Rentlar
@Rentlar@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Trump says China has to give US magnets or face 200% tariff 10 hours ago:
Gimme! Gimme!
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 1 day ago:
That is definitely a problem that needs to be dealt with, since AI scrapers hogging bandwidth or making sites inaccessible means it is hampering equal access to everyone. Ignoring conventions and not rate limiting itself are harmful to the open internet.
So yes, those kinds of AI scraping behaviours should be mitigated, but on the principle of AI ingesting my public data, I’m not against it, if it can access it reasonably and fairly like anyone else.
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 2 days ago:
If I’m going to share my information and knowledge publicly on an Internet site, I’d like everyone to have fair and open access to it, not at the whims of a multinational corp to gatekeep for me. So the fact that AI can access it too doesn’t discourage me.
You have information from me because I choose to share it, not because a site has demanded I give it up without a clear benefit to me in return.
- Comment on In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses 4 days ago:
Seriously. I’d be somewhat less concerned about the impact if it was only voluntarily used. Instead, AI is compulsively shoved in every nook and cranny of digital product simply to justify its own existence.
The power requirement for training is ongoing, since mere days after Sam Altman released a very underehelming GPT-5, he begins hyping up the next one.
- Comment on Is the amount of Lemmy activity declining? 6 days ago:
Perhaps the closure of Lemm.ee took away some of the quantity and variety of posts and communities?
- Comment on I have tomorrow off :) 6 days ago:
- Comment on 'I'm right here': Trump struggles to find foreign leader sitting in front of his face 1 week ago:
Caught him having daydreams of his boyfriend, Vladimir Putin.
- Comment on Love in a cold climate: Putin romances Trump in Alaska with talk of rigged elections and a trip to Moscow 1 week ago:
How to “negotiate” with Trump:
- Flatter Trump with some nice words or a bribe-y thing.
- Trump will agree with your suggestion.
- Comment on Vampire Survivors is getting an official board game 1 week ago:
I’m just imagining one person moves a character around while the others move pieces with ten fingers and ten toes.
- Comment on The Ice alert app founder sparking fury in Trump officials: ‘Pam Bondi said I better watch out? Please.’ 1 week ago:
Yes, my whole thing is very, very privacy-focused. I don’t use Gmail. I run my own mail servers. I run my own web servers. I have always done that because I just don’t trust these companies who are reading all of your messages, and they’re doing it to harvest your data and market to you. I want myself to be private. I’m an individual. I think that lent quite a bit to the way that I thought about IceBlock.
Heck yeah, our self-hosted hero!
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 1 week ago:
Thanks, now my mental image of the AI bubble is now shit-coloured.
- Comment on US Dollar Down 10% Since Trump Took Office — Paul Graham Warns 'You've Become Poorer' Without 11% Net Worth Gain 1 week ago:
Damn… might be as close to a 10% US wealth tax as we’ll get for now (unless your wealth is in CHF-denomination).
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
How does it compare with this ramble from July 2016? (video)
Transcript
> Look, having nuclear—my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart —you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world—it’s true!—but when you’re a conservative Republican they try—oh, do they do a number—that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune—you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged—but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me—it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are (nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right—who would have thought?), but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners—now it used to be three, now it’s four—but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years—but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.”
- Comment on fr Lemmy really do be like 2 weeks ago:
help I don’t know which upvote button to click
- Comment on Net neutrality advocates won’t appeal loss, say they don’t trust Supreme Court 2 weeks ago:
Knowing this Supreme Court, it could totally be worse than the same outcome.
- Comment on YSK about Changing your Profile Picture to Clippy 2 weeks ago:
Kinda bad example: the server you are posting on (lemmy.world) literally started during the time of the subreddit blackouts, and other servers’ user count shot up 5x, 10x or more. It’s likely the surge would be muted without it, and even if more than half left Lemmy and returned to Reddit, it was still the first time it could even be considered a competitor. Its a positive and concrete resulf that came of it.
I dunno what changing a profile pic can do, without more of a goal than, “get a CEO to look at clippys and think its funny”. It would have a positive effect if it was even something small like telling people to change the profile and donate $1 to EFF.org
- Comment on Society needs to keep score on positive impacts 2 weeks ago:
It already exists, in places. You’ve probably written a review for private businesses, but how many commendations have you submitted to your transit worker, city service worker or politician?
You can file compliments in the same place you file complaints, via phone, paper form, web form, e-mail or snail-mail. I’m sure these people would be pleasantly surprised to receive your positive feedback.
Commendations are brought to supervisors, and sometimes they even make the agency’s public newsletter. They cost nothing but a bit of time and thoughtfulness to give, so I’d say give it a try.
- Comment on Trump wanted a US-made iPhone. Apple gave him a gold statue. 2 weeks ago:
A few nice words and a $15 shiny object is all you need to curry favour with the current President.
Can someone ask him for free college education and healthcare in America, presenting him a golden stethoscope or golden book-shaped award?
- Comment on YSK The World’s Most Common Passwords 2 weeks ago:
trustevery1 - Comment on Why is land/sky so cleanly split between mammals/birds? 2 weeks ago:
Peacocks and hens, Grouse and Turkeys, and some Phaesants spend most of their time on the ground. Ducks and Swans spend a lot of their time floating on water surfaces. Geese do fly and flock but are often in groups nipping at the ground, rather than in trees.
If birds slithered, tunneled or other weird land behaviour, I don’t know if we’d still call them birds. Probably something like dino-saur, idk.
- Comment on ‘Not what our roads are built for’: Trump’s hope to see more US cars in Tokyo, London is a hard sell 2 weeks ago:
The Japanese government could allow American cars and pickup trucks I suppose, but they won’t sell well at all. Large, heavy, un-maneuverable, not much carrying capacity for its size. Compared to domestic brands, North American cars will be viewed as unreliable clunkers, and correctly (US customary unit) sized parts to fix them are not widely available there.
- Comment on Couldn't big-tech shut out non-monopoly laws by saying that it's meant to be like that on "their" product? 2 weeks ago:
I mean, in general, if your business model is to break the law and the government tells you not to, that is infringing on your ability to conduct business in the way you want to.
Laws, also generally, are designed to balance the tradeoffs between allowing personal freedoms with protecting a populace from expected or possible harm.
Non-compliance to a country’s laws could lead to: a ban of that product from that country, fines/taxes/expenses to the business, or in serious cases prosecution of company representatives within the country.
- Comment on Why isn't Mbin more popular? 3 weeks ago:
I want a basic app that has no frills, is snappy, and does its job well. Lemmy fits that, and is no more or less than I need. I have a separate masto account.
- Comment on I need to tell you something unsatisfying: your personal consumption choices will not make a meaningful difference to the amount of enshittification you experience in your life 3 weeks ago:
Well, I guess the prerogative is on the rest of us non-Americans to break unjust American IP laws to counteract the lack of lack of enforcement of anti-trust laws, or make laws in other countries that better enforce competition laws on American companies.
I have a glimmer of hope that Europe is getting in gear somewhat for that.
I do Cory’s overall point about needing to think more of solidarity than individual choices, but I disagree on discounting them completely, those choices do carry a certain degree of importance as well in effecting systemic change. Saying, “well, society isn’t changing, enshittification isn’t going anywhere so I shouldn’t bother changing my habits” won’t get us anywhere. It has had real effects.
Things that start in the margins have the ability to get noticed by big players and then bring about change. A couple examples: Linux gaming is in a viable state that was unimaginable 8 years ago. The Canadian boycott of US products and travel has had a very measurable affect on US tourism and select industries, and has spread to other countries. Valve nor the Canadian government started either of those efforts, but they helped signal-boost and take concrete supportive actions when they see that even a small group of people independently have supported that change already.
- Comment on Dropbox is shutting down its password manager 3 weeks ago:
Lol. Up until a few months ago Dropbox was begging me to use that feature.
- Comment on This Tiny Radio Lets Me Send Texts Without Wi-Fi or Cell Service 4 weeks ago:
It is channel-based, using Pre-Shared Keys (PSK).
There is a public line where you can message pretty much everyone with the blank PSK.
- Comment on This Tiny Radio Lets Me Send Texts Without Wi-Fi or Cell Service 4 weeks ago:
meshtastic.org/docs/configuration/radio/device/
SENSOR is one of the defined device roles. And whether for personal automation or public information, it is a reasonable use case for the network.
- Comment on Why are there so many german communities on Lemmy? 5 weeks ago:
A huge group moved from ich iel subreddit (meirl but almost like 196 in practice)… most german redditors were there. The main German instance was called feddit.de but the frontend and database got very messed up. The main admin was MIA so feddit.org was made instead.
- Comment on YSK: If you set up a Lemmy instance, and follow the Docker setup instructions to the letter, it will send lemmy.ml your admin password during the setup process 1 month ago:
Good catch, seems like an oversight.
- Comment on Tesseract is shutting down 1 month ago:
Even if I would agree with your principles, this kind of comment is what is tiring for moderators to deal with at scale.
