BrianTheeBiscuiteer

@BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes: SAVE tool keeps mistakenly flagging voters as noncitizens⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  This has happened all over there US already. Someone challenges your right to vote and it’s your job to prove your eligibility. Can’t show up to your appointment? No ID? No bills going to that address? Only have a PO Box address? No voting for you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll leave this here.

  …discord.com/…/212500837-How-to-Delete-your-Disco…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ring calls off partnership with police surveillance provider Flock Safety⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Any specific recommendations?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Push to repeal Section 230 raises stakes for how social media moderates content⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Another take from EFF whom I usually regard highly: eff.org/…/its-30th-birthday-section-230-remains-l…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be good if they had a way to limit range so it couldn’t focus on anything that isn’t within 10 ft of the door.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I'm not scared of a germ: I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats." - RFKjr⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Snort rabies then. 🤨

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard government uses Linux too. I guess it’s BSD for me! 🙃

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s being used at my work a lot, but I’m guessing it’s mostly used as a Google replacement or an auto-complete tool. I know very few people that will generate the majority of their code with AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One-Third of U.S. Video Game Industry Workers Were Laid Off Over the Last Two Years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For myself I will say I’ve never done so little gaming in my life. Partially it’s due to personal reasons but also a general depression in these dark times where I just don’t have the giveashits to play.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Greenlanders are mocking the USA on social media by acting like they are fentanyl addicts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Agh!!! I’m ODing but please don’t call an ambulance!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Any bad decision that’s made by an exec is usually just met with nods and grins by the workers while they do what’s actually necessary and try only half heartedly to follow their edicts. Execs usually have no idea what a pilot program is and every decision they make is pure gold so why not roll it out to everybody at once.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are there “burner sims” you can get nowadays that don’t require online activation (i.e. they can easily trace the sim back to you)?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you look at broad based EU markets vs the S&P over the last year they grew about twice the rate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Trump and other dictators are vain (uh, reviving an outdated class of naval ship and naming it after yourself sound familiar?) so they’ll prefer bombers, tanks, and rockets over some little robots with little propellers. They disdain things that look weak regardless of their usefulness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I probably got a lemon but regardless my XPS (~3 years old) is the worst computer I’ve ever owned. Touchy WiFi, battery that goes from 30 to 3℅ in a matter of seconds, randomly doesn’t detect the keyboard, randomly freezes, randomly doesn’t acknowledge it’s plugged in. Some days I just put it in timeout and use my 10yo netbook instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ISO Homelab Power Saving Methods⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For pure energy efficiency it’s hard to beat an SBC (raspi, rockpi). Mine does a good job with Jellyfin streaming so long as I avoid transcoding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Also your reputation. I had a Crucial SSD and was days from getting an identical one as a backup but then they said they were stopping consumer RAM sales so they’re now on my blacklist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Refused $400k salary to save the taxpayers money and awarding himself $1b as a pat on the back. What a guy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So Ford is going to abandon the EU market?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is definitely a thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Invasive, deceptive, and unlawful’: Texas says your TV is tracking you illegally, and is suing to stop the dreaded Automatic Content Recognition⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Or extortion. He makes a stink, they make some campaign donations, and he backs off or gives them a slap on the wrist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course it is, because nobody is willing to try and quantify or qualify the harms that seeing pornography has on a young person. It’s just “adult content” so we’ll go so far as to put VR headsets on everyone and ask them to verify their age or else they get a PG, low-polygon representation of reality!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  TUIs FTW!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure PWAs can run in the background.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Brother Is Watching Your Online Criticism of ICE Crackdowns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ICE recently lured someone out of their house by claiming to be a construction worker (dressed up I’m guessing) that hit a parked car. 😮‍💨

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Brother Is Watching Your Online Criticism of ICE Crackdowns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Clearly an emoticon/emoji of Iron Man’s chest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists Are Increasingly Worried AI Will Sway Elections⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So AI slop doesn’t get generated, just imagine the visual of the Egyptologist from The Mummy holding a GPU, saying, “What have we done?”, while covered in dickflies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometime that code will expire and you need to alternate to sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda bs=4M. Works most of the time for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After a teddy bear talked about kink, AI watchdogs are warning parents against smart toys⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  OHHHHHH, so when kids toys are talking nasty it’s the PARENTS that need to be on alert, but not so much when THE PARENTS hand their kids unrestricted and unmonitored smartphones to seek out adult material on explicitly labeled adult websites! 🖕🤬🖕

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s called prison labor.