BrianTheeBiscuiteer
@BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
- Comment on Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come 4 days ago:
I don’t know if it was overhyped or too expensive (or both) but Drobo seemed like a good consumer solution to this problem. The idea of being able to live swap drives and have it all handle redundancy, provisioning, recovery, and whatnot automatically is critical for making this a true “home appliance”.
- Comment on How Much Energy Does It Take to Power Billions of AI Queries? 1 week ago:
Energy usage may not be astronomical right now but AI is going into everything. Like EVERYTHING! It’ll be running even when you don’t think it’s running, when you think it makes no sense to be running. Usage of AI itself will skyrocket and the fastest energy sources that can be acquired are likely to come first.
- Comment on The benchmark no one asked for: MacBook vs Legion Go vs Docker 1 week ago:
Thanks for mentioning Wolf. I’m pretty happy with Sunshine but I do have those occasions where it can’t stream because my monitor is turned off (upstairs) when I’m downstairs.
- Comment on ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day 1 week ago:
If I took this argument in good faith, also consider your behaviors can be used against you and your neighbor. I’ve heard people say TikTok knew they were bisexual before the user themself knew it. Massive amounts of data on human behavior can be used to sell you the newest phone or the newest infringement of your rights.
- Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network 1 week ago:
As soon as I saw Plex show media that wasn’t part of my personal library I knew it was becoming enshitified.
- Comment on Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians 2 weeks ago:
In case it wasn’t clear, companies will gladly kill you if it pads their bottom line. Their only principle is “make more money”.
- Comment on 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds 2 weeks ago:
Ha! Watch us burn some liquid dinosaurs!
- USA
- Comment on The right to anonymity is powerful, and America is destroying it 2 weeks ago:
Clearly this admin doesn’t care about pesky things like laws. If they don’t like you they’ll pull any dirty trick they can to stop you. Only reason they haven’t gone after normal people is time and money.
- Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel. 3 weeks ago:
Same. And they basically jizz their pants when they see a practical use for AI, but 9 out of 10 times there’s already a cheaper and more reliable solution they won’t even entertain.
- Comment on Vibe coding has turned senior devs into ‘AI babysitters,’ but they say it’s worth it | TechCrunch 3 weeks ago:
If I try to get it to do more than predict the next two lines of code it’s gonna fuck something up. A nervously laughable thing I saw at work was someone using a long spec file to generate a series of other files and getting high praise for it. It was the equivalent of mustache templates but slower and with a 30% chance of spitting out garbage. There was also no way to verify if you were in that 30% zone without looking through the dozens of files it made.
- Comment on Ethical alternatives to Spotify 3 weeks ago:
I once heard that artists get more money from merch than plays or record sales (per dollar spent). If you want to support them buy a tshirt or something from their official site.
- Comment on ‘Don’t Patronize Us’: Data Center Charm Offensive Irks Opponents in Rural Georgia 3 weeks ago:
If there’s sufficient water and land you can put a data center anywhere. If you’re going to screw over the locals somehow it’s better to do it in a place that’s relatively poor with no real power to fight back against the pollution, utility increases, and noise that follow.
- Comment on Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions 3 weeks ago:
they get home and have chosen to do some distro hopping over the weekends
Gotta get that Microstank off. Respect. ✊
- Comment on Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions 3 weeks ago:
From Fedora 42? Sounds like a downgrade.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I convert my files to avoid transcoding but my Raspberry Pi 4B handles Jellyfin just fine.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 3 weeks ago:
Or you give it 3-4 requirements (e.g. prefer constants, use ternaries when possible) and after a couple replies it forgets a requirement, you set it straight, then it immediately forgets another requirement.
- Comment on Why the video of Charlie Kirk being shot was kept on social media platforms 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, no desire to see it myself. I was on the fence about reporting a still shot I saw on IG. Don’t suppress but don’t advertise.
- Comment on U.S Senators call on ICE to halt use of facial recognition as surveillance powers grow 3 weeks ago:
What stops this tech from being used against US citizens for state-sponsored terror activities? It sure as hell ain’t the law.
- Comment on French lawmakers urged a social media ban for under-15s and "digital curfew" for older minors 4 weeks ago:
Do parents not exist anymore?
- Comment on emergency remote access 4 weeks ago:
Even if it isn’t an OpenWRT router if you have a hardwired server it can probably do a soft reset of the router or even modem (most modems I’ve used have had a web interface). If your router is in such a bad state it only responds to a hard reset it’s probably reaching EoL.
- Comment on Pay-per-output? AI firms blindsided by beefed up robots.txt instructions. 4 weeks ago:
Not a bad idea but the biggest challenge will probably be determining who needs to be sued for non-compliance. Google might not be hiding the origin of its bots now but that could easily change.
- Comment on Intermediary age assurance provider collecting user data on specific URLs, more | Discovery of stealth data collection raises questions about who can ‘provide’ services 4 weeks ago:
How much research has their been done on these age verification companies and state officials income? I’d be amazed if there weren’t kick backs happening.
- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 4 weeks ago:
And if/when it eliminates all crime it will just lobby to make more things illegal.
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 4 weeks ago:
Easiest decision to delete an account I’ve ever made.
- Comment on Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps 5 weeks ago:
So weird. I don’t even remember viewing that article. Maybe it was a link just above my address bar.
- Comment on Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps 5 weeks ago:
Found an article that says this software is usually in-memory only and restarting regularly will purge it (obviously you could get reinfected): zdnet.com/…/is-meta-secretly-scanning-your-phones…
- Comment on Trump’s bill is a ‘death warrant’ say parents of sick rural kids whose treatment is tied up in Medicaid red tape 5 weeks ago:
Your sick child is weakening our nation.
- Nazis, all of them
- Comment on House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to investigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias 1 month ago:
Oh, boy, you must be new here.
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 1 month ago:
Seriously though. We’ll legislate anything to keep them from seeing stuff they might reasonably expect to see and do one day and glorify things nobody should ever see or experience in person.
- Comment on Top 50 news websites in the US in July: BBC drops five places as paywall introduced; Most report traffic declines. 1 month ago:
I’ll say it again. Stop tracking me and I’ll look at your ads. I look at physical mailers, like I literally look through them, more than I look at Internet ads.