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@ DFX4509B @lemmy.wtf

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So, this is the place where I'm going to be generally hanging out and trolling around, while my Pixelfed, Mastodon, and Blacksky accounts are going to be primarily art posting accounts, and I also have a Nooki account.

I'm also going to start to be active more on here than on lemmy.org, so I'm making this my primary Lemmy account now.

I'll link the other socials I'm varying levels of active on below, plus my lemmy.org account which I'm demoting to my secondary account if that instance is going to be more unstable from now on.

  • AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns

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  • Great, let's accelerate that failure and make this damn bubble pop already.

  • Non-connected MP3/MP4 players

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  • If you can find one and have the cash and skills to do the mod, find an older iPod, such as an iPod Classic or iPod Video, and then SD-card-mod it and flash it with Rockbox.

    Those older iPods still have a really good audio section even by modern standards and operate completely offline; Rockbox just 'unlocks' them, as it were.

    Also, USB-C-modding them would be recommended as well in order to ditch the proprietary cable.

  • The CEO of Microsoft Suddenly Sounds Extremely Nervous About AI

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  • Good, maybe he'll back off on pushing this crap.

  • YSK the four rules of firearm safety

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  • Those (triple-barreled shotguns) actually exist in the form of the Chiappa Triple Crown and Triple Threat.

  • YSK the four rules of firearm safety

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  • That would unironically be a major point in break-action's favor; unless you're dealing with multi-barrel, eg. like a double-barreled or triple-barreled shotgun, you can only load one round at a time with break-action, ditto for single-round bolt-action weapons (as in the type where you manually load one round at a time).

  • Inventor Building AI-Powered Suicide Chamber

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  • What the hell is wrong with people?

  • Wikipedia is one of the last genuine places on the Internet, and these rat bastards are trying to contaminate that, too

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  • Here's a link to the Kiwix library download for all of Wikipedia. It's 111GB though, so you'll need a lot of space and also a lot of time to wait for it to download.

    Note, you'll also need Kiwix in some manner to read the zim file once it's downloaded.

    Kiwix library - All of Wikipedia - direct download link

    Kiwix app download page

    But this'll let you have a local copy you can reference should actual Wikipedia ever get ruined by GenAI, or worse, get taken down by hostile governments.

  • YSK that no proof of United States citizenship, no matter how valid, guarantees protection when ICE decides you look like an immigrant.

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  • I'm not bragging, I hate the fact that what was once a free country is turning into Nazi Germany. Complete with the Gestapo randomly kicking in people's doors and kidnapping or in some cases even straight-up killing them in the open.

  • Wikipedia is one of the last genuine places on the Internet, and these rat bastards are trying to contaminate that, too

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  • Download an offline copy while you still can.

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    Do you think the government should regulate who can or cannot have children?

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  • No, that's a one-way ticket to eugenics.

  • YSK that no proof of United States citizenship, no matter how valid, guarantees protection when ICE decides you look like an immigrant.

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  • Welcome back to Nazi Germany, because that's what the country that used to be the Land of the Free is turning into.

  • AI Data Centers Pushing Electric Grid Into Meltdown

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  • This feels intentional on the AI grifters' part. Also it's proof of how badly we need decentralized power generation.

    Also, this feels like the grifters moved on from EVs to AI, because not that long ago, EVs were threatening to cause this very event.

    Also, I'm of the opinion that if datacenters are to be a thing at all, that they need to be bound under the same rules as general industry, as in they need to be a certain distance away from residential development, in a dedicated industrial park, typically on the outskirts of a town and effectively in the middle of nowhere, just like a typical factory or metal foundry or whatever, and they also need to supply their own resources instead of leeching off the residential grid and residential water supply; if a metal foundry has to provide their own power, then so should a datacenter.

    Datacenters also IMO need to be bound under the same environmental restrictions as general industry if they're to be a thing at all.

  • Furious Protestor Tears AI-Generated Art Off Wall of Exhibit, Chews It Up Into Tiny Shreds Using His Teeth

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  • Hopefully people are cheering this person on.

  • Empire says jump and liberals say "China bad!"

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  • 'Ey, liberals: the US is just as bad as China right now if not worse, and in fact they are worse in one metric: unless that changed for the better, the US has a larger prison population than China, we're locking up more people than China, when if you pride yourself as a free country, the number of people you have locked up is not a metric you wanna be #1 in, in fact, if a country sells themselves as a free country, they should be doing everything in their power to keep the number of people they lock up to a minimum, as in lock up the people who are truly dangerous to society like sex offenders or serial killers and the like, but don't have years in prison be your first reaction for non-violent offenders that have a higher likelihood of being able to be rehabilitated.

    Like, we legitimately have people serving sentences as long as or in some cases longer than murderers and sex offenders, just for having some weed on them for personal use, not even trying to sell the stuff. These people just wanted to go get stoned in their off time, in their own homes, not hurting anyone, and here they are with their lives completely over. Now of course some of those people did get rightfully let off the hook, but there's no denying that it still happened.

  • What band do you think doesn't deserve the hype or fandom?

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  • Kings of Leon? Nickelback? I'd also suggest Right Said Fred, but AFAIK they've always been derided and I'm Too Sexy is a meme at this point.

    Like legitimately, I'm Too Sexy is a song you could rick-roll someone with.

  • Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud

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  • I also included ARM desktop boxes like what Google is trying to push Android on in a partnership with Qualcomm lately in that too, basically, any ARM device regardless of whether it's a phone or tablet, or a cheap desktop box, will work for your 'local PC' (aka. a thin client) in a cloud rental scheme.

  • Lemmy now (partially) federates with Bluesky via Bridgyfed

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  • It does in Nooki, but it's not really active at all.

  • Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud

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  • Seems like a fatal risk to have online only services.

    Maybe that's the whole idea. I mean, think about it, you know how killing Section 230 would kill online freedom, right? Someone probably thought, 'Why kill Section 230 when we can go a step further and consolidate general-purpose computing to the cloud, and then have a centralized kill switch we can flip by intentionally blacking out web access for the entire country, leaving everyone ultimately helpless and under our grip?'

  • Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud

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  • Phones? Tablets? There's your local PC right there. I don't condone it, but I'm pretty sure that's what Bezos is threatening to make happen; instead of having a local PC you own, you'll access everything from your phone in a way that it can be revoked on a whim.