L7HM77

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on Nascar · c/oglaf · 5 pts · 13h

Bar near me had a drink called the cumshot? Think it was a mayonnaise and vodka shot? Dunno either, maybe I need to drink more alcohol to get it.

Any issues with the M.2 to SATA adapter? I've heard rumors to stay away from them, as the SATA controllers tend to overheat. Just wondering how the M.2 card behaves under load while trapped beneath the laptop.

on bearing grifts · c/fuck_ai · 6 pts · 3d

Even if it was right 99% of the time, it still wouldn't be worth replacing human labor, because labor is used as a meatshield for upper management. They've put a lot of effort into being untouchable, and they won't want to take the hit personally when something goes wrong. You can't fire the 'employee' when it fucks up, when it's the only one you have.

I have a cheap shitty desk lamp. It would cost zero cents of effort to lean over and switch it on when I sit down at my desk, so I bought a dozen smart plugs, and fought through setting up HomeAssistant.

Now I have a digital Rube Goldberg machine that lights my desk for me. HomeAssistant reads the wattage of my PC through one smart plug, I wake the PC from sleep, HA switches on another smart plug for the desk light.

I think this is the most effort I've ever put into being lazy.

on I’m tired boss · c/memes · 11 pts · 7d

A decade ago, I assumed things would probably get worse, but goddamn I didn't think it would happen this fast.

Back when I dabbled in writing software, I made a fun project making dots orbit other dots. It was meant to be a very rough simulation of the path the moon takes as it orbits the earth, while the earth orbits the sun. I wanted to take it one step further, and built it to be more modular, where you could input how many "earth's" orbited the "sun", how many "moons" orbited the "earth's", and a speed decay or increase between each step. Ended up with the "sun" being an origin point, the number of dots around the origin I labelled "child objects," and the nested object depth as "generations" (what if the moon had a smaller moon that had a smaller moon).

Found out my CPU could update around 130,000 floating math points at 60fps (around 65,000 X and Y coords total, plus rendering overhead). Also found out that using specific configs, I could get it to form fractals like the Sierpiński triangle, the star of david, geometric flower shapes, lots of interesting stuff. It was very fun to play around with after finishing it.

All written with HTML, CSS, and JS, able to run in any browser. Unfortunately, I lost the project somewhere between distrohopping around a decade ago, and that was the last time I really programmed anything. All those skills have atrophied, and I don't have the drive to get back into it.

The AFL CIO is fully onboard with this. I joined a union for this specific reason, but my local is full of right-wingers, and I'm not good at picking out "safe" people to talk to. The president of the AFL CIO put a speech in the monthly journal about a year ago, saying we're fully ready to support this administration because of the construction jobs that the prisons and data centers will bring.

Unionism is the only way out of this that I can see, but I don't have a way to give support for change from the inside.

It wouldn't cost them money, they would just make slightly less money per year. Which is just me being pedantic, but it matters in these contexts.

Like, Bezos could have been the most loved billionaire on the entire earth, just through treating his workers slighty better and some minor philanthropy on the side, but no, he had to squeeze every fuckin penny out of everything.

I understand the spirit of what he means, but I still don't know how an LLM can be used efficiently as a precise tool like this. If I can describe a problem narrowly enough to guide an LLM to give a useful output, I've already solved it myself and may as well just type it out.

on Doesn't add up · c/workreform · 8 pts · 31d

It's almost like capital aggregates over time, slowly absorbing or driving out competition, and eventually crystallizing into a single monopolized sector.

If only we had, like, tomes of philosophy predicting this over the last century, and maybe just a smidge of foresight, we could have stopped it before it became a problem. I propose that once a company monopolizes like this and makes itself a threat to the general public, we just absorb it into another branch of government services. This has happened before, usually under wartime laws, but rules and precedent don't seem to matter nowadays...

The world could be fixed overnight with the right cooperation and motivation.

on Getting learnt · c/lemmyshitpost · 7 pts · 39d

Fuck, I don't even trust myself when I am emotionally stable. Like, what if I have a sudden moment of clarity??

Logs, breach method, a detailed step-through of specifically how and what happened, methods to guard against this in the future, anything really. We have bullshit machines now that can just make up something plausible in a few moments, but we still don't have any details.

Article mentions stolen credentials, and a "previously unknown exploit." What level were the credentials? Does the employee know how it was leaked? Where's the CVE?? Is this going to be patched, or is it a feature?

Without any more data, this is just Company A says "...", Company B says "...", and it smells like marketing.

on Dare to dream · c/lemmyshitpost · 9 pts · 59d

Yeah, no, this is telling me my system will choke under any usage type and resolution, but it actually rips through everything I've thrown at it.

It was for the story. It's not a clone of the earlier games where Kratos is hellbent on tearing everything down, and everything revolves around that goal. The end of the game hits abruptly without closure on the god-killing aspect, and that's when I figured out it's actually a soft story about a father and son, burying their deceased loved one, and slowly recovering from the trauma and grief. The god-killing part is just a long sidequest, the story begins and ends with the mother's burial.

"It'll bring in tax revenue"

No it fucking won't. The people who own these things DON'T PAY TAXES.

Hahaa, my union's about ready to kick me out for saying this. From the very top of the UA, every trade is about to get fuuucked, and we're just waltzing right on into it.