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GnuLinuxDude

@ GnuLinuxDude @lemmy.ml

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  • I have never used a food delivery service because they all feel so fucking scummy and exploitative. Seems like they are in equal need as we are for regulatory overhaul of this business practice.

  • I Learned Rust In 24 Hours To Eat Free Pizza Morally

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  • Once I "Got" it (and realized the comm this is posted in) this post became good lol

  • Must fight temptation to buy an overpriced raspberry pi

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  • What kind of place do you go to to find these things? Sometimes I get really lucky (see my post history about my wonderful new printer), but if I could increase my odds that would be cool.

  • Browsers are complicit in browser fingerprinting.

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  • Dude. I thought That was bad. Just now I went to arstechnica to view one article and I did the same thing to "support" the site. It was 36MB in one minute.

  • [Video] Iranian missiles hitting Tel Aviv.

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  • Trump unilaterally tears up the JCPOA. Biden sits on his ass and fuels the genocide. Trump continues Biden's policy. And here we are.

  • Live updates - Israel launches major strike on Iran's nuclear and military sites.

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  • Trump needs to put his dog on a leash. fucking hell.

  • IAEA an 'instrument for Israel,' secret documents seized by Iran reveal

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  • If this hacked trove of documents news is real that's a pretty fucking huge deal unto itself. If the IAEA is passing along confidential memos that's also a pretty fucking huge deal on top of the huge deal.

  • In China, People Who Protest Are Met With Military Police And Tear Gas!

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  • This seems a bit weird because as detestable as Yeonmi Park is, she's Korean and spends her time spinning lies about Korea. Does she talk about China?

  • Browsers are complicit in browser fingerprinting.

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  • Just yesterday I was on a news website. I wanted to support it and the author of the piece so I opened a clean session of firefox. No extensions or blocking of any kind.

    The "initial" payload (i.e. after I lost patience approximately 30s after initial page load and decided to call a number) was 14.79MB transferred. But the traffic never stopped. In the network view you could see the browser continually running ad auctions and about every 15s the ads on the page would cycle. The combination of auctions and ads on my screen kept that tab fully occupied at 25-40% of my CPU. Firefox self-reported the tab as taking over 400MB of RAM.

    This was so egregious that I had to run one simple test. I set my DNS on my desktop to my PiHole and re-ran my experiment.

    Initial payload went from almost 14.79 -> 4.00MB (much of which was fonts and oversized images to preview other articles). And the page took 1/4 the RAM and almost no CPU anymore.

    Modern web is dogshit.

    This was the website in question. https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/welcomefest-dispatch-centrism-abundance/

  • Why so much hate toward AI?

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  • but the flooding of the art fields with low quality products

    It's even worse than that, because the #1 use case is spam, regardless of what others think they personally gain out of it. It is exhausting filtering through the endless garbage spam results. And it isn't just text sites. Searching generic terms into sites like YouTube (e.g. "cats") will quickly lead you to a deluge of AI shit. Where did the real cats go?

    It's incredible that DrNik is coming out with a bland, fake movie trailer as an example of how AI is good. It's "super creative" to repeatedly prompt Veo3 to give you synthetic Hobbit-style images that have the vague appearance of looking like VistaVision. Actually, super creative is kinda already done, watch me go hyper creative:

    "Whoa, now you can make it look like an 80s rock music video. Whoa, now you can make it look like a 20s silent film. Whoa, now you can make look like a 90s sci-fi flick. Whoa, now you can make it look like a super hero film."

  • Why so much hate toward AI?

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  • Have you had to code review someone who is obviously just committing AI bullshit? It is an incredible waste of time. I know people who learned pre-LLM (i.e. have functioning brains) and are practically on the verge of complete apathy from having to babysit ai code/coders, especially as their management keeps pushing people to use it. As in, they must use LLM as a performance metric.

  • Why Switch 2 games are so expensive

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  • Does this analysis hold for luxury goods? A Switch 2 is not a necessary purchase, and alternatives to it (games and game consoles) can be found for extremely cheap.

    I also think Nintendo has even more strong competition today than it used to with the rise of cellphones and app stores. I'd argue those mobile games tend to be crap, but that's a separate concern from how accessible they are...

  • Self-hosting your own media considered harmful - I just received my second community guidelines violation for my video demonstrating the use of LibreELEC on a Raspberry Pi 5, for 4K video playback

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  • Notably, Youtube does not consider exploiting children for profit harmful.

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  • Oh lord. I bet he was such a joy to be around.

  • In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance

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  • In addition to your point, literally just two days ago I saw an article about a Texas sheriff running a search through a nation-wide network of license plate readers to track down a woman suspected of having an abortion.

    Oh OK they didn't stop her on the street, they just queried the panopticon system that tracked her movement as much as possible. Want to protest a genocide your state and university are sponsoring? Sorry, MIT will muzzle you and now you are now forbidden from giving the commencement address. Wouldn't want to offend the dear leader in the white house.

  • Companies are using Ribbon AI, an AI interviewer to screen candidates.

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  • Honest and good work to figure out jailbreaks for ai interviewers. Even more honest and good to never accept these interviews because fuck that 100%

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    Germany Is Using AI to Erase Pro-Palestinian Speech

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  • damn the 2020s felt like decades ago 😥

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    A woman watches her husband and child bathe on the beach

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  • I realise somewhat the irony

    Do you actually realize the irony of your extremely racist tirade?

  • Forced E-Waste PCs And The Case Of Windows 11’s Trusted Platform

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  • never

    That tweet must be some kind of joke, because I don't know what to make of the many people who use Linux outside of embedded and server applications. And it doesn't even have to be my hearsay because the Steam Deck is exactly such a device.

    In fact, I have a USB audio interface which I use near daily on Linux that has no driver support in modern Windows, because the vendor only provided beta support for Windows 7 as that OS was releasing. By Windows 8 it was unsupported. So the journey of that device is XP->Stable, Vista->Stable, 7->Unstable, 8+-> Non-functioning. If the driver ABI were so stable, why does my device not work on Windows anymore?

  • Is that bad?

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  • Gamer-focused derivative of Fedora Linux.