Photuris

@Photuris@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For the first time since COVID, more than half of Fortune 100 companies have mandated workers fully return to work as hybrid options wither⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For the life of me I can’t see the benefit to return to office. I don’t know why they push it so hard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’m not ignoring your message – I’m overwhelmed by the tyranny of being reachable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I let everyone know:

  1. Text messages are for asynchronous communication. That’s literally what they’re designed for. I will not communicate over texts synchronously.

  2. I will respond to texts within 2 days usually. Do not expect an immediate response.

  3. If you need me immediately or within short order, call me.

  4. If you call me for non-urgent matters that could have been handled over text, I might not pick up the phone right away. The boy who cried wolf, and all that.

  5. I do not always have my phone on me 24/7. Sometimes I am untethered. I return calls far more quickly than I respond to texts, because I assume a call is more important than a text. It had better be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lead ammunition to be banned for hunting and shooting in England, Scotland and Wales⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The solution to guns is to ensure that only the state can ever have guns.

  Why? Because the state will never be taken over by bad actors who seek to destroy democracy and institute autocracy.

  The well-meaning liberal-minded and just people in power today will be in power tomorrow and forever, so we can always trust them to have all guns, hold the cryptography backdoors for all consumer electronics, hold the reins on banking, have sophisticated mass surveillance capabilities, curtail free speech and open protest, intimidate rumblings of labor unionization, clamp down on people advocating for Palestinian people, disproportionately imprison brown people and immigrants for infractions that white people walk away from consequence-free, and so on.

  Why? Because terrorism must not win, and we’ll never ever change what the poorly-defined word “terrorism” means on a whim based on current perceived political enemies or anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lead ammunition to be banned for hunting and shooting in England, Scotland and Wales⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s good to practice, because one day you may need to shoot fascists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just.....why?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  IoT has gotten way out of hand

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exhaustion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve often thought that 90% of success is having enough energy. I wonder why some people have the energy to get out of bed in the morning and do a bunch of shit, while the rest of us struggle to screw up enough energy reserves to want to live another day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Call Of Duty: WW2 pulled offline amid hacking claims after it starts messing with PCs and citing random lawyers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And now I’m officially 100% done with gaming, since that’s the last game I’d continued playing from time to time (when I have a spare few minutes and a whim to fire it up, that is).

  Oh well, part of getting older. I think I also have Halo and a Modern Warfare on that XBox, but, meh. WWII was the best CoD (the most fun, at least to me).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  More sites in general are blocking mullvad traffic lately (in my experience), and I’m not sure what, if anything, can be done about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Jesus actually said something about that, it turns out. Not that it matters to these knuckleheads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe someday 😌⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nobody told me all this when I signed up. I was simply instructed to pick an instance, and I did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We really don't want to talk about our problems⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always wanted to sail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We really don't want to talk about our problems⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel guilty saying it, because I know I was in a privileged position, with a job that could be done remotely and living close to nature, but I fucking loved COVID lockdown. I can’t remember being so happy since childhood. Everything just slowed down, and I spent more time with my family.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We really don't want to talk about our problems⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was on a work call the other day, listening to my peers complain about European work culture - “They just leave at 5:00 sharp, even if the project isn’t done! They’ll say ‘we’ll just pick it up in the morning and finish it then’ as if that’s good enough!” “You can’t contact them on weekends or vacations at all! They don’t even read and answer email!” “They take such long vacations! And just disappear! It’s so frustrating!”

  I wanted to scream.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stung by customer losses, Comcast says all its new plans have unlimited data⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Regional accents I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stung by customer losses, Comcast says all its new plans have unlimited data⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ðð = voiced “th” (“this,” “thus,” “weather”) Þþ = unvoiced “th” (“thing,” “thong,” “with”)

  IIRC, these (ðese) letters come from Old English and Old Norse, and were later dropped in favor of “th” for both the voices and unvoiced consonants.

  But I’m not an expert. That’s the gist anyway.

  Some folks want to bring these letters back. I get it, and I actually like them. But it ain’t gonna happen.

  Anyway, “ðey” missed one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Republican Senator callously says 'biblically, we are supposed to work' to millions set to lose health care⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Jesus also healed the sick.

  Alas, working and receiving healthcare do not have to be inextricably linked. It’s nuts that our health insurance is tied to employment here in the US.

  In fact, having a social safety net encourages entrepreneurship.

  This guy sucks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Radio transmissions⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I unironically love Latinisation (and Greekification).

  “Crabification” would have worked just fine to express this idea, but “carcinisation” sounds so scientific and erudite.

  People dog on English, but I think it’s really cool how we have other ancient source languages to pull from to coin “smart” words when needed. And when you dig into the etymology of the “fancy” word, it adds texture, layers, history, and extra context to the whole thing.

  Ok, that was a tangent. Carry on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real reasons people do not have the number of children they want revealed in new report⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Automation is going to chew up jobs faster than new ones are created, too.

  Reduce the value of white collar labor, and white collar workers will flood to the blue collar trades, drastically reducing pay there as well.

  Not a suitable environment for growing large families.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But the general public (myself included) doesn’t really understand how our own reasoning happens.

  Does anyone, really? i.e., am I merely a meat computer that takes in massive amounts of input over a lifetime, builds internal models of the world, tests said models through trial-and-error, and outputs novel combinations of data when said combinations are useful for me in a given context in said world?

  Is what I do when I “reason” really all that different from what an LLM does, fundamentally? Do I do more than language prediction when I “think”? And if so, what is it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Jesus Christ software’s about to get far, far worse innit?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT’S THE FEDS!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Land of the Free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t regret deleting mine. I don’t need any of that shit, fuck ’em.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gave him an offer, then took it away. Thanks PayPal.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol here in the US there are no such protections. You have to fend for yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gave him an offer, then took it away. Thanks PayPal.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel for this guy.

  But I’ve also learned a valuable lesson in my travels: never, ever quit an existing job until after you’ve started your new job.

  Not just accepted the offer, but attended your orientation day and got your new badge in hand. Then give your resignation.

  Yes, I’d love to give my coworkers more of my time for offboarding and project hand-off, but in this world you have to look after yourself first. It sucks, but it’s how it is.

  Never give a two-week notice. When you do that, your current employer may give you a new offer, but if you accept it, your tenure will not be the same, since you’re now seen as a flight risk, and they’ll look for a way to dispense with you and replace you within a year, or two, max.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s more than that. They want training data for their LLMs. With enough training data, they can train these models to do office knowledge work themselves, removing the need to employ cubicle drones at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok that’s cool

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have high hopes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If only we can somehow figure out how to bring back something like the web of the ’90s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨David Hyde Pierce declares he would appear in a second Frasier reboot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was sorely disappointed to learn that Grammer is a member of the MAGA cult.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump orders Corporation for Public Broadcasting to end federal funding for NPR and PBS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Judges can make rulings “blocking” Trump’s actions. But he ignores those rulings and keeps on going.

  At some point, push will come to shove; meaning, these judicial rulings will have to be enforced, somehow.

  There’s not really a good vehicle for enforcing the law on rogue presidents. Unless someone is willing to physically arrest and detain him, possibly muscling past secret service in order to (attempt to) do so.

  If someone will be willing to enforce the law, and can successfully do so, the Constitution may be saved.

  If not, we de facto have a king, regardless of de jure court rulings.