The enemy of my enemy is not always my friend

does that fuckin weenie still train bjj or was that just for show

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This sent me for a loop.

I don’t mind older stuff- my car is from the late '10s, and was a few years old when I got it, but blew my mind compared to my last car from the mid '00s. It has a back up camera! And even though my car is now nearing 10 years old, my experience hasn’t changed. I’m still driving on mostly the same roads using the same method. And, when I have to get a new car, I’m sure I’ll marvel at remote start or whatever.

But what’s a bummer is the idea that someone else can decide that the hardware is no longer adequate- that “you must have the newest experience”. I simply don’t want that. Yes, it’s annoying that my phone has to be plugged in to access carplay, while new cars have it over bluetooth, but I didn’t even know it was that way until I got a rental recently.

So for AI, i’m okay with some shortcomings, because I can get to know the software and work with it, and if the shortcoming is a show stopper, then I can seek to upgrade or just not do what I was trying to do with my older gen AI.

But alas, the number must go up so the shareholders can rub their stocks or whatever

I just wish we could invest the time/money/resources into compressing AI and making it smaller and more efficient. I’d so much rather have a somewhat capable AI that can be run locally and offline, to outsource menial tasks to like alphabetizing spreadsheets and so basic image modification, than to have to upgrade my hardware constantly or use cloud based SaaS and/or have newer models that are more accurate in their predictions.

Of course that assumes a lot of things, like the intent to help people and not make money. Maybe someone in the Linux-sphere will make something.

I’d love to hear your underlaying opinions about the population of the US.

Recently? I don’t think Borat could have come from someone who wasn’t a zionist. This, however, was before the average joe cared about that stuff.

Yeah bro we’re totally just scanning everything you send just on the off chance that a child (even though you have none and don’t know any) are takes your phone and uses it to send a dick pic haha no bro don’t worry it’s for their safety haha

… and water is wet?

Man what a way to fucking make everything unfun

it’s always interesting to see a sentiment I more or less agree with coming from a source that’s far outside of the things I put much consideration in to. I didn’t read the whole statement, but I liked the sentiment of his opening line. It reminded me of a Jesuit(?) approach, where the sentiment is about being more focused with just helping make the world a better place in the here and now and being less focused on the history and dogma. Like it or not, it’s rarely a bad thing to have an institution with the power of the Catholic church presumptively working in the same direction. Enemy of my enemy and all that.

I’ve got the same thing. I had someone ask me what I do for backups and they thought I was joking when I told them I have a good printer. They couldn’t get their head around the idea that I don’t even have a home network to attach a NAS to, and thought I was just being condescending. I had a similar conversation when asked how to secure an Alexa.

That’s really great, thank you. I’ve got a working knowledge of applying opsec and related principles, but my understanding quickly drops off when we get into the why. That’s super helpful.

I really appreciate your response and I agree completely. Linux seems awesome (I’ve played with Mint a little bit, and have heard a lot about Bazzite and Kinoite, and I do plan on moving over when I have the time/energy/motivation. It does seem significantly better than the commercial offerings once one gets past the (often exaggerated) learning curve.

Would you mind expanding on the Apple stuff? I haven’t looked into them as a company since they told the courts to fuck off during the Snowden trial or something like that. I’m realizing that I’m not an Apple fanboy, but I also don’t have the data pool to really form an opinion one way or another.

Good on you. Few are willing to take the overgrown path. And, funny how people who work with the subject matter often avoid it- the cybersecurity guy who doesn’t own a computer, the guy who services food processing equipment who refuses to buy premade food, the guy who works/ed for the DoD who doesn’t own a phone, etc.

Would you mind sharing some of the online things you’re averse to, besides all that is implied by being on the Fediverse? I’m still new to this stuff.

It’s wild how quickly morality falls to the wayside (and is subsequently paved over). Especially crazy to abandon one’s moral standing early on the path of solving problems that don’t exist to appease people who don’t care for a chance at the advancement of a career that you can’t take with you in a field that could be wiped out by a solar flare, all to end up making the world a worse place for subsequent generations (I’m not a bleeding-heart idealist, lol).

I often think about a few people I know who have psych degrees. All were told, in different years, that if they wanted to make money as a psychologist, they needed to get in with tech companies. Some even got job offers.

I wonder if, at any point, anyone stopped to ask themselves, “did I really go to school just so I can ply my knowledge and expertise to find even more ways to fucking track people who expressly don’t want to be tracked so we can use the data for ad revenue (if not for other, even worse things)”?

Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve always found smart TB UIs to be totally unnecessary and kind of an annoying feature. I’ve got a Sony smart TV and have never used the UI. I just use it as a monitor for my PC, and if I’m watching TV, it’s via the web or something. So personally, this doesn’t seem like that big of a deal, aside from the principle of it, which is absolutely a big deal and super shitty.

Maybe some of this is being terrified about the quiet spreading of the IoT and how that feels like a really fucking half baked idea that’s going to be a big problem later on.

I wonder how much of the anti-apple stuff comes from the extremity of the person’s views. I have always preferred PC/windows due to familiarity with it, but I’ve used iphones for 12 or 13 years, and by extension, some of apple’s services (like icloud). They’ve been pretty great this whole time. And, as a normie, I’ve been happy with what I’ve heard and seen about their stability, general lack of ads, and security/protection of customer data. I doubt there’s many others on the Fediverse with similar views due to the nature of this place, but anyway, the point I’m trying to make is that it seems like some of the dissent toward apple is inherent to their position relative to the opinion holder.

I wish I wasn’t tired to the point that my brain subconscious puts up blocks after seeing “meta” and some made up word like “momfluencers”. I’m just so tired if the loop of “company that did weird and evil shit attempts to change image by doing weird unethical shit”. That’s enough internet for today, I’m gonna go tend to my potatoes