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- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 36 minutes ago:
In other words, it’s a dark pattern that tricks users into letting Plex MITM their connection.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 36 minutes ago:
Every non-Free Software will betray you eventually. It’s only a matter of time.
- Comment on I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount 1 hour ago:
Daily reminder, Jimmy Carter willingly sold his peanut farm because his morality told him of his own viewpoints that it may be seen as unfair for a President to own business interests while serving the most important role of government. Which in his mind may come off as corrupt.
Well, that and he was complying with the Emoluments Clause. You know, that thing that should’ve seen Trump impeached on Inauguration Day – 2017, not 2025!
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 1 hour ago:
The obvious conclusion is that Windows 10 is not fit for purpose in your business environment and the person in charge of IT procurement dun goofed picking it in the first place.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
I learned the other day that apparently, if you’re banned from a community Lemmy automatically unsubscribes you from it, and if you’re the only user in your instance that had been subscribed to it then it stops federating. Maybe that’s what happened?
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Y’all should do daily Critical Mass rides across the bridge until the mayor gets the point.
- Comment on YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads 1 day ago:
That’s probably a bad idea, as it makes it more likely YouTube will detect the ad-blocking. Better to add your own custom rules to UBO instead.
- Comment on YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto 2 days ago:
“Not as well as uBlock Origin” is the answer to that.
I got warnings to disable my ad blocker on my Chromebook recently, but did not get the same on my Linux desktop using Firefox.
I really ought to get away from the default software on the Chromebook (Firefox via Crouton or Android or something), but it didn’t work well last time I tried.
- Comment on NO KINGS! Tomorrow on Trump's birthday, we protest across the entire nation. Check the website for No Kings events near you! 2 days ago:
I was gonna write “not sure what this has to do with technology, but fuck it, I’m upvoting anyway.”
Maybe you should edit it to be a reminder not to take phones to the protest (or if you must, make it a burner phone and put it in a faraday cage).
- Comment on Instead of asking all my stupid questions separately, could I just get a ton of "How to Adult" type resources in the comments? 4 days ago:
*Utilities might not be good to have on autopay just in case you have weird discrepancies. one month I had to pay $1000 for electric. I called before I paid that lol.
Set it up to send e-bills to your bank and automatically push payments, as opposed to giving each creditor your account info and letting them pull payment. With your bank e-bills portal, you should be able to set it up so that it pays whatever the variable bill is up to some limit, and warns you if the bill is unexpectedly large.
- Comment on Instead of asking all my stupid questions separately, could I just get a ton of "How to Adult" type resources in the comments? 4 days ago:
If you’ve got a resource for decent in-depth written how-to guides that isn’t buried under a mile-high haystack of SEO-optimized garbage, fuckin’ post the URL for it!
I learn shit in video format because decent info is a lot easier to find.
- Comment on Interesting news 4 days ago:
Yeah, I’m not sure what happened there. I’ll have to check to make sure it didn’t actually re-ban him tomorrow.
- Comment on Interesting news 4 days ago:
- Comment on Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news 4 days ago:
Which youtuber is that?
- Comment on Commodore shocks retro TechTuber with option to buy 'the whole company' 5 days ago:
I guess I wasn’t paying enough attention. TIL!
- Comment on Has Slavic engineering gone too far? 5 days ago:
Vodka, maximally diluted.
- Comment on Did YouTube just disable video playback for people using adblockers or is it just me? 5 days ago:
Most people just don’t use ff
How do you know? Statistics reported by websites… which are recording user agent strings?
- Comment on How often do you take him for a walk? 6 days ago:
Half the fucking thread is talking about using them because of worries about a kid running out into traffic.
Quit pretending that a statement has to apply 100% of the time in every possible circumstance in order to be generally true.
- Comment on How often do you take him for a walk? 6 days ago:
People are alluding to it, but not attributing the blame correctly: the “need” to leash kids is yet another negative consequence of car-dependent urban design.
- Comment on Remember 6 days ago:
Imagine being so ignorant you’ve never heard of “white flight.”
- Comment on Did YouTube just disable video playback for people using adblockers or is it just me? 6 days ago:
Sometimes I wonder if Firefox actually has low market share, of if this sort of shit just skews the statistics.
I, for one, refuse to spoof my browser because I want them to know Chrome is not as dominant as they think.
- Comment on Happy Fuckin' Pride 1 week ago:
Meanwhile a pansexual could have attraction to the exact same people but wouldn’t ascribe it to gender, just individuals
Thanks, that’s the first explanation of the difference that’s actually managed to reduce my confusion.
- Comment on Commodore shocks retro TechTuber with option to buy 'the whole company' 1 week ago:
I’ve never heard of Peri until this thread so I have no opinion of his motivations, but I do watch The 8-Bit Guy and I never got the impression that he was in it for the money. What makes you think that?
- Comment on Computer says no: Impact of automated decision-making on human life; Algorithms are deciding whether a patient receives an organ transplant or not; Algorithms use in Welfare, Penalise the poor. 1 week ago:
There is an implicit assumption here that models are being ‘trained’, perhaps because LLMs are a hot topic. By models we are usually talking about things like decision trees or regression models or Markov models that put in risk probabilities of various eventualities based on patient characteristics.
[Citation needed]
If these things were being based on traditional AI techniques instead of neural network techniques, why are they getting implemented now (when, as you say, LLMs are the hot topic) instead of a decade or so ago when that other stuff was in vogue?
I think the assumption that they’re using training data is a very good one in the absence of evidence to the contrary.
- Comment on Computer says no: Impact of automated decision-making on human life; Algorithms are deciding whether a patient receives an organ transplant or not; Algorithms use in Welfare, Penalise the poor. 1 week ago:
I’d like to know what specific steps are being taken to remove the bias from the training data, then. You cannot just feed the model a big spreadsheet of human decisions up to this point because the current system is itself biased; all you’ll get if you do that is a tool that’s more consistent in applying the same systemic skew.
- Comment on Commodore shocks retro TechTuber with option to buy 'the whole company' 1 week ago:
Is he more qualified than The 8-Bit Guy?
- Comment on The Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation. 1 week ago:
Somebody should mirror that video somewhere that isn’t a nazi platform.
- Comment on Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese? 1 week ago:
Cities in pretty much the entire country are running with an understaffed police force.
Counterpoint: Americans are already overpoliced and the “understaffing” is only relative to the authoritarians’ desire to make us even more so.
- Comment on Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese? 1 week ago:
All labor unions are good. Police unions are not.
This is because police unions are not labor unions, since police are not labor but rather the enforcers for the owner class.