adespoton
@adespoton@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Too much open-source AI is exposing itself to the web 2 days ago:
Nothing xenophobic about it. That’s just the model we already have documented information about. Notice I mentioned CCP and government, not “the Chinese”.
That’s like calling someone an antisemite for being against the Israeli or Iranian government.
- Comment on How on earth do I fix my trackpad? 2 days ago:
Do you know which trackpad you have?
I’ve had that experience before on some laptops where the battery that sat right under the trackpad started to inflate.
- Comment on Too much open-source AI is exposing itself to the web 3 days ago:
Ollama with standard Gemma2 model open to the Internet. What could go wrong?
I call out this one because the Chinese government has already examined it for exploits and flaws.
Letting it run outside a sandbox on the Internet is tantamount to sharing any information and capabilities it has with the CCP.
- Comment on What are some good places online to earn certificates or degrees that you can who you a prolific in said subject? Hopefully something free maybe medical coding? 3 days ago:
Ah; so you want a collection of “yes, I can do this” items.
It’s not free, but I highly recommend night school courses in trade skills (welding, basic electrical wiring, basic plumbing and pipe fitting, etc).
- Comment on What are some good places online to earn certificates or degrees that you can who you a prolific in said subject? Hopefully something free maybe medical coding? 3 days ago:
That can show you are prolific?
Wouldn’t you want to excel in the subject instead of just being prolific?
- Comment on Minimal CVE Hardened container image collection 4 days ago:
Is this unpatched or just everything they could get their hands on?
- Comment on Are there any reputable cybersecurity experts that I could just email them to ask for free advice? 4 days ago:
A lot of cybersecurity experts have already put a lot of free information online.
- Comment on What is the best way to drop 50lbs in two months without spending alot and no fad diets? 4 days ago:
Ignoring metabolism and focusing solely on food calories consumed and exercise calories burned.
While calories are basic physics/chemistry/biology, they say nothing about the health of the individual. Not eating anything for a month to burn through your fat reserves isn’t going to leave you thin and trim.
- Comment on What is the best way to drop 50lbs in two months without spending alot and no fad diets? 4 days ago:
I do breakfast at 7, small snack of nuts at 10, lunch at 12:30, small snack at 2, dinner at 6, and absolutely nothing after dinner.
Meal volumes get adjusted depending on what I’m trying to do with my weight.
That 7-7 fast gives my body time to properly digest food and means my cholesterol spikes properly when I do eat food. This means fewer cravings, so the entire process becomes easier.
- Comment on What is the best way to drop 50lbs in two months without spending alot and no fad diets? 4 days ago:
Daily exercise only counts if it’s cardio and not muscle building. Otherwise the fat gets converted to muscle, which weighs more than fat.
Of course, weight loss shouldn’t ever be considered the end goal, and building muscle and having your weight go up/stay the same is perfectly fine to become healthier.
- Comment on If the government raided your house and found a bunch of .mkv files but you insist its all legally obtained, how do they ascertain if they are actually pirated or not? 4 days ago:
I knew a guy who had a pirated copy of Office, and was doing a presentation for a law enforcement branch of government where the crack screen popped up when he launched his PowerPoint presentation.
After the presentation he was told to go and buy a legitimate license and show them proof he’d done so.
- Comment on what do I need to look for when buying running and pull up gloves? 4 days ago:
I loved my Bontager riding gloves; used them for 30 years before they fell apart. They were the fingerless kind; worked great for cycling and pullups/weights; not so good for running/pilates/yoga.
For running, I have some merino wool cutoffs with a leather pad and flip top mittens. Used them for 20 or so years. I usually start wearing them when the temperature gets close to freezing; being able to flip the mitten tops on and off helps a lot with temperature control.
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 4 days ago:
I run a Jellyfin server for anyone who has VPN access to my internal network.
However, there’s “plex server” posters with QR codes on them on telephone poles in my area, that seem to have a subscription portal you have to go through to get an account.
So there are definitely people attempting to make some money off of pirate plex servers.
- Comment on What do you do when you're lacking direction in life? 5 days ago:
Start small; don’t commit to always being there; just do drop-ins. Or contribute to a github project. There’s lots of ways to volunteer that don’t involve running the program.
- Comment on Is it true that in the US we are a low context culture and In France, they are high context culture? The video I'm going to attach explains the differences. 5 days ago:
So… the theory itself is low context?
- Comment on Vimeo Lays Off 'Most' of Its Staff, Allegedly Includes 'the Entire Video Team' 6 days ago:
Well, I guess in this case, there WERE spoons.
I wonder if DailyMotion is hiring?
- Comment on What do you do when you're lacking direction in life? 6 days ago:
Find somewhere you can volunteer. Doesn’t have to be with something you’re interested in, but it helps.
- Comment on How do I keep a brand new one of these mats from wanting to keep curling up on the ends? 6 days ago:
I’ve seen people use low profile corner weights on those before. They’re little triangular weights that slip over the corners. May not be legal in some areas due to being a tripping hazard.
- Comment on Question for the Americans. If Canada, Venezuela, Mexico, or Greenland dropped a nuke on Washington DC, would you be angry at the bomb dropper, or would you think we had that coming? 1 week ago:
Why would they target DC instead of Mar-a-Lago?
- Comment on Before social media/internet/cell phones/landlines/payphones; how would 2 friends living across the same city arrange in person meetings and stay in touch? 1 week ago:
Depends on where you lived.
In some places, you’d leave a note with someone you knew the recipient was going to see that day. In some places, note passing was quite an artform, including special paper folding to protect the contents from prying eyes.
In Paris, they had the tubes — the entire city was plumbed with vacuum tubes, and you could write a note or even pack a small object into a capsule with an address, drop it in your local receptacle, and it would zip across town in minutes to the recipient address.
In other places, markings on trees, mirrors, flags, smoke signals and various musical instruments and bells have been used.
- Comment on Why do people pronounce ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) like it's a word? 1 week ago:
Welcome to the English language, where there are two sets of rules to follow (Germanic and Latin) and social linguistic development often eschews both.
- Comment on Why do people pronounce ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) like it's a word? 1 week ago:
Did you know that acronyms are types of words?
And many modern words are elisions and concatenations of words we no longer use.
Where do you stand on OK, where it’s actually a word, or laser and modem which are nouns with specific meanings even though they were derived originally?
What about cole instead od coca cola, cocaine and compressed coal?
- Comment on Why do people pronounce ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) like it's a word? 1 week ago:
SQL, back in 2015, officially transitioned from being pronounced Sequel to being pronounced EssQueueEll.
I still call it Sequel.
Then again, I say U R L, but also pronounce URI as Yuri. I also say L O L instead of Loll and I R L instead of Earl.
And then there’s mixed acronyms like Jaypeg and Empeg.
- Comment on Why do people pronounce ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) like it's a word? 1 week ago:
Er, aren’t you disproving your own point there?
There’s two ways GIF can be pronounced, so we use both.
Beats having to say “Graphical Interchange Format” or spelling it out every time we want to communicate with someone.
The goal is to condense meaning as much as possible without losing the original context.
Although with some acronyms, it actually takes longer to pronounce the acronym than spell it out, and we still pronounce it because of vocal flow (easier for the mouth to string those shapes together).
- Comment on Meta Is Blocking Links To ICE List on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads 1 week ago:
They also own Ars Technica and the Financial Times, but seem to keep a hands-off approach to those two and Wired.
- Comment on Why doesn't my phone put all of my apps to "sleep" by default? 1 week ago:
The real answer is: because the OS lets the app decide whether or not to run in the background. And those “free” development frameworks sheap app developers use monetize via background data collection, so make sure the “run in background” flag is set at compile time. So you get flashlight apps that require your location, microphone and background functionality.
- Comment on Why doesn't my phone put all of my apps to "sleep" by default? 1 week ago:
What did you think the 5G chips in the vaccine were for? Same thing as in your phone.
- Comment on What are super-computers used for ? 1 week ago:
Here’s a vehicle analogy:
If I can get a hypercar for $3 million, why does a freight train cost $32 million? It’s not like it can go faster, and it’s more limited in what it can do.
- Comment on Is it normal that you feel very shaky as soon as you start to get hungry? 1 week ago:
Either that or a headache.
- Comment on How to stay sane in a hostile environment that you can't get out of? 1 week ago:
Malicious compliance.