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- Comment on OpenAI drops plans to release an adult chatbot 1 week ago:
What a childish thing.
- Comment on 😐?? 1 week ago:
It will break down into mostly carbon dioxide and water after a 20-200 years depending on how much UV light hits it (and friction). There won’t be anything for worms to eat!
- Comment on 😐?? 1 week ago:
It was a joke! Dry humor.
- Comment on Me emitting 20KG of CO2 by using Google search to spellcheck individual words 1 week ago:
The core of the earth is very warm already though.
- Comment on 😐?? 1 week ago:
The second question is silly: “what makes a towel dirt?” Worms, of course!
For the towel to become dirt, you need a nice composting environment and 2+ years. It’ll go best if you turn it from time to time.
The final step is for the worms to eat the leftovers. Then the towel has officially become dirt that’s indistinguishable from the other dirt that surrounds it 👍
- Comment on where? 2 weeks ago:
Beware horse girls! It’s a trap!
- Comment on What??? Nativity scene with a crucifix in the background? 2 weeks ago:
Have to hang em out to dry after surgery.
- Comment on Why is Windows still bloated 2 weeks ago:
MacOS wasn’t rewritten, it was ported. It’s now bigger than before.
Whoah there! Mac OS was entirely rewritten from scratch (based upon some combination of FreeBSD and NextSTEP) when Steve Jobs rejoined Apple. Or are we pretending the eternal shame of Mac OS 7 never happened?
- Comment on What??? Nativity scene with a crucifix in the background? 2 weeks ago:
To be fair, lots of people were crucified at the time. Many with the same name as Jesus and many for the same crimes!
In this case, though… It was merely the pubic execution of a leprechaun.
- Comment on Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer — DIY MANPADS includes Wi-Fi guidance, ballistics calculations, optional camera for tracking 2 weeks ago:
It’s that even necessary? Anyone with a CAD tool can recreate the 3D printed parts from a glance and a few specs.
It’s literally a tube. Which—to be fair—is a “weapon of mass destruction” according to President Bush (the other war criminal president).
- Comment on Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer — DIY MANPADS includes Wi-Fi guidance, ballistics calculations, optional camera for tracking 2 weeks ago:
You don’t need explosives. It has a spot in the front for a camera. One of the new microcontrollers with AI accelerators can do face recognition extremely quickly. It would be possible to use it as an assassination tool.
Even if you changed nothing about the design, the speed and mass of the thing hitting a person in the face could kill.
- Comment on Turned attic space into a small office/playroom 2 weeks ago:
You were supposed to say, “I already did!” 😁
- Comment on Turned attic space into a small office/playroom 2 weeks ago:
I hope you have fun playing in there!
- Comment on So stylish you could wear it all day 3 weeks ago:
Why would I want my hat to grow hair?
- Comment on NHS and MoD will be urged to buy British tech to drive growth amid Iran crisis 3 weeks ago:
YEAH!!! Run the entire British government on Raspberry Pis!
Perfect announcement for Pi day 👍
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
There will be an explosion of AI services like ChatGPT that do exactly the same thing but much cheaper. They’ll run FOSS AI models that didn’t cost them billions of dollars to train and run on purpose-built hardware (i.e. not GPUs). “Big AI” will pivot to government contracts.
As that fifth year comes around, companies will be announcing products that have these purpose-built chips inside them that can do a whole heck of a lot of stuff without requiring a constant connection to the Internet. Think: Toys, appliances, and very fancy cars.
Every single piece of software will have been rewritten by AI so many times with so many clones it’ll be hard to distinguish good stuff from bad. The situation will become so problematic that every app store/repo will insist upon some kind of supply chain certification and possibly 3rd party verification.
AI tools that search the Internet on behalf of the user will crush ad-based businesses like Google and Meta. The AI will automatically filter out the ads and other cruft from search results and return just the search results the user wanted in the first place. This will result in free search engines becoming even worse and paid search will become a necessity. It’ll probably get incorporated into plans like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, etc bundled plans where you pay for a certain amount of photo storage/whatever and get premium search as last of the bundle.
- Comment on New study reveals differences between 'Demon Slayer' bamboo muzzle and actual bamboo 4 weeks ago:
👹🎍
- Comment on New study reveals differences between 'Demon Slayer' bamboo muzzle and actual bamboo 4 weeks ago:
In short: The anime left a scientist bamboozled.
- Comment on Finally tried this minecraft thing. Hows my build? 4 weeks ago:
The most fowl of homes.
- Comment on Burger King will use AI to monitor employee 'friendliness' 5 weeks ago:
Talk about sending the wrong message! Some of us appreciate depressed, angsty teens behind the counter because it reminds us of our youth!
- Comment on You know you wanna 5 weeks ago:
I know someone who tried this. Their ghost still haunts the simulation.
- Comment on The largest leaves of my 9 year old pothos 5 weeks ago:
This is my biggest
Huge golden pothos leaf, larger than adult human male hand with big hands
- Comment on Privacy researcher debunks Microsoft Edge’s free VPN marketing, says it's "NOT a VPN" 1 month ago:
Within the browser, it’ll work to “protect” your traffic (including DNS) from prying eyes locally. As in, someone on the same network as you or your ISP or whatever networks your traffic passes through to its destination.
Instead, it sends it all to Microsoft Central Data Collection™! By passing all your traffic through Microsoft’s central servers, you can rest easy, knowing precisely who is inspecting everything you do (including the US government and the other countries in the Five Eyes network).
Let’s be honest: It’s yet another unfair transfer of power from local criminals to international ones, increasing the wealth of billionaire pedophiles. Give the locals a chance to rise up, would ya?
- Comment on Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web site 1 month ago:
When my kids were young, but old enough that they may inadvertently stumble upon porn, I told them the truth. The truth that so few explain to their children. The truth that many adults don’t understand and many more completely forget.
Porn is fake.
It’s not real. The sounds? Acting. The breasts? Those are fake too. The perfect skin? Makeup (or airbrush).
Even “amateur” porn is fake! As soon as someone agrees to be filmed having sex it ceases to be real.
Also, let me get this straight: Your greatest fear from children being exposed to porn is they might begin to accept mysogyny‽ As in, you think porn is the most likely place kids will be exposed to it and somehow just nod their heads‽ “Oh wow, that’s totally sexist! But they’re having sex so it must be OK. I’ll try to be like that!” (Child nods head).
Or perhaps you think kids will be viewing so much porn—specifically, the mysogynistic kind—that it will somehow carve mysogyny into their minds?
This is so much like the beliefs of conservatives that try to ban books that mention LGBTQ people. Stop and think for a moment: How much porn did you view as a kid? How did that impact your life?
I seriously doubt it changed much. Unless, of course, you were reading Playboy for the articles.
- Comment on Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web site 1 month ago:
Just think: Without legislation like this, kids will be able to see people having sex! Thus, ending their lives. Not so different from staring into the eyes of Medusa!
The amount of children exposed to sex that have died—or suffered worse consequences like early onset conservatism—may have been zero so far but the dangers are clear! We must skip right over parental involvement in child rearing and go straight to the source of the problem: Computers.
Computers have been giving everyone access to too much information for too long! We must restrict it! The first step is to get an implementation that actually works to censor information—to save the children (wink wink)—then later, we will have the tools necessary to censor whatever we want!
When glorious dictator decides that information about trans-genic mice must be erased from the Internet, we shall have the power to do so!
- Comment on It’s Not Just Andrew, the Entire Monarchy Is Rotten 1 month ago:
Monarchies are rotten. The entire concept!
- Comment on Having a bad day? This will make you smile 1 month ago:
With this upgrade, he can now log in to work!
- Comment on At least one of the 7 letters has still some relevante to my life. 1 month ago:
The problem is it’s an arms race! Stop treating LLMs like their existence is the problem and start viewing it via the lens of war:
The enemy has lots of badly-behaving LLMs! Marketers, scammers, and lazy management are equipped with Big AI brand LLMzookas that are sending hallucinations our way!
Captain: “So what do we do about it?”
Soldier: “Captain, there’s FOSS LLMs that we can deploy! We can use them to defeat the enemy’s bullshit slingers! They can be used to search the web on our behalf to filter out hallucinations and advertisements disguised as content! We can set them up to monitor enemy deployments and analyze intelligence to find the truth and stop propaganda in its tracks!”
Captain: “…but can FOSS AI generate boobs‽”
Soldier: “Sir, FOSS has already surpassed commercial AI in that front of the war.”
Captain: “We need to deploy FOSS AI ASAP!”
- Comment on When using rsync to backup my /home folder to an external 1TB SSD, I run out of space, how?? 1 month ago:
Simple: Exfat does not support symbolic links. So every file that’s just a symbolic link on your btrfs filesystem is getting copied in full (the link is being resolved) to your Exfat drive.
Solution don’t use Exfat. For backups from btrfs, I recommend using btrfs with compression enabled.
Also don’t forget to rebalance your btrfs partitions regularly to reclaim lost space! Also, delete old snapshots!
- Comment on Sony-led program offers PS5 rentals starting at $13.50 a month in the UK across 12, 24, or 36-month leases — console has to be returned at the end of the contract 1 month ago:
Folks here jest, but this business model is coming to PCs next. Bookmark my words!
(Literally, you can right-click the perma-link to this message and have quick access to it later so you can reply, “Damn, you were right!” And post the link to big PC vendors suddenly offering a similar services because DRAM and GPUs have become so expensive, normal people can’t afford to buy PCs anymore)
