4grams

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[–] 4grams@awful.systems 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (14 children)

There is no such thing as a good billionaire and to say otherwise is just lickspittle behavior. Gabe does not care about you.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 3 points 4 months ago

I’m a big fat guy who sweats a lot. I’ve never cared about the sweat though only the smell. So my whole life I’ve used nothing but deodorant, NEVER antiperspirant.

I’ve never had problems with either pit stains, nor lingering odor. I’m pretty convinced that antiperspirant leads to more smell; I’m not saying I’m fresh as a daisy at all times, but even at my worst, my odor isn’t that bad, while drier people often stink to high heaven.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 4 points 4 months ago (16 children)

There are no good billionaires, period.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 4 points 4 months ago

Point to multipoint.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This shit drives me up a wall. I try to only buy peanut butter made out of peanuts, so for years now I’ve been buying “natural” peanut butter. I recently noticed however that 100% “natural” doesn’t mean shit as all the natural brands are loaded with palm oil. I honestly might have to start making my own.

It sucks because my family treats me like an insane person when I look at the ingredients and nutrition of the food stuff we buy. Food culture in the US is awful, just awful.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I don’t think it’s as hard to draw a line as you are portraying it. The hypothetical nurse and bread factory is a non-issue, we’re talking fractions of the bottom line of any of the involved parties. This mulvad thing is the majority of the financial backing of a party by one high level person, who’s made his money from this organization.

I’m quite comfortable putting them under the same umbrella, and quite comfortable ignoring the hypothetical.

But think there might be a philosophical question here, but I kinda think this is begging for one a bit.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 6 points 4 months ago

It came to me last night, how all this AI and the difficulties obtaining hardware. This is all them trying to end the idea of ownership, at least of your data. They want to control all the data, so everything you do, every picture you take, every game you play, every essay you write, will be only available in the cloud. We are getting close to the point where are must pay for every bit of our own data that we access.

This is the inevitable result. I’m very glad I’ve spent years building my own library of content. I just hope I can continue getting replacement hardware to keep it alive.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 32 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I had a flight safe multitool, one that specifically had no blade, nor anything sharp. It only had tools for my camera. I also had a fisher space pen which they said looked too much like a bullet.

Both were confiscated, but they couldn’t figure out how to open the front flipper knife I had with me, so they let it through.

The TSA bullshit isn’t about keeping us safe.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Just had this thought, and realized all my backups had been through a flood. I wound up with several damaged disks, but was able to get all the content off of them, damage was to the outside edges, and most of them didn’t have much data written.

I have a Blu-ray burner, but I’ve never burned one (only a couple DVD’s). Probably never will.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago

In this insane world, I’m not so sure.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I mean, same can be said about datacenters..

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This is really about training AI, isn’t it. They’ve tapped nearly all the sources of human text output already, so now they want to create as much more of it as possible, as quickly as possible. They will tap into conversations and use it as a new data source, mark my words.

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