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@Monument@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on iPad Pro with M4 chip boasts impressive performance jump compared to just-released M3 MacBook Air 6 days ago:
What are you, some kind of financial advisor!?
…. because if you are, are you taking new clients? My shit is whack. - Comment on iPad Pro with M4 chip boasts impressive performance jump compared to just-released M3 MacBook Air 1 week ago:
I’m so annoyed they announced this.
I have a slew of raspberry pi’s kicking around, doing various things. I also have a name brand NAS that reportedly lets you run other software, including containerized apps, but their implementation is whack and doesn’t work super well.
I want to get a more powerful machine for use as a replacement server. I’d like to spin up my own LLM tools, use it to with software like photoprism to auto tag my pictures, or even spin up Frigate on it.My leading contender had been either a Jetson Orin nano or a system with the core ultra 155h chip. But now I might have to wait until they announce/release M4 Mac minis - which is really annoying because I want instant gratification for my half-baked ideas.
- Comment on Reddit locks down its public data in new content policy, says use now requires a contract 1 week ago:
I used a tool to mangle my comments last June, manually verifying that every single comment in my decade+ account history was changed.
About a month ago I looked at my profile, and several comments — including ones on the first page of my profile (that I definitely know would have been edited, that close to the top) — were reverted to their unedited state.I wonder if an edit then delete would do it - multiple steps.
- Comment on ‘Huge’ proportion of mental health conditions in Australia found to be caused by childhood maltreatment 1 week ago:
It’s a good thing I’m an American!
The neglect, parental addictions, childhood sexual abuse, income insecurity, and unwillingness to test for, let alone treat mental health issues only made me more of a rugged individual!
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Unsafe for the forest, not unsafe for the trees.
Which is to say - not unsafe for individual users or from an operations perspective, but unsafe in a platform survival way.
Major companies start working with open source projects until they’ve added a significant amount to them, then they start rolling out proprietary parts that work with their additions, then they move away from the open source project, leaving the original project incompatible with a bulk of its users and platform. The project finds itself both quite big and lacking support, with adopters moving to the closed-source implementation(s). This is often called Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish, and it’s been used to harm Open Office formats, messaging platforms, and is currently being used by Google with Chrome to strip away user privacy and redo how the internet works, for the sake of their advertising empire.
Facebook and BlueSky activity pub integration efforts should not and can not be seen as an altruistic gesture. - Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Depends on your view.
On the road you’d use red to indicate that it’s blocked.
But on an issue tracker where blocked is the desired, or in the road scenario – safe, outcome, green would be resolved/safe, and red would be unresolved/unsafe.
- Comment on ONS staff refuse to work two days a week in office 3 weeks ago:
My team resolved this by using the plethora of collaboration tools at our disposal.
We have a chat that goes all day, every day. At times, we have breakout chats for specific work projects.
We have a tool that lets us collaboratively project manage, centralize our files, and document organizational knowledge.I would move hundreds of miles away if I didn’t have to come into the office once a month to make an out of touch leadership feel better.
- Comment on ‘They Are Just Pissed Off’: Scott Galloway Warns Young People Are ‘Opting Out of America’ As Older Generations Failed Them 3 weeks ago:
I read a comment yesterday where someone said “You remember how after we had all those occupy wall-street protests, and the media started heavily focusing on race issues?”
Every so often, someone comes along and reminds me to stop looking at trees and take in the whole forest, and I’m like “Ah, fuck.”
- Comment on Musk moves Tesla's goalposts, investors happily move shares higher 3 weeks ago:
You know, I legitimately thought the Vegas thing was his scaled down version of hyperloop.
All the poorly conceived, improperly executed, and quickly abandoned projects just kind of blend together.
- Comment on Musk moves Tesla's goalposts, investors happily move shares higher 3 weeks ago:
Nah, the Vegas thing was to stall mass transit.
Musk admitted to his biographer Ashlee Vance that Hyperloop was all about trying to get legislators to cancel plans for high-speed rail in California—even though he had no plans to build it.
Did Musk Propose Hyperloop to Stop California High-Speed Rail?
- Comment on Dozens arrested at Yale and NYU as pro-Palestinian student protests spread 3 weeks ago:
That part annoys me so much.
At their core, these are anti-genocide protests. Sure, they’re wrapped up in other stuff - a lot of other stuff, but genocide is the core reason.
Characterizing these as either pro-Palestine or anti-Israel (or even anti-Jewish - ugh) is either willfully missing the point of the protest, or just accepts that not only is a genocide occurring but posits that a challenge to genocide is a challenge to Israel.
- Comment on Does anyone speak hairdresser? I need help communicating. 5 weeks ago:
They’re just cautious. If they mess it up, it could be months before your hair looks right again. I also ease into things when I think the person making the request doesn’t understand what they’re asking. Mind you, my clients are hiring me for graphic design, where my time is billable by the hour, and anything I do can be undone. I can afford to do exactly what they ask. (You know, unless they think I’m ducking with them to pad my time and use another GD. Then I guess I can’t afford it.)
Have them keep revising the trim until you’re happy, then ask them to take pictures on your phone of the views they as a hairstylist need to see. Show the pictures next time, so they know you know what you’re asking for.
- Comment on sun time 1 month ago:
Unless you’re Shawn Willsey, then every visit is like the first time. That man loves rocks.
- Comment on The real personality test 1 month ago:
That is both hilarious and insanely annoying.
How about they keep it professional by having useful fucking help tools, and software that isn’t intentionally designed to be useless so it can extract ever-increasing amounts of personal information?
I digress, but you aren’t alone.
My employer - 50k MS licenses. We used to have a monthly get-together with a Microsoft customer experience person. About 200 of the mid-high level IT folks would chat, air their grievances, be given guidance, and occasionally have those issues referred on to other teams within MS as bug fixes, feature requests, etc.Shortly after MS had that big layoff in early 2023 that took all of their training staff with them, they reassigned all their customer experience staff to other roles, and left our org with no ability to work with them on issues, other than the ‘feedback’ button on the apps.
In 2023, there were several instances where Microsoft sent emails to everyone in our org announcing features, or even just deploying things (like a ‘feature’ that exfiltrates company data to Microsoft’s AI service) without our IT execs knowing beforehand.Whatever they are doing, it is clearly not being customer-centric right now.
- Comment on The real personality test 1 month ago:
It sort of depends on the impact and stupidity of the problem.
If it’s a first time call, and I don’t really know if the problem is me or the company, the voice gets “I need a human” followed by “representative” if it pushes back. If it pushes back a second time, I start scatting and speaking gibberish into the phone, with random pauses built in, so the phone system has no hope of understanding anything I say.
If it’s a multiple call, dumb issue that’s clearly their fault, I immediately begin insulting the automated voice and demand to talk to a human. “I bet you’re running on a Pentium 2, you dumb fuck. Get me a human. You’re not qualified to open doors, let alone answer calls. I want a representative. You can be hacked with a cereal box whistle, you inadequate and poorly executed excuse for taking jobs away from people with families! Speaking of, get me a human, you scab!”
Usually I’m speaking with a raised voice, throwing ever more deranged statements at the bot. I don’t know if it helps, but I enjoy it. - Comment on Ringleader of global monkey torture network, 'The Torture King', is charged 1 month ago:
Same. Until reading comments, I really thought the group was referring to themselves as digital monkeys, and they bullied people online to the point of it being torture.
After reading comments. Well - I’ll still open the article, but I’ll only skim it. - Comment on Elon Lost The Spam Wars To ‘Pussy In Bio’ Spam 1 month ago:
If Paul Bunyan can’t overcome spam, I don’t think Musk can either.
- Comment on Judge rules YouTube, Facebook and Reddit must face lawsuits claiming they helped radicalize a mass shooter | CNN Business 1 month ago:
Nah. I picked that up about 20 years ago, but the comic is a great one.
I haven’t read The Oatmeal in a while. I guess I know what I’ll be doing later tonight! - Comment on Judge rules YouTube, Facebook and Reddit must face lawsuits claiming they helped radicalize a mass shooter | CNN Business 1 month ago:
Oh, yeah, absolutely. Another commenter on this post suggested my belief on it was from an Oatmeal comic. That prompted me to search it out, and seeing it spelled out again sort of opened up the memory for me.
The class was a sociology class about 20 years ago, and the professor was talking about cognitive dissonance as it relates to folks choosing whether or not they wanted to adopt the beliefs of another group. I don’t think he got into how to actually challenge beliefs in a constructive way, since he was discussing how seemingly small rifts can turn into big disagreements between social groups, but subsequent life experience and a lot of good articles about folks working with radicals to reform their beliefs confirm exactly what you commented.
- Comment on Judge rules YouTube, Facebook and Reddit must face lawsuits claiming they helped radicalize a mass shooter | CNN Business 1 month ago:
I’ve long held this hunch that when people’s beliefs are challenged, they tend to ‘dig in’ and wind up more resolute. (I think it’s actual science and I learned that in a sociology class many years ago but it’s been so long I can’t say with confidence if that’s the case.)
Assuming my hunch is right (or at least right enough), I think that side of social media - driving up engagement by increasing discord also winds up radicalizing people as a side effect of chasing profits.
It’s one of the things I appreciate about Lemmy. Not everyone here seems to just be looking for a fight all the time.
- Comment on Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent 1 month ago:
Interesting.
I signed up for GD with a semi-throwaway email account - not an actual throwaway, but it’s not tied to my real identity, not used for anything but spammy sites where I didn’t want to give them my info. Every site got a made up name.
Wonder what name they’ll slap on the account when they try to farm “my” data from a broker. - Comment on remember, if your gf isn't open source and running locally, you don't own her 2 months ago:
A hairy network issue!
The switch (that I’m returning today, after it failed completely yesterday evening) is a bit fancier than your average switch. It kept reverting to default settings, including its default IP address - which meant it was not using the same set of networking instructions as my router, preventing everything it was connected to from accessing the internet.
- Comment on remember, if your gf isn't open source and running locally, you don't own her 2 months ago:
I had a switch wig out today and whatever it was doing poisoned all the dhcp leases on the network as they came up for renewal (assigned IPs on the wrong subnet - even though it wasn’t supposed to assign IPs at all). It took me a very long time to figure out, because not everything failed at once. Plus, even after I’d swapped the switch, some devices just started working, and others needed their leases reset manually. An hour in, my wife was in the fetal position clutching a squishmallow.
- Comment on Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought 3 months ago:
Oh, yeah. More power to him. A later post by him said that the app he’s developing for it has already paid for the cost of the headset. I fully believe he’s just out there working.
I’m hoping in a few generations, when they’ve got the form factor worked out, and the price under control, that it’ll be more to my liking.
I don’t think I would ever want to interact with someone while wearing it, but it could be great for all the things VR is great for, but without the creepy Facebook privacy invasion. (I know - Apple is slipping down that slope, too. They’re just not as far down it yet.) - Comment on Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought 3 months ago:
The creator of the Apollo app recently tooted about wearing his out in public, getting noticed, and then secreting away to his hotel because the attention made him uncomfortable.
I’m probably more of an Apple fan than I like, but I can’t imagine owning one of these, let alone wearing it out in public.
It seems like Apple kind of forgot that good tech should first be good tech. They’re leaning heavy on this being a lifestyle item, but like - there’s no lifestyle out that hinges on looking like boring versions of the guy from ready player one. - Comment on DragonFire: UK fires high-power laser at aerial targets for first time - with 'intense beam of light' able to cut through drones 3 months ago:
Off the cuff idea, but thermally ablative coatings that dissolve into light blocking smoke might buy drone operators time to evade - assuming their rotors don’t thin out the smoke screen too much.
- Comment on "How Google perfected the web" or how google made everything worst 3 months ago:
I blame Google.
- Comment on Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice 3 months ago:
I’m sure it exists outside the sphere of my knowledge, but this saga made me wonder if there’s some sort of Git/Bay-type site for software developed in the public interest, but is otherwise belligerent to corporate pressure.
- Comment on Tech Employee Who Went Viral for Filming Her Firing Has No Regrets 3 months ago:
They’ll learn to meet people in person so they can’t record them, and coach their HR reps to be more dismissive faster.
- Comment on Beeper users say Apple is now blocking their Macs from using iMessage entirely 3 months ago:
Nah, that was Reddit. We’re humans here, not caricatures.