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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get ready to be embarrassed: YouTube will start using your view history to guess if you're an adult⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I still find it hard to believe just how few people even ask themselves the obvious : Provides services ‘for free’, but is one of the world’s biggest companies. Where is the money coming from ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bird based storage⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of IP over avian carriers ☺

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendations for a version control system⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Came into the thread just to say this. Very happy and thankful you mentioned it already. I think fossil is THE underrated vcs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨its painful each time (┬┬﹏┬┬)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually, the only way I’ve been able to make sense of what happened is thinking that he might have been interested in me, correctly sensed I’d never be, and didn’t want to be hurt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨its painful each time (┬┬﹏┬┬)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Once I was in the train, minding my own business, reading an unusual, interesting book. The guy seating in front of me noticed it and we started talking. It turned out, we live in the same city. We both were relatively new there.

  FF a week. We went out to get some burgers. Talked about basically everything. We had what could only qualify as a wonderful time together. Chatted for hours, even talked about travelling together to a country I know relatively well and he’d like to visit.

  Where I live, split checks are custom. I always hated them, so thinking (wrongly, as it’d turn out) we’d see each other again very soon, I paid for the whole bill.

  Before going home, I even cited Casablanca’s well known ‘beginning of a long friendship’ line.

  Never heard from him after that. When I tried to reach out, only a half-hearted bs ‘oh sorry, I’m so bad at replying texts’ came.

  Never saw him again.

  Really shattered my confidence in people, and myself.

  Angus, if you’re out there. WTF man. Why.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a similar issue with people panicking about AS ‘taking their jobs’, or even the world. I’m like, dude, that might happen, but idiots delegating important decisions (i.e., decisions that should DEFINITELY be taken by humans), to the AS is something that’s a) at least as ominous b) at least as relevant and c) already happening

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Put even another way, correlation is not causality. Even IF everything were true, the most interesting/relevant information is missing: does AS cause these behaviours? Or does it simply act as a catalyzer?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everything you know is wrong.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ‘Las verdades incuestionables de hoy, son las pendejadas del mañana’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eating would be weird if we didn't enjoy it.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sex as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I first thought this article was about their self driving cars and I was like who tf gets in a self driving car with their baby. It’s not. It’s about Tesla cars in general. Scary stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Large majority of French, German and Spanish public back tough EU stance on Big Tech, despite risk to Trump relations⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they meant ‘because’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had an interesting conversation today with an acquaintance. He has sent his resumé to dozens of companies now. Most of them, but not all, corporate blobs.

  He wondered for a while just why the hell no one is even reaching out (he’s definitely qualified for most of the positions). He then came to the idea to ask a particular commercial Artificial Stupidity software to parse it. Most of those companies use that software, or at least that’s what the vendor says on its website. Turns out, that PoS software gets it all wrong. As in: everything. Positions and companies get mixed up, dates aren’t correctly registered, the job descriptions it claims to have understood only remotely match what he wrote.

  And it is getting used pretty much by every big firm out there.

  Oh and BTW: There is ONE correct answer to the phrase ‘using AI is no longer optional’ : Fuck you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some people want wealth because it means power over others. Some people want wealth because it means they can minimize interactions with others.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  May I suggest Michael Lucas’ ‘Cashflow for Creators’. While not exactly a must-read, personally it helped me a lot to actually map, plan and ultimately take the decision to tell the corporate world to get stuffed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Socialism is the actual teaching of Jesus⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, given that the world is pretty much on fire right now, it does feel a bit out of place to start rambling about Christian hypocrisy. So, like, yea, I get your point and I do believe most religious people are hypocrites (nor is that a phenomenon that only affects Christians), but…how about, if we want to follow that line of thinking, pointing the finger at the ‘’‘’‘’‘’‘‘Jewish’’‘’‘’‘’‘’ state and its genocidal ‘’‘leader’‘’, that rabid dog no politician anywhere is willing to put a leash on? We would be talking about hypocrisy at a much, much higher level and it would be, at the veeeery least, as relevant…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Socialism is the actual teaching of Jesus⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  …and you are figuring that out on 2025?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Socialism is the actual teaching of Jesus⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea, but The Church (or, since you’re specifically talking about Gringoland, rather, churchES) are capitalist enterprises - hence you can’t expect them to criticise capitalism (even less, capitalists).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This guy predicted the future!🤯⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This idiotic ‘administration’ is a porn parody of itself.

  “Trumpin’ Donald: America Fist”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We don't have⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I love Lemmy.

  Here we are, in this holy year of our lord 2025

  Wondering if cats have post-nut clarity

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We don't have⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Try Guix instead :)

  Big, welcoming community; Fully libre distribution; Time-tested Scheme (Guile) instead of that stupid nix stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why so much hate toward AI?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you never had a corporate job? A technology can be very much useless, but incompetent ‘managers’ who believe it can do better than humans WILL buy the former to get rid of the latter, even though that’s a stupid thing to do, in order to meet their yearly targets answer other idiotic measures of division/team ‘productivity’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would alcohol be as popular if it weren't a beverage?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thx, corrected

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All this AI nonsense is an attempt to capitalize on the mere act of human thinking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also not the first or only 21st century technology that is or was waaaaaaaaay overhyped.

  First it was the Blockchain

  Then it was the Cloud

  Now it’s Artificial Stupidity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We don't have⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We do. ‘Spring fever’ is very real. What’s less clear is why.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would alcohol be as popular if it weren't a beverage?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a friend who was addicted to both cocaine and alcohol. While he, of course, is convinced that cocaine is one of the worst substances to have ever existed, he is even wearier of alcohol because of: (I’m obviously both paraphrasing AND excluding most countries with a Muslim majority here)

  a) Social acceptance. No one is ever going to judge you for quietly sitting in the corner of a bar drinking your beer. Try snorting a line on the same setting and see what happens.

  b) Availability. Even in sparsely populated areas, you are never too far away (say, a 10 minute walk) from a bottle of wine/spirit/beer.

  c) Practicality (which is what answers your question). You don’t need a syringe, spoon, knife, bill, bong or lighter, not even another recipient, to start binging on booze. Once you buy/steal the stuff, you’re all set - and drinking something definitely IS more ‘natural’ (as in, it’s a reflex) than injecting or smoking something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you explain why you find the suggestion so outrageous ? I’m not advocating a 35 year old woman dating a 15 year old boy. I’m only saying that biology matters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the one thing that’s hardly ever mentioned in the whole age gap debate, though I would add that there are constellations that are creepy by default. Being a 35+ old man, I feel that I’m at kind of a landmark age where dating someone 20 years younger than me would be gross, let alone illegal in most jurisdictions, so the ‘it depends on your behaviour and intentions’ argument doesn’t really hold. In contrast, I can very much imagine dating a 55 year old woman - and no, it’s not a MILF fetish. So in the end BOTH the intentions/behaviour AND Gender AND actual age gap do matter IMHO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forced E-Waste PCs And The Case Of Windows 11’s Trusted Platform⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can argue all you want about TPM and its ‘security’. I ALWAYS thought that forcing users to use TPM 2+ hardware is planned obsolescence and nothing/no one will convince me otherwise.

  The only thing affected users can and should do is to leave that PoS of an ‘operating system’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does noise from different nearby sources 'add up'? Or do the different sources cancel each other out? In any case, please provide a formula and an example⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a very good, comprehensive and comprehensible answer. Thank you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does noise from different nearby sources 'add up'? Or do the different sources cancel each other out? In any case, please provide a formula and an example⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Amusing.

  a) I don’t use shitGPT and never will, so I wouldn’t know how to phrase questions for it;

  b) You are aware that this is ‘no stupid questions’, right ? People here expect to be asked stuff - or to learn from others’ answers for that matter, which I’m pretty sure is the case here;

  c) Cold? Maybe that’s because this is a science question? I’m not asking a lady out;

  d) Disrespectful? It takes a particular brand of pessimism to be offended in the least by a question that’s not even directed at you…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does noise from different nearby sources 'add up'? Or do the different sources cancel each other out? In any case, please provide a formula and an example⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is nice!