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  • what is real? baby don't hurt me no more ...

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  • Congratulations on your conversion to Buddhism.

  • Whats the most boring unpopular opinion?

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  • Things aren't actually all that bad. Seriously, in the grand scheme of things, yo, we doing OK. Antibiotics. Hot water. Sunscreen. Whiskey. Coffee. Shit, we're frying things with the air now, man. As a species, we're doing kinda OK. We could be doing better, but we're learning. Some of us, anyway. There's a lot to love out there in the world, and every day something beautiful can happen to you. Yes, even you, you crabby-ass bitch.

    Most Mac 'n' cheese from scratch is poorly made and not good. You have to make a goddamned cream sauce base first. It's not hard, it just takes giving a shit.

  • witchcraft tips!

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  • Eh, modern witchcraft, huh?

    I do it like the old ways demand. Shove 'em down some stairs.

  • What do people even mean by "If you don't use AI, you'll fall behind"?

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  • What they mean is that the technology seems to be both moving fast, and spreading rapidly. So, likely looking back to the early days of the internet, people expect that anyone who gains a lot of day to day experience will be more successful at any career that will likely rely heavily on LLMs in the future.

    This was similar to what a lot of anti-internet we're told in the early 2000s. People who knew even a trivial amount of HTML could create simple things like a GeoCities page and seem like a wizard to some normal folks.

    How true is it? Meh. Not everyone that learned even a decent amount of html in the 90s did anything related to tech on their lives. Right now, that's more about if you're training custom LLMs, self-hosting models, etc. Simply using an LLM, all that "prompt engineer" shit from 2 years ago, is already stale and gone. That's likely what older people sarong "you'll get left behind" mean. They're already left behind.

    Just tell people you already run your own 40B Ollama model on a Kawasaki jetski and let them figure it out. Good luck!

  • LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices

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  • Brilliant!

  • LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices

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  • It's fair to make it "you don't watch TV, TV watches you!"

    Which I feel like might have been a real Yakov Smirnoff joke way back when.

  • Valid point

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  • Bro, the way I'm infesting my pants right now...

  • How many countries of the world can you name?

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  • My spouse is great at these. Her only blind spots are small islands in the Pacific and some down the Caribbean chain, and half of those she knows. I would bet the farm she could hit 150 named correctly on a map without breaking a sweat. Then place their flags and name capitals.

  • What is a psychological "cheat code" you use in everyday life that actually works?

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  • If you're overthinking or worried about something you can't control, other than something like planning for contingency, all that overthinking is pointless. Worse than pointless, since it adds stress and anxiety. There's usually zero real benefit.

    It takes practice, but being able to say to yourself "well, I'll deal with that when it happens. No point in worrying about that now, " helps keep you out of the doom loop.

  • What is a psychological "cheat code" you use in everyday life that actually works?

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  • Or food service.

  • Kirk's not a Jack of all trades

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  • This is wonderful

  • [Opinion] Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products And Spineless Capitulation

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  • Willing to bet $10 the next guy drives it straight into the ground harder and faster.

  • What Movie Soundtrack is BETTER than the movie?

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  • It was worth a solid 3 or 4 chuckles. There's worse ways to spend your time. The Rotten Tomatoes score is fair.

  • Exemption on age verification for Linux operating systems

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  • I rented a car, and within hours, my driver's license was for sale

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  • I recommend listening to the podcast Darknet Diaries. It's about sketchy things online, and very often has real accounts from real criminals talking about what they did and how they got caught.

    Very often, people only get caught because 1) they get huge and greedy enough that many governments are actively trying to hunt them down, 2) they make a stupid mistake that tracks back to them personally.

    There is no "the government can trace everything!" In reality, it's more like "if someone does something egregious, a few people will spend months or years trying to find them. And maybe they'll catch a lucky break." Hacker OpSec is typically more than enough to frustrate the FBI for years. If they even care to look for attackers. The FBI can't just show up in Romania and arrest people, either, so it takes international government cooperation. Which is slooooooow to move.

  • You were cleaning out your basement, and you discover a gateway to a cosmic urban outer world being overruled by crater orcs, What would you like your behavioural sci fi class to be?

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  • Q or Doctor. Seems like anything less would be a lot of work.

  • How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?

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  • And yet, so many people had their retirement totally boned by the surprise collapse. A looooot of people missed the signs of 2007 as they turned into 2008. It wasn't some clear sign that everyone talked about. Things just felt off and wobbly.

    I dunno, man. I've been hearing about the bubble popping for half as long as LLMs have been in popular use. At least 18 months, almost up to 2 years of bubble doomerism for something that's only been out and really in common use for 3 and a half years or so. To me, that's closer to the sky is falling doomers that at every year is an economic collapse. Say it 20 years in a row and you'll get a hit eventually. It's not skill or accuracy, it's simply statistics.

  • I rented a car, and within hours, my driver's license was for sale

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  • The data gets sold in blocks usually. Could be for identity theft, or SIM swap attacks or any number of things. A lot of things online want an ID scan now, so this is a huge benefit to scammers.

  • Rich ppl live longer

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  • for a nut

    Yeah, this isn't about comparing almonds vs. pistachios. This is about comparing almonds vs. hot cheetos and takis.

    Which, granted, are closer in price now, but when that study came out and was all over the news, it was just classism wrapped up as some health news. At the time even jerky was about the same price as almonds, and gas stations wouldn't ever carry almonds. Sunflower seeds, peanuts, corn nuts, jerky.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    hansolo @lemmy.today

    What's the biggest flop of a flex you've ever personally witnessed?

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
    hansolo @lemmy.today

    Pick a TOS Movie and make it a Special Edition

  • Cooking @lemmy.world
    hansolo @lemmy.today

    Turkey Tonkotsu Ramen. When the leftovers are better than the first run.

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
    hansolo @lemmy.today

    Best Fediverse platforms to do it all right this time

  • Privacy @lemmy.world
    hansolo @lemmy.today

    Question about self-hosting SearxNG

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    hansolo @lemmy.today

    What are some active online communities that are entirely oldschool forums?

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    hansolo @lemmy.today

    Counter Proposal for Privacy Flag