sylver_dragon

I’m reminded of a joke I used to see in auto shops:
Cost to fix it - $100
If you worked on it first - $500

Now we can add:
If you used AI to fix it - $1000

How you gonna teach English without being able to teach nouns words which describe people, places or things?

FTFY, you dirty n-word user you.

That’s my bet. This is cranks and grifters thinking no one is going to check their work, so they saw no reason to bother checking it themselves.

First thing that comes to mind is spending a week camping on the shores of Lake Mead many years ago. Didn’t shower for a week, though one could argue that being scoured by lake water when you either go flying off an inner-tube or make a mistake while water skiing, does a fine job of taking the dirt off.

A good reminder that “the cloud” is a fancy way of saying, “someone else’s computer”. If you don’t own the hardware, you don’t own the data on it. This works for large businesses because they have actual contracts and lawyers to get their data back. For everyone else, the EULA amounts to one big “fuck you”.

Compared to no arm for the rest of my life, being called “baby-hand” for a year seems like a small price to pay.

That seems to be what they are trying to control. Just “turning on” the regenerative mechanisms is a fast track to a cancerous growth. This research seems to be aimed at understanding how to provide that mechanism with the chemical instruction of what to grow into. While we aren’t there yet, each time a new part of that instruction set is figured out, we get a step closer to regrowing lost tissue. Living organisms are incredibly complex and understanding large, complex processes like growing a limb is going to take a lot of work and time.

Maybe we could create something new and wonderful? Oh wait, no. let’s just see what else we can dredge up from the bottom of the nostalgia barrel, run for two seasons and then kill because it wasn’t a super breakout success.

Companies exist (first example I found, I’ve no clue of anything about them) to install this sort of thing. I’ve no idea if they are any good; or, if their prices are what their site claims for some of them. But, it does seem that one can get a “professionally” installed bomb shelter for about the price if a house (assuming one already has the land). Of course, stocking it, and keeping food/water/supplies up to date seems like it would cost a good bit as well.

just a general ‘lol’ at all the ICBM sites in the great plains getting at least one if not several nukes likely dedicated to them, each.

This is the point of the “nuclear sponge”. The missile silos in the northern plains states are hard enough targets that any nuclear first strike would likely target those silos with a lot of warheads. The goal of such strikes would be to reduce the number of US warheads that can be used in a counter-strike. But, because destroying those silos is hard, each one needs to be targeted by multiple warheads to have a high likelihood of “killing” the missile contained in the silo. This means that any attacker has less warheads to target US military sites or US population centers. Basically, Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming and Colorado all get completely fucked, so the rest of us can be less fucked. Assuming, of course, that the attacker sees reducing US land based warheads as a viable/useful strategy.

This is just Microsoft engineers acknowledging that Windows 11 is about as welcome as Windows Vista was.

do any of you hate how self-hosting services like photo- or document-management systems, or even a simple rss tool, forces you to sort your stuff out, and put your decades old files in order?!

What is this “sort” thing you speak of? I don’t sort anything, I have NextCloud syncing my entire photos, videos and documents folders and they are just as messy as ever. Granted, I do go through my photos and videos once a year and dump them in a folder named for the year they were taken. Occasionally, I’ll go hog wild and try to sort some of a year’s photos/videos into folders named after events. Though, that hasn’t happened in a number of years. I setup NextCloud so I could have everything synced to my own server and just forget, not have to deal with labeling my data.

As for bookmarks. I already keep those in folders; but, I don’t sync those. I use my desktop far more than I use my phone for web browsing. And the types of things I use my phone for (mostly recipes), I just keep bookmarked there.

Same. I had gotten the paid version because the dev deserved something for such a great app. RIF died and I did a hard cutover to Lemmy. Deleted my Reddit account and probably caused some confusion for the cordcutters subreddit. I had a post which was part of the sidebar for about a decade.

Ya, sadly there is still a lot of useful content in the technical subreddits. So I find myself ending up there via search engines on a fairly regular basis. But, I specifically use the Redirector plugin for Firefox to auto-magically force the use of old Reddit. If I hit the site on my work computer, I’m quickly reminded about why I quit the site.

It looks like archive.org is capturing some of lemm.ee. So, it’s possible that most of the images are there and could be referenced.

Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, they will accept you for your virtue. If the gods are unjust, then they weren’t worth worshiping anyway. And if there are no gods, then at least you lived a good life to be remembered by .

When my father’s dog was getting towards the end of his life, my father would order an extra burger patty, with nothing else for the dog. He figured the dog was close enough to the end of his life, the occasional burger patty wasn’t going to cause meaningful harm and it gave the dog a nice treat.

You may have had a customer with a similar situation.

Can’t wait to see how long it takes for one of these to be hacked.

That’s part of their new “Plane cleaning fee” program. Each passenger is offered the special opportunity to “upgrade” their flight experience with a recently cleaned and less horrible interior ambiance. If enough passengers opt in for this upgrade, the cabin will be cleaned. The fee is non-refundable, and the cleaning only gets done in the event that more that 75% of the passengers opt in.

Companies taking advantage of Linux to create locked down, proprietary systems is pretty common. For example, Android is Linux. Many smart TVs run some flavor of Linux. E.g. Tizen from Samsung is Linux based. If a company can short cut the software development process and licensing costs by using Linux, that’s often a first choice. So, my bet would be on Wall-E running on a version of Linux.

The dystopian part would be that the company locked it’s drivers behind a closed source model, and only included highly obscured binaries on Wall-E’s OS. Motors and controllers would be non-standard, requiring closed source firmware and the hardware would refuse to work with any software which isn’t signed by an original manufacturer’s digital certificate. Using an unsigned binary would blow a fuse in Wall-E’s CPU, killing him.