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GreenShimada

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  • Federal Workers Can’t Get the White House’s App Off Their Phones

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  • These people literally give away classified documents to friends as party favors. No one that isn't an idiot thinks they're doing anything other than undermining the US in every thing they do. It's literally part of Peter Thiel's goal, to pump and dump the whole country. It's been pump for too long, so they'll crash it, buy cheap, and then act like kings.

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    Is McDonalds in America expensive and crap?

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  • Can't speak to McDonald's, but I can for KFC.

    KFC outside the US is great. Genuinely good and typically not the cheapest food, but not pricey. In some places it's just original recipe (which is fairly crispy) and spicy.

    In the US it's fully disgusting. Top to bottom, everything is gross, and it's not cheap enough to be so gross. I would rather skip a meal than eat KFC in the US. But KFC anywhere in Africa is on par with the excitement of a Nando's - guaranteed good food ahead.

    Last time I had McDonald's at all was 2007 in Morocco and it made me feel gross, so I haven't touched it since.

  • Federal Workers Can’t Get the White House’s App Off Their Phones

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  • Can't get it off their....work phones.

    Probably also can't get their work email and Teams and whatever else is on there off their work phones. Because they're work phones. If you're not on, put your work phone in a shoe box far from where you sit and hang out. faraday bag, even better.

    Wired, c'mon. Only a genuine idiot would use a work phone as a personal phone. Anyone complaining about this gets what they deserve.

  • Leak Exposes Details of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society

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  • He invented this group to have his own Bilderberg group.

  • Trump Celebrates Achieving Absolutely Nothing in Iran

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  • Sorry, I meant that not exactly in sarcasm, but from the insane perspective of MAGA idiots

  • TIL There is a pink Kryptonite that makes Superman gay or effeminate

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  • So Superman is actually bi, and it's only the "fruity drinks kryptonite" that lowers his inhibitions enough to be himself?

  • Trump Celebrates Achieving Absolutely Nothing in Iran

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  • Hey now, he did achieve something - sending $300B in tax dollars to fund a bunch of people that shout "Death to America!"

    Wait....isn't that considered terrorism under NSPM-7?

  • Life in your 30s

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  • Fair points, though, maybe more so in the abstract. To be fair, when I go try and fix or adjust or tweak something, I do always tell myself "we're humans, we change our environment to suit our needs."

    Though I think you're excusing burnout and BS social media hustle culture when some people simply don't want to do that. If you want to post everything on IG, go for it. But people shouldn't feel shame for falling into the lower right square. It's a decision some people make consciously, and others less so. Which, for me, feels like loss. We had this nice thing where it was great to see what my friends from 20 years ago were up to. And now I can't participate in it because it harvests my data, and I would tell them the same. The infrastructure found us, friction-free. And when it turned out that pipes were to suck us dry, the gap was real, and the previous infrastructure not up to the task of casually serving up information. Now it (barely) takes work to say hello to someone and has to be meaningful again. People should be allowed to be OK with that.

    Which is to say that my evolution argument is that we have, within a generation, taxed the limits of a part of us that hasn't gradually worked up to a universal higher capacity. Better weapons have extinguished genetic lines with no regard for adaptation or evolutionary traits other than what country someone was born into. Given 30 generations, we don't physically adapt to having bombs dropped on us. We aren't selecting for terminally online people to reproduce more and be more successful in the species, either. Maybe we are and I'm so far out of it that I can't tell.

  • Life in your 30s

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  • You know, for about a decade, everyone was pushed to share everything they did on social media. It was a mistake. It was a mistake on the scale of cigarettes and smoking inside and in airplanes and in hospitals and in schools. No one thought it was a stupid idea, and a lot of people pushed it as the only way to get jobs and show you're a clever chimp that can internet so hard because interneting hard was the cool new thing.

    Lower right is the hangover from that. Anyone I didn't find or didn't find me between 2008 and 2018 wasn't ever worth connecting with. The people that did find me were nice to hear from once, and we haven't talked ever again, despite being connected, for 10+ years.

    My grandparents and their parents, etc. went their whole lives never seeing people again and not knowing what happened to them because they moved one time and they didn't know their new address. Whole movies were about that. Elvis had a song about that. The last episode of the first season of The Real World ended with everyone moving out of the apartment, and once that landline and address no longer went to those people, it was 100% possible that those people would be gone from each others' lives forever.

    Y'all, we're not supposed to collect and keep 27,000 casual contacts throughout our lives. It's unnatural. Our brains are not built for it. We're made to have a few dozen up to 100-ish close connections that mean something, including family you don't pick.

    Email some old friends you don't text with daily. Send anyone you truly care about an email to say hi. If they respond, then great. If not, don't worry about it. Enjoy high fidelity communications with those who mater to you.

  • Life in your 30s

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  • ....and a Lemmy account

  • Women in Brussels 'filmed without their knowledge' by men wearing Meta smart glasses

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  • All or nothing is right - nothing. No images depicting child sexual abuse. None. Not AI, not animated, not drawn, not real CSAM. WTF is even wrong with you?

  • Brave is charging $60 to remove features it added in the first place

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  • It's based on Chromium, which is open source. It IS the fork.

  • Women in Brussels 'filmed without their knowledge' by men wearing Meta smart glasses

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  • Do you honestly think people who make AI CP and want to see CP are training models on a ton of things to get them close, and then figuring out how to nudge it all just a bit further? Or do the people already in the CSAM world with access to CSAM that want to make CP just use the CSAM to train the model? I expect the second. Meaning there's victims.

    Plus, it's disgusting and should be illegal anywhere that it isn't just in general. It's weird that you're defending it like it's diet coke or something.

  • Women in Brussels 'filmed without their knowledge' by men wearing Meta smart glasses

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  • If you spend some time understanding how AI image generation works, it's essentially iterating on known images to make images that are probably also close to what it was rained on.

    So if someone took some CSAM pictures printed up, and cut them up and made a collage, is that no longer CSAM? Of course not. It's still CSAM. If someone took digital CSAM images and photoshoped the victims into different settings, it's still CSAM. Real people were victims in the base material.

    If you trained a Stable Diffusion model on only pictures of Rwandan people, and asked for an image of "a man sitting on a chair" the man will look vaguely Rwandan.

    When you train an AI on CSAM, it produces images that are based on CSAM. Real people were victims in the base material, too. Close e-fuckin'-nough. Real people's victimization is literally the core of how those images are made.

  • Women in Brussels 'filmed without their knowledge' by men wearing Meta smart glasses

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  • Except that these cameras easily go anywhere, they aren't just outside on the street.

    Spas? Pools? Gyms Locker rooms? Find a nice spot sitting on a bench near a women's dressing room at the mall that peeks in a bit? Set your glasses at your side and record while you look ahead at your phone, not freaking anyone out. They're pervert enablers just as much as Grok is a CSAM machine if you pay for it.

  • Question: What are some alternatives to a Raspberry Pi good for a small home server?

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  • Great advice. I found an old laptop and I'm putting it through the paces now, and I'm really surprised at how easy all of this is. Setting up my own Invidious instance took minutes. Immich is where I'll need to plateau out, I expect. My partner will immediately fill up the laptop by dumping her phone onto it, so that will need to wait for a long-term solution. That being said, a Lenovo mini whatever seems like a solid standard.

  • Question: What are some alternatives to a Raspberry Pi good for a small home server?

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  • Oh, I can deal with something that's larger....

    -wait, not like that.

  • Question: What are some alternatives to a Raspberry Pi good for a small home server?

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  • Thanks for this, this sounds like where I'm headed. I just hadn't even considered thin clients/mini PCs, and it sounds like a lot of people are using Lenovos for this exact thing. I'm not at the point yet of doing something big, just small home lab, but I would like to get to the point of hosting immich for the family, and maybe having an LLM or SD in there at some point. But by then I'm hoping the RAMpocalypse is easing up. For now, it's just privacy front ends until I know what I'm doing.

  • Question: What are some alternatives to a Raspberry Pi good for a small home server?

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  • Thanks - I've put it off for a while, and didn't realize how easy this all was to set up!