skulblaka
@skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. 14 hours ago:
Oh yeah it’s totally a bullshit argument, it wouldn’t hold water in any court. Hell if nothing else, the ground stations like you said, or the country whose airspace the center exists over, would be in jurisdiction.
But I do believe that Musk believes it’s a get out of jail free card.
- Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. 17 hours ago:
Putting them in space also puts them technically outside of the legal jurisdiction of any country. I figure fElon probably assumes that means said servers can never be subpoenaed.
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 1 day ago:
They aren’t defending shit
- Comment on Is the Memory Shortage Intentional? 2 days ago:
Chad mod action nuking whatever this exchange was but leaving the bit at the end where the guy was humble and respectable
- Comment on Trending 2 days ago:
- Comment on whatever tf this is 6 days ago:
A weapon to surpass Metal Gear…
- Comment on BREAKING: PlayStation is shutting down Bluepoint Games (Demon's Souls/Shadow of the Colossus remakes) 1 week ago:
Yeah well if Sony would have just let em cook and provided me with PC ports of Bloodborne and Demon’s Souls then they would have happily received my money. Instead they get to recieve an extended middle finger.
- Comment on Discord Distances Itself From Age Verification Firm After Ties To Palantir’s Peter Thiel Surface 1 week ago:
Yep.
My mother submitted every single photo of me she has to some AI art service, spent the next six months sending me slopped-up photos of myself, and is somehow unable to understand why I might be upset about the situation.
- Comment on There are no accidents 2 weeks ago:
Owning up to your own farts proudly is how one discovers true power.
Blaming the dog is to hide behind a falsehood, in fear of the truth.
The truth is, I farted, and it’s real nasty, and I’m real proud of it. I own this, such that none may wield it against me.
- Comment on If you are not in a tech field, what got you into self-hosting? 2 weeks ago:
I quit IT work to be a mechanic. It’s exactly the same problem-solving process, but the problems are almost always way less arcane. I’m very happy with the switch.
If you wanted to make the switch yourself, the skill sets are very interchangeable. You’re just debugging an alternator instead of an Active Directory setup. If you have a willingness to learn you’ll be up to speed in under a year.
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on tryna get hella faded 1 month ago:
You also can’t throw it up if you have too much, which is the body’s safety regulation for alcohol poisoning. Same reason you can technically vape alcohol, but it’s hilariously dangerous and should never ever be done. It’s really easy to kill yourself with alcohol when you bypass the liver with it.
- Comment on Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge 1 month ago:
This would be a valid argument if X itself weren’t the ones generating the images.
- Comment on If I go crazy will you still call me Superman? 1 month ago:
- Comment on If reincarnation exists, suicide could make things much much worse. 2 months ago:
Somebody else already posted Andy Weir’s “The Egg” in this comment section so I’ll just pull this excerpt from it instead of linking the whole thing again.
“Your soul is more magnificent, beautiful, and gigantic than you can possibly imagine. A human mind can only contain a tiny fraction of what you are. It’s like sticking your finger in a glass of water to see if it’s hot or cold. You put a tiny part of yourself into the vessel, and when you bring it back out, you’ve gained all the experiences it had.
“You’ve been in a human for the last 48 years, so you haven’t stretched out yet and felt the rest of your immense consciousness. If we hung out here for long enough, you’d start remembering everything. But there’s no point to doing that between each life.”
- Comment on better look at it 2 months ago:
In addition: at some unknown, future time of its choosing, it will expand and consume the earth.
- Comment on ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’ 2 months ago:
Learned about this for the first time earlier today watching Mortismal’s Divinity recap videos lol
I did know about Divine Divinity (which, fun fact, canonically features Lucian the Divine as your player character) but Dragon Commander completely missed my radar.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
This is when I show up with printed out Etsy receipts like “this is the gift you’re due to recieve in like… a week… maybe after the new year 🥲”
- Comment on daily Laffy Taffy- answers! 2 months ago:
Ok real shit though Naruto is awesome. NTA
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 months ago:
I am happy to pay it so long as I have any sort of expectation that I will see a return from it.
It is becoming increasingly clear to working Americans that we will never see a dollar back out of the Social Security program when it comes time for us to need it.
- Comment on [meme request] Dinosaur or frog memes for a sad friend 2 months ago:
- Comment on We need to normalize not captioning single image memes, so everyone can reuse it. 2 months ago:
Username checks out
- Comment on magic recovery 2 months ago:
Quantum physics tells us that nothing is actually chock full of little somethings
- Comment on What game is a guilty pleasure of yours? 2 months ago:
Man I really want to get into Mechwarrior but I’m just so ridiculously bad at the game and I have no idea how to get better.
I’ve tried to begin the MW5 campaign three times now and I’ve been priced out of existing every time, I take way too much damage and my repair bills vastly outstrip my income. Combine with having to spend hundreds of thousands of credits in travel fees to get anywhere and I’m very quickly even more broke than I started.
Just for kicks the other day I set up an Instant Action for testing purposes and I brought two Atlases, a Highlander and an Archer to some random backwater mid-difficulty mission and still barely limped out of there alive, with the Highlander and one of the Atlases downed. That’s just shameful.
- Comment on Only a few years left 3 months ago:
I’ve dark souls dodge rolled an entire series of physical and mental maladies from both sides of my family and I’m afraid they’re all going to hit me like a sack of bricks when I turn 40
- Comment on Feeling that groove 3 months ago:
What I don’t get, personally, is how this one scratched-in groove wave can contain a bassline, a melody and a singing voice and they all can be differentiated coming out of the speaker.
How speakers work in general is just black magic to me, actually.
- Comment on Fugees rapper Pras sentenced to 14 years in prison over illegal donations to Obama campaign 3 months ago:
All good bro. Apes together strong 💪
- Comment on Fugees rapper Pras sentenced to 14 years in prison over illegal donations to Obama campaign 3 months ago:
Article is quite short, I’ll post it here for you.
The Grammy-winning rapper Prakazrel “Pras” Michel of the Fugees has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for involvement in a billion-dollar Malaysia scam that funnelled money into US politics.
The 52-year-old founding member of the 1990s hit trio the Fugees was convicted of money laundering and campaign finance violations in 2023 in a global foreign influence scandal led by the Malaysian financier Low Taek Jho.
In April 2023, a federal jury convicted Michel of 10 counts, including conspiracy and acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government. The trial in Washington DC included testimony from the actor Leonardo DiCaprio and the former attorney general Jeff Sessions.
Justice department prosecutors said federal sentencing guidelines recommended a life sentence for Michel, who they said “betrayed his country for money” and “lied unapologetically and unrelentingly to carry out his schemes”.
His sentence, they wrote, “should reflect the breadth and depth of his crimes, his indifference to the risks to his country, and the magnitude of his greed”.
The defence attorney Peter Zeidenberg said his client’s 14-year sentence was “completely disproportionate to the offence”. Michel will appeal against his conviction and sentence, according to his lawyer.
Zeidenberg had recommended a three-year prison sentence. A life sentence would be an “absurdly high” punishment for Michel given that it is typically reserved for deadly terrorists and drug cartel leaders, Michel’s attorneys said in a court filing.
“The government’s position is one that would cause Inspector Javert to recoil and, if anything, simply illustrates just how easily the guidelines can be manipulated to produce absurd results, and how poorly equipped they are, at least on this occasion, to determine a fair and just sentence,” they continued.
In the early 2010s, Low – now a fugitive believed to be hiding in China – used billions of dollars stolen from a Malaysian state investment fund known as 1MDB to invest in luxury US real estate, fine art and Hollywood films such as DiCaprio’s The Wolf of Wall Street. Low has maintained his innocence.
Michel was accused of helping Low secretly channel money into then president Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign via shell companies, hiding the donations’ origins.
Michel also tried to end a justice department investigation of Low, tampered with two witnesses and perjured himself at trial, prosecutors said.
Michel, originally from Brooklyn, founded the Fugees with his childhood friends Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean.
The group won two Grammy awards at the peak of their fame in the 1990s and sold tens of millions of albums.
In August 2024, the judge rejected Michel’s request for a new trial based in part on his defence attorney’s use of a generative AI program during his closing of the trial’s arguments. The judges said that and other trial errors did not amount to a serious miscarriage of justice.
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 3 months ago:
Fuck that, when I bought Chrono Trigger for the SNES, I owned that game. I still own that game. Nintendo has not broken into my home to rescind my license to a physical cartridge that I purchased.
- Comment on to whom it may concern: 3 months ago:
Never said they had to be the same person.
Many folks would consider it right kind of you to put a bullet in a Klansman.
