[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 13 hours ago

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.

[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 13 hours ago

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.

[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 13 hours ago

Why would doing anything to the mic mount stop your moving from creaking the floor? Could you also not just select the frequency the creaks are making sounds at and cut the volume of just those when they occur in the recording?

[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 16 hours ago

"People weren't willing to throw their lives away in the people grinder machine, that means they fully support the people grinder machine"

[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 17 hours ago

Fuck. Roving bands of empty robo taxis DDoSing local roads wasn't on my bingo card.

[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 21 hours ago

They at least used to be toggle-able along with all the ideologically driven features. But the fact they're in the codebase at all is concerning.

[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 21 hours ago

The base Lemmy software is made by the people who run lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml, but individual instances are run by all sorts of people.

Some people take questions like "are you upset?" as an accusation, so they don't want to point that at others.

Not good, not terrible.

Hey, I'll have you know that my psychosis induced delusions are 100% hand made. Artisanal even.

[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago

That plus the ever growing push for device linked personal ID on personally owned device feels like the real end goal. Governments can already snoop all web traffic. Now they want to close the gap on device level surveillance by pushing more and more people towards renting virtual devices with traceable payment methods. For people who don't, device link to personal ID means they no longer have any of that mess of having to prove ownership or who took the action.

Removing the tinfoil hat though, I really hope this causes cloud resource cost to drop through the floor.

[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago

This is what veracrypt containers are for. Family finds a huge file named Porn.Encrypted, knows what it is in general terms, and can't get in.

There are also various systems you can set up to automatically wipe stuff if you don't enter a password every set number of days, but I think the encrypted container is easier and less prone to loss due to laziness.

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For when someone has been doing a bit too much navel gazing, or is a bit too in love with their own thoughts.

Cropped from: https://piefed.world/comment/4633293

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!comicstrips@lemmy.world appears to have very absent moderation. Despite recent adjustments to the comm rules to limit users to two posts a day maximum, @beep@lemmus.org is consistently breaking this rule.

In addition, they have been identified by members of the community to be intentionally removing artist attribution from their posts through cropping, and when cropping cannot be applied, through use of AI image manipulation tools.

When called out about this, they have made a post (https://lemmus.org/post/21226925) pushing for a rule change in the comm to ban all "advertising". When asked for specifics on what they meant, they have clarified that this includes artist signatures in their comics.

This isn't a crisis by any means, but this is clearly someone engaging with the community in bad faith and taking advatage of a lack of active moderation. This appeared to be the best way to draw proper attention to this matter.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/techtakes@awful.systems

Article: https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-sweetens-private-equity-pitch-amid-enterprise-turf-war-with-anthropic-2026-03-23/

Crossposted from: https://hexbear.net/post/8036692

I promise we're good for it guys!

I'm absolutely amazed that Altman isn't considered toxic waste by now financially. He was declared untrustworthy by his own board, and as far as I'm aware OpenAI has fallen short of every known business agreement so far. They have so many deals contingent on shit they haven't delivered and can't deliver that it should make any risk analyst's head spin.

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Figured I'd toss up a quick whine thread.

Daughter skipped her nap and is peak obstinant today. Having to "trick" her into following the schedule.

"I don't want bath! I want read book!"

We'll read some books in bed after your bath sweetie.

"Noooooooo!"

Well I'm gonna get a bath, see you later.

"No! No I want baaaaath!"

Just max threenager today.

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Like traveling back in time via blunt force trauma to the head

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If you like video game music, you already know this one. But this cover using real instruments is one of the best I've heard of this composition.

Man, I am so overdue for a CT replay. Just have to choose between my copy for DS or the "Plus" romhack.

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Howling Giant - Pioneer (www.youtube.com)

The band has been described as doing metal/fuzz/stoner rock. This is from their album Black Hole Space Wizard Part 2. Part 1 and 2 make a complete story.

Humans escaping from a dying earth about to be devoured by the titular wizard, ship crashes with only one survivor. This track is the survivor trekking across a desert.

Will probably post a couple more from them.

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