canis_majoris

canis_majoris , 14 days ago

It's a great concept but such an awful name. "Return of the ugly" is just such a bad and clunky title.

Housing Bubble 2: Impending Crash Boogaloo

Housing Bubble 2: Boomer Madness

Housing Bubble 2: Ah shit here we go again

canis_majoris , 27 days ago

They tried it already with news media with Google and Facebook, and were basically told to pound sand. Facebook doesn't provide news feeds in Canada anymore.

canis_majoris , 1 month ago

The same amount of fools who created the largest civilian surveillance network with Ring doorbells.

canis_majoris , 1 month ago

TSMC equipment only has the materials to function for about two weeks before needing a shipment of replacement parts for the fabs when they wear out.

canis_majoris , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

There are easier ways to spy on your employees. This is not cost-effective.

I use Zoom for work now and each call can be several gigabytes large, depending on resolution of shared materials and a few other factors. If you want to save that kind of stuff long term, you have to pay to keep it somewhere. If you multiply several gigabytes over a few dozen calls a day, you're going to end up with terabytes of garbage you need to store. Zoom also informs you of when a recording is starting and active, offering for you to leave the call or otherwise implicitly agree to being recorded. You have to pay for all these things because there's a significant amount of processing power involved. It's not like it's free to run facial recognition and speech recognition.

When I did contract work for Apple support, the spying was way more efficient than just listening to my calls. My supervisor could literally always see my monitor through the chat program we had installed. There's all kinds of remote software for things like this. If an admin wants to see you misuse your equipment, they have easier ways of finding out than sifting through calls to find wrongthink.

canis_majoris , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Again, there are easier ways to do this.

Biometric authentication can be required for some companies. You'd have to opt in to use the system or at least agree to the terms set forth by the employer. This kind of stuff doesn't just get collected just because; it's pretty sensitive data.

What you're talking about is a cyberpunk nightmare; some corporate-assisted mass surveillance designed for like, union busting.

If you're making vocal and facial profiles of employees you must have some reason to do so, and it can't just be to burn cash. Like I said before, this stuff costs money, and it's kind of pointless unless you're using it in a way that makes money, selling the data somehow.

canis_majoris , 1 month ago

There's a transaction limit on tap payments. Sometimes you need to chip or swipe when it's over $250 or something.

canis_majoris , 1 month ago

Don't forget about the new Snapdragon X series. I heard they were pretty good, on par and better than M3s.

canis_majoris , 1 month ago

You can enable REBAR on older machines with a UEFI hack.

It's been part of the PCI spec for ages but Nvidia and AMD only started using it recently.

You can check out the tool here.

canis_majoris , 2 months ago

I followed a bunch of artists and content creators and I got annoyed when the entire feed became just interspersed with Musk's ramblings and bullshit. I never followed him and I didn't want promoted content.

canis_majoris , 2 months ago

SA used to be great. That move actually made the forums a pretty good place for a while because it kept out a few demographics including bots and kids.

Something Awful, YTMND and Newgrounds were basically the comedic engines of the internet back then.

Good 'ol pre-YouTube internet.

canis_majoris , 2 months ago

With Stable Diffusion's case, you would use the software to determine what targets to protect, rather than destroy, obviously.

And so begins the big titty resistance against the machines.

canis_majoris , 3 months ago

Lemmy sucks at sourcing but rocks at being opinionated.

canis_majoris , 3 months ago

You can only really pull that with older people and children. Most of us millennials can spot the patterns AI gen produces, but I've seen my dad just consume the content and be largely unaware of the fact that it was artificially generated. He constantly complains those videos say nothing but watches tons of them anyways, mostly related to non-news about sports.

canis_majoris , 3 months ago

"Our company doesn't make money, it also is projected to not be able to continue to make money. We've attempted multiple ways of monetizing the userbase, all of which has not recouped costs. We value ourselves at 6.4 billion dollars."

lol, she said.

lmao.

canis_majoris , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

I think it has to do with karma count.

I had two accounts, one had been scrubbed and was mostly used for commenting, and the other was a porn alt.

The porn alt has hundreds of thousands of karma and it got multiple IPO messages while the original, older account got nothing due to being sub 5k on posts.

Edit: Suspicions confirmed!

Reddit is planning six tiers of early access based on each “participant’s contributions to Reddit,” the company said in its updated SEC filing. Those tiers are based on a user’s “karma” score, ostensibly an aggregate total of up/down votes on posts and comments.

The first tier of users will be those “who have meaningfully contributed to Reddit community programs,” though what that means isn’t explained more clearly. After that come tier 2 users, who must hold at least 200,000 karma points or have taken at least 5,000 moderator actions. Tier three includes users and moderators who hold at least 100,000 karma points and have taken 2,500 moderator actions. Tiers 4 and 5 are each half of the previous tier’s total, and tier 6 includes everyone else, with a waitlist available if the total number of shares purchased exceeds the original 1.76 million.

canis_majoris , 3 months ago

Actually part of their IPO paperwork lists WSB as a potential positive benefit to the stock, in terms of having a clear userbase that will theoretically help sustain the value through shenanigans. That, to me, however, sounds like a securities violation waiting to happen.

I don't check reddit anymore. Does WSB actually consider this stock to be, uh, actually valuable? Every corner of the internet I've seen discuss this topic have all noted how worthless they think the shares are going to be. My money is on them shorting it.

canis_majoris , 3 months ago

It's also only valuable if people keep contributing to it. It's highly likely the majority of current existing reddit data has been largely incorporated into many LLMs prior to the API access limiting. Google paying them 60 million dollars is a hilarious pittance to keep training their LLMs, given how much money AI services will likely generate off of the training data.

I don't actively use reddit anymore, but when I need an answer to something that isn't programming-related, it's usually the top source on any given web search. That kind of content is basically the only stuff I would give a shit about. I can't imagine how much absolute garbage you have to sift through on the platform to get reliable training data. Maybe the ratio is terrible and that's why Google paid so little.

canis_majoris , 4 months ago

Freedom costs a buck 'o five your personal data.

canis_majoris , 4 months ago

VLC isn't equivalent to Jellyfin or Plex in streaming capabilities, and it's just running on SMB which could be configured with general folder permissions and sharing, allowing access for any media player and not just VLC.

SMB is a share protocol that's pretty standard across ecosystems. I am not sure of your use case and why you are wanting to get rid of Jellyfin but VLC doesn't sound like the tool to do it.

You can configure the folder permissions with a guide here or by searching "Ubuntu smb sharing" or something similar.

canis_majoris , 5 months ago

They're translating from an interview that was being given in Japanese.

canis_majoris , 7 months ago

Haha, I love this.

This is fucking hilarious. Installing it immediately.

canis_majoris , 10 months ago

They have a duty to moderate public-facing systems. This is a link/bookmark sharing system, so obviously bookmarks that are pointing to things that are illegal are going to be dealt with.