gencha

@gencha@lemm.ee
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  1. People vastly overestimate the abilities of AI.
  2. Developers vastly overestimate their own abilities.
  3. There are people on any level of seniority that would be perfectly replaced by a noise generator.
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I've been a funding member of the Wikimedia Foundation for over a decade. I have looked at their finances several times before and during financing them.

As with a lot of similar non-profits, a considerable amount of donations does not go into "running the servers". You have to judge this by yourself, but they don't embezzle any money and there is a reasonable bottom line. Wikipedia continuously helps tons of people, and the people who run the operation enable that.

You can download a full dump of Wikipedia any day. Compared to other lying companies, they have been true on their promises for some time.

Of all the $1 I could spend in a year, the one I give to Wikipedia is probably the least wrong invested, and that $1 actually already makes a difference

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Smoking is redundant today. Kids are getting enough cancer from the environment already.

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SO is a shithole, just like Reddit. All the work is done by volunteers. When it was time to cash out with the platform, they also did several things to fuck with their community. I've contributed quite a bit to the trilogy sites, and served as a moderator. I regret every second of it. But at least a few people got rich in the process.

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Samsung device telemetry

Says the guy who funnels his entire wealth through a foundation to avoid paying any taxes. Just like he told Epstein to do. Love you Bill

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Do it anyway. Having anything behind a TLD that is tied to the political control of a tiny geographic area is insanely careless

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As others have already pointed out, you must rotate the key. I don't even put any restrictions on that. Once you have shared a secret in any way, it is no longer a secret. Don't try to avoid work, just because it is an inconvenience. Convenience is the enemy of security.

Rotating your key is not enough though. Verify that it wasn't used. API providers also often provide audit logs to show when credentials were used and from which location. If someone had your key only for a second, they could have used it to generate a new key you don't even know about. Audit!

Chrome is the backdoor and you already installed it

Drunk people might accidentally get pregnant and help with the population. Really an obvious move

This is not unique to Lemmy. You can do the same on Slack, Discord, Teams, GitHub, ... Finding unused resources isn't trivial, and you're usually better off ignoring the noise.

If you upload illegal content somewhere, and then tell the FBI about it, being the only person knowing the URL, let me know how that turns out.

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That is some next-level Minecraft you are playing over there

How do you sell what you did as "it just worked"? Rightaway? You lied to them. You have your coworkers on an unmanaged machine with a foreign OS on the guest WiFi with custom networking. Don't oversell a workaround as a solution.

Simplifying the problem to "Windows" seems unfair, given how many problems you found. All of them still require a long-term solution for regular operation.

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Their entire offering is such a joke. I'm forced to use Docker Desktop for work, as we're on Windows. Every time that piece of shit gets updated, it's more useless garbage. Endless security snake oil features. Their installer even messes with your WSL home directory. They literally fuck with your AWS and Azure credentials to make it more "convenient" for you to use their cloud integrations. When they implemented that, they just deleted my AWS profile from my home directory, because they felt it should instead be a symlink to my Windows home directory. These people are not to be trusted with elevated privileges on your system. They actively abuse the privilege.

The only reason they exist is that they are holding the majority of images hostage on their registry. Their customers are similarly being held hostage, because they started to use Docker on Windows desktops and are now locked in. Nobody gives a shit about any of their benefits. Free technology and hosting was their setup, now they let everyone bleed who got caught. Prices will rise until they find their sweet spot. Thanks for the tech. Now die already.

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Media platforms are beyond spying. You have nothing to offer.

It's all about controlling information and feeding you what you need to see.

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Buy a different domain. Let them pay for this one until the end of time.

Why was it his game? He playing alone?

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Trump is a billionaire?

I fucking hate it when they don't know how to prepare a proper legendary steak at a restaurant

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Containers are a great way run applications.

Docker is a piece of garbage by a company way too far down the enshittification slide.

Money was already spent. The hype companies were backed by big capital in their early days. Now the people who provided that capital want to cash out and they want their winnings. So you will have AI shoved down your throat on every piece of media channel those people also own. AI is a hype term that appears periodically since before the 2000s. This is nothing new. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter

LLMs are toys that sparkle for a brief moment. Their value is laughable compared to their cost.

So she supports laws that would make transphobic views a criminal offense? Didn't take her for such a progressive thinker.

There is no peer review with these scam publications. You pay your flat fee and get published. That's it. This is how climate change deniers and all other nut jobs get their studies too. This has been going on for years. This is a cute joke that cost roughly 3K https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/cell-and-developmental-biology/for-authors/publishing-fees

SmegmaScript is just too close

I remember this mindset in myself. Today I consider it a waste of time.

If you rely on any tool for this, the tool will make mistakes you cannot accept. If you do it manually, you will make mistakes as well and that also does not work. Also, the information your consider worthy for removal might be key to understanding the problem.

Like, you remove your name, but a certain character in your name is what is actually tripping up the program.

Ultimately, don't post your logs publicly. In the past years, I was always able to email logs to devs. I have no reason not to trust them with my log. If they want data from me, they could easily exfiltrate it through their actual application.

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The emissions attributed to Shell are the emissions of their customers. People love to play dumb to make a point.

It really does suck when you're in a debate and the other person defuses all your points with facts. It would have been far nicer if the other person looked stupid. If they don't actually know anything, like myself, that's also kinda dishonest to just have those facts. Especially when it's a debate in the election, which is really a game show on TV, and not about real politics. Shameful behavior

Tote bag handle length is not standardized. Get a different one

Not sure if this works for you, but when I'm in a socially confusing situation, I involve people. If you think someone is talking bad about you, ask them about it. Ask for guidance. If you ask someone for help, they will often remember it positively. It takes courage to ask for help, as it's a sign of weakness, and people usually respect that you trust them with your request.

Ideally it will turn out to be a misunderstanding, or you get some constructive criticism, or you get a confirmation that people are actually talking bad about you. At least you will have more clarity. If there wasn't really anything bad going on, now you're still in a conversation. Even if you say thanks and end the conversation, you've broken the ice with that person.

Friends are very much necessary. You need people in your environment, other than your family, to exchange ideas with and talk about things that are on your mind. Don't try to substitute friends with online relationships. It will never be equal. Finding local people with similar interests online is fine if that helps you to reach out. You can't force making friends, it's a waste of time. Start with making one friend. Quality over quantity

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How much more feedback do you need to gather on the subject to understand that a bot with a garbage datasource is no use to anyone? Even opening this thread is an insult and a sign of how little you recognize and care for your community. Remove the shit bot already instead of fishing for excuses to keep it active.

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North Stream 2 didn't happen. Industry expected it to happen. Also, our ex-chanslor is Putin's buddy and Gazprom board member for some reason.

Loans are no longer free. Industry expected loans to be free forever. Also, our current chanslor forgot all the details about all his meetings with people involved in Cum-Ex.

Working population has been decreasing for decades. Industry expected to compensate with overtime and worse working conditions. Also, skilled foreigners prefer countries where the police doesn't reliably lose all evidence in neo-nazi cases.

Industry invested billions into a brand revolving around Kanye West.

Industry has been responsible for several global car emissions scandals.

Industry bought Monsanto.

Industry pays their top-level management ludicrous bonuses for laughable goals.

Pretty sure we just need to eat the rich.

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There are companies making bricks in much better quality than LEGO, and they are cheaper than LEGO. What kind of a margin is this supposed to be?

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Oh boy, that au10tix sales pitch:

Did we mention? We built the technology that provided identity intelligence for airports and border controls. Then we added new superpowers for digital enterprise with the help of machine learning and all that other clever stuff.

There is https://developers.cloudflare.com/ssl/keyless-ssl/

If you don't own your private keys, wtf are you doing anyway? People are fucking lazy and they are paying for it.

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Now this is some horrible advice. Bravo

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Especially after the GOP literally pulled her into the spotlight over the subject https://newrepublic.com/post/177990/fox-news-conspiracy-theory-taylor-swift-psyop

Maybe I'm just old, but I thought a distribution is literally just a package delivery basically, just like you speculated. Making software work together nicely is actually already hard enough IMO. I don't think anything is wrong. Valid question though

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Sounds a lot more expensive than regular prostitutes