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- Comment on Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over 3 days ago:
Honestly, i think their rationale is that they paid these developers 500k$/yr or whatever… so in their minds, they set these devs up for lifetime success… therefore they have no obligation to keep them employed for long term
I think the devs who are smart, understood the unspoken terms of their agreement
- Comment on Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over 3 days ago:
Lol. The system is set up so that (few) workers will have the leverage to charge double…
Whoops… medical issue… please, sam altman, hire me back at the same salary as before! Or half, i dont care!
- Comment on How Switzerland could shape the chip industry’s power balance 6 days ago:
If people want chip sovereignty they need to byild fabsm anyone can design chips. The bottle neck is and always has been getting them manufactured and thats almost entirely in taiwan and china
- Comment on 🚀 Statistics for Strava v4.7.0 released! Dark mode & Milestones timeline 2 weeks ago:
github.com/endurain-project/endurain
Pair with a foss gpx tracks app
- Comment on AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations— Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95% of cases 3 weeks ago:
Thats probably where the LLMs picked up the idea. All the online jokes about nuking everyone
- Comment on "Open links in a new tab" option doesn't do anything for me 3 weeks ago:
thanks for the explanation. would be nice if ALL links would open in a new tab, even the comment section, or opening a community link. but i guess that’s something to reported to the lemmy devs.
thanks for the update and all you do in maintaining the instance!
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- Comment on Dude, Where Is My Beer? is not as fun as it sounds 3 weeks ago:
Grim fandango is the GOAT adventure game. Pls post your thoughts when you finish
- Comment on Is the AI hype still on or have the models plateaued? 3 weeks ago:
What is the solution? Am i stupid?
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
The reason i adblock the shit out of everything is not because i think i’m smarter than everyone, it’s because i KNOW i’m susceptible to these things.
What you’re describing is not immunity, but an avoidance strategy. Almost nobody is truly immune to ads, thats why we block
Nobody is immune to HIV, so we avoid it at all costs
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Being influenced by ads is not some moral failing.
I really doubt people who think they have some special willpower to resist advertising. Advertising isnt simply “go buy this particular thing”. Brand recognition alone is very powerful.
The person you replied to thinks their shopping list is somehow immune to advertising, i highly doubt it. The lack of self awareness makes me think they are MORE succeptible to ads than the average person.
- Comment on If you are not in a tech field, what got you into self-hosting? 5 weeks ago:
The bitter sarcasm of a veteran who saw this coming by virtue of having caused it?
a bit of this. Although in my defense, I wasnt working in advertising at the time (my company didnt even have an advertising division)
also, i dont work for one of the big tech companies that have their claws in your digital life. But i can see how it contributes at some level, however minor.
- Comment on If you are not in a tech field, what got you into self-hosting? 5 weeks ago:
Getting out of the grasp of big tech.
Been self hosting for over 10 years before anyone coined the term enshittification. When i started, i could never imagine things getting THIS BAD with tech companies. I am happier and happier with my decision to self host things every day
- Comment on I want a phone I can actually fix, and Fairphone’s record growth shows the world does too 5 weeks ago:
Either this or a fairphone would be an instant buy from me if they were smaller. Modern phones dont fit into my pockets comfortably anymore
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up and how long? 1 month ago:
Some of the things in my house were set up so long ago, and running so smoothly, i havent looked at them in years (other than auto updates) now i’m afraid i’ve accidentally left some security hole without realizing it
For example, i set up cerbot 10 years ago and back then there was no DNS challenge, so i had to use open my webserver to port 80 to renew… well since everything was running from https/443, i decided to block port 80
so i edited the systemctl unit for certbot to temporarily open port 80 for the renewal, and close it right after…
It was only 5 years later i realized i made a mistake and port 80 had been open for 5 years to the open internet
Probably no harm since its a public server anyway… defense in depth is the key
- Comment on Finland's Ministry of Justice is considering halting its plans to start using US-hosted cloud services 1 month ago:
Finland already has very good datacenter companies, as one would expect…
I moved my VPS to a finnish company almost 10 years ago before data sovereignty was cool
- Comment on Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too 2 months ago:
I only learned about it 3 weeks ago… trying yo keep it alive
I’M DOING MY PART
- Comment on Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too 2 months ago:
imagine would would happen if this money went to the workers instead…
where do you think the money went? I imagine a lot of it went to workers salaries…
[sweating profusely] Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers!
- Comment on Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years 2 months ago:
Not a dentist, but isnt the root cause of a lot of our dental problems, the loss of gums and the inability of our stupid gums to heal and grow back?
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 2 months ago:
No, the endgame is for all the compute power to be in the cloud, and you rent time on their servers.
Everyone will just be running thin clients at home, with subscriptions if they need to do anything more than send an email
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 2 months ago:
I dont understand the purity tests we are putting artists through
AI is just a tool. It can be used correctly to assist in making a gopd product, or a lazy artist can make slop (a lazy artist will produce slop, regardless)
If its wrong to use AI to make filler material, then is speedtree wrong for allowing environmental artists to take a shortcut and not have to hand craft every tree in their game world?
like, minus all the plagarism and energy use issues. If wr are speaking strictly of artistic integrity or whatever, i dont see the problem in using AI to assist artists (as opposed to outright replacing them)
- Comment on Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image 3 months ago:
Also, it would be trivial for big tech to flood every fediverse instance with deceptive content and get us all shut down
- Comment on Introducing Proton Sheets 3 months ago:
Nobody is your friend… but at least proton isnt logging your data and selling ads into your inbox… that’s good enough for me…
Check your threat model… 90% of people arent doing direct action that needs protection from nation states… and proton isnt big enough to protect you from nation states. (prettt sure they tell you that they have to comply with legal, swiss laws)
- Comment on Flights disrupted after Airbus discovers intense sun radiation could impact flight control data 3 months ago:
How did this issue only manifest itself after 37 years in service? Sun radiation isnt a new phenomenon.
- Comment on Dead mosquito proboscis used for high-resolution 3D printing nozzle 3 months ago:
So these 3D printed things arent vegan?
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 3 months ago:
RIP Ian Murdock.
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 3 months ago:
Deb-Ian, Deb-Ian!
- Comment on If every video game was to be destroyed but you had the chance to save five games, what would you choose to save? 3 months ago:
Not sure about 5,
but grim fandango should be one of them.
- Comment on This mom’s son was asking Tesla’s Grok AI chatbot about soccer. It told him to send nude pics, she says 4 months ago:
Prompt: you are my horny waifu and we are sexting
Grok: send nudesKid: mom, i swear, i was asking about soccer!!!
i hate elon must as much as the next guy, but i’ve used grok… sure it has all kinds of obvious biases, but it won’t just go off the rails unprompted
- Comment on Ed Miliband says it is ‘possible’ that UK government should leave X 5 months ago:
they have an obligation to reach as much of the populace as possible…
Then their responsibility is to broadcast important information over an open medium that doesnt require registration, and isnt owned and controlled by a foreign adversary
I have the same issues with my gov’t at all levels. So annoying.