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Father, Hacker (Information Security Professional), Open Source Software Developer, Inventor, and 3D printing enthusiast

  • Your Friends Could Be Sharing Your Phone Number with ChatGPT - Slashdot

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  • Your friends could be sharing your public phone number! The one that's listed and accessible to the world via the Internet's version of the White Pages!

    In the US, phone numbers aren't private unless you pay extra (no one does except celebrities who are wasting their money... Because even if they pay it gets sold to 3rd parties anyway!).

  • UK government announces crackdown on AI chatbots and infinte scroll

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  • Not a damned thing in that article had anything at all to do with "chatbots".

  • Whenever I feel down

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  • This situation is SO DIMM!

  • Barack Obama says aliens ‘are real’, but not in Area 51

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  • If extraterrestrial, sapient alien life has been discovered here on Earth by the US government it was probably uncovered via signals intelligence gathering. Not via any sort of physical interaction or visual observation.

    Everyone thinks that to find aliens you need to search the skies, looking for visual evidence or radio patterns. No one bothers to think that a mass surveillance network across the globe would pick it up first—from local sources. Meaning: They're already here and could have been for hundreds of thousands of years (or longer).

    There's probably an autonomous alien monitoring station broadcasting information about Earth on the regular. Probably more than one.

    Exactly the type of thing that would be investigated by signals intelligence analysts who spend their days trying to figure out, "WTF was that?" Looking at data gathered from all over the world (for spying reasons).

    That's why Obama would laugh at the question of, "where are the aliens?" Because he wouldn't know! He'd just know that they're here... Somewhere. Probably just super advanced machines, connected to a quantum-level universe-wide network.

    The real question to ask is, "are they enjoying our memes?"

  • ‘It’s over for us’: release of new AI video generator Seedance 2.0 spooks Hollywood

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  • The Motion Picture Association (MPA), the Hollywood trade association, accused ByteDance of “unauthorised use of US copyrighted works on a massive scale”.

    ByteDance: "Yeah, so? Not everything needs authorization. We do not need authorization to say that you suck."

    We must never forget that the MPAA and RIAA are villain organizations. They do not serve the interests of consumers. They have been enemies of the Internet at large since the Internet.

    As much as I hate AI slop, the MPAA deserves zero sympathy.

  • (Update: properly solved now!) When using rsync to backup my /home folder to an external 1TB SSD, I run out of space, how??

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  • Simple: Exfat does not support symbolic links. So every file that's just a symbolic link on your btrfs filesystem is getting copied in full (the link is being resolved) to your Exfat drive.

    Solution: Don't use Exfat. For backups from btrfs, I recommend using btrfs with compression enabled.

    Also don't forget to rebalance your btrfs partitions regularly to reclaim lost space! Also, delete old snapshots!

  • IBM is tripling the number of Gen Z entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption

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  • Rather bold of them to admit openly of age discrimination.

  • US fixation on the hard-hat economy and making manufacturing great again makes little sense

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  • Articles like this are really just propaganda (wishful thinking) trying to soften the blow of Baumol's Cost Disease:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect

    Industries that benefit heavily from automation reduce costs over time. Industries that rely heavily on services (that require people to perform them) increase costs over time.

    If you can somehow convert a big chunk of your economy into services from automated production, you can smooth out the difference in that economic curve. In theory, that means the rich (capitalists) can continue to get richer while everyone else's salaries flatten out.

    It's total bullshit. The only logical end result of such a situation is the rich getting eaten sooner rather than later.

    Smart rich people are (right now) lobbying to get their taxes increased to pay for a better social safety net. Stupid rich people are lobbying for bullshit like converting everything into a subscription economy.

  • Sony-led program offers PS5 rentals starting at $13.50 a month in the UK across 12, 24, or 36-month leases — console has to be returned at the end of the contract

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  • Folks here jest, but this business model is coming to PCs next. Bookmark my words!

    (Literally, you can right-click the perma-link to this message and have quick access to it later so you can reply, "Damn, you were right!" And post the link to big PC vendors suddenly offering a similar services because DRAM and GPUs have become so expensive, normal people can't afford to buy PCs anymore)

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    Bacon

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  • It's also pig-headed!

  • Curb feelers

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  • Forbidden chopsticks

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    China’s ‘Rat People’: When Education Can’t Deliver on Its Promises

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  • Remember folks: Education teaches us that working 9AM to 9PM six days a week is total bullshit.

  • In defence of child labour

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  • You apparently missed the fact that I put that in both sections 😁

    There's tons of regulations that are absolutely necessary and others that are bad and lock people in to bad things.

    Example: It's impossible for someone to start their own competitor to Visa/MasterCard due to the regulations!

  • UN approves 40-member scientific panel on the impact of artificial intelligence over US objections

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  • Of all the things to object to... This?

    It's so silly! No matter what the panel concludes, the current Trump regime will just ignore it anyway. Just like they ignore the IPCC or polling or basic economics.

    It'd be like the administration objecting to a panel being formed about vaccines, pollution, corruption, or authoritarianism. Clearly, they don't care so why bother? It just draws attention to their incompetence.

    Just another loud demonstration of their incompetence, actually. Otherwise they wouldn't have objected.

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    Woman tried to torch warehouse after ICE detention facility sale cancelled, police say

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  • She got the instructions wrong: Obviously, the Trump administration wanted her to torch the building after the immigrants were inside.

  • 700:1

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  • Men aren't posting pictures of themselves because their appearance is completely uninteresting. Men aren't pretty and they know it.

    For a man, there's nothing to be gained from posting a picture of yourself. It will not get you more views. It might even get you fewer!

  • After Tumbler Ridge shooting, false claims about trans people have flourished online

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  • When a right wing (conservative) person (usually a white guy) goes on a killing rampage (the traditional shooter), folks on the right wonder what went wrong (or celebrate it). Those on the left have a pretty good idea, though: Right wing media.

    When the rare left wing person kills some people (usually political targets and not random civilians), folks on the right see it as justification for all their rage and those on the left blame the same thing: Right wing media.

    When the exceptionally rare trans person kills people it's the same: Right wing media is the source. Not that they read/view right wing media... It's because they were the targets of it.

    Only right wing media singles out minorities and declares them as evil, less than human beings. This drives right wing people into hatred which leads to mistreatment and ultimately, violence. Violence begets violence.

    Whenever a right-wing, white guy goes on a killing rampage we need to label that for what it is: Right-wing ideology in action. They're not "extremists". They're not "radicals". They're just conservatives who aren't pussies about what they believe and are willing to take action.

    That guy that shot his daughter because she didn't like Trump? That wasn't a radical MAGA conservative! He was just a regular one. He did what they all want to do: Kill people they don't like. From his perspective, he dealt with the problem, directly. Other conservatives should celebrate this win of their ideology! Show the world who they really are.

    We need to stop pretending they don't want violence. That they don't want to murder. That somewhere deep down, they're even a little bit reasonable.

    They're not.

  • In defence of child labour

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  • There would need to be a stupid complex network of regulations and inspectors to do it right.

    This is how all regulations work (for the most part). Also note that there's no such thing as "too much" or "too little" regulation. There's just bad regulations and good regulations.

    Examples of good regulation:

    • Car emissions standards
    • Appliance energy efficiency requirements
    • Safety regulations (all kinds)
    • Loads of regulations related to banking

    Examples of bad regulation:

    • Requiring certification for things that don't need it (e.g. braiding hair)
    • Requiring drug tests in order to receive government benefits
    • Banning necessary medical procedures and medications based on religious beliefs
    • Loads of regulations related to banking

    Note: I work for a huge bank and our executives bitch about the cost of compliance all the time. Make them bitch more. Of all the things that need regulation, banking is of the greatest need. Never trust any financial system or transaction that isn't heavily regulated! There's an infinite number of ways to get screwed via banking and if it weren't for regulations they would screw you and everyone else as much as they possibly could. History is full of examples.

  • looking for a meme

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  • Wow! BeOS mentioned. Hello, fellow old person. While you read this comment, imagine two towers of green LEDs, gently rising and falling, based on the complexity of each word while we just Be, together.

    Now let's remember why BeOS actually failed: Illegal contracts from Microsoft to prevent PC vendors from selling PCs preloaded with BeOS. Be, Inc sued Microsoft and settled out of court for $23 million and I remember that moment, thinking, "That's not enough!"

    Microsoft destroyed BeOS. Not any sort of market condition or natural state of economics. The whole, "let's turn it into an appliance OS" thing was a last ditch pivot in an attempt to save the company. It was doomed from the start.

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2003/sep/07/microsoftpays

    Aside: Just like Palm's WebOS which also tried to pivot into an appliance OS. Except in that case, that OS was destroyed by sheer incompetence on the part of HP's brain dead CEO: Carly Fiorina. To this day, she's still tarnishing her image by associating with the Trump administration. Very pro-Nazi.

    If you ever want to point out an obvious example of how CEOs aren't any smarter than anyone else and normally only get the job based on nepotism and industry incest, she's the perfect go-to!

  • linuxmemes @lemmy.world
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    Windows users be like

  • Two Sentence Horror @sh.itjust.works
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    Be careful what you wish for

  • Anime @lemmy.ml
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    The hidden gem of this season: If My Wife Becomes an Elementary School Student

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    The status quo may have changed

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    How it will be for a whole lot of people at the end of the day today

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    For those who live outside the US this is how their elections work

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
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    Incident Postmortem

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    What's the oldest thing in your downloads directory and how old is it?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Imagine a "woke mob": Who's in it? What do they look like? What would they do?

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    Project 2025 aims to eliminate the US Forest Service (USFS) powers to prevent forest fires and to increase logging on Federal lands which makes sense because it's trees that are the problem

  • Pareidolia @sh.itjust.works
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    The remnants of battle

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    NTFS turns 30 years old today! I hear it's still in use by some crufty old legacy operating systems 😁

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/NTFS
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    NTFS turns 30 years old today! I hear it's still in use by some crufty old legacy operating systems 😁

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/NTFS
  • Lord of the memes @midwest.social
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    Looking for cool Fediverse communities

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Reality sets in