zarathustrad
@zarathustrad@lemmy.world
- Comment on I could quit AI anytime I want to 6 hours ago:
I’m not using any “forced on me” AI products, other than as a search engine aid, and I have better tools for that now anyway.
I do, absolutely use AI. I use local, self hosted small focused AI that run on old hardware I was just using to self host media and games anyway.
Want do my AI do? Lots of boring organizing, text/voice recognition, and script/simple coding for hobby projects and such, all offline. For online stuff there are private large Available, but those cost money and I’m cheap.
- Comment on greeting a CEO 5 days ago:
“Suffer not the CEO to live” Exodus 22:18
Something like that, according to LLM translation from the original text. Who am I to question the machine spirit.
- Comment on A real, 100% unedited promotional picture from Kohler toilets 6 days ago:
Thanks. I’ll do better next time.
- Comment on Police HATE this one weird trick 1 week ago:
The instinct to immediately pull over is a mistake, it arouses contempt in the cop-heart. Mash the pedal down and make the bastard chase you
No cop was ever born who isn’t a sucker for a finely-executed hi-speed Controlled Drift.
Accelerate immediately. When you see the red light, do not stop. Speed up to 120 mph.
Force the chase. Drive to the next exit while signaling confusingly (e.g., indicating a right turn while staying on the freeway).
By forcing the officer to lose control of their vehicle while trying to keep up with your finely-executed hi-speed Controlled Drift, you shift the psychological dynamic. This makes him horny.
- Comment on Fat bastard for president 1 week ago:
I can make a joke in a trench and still shoot the guy charging over the hill when the time comes. Atheists and comedians are in the foxhole with us right now.
- Comment on A real, 100% unedited promotional picture from Kohler toilets 1 week ago:
Looks like a job for Dickbutt.
- Comment on So Many People Dont Know This Hack 1 week ago:
Well, I do like to go bowling. There’s nothing like taking that big black ball and knocking it into those ten white pins with the red necks!
Sweep this poster off the stage Sandman!
- Comment on One Standard Yglesias 1 week ago:
Sounds like a luxury for the rich. The poors need a job and not a mountain of debit for “balanced education” and social connection.
- Comment on One Standard Yglesias 1 week ago:
The poors can still get in if they are willing to become indebted wage slaves with a 6 figure debit for the next 20-30 years. Seems fair enough.
Just, don’t expect to get in to a social connection generator for nepo babies, you get a state school with institutionalized alcoholism.
- Comment on So Many People Dont Know This Hack 1 week ago:
“I’m talking about the man who invented the game of chess… A game that for some racist reason cannot start unless the white piece moves first.” Nat X
- Comment on There's always money in the banana sta... Flock cameras 1 week ago:
As someone with a home server and security cameras… (See 3rd paragraph for flock)
The cameras don’t have any ram. At least not the kind we are talking about. They use onboard processors and flash memory.
The NVR typically has 4-8g ram but that’s the not the camera, that’s the hub that they all connect to, and it also has the HHD/SSD wich is now also double+ the price. It’s also not external, it’s in a secure location.
Flock: AFAIK cameras run snapdragon, so it’s like a cell phone, with 2g ram chip. Not PC RAM. That, once again, could be in the NVR, which I believe is cloud based, so not a local device you can access.
- Comment on Hey, wait a fucking minute... 1 week ago:
I went into biology to avoid the worst of the chemistry math, and still ended up taking calculus, organic chem, ext… Then went medical… At least I mostly only do unit conversion and proportions I have memorized now, and use computers for most things.
Spending a lifetime pushing through suspected but undiagnosed dyscalculia is tiresome. Friggin transposition errors… (Probably some type of Semantic Memory or Procedural subtype).
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Do they pay royalties to the estate of Kurt Vonnegut for stealing his asshole?
- Comment on Absolutely true 1 week ago:
‘Gee, I sure would like to set those people on fire over there. But I’m way to far away to get the job done. If only I had something that would throw flame on them.’
- Comment on Absolutely true 1 week ago:
After 25 years of marriage (no kids), I can say that, if you make the right choices, you can have both lol. We both played WOW for a decade or two off and on, and still game, just less passing out, less online, and less Doritos… Because age.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Maybe she can find a role in a WWII movie.
Unfortunately she’s too light to be in a modern concentration camp move.
- Comment on what in the 2 weeks ago:
Imperialists to the left of me, Royalists to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with Jews…
- Comment on Had to fight off the twinks for this bread 2 weeks ago:
We can make wine with the yeast we find inside your panties, and then drink it while we are eating out down at the seafood shanty.
- Comment on You don’t realize how bad it smells till you quit 2 weeks ago:
If I had a nickel for every new release anime about chain smoking… I still could not even afford a single loose cigarette.
- Comment on Famous statue of Virgin Mary 2 weeks ago:
Yea if that little man can walk on water, why the boat?
I’m suspicious.
- Comment on What did shrek do? 2 weeks ago:
He Slobbered on my low, say what?
- Comment on Tomb Raider: Catalyst Delayed to 2028 3 weeks ago:
Or, they are aware of other economic forces at work over the next two years.
- Comment on Musk: Many British people are living in lovely small towns. They are just like Hobbits. Until one day, people show up and start raping their kids 3 weeks ago:
To further the LotR metaphor.
Elon Musk thinks he is an Olog-hai : cunning, elite troll that exists in the sunlight.
He’s more like a Stone Troll: dim-witted, easily confused, and prone to crumbling under scrutiny.
While he claims strategic brilliance, his leadership at DOGE resulted in massive failures, inflated savings claims, and chaotic cuts that increased costs, mirroring the bumbling incompetence of Tolkien’s Stone Trolls who were easily tricked by Gandalf. Ultimately, his drug-impaired erraticism and botched execution prove he lacks the discipline and intelligence of the Olog-hai, functioning instead as a brute whose grandiose plans turn to stone when exposed to the light of reality.
- Comment on Chinese parents in 1979 3 weeks ago:
Roomba VS Womb-ba
- Comment on Good luck dumbass 3 weeks ago:
New type of “man in the middle” attack.
- Comment on Good luck dumbass 3 weeks ago:
I own a weaponized Roomba for home defense, since that’s what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. ‘What the devil?’ As I grab my powdered wig and activate my autonomous sentry unit.
It bumps into the first man. Click-clack. The mounted 1911 fires a .45 ACP round, dropping him instantly. ‘Good lord!’ cries the second, but the Roomba pivots, its optical sensors locking on. It unleashes a suppressed burst from the top-mounted M4 carbine, shredding his lace cuffs.
The remaining two try to flee up the stairs, but they trigger the tripwire. The Claymore mine strapped to the dustbin detonates with a deafening roar, sending shrapnel through the foyer wallpaper. The last survivor, trembling in the corner, thinks he’s safe until he hears the whirring. The downstairs Roomba engages its miniature, high-torque chainsaw. It drags itself toward him, cleaning up the mess as it goes.
- Comment on Just as Nolan intended 3 weeks ago:
He still controlled (heavily influenced) how the film was released. That sort of influence in your own industry is control.
It not only affected the safety of everyone employed own chain (eg. theater workers), or pit public safety at risk. The attitude of “well it was not illegal, so it’s governments fault, not his.” Is part of the problem.
- Comment on Just as Nolan intended 3 weeks ago:
Yea, the wealthy have no power, and therefore, no responsibility.
- Comment on Behold, the future! 3 weeks ago:
This Idiocracy Prequel looks low effort.
- Comment on A Majority of Americans Now Support Seizing Wealth From AI Industry 3 weeks ago:
I’m just waiting for when they have to sell off all that depreciating silicone (SSD/HDD/RAM). Just hope they don’t throw it all in a landfill with the ET Atari carts out of spite.
