riskable
@riskable@programming.dev
Father, Hacker (Information Security Professional), Open Source Software Developer, Inventor, and 3D printing enthusiast
- Comment on A Republican Farmer Relies on Immigrant Work. He Sees His Party Erasing It. 1 day ago:
“Come on! I know I joined the immigrant-hating party but I didn’t think they were going to hurt my form of immigrant exploitation! Indentured servants and slaves, people! Not deportation!”
- Comment on What is the probability that the atoms that I am made of once formed someone's penis? 1 day ago:
Well, if you were a pussy you wouldn’t have asked this question 👍
- Comment on 😐?? 3 days ago:
It will break down into mostly carbon dioxide and water after a 20-200 years depending on how much UV light hits it (and friction). There won’t be anything for worms to eat!
- Comment on 😐?? 3 days ago:
It was a joke! Dry humor.
- Comment on Me emitting 20KG of CO2 by using Google search to spellcheck individual words 3 days ago:
The core of the earth is very warm already though.
- Comment on 😐?? 3 days ago:
The second question is silly: “what makes a towel dirt?” Worms, of course!
For the towel to become dirt, you need a nice composting environment and 2+ years. It’ll go best if you turn it from time to time.
The final step is for the worms to eat the leftovers. Then the towel has officially become dirt that’s indistinguishable from the other dirt that surrounds it 👍
- Comment on Microslop stuffs AI photo restyling powers into OneDrive 4 days ago:
So your image file of grandma—the last one of her smiling before she died—will be given the cartoon treatment just before OneDrive spams an ad for itself, saying you’re out of space and deletes the file.
- Comment on where? 6 days ago:
Beware horse girls! It’s a trap!
- Comment on Greek Court Bans Kosher and Halal Slaughter 6 days ago:
Me: “Religions often require pointless cruelty and suffering!”
Catholics: “Yes.” (Shrugs)
Me: “I was talking about kosher and halal practices… requiring that animals not be anaesthetized before being slaughtered.”
Catholics, grimacing: “Oh! Right! Yeah…”
- Comment on What??? Nativity scene with a crucifix in the background? 1 week ago:
Have to hang em out to dry after surgery.
- Comment on Why is Windows still bloated 1 week ago:
MacOS wasn’t rewritten, it was ported. It’s now bigger than before.
Whoah there! Mac OS was entirely rewritten from scratch (based upon some combination of FreeBSD and NextSTEP) when Steve Jobs rejoined Apple. Or are we pretending the eternal shame of Mac OS 7 never happened?
- Comment on What??? Nativity scene with a crucifix in the background? 1 week ago:
To be fair, lots of people were crucified at the time. Many with the same name as Jesus and many for the same crimes!
In this case, though… It was merely the pubic execution of a leprechaun.
- Comment on This happen to anyone else? 1 week ago:
This just means (usually) that your system synchronizes with something that doesn’t support special characters (e.g. mainframes).
Remember kids: Mainframes suck. They’re awful legacy garbage that holds back adoption of superior, actually secure technologies. Soooo many things that make you go, “WTF?” in IT can be traced back to having to support legacy systems (like mainframes).
- Comment on So stylish you could wear it all day 1 week ago:
Why would I want my hat to grow hair?
- Comment on Pro-gun activists hand out free AR-15 magazines outside the Virginia State Capitol ahead of debate over a bill that would limit the sale of these magazines 1 week ago:
Each one should have a picture of Charlie Kirk on it. To celebrate his legacy, of course! So everyone can understand the lesson he taught the world. So others with the same beliefs can follow in his footsteps!
“It’s worth the cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths […] so that we can have the Second Amendment”. Charlie Kirk, 2023.
- Comment on NHS and MoD will be urged to buy British tech to drive growth amid Iran crisis 2 weeks ago:
YEAH!!! Run the entire British government on Raspberry Pis!
Perfect announcement for Pi day 👍
- Comment on Tax the Rich All You Want. It Won't Fix the Deficit. 2 weeks ago:
Deficit? That is only tangentially related. Tax the rich the most because the can afford to pay the most.
Also, wealth should not grow so much that a few people are worth more than the bottom 2/3rds of the world. Tax them until the situation is drastically better. Then we can talk about maybe cutting down the amount.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
There will be an explosion of AI services like ChatGPT that do exactly the same thing but much cheaper. They’ll run FOSS AI models that didn’t cost them billions of dollars to train and run on purpose-built hardware (i.e. not GPUs). “Big AI” will pivot to government contracts.
As that fifth year comes around, companies will be announcing products that have these purpose-built chips inside them that can do a whole heck of a lot of stuff without requiring a constant connection to the Internet. Think: Toys, appliances, and very fancy cars.
Every single piece of software will have been rewritten by AI so many times with so many clones it’ll be hard to distinguish good stuff from bad. The situation will become so problematic that every app store/repo will insist upon some kind of supply chain certification and possibly 3rd party verification.
AI tools that search the Internet on behalf of the user will crush ad-based businesses like Google and Meta. The AI will automatically filter out the ads and other cruft from search results and return just the search results the user wanted in the first place. This will result in free search engines becoming even worse and paid search will become a necessity. It’ll probably get incorporated into plans like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, etc bundled plans where you pay for a certain amount of photo storage/whatever and get premium search as last of the bundle.
- Comment on New study reveals differences between 'Demon Slayer' bamboo muzzle and actual bamboo 2 weeks ago:
👹🎍
- Comment on New study reveals differences between 'Demon Slayer' bamboo muzzle and actual bamboo 3 weeks ago:
In short: The anime left a scientist bamboozled.
- Comment on Finally tried this minecraft thing. Hows my build? 3 weeks ago:
The most fowl of homes.
- Comment on AI Bros Wanted Trump. Now They Learn What Happens When You Tell Him No. 3 weeks ago:
I’ve said it so many times: Everyone that’s ever partnered with Trump ultimately regrets it. Always.
- Comment on You know you wanna 4 weeks ago:
I know someone who tried this. Their ghost still haunts the simulation.
- Comment on It’s Not Just Andrew, the Entire Monarchy Is Rotten 5 weeks ago:
Monarchies are rotten. The entire concept!
- Comment on Having a bad day? This will make you smile 5 weeks ago:
With this upgrade, he can now log in to work!
- Comment on At least one of the 7 letters has still some relevance to my life. 5 weeks ago:
The problem is it’s an arms race! Stop treating LLMs like their existence is the problem and start viewing it via the lens of war:
The enemy has lots of badly-behaving LLMs! Marketers, scammers, and lazy management are equipped with Big AI brand LLMzookas that are sending hallucinations our way!
Captain: “So what do we do about it?”
Soldier: “Captain, there’s FOSS LLMs that we can deploy! We can use them to defeat the enemy’s bullshit slingers! They can be used to search the web on our behalf to filter out hallucinations and advertisements disguised as content! We can set them up to monitor enemy deployments and analyze intelligence to find the truth and stop propaganda in its tracks!”
Captain: “…but can FOSS AI generate boobs‽”
Soldier: “Sir, FOSS has already surpassed commercial AI in that front of the war.”
Captain: “We need to deploy FOSS AI ASAP!”
- Comment on When using rsync to backup my /home folder to an external 1TB SSD, I run out of space, how?? 5 weeks ago:
Simple: Exfat does not support symbolic links. So every file that’s just a symbolic link on your btrfs filesystem is getting copied in full (the link is being resolved) to your Exfat drive.
Solution don’t use Exfat. For backups from btrfs, I recommend using btrfs with compression enabled.
Also don’t forget to rebalance your btrfs partitions regularly to reclaim lost space! Also, delete old snapshots!
- Comment on Sony-led program offers PS5 rentals starting at $13.50 a month in the UK across 12, 24, or 36-month leases — console has to be returned at the end of the contract 5 weeks ago:
Folks here jest, but this business model is coming to PCs next. Bookmark my words!
(Literally, you can right-click the perma-link to this message and have quick access to it later so you can reply, “Damn, you were right!” And post the link to big PC vendors suddenly offering a similar services because DRAM and GPUs have become so expensive, normal people can’t afford to buy PCs anymore)
- Comment on Curb feelers 5 weeks ago:
Forbidden chopsticks
- Comment on Start-up idea 1 month ago:
…and burns people’s homes down due to lack of safety features.
…and children choke to death from easily removable small parts.
…and people get electrocuted because of a lack of warning label telling them not to use it in the bath.