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voracitude ,

They already went back on it for other "price lock" customers, doesn't that make it false advertising and can't we do more than fucking ask?

voracitude ,

The only option now is to slap an Intel Inside® sticker on your forehead and wait to be backdoored by three-letter agencies. My condolences to you and your back door.

voracitude ,

Proton have just announced they're moving to a nonprofit structure if that makes a difference to you; it sure does to me.

voracitude ,

Like firing clay in a kiln, and for the same reason. "Canine" is actually a bastardisation of the 14th century term "Claynine", because their bones were believed to be made of clay. Of course we now know this is not true - dog bones are made of a substance that merely resembles clay in many ways, but has a unique molecular structure making it semi-permeable to the red blood cells produced by the marrow. This clay-like substance can indeed be hardened by exposure to extreme heat, which is why it is not recommended to leave your dog in a hot car unless you want an invulnerable dog.

voracitude ,

https://gifdb.com/images/file/im-doing-my-part-gif-file-1834kb-gl54l3objbu7c4gn.gif

voracitude ,

I dunno man, the trumpets still buy whatever shit he shovels out and they don't seem to have caught on that he's a scammer yet...

voracitude ,

And take time away from jellyfin to administer it? Nah, let people donate to the client they use makes the most sense. They have a list of clients they like, why isn't that enough?

Best Buy Membership "discount" (lemmy.world)

So I was shopping with my wife today and I said "oh let's see if my membership helps out." So we went and added the same item to each of our carts, and to our surprise, the total was the same! So what is it exactly that I'm paying for in this membership if the items "original price" is higher for me than it is for regular...

voracitude , (edited )

Edit: yeah, I am derp, the protection plan is part of the cart and is what makes the "member" price higher without the discount. Leaving my original response in case anyone doesn't know what would be illegal, if it was actually happening here

This is, in fact, actively illegal. Companies cannot advertise a "sale price" under a number of circumstances, such as when the price is the same absent the sale (e.g. there's no actual discount) or when the price was artificially raised just prior to the "sale": https://content.next.westlaw.com/practical-law/document/I6dfb3ee4077511e89bf099c0ee06c731/Beware-of-the-Sale-Complying-with-Promotional-Pricing-Guidelines

In this case, the "regular" or non-member price was raised precisely 0 seconds before applying the uh... "discount". Pretty cut-and-dry violation by any metric.

voracitude ,

That's true, I didn't notice that it was part of the cart with a (discounted) price. It looked like an optional extra that could be added. Makes the whole thing a nothingburger. Yet again, a derp is me - at least I have a few dozen friends in the same boat this time!

voracitude ,

https://grayjay.app/

By Louis Rossman's startup "Futo". I have a lot of respect for that dude from his right-to-repair activism, but despite that it's just a good privacy-respecting video app and worth paying for, IMO.

voracitude ,

On the one hand, generative AI doesn't have to give deterministic answers i.e. it won't necessarily generate the same answer even when asked the same question in the same way.

But on the other hand, editing the HTML of any page to say whatever you want and then taking a screenshot of it is very easy.

voracitude ,

Yeah, the product was a boondoggle. Trying to sell the company after that launch, with nothing else in the pipeline, is a scam.

voracitude ,

Not since the war started and they all got sent to the front (⁠☞ﾟ⁠ヮﾟ⁠)⁠☞

voracitude , (edited )

So a paraplegic quadriplegic can't be creative? 🤔

Or, let me rephrase because this is a serious question testing the limits of your statement: what impact would you say being a paraplegic unable to perform basic motor functions has on someone's ability to create art, given that (according to you) they cannot perform such critical parts of the creative process?

voracitude ,

Okay. I write lyrics and have Suno turn them into full songs to make wife laugh. My wife laughs. But according to you I don't have any imagination because I'm not a multivocal singer, can't play any instruments, don't have my own band to play for her on demand? Fuck off.

voracitude ,

Well first off, most paraplegics still have use of their arms, so drawing should not be a problem there

Lol fair enough, my bad, I'm still shaking off the sleep, I did mean quadriplegics!

So then in this view it's not just using your extremities to create art, but any part of your body, which is a crucial part of the process. Your mouth, a foot, a nostril - all valid bodily extensions to interface with the world and create "real art" with.

But language is another interface between someone's mind and the world; why is that not a valid extension to create art with? What about people who generate their AI art piecemeal, using inpainting and careful prompting to correct features they don't want? What about professional photographers using their existing knowledge of photography to create award-winning compositions entirely with AI? Is it fair to say these people have no imagination?

voracitude ,

Well, I've shared my creations because I think they're funny too, and maybe other people will, but I'm not gonna put them on an album and sell them! I'm just arguing the creative side of it. Those tracks wouldn't exist without my lyrics, and I typically go through a bunch of "takes" to get the melodies and rhythms I want, so for someone to say there's no imagination involved feels thoroughly unfair to me.

voracitude ,

"Not being able to draw" is indeed a limit, one I share with *quadriplegics as another commenter was kind enough to correct me (😅).

Using a tool to break that limit sure seems like playing with limits to me, sifting through iterations and refining prompts sure sounds like a drafting process, and changing elements with inpainting to stitch together your drafts into something close to what you have in your head sure sounds like revision. All of this, which can take hours or days of you want to be so exacting, sounds like "putting the work in".

Does using AI suddenly mean you can draw? Of course not. But I don't think it's at all fair to say using AI means someone has no imagination.

voracitude ,

🤡

voracitude ,

Lol. The whole reason we're here is because reddit sucks, my guy. This is /c/mildlyinfuriating , not /c/statusquo - don't come flying in here like Captain Obvious, then act all incensed that nobody's surprised.

voracitude , (edited )

Yeah, the problem here is definitely me, and nothing to do with your attitude. Excellent work, Poirot.

voracitude ,

Something I don't quite get: it seems like this would grind the shit outta any surface it comes in contact with (or, be ground to shit if whatever's on it is harder than the material of the cone thingies).

Does anyone have any idea how the constant abrasion is mitigated? Or is it somehow just not that big a deal, like it doesn't actually chew chunks outta (for example) shoe soles?

voracitude , (edited )

MKBHD's video shows it moving him around on a chair, spinning the chair, etc etc. In the closeup shots, it looks like there's debris on the surface of the cone thingies:
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7b11c361-3c7e-4203-81e9-6ada9275b826.png

The debris isn't uniform and is quite obviously not part of the roller material; I just kind of assumed that it was from stuff they'd been testing on it, though I suppose it could be generic workshop crud that fell on the rollers too 🤷

voracitude ,

If you watch MKBHD's video, you see him spinning himself around on a chair. The chair legs are in constant contact with some part of the cone thingies while they're rolling, which means friction, which means wear. I posted a screenshot from MKBHD's video in another response that shows what looks like debris all over the surface of the cone rollers; the debris is not uniform and is quite clearly not part of the roller material (I put a screenshot in the reply to another comment, so I'll just link it here), so I assumed that it was from testing the treadmill with various objects.

As well, there was no need to be a dick about it.

voracitude ,

Oh, that's a relief. I thought the police would just buy the data from another company, that buys face data and runs recognition on it.

voracitude ,

I have no horse in the Linux distro race, I'm just downvoting this inferior version of the meme format because fuck that guy.

voracitude ,

At least in the Voyager app. I have heard it's not the same thing as elsewhere but I haven't taken the time to understand how or why it's different.

voracitude ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/599e0128-a094-4cd9-a6f8-72da0cb5581b.jpeg

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e9ddf3cf-437a-465e-9f80-c9433936cfd0.png

🤷

voracitude ,

That sounds reasonable to me! Would explain why the mobile app has it and the web app doesn't; I don't know if a Lemmy instance has a way to advertise the functions it supports to third party apps.

voracitude ,

For anyone using a custom domain, or thinking about it, read this: https://dmarcly.com/blog/how-to-implement-dmarc-dkim-spf-to-stop-email-spoofing-phishing-the-definitive-guide

Without these records you're a lot more likely to go to spam, or get rejected outright. If you have questions about it, ask here or DM me and I'll be glad to help.

voracitude ,

IONOS don't support 2048-bit DKIM keys though, which I consider to be a pretty hefty point against them.

voracitude ,

No, they all hate it too.

voracitude ,

Oh, sorry, I thought we were talking about how much people who use YouTube hate YouTube's shitty design, based on the fact that this whole thread is about YouTube users hating the enshittification of YouTube.

But you're not here to engage with anyone, are you. You're here to shill for a corporation 🤡

voracitude ,

My sides

Please

voracitude , (edited )

Sleepwalking is correlated with stress levels. I've sleepwalked a few times in my life; some I half-remember, but most not at all, I only know if I find out from someone else like family/friends/partners.

When I was a teenager, I had a wall scroll that hung above the head of my bed. One morning, I found it piled on the floor next to my bed. It could have been one of my family, but they all denied it and there's no motivation anyway. I had to conclude that I did it in my sleep, but it's stuck with me because I've always found it extremely disturbing that I'm up and about while I'm completely (or nearly completely) unconscious. I've lived in a few skyscrapers with windows and balcony doors that opened more than enough for me to jump, and the idea that I'll wake up halfway down scares the everfucking bejeezus out of me.

voracitude ,

They showed you how much they value you: less than a name and photo on their website. Sorry, bruv. I wish they had respected your wishes.

voracitude ,

You're wrong about chairs. You're right about a bad diet, but sitting for 10+ hours a day will cause or exacerbate haemorrhoids. One of many sources available on the internet: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hemorrhoids/symptoms-causes/syc-20360268

voracitude , (edited )

Who will have the income to buy?

You've almost figured it out with this question: billionaires will.

  • If prices go too high, most people can't pay, so
  • Prices go down, but
  • Wealth has been massively concentrated amongst a small number of people, and
  • If a pair of socks costs $40,000, one purchase can make up for thousands, therefore
  • Robots which don't need pay or sleep making basic necessities like food and clothing and electricity can replace the workers in those industries, and
  • The economy can continue with many fewer participants.

So where does that leave us? Why, in the ground old chum!

To be clear, I don't think this is going to happen for a while if it does, and it's far from guaranteed. There's a lot of enthusiasm around AI right now, particularly for the "Figure.01" OpenAI demo; we'll have to see if that lives up to the hype.

voracitude ,

I don't get it

What is a simple server solution for Jellyfin and Nextcloud?

I have a really bad "server" (just a laptop) that runs Fedora Server and uses Docker Compose to host Jellyfin. It has been very annoying to update (the web GUI for Fedora doesn't even work half of the time), updating is painful, and it's a pain to manage. I am trying to redo my entire setup, so I will be getting a NAS to store...

voracitude ,

I use https://github.com/azukaar/Cosmos-Server on Ubuntu and really like it, seems to take care of reverse proxies and stuff for any new services you add. I'm running on the lowest-spec Hetzner auction I could find, but even so it's a pretty beastly server with an i7 6700 or something, and 128GB of RAM. I've got nextcloud and a bunch of other services running and I rarely go above 10% resource utilisation.

voracitude ,

I guess that I haven't read the source code to make sure there's nothing malicious there? I'm kind of a scrub, which is why I decided to give this thing a go in the first place. I say "seems to take care of reverse proxies and stuff" because I haven't checked at all to make sure any of that's working. I've done no pentesting either. It's not that I can't figure out how to manually configure proxmox or whatever, I'm just usually too tired to put in the concerted effort, so Cosmos has allowed me get things up and running quickly and without having to learn too much more than I already know beforehand.

Also, Cosmos does take care of basically everything by itself, but when I first set it up (many patches ago now) there was some issue with the way it assigned UIDs in containers so that the root user in some containerised apps couldn't see the data even though it was in directories that were correctly bound to the container. I had to enlist a friend with more experience to help me troubleshoot that. So, defaults are usually fine but it's happy to let you shoot yourself in the foot if you don't really know what you're doing.

voracitude ,

I think it leaves that up to the host OS; I'm just using SMB network shares, directories in which I bind directly to the containers I want to have access.

voracitude ,

Well, having the office was nice because I like my colleagues. I'm lucky in that regard though, and as nice as it was to socialise at work, working from home is nicer. Not to mention much much cheaper by every metric. In conclusion fuck ever going back to the office, thank you for coming to my TEDx Talk.

voracitude ,

This oughtta go great.

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Because the truth fucks, homie.

voracitude ,

For real, this is gold. Read in Norm Macdonald's voice for maximum comedic effect.

voracitude ,

Do they not know? Or don't care?

Some people one, some people the other, some people both.

voracitude ,

Oh boy, you think this is the worst thing America has done, even this week? Now I don't know if I should tell you about the rest...

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