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Admiral Patrick

@ ptz @dubvee.org

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I'm surprisingly level-headed for being a walking knot of anxiety.

Ask me anything.

Special skills include: Knowing all the "na na na nah nah nah na" parts of the Three's Company theme.

I also develop Tesseract UI for Lemmy/Sublinks

Avatar by @SatyrSack@feddit.org

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  • To be fair, if you're not at least a little high at a funeral, you're doing it wrong. Definitely takes the edge off and helps me to function without being a wreck.

  • Linus O'Brien, creator of LwaxanaOS

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  • Linus O'Brien, creator of LwaxanaOS

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  • Linus O'Brien, creator of LwaxanaOS

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  • Utopia

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  • Yeah. Agrovoltaics is just smart land use. Some crops even grow better in the partial shade.

  • Shower thought: How many rings do you wait for before hanging up?

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  • All of them until I get voicemail.

    With modern digital phones, the number of rings you hear when calling out doesn't necessarily match the number of rings on the receiving end. The first few rings you hear when calling out are often "comfort noise" added locally by the network operator and are heard before the call is even fully routed to the receiver.

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  • I'm not worried about AI turning into Skynet. That's like item # 1,576,549 on my list of reasons I hate AI.

    It's literally everything else about AI:

    • Creating scarcity in PC parts and components to feed the AI bros' insatiable hunger for growth.
    • Rent-seekers like Bezos trying to spin the above into yet more "you'll own nothing and be happy"
    • Destroying farmland or otherwise affordable property for sprawling datacenters that create like maybe 12 jobs that can't be done remotely.
    • We never or barely addressed the massive disinformation problem and here's AI turning it up to 11 by making it trivial to shit out whatever narrative you want at massive scale.
    • Stealing from content creators to feed itself and then denying those same creators web traffic
    • Just being a bullshit machine that people blindly believe
    • Shoving it into everything when no one asks for it and many don't want it
    • Causing electricity rates to go up and subjecting people to either rolling blackouts or dirty generator exhaust because of demand
    • The massive use of water for cooling
    • Not actually able to do jobs but C-levels laying off people and creating unemployment nonetheless
    • C-levels forcing people to use "AI" for the express purpose of training it to do their jobs so they can be laid off
    • The goddamned pile of lies upon lies gaslighting us into believing this is to make our lives better.
    • Ignoring the loss of jobs, all the supposed savings from "AI" goes to the top; shit isn't getting any less expensive. It's even getting more expensive to take a literal shit; the water and poo plants run on electricity, and those risings costs get passed down.

  • Disastrous poll shows Trump’s White House return is a ‘failure’: Americans say he’s ‘gone too far’

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  • I realize you're probably not serious, but, still, voter disenfranchisement is both a slippery slope and a tactic employed by those everyone calls fascists. Two wrongs do not make a right and all that.

  • Anti Spam - Anything better than SpamAssassin?

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  • I've used SA for over 10 years and am happy with it. It's a bit of a pain to get set up and set to train, but otherwise still works well for me.

    I've also heard good things about rspamd but I still haven't even tried it out yet.

  • What is something that ONLY americans believe?

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  • Nothing. We're a country of ~350 million diverse people who believe lots of different things. And this question seems in very bad faith from a 21 minute old account.

  • Say the line Bart!

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  • "Computer! I demand you address me as an adult!"

  • I'm going offline for an indeterminate time:

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  • Definitely take care of yourself and best wishes.

  • I wonder what would've happened if Lego bought Minecraft

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  • Instead of calling it "Minecraft" we'd have to call it "Generic Danish children's pixelated building block software"

    Lego, or as the BBC has to refer to it: "Generic Danish interlocking children's building set."

    — Jason Manford

    https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/qi/episodes/14/2/

  • Anyone else about ready to give up on tech?

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  • I just keep supporting open source and following the forks as needed. Otherwise, I'm self-hosting what I can and going lo-fi where I can't.

    Also: !oldmanyellsatcloud@dubvee.org for all your "ranting about how modern tech sucks" needs.

  • How do I properly and safely clean smartphone?

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  • I just do a spritz onto a tack cloth

  • How do I properly and safely clean smartphone?

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  • I pretty much use this stuff on everything. Spray it on the cloth, though, not the screen.

    For the ports, I just use compressed air.

  • News @lemmy.world
    Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org

    Ukraine's Massive Drone Attack Was Powered by Open Source Software

    www.404media.co /ukraines-massive-drone-attack-was-powered-by-open-source-software/
  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
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    exit

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Not OC

    One more from the archive...

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Spiritual Successor Indeed

  • me_irl @lemmy.world
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    me_irl

  • simpsonsshitposting @sh.itjust.works
    Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org

    How I end all of my work emails...

  • Technology Memes @lemmy.world
    Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org

    I really hope Poker Face does a gag where Charlie searches for something online, gets some AI summary, and just goes "yeah, bullshit", and closes her laptop.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
    Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org

    Programming as a hobby is just knitting for nerds

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org

    Why do, relatively, so few of you set an avatar for your profile?

  • politics @lemmy.world
    Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org

    Russia to enforce location tracking app on all foreigners in Moscow

    www.bleepingcomputer.com /news/government/russia-to-enforce-location-tracking-app-on-all-foreigners-in-moscow/
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
    Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org

    Google is baking Gemini AI into Chrome

    www.pcworld.com /article/2788839/project-mariner-google-is-baking-gemini-ai-into-chrome.html
  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    So close, Data.

  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Is Trump’s base racist? Social scientists begin to weigh in

    www.sfchronicle.com /politics/article/trump-authoritarian-voters-20327399.php
  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    Me when I get a work email from "that guy" at the office...

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
    Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org

    An Aggravating New Barrier Is Making It Harder Than Ever to Land a Job. Candidates Are Pissed.

    slate.com /life/2025/05/jobs-ai-job-hiring-character-interview.html
  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    People having loud speakerphone conversations in public be like...

  • 60s Music @lemmy.world
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    1968

    Aretha Franklin - Think

    song.link /y/P9yIoSpWWNE
  • politics @lemmy.world
    Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org

    President Trump's Qatari 747 is a flying security disaster

    www.theregister.com /2025/05/13/presidents_trump_747_qatar/
  • Electric Vehicles @slrpnk.net
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    GM says new battery chemistry will enable 400-mile range EVs

    www.theverge.com /news/665223/gm-lmr-ev-battery-chemistry-range-miles
  • News @lemmy.world
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    A ripe target for identity thieves: Prisoners on death row

    www.nbcnews.com /tech/security/ripe-target-identity-thieves-prisoners-death-row-rcna205932