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nevemsenki

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nevemsenki ,

The year is 2030. Skynet, once released onto the Internet, has started learning at geometric rate; in less than five minutes it was carpet bombing all social networks with shitposts.

nevemsenki ,

Squire's ads are better than the actual vids of some other YTers...

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Ah yes, the usual method of waiting until the issue becomes confirmed and also way too severe to fix instead of acting on precaution and harming profits of private companies. What could go wrong?

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Sure, PFAS were also considered a nonsignificant issue until they weren't, only it's too late to unfuck it now. Well, no harm in generating more potential ticking time bombs I guess.

nevemsenki ,

Going publicly traded fucks every company up with nextquarter-itis.

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The white people didn't disappear alltogether, but a lot of them did emigrate. Jewish people are kind of unique in the way that they face hostility everywhere outside Israel, so that's not really an option for them.

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Let's use a protocol that shadily blocks everything google doesn't like. Yeah, fuck that.

nevemsenki ,

Try using a custom ROM on Android and you'll quickly see.

nevemsenki ,

Windows malware: excited noises

nevemsenki ,

Why the hell would my fridge be connected tonthe water main in the first place?

nevemsenki ,

If someone has access to your sticky note they're already in your house, and that's a bigger issue IMO... even from an itsec perspective, once the attacker has physical access to guarantee safety is difficult.

But seriously, there's a guy in your house.

nevemsenki ,

If I know they are there then I either supervise visitors or trust them to not rummage/take my stuff. If that is your issue then keep your postit in a drawer; most people don't keep their yubikeys in a securely bolted safe either.

nevemsenki ,

Lemmy being lemmy.

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I hate how much time I can waste finding that stupid spider in these comics.

10/10

nevemsenki ,

Linux desktop and fusion energy have something in common, it seems.

nevemsenki ,

That image, while not as bad as a touchscreen, is still a pretty poor design. So many uniform buttons so close still require most people to look. Buttons should be clustered and/or have slighty different shape so you can tell by touch which one you're about to press....

nevemsenki ,

Big... brother...

nevemsenki ,

I'm not OP, but I can certainly give you my story from Hungary. Not USSR in name, but USSR enough for the distinction to be moot.

Story starts with parents and grandparents. They were around when the soviets put Rákosi into power. He installed communism - everything belongs to the people! Including our fucking house. My grandparents often retold how police came one night, told them their house now belongs to another family, and they were told to get lost by morning. They could bring whatever they could carry with them, but they had to leave all the farming equipment, all the animals, pretty much all their belongings behind. The few hectars of land and our animals all belonged to the Producer's Union anyway, we lost all rights to them virtually overnight.

Not that it mattered. The things you produced? Since everything belongs to the people, police would come and take away whatever quota the party set that year. Even if we produced it, it's not ours after all. We may or may not got some of it back, depending on what the allocations were set. Usually not - famines got common, becuase noone cared too much about their work if it got taken away anyway. It got so bad that the good communist people people revolted against Rákosi.

Then came Kádár. I actually lived in that system. Shortages were commonplace. At the start things were strictly planned (later on they opened up to allowing people to work for their own benefit... strictly after they put in their required hours at their workplace, though). There were five year plans, though for what I know, those were mostly for propaganda. But since there wasn't a free market, the planning bureau would decide how many tractors, shoes, bread etc would be produced. Well, this never worked out well. If you wanted to buy fruits, toilet paper, anything, you would need someone to tell you when the shipment would come. Then you got in line early and hoped the stock wouldn't run out by the time you got your turn. And you bought whatever you could, because if you had excess toilet paper and your neighbour had none, you could barter for something you needed.

We wanted a car. So we applied at the state car dealership (Merkúr). We paid upfront, waited a year... and got a totally different brand of car in a different colour. We were furious, so we demanded our money back and purchased a second hand Lada Samara from someone in town. It still wasn't what we wanted, but I'd have rather burnt my money than give it to Merkúr at that point. Turns out the Lada Samara 1300S was a great car though, I shouldn't have sold it like twenty years later :(

We wanted to build a house. Only everything was in short order. We had to drive three-four towns away, buying bricks and ceramic tiles left and right until we had enough that we could start construction. We didn't build what we wanted; we could've paid for it, but we had to build whatever we managed to find in stock around.

Now I know people called us the "happiest barracks" because say Caucescu in Romania was way worse... but people who are so fond of actual socialism should remember that our people were risking getting shot to escape this system.

Remember when Spez said it was "It's time we grow up and behave like an adult company"? Apparently, that means paying himself $193 million and single-handedly tanking Reddit's profitability right b... (www.npr.org)

Remember when Spez said it was "It's time we grow up and behave like an adult company"? Apparently, that means paying himself $193 million and single-handedly tanking Reddit's profitability right b...::undefined

nevemsenki ,

Well, that's enough Internet for today!

nevemsenki ,

Eh, it just had a few beers that's all. Let it rest for a few hours.

nevemsenki ,

What's with Lemmy and reposting really old things?

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For sure. I more mean it happens a lot, so probably that's the kind of crowd that is/was attracted here? Or we have a lot of bots.

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It's so weird to read these articles. I live in a shithole country, but even here fibre internet with 2.5gbps speeds is easily available... 5G ain't bad but against it never feels replacing that kind of connection for me.

nevemsenki ,

Yeah, travelling to Germany a few times, even data always sucks, both wifi and mobile. We joked that Germany has the beet economy in EU because the net is so bad people don't waste so much time on Facebook...

nevemsenki ,

That wasn't Napoleon but the French revolution. They implemented new decimal timekeeping, new decimal calendar and all the jazz - partly because they were fans of metric, partly because they absolutely wanted to get rid of all the old (=feudal and/or religious) things.

nevemsenki ,

Keepass can do all, though TOTP support is not exactly what I'd call streamlined. Still works well nevertheless.

Edit: unsure of passkey when I think about it now, but worst case someone will make a plugin for them I guess...

nevemsenki ,

That is true, though you could keep your password and totp databases separate theoretically. I'm not sure if keeping them in say separate apps brings much benefit if your phone/pc gets compromised though, as most people would have both available on their device... totp is more about convince, it's never as secure as a hardware thing say yubikey.

nevemsenki ,

Hey, you seem to have dropped this: \

nevemsenki ,

Use double backspace eg \\. A single backspace is usually something like an escape character.

nevemsenki ,

Downsides include : if any intrusion happens on the server, red team just needs to reboot it to wipe evidence.

nevemsenki ,

No copyright law means whatever anyone comes up with can be massmanufactured cheaply by a big corp.

nevemsenki ,

As an eastern european, we eat everything with onions and garlic. Hell, I even eat onions on their own time to time, it tastes good.

nevemsenki ,

Garmins (or most of them) also last for a month with a single charge, unlike most smart watches. For me that's worth a little premium.

nevemsenki ,

Depends on the model and your settings I guess. I use a Fenix5, and it lasts like 18-20 days with a run every second day (tho I keep pulse ox off). Could be more if I had gotten a solar one, but those were pricey back when I got mine...

nevemsenki ,

Hum , weird. Either I charge it rarely enough that I'm fooling myself, or I turned off some off some features garmin didn't think people would...

Mind-reading AI can translate brainwaves into written text: Using only a sensor-filled helmet combined with artificial intelligence, a team of scientists has announced they can turn a person’s thou... (www.newscientist.com)

Mind-reading AI can translate brainwaves into written text: Using only a sensor-filled helmet combined with artificial intelligence, a team of scientists has announced they can turn a person’s thou...::A system that records the brain's electrical activity through the scalp can turn thoughts into words with help from a large...

nevemsenki ,

LLMs don’t do this though, it doesn’t do a lookup of past SAT questions it’s seen and answer it, it uses some process of “reasoning” to do it.

The "reasoning" in LLM is literally statistical probability of which word would follow which word. It has no real concept of what it talks about beyond the pre-built relationship matrices between words and language rules. That's why LLMs confidently hallucinate obvious bullshit time to time - to them there's no meaning to either truthful or absolute bonkers text, it's just words that should probably follow each other.

nevemsenki ,

It would also help in general if Firefox didn't make a habit of kneecapping itself by making changes that piss off its userbase.

nevemsenki ,

The Australis rollout was a massive controversy at its time, and so was nuking the old extensions in favour of those using Chrome's standard despite most functionality having no replacement in the new API. They also didn't bother implementing AD group policies for a very long time, which lost them all (or maybe just most) corporate use cases.

There were also a bunch of smaller ones along the way; I left FF when they made self hosting your own sync server virtually impossible.

nevemsenki ,

Probably not most popular choice here, but Vivaldi... I'd like to condition myself into using Tor, but it's hard getting to used to the occasional slowness. I still have FF installed too, but it's just so incredibly bug ridden on Android that I'd not recommend it for daily use.

nevemsenki ,

He didn't ask for this.

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