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- Comment on Microsoft laying off 3% of workforce in biggest round of cuts since 2023 - report 17 hours ago:
All replaced my AI and stock holder profits.
- Comment on CrowdStrike Announces Layoffs Affecting 500 Employees 5 days ago:
Good analogy …. 🤯
- Comment on HMMM 5 days ago:
This might be the riskiest click in the history of the world given the comments so far.
- Comment on Apple asks court to halt App Store rule changes while it appeals 5 days ago:
Even as a self-proclaimed Apple fan …
Yeah fuck off Apple.
- Comment on CrowdStrike Announces Layoffs Affecting 500 Employees 5 days ago:
Say it with me boys and girls… Infinite growth is not sustainable…
- Comment on Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots 1 week ago:
What a destroy 90% of their traffic?!?
“That’s a bold move, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off for ’em.”
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 1 week ago:
Ok let me play devil’s advocate and preface this with I’m not a big windows fan at all since I primarily use MacOS and Linux, but I could see this as moderately useful but used in a slightly different way. I don’t want the AI to actually make the changes by itself, even with my permission. But being able to ask it a natural language question about how to make a specific change and then walking me through how to make those changes, like showing me where in the the menu or OS that setting is hiding could be very useful. In the long run it could help teach the end user more about the OS and how things are organized and setup.
Just my 2¢
- Comment on “This is a huge moment for creators and their businesses,” - Patreon will update its iPhone app to sidestep Apple’s payment system. Patreon was forced to pay 30% fees 1 week ago:
0% is “up to 30%”
- Comment on Airbnb Begins Testing A New AI-Powered Customer Service Bot In The U.S. 1 week ago:
Ok this made me chuckle.
- Comment on 20th-Anniversary iPhone Will Reportedly Feature an All-Screen Design 1 week ago:
As much of an Apple fan as I am, I’m well aware this happens all the time 🙂
- Comment on CrowdSec vs Fail2Ban - What to use? 1 week ago:
I’ve been meaning to check out crowdsec because it seems to fit my niche usage. Wuzah seems VERY powerful and something I could likely use at work so that’s an advantage but very complex. Fail2ban is good at what it does but very simplistic and would require a lot of individual instances that would seem like a bear to maintain. CrowdSec seems like it’s in the Goldilocks zone somewhere in the middle. Pretty powerful, not terribly hard to manage, and not too difficult to install. But I haven’t done anything with any of them yet so I’m not very much help. I am curious what you go with though.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The roots are something I had not considered
- Comment on 20th-Anniversary iPhone Will Reportedly Feature an All-Screen Design 1 week ago:
I liked Touch ID. I even thought the idea of some android phones of having that on the back was a cool idea. But the convenience of Face ID is hard to ignore. Maybe both?
- Comment on 20th-Anniversary iPhone Will Reportedly Feature an All-Screen Design 1 week ago:
I like the idea of a folding phone very much. Especially because of the bigger screen and the free benefit of essentially a built in screen protection when it’s in your pocket (because it’s folded on itself). What I don’t like is the inevitable crease that shows up in the screen after a year of use from the ones I’ve seen already. If Apple has solved that I’m all in.
- Comment on Liquid Trees 1 week ago:
This just makes me think it’s an aquarium that needs to be cleaned.
- Comment on xkcd #3084: Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object 1 week ago:
🤯
- Comment on Texas goes after toothpaste in escalating fight over fluoride 1 week ago:
lol!!!
- Comment on Texas goes after toothpaste in escalating fight over fluoride 1 week ago:
Ok this isn’t conservative, this is just dumb.
- Comment on What is this for? (Wrong answers only) 1 week ago:
One legged man.
- Comment on Tired of spaghetti? How about ramen? 1 week ago:
Already in a bowl. How convenient
- Comment on Hugging Face releases a robotic arm you can 3D print for $100 1 week ago:
Are there videos of it operational? If there are in any of these links I missed it.
- Comment on What were your go-to Games (or programs! We're all nerds here) from your childhood 1 week ago:
Ultima IV, Elite, Yie Ar Kung-Fu, Kikstart II, RC Pro Am, Racing Destruction Set, Zaxxon
But the first was ….
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/APF_TV_Fun_series
Played this for hours.
Yeah I’m old.
- Comment on I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server 2 weeks ago:
I want to know he they built that visualization
- Comment on What OS should I use for self-hosting that doesn't require extensive terminal knowledge? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah kind of agree. Trying to self host without using the terminal would be like trying to drive a car without touching the steering wheel with your hands. It’s possible but dangerous and cumbersome.
Don’t let it scare you. Get something installed to let you build some VMs to play around without worries (Virtualbox, VM Workstation, parallels), and install a distribution like Debian, Ubuntu, Mint and start to play. To self host all you really need is learning some basic file manipulation (move,copy,remove), how to edit text files (vi,emacs,nano), and the basic directory structure. That will get you 90% of the way there. When you see things like awk, sed, grep ask an AI to explain it, they are actually useful for that. These sort of commands start getting into advanced things like output redirection and regex which can be EXTREMELY confusing. Heck I have a CS degree, been in IT for almost 30 years, and I’ve been using Linux since the mid 90s and some of that still confuses me. So basically don’t fret if it’s too confusing, you are totally not alone. Play, screw up, try to fix it, curse, read a lot, try again, realize it’s toast, start over. Honestly I think I just described my job 😂
- Comment on The American Iron Dome Is an Expensive Boondoggle That Won’t Work | Angry Planet 2 weeks ago:
I remember Ronald Reagan’s “Star Wars” plan, the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), a sweeping missile defense program announced in 1983. The SDI aimed to protect the United States from nuclear attack by intercepting and destroying incoming Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) before they could reach American soil. Sound familiar??
It was a boondoggle then and it’s a boondoggle now.
- Comment on Poop Drones Are Keeping Sewers Running So Humans Don't Have to 2 weeks ago:
Why do I believe if Mythbusters was still on the air they’d actually try this.
- Comment on Poop Drones Are Keeping Sewers Running So Humans Don't Have to 2 weeks ago:
Two words I never thought I’d see together… poop drone.
- Comment on The Brits had an anthem ready for when Margaret Thatcher died. Americans should also be prepared. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video! 2 weeks ago:
I’m old school so an odometer should never do anything other than measure wheel rotations with a multiplier of circumference of the tire.
Maybe if you wanna get fancy have the multiplier occasionally recalibrated based on GPS but that’s it.
- Comment on OpenPin is an open-source project to revive Humane's dead Ai Pin - Liliputing 2 weeks ago:
Well I guess it depends on when you bought it. If it was off eBay recently to try this new open platform that would be way less moronic.