Bo7a

@Bo7a@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨United Nazis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And nuance left the door wide open for pedantry and contrarianism to come in and set up camp.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Canadian Wildfires signal major L over the United States⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, that is true. As someone who literally lived on the border for my formative years, this is not clear-cut across the country.

  In my case, it is a concrete marker in the middle of the forest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My mom tells me I should cut dad off for cheating on her, am I a bad person for not wanting to do so?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  women are prone to making decisions based on emotion & not logic, reason.

  LOL. GTFOH.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Canadian Wildfires signal major L over the United States⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My favorite part about all these news pieces is how it’s always mentioned that Canadian wildfires are smoking over the US.

  But then the article shares a picture showing hundreds of fires both North and South of the border. Because fire doesn’t give a fuck about your imaginary lines in the dirt…

  But somehow the media has to externalize the problem and make it Canadian forests fault that your sky is Smokey and orange.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ansible Playbook - How do I reverse engineer a running system?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair enough. I honestly didn’t mean this as an insult. I have seen the same type of review from people who join teams that I’m on when they get told about ansible.

  It certainly isn’t perfect. And there was a period of time about 5 years ago where a lot of change was happening at once.

  Thanks for sharing your opinion

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ansible Playbook - How do I reverse engineer a running system?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Same question. But with 100s of playbooks, and thousands of servers. This feels like someone had a bad experience with their first 30 minutes of ansible and gave up before looking at the command reference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No. You are both adults. Stop analyzing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir Started By Spying on a City Now Sells AI for War⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would bet we have a lot of the exact same thoughts on why this happens, and probably how to solve it. My only disagreement - and it is not a strong one - is the impossibility of forgiveness.

  If they mature and leave, or even better, commit to being a monkey wrench for a bit before leaving… I think I can find space for them in my community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir Started By Spying on a City Now Sells AI for War⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t either. But I can see how a young person without a lot of knowledge of the world and the impending weight of 50 years of work ahead of them, possibly with a family to feed, or an extended family to take care of due to the inherently predatory healthcare system where they were born, might make that choice. And I understand it, regardless of “forgiveness”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir Started By Spying on a City Now Sells AI for War⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am not sure I get what this word soup is saying. No offense intended buy maybe try re-wording this if you want to discuss.

  PS: foundry is not an AI platform, the engineers I am talking about are usually 20-ish year old java and python devs, and it is easier to understand how someone in that group might not even know how evil evilcorp is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir Started By Spying on a City Now Sells AI for War⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Devil’s Advocate (damn near literally this time around)

  Try being a young engineer at the top of your game and saying no to an offer where the yearly salary makes google engineers jealous. Not everyone can say no.

  Palantir offers like 400k/year to run-of-the-mill forward deployed engineers for foundry (Civilian platform) where the job is 99% actually helping customers with interesting engineering problems.

  I can’t even imagine what they are offering folks working on gotham(govt military) side.

  I guess what I’m trying to say is that while a ton of those engineers are soulless sociopaths, some of them just took a job that pays super well and don’t align with the goals of the C-levels. And in fact - a ton won’t even know what those goals are.

  Remember - Our enemy is the c-suite, not the level 1 support agent. Even at evilcorp. Thankfully I am in a position where my kids are grown up and the money treadmill isn’t set on hardmode for me anymore. I can say no. But even for me it is sometimes difficult.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh, now i get it! "Peanuts" is because they are nuts inside a pod-like thing, just like peas!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Get an uncooked one and eat it. It tastes like peas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Front is back.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My front door faces the back by normal standards. The side of our house facing the road has no door. Our one door opens onto the porch, and having that porch face the road instead of the forest would have been ridiculous.

  You would not believe the number of people who walk up the driveway, don’t see a door, and get absolutely flummoxed about where to go… The gravel path CLEARLY goes around to the other side of the house, but that is not hint enough. We have had people knock at our bedroom window instead of following the path to find a door.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Threatens 104% Tariffs on China as the Mad King Plays Chicken With the Global Economy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You have a hard time tying your shoes while thinking about something else, don’t you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tariffs on Canadian goods having a 'devastating effect,' U.S. farmers say⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t even need to be that different. I showed up in a western farming town at 15 years old. My hair was long for a boy, and my ‘city’ clothes got me harassed from the first day I arrived in that town. Isolated morons. The lot of them. They fear anything that is not exactly like they are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Collateral damage to advertisers? Sounds like a feature, not a bug.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sergey Brin: We need you working 60 hours a week so we can replace you as soon as possible⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I bought some land and spent the last 3 years converting it into something usable for an intentional community.

  Community I always thought the hardest part would be getting the land drilling a well sitting up solar etc. in fact, the hardest part is convincing people that you are serious about letting them come live on your land as long as they help work.

  I’ve even taken to offering one dollar 99 year leases so that people could feel like they have some agency over the piece of land they choose to live on.

  No bites yet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia is under assault: rogue users keep posting AI generated nonsense⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Instead of feces we throw ink around. Man is the statutory ape.

  -Robert anton wilson(paraphrased)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unified Linux Wine Game Launcher (UMU) gets a first official release⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My body is ready for this!