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geert

@geert@society.oftrolls.com

Technologist with a Passion for Linux

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mansr, (edited ) to random
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What does the colour red signify?

geert,
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@mansr Probably the former, as the latter do no use British Spelling.

mansr, to random
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How would people feel about rich twats having private trains for travelling comfortably across their continent of choice?

geert,
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@mansr Like Putin's and Kim's trains?

mansr, to random
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Could it be that people no longer know how to craft good search queries?

geert,
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@attilakinali @mansr Hence the search engines are starting to use "AI" to interpret queries, breaking the experience for people who know how computers work (too)?

mansr, to random
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Instead of banning Tiktok, which is difficult to do legally speaking, why don't they simply ban vertical videos instead? Much easier to enforce, and it would get rid of all the clones too.

geert,
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@mansr Or make rotary dials mandatory on phones again?

mansr, (edited ) to random
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Is anyone keeping a list of stupid things the Google AI suggests?

Off the top of my head (with additions from replies):

  • Throwing car batteries in the sea (recharges the electric eels)
  • Putting glue in pizza sauce to keep the cheese from falling off
  • Eating rocks for their mineral content
  • "Squat plug" for weight lifting
  • Cooking spaghetti in gasoline
  • Cooking chicken at 38 °C
  • Snake fights at thesis defences

There must be more.

geert,
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@mansr The Darwin Awards are dead. Long live the AI Awards!

mansr, to random
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People keep complaining that it's harder to find things online now than 20 years ago. Do any of them stop to think about how much harder it is to make a search engine now than 20 years ago? Unlikely.

geert,
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@attilakinali @mansr "The good old days of altavista", when the complete index of the contemporary Internet fitted in the 14 GiB of RAM of a maxed-out DEC Alpha server...

mansr, to random
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Sometimes I wonder how their recommendation algorithm works.

geert,
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@mansr What did you order? Oil lanterns for a wand closet?

mansr, (edited ) to random
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If you regularly share a bed with the same person, do you always sleep on the same side?

(Sides from your point of view facing the ceiling.)

geert,
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@flameeyes @mansr And I always pick the non-window side ;-)

geert,
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@mansr @flameeyes Who would want to sleep on the wrong side of history?

bagder, to random
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This box landed on my doorstep. The up 2024 preparations continue!

geert,
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@bagder Are there hidden gimmicks, to be enabled by soldering components?

mansr, to random
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bitrate: speed of data transfer
nitrate: louse eggs per unit time
titrate: porniness of a film

geert,
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@mansr @tbr hitrate: Purple Disco Machine at his best

geert,
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@mansr @tbr karate: Half-life of a banana

JoeRess, to random
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Everyone said get a Brother printer so I bought a 3-in-1 scanner and printer. There seems to be something wrong with it though. I plugged it into a Linux laptop, opened a document, pressed print, selected the printer, and it printed. Then I opened simple-scan, pressed scan, and it scanned.

This isn't how printers and scanners are supposed to work. Where do I install the drivers that don't work properly etc? This was no fun. I demand a refund.

geert,
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@mansr @JoeRess Cophy maker, I guess.

mansr, to random
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Happy DOS filename day, everyone.

geert,
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@mansr I assume you are celebrating that CP/M was released about 50 years ago?

geert, to random
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Nice!
But digits give away too much angular information.
1 => 1 dot,
2 => 2 concentric circles,
3 => 3 concentric circles,
4 => 2x2 dots,
...
You get the idea...

revk, (edited ) to random
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I have tried to explain some of the issues with and time_t. And some about

https://www.revk.uk/2024/03/2038.html

I mean, maybe boost it a bit if people need to know this shit?!

geert,
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@gsuberland @revk Does your device need secure communication? Encryption, authentication, ...

torvalds, to random

Being the responsible parents we are, we have Carbon Monoxide alarms in the house, because hey, it’s what you do. Right?

Of course, they have never gone off (knock wood), so you do tend to forget that they exist at all.

Well, yesterday one of those alarms decided that it needed to really remind us that it exists, and that it’s been ten years since we activated it. Because it’s now time to replace it.

Of course, nobody was home - except for the dog. Who is now traumatized by that beeping hell-box that suddenly decided that it was a good idea to tell everybody out of the blue that it needs replacing - at 95dB, just to make sure.

Kidde - I’m sure you could at least start out with just a mild chirp, instead of going full “the bark collar from hell” crazy. No?

geert,
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@Doomed_Daniel @ljs @corbet @torvalds Use a magnetic assembly, and removing and reattaching becomes easy.

mansr, to random
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A snowball is made of snow, so a football must be made of feet.

geert,
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@mansr Incorrect, it is made of foot.

mansr, to random
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Whenever "right to repair" is mentioned, my first thought is of Loretta's right to have babies in Life of Brian. You might have the right, but you're never getting the means.

geert,
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@emeb @mansr Exactly, just like the GPL for software. Having the right to have the source for the software you are using does not mean that you must learn how to fix it yourself, but that you can choose someone to fix it for you.

mansr, to random
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We needed to make an interface that normally uses a serial port accessible over TCP. We chose port 19200 because why not.

geert,
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@mansr Because 115200 doesn't fit?

thomasfuchs, to random
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Can’t say it often enough, but never put anything in this shit that is private or not yours to share.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/01/ars-reader-reports-chatgpt-is-sending-him-conversations-from-unrelated-ai-users/

geert,
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@WhyNotZoidberg @thomasfuchs Isn't my password auto-replaced by asterisks when typing it in ChatGPT?

SuigSays, to random

geert,
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@mansr @SuigSays "... and you have switched your Bosch Nutrunner to Flight Mode."
(whatever the latter may mean)

mansr, to random
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What's with this new fetish for not using search engines? What's next, cooking without using a knife?

geert,
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@mansr Back to browser bookmarks, like in the days before Lycos?

geert,
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@mansr I'm sure your religious/policital/ideological/... leader can provide you with a blessed bookmark list.

mansr, to random
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If Data from Star Trek were real, should he be allowed to read copyrighted works?

geert,
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@mansr @flameeyes Gold-pressed latinum

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