This is really damning evidence of AI’s vaporware benefits tbh.

As LLMs key functionality is supposed to be their ability to take a body of work (training data) and then take natural language input to deliver valuable and accurate natural language outputs, automated helpdesk and call centers are supposedly their absolute bread-and-butter low challenge implementation cases.

And yet… Here we are. They still aren’t anywhere near the quality or value of just hiring people.

Was running VMs for various learning courses etc for work.

It still runs about 80% nowadays with no VMs running and just with the amount of browser tabs and background shit I leave running.

I still play Helldivers 2 on this long-toothed beast, but I do have to live with a fairly low framerate and make sure I don’t leave too many processes open in the background (its a CPU intensive hodgepodge of a game engine). Most other newish games work fine in 1080p to be honest. I haven’t been keeping up with the latest and greatest either.

Modest framerate don’t bother me much because I’m from the era of 320x240 games.

At this point my main PC is a ‘classic car’ of gaming. EVGA GTX 1070, z170 mobo, 64GB DDR4 RAM, i7 6700k.

First bitcoin made graphics cards double in price just when I was looking to upgrade my gfx, then a wider crypto wave, tarrifs, then a pandemic, then more tariffs, and then AI made everything rapidly wildly expensive.

My usual upgrade process of “waiting for prices to become reasonable around the 5-6 year mark” has proven to be a bad plan for this period…

It was Experts Exchange. Then they paywalled everything like greedy idiots - hiding decades of useful community knowledge.

Then everyone moved rapidly to StackExchange, which had coexisted but been quite small until EE did their thing.

Pretty 🥹

Yeah… I don’t drink Coke often but I like caffeine free diet coke / coke zero. I don’t want the sugar and I don’t need caffeine.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

Yes but think of all the jobs they’ll be earning by attracting META to build in their state with those massive tax writeoffs… In their… Automated… Very lightly staffed datacenter…

Its not as egregious as you think. ‘Everyone’ group means every Synology user account - not that everyone on the network that can talk to the NAS, they’d still need both a Synology account and Shared folder permissions. Any Synology user trying to access those files would still have to have read and write access to the Share to actually access it (eg via file explorer SMB/CIFs or app-level access to Synology File Manager, or they would need to be granted SSH access to get in via terminal, etc) in order to R/w/m the files.

I know it’s a bit confusing, but it’s correct. Docker often causes confusion with file permissions. There are file-level permissions (this article) and there are share-level permissions. You need both to access folders and files via mapped drives / SMB, this setting is just to ensure that Docker containers which can be running as a variety of user names (depending on how you config docker and the container) don’t experience issues accessing files you’re expecting them to be able to access, as Synology says, the default Docker folder permission is for the ‘everyone’ group to have Read-only access. This should allow most Docker containers configs to at least run and then if you run into issues writing/modifying files… That’s a clue you have missed some file permission configuration settings that need to be done, and the only reason it’s running at all is because that default ‘everyone’ permission is saving your butt.

IMDb has been making shitty decisions for a long time. They have always been a business first, community last.

I doubt RT is much better but I use it mostly. It at least has been consistently the same amount of shitty UI since inception. TheMovieDb.org has a decent ratings system too and is getting more use, but again it’s privately owned.

I’m not aware of a community run and operated ratings DB that’s got any significant uptake… Would be glad to hear of one if anyone knows.

Now that is a pet rock.

It was exciting. No idea what the phone call could bring.

Nowadays… ‘Unknown number’ just preloads frustration because you know it’s most likely a robocall.

My data is in this breach.

Thankfully, it’s all been exposed already by several prior banking data breeches over the last 5 or so years.

Yay?

The one I’m thinking of specifically recently is the revelation by Indian subcontractors that META was lying about their Rayban smart glasses having private mode that would not recording in private areas you set like bathroom, shower, in bed etc… And in fact it had sent tens of thousands of videos of people nude or fucking to the Indian subcontractors.

METAs response? Fire them, admit nothing. Lol. That’s some grossss shit that even normies want nothing to do with.

Agree. One thing that I’ve noticed is that if it’s about social media I say I “had to delete it for mental health, that shit is so bad for you”, and generally get a much more receptive response than when I explain it’s primarily for privacy and that I don’t trust them with my data.

Though Zuck and others are making it way easier to point out how creepy their platforms are, so that becomes a good entrypoint re: privacy also.

This is really fun, thanks for sharing it.

I use very popular router by Gl.Inet called Flint 2 (GL-MT6000). Goes on special for about $125 USD. Great specs, solid device.

Fully supported by OpenWRT, and I recommend flashing to that so that you have completely FOSS software with no possibly hijinks from the manufacturer’s OEM OS.

You’ll need to read some guides or watch some vids to get you set up on OpenWRT, bit of a learning curve, but it has everything you could possibly need. Check it out.

Yeah apparently you are (overestimating).

A guy named MK Ultra Victim posting obvious satire isn’t clear enough for a lot of Lemmy users, who’d rather pontificate against the parody.

I agree with the underlying premise that AI should not be given the reigns to anything of importance.

I disagree that they can’t find out.

The Amazon servers in the UAE and Bahrain found out just recently.

Anonymous works fine 99% of the time if you only install occasional apps from Google. It works by grabbing a random Google account from a large pool of Google accounts that Aurora (or someone) runs, and accesses the store for searches and downloads after logging you in. You’re logged out after a set period (several hours iirc) and then grab a new ‘anon’ account from the pool next time you do updates or search for an app.

The only issue you may face occasionally is if the app you want is geofenced to your area, and the ‘anon’ account was made in a different geographical location - in which case you won’t be able to find the app in the store to install (or update) it. I usually just log off and on a couple of times and this resolves. It’s a minor irritation.

Many create their own throwaway Google account on a different device (not linked to them in any way), but I haven’t bothered… Might be worth it if you install a lot of apps from Google store and want minimal issues though.

I think that would undo a lot of the attempted anonymity though, even if it’s just for app istalls/updates. I’ve used Aurora for… 4… 5?.. years as my only means of apps from the Google app store, only using anon accounts and only having occasional hiccups where updates don’t kick off automatically or geofenced apps can’t be located. I only use maybe a dozen apps from the store though, all the rest are F-Droid/etc.