phoenixz

@phoenixz@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can a US state block porn?⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Government that wants to spy on you but can’t directly prohibit encryption, so this is the work around. Prohibit porn, people go for VPN. Oohh, now we have to prohibit VPN which we can’t because its a required tool plus it’s really hard to prohibit… so what else can we do, then? Government backdoor keys ftw!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could the internet go offline? Inside the fragile system holding the modern world together⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The Internet originally was designed to be able to survive and keep on going because by its original design, there wouldn’t be major key points to take out.

  This is something that happened when major companies were allowed to run crazy unchecked and centralize everything. There are even parts of the world where people think that (for example) Facebook IS the Internet, as that is all that they can see.

  This is an obvious bad thing yet it was allowed to go unchecked for decades now and here we are.

  Could the current Internet completely break? Oh hells yes. Would it be a bad thing? Oh hells no. Let it die. The current Internet is a shit show that should have been aborted before it became what it is today.

  what mostly will go down are last sites and large providers. Smaller or distributed sites like Lemmy will survive

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk says he needs $1 trillion to control Tesla's robot army. Yes, really.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As far as they can, that is

  That rocket launch that obliterated a launchpad was Elmo’s meddling, for example

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fedora Will Allow AI-Assisted Contributions With Proper Disclosure & Transparency⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as it’s properly tagged so we can avoid the hell out of it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do people get rid of or sell stolen jewelry? I ask cause the news says the the Louve thieves can never sell it because it so known?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Either that, or it also goes through a chop shop and they’ll sell the individual materials for much less than it would be worth

  Likely though, I imagine this was a custom order job for some 0.1% asshole

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google flags Immich sites as dangerous⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure it’s all accidental and coincidental that open source project that rival Google just weirdly got flagged as being dangerous. Google also doesn’t know how this happened, it just did! Magic!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk says he needs $1 trillion to control Tesla's robot army. Yes, really.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  LOL

  Elmo Musk literally is not an engineer or even understands basic engineering. All the real world engineering done at his company is done by actual engineers

  What is his part in all those processes at jos companies, you ask?

  Lying.

  Literally lying. Its the only talent that Mr. Elmo has. Its the one thing he constantly does, at levels comparable to Trump.

  Most claims he makes about any of his companies products are just plain lies. Tesla full self driving? Not even close, and by now i wonder if they’re actually capable of getting a Tesla off a parking lot without crashing it, let alone do a full cross country.

  Same for SpaceX, where we definitely will go to Mars!never mind that reaching low earth orbit is about 1% of that task and he still can’t do that without blowing up his starshits. Hey, at least they blew up a banana over the Indian ocean.

  Wanna know what Elmo’s contributions are?

  Cyber truck.

  Launching the car that was supposed to be for the founder of Tesla into low earth orbit just to he an asshole

  The “idea” to use intercontinental ballistic rockets to transport people to the other side of the world “in 30 minutes”. This one I really really really do want him to try because tickets are CEO only expensive and nothing would make me laugh more than a bunch of stealing assholes all paying a million or so to just blow up on the launchpad.

  Talking about launchpads, remember that Florida launch with a starship with a boat load of engines that also failed was a complete success because “it left the launchpad” and anything beyond that was extras? Yeah, that launchpad was absolutely obliterated, cars parked various kilometers away got pelted by concrete debris, an ecological area got polluted, and the launchpad was left in rubble because Elmo decided that flame diverters, you know, those things used since like the sixties of the previous century really weren’t necessary.

  That is of course keeping in mind that he US tax payer paid 3 billion to take the US to the moon and well, that too is about at 1-2% mission completed, there is nothing remotely ready.

  Do I even have to mention Hyperloop? “Its just another air hockey table, its not that hard!”

  Meanwhile he keeps asking Tesla for a trillion dollars as well, even though he just got a gold package from Tesla that was light the highest payout in human history, even though Tesla makes a fraction of the cars that large brands make, ans even though he sent the extremely overvalued company (overvalued thanks to his constant lying about aaaalll the great things that are right there ready, just around the corner if you only pay me more money!!) right of a cliff with his Nazi antics combined with the laughable Nazirustbucket he designed…

  This is the guy asking for just a trillion dollar bro, I will make this work, bro! TRUST ME!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I do wonder…

  With most economic crashes, the rich get even richer. This time it’s different, though.

  Right now, the top 8 richest men in the world have as much wealth as the bottom 50%. Homelessness world wide is at an all time high, and a huge swath of people can’t afford all the basic necessities anymore.

  If an economic crash happens now, will the 99% of the people finally wake up and just TAKE the resources from that 1%, like it or not?

  What do billionaires think will happen to them once shit really hits the fan?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ruby Central tries to make peace after 'hostile takeover'⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that you think 5% of the world population is the same as 5% of all programmers shows that you are rather clueless

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Load bearing Tupperware⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Who says companies need to buy their own hardware?

  We have datacenters for that, you rent the hardware one way or the other.

  I’m saying that nobody should put all their eggs in one basket because if that basket breaks, you’re all fucked.

  If you have the need for high availability then you don’t out all your servers in a single datacenter, or with a single provider

  If everyone and their mother is with one provider, you’ll first notice that said provider gets expensive pretty quick and you’ll also notice that when shit goes down that half the fucking internet follows.

  My services weren’t down, and never have been. I don’t use AWS, because I don’t need it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Load bearing Tupperware⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So your argument is that AWS centralization is good because Amazon is a good provider?

  You do understand that they’re are loads of providers out there that are perfectly stable, but that are not Amazon?

  I’ve never used it because I know how to manage a server, something you might want to expect from IT personnel that does development for companies, but there days let’s just ask Amazon todo it for us, we’re too lazy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Load bearing Tupperware⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You understand that that has nothing to do with this? So there are shitty providers out there, find a good one that is not “just amazon”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ex PlayStation exec says Sony can't keep "increasing the graphics power" with new consoles after tech plateau, but PS5 has already "made almost every game a better game"⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I want a game that upon release is 70% finished

  But I also even more want what you just said

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Load bearing Tupperware⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Eeehh, you’re literally suggesting that AWS added to the general stability and dependability of the internet in general

  You have NO idea what you’re talking about

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Load bearing Tupperware⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s so funny to see that this just keeps happening over and over and nobody seems to be learning any lessons at all

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could rising sea levels caused by climate change be thwarted by digging a big hole at the bottom of the sea?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well yeah, but you’d need to dig a crazy huge hole for that, probably the size of multiple mountains

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kohler Wants to Put a Tiny Camera in Your Toilet and Analyze the Contents⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as it always aims down. I don’t need my butt captured

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a girl asks you if you're big, are you supposed to lie or not?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If asked, likely it’s that they want access?

  I’d just be truthful

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ruby Central tries to make peace after 'hostile takeover'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t knowany programmers, do you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World would be a better place⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really, the life on Venus thing was so far from reality that it might as well have been a religious idea

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nation-state hackers deliver malware from “bulletproof” blockchains⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was about to say don’t insult web 3.0, but you’re actually right. AI at least has useful applications to begin with

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Same betting app you can bet on the impacts of climate change, promoting gambling on a collapsing government⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Are we all going to burn to death or not? Place your bets, gentlemen!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This in combination with Google closing down the android ecosphere, kinda says a lot, no?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the AI Conveyor Belt of Capital About to Stop?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If so, what will the next bubble be? Because there is always a next bubble standing ready to go! Virtualization bubble, cloud bubble, container bubble, web 3.0 bubble, bitcoin bubble, block chain bubble, AI bubble… We’ve had a few over the past 20 years

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a very big hypothetical.

  They’d need to already have access to your account credentials (email, password or at least something that is regarded the same) then have you install this malicious app, then you’d need this app to be open at the same time as your 2FA app

  It’s possible, yes, it’s an awesome find, yes, and this should be patches, yes yes yes, a thousand yes

  Having said that, I’m not too worried about the potential impact of this, it’ll be fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What options of resistance are programmers creating to not submit to AI culture?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am in IT. CTO, yet also still doing development

  Anyone that would deliver a pure AI project I would reject immediately and have them first look at what the hell it is

  That is the biggest issue with AI, people only use it for ready to go solutions. Nobody checks what comes out of it

  I use AI in my IDE exactly like you mentioned; it gives me a wrong answer (because of course) and even though the answer is wrong, it might give me a new idea. That’s fine.

  The problem is ready to go idiots that will just blindly trust AI, ie, the 90% of humans on this world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The highest amount of 18 year old alive at one single moment in time

  People have been having less children over the past two decades so now the amount of available 18 year olds is declining. This is happening inany countries for many reasons, usually increased prosperity retducing the need for children that will help you out

  Some countries really went off a cliff (hello South Korea, are you okay? Please start accepting immigrants or you’ll cease to exist as a country) and others have it less, though still enough that it can cause severe problems. Less kids means that the gap between old and young widens twice as fast, and it means that you’ll have less work force available, and at the same time more people needing help, so the younger will have to work twice harder for the elder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THE CRAZY PILLS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gobbling Tylenol

  Uh huh.

  Gobbling means at least a good handful, right?

  Acetaminophen has a rather steep curve where it gets toxic. A standard tablet is 500mg. I sometimes take a double at 1000mg, yet the daily recommended max dose is 4000, only four times that, after which toxic effects start coming. That’s 8 tablets

  This woman, if she exists at all, was likely “gobbling” a single tablet, which is pretty much harmless

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does the GOP think “ANTIFA” is bad?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fascists don’t believe that fascism is bad.

  And I guess that’s correct when you’re a narcissistic psychopath whose in charge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework supporting far-right racists?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t get that reference… What is that from?