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BudgieMania

@ BudgieMania @kbin.social

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Gets carried away in overly rambly rants about unimportant bullshit, uses fancy words without understanding their meaning, has a complete lack of self awareness.Likes budgies.

  • Great moments in PC gaming: That time Valve released three new games on the same day

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  • And we have been paying for it ever since. They will never make that mistake again lol.

  • 'Time to Wake Up' - FalseKnees

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  • and he's doing a damn good job at it

  • STEAM starting to issue refunds for players over the 2h playtime limit due to PSN on Helldivers 2

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  • The idea of Valve ever becoming a public corp ranks higher in my lists of fears than being eaten alive by zombies

  • Cable company logic: "Our predatory anti-consumer practices are really pro-consumer"

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  • broadband? Isn't this specifically about cable TV, not Internet communication?

  • Cable company logic: "Our predatory anti-consumer practices are really pro-consumer"

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  • a threat that doesn't pass even the slightest sniff test, any significant raise in prices would leave them open for a competitor to undercut them.

  • Even in this poorly made comparison shot I made you can tell the difference between streaming and "self hosting"

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  • The tradeoff kinda made sense at the dawn of streaming, when the transaction was basically trading quality for better pricing and convenience.

    Nowadays? Yeaaaaah I don't know about that chief

    Crazy to think that we lost all the advantages that streaming offered, kept all the disadvantages, piled on a few more disadvantages on top of that, and people went "sure that makes sense 24 bucks a month worth it bro"

  • Sam Altman Says AI Using Too Much Energy, Will Require Breakthrough Energy Source

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  • dude think about this stuff before you open the floodgates bro

  • Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85

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  • in certain parts of the world they really ingrained in us that roman numerals are the proper way to do it and it's very hard to shake off, apologies

  • Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85

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  • Nah, not so much a failure on your part as a failure on the part of a society that elects to glorify people that "move ball good" or "say line funny" over the people that have built the pillars without which our modern society literally would not exist in the same manner.

  • Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85

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  • To paraphrase Churchill "Never was so much owed by so many to a single man", NTP has been a critical aspect of XXIst century, from making highly complex clusterized systems work reliably to saving you the pain of adjusting the clock in your smartphone. If you have used even a single networked electronic device for a millisecond in your life, you owe the man some thanks.

  • Cable Firms to FTC: We Shouldn’t Have to Let Users Cancel Service With a Click

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  • Subscription-based services already change the agreement of a transaction too much in favor of the provider, because it goes from "convince me that your product is good enough to go through the hassle of obtaining it" to "convince me that your product is bad enough to go through the hassle of cancelling it". It is only fair to try to tilt it in favor of the consumer as much as possible.

  • Reddit seeks to launch IPO in March

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  • I find Kbin's Collections feature a good fix for federation confusion. Honestly I think it should be the default type of view when browsing communities, you need to abstract the average user from federation as much as possible and leave browsing by instance as an advance option for those that want to engage with federation in detail

  • Meta admits using pirated books to train AI, but won't pay for it

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  • I was ready to go on a tirade about that but I think a better use of my time is to show appreciation for the excellent JoeKrogan username

  • Robot baristas and AI chefs caused a stir at CES 2024 as casino union workers fear for their jobs

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  • When it comes to IT, it's important to keep things in perspective, there's a limit on how much it can be impacted. It may be able to give you the foundations of that Python code you need, but it sure as hell won't be able to make sense of the fucking mess that your organization has made out of the venvs (I won't either, but sssshhhhhh). I think most if not all of IT specialties have that kind of situation.

    If there's anything my time in IT has taught me, is that any solution or paradigm change that gets introduced doesn't really outpace the difficulties and challenges that are constantly emerging, and more often than not they create their own positions without completely eliminating the ones they are trying to streamline/replace. You introduce Ansible to automate and streamline the configuration of your storage systems, you think the people that were doing the deployment and config until now are now obsolete... Joke's on you, you now need both the Ansible dev as well as the guys that were already in charge of deployment and configuration, because inevitably something goes wrong periodically, something needs to be adapted to the particularities of the environment, or any other number of other things.

    In the short term, yeah, maybe some entry positions might be affected under the direction of directives with lack of foresight, but I hope that, in the end, it won't end up being as severe as we expect, or at least that there will be an eventual course correction.

    Do not despair at 100% is what I'm trying to say.

    Only like, 70%.

  • Meta admits using pirated books to train AI, but won't pay for it

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  • I hope somebody pokes that professor's nipples

  • Meta admits using pirated books to train AI, but won't pay for it

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  • oh shit

    I misread and thought that was physicalwhadawhat

  • Meta admits using pirated books to train AI, but won't pay for it

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  • "family therapy" is what you are gonna need if you have to pay 100 bucks for a bunch of paper sheets that you are gonna use once in your life, fuck me

  • Robot baristas and AI chefs caused a stir at CES 2024 as casino union workers fear for their jobs

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  • I really wanna hear what the proposal is for removing "unqualified" jobs en masse without implementing universal basic income.

    The low pay and bad conditions of "unqualified" jobs often gets excused because they, allegedly, are "stepping stones", a means of sustaining oneself while working towards more specialized careers.

    If you destroy a significant amount of those positions, where does that leave those people? Are we so drunk on cyberpunk-esque lust of AI evolution that we are fine eliminating the means of entry to society for so many?

  • Meta admits using pirated books to train AI, but won't pay for it

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  • You see, if you pirate a couple textbooks in college because you don't have resources, but you want to earn your right to participate in society and not starve, it's called theft.

    But if one of the top 10 companies in the world does the same with thousands of books just to get even richer, it's called fair use.

    Simple, really.