salacious_coaster
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- Comment on Why is lemmy so political?! 11 hours ago:
It’s pretty easy to filter out most political stuff on Lemmy and Reddit and similar platforms. Just subscribe to communities you like and stay out of All. If I go to All, I know what I’m in for. That’s on me.
- Comment on Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads 11 hours ago:
Oh good, another reason not to buy Samsung anything. I already just didn’t like their UI.
- Comment on It's called seeing through a glass darkly. 2 days ago:
Did that kayak melt??
- Comment on No looky for you! 1 week ago:
A grammar Nazi takes time out of their day to give someone crap about a comma splice or argue about whether or not it’s appropriate to capitalize the first word after a colon. OPs like this are not “Grammar Nazi” fodder, it’s just language anarchy normalized by terminally online brainrot.
- Comment on what language would be best for me to learn? 1 week ago:
The language of wherever you want to spend substantial time. Probably not Russian I would think, but you do you
- Comment on Ancient 3 weeks ago:
There’s some kind of newfangled joke meta here, that I guess I’m too old to understand.
- Comment on Fuck you, Genie 3 weeks ago:
FuckThank you, Genie - Comment on Is Duolingo the face of an AI jobs crisis? 4 weeks ago:
Seems like a misnomer to call it an “AI jobs crisis.” LLMs just made it much more visible that CEOs and shareholders are greedy, shortsighted, and don’t know how anything works. Duolingo was already mediocre. Now it’s going to be completely useless.
- Comment on Everyone who need a little motivation 4 weeks ago:
The Modelo can 🤣
- Comment on Reminder that Trump and Musk are only Thiel's meat puppets. 4 weeks ago:
Palantir is a mysterious and powerful data analytics firm
- Comment on UN Experts Say US’s Deportation of Hundreds of Men to El Salvador Violates International Law 5 weeks ago:
Oh good. I’ll look forward to an end to the illegal operations very soon, then.
- Comment on Instead of Orange Man doing Tariffs would it not have been better for him to talk about shopping locally and so forth. And giving more tax breaks to companies that stay and sell in the US? 5 weeks ago:
Look. He had the stupid tariff idea. He liked it because he likes the thought of getting his way by punishing people who defy him. That’s how he sees tariffs. It wasn’t a good idea. People told him that. So, being a stubborn narcissist, he wanted to do it more. Now here we are.
- Comment on Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity 5 weeks ago:
I’ve agreed with that for years. But I think there’s going to be a last straw soon. Microsoft is practically abandoning support for most of its products in favor of milking a relatively small number of mega corps for all the license fees it can get away with. If anyone ever takes privacy seriously again, Recall could force an exodus from which Microsoft might not recover.
- Comment on Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity 5 weeks ago:
You’re thinking of Recall
- Comment on Intel CEO announces layoffs, restructuring, $1.5 billion in cost reductions, expanded return to office mandate 5 weeks ago:
I almost feel bad for Intel. They gave us perfectly fine CPUs that lasted for years without needing upgrading, and nowhere to go from there in a world that demands infinite exponential growth.
- Comment on An Alarming Number of Gen Z Ai Users Think It's Conscious 1 month ago:
The LLM peddlers seem to be going for that exact result. That’s why they’re calling it “AI”. Why is this surprising that non-technical people are falling for it?
- Comment on hmmm 1 month ago:
Thanks, I won’t.
- Comment on hmmm 1 month ago:
I don’t get it…
- Comment on THE 500 BILLION DOLLAR DELUSION: How the AI Sovereignty Wars Are Reshaping Humanity’s Future 1 month ago:
$10 says whoever’s in charge of this $500 billion project is just going to wrap ChatGPT, pocket $490 billion, then go ask for more.
- Comment on What are the best options for computers that explicitly support linux operating systems? 1 month ago:
Linux has traditionally been a “hands-on” OS. So there’s not a big market for hardware that ships with Linux pre-loaded and everything “just works.” People who seek out Linux are generally tinkerers. But obviously there is a big market for computers that just work out of the box. Honestly, I’d say this is the biggest thing holding back mass adoption of Linux: no over the counter Linux boxes to just buy and run with.
- Comment on Trump administration decides to fund CVE cybersecurity tracker after all 1 month ago:
They’re scream testing the whole government, one piece at a time.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Manor lords who want to see attackers coming from a distance. Requires a few dedicated serfs for all the scything, but such is the cost of protecting one’s estates.
- Comment on Panic! on the trade floor 1 month ago:
The 2038 problem is going to be +3C global warming, ensuing wet bulb temperatures and mass starvation due to breadbasket failures. (debbie downer sound)
- Comment on Big Marijuana don't want you to know... 2 months ago:
What kind of weed helps concentration? The kind I’ve had makes me lose interest in my own sentences halfway through.
- Comment on Microsoft tells Windows 10 users to just trade in their PC for a newer one, because how hard can it be? 2 months ago:
I will almost guarantee some update will break shit at the most inconvenient time humanly possible and the people you’ve done this for will need your help, all at the same time.
Well, yeah. That’s life as an admin under the best circumstances. There’s a running list of Windows ticking time bombs over on r/sysadmin. There are lots of good reasons to ditch Windows, but I wouldn’t say the risk of MS shutting down technically unsupported hardware is one of them (because I don’t agree it’s a substantial risk).
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 2 months ago:
Don’t they understand what’s happening?
No. Overwhelmingly, no, they don’t. The MAGA crowd is stuck to their pants with glee, the liberal crowd is going “oh well, we’ll get em in the midterms,” and about another third of the country is just brain-dead clueless about all of it. Maybe a few thousand people in the US actually understand just how close we are to cascading systemic collapse.
- Comment on Tesla recalls all Cybertrucks ever made over trim falling off | Electrek 2 months ago:
And nobody who is familiar with how technology companies operate was shocked to hear that the 100k incel camino is literally held together with cheap glue.
- Comment on Tesla recalls all Cybertrucks ever made over trim falling off | Electrek 2 months ago:
I still can’t believe that 46k people are both that stupid and have 100k to spend.
- Comment on Microsoft tells Windows 10 users to just trade in their PC for a newer one, because how hard can it be? 2 months ago:
Hot take from an IT guy: save your important data, make a plain vanilla W11 boot USB (nothing fancy, no Rufus tricks), wipe your hard drive to zeroes, and install W11 like normal. I’ve reimaged a ton of older PCs and literally never seen it not work. My 10 year old Optiplex, supposedly ineligible for W11, runs W11 just fine.
Microsoft might someday break it, sure. That’s not new. Microsoft products were always, in practice, available to us at Microsoft’s pleasure. This is the same company that allows massgrave to exist on git because they’d rather we pirate MS Office than allow LibreOffice any oxygen. We’ll probably be fine.
- Comment on Judges Are Fed up With Lawyers Using AI That Hallucinate Court Cases 2 months ago:
But I was hysterically assured that AI was going to take all our jobs?