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Spuddlesv2

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Spuddlesv2 ,

I follow Kevin on Mastodon. He’s the real deal and is absolutely not interested in the clicks or outrage. He’s trying to make it accessible.

Spuddlesv2 ,

Do you think it would be a better idea to wait until it’s installed and active on every Windows computer before we start a discussion on how bad Copilot is?

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Go look at all the Windows PCs announced in the last few months and you will see they have NPUs. So again, why would we wait until it is too late to try to stop this nonsense?

Also the “AI” may run locally but it saves the info into an easily accessible and readable SQLite database in the users AppData. It will be trivial for malicious actors to access.

Spuddlesv2 ,

I can’t speak for all Jellyfin clients since I only use Android TV and Windows clients but on those two platforms you can tell Jellyfin to continuously play or to stop/prompt at the end of each episode.

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This Fiat?
https://www.euroncap.com/en/results/fiat/punto/15461

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So along with all those positives you listed, the big negative being it’s a death trap.

Because only women are worried about becoming step-parents? (This prolly could've been an Ask Lemmy.) (lemmy.world)

I'm looking for some good reading on how to, eventually, best help be a step parent to my partner's children and NEARLY ALL books are geared toward the woman's perspective as though men don't want to be a strong teacher and develop these kids into healthy adults. Ugh!...

Spuddlesv2 ,

“Every woman I meet is crazy” says person who works at a women’s mental hospital.

Spuddlesv2 ,

Tdarr will do this but if your server is struggling with unmanic then no solution will work well for you. I think possibly you might be doing more than just remuxing to remove audio and subs if it’s thrashing your server.

Spuddlesv2 ,

This stuff always makes me laugh. Firstly, yes absolutely, Microsoft shouldn’t do this sort of crap. But more importantly, the person complaining about it here is shouting out for the world to hear “I don’t know how to manage Windows servers properly!”. There is one single group policy setting that stops this from happening. A single, set-and-forget GPO. Anyone managing Windows environments that isn’t aware of this, shouldn’t be managing Windows environments.

Spuddlesv2 ,

There is one GPO to disable co-pilot. One. It’s not even hard to find and has been available for more than 6 months.

And yes I would absolutely expect someone whose job it is to manage Windows servers to know about it. And certainly, I would expect them to look it up before declaring to the world how bad at their job they are.

Spuddlesv2 ,

Like I said, Microsoft shouldn’t do that crap. BUT the co-pilot setting has been around for 6 months. Long enough for any halfway decent sysadmin.

Spuddlesv2 ,

It wouldn’t have been installed at all if the OP did their job properly and had set the one config option. Microsoft doing shady things is hardly news. That’s why a good Windows sysadmin keeps and eye out for this sort of stuff.

Spuddlesv2 ,

The OP is re-tooting a toot of a screenshot of a tweet. My (mild) criticism isn’t aimed at OP, nor the OP of the OP, just the original Twitter OP. No one was “blasted” but even if they were, the Twitter OP is not likely to see my comments and have a bad case of the sads from it.

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    Yes Windows 11 is small enough that this one dude knows all there is to know about it. It is impossible this (former) core developer is wrong, lying or has an axe to grind.

    Spuddlesv2 ,

    If anyone truly believed it was ever a “true free speech” platform, they must be incredibly, incredibly naive or stupid.

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    I had an entire planet in my way, didn’t see a damn thing.

    Spuddlesv2 ,

    I’m in the southern hemisphere. The entire planet earth was in my way. :-)

    Spuddlesv2 ,

    A 12m stainless steel pedestrian bridge that took 6 years to make and was subsequently “strengthened” to meet safety requirements. Not quite the same thing.

    Spuddlesv2 ,

    Ahhh so the secret to using ChatGPT successfully is to tell it to give you good output?

    Like “make sure the code actually works” and “don’t repeat yourself like a fucking idiot” and “don’t hallucinate false information”!

    Spuddlesv2 ,

    Bets on this actually reducing the cost of maintenance? I’d hazard a guess that it will cost more, fix less, and result in fewer local jobs. But the VC-backed overseas startup CEO will profit, so that’s something I suppose.

    Spuddlesv2 ,

    Fantastic work. Really looking forward to 10.9.

    Spuddlesv2 ,

    Not in any easily-readable format, no. You can look at PR’s and the like but that’s a bit of a pain. I imagine they’ll release something once they feature freeze in a week or so.

    Spuddlesv2 ,

    Electricity. Lots and lots of electricity.

    Look at that, it didn’t require a whole-ass article.

    Seppo: Personal Social Web (seppo.social)

    #Seppo empowers you to publish short texts (and images yet to come) and to network in the Social Web. By renting commodity web space and dropping a single file. Without being subject to terms and conditions. Without having to fret about small print or tech lore. And without the need for an IT-consultant. But rather having a...

    Spuddlesv2 ,

    It’s a bit harsher than “Pom” and is rarely used in a positive way, unlike Pom which can be an insult or a term of endearment. I don’t think I’ve ever heard Seppo used in a positive way, now that I think of it.

    Music Piracy Is Back, Baby (gizmodo.com)

    "Muso, a research firm that studies piracy, concluded that the high prices of streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music are pushing people back towards illegal downloads. Spotify raised its prices by one dollar last year to $10.99 a month, the same price as Apple Music. Instead of coughing up $132 a year, more consumers...

    Spuddlesv2 ,

    Spotify tried to shove Doja Cat at me the other day. I have never ever EVER listened to anything that would even remotely suggest I would like Doja Cat. It may be infinite but there is still someone behind the scenes pushing particular songs and artists.

    Spuddlesv2 ,

    Really? Their made-for-you playlists are nowhere near as good as they used to be. The discover playlist is now ass. Radio plays the same 20 songs over and over and over again.

    Right now the app is suggesting a Classical Piano playlist to me. I have never listened to classical piano. Ever. Most recently I’ve listened to Tool, Rage Against the Machine and a 90’s metal playlist (I’m on a 90’s kick). Why on earth would it think I want classical piano?

    Proof! https://imgur.com/gallery/e0N5sE3

    Spuddlesv2 ,

    If only it were that clever. I think it’s because their algorithm sees: person listens to 90’s music so person = old, old people like classical piano.

    In the same way that I very occasionally play Jason Isbell and after I do so it starts throwing yeehaw-big trucks-and-gurls-in-cutoff-shorts country music at me for months afterwards.

    Spuddlesv2 ,

    I died inside when I saw stuff I listened to in high school on “classic rock” playlists.

    Spuddlesv2 ,

    On my iPhone it's 5 taps, which seems excessive but whatever. It's impossible to do when I'm driving, and also impossible from the Windows app (yes, really, the feature is not available - https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Desktop-Other-quot-Don-t-play-this-artist-quot-on-desktop/idi-p/5027612 )

    Spuddlesv2 ,

    Roaming pet cats scratch screen doors, destroy door mats, piss on doors, shit in gardens, kill wildlife for sport, fight other cats, catch diseases from other cats (pet and feral), get pregnant, get hit by cars, get mauled by dogs. All of these things happen even in countries where cats are “native”.

    Spuddlesv2 ,

    That’s what you know they have killed. Who knows how much more. They also still get hit by cars, mauled by dogs, attacked by other cats, piss and shit in other people’s yards.

    Spuddlesv2 ,

    Almost all of our training was done without requiring burning fossil fuels. So maybe ole Sammy can put the brakes on his shit until it’s as fuel efficient as a human brain.

    Spuddlesv2 ,

    We’ve been around for hundreds of thousands of years as homosapiens. Food production and transport emissions were practically 0% until the last 100 years. So, yes, that’s right.

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    They are nowhere NEAR achieving the same feats as humans.

    Spuddlesv2 ,

    I take it you don’t know much about enterprise IT. I guarantee most businesses are running 8-16GB as standard. Where I live an 8GB laptop costs $1400, the equivalent with 16GB costs $1900. And to get 32GB you’re looking at an additional $1600.

    Spuddlesv2 ,

    Yes but of course no one wants a clunky-ass 2kg ThinkPad with a 1080p screen. They want a Yoga or Surface Pro. I would like to see you install additional anything in one of those!

    An E15 in my country costs $1200 with 8GB soldered-on RAM. Not sure if it has a second memory slot, although I would assume so. But the screen is crap and they weigh twice as much.

    Also - who is buying enterprise equipment from Amazon?

    Spuddlesv2 ,

    You’d read the labels of whatever the hell was within reach. Shampoo bottle, toilet cleaner bottle, soap, whatever.

    Spuddlesv2 ,

    The Ploum article again. Please explain how the circumstances with XMPP and ActivityPub are remotely similar.

    Spuddlesv2 ,

    I asked how the circumstances are similar, not vague descriptions that suit your existing views. But sure.

    XMPP was dogshit back in 2004. A good idea, but nowhere NEAR what it needed to be to actually get mainstream acceptance. ActivityPub is light years ahead.

    There were very very few XMPP users in 2004. There are millions of ActivityPub users. If meta was to pull the plug on federation it wouldn’t kill ActivityPub, there would still be millions of us here. We joined Lemmy/Kbin/Mastodon because we don’t want to live in a centrally controlled/owned social platform. That won’t change just because we can suddenly interact with Threads users. In fact, if anything, once Threads users hear that we get the same shit they do without the ads, they might decide to join us instead.

    Google killing off XMPP integration didn’t kill XMPP. It did that all on its own.

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