nik282000

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by nik282000 7d ago
Blue collar maintenance worker here. I will have a yearly average income much higher than most of my peers because I'll likely die before I can retire and spend it ;)
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by nik282000 7d ago
> it lets people who are good at setting direction to leverage these tools to have the direction concretely followed by something, without having to create a group of collaborators It lets the unskilled access the tools of the skilled w
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by nik282000 12d ago
The browsers on the computers at work show that it is very much still the driveby tool-bar install days.
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by nik282000 15d ago
Chromium forks are not the same as Chrome but it does help Alphabet keep a strangle hold on the render engine ecology. And eithr way, monocultures are bad, a surprise vulnerability could nuke 70% of users overnight, which could be partiular
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by nik282000 15d ago
It's like Reddit and Lemmy. The majority of users did not switch to Lemmy but the ones that did seem to engage more and share cooler stuff. They are there on purpose, not because it's the default platform.
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by nik282000 15d ago
Not like Chrome, Chrome feels like it LOVES hanging out with me, looking over my shoulder, telling all it's friends about what I'm working on, what I buy, and how much money I make.
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by nik282000 16d ago
Sloppy slop. A strong password and strong encryption is enough. The presence of 'blindlock' on a device is a clear indication that one of your files is a wallet. Phoning home to do a licence check is EVERY time you use it is obnox
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by nik282000 21d ago
Sales volume has no correlation with how good a company is for an ecosystem. See Microsoft, Adobe, Apple, Sony, and so on.
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by nik282000 26d ago
Ah yes, if he was innocent he would have nothing to hide. Would you care to post screenshots of your inboxes and browser history for the class?
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by nik282000 26d ago
You unlock your phone or they unlock your jaw, then your fingers, then your knees, etc.
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by nik282000 29d ago
I program as a hobby, personal projects because I can. I recently set up a local llm to see what the fuss is about and other than the few ringer solutions my experience is as you described. 2min promping, 5min waiting, 3hrs debugging or jus
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by nik282000 1mo ago
There's been a few. The last one was 2007 when the iPhone changed the internet from a place you went because you wanted to be there and had a reason to engage, into an app meant to entertain you for 5min at a time between text messages
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by nik282000 1mo ago
Big fan of "slop-jockies" as a collective term for AI spammers.
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by nik282000 1mo ago
Does GMail silently filter spam now? I get maybe 5 new messages in my spam folder per month for the past couple of years and I'm not sure if Google is just dropping the most blatant spam or if my primary address is somehow not on any l
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by nik282000 1mo ago
I can only imagine the Google/MS monetized horror that would be an e-mail replacement.
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by nik282000 1mo ago
If the "author" didn't feel like taking the time to write the text why should I take the time to read it? LLMs are great for summarizing, if you are going to slop 100% of a document make it a summary and save us all the time.
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by nik282000 1mo ago
I went from 2k hits a day to 15k in the past week. Point a domain at your IP, use letsencrypt, post your domain on Reddit, github, x, etc. The bots will find you.
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by nik282000 1mo ago
I've had a similar bump in scanners in the past week, more than half of it is coming from MS and Google owned IPs and all of them are spoofing AI agents.
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by nik282000 1mo ago
It's greed at the top pushing the market into insanity. "AI" vendors are dangling the carrot of "eliminate manpower" in front of the manpower-owning class and they are throwing everything they have at it. The wealth
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by nik282000 1mo ago
You just saved me a bunch of bickering. TY.
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by nik282000 1mo ago
No infrastructure should be on the open internet the potential for abuse is incredible. At a minimum a VPN should be used to tunnel all connections back to what ever command and control server exist, leaving equipment visible on the public
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by nik282000 1mo ago
The fact that you can think is what is valuable. I work for a slew of drones who will ask the same question 4 or 5 times, to multiple people, hoping that one of them will 'slip up' and reveal that there is actually a hidden easy s
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by nik282000 2mo ago
While a lot of my tools are faster I would never call them automated. You stil have to put the wire in the crimp, you still have to measure the pipe and make the cut, you still need to put the head of the driver in the screw. The 'hard
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by nik282000 3mo ago
I'd like to add Daria to that list. Most of the music has rights issuses and the DVD release has had it all replaced with generic 90s music-like filler.
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by nik282000 3mo ago
When I asked why there is no human equivalent of flea/tick drops my vet said it was because "when you only live to be 20, you don't worry about smoking when you are 10."
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by nik282000 3mo ago
If I set up a camera in my money laundering room and put it online, I would not fault a government from using it against me. If they bruteforced a password or used some undisclosed zeroday then I might take issue.
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by nik282000 3mo ago
Clearly we should be banning all rodent/deer contact until the tick population is under control.
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by nik282000 3mo ago
Lots of drugs work for dogs and cats because they don't live longer than 25yrs. A human has 3-4x the lifespan during which side effects can be worse than the disease.
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by nik282000 3mo ago
You should ask Claude and see how many kWh and gallons it can use up to hallucinate an answer.
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by nik282000 3mo ago
I know that my cameras are behind an auth layer but, as it is painfully obvious here, many people do not. A 'check my cameras' feature is a nice way to find out if you messed up.

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