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There is nothing like interacting with real people to show you how unreal, unproductive, and honestly uninfluential the chronically online environment is.

This: the internet is fake bullshit from start to finish.

At this point, staying online feels a lot like making a choice to be miserable and have shitty mental health.

And yes, I'm aware the irony or whatever of someone posting that online, but my online footprint has gone from your usual corporate media shit down to... uh, Lemmy.

Which is not by any means perfect, but it's a lot less fucking awful than what Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/Reddit are trying very hard to do to you.

Mine? Mine? Mine? Mine mine mine mine.

I'm not saying it is or is not a false positive, so please read the rest of my comment with that in mind.

But, that said, this is not new: AV has triggered on cracks and cheat software and similar stuff since forever.

The very simplified explanation is that the same things you do to install a rootkit, you do to cheat in a game with or crack software DRM.

Bigger but, though: cracks and game cheats have also been a major source of malicious software for just as long, so like, it's also entirely likely that it's a good catch, too.

Yep. Texas has been just-one-more-thing-happening from going blue for 25 years now.

So far, not a single damn one of those things, or even, somehow, the aggregate change of ALL of them has resulted in shit.

Cities are just as blue as they were, and the rest of the state is just as red, and the Republicans have remained in charge throughout it all.

And, before someone goes 'but gerrymandering!', the (R)s are maintaining control even in state-wide elections that are just a matter of getting more votes, too, so while you can argue that some of the stuff is probably gerrymandered, that's not the root cause of it either.

Another handful of people moving here isn't going to make one single bit of difference, and anyone thinking otherwise after literal decades of this kind of wishful thinking needs to take a deep breath and some introspection and figure out why they're still willing to buy that line.

I'm a little horrified that a 15-20% hike is $3000.

That's uh, well, even before the price hike that makes me feel very Luigi....

Timely post.

I was about to make one because iDrive has decided to double their prices, probably because they could.

$30/tb/year to $50/tb/year is a pretty big jump, but they were also way under the market price so capitalism gonna capital and they're "optimizing" or someshit.

I've love to be able to push my stuff to some other provider for closer to that $30, but uh, yeah, no freaking clue who since $60/tb/year seems to be the more average price.

Alternately, a storage option that's not S3-based would also probably be acceptable. Backups are ~300gb, give or take, and the stuff that does need S3-style storage I can stuff in Cloudflare's free tier.

That's a much better name than something I was thinking.

I just made the assumption they'd do the standard open source thing and call it Libre-something.

I'd pay actual money to see the meltdown Matt would have if it was forked and called WP Core.

“Even in the best case, the models had a 35% error rate,” said Stanford’s Shah

So, when the AI makes a critical error and you die, who do you sue for malpractice?

The doctor for not catching the error? The hospital for selecting the AI that made a mistake? The AI company that made the buggy slop?

(Kidding, I know the real answer is that you're already dead and your family will get a coupon good for $3.00 off a sandwich at the hospital cafeteria.)

I hate to wreck this beautiful dream, but tech is not nearly as blue as everyone thinks it is.

I've never spent time around big tech types where the split wasn't 30% libertarians, 30% right-wingers, and 30% american-style liberals.

The problem there is the libertarians land all over the damn spectrum but you end up basically the same place you do everywhere else: it's a 50/50 split.

And let's be honest, the expectation here is that a lot of the employees won't move.

If the goal is to avoid "liberal bias", or whatever, moving the people from California to Texas won't do a damn thing. What you do is you move the jobs somewhere unpalatable, knowing full well this will let you do a mass layoff without it being a layoff, because people "chose" not to move to where their job is.

So we're going to get a couple of jobs, but they're going to be filled by people already here.

Or maybe I don't buy enough?

I dunno, I've just kinda changed what games I play to things that appear to also be the same kind of stuff that Epic is making deals to give away for free?

Also, in fairness, I do buy the occasional game for console even if it's available on PC as sales permit, but we're talking a game or two a year at most.

$5 says there's a hard fork led by all the commercial providers and anyone else who has a business that depends on Wordpress, and that it happens fairly soon.

It's GPLed, so while you can't call your fork Wordpress, you can just rename it and carry on with everything as it was, except you're no longer involved in dealing with crazy.

I'm not sure the average customer of any of those businesses knows or cares about the name of the software that their site runs, and won't give a single crap about it not being Wordpress but some other name while otherwise staying exactly the same - or, maybe, without an opinionated obstructionist sitting in front of the code approval path, perhaps even better.

Shit's frozen, but it's been an excuse to take care of house projects that have been sitting around for the last two years.

Though, that's just me avoiding job hunting because I'm torn between going to live in a box on a beach never to be seen again or getting another job.

Both have merits, but fucked if I'm not very much thinking beach bum.

Eh, I'd say you've almost got it but not quite.

I wouldn't tolerate it in any sense, "ironic" or not.

Too many people are too stupid to determine irony from a serious statement, and just assume the "irony" is a legitimate support of their shitty opinions.

No tolerance at all is required, because we don't want to confuse anyone into thinking that maybe that crap is remotely acceptable here.

Essentially, yes: they're not going to contribute to their primary project because some fee-fees got hurt. It's not really a suicide note, but they've certainly decided they're not opposed to it.

That's so petty, I'm actually impressed. Like, it's VERY hard to end up universally disliked by everyone, but it looks like Matt's figured out how to do it.

That's the biggest crybaby nonsense: Oh no, the lawsuit is making us broke. Yes we started this whole thing but it's not OUR fault! It's those bad evil private equity firms. Yes, we take equity money too, but not from the BAD firms! Fine! We'll take our ball and go home!

Also, hilarious because I'm sure all the developers they have on staff are not involved in doing ANY lawsuit anything, though if they are, I'm going to watch this even closer since if there's a group of people that firmly do not understand legal shit more than developers (because developers rightfully expect the rules and procedures to make some sort of damn sense) I don't know who it'd be.

But old hardware of around those specs are still pretty easy to find at least in my area for 200 euros for a full system.

It's a little more expensive here in the US, for whatever reason.

But, still, 200 euro is a marked difference from how it was not that long ago, where I'd show up to pick up one old Dell, and would forcibly have to refuse to take the other 20 with me, even though they were being offered for free.

My favorite bizarre thing was a G4 Cube on Craigslist for $20. I was all over that, and went to meet the dude at the storage locker he had it at.

Dude then offered me 6 G3 iMacs, and 5 G3/G4 towers along with the Cube for the same $20. I sure as heck took it all, but that's absolutely not a thing that happens anymore.

Now it'd be a couple hundred for the Cube, and they'd try to sell each other mac for $150 on top of the Cube's price, or like, more, if they just look at eBay listings for the pricing.

I'm certain that new retro stuff will stop being more than old computers sooner than I'd like, since you're right about the upgradability and, well, the charm. A shiny metal box is nice, but I'm a fan of ugly beige things that are 6 different shades of beige and beep and whirr and make all sorts of annoying noises.

It's expensive, but I mean, this whole hobby has gotten kinda absurd.

It's not that much more than buying, say, a 1ghz p3 system, a decent sound card, a gotek, a working cd-rom, and a sd->IDE adapter at this point. (You need to skip out on the fancy metal case and such, but still: that's not a functional option, just cosmetic.)

And, bonus, you're not dealing with 25 year old hardware, with all the gonna-end-up-breaking that comes along with that.

I mean, I have two "primary" gaming computers: a 7700x with a 3080, and a 1ghz P3 dell with a Voodoo 5 and a proper (8830) Vortex 2.

.....the retro PC is the more valuable one these days, which strikes me as just bizarre.

100% behind anyone who is going to make usable retro computers that don't involve having to spend usable retro computer money on decades old stuff that may or may not be working in a couple of years.

+1 for Frigate, because it's fantastic.

But don't bother on an essentially depreciated google product, and skip the coral.

The devs have added the same functionality on the GPU side, and if you've got a gpu (and, well, you do, because OpenVino supports intel iGPUs) just use that instead and save the money on a coral for something more useful.

In my case, I've both used a coral AND openvino on a coffee lake igpu, and uh, if anything, the igpu was about 20% faster inference times.

The best 1 month anniversary is doing the same thing when you first met.

Unpopular opinion: I'm tired of hearing the smug 'hurr ur cuntry sucks lol' shit, myself.

I mean, you see the article this week where poor children were getting scurvy and gettting seriously ill?

Yeah, that was France, not Kentucky.

You know, the same country Le Pen has a really legitimate chance of heading the next government of, too.

Shit's fucked everywhere, so maybe a little introspection might be worth considering on the part of some of the 'europe good, amerikkka bad' crowd?