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BurgerBaron

@ Sixtyforce @sh.itjust.works

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  • Trump whines about who signed deal to allow Canada to supply energy to the US – it was him

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  • There must be kind idiots out there. No way they'd win.

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  • We do, I just wish it was all of us globally.

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  • I don't think it's meant to be useful....for us, that is. Just another tool to control and brainwash people. I already see a segment of the population trust corporate AI as an authority figure in their lives. Now imagine kids growing up with AI and never knowing a world without. People who have memories of times before the internet is a good way to relate/empathize, at least I think so.

    How could it not be this way? Algorithms trained people. They're trained to be fed info from the rich and never seek anything out on their own. I'm not really sure if the corps did it on purpose or not, at least at first. Just money pursuit until powerful realizations were made. I look at the declining quality of Google/Youtube search results. As if they're discouraging seeking out information on your own. Subtly pushing the path of least resistance back to the algorithm or now perhaps a potentially much more sinister "AI" LLM chatbot. Or I'm fucking crazy, you tell me.

    Like, we say dead internet. Except...nothing is actually stopping us from ditching corporate internet websites and just go back to smaller privately owned or donation run forums.

    Big part of why I'm happy to be here on the newfangled fediverse, even if it hasn't exploded in popularity at least it has like-minded people, or you wouldn't be here.

    Check out debate boards. Full of morons using ChatGPT to speak for them and they'll both openly admit it and get mad at you for calling it dehumanizing and disrespectful.

    /tinfoil hat

    Edit to add more old man yells at clouds(ervers) detail, apologies. Kinda chewing through these complex ideas on the fly.

  • 'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterprises

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  • I'll shed no tears, even as a NAS owner, once we get equivalent capacity SSD without ruining the bank :P

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  • I tried to strike out on my own, failed. College halfheartedly with a couple different courses (Programming, and Hearing Aid Practitioner) just kinda throwing shit at the wall. Both I'd last a year or two, then decide nah and drop out. Welding I did okay at, and it's a useful skill at home, but wasn't for me as a career. Same with vehicle mechanic. Since Canadian, that didn't actually put me in much debt despite being a massive waste of time. Plus I worked part time through education, and split rent on a house five ways with my friends turned roommates.

    Miserable warehouse work for a couple years after all this. Moved up to manager in a year because every other manager was on drugs or alcoholic and unreliable. The other workers were mostly ex-cons or fried out temp workers. Used that exp to apply to a manufacturing plant for warehouse packaging. Adjacent career, but pays way better. Especially with a union.

    That position got taken, but they offered me an Operator position instead which is great work if you're a loner and just wanna run extruders mostly unsupervised and with only one co-worker in your crew. Which I do. Some days busy and you don't sit. Some days are hell. Especially when equipment isn't quite broken, but is on the way out, or you have a bitchy development product with a bunch of unknowns with the techs watching and asking about your every move. Most days you have almost nothing to do but hourly readings and you sometimes never see any manager or tech for months at a time. It's a clean manufacturing process, so not much housekeeping outside of a fuckup. Thankfully, I'm allowed personal electronics in our control room. I like read, draw, and write at work. Sometimes Steam Deck. Used to scroll online way too much at work, so I found healthier habits to stave off night shift cabin fever and not break my mind reading American media.

    As of this year, the career pays out ~110,000 a year. Union plant. Thank fuck, because the Americans own it.

    Basically I just stumbled around and got lucky.

  • PixelFed has increased the Fediverse's monthly active users by over 40% in the last few weeks, how do we feel?

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  • Same problem with Mastodon tbh

  • What app is so useful, you can’t believe it’s free?

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  • Vinyl media player is very pretty.

  • Pixelfed just overtook Lemmy as the 4th most used Fediverse software.

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  • Runs much faster than java BlueSky, the destroyer of batteries.

  • Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy

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  • I'm not so sure. Depends if there's a solution to the bots. Bluesky is inundated with them already.

  • Proton CEO supports business policies of republicans

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  • Mullvad

    I thought they were wonderful. Until they got rid of port forwarding, which is the only reason why I was paying them: as a torrenting VPN.

    If you don't need that feature, Mullvad is still great...they take privacy/security seriously! That's why they got rid of the feature I used haha.

    They've also been put to the test and passed IMO:

    https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/21/23692580/mullvad-vpn-raid-sweden-police

  • Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta's Llama team the OK to train on copyrighted works, filing claims

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  • If the RIAA can sue $100,000's per individual mp3 file...

  • Japanese Yakuza leader admits trying to sell nuclear material to DEA agents posing as Iranian generals

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  • How's Russian border security?

  • Conservatives bizarrely blame DEI for Los Angeles wildfires

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  • Definition of bizarre: strikingly out of the ordinary.

    Poor headline.

  • Microsoft should be terrified of SteamOS

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  • Japanese Yakuza leader admits trying to sell nuclear material to DEA agents posing as Iranian generals

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  • Least shocking thing I've ever heard, we've been scared of Russia loosey goosey rotting nuclear security forever.

    Edit: estimated remaining 20,400 Yakuza members is more than I expected.

  • Coelocant

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  • Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal

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  • looks around for consequences

  • This offends me!

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  • idk that's still funny.

  • VLC tops 6 billion downloads, previews AI-generated subtitles

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  • Curious how resource intensive AI subtitle generation will be. Probably fine on some setups.

    Trying to use madVR (tweaker's video postprocessing) in the summer in my small office with an RTX 3090 was turning my office into a sauna. Next time I buy a video card it'll be a lower tier deliberately to avoid the higher power draw lol.