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- Comment on What is with these videos where it's just someone reaction to shit someone else is doing? 1 day ago:
Amazing.
- Comment on What is with these videos where it's just someone reaction to shit someone else is doing? 1 day ago:
Fair enough. I don’t watch
gambling adsprofessional sports either. - Comment on What is with these videos where it's just someone reaction to shit someone else is doing? 1 day ago:
More power to you brother, but yeah this holds no meaning for me.
- Comment on What is with these videos where it's just someone reaction to shit someone else is doing? 1 day ago:
Unpopular thing to say but… I just don’t understand watching other people gaming.
Note that I did not say “people who watch twitch are idiots”.
Just that I personally don’t get it, never will. I’m fine with that too, people do loads of things that I don’t find at all appealing.
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 1 day ago:
Not completely self hosted. Searxng is just a front end for a bunch of other engines, so it fetches results from google et al. Its good but glitches a lot as the engines themselves try to block it.
Yacy is self hosted, it crawls the sites you tell it to.
The LLMs are great. You can self host the models or just link to the hugging face API. The models you can find there are tuned for specific purposes and are far superior for those purposes. You can also train “agents” on top of those models, like upload your policy and procedure manual and ask it to create additional procedures in that context.
- Comment on How is Donald Trump able to get away with being part of a child trafficking ring but I get 20 years in jail for littering? 1 day ago:
Because more than half of voters didnt want him to be punished.
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 1 day ago:
The short answer is yes, and most companies do.
I have a small consultancy with a few staff, and im passionate about self hosting.
Using FOSS projects I’ve configured a selection of private services, which includes search and Gen AI. If I can do this with no resources…
- Comment on How often do you change your towels? 6 days ago:
Woah, citric acid powder?
- Comment on Is there an endgame to Trump he is trying to obtain? Or is he making it up along the way at the cost of Americans? 6 days ago:
Nah.
He desperately wanted to be POTUS again so he didnt go to jail.
Since then hes really just enriching himself generally.
I presume he would like to ensure he doesn’t go to jail in the future somehow, but IDK if thats a specific end game or a general goal.
I bet hes asked doctors whether its possible to transplant him into Barron’s body.
- Comment on Does playing audio at a high volume bluetooth wirelessly use more phone battery power than lower volume or are equidraining? 1 week ago:
Obviously.
- Comment on Does playing audio at a high volume bluetooth wirelessly use more phone battery power than lower volume or are equidraining? 1 week ago:
Would there be a stream of data indicating a volume setting? Or rather a once off “volume up” or “volume down” signal? My guess would be the latter but I might be wrong.
- Comment on Shitty stores that penalise you for not having their store card 1 week ago:
Thats pretty much what I mean - if you dont care then thats your problem. However, im trying to explain why other people dont like these cards and why its unethical for shops to offer them.
Its not merely your name and email. They would know your address, age, family situation, and which common maladies you suffer from like high cholesterol, headaches, diabetes, and so on. But thats just the information they collect directly at colesworth. They can exchange thus data with everyone else, and match up your visa card. So anything you buy anywhere really becomes part of the extensive profile they have.
You might not care about all that, after all… what difference does it make to you what ads you get shown or what a shop might think you might want to buy.
However, I just feel like thats none of their business. I shouldn’t have to provide this wealth of information in addition to fair price for the goods I wish to purchase.
- Comment on Shitty stores that penalise you for not having their store card 1 week ago:
These companies charge people extra if they refuse to provide personal details and buying habits.
If you can’t see a problem with that then I can’t help you.
- Comment on Shitty stores that penalise you for not having their store card 1 week ago:
Australian media regulator publishes a list of numbers used only for fictional purposes like TV shows or whatever:
https://www.acma.gov.au/phone-numbers-use-tv-shows-films-and-creative-works
I’ve always used the first one. Every store seems to have it registered a billion times. They sometimes say “woah there’s 100s of people on this number” and I just tell them to pick one. They never care.
- Comment on Shitty stores that penalise you for not having their store card 1 week ago:
I feel aggrieved to not get the deal by not having a card.
If the card didn’t exist everyone would get the benefit.
- Comment on Shitty stores that penalise you for not having their store card 1 week ago:
It’s tantamount to being required to provide personal details in order to purchase something.
On principle, I shouldn’t be required to provide my personal details to purchase.
“But that’s your choice”
Not really… selling me an item at half price in exchange for my details is really just extortion. “We’ll charge you double if you don’t provide us your contact number”
- Comment on Shitty stores that penalise you for not having their store card 1 week ago:
I don’t for a moment doubt that this is true.
The thing that amazes me is… how terribly poorly targeted ads are?
As in, I purchased a washing machine last week, so as an avid purchaser of washing machines I certainly need to see ads for washing machines?
- Comment on I cannot imagine what lawsuit led to this 1 week ago:
It’s this.
Lawyers: put the warnings on everything.
Managers: what warnings?
Lawyers: the warnings.
Managers: yeah but
Lawyers: on everything. - Comment on Increasing the surface area of a substance increases its reaction rate. Proof by garlic. 1 week ago:
Only if you think of the mound of paste as the thing you’re measuring. If you’re measuring pieces of garlic obviously it’s much higher.
Alternatively, just spread the paste really thin.
- Comment on Attitudes 2 weeks ago:
There’s a lot of young people on lemmy and I imagine lots of people with unfulfilling jobs.
Im self employed. My job is tough, and stressful. I wouldn’t do it for free, but I choose to do this job because i have the right skills and experience, and I genuinely enjoy “helping” people with my services.
- Comment on at what point in life it's too late to go back to school? 2 weeks ago:
Super common in accounting in australia.
Degrees by themselves aren’t very useful, you need the experience as well.
Just tick off 1 unit each semester.
- Comment on at what point in life it's too late to go back to school? 2 weeks ago:
Study part time, alongside employment.
- Comment on How can we stop bots on the fediverse? 2 weeks ago:
My point is, bots on reddit are farming karma. They’re not doing that here.
- Comment on How can we stop bots on the fediverse? 3 weeks ago:
Reddit tracks karma, so aparently bots build up karma for user accounts or something.
Lemmy doesn’t do that.
- Comment on If WW3 breaks out, who is going to be on which side? 3 weeks ago:
This is the US import origins, according to OEC World, the source of the data in your map.
China may not be the US biggest trading partner, but it’s not far off.
- Comment on why is fossil fuel still used? 3 weeks ago:
For profit companies already run reactors on dry land, which don’t move, and are heavily regulated and constantly observed.
Obviously, the risk profile is vastly different when you put the reactor on a boat.
Putting them on a boat is not well understood. Australia just doesn’t have personnel experienced with any kind of reactor. We don’t have a nuclear industry. It’s not as simple as plonking a box named “reactor” on the boat and calling it a day.
- Comment on If WW3 breaks out, who is going to be on which side? 3 weeks ago:
China is everyone’s biggest trading partner.
Call us a “puppet state” if you will, but we’re not as far up Trump’s ass as a lot of other allies.
- Comment on How can we stop bots on the fediverse? 3 weeks ago:
blatant bots posting really crappy AI images
I don’t think I’ve noticed this ?
What would be the motive of someone creating a bot to post bad AI images?
- Comment on How can we stop bots on the fediverse? 3 weeks ago:
Exactly. So many users are obsessed with how to get more users or whatever, but these are the best days of the fediverse.
- Comment on How can we stop bots on the fediverse? 3 weeks ago:
If only where was a way users could alert mods and admins about suspicious accounts.
