CompactFlax
@CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on 'I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb': OpenClaw AI chose to 'speedrun' deleting Meta AI safety director's inbox due to a 'rookie error' 1 hour ago:
What a dummy.
- Comment on A Meta AI security researcher said an OpenClaw agent ran amok on her inbox 6 hours ago:
A cheerful chirpy yes-we-can attitude is the last thing my inbox needs.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
By driving down the street before clearing snow you are driving with snow on it. Don’t do that. Not for 500m or 5km.
They need to remove snow because it could clog up the drains etc. If everyone did what you’re proposing it takes a lot longer to prep cars and they’ll need to shovel frequently.
Just scrape your car.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
People of all political stripes travel around the world.
There are a lot of Americans who are republicans because they’ve always been republicans and their dad was a republican. They read and travel. They’re slowly realizing that their vote has enabled the current regime. However, there’s also educated people who are still very much right-wing for many reasons.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking that all right-leaning people are ignorant.
- Comment on Privacy researcher debunks Microsoft Edge’s free VPN marketing, says it's "NOT a VPN" 1 day ago:
“I need a vpn”
Why?
“Privacy”
You trust SuperNeatVPN headquartered in $unregulatedCountry more than your own ISP?
“I run a VPN because Joe Rogan says I need to in order to be secure”
Man, do you know how much of a pain in the ass it is when people run VPNs on their BYOD or work device (hey I don’t manage it, I’m just the MSP), have an established history of popping up all around the world, and then eagerly click the phishing links? - Comment on Don't we all hate this 1 day ago:
IANAL! Double check.
- Comment on Don't we all hate this 1 day ago:
Assuming the business is following the law, it will not include your donation as part of its business receipts, or income, nor will it claim the charitable gift as an expense.
In other words, your gift has zero impact on the store’s income taxes. Keep in mind that the store chooses the receiving charity, so make sure it is one you can support. As a customer, the donation will appear on your receipt and you can claim it as a charitable deduction when you file your income tax return.
- Comment on Don't we all hate this 1 day ago:
I don’t think they can get a tax break, but they definitely get the media attention.
- Comment on The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents 2 days ago:
The mistake was a bunch of people who learned how to use computers as adults thinking that the only way to learn how to use a computer is to do so from a young age, in non-vocational ways.
Doesn’t make sense, does it?
- Comment on Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. 3 days ago:
They sell battery powered angle grinders at Harbour Freight.
- Comment on US judge upholds $243 million verdict against Tesla over fatal Autopilot crash 3 days ago:
It’s about 6% of net profit according to some websit.
- Comment on Microsoft AI chief gives it 18 months—for all white-collar work to be automated by AI | Fortune 5 days ago:
Blue collar jobs were mostly not automated, just sent overseas.
- Comment on Availability issues 5 days ago:
It may be simplest to move it to a hosted server. Depending on the length of outages, your comfort with electrical things, and your budget, you could get a bigger battery and use the inverter in the UPS (there are caveats-the inverter in the UPS is not rated for higher end of its load past the battery capacity it’s got and may burn itself out, and the charger may not work properly with the larger battery or with different chemistry), or get a battery/inverter box like a Ecoflow or that sort of thing. Solar may be a good bet too.
I don’t know about matrix but failing over between public IPs probably requires a HA sync of some type and also DNS failover.
- Comment on Do not give away Diego Garcia, Trump tells UK 5 days ago:
USA doesn’t want to lose one of its black sites.
- Comment on 'Just push us into the sea': The frustration of an area failed by politics 5 days ago:
Just a PSA: cannabis contains nearly no THC, the psychoactive compound, until is processed (“de carb”) or smoked. The scent given off by growing cannabis is not harmful. Some people like it.
Let the children outside.
- Comment on What else can we do with sugar (sucrose)? 6 days ago:
Conservatively, using the land currently used for fuel ethanol production in the USA for solar instead would add more generating capacity than the entire capacity of the USA today. . It’s a terrible use of land, not to mention energy and chemical inputs.
- Comment on If the next pres. is a Democrat and wants to roll back all of Trumps bullshit. How can they do that quickly and efficiently? 6 days ago:
If the next president is a Democrat and has the Senate and House, they still can’t. There’s decades of institutional knowledge that has been terminated - and those people aren’t coming back. Many of them are also Republicans, even after seeing the damage, and they won’t be working to return everything to the way it used to be.
The Trump administration - and don’t fool yourself, he’s a pawn - has months to sabotage the handover of key roles. They’ve spent the last year demonstrating that USA is not a trustworthy partner in trade or defence. Treaties need to be renegotiated and other countries won’t be interested in giving the USA the same consideration that the post-Marshall Plan world would. Democrats in the USA see Trump and his administration; the rest of the world sees that “the majority” of Americans voted for him and his policies, and even now there’s still significant support for him.
It’s unlikely, too, that it will be possible to end DHS for example. There’s too many people in too many high places that have relationships that depend on DHS people for support. PATRIOT act is another example. The dogma that it’s legal for ICE to inspect within the 100(?) mile border zone. These are significant intrusions on basic freedom and privacy but they’re also centralization of power.
That, and the Supreme Court is stacked.
- Comment on Saying that hardware price increase is good cause it forces the devs to optimize is not as good as it seems. 6 days ago:
That someone thought Electron was a not just a reasonable approach but a good idea, when it sucks down a gig of RAM for what amounts to mIRC with GIFs, is a strong support of your claim.
- Comment on Now hit mute and you are all set 1 week ago:
When I join a meeting with webcams on, it’s either someone trying to sell something or it’s beyond my pay grade.
- Comment on Password managers are less secure than promised 1 week ago:
Assume the breach - that includes your password manager host. Especially your password manager host.
- Comment on Dutch Defence Secretary Boldly Claims F-35 Software Could Be 'Jailbroken' 1 week ago:
Edited. It’s totally possible to break the software. To reverse engineer it and make changes that keep it in the air - that’s hard.
- Comment on Dutch Defence Secretary Boldly Claims F-35 Software Could Be 'Jailbroken' 1 week ago:
Anything is possible. I suspect it’s not possible on the level of complexity that the F35 is supposedly at.
- Comment on Scary stuff and it wasn't that long ago 1 week ago:
Never left.
- Comment on Wicked hangover 1 week ago:
Less than 1/4 kilo. I just cut it in half, roughly it works out. Don’t ask me about stones though.
- Comment on 15 degrees fahrenheit feels almost the same as 5 degrees. However 35 degrees feels WAY colder than 45 degrees. 1 week ago:
Once it’s below -5 it’s just cold. The range 10° above that has the possibility of being a damp cold and that sucks the life out of you
- Comment on A Bathing Area on the Thames? 1 week ago:
This Thames?
- Comment on Is ironing clothes significantly less common now? 1 week ago:
No suit, shirts, and tie for the office grunts anymore.
- Comment on In Austria, you can go from Unterfucking to Oberfucking, stop by Fucking (now Fugging), and then spend the rest of your trip doing Hochecks. 2 weeks ago:
There’s also the Fucker family. At one point they controlled 2% of Europe’s GDP. They changed their name to Fugger too, for some reason.
They were the ones selling the indulgences that led Martin Luther to kick off Protestantism.
At one point (I can’t find the reference now) they effectively owned parts of South America as well.
- Comment on 10+ year manager named Joe was apparently fired for bringing cookies to be thrown away before their sell by date to a food pantry in my town 2 weeks ago:
It’s not too hard to look at stores and see that there’s a consistent overproduction. Instead they punish people.
- Comment on What's that word? 2 weeks ago:
Wikipedia has an article with some historical examples