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I’m not a privacy expert.

And I know that, sadly, they probably have a lot more data on me than I’d like. Even though I don’t have traditional social media anymore, and I use VPNs to access Lemmy, that’s just normie precaution stuff. Anyway I do have a Google, Apple, accounts and the like.

My question is this: what do you / y’all think about the prospect of “poisoning the well”?

Meaning: you set up multiple traditional social media accounts, generate fake profile photos for them, give them the same real name as you and part of the country as you live in, and have AI chatbots fill ‘em up with generated posts matching a particular “personality profile”?

Would that be an effective countermeasure against this sort of data collection? Increase the noise-to-signal ratio?

Just thinking out loud here.

The company I work for is using software sold by palantir.

The software itself is benign, and quite clever and useful, but regardless it feels like we’ve made a deal with the devil to me.

That’s one (of many) reasons I don’t want to give up remote work.

Bosses say that remote work misses “the human element” and “face to face” time.

Yes, and I couldn’t be more happy about it.

100% we need to switch back to entirely paper ballots, even if it takes months to determine a winner.

No, which is why many of us opposed the Patriot Act during the Bush era.

The question “what about a future administration that could abuse this level of access” wasn’t just a rhetorical one, it was prescient and timely.

The party of small government at it again.

You just unlocked a memory here.

What does your hardware setup look like, if you don’t mind me asking?

I’m thinking of building something, but I don’t want to spend a fortune if I can help it. I run Lllama on a Mac Mini, which works fine, but I’m not able to run the bigger models on that.

The quality of your life is the sum of the quality of the five people with whom you spend the most time.

Embrace the Suck.

What’s the best Spotify alternative?

Exactly!

The worst part about this is the lack of explanation.

Even if I personally disagreed with their reasoning, I’d appreciate a thought-out, sensible reason, and most likely accept it.

But they’re not even giving you the common courtesy or respect that a simple, clear reason would provide (i.e., “we don’t allow registrations from .io domains, because we see too much hacker shit from that TLD.” Or any explanation, really, would suffice).

“Just because” never sits well with me.

I was like you. Rubik’s looked like magic ever since I had one as a kid. So, as an adult, I hit Google, then I went to cubeskills.com, paid them $10, watched their videos and read their PDFs, and learned “the beginner method.”

It took me about a week (I have a family and a job, so).

I can solve now in under a minute most of the time, and that’s good enough for me.

So, “solving” a Rubik’s is just a matter of memorizing a set of algorithms (move patterns). That’s it.

Now, figuring out how to solve a Rubik’s cube from scratch, by determining what those move algorithms are through months of trial-and-error, that would be quite the feat! That’s what you attempted to do. I did not do that, nor did most people. We ain’t got the time or patience for that.

Anyway, if you haven’t already, get your kid a nice Gan cube (the one with magnets). Well worth the money. If he sticks with it, he might hit sub-15 or sub-10.

I don’t know, things going how they’re going, how we’ll manage to defeat fascism and recover without violence, but I hope I’m wrong.

I talk big on the internet, but I am not ready for violence, and it’s not a road I want us to go down. But options appear to be dwindling, tragically. Without Rule of Law, where do we go from here? Judges can issue rulings, but without enforcement, we have fascism. What then‽

Ultra is SO GOOD

I didn’t know when I signed up. I just had to “pick a server,” so I did.

I didn’t know it was considered a tankie instance when I signed up, and I’m not a tankie, fwiw.

As a chronic procrastinator, I ain’t doing shit.

They kicked us off of Reddit, dude.