Exploding a data center is a bit beyond my capabilities, mostly because I live over 500km away from any 😅

First, lots of barbequeue. Second, become landlord.

That’s what I call a pro player move

At least DDG lets you flag them.

Part of me thinks that’s a ruse for micro$oft to train models, “oh, this one was too obvious, avoid making an image that looks like this!”, what with ddg running bing

Apparently, the “hide AI” only blocks some domains that are known to be generators of the images. I did a “waterbear” search and noticed that a number of the slop is on stock.adobe and storage.googleapis, which immediately makes them “clear” for the search

I still hate DDG for leaving the “show ai: yes” as the fucking default. Fuck them

Hello, Xi Jinping? Can I get funding for hating datacenters, pretty please? I don’t wanna do it for free anymore

The stock price of the company that caused worldwide outages and economic havoc, Crowdstrike, even in a stock market affected by the Iran war, is higher today than its peak before the outage. Massive worldwide economic harm, no real consequences.

I actually went and checked, Crowdstrike, CRWD, had an insignificant fall after the bug in October 2024 (around 300 USD). By mid November it was already up 10%. Today, it’s around 768 USD - it had a huge bump up from April/26 onwards.

When developers say that LLMs make them more productive, you need to keep in mind that this is what they’re automating: dysfunction, tampering as a design strategy, superstition-driven coding, and software whose quality genuinely doesn’t matter, all in an environment where rigour is completely absent. (…) Those who are most vocal today about the dysfunctions of LLM-coding were already warning about the dysfunctions of the software industry well before the “AI” bubble began.

I feel somewhat vindicated and seen, I have been complaining about shitty software for a number of years now (increasingly bloated and slow because fuck you, get newer hardware), though mostly blaming javascript, electron and react. I should look at the bigger picture, the money, that incentivizes the dysfunctional application of those things

That or a reflection of how bad your mental situation is

The company’s reason is “brand protection”:

We carefully reviewed the project you shared with us (https://github.com/linuxwacom/wacom-hid-descriptors). While we appreciate the initiative, we found that this is primarily a Wacom-led project, and the potential impact for GAOMON would be quite limited. Even if we added support for our devices, the system would still show the device as a GAOMON model, but the overall setup would display Wacom branding. More importantly, participating would require sharing our device specifications directly with Wacom – which is not something we can consider.

The last part of that reply is very wrong.

The article also has a reply from Peter Hutterer, a “senior software engineer at Red Hat and a maintainer of Linux’s core input device handling infrastructure since decades”, which is worth reading.

Glasses. Not for me, but to show the Romans that some that can’t see shit that magic glass can make them see better. Either that or a magnifying glass, so it can double as a fun trick of sunlight burning, which, hopefully, can teach them to make concave/convex glasses for people.

A sewing machine. It’s electric, but by opening it up and trying to replicate the pattern manually, those old, fully manual ones could be built.

A world atlas. Maps weren’t exactly common and, for most of human history, unreliable, so having something like that would be extremely valuable, even if it lacked some info like terrain elevation or type of environment.

Even ignoring computer technology, which took a light-year leap from 1986-2006 compared to 2006-2026, the fall of the Soviet Union in late 1991 was a massive upheaval and the following years had several countries having to readapt.

Nothing of such scale has happened in the last 2 decades, though the current decay of the USA is an event of its own.

How I feel knowing that, just by virtue of having a STEM bachelors and a bunch of cloud certs, I am way ahead of my competition in getting laid off and denied jobs for being “overqualified”

FTFY

Throw an acorn at their car’s hood to start a firefight

I wonder if t-i-m-e is a slur in a different language, because it definitely ain’t in portuguese, english, spanish, italian or japanese

Really telling that between “being exposed as an unfaithful husband” and “being “threatened” to be “friends” with the owner of pedo island”, he preferred the latter.

I really wish to get to that level. I already avoid a lot of corporate internet sites, but I still have to deal with whatsapp and, to a lesser extent, discord. My car is is an old piece of junk because that’s what my salary can sustain, if/when i get a new one, I’ll want the same amount of “smart” features as everything else in my home: zero. Computers (also phones and tablets) only connect to the internet via firewall.

The problem is that a lot of lemmy posts are “undetermined”, including lots of those german posts. From my instance, if I select any language when creating a new post, it doesn’t create the post. If I put it back on “undetermined”, it works.

Locus Founder accepts payments in USDC, the world’s second-largest dollar-pegged cryptocurrency, as well as card payments. This payment mechanism runs on Pay With Locus, a non-custodial wallet infrastructure built for AI agents to spend money safely, with built-in spending controls and auditability.

Locus Founder settles payments in USDC, a dollar-pegged stablecoin, directly into a non-custodial wallet controlled by the agent, without a bank account or days of settlement. The agent earns, holds, and spends money in real time — and the infrastructure is built so humans can audit and control exactly what it does with that money. When a sale is made, Checkout With Locus, a Stripe-style payment SDK, settles the funds directly into the agent’s Locus wallet.

I’m sure absolutely nothing wrong will happen with this. /s

Strangest has to be The Quiet Earth. I don’t remember what exactly caught my attention years ago when I downloaded and watched it