GnuLinuxDude @ GnuLinuxDude @lemmy.ml

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

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.

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?

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/

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."

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.

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...

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

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

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.

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%

Curated by experts, specifically. Seeing a lot of people use this stuff and flop, even if they're not doing it with any intention to spam.

I think the curl project gets a lot of spam because 1) it has a bug bounty with a payout and 2) kinda fits with CVE bloat phenomenon where people want the prestige of "discovering" bugs so that they can put it on their resumes to get jobs, or whatever. As usual, the monetary incentive is the root of the evil.

damn the 2020s felt like decades ago 😥

I realise somewhat the irony

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

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?

Gamer-focused derivative of Fedora Linux.

I'd not heard of your site before, but it sounds like it was a cool thing while it lasted. That seems to be the trend of the day. The cool things are giving way to very dumb things.

There is no .srt in this case. This is also not about bitmap dvd vobsubs.

The Epson initially worked with 3rd party ink then after a software update didn’t

Infuriating!

Interesting observation. It is indeed already installed with Fedora.