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wizardbeard

@ wizardbeard @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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  • VS Code 1.124 released

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  • All but one of the changes is AI related.

    Notably, they have enabled AI autopilot by default, where it can take certain actions on its own without your approval, and the setting is intended to be managed at the organizational level instead of by your own user settings.

  • Broken speaker? Finicky zipper? Anticonsumerist Repair Cafes urge you to fix it instead of pitch it

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  • God, I was just enjoying some cyberpunk-adjacent media yesterday and laughed at the satire of an in universe news outlet complaining about "anticonsumerist terrorism".

    Something something torment nexus

  • what will happen to all the datacenters when the bubble bursts?

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  • You will rent your computer and be happy

  • How do I break my scrum/project manager friend?

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  • Yup. Kind of surprised how people seem to have jumped to the idea this is something toxic.

    I'm not talking about anything seriously crossing boundaries, I just want some fodder for domain specific teasing. Maybe worded things a bit extreme.

  • How do I break my scrum/project manager friend?

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  • Pretty presumptuous to assume this is in any way toxic or mean.

    I just wanted to tease him about his job, like when other friends ask me about my work week as a systems admin/engineer and then follow it up by making up absurd reasons for people to request admin rights.

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  • You don't ever know for sure. I've seen people with "less than a day left" take months, and people fully healthy drop dead from completely unknown health issues.

  • Matter matters

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  • Same sort of thing. Sure, my entire existence could be the product of a delusion of some higher order being merely keeping the results of my senses consistent with what I consider "real life". All my previous experiences could be complete fabrications done convincingly enough, including previous musings on this.

    So fucking what?

    Until any of that becomes provable or has direct impact on the experience I have as "real life", it's nothing more than extremely boring navel gazing.

    Non-falsifiable philosophical wankery dead-ends and a waste of energy to seriously consider. Better ways to spend what I pErCeIvE as time.

  • Matter matters

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  • Matches my thoughts on the whole "what if this is all just a simulation?" thing too. Until that has some tangible effect on us, or we find a way out, so what?

    And free will. We feel like we have it. That's all that really matters as far as that debate goes unless you're the kind of jackass trying to rob someone of their accomplishment or absolve yourself of terrible behavior.

  • Stadium construction begins at White House for UFC Freedom 250

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  • What the actual fuck

  • Does a PBJ have a defined "up" side?

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  • Oooooh no! Tut tut good sir, I only eat pea-nut-but-ter-and-preserrrrve sandwiches! What do you take me for, some sort of street urchin, a ruffian, or a cad? Shame upon your family sir! Good day!

  • Telegram is lying to you about privacy

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  • I can only assume there's a different backdoor for 10 that just hasn't been published. Even if there isn't, Windows defaults to backing the key up to the attached Microsoft account. You think they'd ever tell intelligence agencies to come back with a warrant for that?

    Just use Veracrypt folks.

  • Introducing DoomBench - Can Your Data Stack Run DOOM?

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  • Not actually DOOM. Just a Wolfenstein clone they coded in their DB system, trying to ride along on name recognition. Still cool I guess, but not DOOM.

    Not like DOOM is one of the most deeply understood open source games out there or anything.

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    Does anyone remember the days of the zombie apocalypse's popularity?

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  • Not since the accident

  • I'm sorry for who fell for the relentless marketing

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  • Fuck, I have one from 2024 that's been sitting in a box until I had the time to get into 3d printing (like yours, it was a gift). Guess I need to buy a fire fighting ball thing for it when I finally get it set up.

  • Every single time!

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  • Works with toddlers too.

  • A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide

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  • They also can identify and track vehicles based off things like bumper stickers, dents/damage. And identify people across different cameras by outfit, physical characteristics, and walking gait.

  • If most of the jobs get replaced by AI, how people will have income to spend on products which will likely be produced by AI itself?

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  • There's a bunch of people who work as consultants for the rich, and in the past decade they have been talking about how many rich people were getting into disaster prep. Some of them have done interviews with various news organizations. In an article I remember they said a common question was how these rich bastards could ensure their bunker staff wouldn't revolt and take over.

  • TIL that Missouri forced Kansas City to spend at least 25% of its budget on police. The measure passed, despite 66% of Kansas City residents opposing it

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  • I think you, and many others, believe that US citizens have far greater control over our "representatives" than we actually do. We literally have no recourse (outside of the ammo box or absurd amounts of money) against a politician taking office and doing exactly the opposite of what they campaigned on, besides waiting for their term to be over.

    Due to tons of laws built up over many years, the only way to get a seat at the table is money, and all the community fundraising in the world isn't going to outspend corporate interests.

    Look, I don't have the time or the energy to debate club out all the issues with the US governmental system to the rigid expectations of everyone outside of it with an opinion. People make lifelong careers just trying to explain the mess to people living within it. You clearly have a strong opinion that the collective population of the US isn't doing enough for whatever metric you have, and I'm not even trying to argue against that.

    I just think it's absolutely rich to try and assign blame to the proletariat for hesitating to throw their bodies on the corpse pile from thousands of miles away, or even from right here but sitting on your ass taking no action yourself. And no amount of admonishing, debate club bullshit, mental gymnastics, semantics lawyering, philosophy 101, specific individual cases where my generalized statements are untrue, or whatever anyone can bring to bear is going to change my opinion that "If you're so invested in this, grab a cheap plane ticket and get to work on it yourself instead of trying to guilt others into shedding blood."

    I'm not denying the responsibility of the people, where we can effect change. I'm simply stating that the area which we can effect is small and not going to make news broadcasts. Basing your take on the will of a country's people on the multiple times distilled and removed news broadcasts that make it out is just silly.

    This will be my last comment in this thread. It's clear that many people here simply want an easy outlet for their frustrations about the US government and have decided the populace is the problem, rather than the systems of wealth and social inequality which are global at this point.

  • TIL that Missouri forced Kansas City to spend at least 25% of its budget on police. The measure passed, despite 66% of Kansas City residents opposing it

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  • You haven't been involved with politics at a local level, have you? Just the bullshit going on with flock surveillance cameras being pushed through is a good microcosm of how politicians don't face consequences for failing to follow their constituents will.

  • TIL that Missouri forced Kansas City to spend at least 25% of its budget on police. The measure passed, despite 66% of Kansas City residents opposing it

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  • People should, but I'm kind of tired of all the keyboard warriors thinking that lack of blood on the streets equals lack of action and explicit approval, especially when they have no skin in the fight themselves.

    It's some of the most absurd shit. "I don't see you actively hunting down child abusers, so you must be a pedophile" ass opinions.

    It's easy to call for others to die for a cause, and that's a large part of what led to the situation we're in now. People sitting back and sentencing others to pay for their desires.