MonkeMischief

joined 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

All those "active listening" skills to trick people into thinking you're paying attention or care. Lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago

Funny enough, not in the cynical, depressing way William Goulding postulated and many of us were forced to read in English class. :D

https://www.newsweek.com/real-lord-flies-true-story-boys-island-william-golding-humankind-human-nature-rutger-bregman-1503204

It's nice when humanity isn't the tragically disgusting thing we're often forcefully told it is. (Usually as some way to justify State-enforced law and order via violence.)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Pico8 is not open source? TIL. That's so odd.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago

Does it get any holier than practicing combat against the forces of hell? Lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I'm running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and finally completely dumped Win10 as it was BSODing itself apart during games anyway.

Constantly impressed with how many games "just work", and not even just with Steam. Heroic for GoG stuff, Lutris, Bottles for classics I still got on disc...it's awesome!

But you mentioned Windows Only VR and I got all excited...except I've got a Samsung Odyssey+ (WMR) and realized Monado is the only hope of it not being an expensive blackbox brick. :(

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks, I was about to suggest this too. Aegis is awesome. :) I can't understand why most banks sms a code instead of using something like this. It's insanity.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

On one hand I have my personal firstname-lastname-dot-com I'm still hosting for years. I'm not a webdev but WordPress is awfully bloated and everything else needs a touch of webdev skills.

So it's been at "coming soon I'm working on it welcome to sample example theme page" for years, but hey it's indexing well based on age alone!

The other is a fun clever one I route through cloudflare to access all my home server stuff via HTTPS over TailScale. Never have to expose any ports to the big scary world wide web. :p

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I like to think that glass is half-ass full.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

I thought it was a pretty cool tale. :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

There's more than just Cunk on Earth!? Glorious!! Her delivery had me rolling that entire time lmao. She's awesome.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah YouTube ads are stubborn! But hey, por que no los dos? I run pinhole as my DNS on a little server and Ublock on all my end user machines.

It makes the web...bearable again.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Used to work in a public library. Majority of the job was walking people through "forgot password" which was never a simple affair, and getting to see what a Hotmail/Yahoo/AOL inbox looks like with like 90,000 unread because they gave their email to every store and web form they ever encountered.

Near drove me to madness.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

The Hated One has been pretty solid in the past regarding privacy/security, imho. I found this video of his rather enlightening and concerning.

  • LLMs and their training consume a LOT of power, which consumes a lot of water.
  • Power generation and data centers also consume a lot of water.
  • We don't have a lot of fresh water on this planet.
  • Big Tech and other megacorps are already trying to push for privatizing water as it becomes more scarce for humans and agriculture.

---personal opinion---

This is why I personally think federated computing like Lemmy or PeerTube to be the only logical way forward. Spreading out the internet across infrastructure nodes that can be cooled by fans in smaller data centers or even home server labs is much more efficient than monstrous, monolithic datacenters that are stealing all our H2O.

Of course, then the 'Net would be back to serving humanity instead of stock-serving megacultists. . .

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