Random Dent

I deleted my banking app off my phone because it asked me for a selfie lol. I will absolutely switch banks over this.

You can apparently 3D print a record, although it’s almost certainly not worth the effort.

I suspect it’s just their way of inching towards requiring everyone to provide ID to access the internet, they pretty much always wrap this stuff up in some sort of “protect the children” hysteria, so they can accuse anyone who protests it of being a pedophile.

Also Meta is lobbying for it so they can get off the hook for having to moderate their own stuff by shunting the responsibility onto someone else.

TBH this is just how it goes in general I think. A small group of people build something neat, and if it attracts enough people then the corporations and money come in, they attract more people and it all goes to shit, then a small amount of people from that group leave and start a new thing. reddit was the neat little alternative thing once.

I suspect eventually we’ll probably have to build a second internet lol

It’s Meta.

I think “making” AI art is essentially the same as commissioning a painting - you’re describing what you want to someone else and they’re making it for you (although in this case ‘someone’ is a kind of highly-optimized plagiarism machine, but same kind of principle.) When it’s done, you might “own” the result, but you didn’t make it IMO.

What I also do with mine is create a new alias for each thing I give my email to, and label which service it was. That way, if they sell my email onto someone else I’ll know exactly who did it, and if I want to unsubscribe from something I don’t have to go through their whole process and trust them to honour it, I can just nuke the alias and then it’s their problem lol

Still a bigger pile of gold than I have now lol

If they’re worth about the same, I’ll still take the gold then. My logic being: 1. I’m not American. 2. I just think having a big pile of gold is cooler.

I always liked how the best argument against wind farms they could come up with was they’re an eyesore, even though they’re not really that different from windmills, which nobody objects to. But yeah a massive grey cube that drains all the fresh water out of everything in a 10-mile radius is just fine.

I use LocalSend. It apparently works on Macs too but I’ve never tried that. Windows/Linux seems to work fine though!

‘Jam’ can mean a fruit preserve, to play music, a stuck door, traffic, to cram something into something else, a tense situation, or to block a radio signal. All spelled and pronounced the same.

My ideal scenario:

• As technology improves, it becomes increasingly easy to run AI locally at home.
• The hardware companies/data center AI companies eventually fuck each other over because big corporations always fuck everyone else over eventually and it stops becoming profitable.
• NVIDIA etc. come crawling back to the consumer market, offering things at reasonable prices again. Data centers sell off all their shit and absolutely flood the market with cheap RAM & graphics cards.
• Some other company has started making the hardware in the meantime and the public tells NVIDIA to go fuck themselves and we watch them go into a slow IBM style decline.

Although what will probably happen is the companies will fuck each other over, prices will stay high forever and the data centers that go out of business will just burn all their hardware and all of this will have meant nothing.

I agree nobody is 100% trustworthy, but as a side note Mullvad’s no-log policy has been proven fairly recently after they were raided and the police found nothing at all.

Yeah we had a sweet deal before and we pissed it away. I don’t see why we should get the same terms if we rejoin. That’s just the cost of being stupid IMO

I suspect the ideal outcome would have been to have Leave almost win, like if it went 52-48 the other way. That way they could still keep saying it’s “what the people want” and keep using it as a wedge issue, but without having to actually do anything.

Bulgaria’s tourism minister must be shitting it right now though lol. “We have to host WHAT next year?”

Also if you saw all the Moroccanoil sponsorship all over Eurovision this year - let’s just say that company is not Moroccan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moroccanoil

I started putting together a RAID, got the housing and the first drive, the plan was to buy a drive with each paycheck until I had the 4 drives I need. The first drive was like $250, arrived last week. Then I checked the price this week and the same drive is now $650.

I use a yubikey on my laptop, but I use it to make it even harder to log in. It’s set to challenge-response so you have to have the key in and enter a password to unlock LUKS. Bit overkill but it was more just to see if I could do it lol