Leon

LLMs are out there literally egging people on.

Sure, we had fires before we started refining and making accelerants, but that doesn’t mean that we should just let people throw accelerants on fires willy nilly.

There’s some money to be made in that. Try OnlyThumbs.

I’d say probably best to not trust apps at all. You could roll your own Matrix instance for example, but then who’s to say that the client applications don’t comply?

Trust no one, I suppose.

As per Wikipedia on the topic.

As of July 1, 2019, the monthly salary is of €8,932.86, or just over €107,000 per year.[15] MEPs also receive a general expenditure allowance of €4,563 per month.[15]

If I can be called in from vacation for €43k a year, these cunts can come in to vote for the fucking future of democracy for €107k.

Is it right to interrupt vacations? No. Does it matter in this case? Also the fuck no. The thing happened! They weren’t there! If they want better rights or whatever I guess they should fucking unionise or whatever. Sitting out on a vote of this magnitude is beyond reprehensible.

If we were to refuse to take action because the outcome won’t be a perfect solution, we’re doomed to just never take action and continue being pissed on.

I was thinking that this sounds good at face value, but it could easily just be a throwaway publicity stunt.

Let’s just make up a scenario, purely for illustrative purposes. Say our baseline is in 2022, customers paid ~100 a month in electricity. Then over the years, data centres came along, they struck deals, and individual consumers electricity bills went up to 200, which we are at today.

Then, NicePowerCompanyLLC decides to hike the prices for the datacentres by 30%, and reduce the prices by 1.3% for the residentials. That’s still 98.7% higher than the baseline before the datacentres. That’s to say, they data centres are still having their costs subsidized by regular people.

Ergo, if the prices already got hiked because of the datacentres, this tiny concession is a piss in the ocean. It’s just a publicity stunt to make themselves look better while people are still buckling under the exploitation of having to carry billion dollar industries on their backs, with no real benefit to themselves.

For me it’d be better to just run the stupid Teams app on my work phone, but that’s always been a hassle because it locks itself and then I don’t always get the notifications. My primary work laptop only has 16 gigs of RAM, and having Teams eagerly gobble up a significant portion of that is highly frustrating.

There’s been several occasions where I’ve been building or debugging something, RAM being tight, and the OOM killer correctly deduces that Teams has to go. Makes me laugh every time I finally check back on Teams and realise it’s been dead for a while.

The whole “two minute timeout” is a stupid thing anyway. A non-trivial portion of my job is to read and write documentation. That takes time, and you will sit “idle” for a few minutes while reading and processing. My Windows machine would kill the BT connection to my mouse and keyboard, which would sometimes require re-pairing to get working again. For the longest time I thought the problem was the mouse and keyboard, but those problems vanished once I got a Linux dev machine.

I fucking hate everything Microsoft.

Fuck the labour purchasers. The best time to unionise was decades ago, the next best time is right now. Fucking unionise now.

I don’t know if that’s true. Here in Sweden people were deadly afraid of being called racists for a long time. Being a nazi wasn’t acceptable in the public eye. Then being a racist nazi got normalised and here we are.

Giving bigots a platform and visibility serves to normalise them. They should be shamed into nonexistence.

This reads a little like a LinkedIn post.

This in my experience is the hallmark of a vibe coded project. Individual pieces of code can be perfectly fine, but when you zoom out into an overall structure things get weird. Design patterns changing, same/similar problems solved in different, sometimes conflicting ways.

Been working on a project like that at work. Initially I enjoyed the change of pace, but as I realised that there’s no coherence at all in the project structure my joy turned into frustration.

To me, the most frustrating thing is that you can’t ask someone why something is done in a particular way, because no decision was ever made because no one was there to make a decision. Things just happened.

You can change the screen on my t480. Lots of things can be changed on it. It also cost less than $200.

World of Ass? I was playing that a lot the other month, absolutely bananas that it requires an online connection.

There’s the Peacock Project though, which lets you host your own server. Ultimately that kind of thing shouldn’t be required but it’s nice that players have made their own thing. Like what do you mean I need to be online and connected to their services to progress in the campaign and unlock new things in my singleplayer game?

The sentient no one asked for.

“We can’t talk about life because we must appease the advertisers.”

The advertisers.

That’s very neat! It doesn’t really work for my Ente use-case, but definitely good to know!

It wasn’t rsync that started breaking because of some Claude changes, right?

I use Ente, but it’s purely because I want my images backed up in the cloud, but I don’t want the server provider to be able to mess around with them. Hence the e2ee being important to me.

I love Ente, I think it’s a great project, but for self-hosting, immich seems like the best choice to me.

The Bolshevik decriminalised homosexuality, and then Stalin came along and fucked it all up.

Örebropartiet espouses assimilation, not integration. They push for remigration of people who don’t assimilate.

That’s worked out wonderfully under our current Tidelagsregering, no? We’re sending home children who we’ve raised, educated, and given jobs, to countries they’ve never been to, because their parents fucked up, be that by accident or on purpose. Sins of the father, and all that.

I’m not disagreeing with tjänstemannaansvar, or reduced salaries for politicians, or free dental care. Those are all low-hanging fruit though, obvious to any working class person. The stickler is the extremely racist rhetoric that comes with it.

That isn’t a difference of opinion, it’s plain bigotry and dehumanisation.

Damn. I can’t recall when they didn’t make the bar last.

I mean it is funny - the incest bit I mean - but it kind of epitomises why I don’t really follow politics anymore. Our leaders aren’t serious, and for the past few decades it’s devolved into a spectacle. It stresses me the fuck out.

The past week I’ve lived with my windows wide open, so I need to take particular care that I don’t just… tip out of them. Our idiot politics don’t help in that regard.