daychilde
@daychilde@lemmy.world
- Comment on New ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI 1 day ago:
Time for a knife!^[I kid, I kid] Violence is the answer!
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 1 day ago:
That’s always just one of the worst feelings in the world. This thing is supposed to work and be easy and… nope. Not there. It’s gone. Now you have work to do. heh
- Comment on The Myth That Wind Farms Are a Guillotine for Birds Is Being Debunked by Hard Data 2 days ago:
Is the data as hard as the blades hitting the birds?^[Disclaimer: Just a silly joke]
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 2 days ago:
Do you realize how difficult it was to upvote that comment? I viscerally hate that. lol. But the sarcasm is perfect here, of course. But I still hate you <3
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 2 days ago:
AND something tested to restore successfully, otherwise it’s just unknown data that might or might not work.
(i.e. reinforcing your point, no disagreements)
- Comment on President Trump, Pam Bondi sued over sale of TikTok assets 3 days ago:
rss.app will generate the feed and if you want it emailed, blogtrottr.com will email it to you :)
- Comment on President Trump, Pam Bondi sued over sale of TikTok assets 3 days ago:
Huh. Thank you for text.npr.org. That’s nice!
- Comment on BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace 4 days ago:
Well, that’s not how it would happen and you know it.
- Comment on BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace 4 days ago:
Car threads degrade to fucking stupid quickly.
Funny, I was looking at your comments and thinking precisely that.
- Comment on BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace 4 days ago:
When you take into account that the original assertion was tht eighty billion was given to the auto manufacturers, I don’t think my comment deserves the reaction it got, not a reply like yours.
Would you rather they ended up with zero dollars?
- Comment on BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace 5 days ago:
I mean, that’s still pretty darn impressive.
For better or worse, it’s one of those sticking points keeping many away from electric. I was like that several years ago, but I’ve noticed my driving patterns since then. I can’t do electric because I can’t afford a new car and even worse I’m an apartment dweller, so there’s no infrastructure. But if I could, I absolutely would get a vehicle. Long as it had a couple hundred miles of range, that’s all I need (we have a second car anyway, so if we needed longer trips, we’re covered). And less battery means moving less mass means even cheaper to run.
But my dad went looking a few years ago and ended up with a gas car again - because they do take trips and drive sometimes, and so the idea of having to recharge, even on infrequent trips, was a sticking point. But with 500 miles of range, it’s getting to the point where that’s getting close to a day’s comfortable driving for a lot of people, and if you can charge overnight, then it becomes enough for trips and it helps eliminate the range anxiety.
I think once people start transitioning over to electric, their second vehicle might have less range…
- Comment on BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace 5 days ago:
No one should be driving that far at once,
What a ridiculous blanket statement.
Nobody should make such silly blanket statements. :P
- Comment on BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace 5 days ago:
Well, it was $79.7B to be exact. And what the US government did with that was not cut checks, but rather, purchased stock in the companies.
When it sold the stock it bought from manufacturers, it sold for around $70B. When they sold the approximately $2.4B invested into Ally (an auto financing firm), it sold for $17.2B.
So the money spent in 2008 actually made a profit. It was not distributed to the manufacturers or finance companies at all. Just used to shore up their value to prevent them from going out of business – and more importantly, probably, make sure investors didn’t lose money, or at least not too much.
- Comment on BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace 5 days ago:
Ideally, although the US is trying our best for monopolies…
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 5 days ago:
Y’know, if that’s true… I can’t afford a new computer. I just got one last year after almost a decade of using my last box. I was lucky that this one runs 11 - I’m not anti-Microsoft - I like Linux and Windows… but I’ve been perfectly happy with 11 (maybe just lucky, but none of the problems I’ve heard others having).
But yeah, if this box won’t run 12, I will be staying on 11 until I can’t, and then that’ll push me to Linux. I could switch now, jsut about, but a few little things that run better with Windows for me. But I could survive under Linux if I needed to.
Basically, I’ve never been a big Microsoft apologist, but man… that would kill it for me.
Not that they care. They care about corporate uses, not home users. Which is why you can find any number of ways to get your Windows for free these days. They gave up on the consumer market.
- Comment on Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket 5 days ago:
This is what I came to the comments to gripe about this whole thing. Yes, they can play some games and probably will, but consider: People will be watching. They do this and you bet people will track this crap and post about it. The blowback will be huge.
If they’re stupid enough to try this, it will not last. lol. You can raise prices over the long term, but fuck around with short term prices people can see changing for no good reason? Yeah…
And on the “personal pricing” - that’s written by someone that doesn’t understand how barcodes work.
But I’m sure they will try to play some games with it.
- Comment on Papa Johns is closing 300 locations 6 days ago:
Look, buy what you want, I don’t care for Papa John, but the thing is this: People are resistant to higher prices, and yet inflation has existed (nevermind that our wages haven’t risen to keep up).
These delivery fees are to help make up for that inflation. People won’t buy the higher price pizza, so you gotta get the money in somehow.
If you track pizza prices from 20-30 years ago, you’re paying - generally speaking - around the same, give or take. And in fact, if you get the average “carryout” deal, you’re paying less.
So it sucks, but that’s why they play these games.
- Comment on Papa Johns is closing 300 locations 6 days ago:
Little Caesars is not the most amazing pizza by a long shot, but for the price? Man, being able to feed two people for like seven bucks with food from “out” is just about not doable anywhere else. When it’s fresh, it’s quite acceptably decent.
When we want good pizza, it’s down to local places. There’s several chains I’ll eat fine, but the best stuff is local - not every place, mind. Lots of places are meh. The best place near us - best deal was an 18" cheese for $25ish. That’s still four meals especially if you have a little salad or something, so not bad on the price - an the sauce and dough and cheese were all amazing, which is what you really need for a good pizza.
I don’t like cheese pizza from most places - you need toppings to make it. But you know you’ve found a great place if you have the cheese pizza and you don’t want any toppings getting in the way. heh
- Comment on Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs 1 week ago:
Ahhhh, sometimes I forget the implications of me opening my big mouth in cases like this. lol. Well, I’m glad it was a positive experience. :) It’s something I need to remind myself constantly of as I am bad about getting sucked into responding to perceived rudeness with rudeness of my own - I definitely have RSD and it fucking sucks.
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 1 week ago:
Europe isn’t immune either, by any means.
Feel rare to hear that expressed, but one of the side effects of our fall into fascism is that, like you say - we make for a good case study, and if it woke Europeans up a bit and that fall doesn’t happen over there, so much the better.
It definitely is a reminder that we cannot take democracy for granted. It is a constant struggle. And letting the oligarchs “play” with their Fox News lies and right-wing radio… that experiment shows that fascism and authoritarianism must be stamped out and not allowed to thrive as an “equal voice”.
- Comment on People who reject challenging ideas as stupid without engagement are like intellectual nepobabies 1 week ago:
Stupidly wrong.^[tee hee hee]
- Comment on Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs 1 week ago:
haha, oh man. That actually reminds me. I know I mentioned the wiki thing - this is me: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beck_v._Eiland-Hall
Basically, back in 2009, I created glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com. It was largely in response to Glenn Beck’s stupid technique of interviewing people - like to our first sitting Muslim member of Congress: “Now, I wouldn’t say this, but some people are asking: Are you working for our enemies?” - to an elected member of Congress!
Of course, this was back in the Muslim-scare days after 9/11 still in 2009… and now we definitely have people in Congress working for our enemies.
But anyway. So the parody site.
My wife found a forum where some idiots were trying to track me down. I mean, my real name and address was out there, but they were looking for more information about me and the site. They were talking about what organizations must be funding this attack on their beloved Beck.
There was controversy at the time because an orgnization called ACORN was trying to get people to register to vote and supposedly signing up on behalf of people. IIRC the allegations were either bullshit or it wasn’t a big deal or maybe it was and it was dealt with. All I remember for sure is that I thought it would be hilarious to offer these chucklefucks “evidence” for their conspiracies.
So I went out and copied the raw HTML from a 404 page on the ACORN website and made that the custom 404 page for my site. An then, to help these idiots “find” it, I made a “mistake” - I announced something on the main page and linked to a page that supposedly had the full story, only I intentionally put a typo in the link so the 404 page would come up. lol.
Oh, man, they went N U T S over in the forum “HOLY SHIT ITS ACORN BEHIND THIS” lolololol…
But anyway, your gif absolutely reminded me of those morons. That’s how I envisioned their “hacking” of me. lol
- Comment on YSK this is professor Marion Nestle. She is 89. She has spent her entire career fighting against the junk food industry and pesticide industry 1 week ago:
“Good Nestle,” :crosses arms:, “Bad Nestle.”
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- Comment on Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs 1 week ago:
Shut up, Anthony.
(in case your name happens to actually be Anthony, I did pick it at pseudo-random jsut for a stupid joke!)
- Comment on Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs 1 week ago:
Too late for me, I’ve been Daychilde since 1996, didn’t keep it separate from my real name, and I’m on wikipedia, so it’s trivial to find me. lol.
The good is that I can report that it’s pretty safe to have an open identity. So far. heh
- Comment on This is a federated test post from a nodeBB forum. 1 week ago:
It may want a word but what it has are binaries :)
- Comment on This is a federated test post from a nodeBB forum. 1 week ago:
I’m here in yo Node spammin yo shit, BB :)
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 1 week ago:
they don’t have a choice
Please forgive me for quoting myself from elsewhere:
The problem is that you respect and believe in words. The people currently in charge could give two fucks. Ultimately, words only have the power that we give them, so when those in charge ignore the Constitution, then the Contitution has no power.
[snip]
In the same way, there are rules and decorum and traditions in politics and revolve around the Constution and various bodies of legislature, et cetera. And so there’s nothing that ACTUALLY forces anyone to follow any of that except voluntary compliance or physical threat because policing bodies enforce things.
This is why the rich are free, largely, from most crimes. They aren’t enforced. And this is how our democracy crumbled. The Constitution hasn’t been repealed. It doesn’t have to be. It is simply ignored. Worse, those who claim to follow it shit on it and ignore it and throw it out.
So I’m afraid they do have a choice in the same way they have ignored due process and habeas corpus, as one tiny example.
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 1 week ago:
As we have seen in recent months. heh :/
- Comment on 1 week ago:
and can freely read anyones messages.
You do realize this is true of any service, yes? Unless there is 1:1 end-to-end encryption, perhaps. Even there, unless you’re pasting in encrypted data into the app, the app can potentially send your unencrypted data somewhere.