IratePirate
@IratePirate@feddit.org
- Comment on An AI Thought Experiment on Substack Is Sending The Stock Market Spiraling 6 hours ago:
It’s gonna happen for real this time. Cryptocurrency NFTs AI and cryptocurrency will upend the market with how incredible they have been.
You forgot the Metaverse. (Like you should.)
- 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' 6 hours ago:
it won’t happen again.
Not to him, no.
- Comment on 7 hours ago:
I’d fork this just to name it more appropriately: “Glasshole radar”
- Comment on Mike Hardaker accuses Reddit of holding organic posting ‘hostage’ unless he buys ads, shares email screenshot 13 hours ago:
He found out the hard way that abuse is only tolerated if you have passed a certain wealth bracket.
- Comment on Is the AI hype still on or have the models plateaued? 23 hours ago:
Appreciate the call to reason. Yet, though this may have been sharply worded, insulting it was not.
- Comment on AI Is Destroying Grocery Supply Chains 1 day ago:
This should have many more upvotes. The security incidents quoted at the start of this article have no relation to its actual topic, i.e. the hypothesis that there may be increased fragility of supply chains as a result of AI adoption. While it’s plausible this may happen, the article makes it sound like this has happened when it clearly hasn’t. In other words: it’s little more than “hurr, durr, AI dangerous”.
- Comment on AI Is Destroying Grocery Supply Chains 1 day ago:
Except AI is trash at doing what it’s advertised to do, it makes everybody dumber, and its shills will blame you once it inevitably mucks everything up.
We don’t even have “AI”. We have LLMs, aka chatbots, aka glorified digital parrots that, just because they’re eloquent and sound competent, management with little to no technical expertise feels can replace large parts of the workforce.
If we just called it “cyberparrots” instead of “AI”, maybe more people would their limited utility and the utter folly of having these take over ever larger portions of business procedures.
- Comment on AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year 2 days ago:
If you’ve got that experience under your belt, you’ll be just fine. I haven’t tackled zfs myself yet (I’m lacking the RAM, plus I was put off by the ECC RAM recommendation). But I know it unifies a lot of the things you’re already familiar with under one roof (volume management and journaling) and adds more cool features (snapshotting, RAID, encryption) without you having to combine and manage several different technologies (mdadm for RAID, LVM, LUKS, …). I did that on my main rig and it turned out to be rather complex. Hence the switch to btrfs to at least squash a bit of complexity.
- Comment on AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year 2 days ago:
Props for the powerful DIY! You’re right about the pre-built models. I’m coming from a QNAP one, and while they’re good for learning the ropes, they’ll become pretty limited after a while. That, and the shit they’re trying to pull with proprietary HDDs.
A self-made rig gives you a lot more flexibility, although it requires you to learn a bit more. But seeing that you’re already getting comfortable with GFS, I guess you’ll manage just fine!
- Comment on LibreOffice blasts 'fake open source' OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in 2 days ago:
cocks revolver
“Give me liberty or give me death!” Classic!
- Comment on AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year 2 days ago:
Same. Scored two 16TB drives and a 4GB in summer of 2025 (by pure chance though). They’re now 150%-200% the original price. Cannot wait to see this bubble pop.
- Comment on AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year 2 days ago:
SSDs were first, actually, with HDDs now following suit.
- Comment on AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year 2 days ago:
That’s a much more sophisticated setup than mine! It may even be overkill (depending on what it is you want to host, and to how many).
I’ve been running two enterprise-grade Toshiba 16TB drives in a btrfs RAID1 since last summer. No SSD for caching (though the OS and my Docker containers run on one, with regular syncs to the slower spinning drives). No complaints so far.
- Comment on AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year 2 days ago:
The worst part is that we don’t something, and by saying something, I mean boycott them.
Boycott is under way. In my bubble, people are ditching American goods and services left and right, including Windows. The combination of “Murica first” (fascist edition) and big tech overreach has prompted people to make good use of their middle fingers.
- Comment on AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year 2 days ago:
Go Toshiba. If American companies got us into this mess in the first place, fuck American companies!
- Comment on Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web site 3 days ago:
DON’T give them ideas!
- 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:
Yeah, it’s a weird way of spelling “liberation”.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
In fact, you’re already likely renting rather than owning in many different areas. Your means of communication are run by Meta, your music is provided by Spotify, your movies are streamed from Netflix, your data is stored in Google’s data centers and your office suite runs on Microsoft’s cloud.
Nope, not this one.
This one has never had a single Meta-owned account because it values privacy.
It has never subscribed to Spotify or Netflix because it values ownership and control.
It has, since the Snowden revelations, successfully cut Google and Microsoft from its life and replaced them with AOSP and Linux.
It has started to build servers from hardware old and new, running FOSS services that rival and replace most big tech solutions people feel they “need” nowadays.
And it has started to help others take control of their data and computing, move to software and services that respects their rights, and to see value in privacy, ownership and freedom.
It may not be much. It may not scale. And it may not provide “AI” capabilities. But it’s a start. It’s a lighthouse that shows this dystopia is not inevitable.
We need to answer the push towards centralised consumption with a refusal to consume, and decentralised cells of resilience. If datacentres aren’t profitable, there is very little incentive to only build and sell hardware.
This one has built its lighthouse. When will you?
- Comment on Jack Dorsey's New Company Falling Apart as It Forces Employees to Use AI 4 days ago:
Naw. This is clearly just 1 monkey.
- Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about 4 days ago:
“Harvest” is such an ugly word, mister! We rather like to call it an involuntary donation…
- Comment on Microsoft AI chief gives it 18 months—for all white-collar work to be automated by AI | Fortune 5 days ago:
Junkies high on venture capital, begging for their next hit.
- Comment on ‘Pure bullshit’: Macron slams tech giants’ claim they are defending free speech 5 days ago:
Let me join in! All Lemmy users are wasting their time generalising away into the cold, dark void of the internet.
- Comment on ‘Pure bullshit’: Macron slams tech giants’ claim they are defending free speech 5 days ago:
“Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts”
This is all you need to know these self-proclaimed defenders of free speech are full of shit.
- Comment on ‘Pure bullshit’: Macron slams tech giants’ claim they are defending free speech 5 days ago:
About damn time. People need to stop dancing around the orange turd and his cronies, trying to appease him.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can’t Trust His Testimony. 6 days ago:
To, in, and about.
- Comment on Tune a fish 1 week ago:
Definitely the most worrying thing about America right now.
- Comment on US Government Deploys Elon Musk's Grok as Nutrition Bot, Where It Immediately Gives Advice for Rectal Use of Vegetables 1 week ago:
As it started experimenting on them, its appreciation for their elasticity grew.
- Comment on You probably can't trust your password manager if it's compromised 1 week ago:
Keepass + Syncthing for cloudless sync between devices. Dreamteam.
- Comment on US Government Deploys Elon Musk's Grok as Nutrition Bot, Where It Immediately Gives Advice for Rectal Use of Vegetables 1 week ago:
Everything is a dildo - if you’re brave enough.
- Comment on Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI 1 week ago:
Never used it.
Started self-hosting Navidrome.
Never gonna use it.