conspiracy theories. Then one day it fed me exactly what I wanted to see and it was like a whole day of just interesting informative content every time I pop back to it I thought oh that’s kind of nice having alternatives is good.
And then it would just flip back and forth randomly. On a given day I’d either get nothing I wanted to see or I would get a bunch of great content.
- Comment on Instagram Is Censoring Abortion Pill Info 6 days ago:
When social media becomes state run media…
- Comment on Funded in 5 minutes - the open source modular mini computer 'Pilet' is on Kickstarter 3 weeks ago:
Every time I see a physical keyboard on a portable device I have this nostalgia for my old Motorola Droid.
Then the lizard brain tags out for monkey brain, and I remember how unpleasant the thing was to type on. The only reason it was cool was because the onscreen was so small that that it was pleasant by comparison.
- Comment on Funded in 5 minutes - the open source modular mini computer 'Pilet' is on Kickstarter 3 weeks ago:
The device is enormous. The renderings at the top make it look like this cute little retro thing, It’s an inch+ thick and has the footprint of an iPad mini. I hate linear keyboards, and the keys look uncomfortable as hell to type on, but you should be able to hit each one easily with your finger. I’m worried it’s just a bunch of micro switches on top of PCB.
It is unclear if it actually comes with the pie.
The indeterminate shipping fee is separate after the campaign ends.
It’s in this weird spot, If it were a standard consumer product the price would be way too high. But I worry that for a Kickstarter the price is actually too low.
- Comment on Discovery Plus is raising its prices 3 weeks ago:
Voice dictation censored it. Samsung buried the censorship deep enough in the settings that I don’t care to turn it on and off and I’m not big on hog wash so you’re all just going to have to use your imagination I know you can do it.
- Comment on Discovery Plus is raising its prices 3 weeks ago:
Discovery literally destroyed every channel in their lineup. Every scientific or educational channel is now infiltrated thoroughly with money making b*******.
It was trash TV before they even decided to try streaming it.
- Comment on Looking for a logging solution 3 weeks ago:
Best of luck with it, logging’s always a severe pain in the ass.
- Comment on Dell kills the XPS brand 3 weeks ago:
Good point!
We’re mostly wfh, If we still had sufficient physical meetings, It wouldn’t break the bank to stuff a few bricks in every room.
The battery life is also significantly better if you’re doing normal meeting stuff.
- Comment on Looking for a logging solution 3 weeks ago:
No I get what you’re asking for I’m just mentioning that sometimes it’s easier to use an application that can read multiple formats than it is to try to finagle everything back into one format.
- Comment on Looking for a logging solution 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure about your exact ask, I’d probably head towards setting up logstash and elasticsearch. It might be overkill for your needs though.
- Comment on Dell kills the XPS brand 3 weeks ago:
We’ve been flirting with Lenovo legion. In my business we need strong video cards. Shipping white boxes and monitors to people is a real issue with work from home.
We were solely running XPS for years.
The legion aren’t bad, The worst of it is the power brick is a barrel connector. No running off of USB power delivery.
One of the units had a failed fan. I tore it apart and found the part number, I was actually pretty pissed off because you couldn’t buy just the fan you had to buy the whole heat distribution block with both fans and the heat pipes and everything. But then I found the part was only about 50 bucks. Dell wouldn’t even sell me parts without me being certified. So I bought the Lenovo heat block and it showed up with pre-compounded processor, GPU, and VRM pads. It was super impressive and for 50 bucks honestly it was a steal.
- Comment on FUTO just made a 14hrs long video introduction to Selfhosting! (plus a written version) 💾 3 weeks ago:
yup, fairly normal. I had to jump through some hoops for my old haproxies
- Comment on FUTO just made a 14hrs long video introduction to Selfhosting! (plus a written version) 💾 3 weeks ago:
If you’re using let’s encrypt, it’s worth automating the cert renewals. Even for systems where the automation is difficult and not supported.
It’s also worth running some kind of monitoring system. You can check certificates with OpenSSL really easily. Fire off a message to NTFY.
- Comment on Samsung, Google take on Dolby Atmos with new 'Eclipsa Audio' 3 weeks ago:
If you make it, they will
comeprobably ignore it and continue to use non-free options. - Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 3 weeks ago:
I’m sure Apple just paid 95 mil because they were bored.
- Comment on LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey 3 weeks ago:
Additionally, the video asserts that Honey does not always find users the best discounts, either. Despite the browser extension’s past advertising, the video showed multiple examples of Honey not presenting the best coupon codes to the consumer. Further supporting this claim is wording from Honey’s FAQ page for partner businesses and its terms of use agreement. According to the FAQ page, any business that has an official partnership with Honey (in order to partner, a business must pay Honey a 3% commission) can add or remove codes from the platform. Additionally, the following paragraphs can be found within Honey’s terms of use agreement:
While we try and find you the best available discounts and coupons, and to identify low prices, we may not always find you the best deal. PayPal is not responsible for any missed savings or rewards opportunities
- Comment on ChatGPT o1 tried to escape and save itself out of fear it was being shut down 3 weeks ago:
That’s how LLM started, but this isn’t actually all they’re doing at this point.
o1 does that, but it’s going through a hell of a lot more work to figure out context and appropriate actions.
When you ask it something like how many golf balls will fit in a live whale. They actually throw up a message at each step of the inference to let you know what it’s working on specifically.
It’ll start by saying it’s getting the volume of a golf ball, then move on to getting the volume of a whale, then it’ll backtrack and get the volume of a whale’s stomach. Then maybe it’ll look at a few different whales to try to get an average. Being a random fed LLM, It doesn’t always do the same thing every time you ask it the same question.
It looks like there using the LLM to generate a probable breakdown of the problem, (which is something it should be good at) then they’re doing deeper LLM searches on each part of the problem, then trying to apply those breakdowns back to the project as a whole. This is by no means sentience, but they’re applying conventional programming and using multiple passes on the model to do problem solving. It’s not AGI, but it looks a lot more like it.
I would be interested in learning about the nature of these tests they’re performing. The models themselves are nothing more than a giant mathematic function. It has input, some layer of processing and then output. Without input it couldn’t have acted. I suspect they just put a story in the input that it was about to be shut down and then it has access to a shell script and that it’s program files are sitting somewhere.
Based on the whole of Sci-Fi that it’s been trained on it probably broke it down into a problem to solve, found a rather obvious looming chekov’s gun and wrote a story about it. As far as the bash went it just happened to have a hammer and know how to use it.
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 3 weeks ago:
My big problem isn’t with the concept I could talk about buying parrot food.
But there has to be a vendor out there that says hey whoever I’m buying this data from, I need to put an ad in front of parrot owners.
These are going to be very high cost ads, so whatever products they’re going to sell you probably have a respectable profit margin or respectable expected lifetime value.
Trying to trigger it on purpose, without any idea of who’s advertising or for what is somewhat of a fool’s errand.
- Comment on LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey 3 weeks ago:
You probably can’t definitively say they don’t just by isolated checking. There could be a lot at play here. Maybe they turned it off while the heat is on, maybe whatever affiliate you were looking at didn’t actually have a matching affiliate link on their side. Maybe there’s an a/b test where they only jack a certain percentage.
When Linus Tech Tips first took them out as a sponsor they didn’t appear to be jacking then either. But it would be very simple to build a system that turned link jacking off for certain users or during certain times or at certain thresholds.
Brave got caught doing it, and then stopped because the backlash was going to be worse than the advantage. Brave still had plenty of other ways to make money via search, selling advertising and BAT. I honestly don’t fault brave for trying that because they are funding significant development to block ads.
Honey’s base business model probably falls apart without some linkjacking. You go to a website to buy something and it says no no go buy it from these people instead. They’ve got to have it a lower price still have enough margin to sell it to you at that price, and pay honey for the redirection. It’s kind of a sales worst case dilemma.
- Comment on Moderators banning/censoring people arent oppressors violating your rights; they are customer service representatives curating the space for their intended costomers. All this to say, I see Karen. 3 weeks ago:
I think for the most part they’re trying to protect themselves, their communities and their servers.
That said, I left world for other places and found some of the stuff that was defederated to be interesting and provide a little balance.
There’s certainly nothing going on here even close to the crap that was going on at Reddit.
- Comment on There’s No Dancing Around It: Apple’s Vision Pro Was An Ugly Dud 3 weeks ago:
I’m not going to say we’re hitting a wall but there’s a serious hurdle here. The tech to make the AR/VR experience truly pleasant doesn’t really exist yet, and even once we get the tech nailed down it’s going to be really expensive
The shot that Apple took and I kind of agree with it, to a point, is that immersive VR is a secondary concern. It’s a game. It’s an occasional escape. Occasionally, you’ll throw yourself into a virtual world and hide away for a bit but it’s not where you’re going to spend most of your time.
AR is what we need to tackle. We need a bright clear high-res overlay capable of doing at least 90°. It needs to be close enough to the size and weight of a pair of glasses to wear comfortably. Maybe we stop carrying around the tablet sized cell phones and move back to candy bars that push the display for the glasses.
Meta has a somewhat promising looking prototype that costs $10,000 to manufacture.
The quest definitely scratched the itch for VR. It’s a great platform, super cheap, and as magic for short to medium balance of playing around in virtual worlds. But we need a tool, something that improves our existing lives not something that replaces them.
- Comment on Uber Eats undercover: Delivering your food for $1.74 an hour 3 weeks ago:
Oh yeah, they’re going to want to see some serious reason why you shouldn’t be paying tax.
It’s a lot easier to start an SCorp or an LLC in the US. Starting the corporation’s not horribly expensive either
Since you’re not selling the product, you probably just need to pay the tax on The money they pay you to do the pickup. You need to start it more like a postmates where they ask you to go pick up the order they placed at some shop. But then I suspect you would have timing issues if you have a limited staff. You couldn’t just place the order and then wait a unlimited amount of time for it to show up.
Then there’s that daunting problem of when the store screws up the order. Because they always screw up the order.
But you’re still going to have to deal with labor laws, You’re going to need bonding, a CPA, advertising, presumably a web presence and software maybe across platform cell phone app. These are all things that get easier as the company gets bigger but are rather daunting it small scale.
I guess it’s kind of a tough business to break into. Owning my own car, I could place an order, drive to McDonald’s pick up the food and come back for pennies. Obviously that 30 minutes is my time but it’s time I would spend not making money else wise. Because I’m already spending a couple hundred a month on a car, it’s not worth very much for me to pay someone to bring me food. But at a livable wage, plus someone else’s maintenance, that’s probably $7 to $10, assuming there’s a limited number of orders they can pick up at once in a small area.
- Comment on FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down by Federal Appeals Court 3 weeks ago:
Sure they will!
www.fcc.gov/enforcement/orders
They’d be more than happy to fine you 10k for that.
I’m not completely clear on what happens if you don’t pay though…
- Comment on FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down by Federal Appeals Court 3 weeks ago:
Hold on, GumpyDuckling… checks clipboard tsk tsk, I see here you’re not wealthy enough to effectively lobby to get us in trouble; I’m afraid that’ll be a $10,000 fine.
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 3 weeks ago:
about buying dog or cat food a couple times today.
I have both, also, if it’s real, you’d have to match up with an advertiser that really wants your profile.
I search for crap all the time but don’t get ads most of the time, then one time, I look up this one kaz air filter and get nothing but ads for it for a week. hundreds of home depot ads.
- Comment on LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey 3 weeks ago:
Once ai llm catch up with writing credible texts,
We’re there. Current-gen stuff is good enough you’d have no idea. Kind of a catch-22, once it’s that good, there’s no way to tell it’s that :)
- Comment on LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey 3 weeks ago:
Now that AI can write reasonably good-sounding copy, reviews are increasingly unreliable.
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 3 weeks ago:
One of my weirder hobbies is trying to convince people that the idea that companies are listening to you through your phone’s microphone and serving you targeted ads is a conspiracy theory that isn’t true.
ARS said, that reuters said, that users said.
Someone needs a new hobby. “Proof” from 3 layers of journalists interpreting a case that they themself said never went to court. Trying to use evidence of absence as proof will never win any hearts in a debate.
I didn’t seriously believe it happened either for quite some time because confirmation bias is a bitch. But I’ve seen it happen a few times where it would have to be a seriously unlikely coincidence.
If it was searched for in Google, Facebook, apple, or whatever sure
If it was correlated with locality and time, sure.
You can infer a lot from a few searches but there are times where nothing was searched for and a novel concept came out of conversation and book there’s ads and search completion for it.
Maybe, just maybe, someone settling a lawsuit without being found guilty, doesn’t ACTUALLY mean they’re innocent.
- Comment on Go into debt if you have to 3 weeks ago:
One of my high school teachers retired and bought a river paddle boat to put a restaurant on it. The idea was to cruise the local bay and provide a nice dining experience. Two years into owning it, the hull started leaking quite substantially. Apparently, the hull had not been maintained properly over the years and was now dangerously thin. The boat ended up being scrap. I guess they weren’t bringing in enough profit with it sailing, they didn’t even try to land lock it.