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chahk , 5 days ago to homelab in My Homelab addiction took a turn for the worse today when I finally figured out how to do 802.11q on my switch.

Have you tried a patch cable‽

chahk , 1 month ago to Technology in Oral-B bricking Alexa toothbrush is cautionary tale against buzzy tech

Louis Rossmann's 20-minute rant on needless cloudification of shit incoming in 3.. 2.. 1...

chahk , 1 month ago to Technology in Going Dark: The war on encryption is on the rise. Through a shady collaboration between the US and the EU.

Nothing and I mean nothing will kill this faster than some leaked chats, emails, and browsing history of a few politicians.

chahk , 1 month ago to Technology in YouTube reportedly blocks anti-war videos in Russia at the Kremlin’s request

Pichai & Co would totally have blocked videos if Hitler demanded it back during WW2. They should embrace their new motto - "Anything for a buck!"

Grow a pair, you spineless shits, and stop kowtowing to brutal dictators!

chahk , 2 months ago to Technology in Beeper is now available, no waitlist!

I'm not your buddy, guy!

https://youtu.be/m1JakODvYhA?t=20s

chahk , 2 months ago to Technology in Meta cancelled climate change ads, then cancelled a local newspaper that reported about the ads, then a blogger who reported on the paper's cancellation, and now has escalated to blocking all of LGF

Nice try, Nick.

chahk , 2 months ago to Technology in T-Mobile's New AI "Profiling" Privacy Toggle Is On By Default

You don't need AI to figure out why people go to a T-Mobile store.

Option A: your service sucks, and the hold time on the phone is over 2 hours.

Option B: the glass sandwitch that you sold me cracked because I looked at it funny, and the fucking manufacturer won't honor the warranty because they didn't get enough of my money.

chahk , 3 months ago to Technology in But Claude said tumor!

"AI is nowhere near to being ready to replace you at your job. It is, however, ready enough to convince your boss that it's ready to replace you at your job."

chahk , 4 months ago to Free and Open Source Software in OpenTalk - Videoconferencing secure and GDPR compliant (Jitsi alternative, written in Rust)

Looks like you can self-host OpenTalk too: https://gitlab.opencode.de/opentalk/ot-setup

chahk , 4 months ago to homelab in Homelab Switches

Aruba S2500-48P. Picked up a used one for $130 on eBay 4 years ago, and it's been solid in my rack. 48 PoE 1GbE ports, and 4 10GbE SFP+ ports. At that price what more could you ask?!

chahk , 4 months ago to Technology in Great question Michael

You mean Cortana which was a rebrand of Clippy.

chahk , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to Technology in The rise and fall of robots.txt: As unscrupulous AI companies seek out more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart.

Alrighty then. If corps want to train their AI on all the content they can scrape without worrying about copyright, then they can't complain when I torrent their shit without worrying about copyright too! Deal? Somehow I don't see them taking that deal.

chahk , 5 months ago to homelab in Use case(s) for owning a homelab?

And these racks usually start with "I found this super cheap rack server on eBay" and not an actual need.

Hey! I resemble that!

chahk , 5 months ago to Technology in Amazon- and Google-backed AI firm Anthropic says “general-purpose AI tools simply could not exist” if AI companies had to pay licences for the training material

A bit off-topic, but I'd be fine with that. The more mind-numbingly dumb work that computers can do for us, the less time we have to spend doing it ourselves. Administrative jobs holders disagree with this, but so did every person whose job and livelihood was replaced by automation, ever. UBI (universal basic income) is the only answer that will save all of us from starvation when automation eventually replaces us too.

chahk , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to Technology in Amazon- and Google-backed AI firm Anthropic says “general-purpose AI tools simply could not exist” if AI companies had to pay licences for the training material

I agree with you on principle. However... How long do you think it will be until these very same "AI" companies copyright and patent every piece of content their algorithms spew out? Will they abide by the same carve-outs they want for themselves right now? Somehow I doubt it.

They want to ignore the laws for themselves, but enforce them onto everyone else. This "Rules for thee but not for me" bullshit can't be allowed to pass. Let's then abolish all copyright, and we'll see how long these companies last when everyone can just grab their stuff "for learning".