dreadbeef
@dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military 4 hours ago:
Coops are companies that are worth championing in a capitalist setting, no? While money and capitalism is ever prevalent and seemingly necessary to interact with for survival, it’s good to have an option like a coop
- Comment on Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military 15 hours ago:
And we can be hopeful for companies to have solid principles where if they are accused of genocide that they reflect on their actions instead of firing, and hope for a future where that’s the expectation instead of apathy.
- Comment on UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill. 18 hours ago:
It’s the minority report wtf
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 19 hours ago:
*Legal sportsbooks
- Comment on Apple shipped five plane-loads of iPhones and other products in three days to beat US tariff deadline 19 hours ago:
Tariffs apply when they arrive at port, not when you order. Yours might not ever show up because if they don’t pay the tariffs by EOD after arriving at port they get destroyed.
- Comment on Framework “temporarily pausing” some laptop sales because of new tariffs 23 hours ago:
You pay tariffs once the product hits the port. If you don’t have the cash when they arrive to pay the tariffs (which you didn’t plan for because all this happened in weeks and not many budgets accounted for it) then they destroy your cargo at end of day and you have until then to pay up. It’s a 54% tariff on laptop hardware so you better be liquid.
My assumption is framework wasn’t.
- Comment on It's 5 o'clock somewhere 1 day ago:
w/ vodka sauce
- Comment on Oracle hid serious data breach from customers, now hacker has it up for sale 1 week ago:
Limited liability
- Comment on Are Dairy Robots the Secret to Happier Cows and More Efficient Farms? 1 week ago:
Aww, little robots to take care of the cows after you rip away the baby from them and force them to breed over and over to keep them lactating 😻
So cute! Adorable :3
- Comment on The Mediocrity of Modern Google. 1 week ago:
Google results are dog trash. Bing results are dog trash.
- Comment on The Mediocrity of Modern Google. 1 week ago:
It’s gonna stay free forever, you’re totally not externalizing those costs to someone else. You can’t break the laws of thermodynamics
- Comment on Chinese SSD Manufacturer UNIS Flash Memory Unveils World’s Fastest PCIe Gen5 SSDs, Featuring Speeds of Up To 14,900 MB/s 1 week ago:
Gigabytes of L3 cache when
- Comment on OpenAI's move to allow generating "Ghibly stlye" images isn't just a cute PR stunt. It is an expression of dominance and the will to reject and refuse democratic values. It is a display of power 1 week ago:
They aren’t, thankfully
- Comment on Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft. 1 week ago:
That’s because it’s using a language you don’t speak
- Comment on lightweight blog ? 1 week ago:
Im merely making a value proposition because im an engineer and I’ve had this same exact problem and desire. Call it experience — a static blog is fine since I can build one of those in my sleep, but for me I wanted to post on it when I was away and only had my phone. Now do I put it on my git? A separate notebook that is synced somewhere? I have ADHD—if I want to write I have to write and I can’t just hope to remember it sometime later. Now what’s the point of my blog if I can’t write on it when I need to but simply don’t have my desktop nearby? Also you have to have pay for a CI to do the building anyway for a static site generator, that ain’t free and even if you found a service that provides CI for free you’re just externalizing your costs somewhere else. Laws of thermodynamics still apply. So instead of paying for CI to build your static site, I’d argue just pay for the server rendered site. Why choose to have a 1gb ram build server for a blog when you can just use that server to run the blog.
And they want federation support. Ghost is working on that as well speak. What static site generator supports federation?
- Comment on lightweight blog ? 1 week ago:
It costs like $3/mo to host it. If that’s too resource intensive then I don’t know what your limits are. Compute isn’t free—that literally breaks the laws of thermodynamics, no matter what you’re told by hosting services, and ghost does server side rendering and has a dynamic admin dashboard and can even work headless… and it costs less than $3/mo for your own personal open source cms.
If you need something that costs less then you can just build your own I guess, but how many hours of your time is that worth when you could just be spending $3/mo
- Comment on Content moderation is what a 21st century hazardous job looks like 1 week ago:
Mining for cobalt has gotta be up there though
- Comment on JPMorgan researchers say they have generated and certified truly random numbers using a quantum computer, a world-first with potential security and trading uses. 1 week ago:
Wrong, it was 4
- Comment on JPMorgan researchers say they have generated and certified truly random numbers using a quantum computer, a world-first with potential security and trading uses. 1 week ago:
- Comment on FBI warnings are true—fake file converters do push malware 1 week ago:
Gonna be honest, never used ffmpeg for images lol. I take images from PDFs that have transparency and they come out of pdfimages with an opaque greyscale alpha mask and an opaque image. I found it easy to apply the mask with imagemagick, though. Ffmpeg can probably do it but just never had a use case. I just use cwebp to convert because that’s my primary use-case: converting pngs to lossy webp files and cwebp is good enough for me for that:)
- Comment on FBI warnings are true—fake file converters do push malware 2 weeks ago:
Im recommending them to anyone who wants free software and is willing to invest their time into understanding how to do things for free and without concern over their data. If you aren’t willing to invest the necessary time it isn’t for you and that’s why I said it.
I mentioned the manual because you claimed you didn’t know what the commands do. If you read and take the time to learn the manual like you said you can do, you will, in fact, understand how the commands work. Additionally, this is public forum, my post may have been a reply to you but I understand other people may read my comment. Other people may have your frustrations but are not aware of the manuals that tell them exactly how the commands work. It only takes a bit of elbow grease.
- Comment on FBI warnings are true—fake file converters do push malware 2 weeks ago:
I understand that you may not know the commands you are told by strangers, but many of these are tools are meant for professionals and have that level of documentation, these are often not consumer-level software. They often have documentation to tell you what they do, though
There’s a manual for ffmpeg for example: ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html
Here’s imgemagick’s documentation: imagemagick.org/script/magick.php
I think handbrake is a gui wrapper on top of ffmpeg, but I never used it, I just memorized the ffmpeg commands and can type so much faster than i can click.
- Comment on FBI warnings are true—fake file converters do push malware 2 weeks ago:
Pandoc for documents, ffmpeg for video , imagemagick for images
- Comment on [Discussion] What would it take to selfhost some of the backend that Tesla's connect to? 2 weeks ago:
And remove the need for keys to exchanged and suddenly the impossible is possible. Access to the hardware can always beat any software, it just needs wits
- Comment on [Discussion] What would it take to selfhost some of the backend that Tesla's connect to? 2 weeks ago:
If I had a Tesla and someone smart enough to hack into I wouldn’t doubt I could probably figure out how they build their dashboards, they’re most likely browser based or qt or something like it. It’d be too costly to do it in anything else and Id bet many spacex dashes are the same tech
- Comment on Sergey Brin: We need you working 60 hours a week so we can replace you as soon as possible 2 weeks ago:
So was the onion at one point
- Comment on Will an AI Bot Decide if You Get That Job? 4 weeks ago:
I did not have as many times as I wanted. I had one chance per question, no re takes. What’s fucking hilarious is my reference was more important than the fucking screener. I got fired by a company for budget concerns supposedly but not on bad terms and this company contracts with them and apparently the hiring manager called my former engineering manager and I got a good word so to the top I went. Fucking hate the stain of AI.
- Comment on Will an AI Bot Decide if You Get That Job? 4 weeks ago:
HireVue is a thing. I just took one being a software engineer interviewing
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 5 weeks ago:
I’m just doing a bit of research (I’m also not the guy you were replying to :p), but I found the developer is really just one person seemingly (the only registered person I could find for the company representing Revolt [based in the UK]) and that is Pawel Makles. He’s also listed as the data controller of all of your data revolt.chat/legal/privacy
My concern at first glance is this guy is only 21 years old (born 2003). I don’t think the dev seems too shady from this quick look, but being only 21 with a bunch of private data doesn’t seem too stable imo.
- Comment on Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms 1 month ago:
I’ve been using mastodon for nearly a decade now. The major thing I think is missing from ActivityPub is a decentralized/federated way of doing auth. The ideal for me in ActivityPub is having a profile/DID service provider that you then can attach to services. This would theoretically be like having just a federated identity (or however many identities you want) that you can then go to a lemmy instance or mastodon instance etc and “log in with federated ID” like log in with Google but not dependent on a corporation.
Auth and identity in general is definitely the biggest hurdle with ActivityPub. Right now it’s a bunch of distinct and non-tied profiles, which isn’t necessarily bad, but many people would like an easier way of doing this. Instead of saying “which lemmy do I want to join” it’s just “which identity service do I want?” and then go to and use any mastodon or lemmy or Pixelfed service with that single account. There’s many ways to do this, but it’s definitely possible and it’s being looked into.