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- Comment on YSK that in most countries, traffic fatalities have been falling. But in the U.S., the opposite happened. Americans die in rising numbers 5 days ago:
Here in Western Australia we’ve just introduced new cameras to address this.
The penalty has always been very steep if you get caught. Like a third of a weeks wage, and if you got caught 3x in 3x years you’d lose your license for a while.
That said, I dont actually know anyone who had been caught.
6 months ago these new cameras showed up. Its actually on a boxy trailer, hi-vis reflective yellow, a vertical boom going up 5 metres or so, then extending horizontally over the lane.
They’ve been issuing warnings up to now. “Here’s the photo of you using your phone, usually you’d get a penalty but we’re waiving that during this introductory phase”.
The penalties will start shortly.
Honestly anyone who doesn’t notice one of these things on the side of the road has the situational awareness of a spare tyre and shouldn’t be driving an e-scooter let alone a car.
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 6 days ago:
I’m not denying that, but the comment above is talking about a story about a woman discovering she’s a bot,.
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 6 days ago:
Lately there’s been someone chopping chives every day and posting a photo of the result.
There was a bit of a drama when someone noticed that the same photo was reused from a couple of weeks back.
The poster said they didnt have time to do it that day but wanted to keep the streak so they just re-posted an old one hoping no one would notice.
It was just such an amazing and engaging sequence of events and I feel fulfilled having been able to follow this roller coaster of emotion /s.
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 6 days ago:
Bob only thinks hes human for about half a page?
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 6 days ago:
I use redlib to lurk.
I find the drama subs like /r/AITAH entertaining. I know its all fake, but the groupthink responses are intriguing.
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 1 week ago:
I think i agree for the most part.
These energies would be better spent ensuring that porn stars aren’t being exploited and have access to appropriate support.
- Comment on Guidance for Noob? (Synching vs Nextcloud, Immich, Tailscale) 1 week ago:
Syncthing. You don’t need nextcloud.
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 1 week ago:
You don’t have to be at fault to be ashamed.
- Comment on Zero Chull 2 weeks ago:
What’s going on here?
Its this person controlling these devices from a laptop?
For what purpose? Clicks and likes?
- Comment on This is the type of Q&A that makes the internet so important 2 weeks ago:
Ladies, do you have a special towel to dry your ass crack?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Its because the rain stimulates life outside the water, there’s more food everywhere.
The moist soil / sand means grubs & worms come to the surface. Insects are on the move looking for food / evading rain. Birds are snapping them up and discarding bits and pooping. Rain is washing all this stuff from river banks into the water.
Et cetera.
Same thing happens on the rising tide. High tide is the climax. Then everyone takes a break on the ebbing tide.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire’s Pee-Drinking Skills and ‘Blowjob Prowess’ 3 weeks ago:
Probably not that much honestly.
The resource intensive part is the initial training.
Tuning later is much less so.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
People have been talking about “post scarcity” since forever.
Yes, in the far distant future people will be able to have things they need and not have to work. AI will also exist in that future.
However, I don’t think anyone believes that future will arrive in the next decade.
- Comment on Major Bitcoin mining firm pivoting to AI, plans to fully abandon crypto mining by 2027 as miners convert to AI en masse — Bitfarm to leverage 341 megawatt capacity for AI following $46 million Q3 loss 3 weeks ago:
This isbprobably a philosophical question that i dont know the answer to, but its still a waste.
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 4 weeks ago:
This is really just a guess but… I think “agent” in this context means a personalised AI.
Training gen AI models requires huge amounts of resources. Its not practical to train an AI for your personal use.
Creating an agent is something like, taking an existing model, asking it to keep your entire browser history in mind while you ask it to do your homework.
IMO its actually one of the big limitations of gen AI, but somehow the word is supposed to mean the opposite. As in, the current approach has reached a dead end requiring exponentially more resources for less and less improvement. So because we can’t make a model that just knows or learns everything, we have to make agents that know lots about specific things.
- Comment on Using Fail2ban to protect exposed services 4 weeks ago:
I’ve never used tailscale but use wireguard extensively.
There’s not much of a learning curve for you as the administrator. You have to discard some misconceptions you might bring from other VPNs but really after 30 minutes of looking at configs you’ll get it.
I use wireguard for my small team of 5 people to access self hosted services. You install wireguard, load the config, and then it just works.
The trick, if it can be called that, is using public dns for private services.
On your server, suppose you have service-a service-b and service-c in containers with ip addresses in the 10.0.2.0/24 range. Then you’d have a reverse proxy like traefik at 10.0.2.1. You’d also create a wireguard container with an IP in that same 10.0.2.0/24 range, and configure it’s wireguard adapter to be 10.0.12.1 or soomething so you have “2” for the containers and “12” for the wireguard clients.
Then in wireguard configurations you direct all traffic for 10.0.2.0/24 through the tunnel but everything else just uses their devices normal internet connection.
Finally create a public dns record pointing to the reverse proxy like *.mydomain.com > 10.0.12.1
now whatever.mydomain.com will resolve to your reverse proxy but is still only available to devices connected to the wireguard container on your server.
- Comment on iSweep 4 weeks ago:
I often use scanner / printers as an example. Its like a robot with a very specific and easy job - feed the paper through one sheet at a time. They’ve been around for 40 years, mass produced, they still cant reliably do that one thing.
With a lot of tech, it seems like solving the first 90% of a problem is easy, then the next 5% very hard and expensive, but the last few percent is impossible.
We see this with so many things - printers, roombas, self driving cars.
- Comment on 'Big Short' Michael Burry bets $1bn on AI bubble bursting | LBC 5 weeks ago:
What’s an accessible way for a non-wealthy person to bet against the AI bubble?
Yes I understand that this is tantamount to gambling.
- Comment on The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You 5 weeks ago:
Not sure what youre getting at.
Obviously it depends how good and how bad.
Also, there going to show both - but the frequency of each will depend on their assessed likelihood that im going to click and the revenue generated if I do so.
- Comment on The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You 5 weeks ago:
Is it only me that finds personalised / targeted ads to be very poorly personalised and targeted ?
- Comment on The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You 5 weeks ago:
Sorry what?
I think I’ve misunderstood you because this is certainly possible, and I’m sure you’re aware of that.
- Comment on YSK: you can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" header 5 weeks ago:
Nailed it. This is how email works.
If you want to ensure i de-prioritise your request, request a read receipt or send a follow up email the next day.
If you don’t want me to ever do anything for you promptly ever again call me to check whether I got your email.
- Comment on YSK: you can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" header 5 weeks ago:
What is a daily attendance email?
“Hi, Im in attendance today! 🍆”
- Comment on YSK: you can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" header 5 weeks ago:
Email requires no acknowledgement.
- Comment on YSK: you can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" header 5 weeks ago:
I need a shirt that says “dipshit has reacted 👍”
- Comment on A rant on left-wing online infighting 5 weeks ago:
If the dems had convincingly won the last n elections, the republicans would move to the left, which would push the dems to the left.
Biden won by a hair’s breadth.
- Comment on A rant on left-wing online infighting 5 weeks ago:
Exactly what I’m talking about. Well done.
That will do little bot, that will do.
- Comment on Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do? 5 weeks ago:
This might shock you but I dont want nearby people to be able to talk to me. Chicken or not.
- Comment on opencloud - I migrated from nextcloud. Screenshots and docker-compose-compose.yml included 5 weeks ago:
Let people
usepost whatever they want. - Comment on A rant on left-wing online infighting 5 weeks ago:
While lemmy itself isn’t a target for propaganda bots, the narratives they push kinda seep in.
Propaganda doesn’t seek to convert a leftist to the right, their strategy is to fragment the left - factions spend their energy arguing amongst themselves instead of presenting a cohesive opposition.
For example, elements of the left were protesting about Palestine outside Kamala’s campaign events.