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some_guy ,

Ok, so I laughed at some other post a few minutes ago cause it was pretty funny. But this is genuinely funnier.

“How dare you ask me about my public actions at a public event and the response that I gave when it blew up in my face! You’re all a bunch of assholes!” - Summary of her response to a question during a televised debate.

some_guy ,

Wilson’s trial has been five years in the making after being plagued with a slew of delays, including the death of his first attorney, and Wilson’s brief escape from a holding jail cell.

You wanna stay free after escaping from jail / prison? Don’t have a bunch of super identifying face tattoos.

Oklahoma Supreme Court dismisses lawsuit of last Tulsa Race Massacre survivors seeking reparations (apnews.com)

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit of the last two survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, dampening the hope of advocates for racial justice that the government would make amends for one of the worst single acts of violence against Black people in U.S. history....

some_guy ,

I learned about it from HBO’s Watchmen. And I love learning about history, if that says anything about how much the topic has been deliberately kept from us over the years.

some_guy ,

How about this: rather than go to all the effort of building a pier to deliver aid, why not demand that our “ally” do what we all know to be the humanitarian approach and just let it through by normal means.

some_guy ,

It’s Georgia, so I won’t be surprised if these accusations are found to be true.

Fuck the south.

some_guy ,

(I could not determine the meaning of “pre-Luvian” architecture)

Antediluvian

some_guy ,

You know, Spanish explorers found (or were shown by native peoples, I can’t recall) a giant bone and concluded that giant humans had lived in the Americas. Modern historians assume this was more likely a bone from a mastodon (woolly mammoth).

But you know what? This person is right. Don’t let the sham-scientists trick you any longer. Aliens a Jesus ftw!

some_guy ,

You’re right. I don’t believe it.

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It's time to call a spade a spade. ChatGPT isn't just hallucinating. It's a bullshit machine.

From TFA (thanks @mxtiffanyleigh for sharing):

"Bullshit is 'any utterance produced where a speaker has indifference towards the truth of the utterance'. That explanation, in turn, is divided into two "species": hard bullshit, which occurs when there is an agenda to mislead, or soft bullshit, which is uttered without agenda.

"ChatGPT is at minimum a soft bullshitter or a bullshit machine, because if it is not an agent then it can neither hold any attitudes towards truth nor towards deceiving hearers about its (or, perhaps more properly, its users') agenda."

https://futurism.com/the-byte/researchers-ai-chatgpt-hallucinations-terminology

@technology

some_guy ,

Apple’s guy in charge of those systems called “hallucinations” exactly that last night in an on-stage interview with John Gruber.

Opinions on career transition from Digital Cinema to Cybersecurity?

I currently work as Helpdesk analyst for a company that produces projectors. I am on the NOC that field technicians call into for any assistance. I would describe my job as having some elements of network, software, and hardware troubleshooting. Ultimately with my end goal I want to get into cybersecurity and be on a SOC...

some_guy ,

Lurk on r/homelab. Look up some vloggers doing homelab stuffs. Start learning Python (it’s the most common language for breaking into a lot of fields right now). Get on forums where people discuss these things.

Don’t go overboard spending money on hardware for the homelab prematurely. It’s easy to get caught up in building the perfect homelab over actually learning how to implement things. Start with the most barebones rig you can get away with and only start investing more when you’ve stretched it to its limit. Buy second-hand hardware when it comes to things like servers, though I wouldn’t recommend buying servers if you can get away with less, at least until you’re established.

some_guy ,

I get that there are fucked up people in the world who can’t control themselves. It’s just inconceivable to me that you’d commit a crime that you know will get you caught. There’s no chance this guy didn’t realize cameras would catch him. And yet he still couldn’t restrain himself. That’s an incredible degree of anger.

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    some_guy ,

    The aspect that bothers me is that this will be blown up into proof that all elections are full of fraud when the reality is that our elections are pretty decent at catching it. Thanks for providing ammo for conspiranuts (edit: them, not you).

    some_guy ,

    Shhhhhh!

    some_guy ,

    Yes! More of this, please. And let’s tell them to dance on the edge of active volcanos and wrestle bears. All of these are goods for you. The Left don’t want you wrestling bears!

    some_guy ,

    I hope this isn’t the prelude to a decline. I just ordered my third Pi over the weekend. It should arrive today. I’d hate to see the platform squandered by “make number go up” types.

    some_guy ,

    I ordered a BananaPi board years ago but then life took me places where I didn’t have time or energy to follow up. I’ve recently rejoined the hobbyist homelab market, so I’ve quite interested. I’d read that drivers could be an issue with non-Pi boards but haven’t ever found out. Which boards / companies are recommendation-worthy at the moment?

    Asking twice because two people had similar replies and I’m looking for feedback, not because I want to spam the thread.

    some_guy ,

    I ordered a BananaPi board years ago but then life took me places where I didn’t have time or energy to follow up. I’ve recently rejoined the hobbyist homelab market, so I’ve quite interested. I’d read that drivers could be an issue with non-Pi boards but haven’t ever found out. Which boards / companies are recommendation-worthy at the moment?

    Asking twice because two people had similar replies and I’m looking for feedback, not because I want to spam the thread.

    The Curious Case Of The Underselling Arena Tours (www.stereogum.com)

    “Who can afford to go to multiple shows?” says the anonymous tour manager. “Two tickets to a show, you’re talking probably about $200 with fees and everything. You go to a meal around the show, you’re talking at least $100 or $200 for a nice dinner. Then you got parking and babysitters, then you add the VIP stuff to...

    some_guy ,

    I paid the most I’d ever paid for tickets earlier this year. Then again by a much larger margin last month. It’s out of control.

    some_guy ,

    Collective action works. Spread the word. Mention this to people you know. It’s important that people understand that we’re in what’s essentially unprecedented times for a lot of people currently in the workforce. This hasn’t really worked since I was too small to understand the concept. The tide is turning.

    3 Nixon justices helped end his presidency. Will the 3 Trump appointees force him to stand trial? (apnews.com)

    Fifty years ago, three of the justices Richard Nixon appointed to the Supreme Court joined in an 8-0 decision in the Watergate tapes case that effectively ended his presidency, ruling only 16 days after hearing the case. Nixon resigned from office just over two weeks later....

    some_guy ,

    The Republican party had a facade of decency back then. They don’t bother to pretend anymore. The answer is no.

    some_guy ,

    Things I dislike for $100, Alex.

    some_guy ,

    It’s true use is to use as a legal argument that you accepted restitution. Luckily, he wisely declined or his suit might have been dismissed on grounds that they’d made it right already.

    some_guy ,

    When I was drinking heavily on a nightly basis, I drank massive amounts of water to keep hydrated each day. The two coworkers at my office who share the space are both a good amount younger than me. I assume they think I have old-man bladder from how often I went to the bathroom. I’d rather that than explain that I was a functional alcoholic. Oh well, whatever…

    some_guy ,

    The thing is, if a few large western countries like France, Germany, and the UK would band together and demand an end to it, there might be discomfort with political relations, but Biden and the US wouldn’t really have any room to squirm. But other than France, the others don’t seem to mind, or at least don’t mind out loud.

    some_guy , (edited )

    Doctor Who

    Edit: Gdi I meant Doctor Strange.

    some_guy ,

    Well, then I guess he’d better take action and use his position in government to fight back, right? He’ll do something meaningful to push back on crazy conservatives, right? Right…?

    /s

    We are lost. It’s tough not to give up, sometimes.

    some_guy ,

    Eight hundred thousand years. You just move the decimal to get the answer. Once you know that trick, a lot of math is really easy.

    some_guy ,

    Or just a complete asshole.

    some_guy ,

    Tech. Everyone felt overwhelmed when they started, like they’d never be able to catch up, like they were in over their head. It’s not just you. We all went through it.

    some_guy ,

    “I know absolutely dick about shit yet I still have an opinion.”

    some_guy ,

    I’ve been listening to The Fall of Civilizations podcast (it’s really good, especially if you enjoy history). I just finished an ep yesterday on the Norse colonies on Greenland and it talked about the destructive farming that occurred before they were abandoned. This was ~13th-14th centuries when they went dark. It’s not an uncommon problem, though centuries of progress make it harder to excuse / understand in the 20th.

    Anyway, fascinating stuff. I wonder how we’ll be talked about in the next millennium (assuming a miracle and humanity lasts that long).

    some_guy ,

    I thought we were well past this topic. I guess everything old is new again. In fact, I’ll dust off a classic:

    “Bugs fly through open Windows.”

    some_guy ,

    Right to the top.

    some_guy ,

    Boards of Canada.

    some_guy ,

    Haaaaaaa! This was awesome.

    some_guy ,

    Donate it to a museum with a sterling reputation or destroy it. Sounds like there’s no value to a museum, so that leaves one option. Take it to someone who can melt it down in front of you to make sure it’s not sold on a black market.

    some_guy ,

    I mean, at least they’re listening to feedback rather than jamming it through.

    Feeling lost and with no direction, what skill should I learn?

    Hi everyone. I am feeling like I’ve lost any direction after getting laid off earlier this year (was working as an analyst in telecom and very recently landed a much lower position in healthcare data entry due to necessity). I already have several hobbies but I am either burnt out on them or they have lost their luster...

    some_guy ,

    One of the former guitarists of thrash metal band Anthrax became a watch repairman. I think maybe he work(s/ed) on antique watches, but I might be making that part up. If you like working with your hands and challenging your mind, this could be great. I listened to a podcast miniseries about a guy who, among other things, repaired clocks. There was a lot of commentary about how reverse-engineering the original design was a big part of the job. (The show was S-Town / Shit-Town).

    some_guy ,

    What’s the point of having accountability if there’s no accountability? Was it just an excuse to pad their budgets by adding cameras for the entire force? Yes. Mostly. And some still don’t have cameras, which is nuts, but holy fuck. We really got shafted.

    some_guy ,

    It runs much faster now.

    Study finds 1/4 of bosses hoped Return to Office would make staff quit (www.theregister.com)

    HR software biz BambooHR surveyed more than 1,500 employees, a third of whom work in HR. The findings suggest the return to office movement has been a poorly-executed failure, but one particular figure stands out - a quarter of executives and a fifth of HR professionals hoped RTO mandates would result in staff leaving....

    some_guy ,

    Businesses were over-extended by low-interest rate loans, so this isn’t a surprise.

    some_guy ,

    Perhaps true with office work (so many tales of people saying they got shit code from overseas developers) and such, but I think the savings were very real for manufacturing, at least for a period of time. Happy to be corrected if that’s wrong.

    some_guy ,

    I’ve read that his announcement for his 2016 run was full of people paid to be there, but I don’t recall where and I can’t substantiate the claim.

    some_guy ,

    Remember when Jesus was known for conning people and cheating them? It was like his main thing or whatever. She’s right. No wonder they worship Donnie.

    some_guy ,

    Check out a book called, The Passover Plot. I read it this year and loved it. The author posits that Jesus was extremely clever in engineering his role as the messiah and it all went wrong when he was stabbed by a Roman centurion. Very good read.

    some_guy ,

    But Palestinians aren’t human, so it’s fine, right? /s

    some_guy ,

    Crushing mobs of plebs.

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