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- Comment on Microsoft rolls back some of its Copilot AI bloat on Windows 7 hours ago:
Now tell me when they stop trying to force OneDrive for everyone’s private data
- Comment on It turns out that Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology 1 day ago:
Rave was the same way until it also got pulled mainstream around 2007/2008
Before that we had assholes like Joe Biden trying to outlaw it by saying proving water to patrons was “encouraging drug use” and classifying any clubs that did it as “crackhouses”
That shit was my church and they burned it. I stand in solidarity with Juggalos.
- Comment on Is it impolite to crosspost someone else's post to another community on Lemmy without saying anything? 1 day ago:
Isn’t there a crosspost function that will link the original and show the OP’s attribution?
- Comment on Now maybe I'm delusional. But I got myself one of these in hopes of performing to standing room only audiences 2 days ago:
Seems to me that the act itself will also have to be standing
- Comment on Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway. 2 days ago:
The whole point of “cloud” was to eliminate data centers.
If there was a low latency need for a private cloud, of course you put it as close as possible.
- Comment on Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway. 2 days ago:
Tell that to literally every hospital, medical provider, and insurer in the United States.
They’re all using AWS, and OneDrive.
- Comment on Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway. 2 days ago:
Same here. I feel like I’m taking fucking crazy pills.
Why? Why are all our financials on OneDrive? Why is our system setup being done with a Entra-federated third party tool? Why does CoPilot have access to my email with possible HIPAA-privileged data in it? Why do we have to shut off our servers on the weekend if it saves so much money and doesn’t cost anything when idle?
I can’t believe these morons gave away personal computing because they just didn’t want to deal with having on-site hardware, and it doesn’t even save any money.
- Comment on Wise horse 3 days ago:
How it feels to chew 5 Gum
- Comment on Memory Makers Expect Shortages to End in Late 2028, Could Pause Expansion Plans 3 days ago:
The whole plan is to make personal computing unaffordable so we have to rent cloud services to do anything.
They’ll find a way to keep that consumer demand at zero.
They want a chunk of your income to gatekeep the products they made unaffordable to you.
Billionaires shouldn’t exist.
- Comment on SSL certificates for things inside the lab 4 days ago:
Wildcard is actually good these days because you don’t have to set up DNS entries for your hostnames.
It’s not security, just obscurity - but in the age of crawlers, it’s helpful.
Also, you can use it internally for services on LAN and because LetsEncrypt is a CA everyone trusts, you don’t need to register a local CA (like a FreeIPA instance) with all your devices- which sometimes isn’t possible.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 4 days ago:
They no longer care about making the best product to get the consumer to buy because they know if they make hot girls you can control they’ll sell millions
Why make art when live like king from sex machine
- Comment on Hacked data shines light on homeland security’s AI surveillance ambitions 4 days ago:
There am no way they’d ever actually delete it unless there were actual consequences, and there aren’t , even when the law is followed.
- Comment on 20 Years of Amazon S3: The Golden Cage of the Cloud Era 5 days ago:
And every fuckstick middle manager fell for it!
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Brave is spyware. Stop recommending brave.
- Comment on The Productivity Paradox: Why Technology Makes the Economy More Efficient But Most People No Richer 5 days ago:
They don’t. Schools teach that “Karl Marx didn’t want anyone to have any money, and to be owned by the state. They quickly ran out of food because no one was motivated to work.”
Why do you think guys who purchased “Truck Nuts” all screech on Twitter about “socialism is when you do all the work and they take all the profits” when that’s exactly what capitalism is and they are too dumb to notice? Why do you think the Tetris movie wasn’t really about Tetris but instead about “Soviets bad”?
- Comment on Meet the AI rapper funded by a far-right party— Advance UK has hired the mystery ‘collective’ behind Danny Bones, a white-nationalist musician and activist – who isn’t real 5 days ago:
Since you cannot copyright an AI creation, someone should just make him do like a woke anarchist rap or something.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 1 week ago:
This guy gets it.
Be open about it. Many people will not like it. Many people will not trust your product any longer. You need to be willing to let those people go with grace, or else you’re already taking on a project you can’t handle.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 1 week ago:
They want to put clanker code that they freely admit they don’t validate into a product that goes on the computers of people who’s experience with Linux is “I heard it’s faster for games”
It’s irresponsible to hide it from review. It doesn’t matter if AI tools got better, AI tools still aren’t perfect and so you still have to do the legwork. Or at least let your community.
Also, you should let your community make ethics decisions about whether to support you.
Overall it was a rash reaction to being pressured rudely in a GitHub thread; but you know AI is a contentious topic and you went in anyway. It’s weak AF to then have a tantrum and spit in the community’s face about it.
- Comment on JPEG is pronounced Jay-Fegg 1 week ago:
Japan Egg
- Comment on Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them 1 week ago:
What happens when someone makes an unsafe backfeed into a downed grid and then other nearby inverters detect the current and bring themselves back online? Is there a way to detect if the load is being delivered from the utility vs from incorrectly configured solar or generator installations?
Some others are arguing back and forth about this elsewhere in the thread and I see the reasoning: unpermitted systems could accidentally energize isolated portions of the grid during downtime, which might trick properly installed systems to also come back online, and you have a runaway effect where there is enough current present to allow addition safety systems to be fooled.
There isn’t any data transmission over the wires; there either is current, or there isn’t. Arguing over permitting is moot - either safety systems can handle this scenario already, or they can’t.
All paperwork does is slow the relief of dependence on the utility, which hurts their profits.
- Comment on What does the acronym MAGA stand for? (wrong answers only) 1 week ago:
🤣 holy
- Comment on Metal Gear is a stupid name for an ultimate weapon 1 week ago:
All the names of everything are stupid, but when you realize that the reality of American imperialism the game is mocking is just as fucking dumb - in name and in over the top execution - it’s kinda on point.
- Comment on This Fall, Florida Students Will Be Forced to Take “Anti-Communist” Classes 1 week ago:
Uh, yeah. It’s capitalism that sucks. You can still have socialism and communism with democracy. There are several countries in existence now that have those things. No one hates democracy, except the politicians in power who want to keep it.
No one is a fan of authoritarianism. That is what we are currently getting, and we’re getting it under capitalism. Funny, it’s almost like the economic organization is only important to keep those who would cheat it from attaining the power to keep it all for themselves.
Hmmm.
- Comment on Meta has acquired Moltbook. I am starting to doubt myself. 1 week ago:
Core capitalist mindset. They all do this once they get powerful enough.
- Comment on They wanted to make Free Software illegal and have all computers approved by the government. 1 week ago:
We are still in big trouble.
- AI datacenters. Buy up all the commodity parts, put consumer companies out of business by promising that AI shall become a more lucrative market than consumer computing could ever be. Users have to turn to cloud services, which all content produced is run though AI to gauge who you are and what you think. You rent it from them.
- enshittification of OSes. AI scanning in every crevice. Cloud saving even when you don’t want it.
- devices are all cloud connected now and IoT is just spyware. From TVs to dishwashers;; and you never know what might have a microphone.
- ”Save the children” age checks; but in reality you have to scan your face to ID yourself. Now they have a facial recognition profile from an up close view, linked with your name age and location, correlated with whatever other data originated from your local IP.
We didn’t dodge the bullet, we just got shot.
- Comment on Fascism bad. 1 week ago:
There are a lot of “liberals” in the United States who are actually leftists, they’ve just been propagandized their whole lives into believing that’s what liberal is, and that “commies” are right-wing authoritarians. We need to awaken them.
Not all the “libs” are Bill Maher.
- Comment on Fascism bad. 1 week ago:
There were actually some studies that showed either an over-active amygdala causing anxiety or and under-developed rest of the brain couldn’t cope with the output of the amygdala or something to that effect; and that made people experiencing it more susceptible to conservatism.
So it’s like another dimension of the autism spectrum, except you’re just scared as shit of everything everyone tells you. Better believe in the same God as everyone around you, just in case.
- Comment on Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own 1 week ago:
See, this is why I fucking hate copyright law. It’s so fucked and even though this is clearly fucking bogus, watch them find some kind of loophole and set a precedent
Information should be free. It is as shackled as the rest of us under capitalism.
- Comment on Checkers, not chess. 1 week ago:
“I DID FACT CHECK! IT SAYS ‘30 CHECKERS’ RIGHT THAR”
Someone showing me this meme as justification for their position, somehow
- Comment on [Video] American militants stealing gold during their 2003 invasion of Iraq 1 week ago:
And where is it now