LainTrain @ LainTrain @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Plastics are great, what are you smoking, plastics?

I think the author identifies the correct issues but this isn't an argument against passkeys as a security measure rather their inevitable use by corpos for data harvesting. I hate it too tbqh I'd rather get hacked on some disposable email account with a random username than have to hand over my PII, money and mortal soul to Google for extra sec. At work it's a different level of shit entirely. We have SSO behind SSO behind SSO, the inept overseas coworkers don't understand arch of the company they got merged with nor the concept of legal compliance or ISO, they're running the entire sec programme into the ground to bring it under AD in a way that directly compromises their AD when nothing in any of our orgs even uses windows in any way except theirs where they drink M$ coolaid. If this job wasn't so comfortable I'd be depressed just thinking about it.

Oh god the lemmings are optimizing posts for engagement. We are approaching peak content

Clearly non-functioning in this case as the wrong has been started already

Worse. Forced DLSS/FSR/whatever you call that slop.

Truly awesome that this hobby is getting coverage! I'm very very lazy when it comes to self-hosting, by far my largest project was moving off Spotify and archiving all my playlists.

Rotating 3 API keys for spotdl and a YTP free trial for that sweet sweet 256kbps AAC then Musicbrainz Picard to label correctly all the music (automatic was nearly almost always wrong), then automating rebuilding the m3u8 playlists followed by the insane work of correcting all the little imperfections. Must've taken me like 2-3 weeks of just working on it most of the day.

But the result? A proper offline music library with all my main playlists with each song at the proper position and order in my playlists with the correct (Spotify) metadata using correct versions of the songs in at least 256kbps AAC (and many cases FLAC and where available non-vinyl hi-res).

Tossed on an old dell workstation I got for £50. Hosting navidrome where my JF, Qbittorrent-nox and Immich live. Using symfonium on my phone. Can access remotely via OpenVPN. Couldn't be happier.

Damn. Rest in peace.

Wait wait, by saying 10% stacks each time, do you mean 10% of the original number, or 10% of the remaining number of people?

Like, for the sake of simplicity, 10 billion to start with, 10%, so 1 billion for the first finger. Then does it become 10% of the remaining 9 billion, so around 900 million, or another 10% of 10 billion?

I would likely still do it, even if all 10 fingers wouldn't save humanity together, but if I could also pass this deal, it would be interesting to get 10 random people off the street and present the choice to them. If the collective has the solidarity necessary to want to save others, it shows just how justified it is for them to be saved.

Host refugees.

Yeah I'd wish for a better alternative but fundamentally any society needs some way to isolate wrongdoers to prevent them from doing wrong and it's the only option we presently have.

Yeah and nobody used them.

It stuck around in my head because begging was free, but when someone leaked the twitch earnings, it made me worried some people really were donating to those time wasting chancers on the internet. Turns out they do, which isn't great. A fool and his money are soon parted ig.

I'm fundamentally anti-private property and copyright. So I'm definitely pro AI art. Once it's on the internet - it's there forever. It was always being scraped, you just get to see the results now.

That said I don't like AI being shoved into everything. The fun picture recombination machine shouldn't be deciding who lives and dies. Content sorting algorithms and personalized algos are all bad too, it shouldn't take agency away from people.

I also really hate that as soon as normatrons figured out you could ask it anything they just let it do their thinking for them. No fucking willpower at all, just give up thinking as soon as the opportunity presents itself and trust the oracle, but this time a website instead of a bible. God I hate normies.

Would you have any idea on how to preserve food if you didn't have a fridge?

I could use a freezer:) Jk, not entirely no, but I'm aware of other methods, given a bit of time I could probably learn how to pickle or salt and jar food properly provided I could visit the library. I understand the key problem is harmful bacteria so refrigeration extends the lifespan of food by slowing down bacterial reproduction and airtight containers prevent new bacteria coming in.

Then depending on specifics there's always vacuum-sealing and shrink-wrapping machines. If in this hypothetical collapse we still have knowledge and some way to generate electricity, and I wasn't in a crazy rush, I'd probably build a fridge. I understand the basic principle behind refrigeration.

Would you have any idea on even how to get food if you didn't have a grocery store nearby?

Yeah? If there's like societal collapse or something and there's not just food banks set up by the military or some such I'd go look for warehouses, I know I have the nation's biggest Amazon warehouse just a few blocks down from me. If not an option, generally I'd hunt animals because on my own I don't really stand a chance at agriculture, the large lead time won't help, I don't know how to hunt, but I'm sure by visiting the library I could learn how to craft a primitive spear with a knife and a sharp stick. Then long-term I'd move towards a saltwater body of water and fish.

How would you organize a party with your friends without a phone?

I'd use a computer ))))

Jk, I could write them a letter, or visit them in person. I don't know all their addresses by heart, but I could ask others who do, or simply wander about the general area and knock on doors until I find them.

If a computer wasn't tracking your bank balance, how would you keep track of your money?

I would write down my income and outgoings on a piece of paper and just do the math.

Can you multiply 423 by 365 without using a calculator?

Of course. I'm awful at math so I'll probably mess it up, but you write down the nominator over the denominator and you multiply each of the top digits by each of the bottom digits, carry any extra to the next more significant digit and sum the results.

If I did it a few times, I could probably nail the correct result.

If all else fails and this is absolutely needed I could go get spare parts and build a full-adder circuit. Heck tbqh in the long term if all my basic needs were met, I could probably deep dive into a book and build a computer, especially if we're basically talking only programmatic calculation, given 7-8 months it's not hard, maybe much less if I can use logic gates instead of ICs. If I can use OCs and have plastic and some metal bits lying around making a breadboard shouldn't be too hard. It won't host the cloud or do your laundry, but it'll do your math pretty accurately.

My point isn't to show off, my point is that we (humanity) hedge our bets. There's one thing we haven't outsourced and it's our thinking. I used to be vehemently pro-AI, but it worries me that people are outsourcing their very thought to AI.

The brain is very expensive evolutionary, and I for one, love having one, you use it or you lose it is the motto for the body, brain included, and I take great care to force myself to think on my own and understand things in as much depth as is reasonable.

Once you forget how to think and solve problems because another faux-brain does it for you, it's all over, and there's no going back. Don't do that y'all.

Bot? What's with the image?

No one, it's cuz I cut that shit off before it ever gets to that point. Sorry not sorry but it's the system we live in. As an LGBTQ adult I never ever speak to children and any interactions would get reported to the police. Better safe than sorry.

Where can I watch that? Is that movie any good? The trailer doesn't look great and reminds me of conservaslop apocalypse home invasion type stuff or that weird movie where the world government that wants everyone to wear masks is in one warehouse and there's a christian preacher steve jobs type and they have a goth tradwife hacker lady.

Agreed, it's very obvious which way the wind is blowing.