ThePowerOfGeek

The Lemmy platform is just a tool to manage and delivery content. And I think it’s important to differentiate the software from those who manages the software. I can see there’s is a tacit connection and influence there. But unless they start baking inherently bias features into the software and skewing it, I don’t think it’s a big problem.

Also, because it’s an inherently federated platform, if people don’t like the opinions of those who run a specific instance, they can (with the inclination and determination) spin up their own instance and manage that the way they see fit. And that has happened quite a few times over the last couple of years.

So no, I don’t think it requires a fork really. Not unless the people managing the main branch lose interest and the software starts to wither on the vine, or they start corrupting it somehow. But that’s just my opinion.

In many ways a comparison between Potter and Trump’s father are even more accurate, given his birth were immoral slum lords.

Like others here have said, they are a combination of get rich quick schemes and money laundering. They take the legalized gambling that is the stock markets to a whole new level. I also agree that the underlying concept of them is okay, but they’ve been exploited and hyped up to crazy levels.

If you want to play with crypto ‘investments’ and you have a bit of discretionary spending, you could try it. But just know it’s super-risky and built on a lot of bullshit. Personally I wouldn’t. I’ll stick to passively-managed index funds. They aren’t air-tight safe either, of course. But at least they are less prone to scams and risk.

Good question. Maybe they are required to by the Americans with Disabilities Act?

Mustard yellow?

The only thing I’m aware of is him publicly slating a could of actors. He was very critical of Paul Dano from There Will Be Blood (which is a bit weird because that movie has been out for a long time). He also publicly slated Matthew Lillard, who seems like a genuinely nice guy and has a lot of fans. I think those (especially the criticism of Lillard) pissed a lot of people off.

As the saying goes: a fool and their money are easily parted.

Setting up Jellyfin as a local media server is very simple. Setting it up with easy access for remote friends and family is a hassle.

Strong agree on the lack of punctuation.

Medium has become a bit of a cesspool for low-effort hot takes. Sometimes the articles make a great point but are not very well written (as is the case with this one). But more often than not they are a single, unfounded, absurd rage-bait argument that’s been spun out into an article with the help of AI.

“Well it works for unit testing, so just extend that out to all testing! Problem solved!” -Senior Management, probably

Who am I kidding. They have no idea what unit testing is.

Maybe it’s watched vs buffered?

A lot of the comments here seem to be missing some key points from this article:

• The writer made her own likeness available to everyone on purpose. She did this knowing what would happen, but it was part of the exercise of seeing how weird it would get. So the points that she was stupid for doing, or that she was outraged by this, this are missing the point. Was she stupid? Maybe, but she made a conscious sacrifice on her likeliness. Was she outraged? Clearly not.
• It’s short-sighted to say “yeah this will happen, so don’t put your is image out there”. There are lots of people (especially women and girls) who have gone out of the way to avoid having their image/likeness out there for these it similar reasons. But they have still ended up the victim of humiliation and trauma from photoshopped images or deep fakes made against them.
• This second point was a big part of what the author was trying to point out. It’s both a warning to others about being careful of protecting your identity, and an alarm sounding that there are some really weird and creepy fetishes out there that people can get their likelinesses pulled into, even when you actively try to avoid that.
• It also highlights the lack of safeguards on this kind of issue. Consent, age, level of fame… none of that matters in this issue. And in most cases the companies behind these tools don’t do shit to address these concerns.

Citizens United strikes again.

I don’t trust some of the numbers in this article.

Microsoft Teams: 100% CPU usage on 32GB machines

I’m literally sitting here right now on a Teams call (I’ve already contributed what I needed to), looking at my CPU usage, which is staying in the 4.6% to 7.3% CPU range.

Is that still too high? Probably. Have I seen it hit 100% CPU usage? Yes, rarely (but that’s usually a sign of a deeper issue).

Maybe the author is going with worst case scenario. But in that case he should probably qualify the examples more.

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In most cases it would be okay. But I have a few files that need on the fly transcoding. I guess another option would be for me to go back and convert them.

I keep hoping they will develop a model that can dynamically transcode a couple of streams concurrently, so I can move my media server over to a Pi. But I am pretty sure that will never happen. It’s just not in the intended use for a Pi. Oh well, I still have my old mini PC for that. And I know there are other cool things I could do with this.

A lot of self-promotion quotes in there from companies involved in the H1B visa industry. But one broad trend among them: this will empower developing and non-Western developed nations at the expense of the American tech industry - especially the tech industry outside the big 5 or 6 giants.

It’s the same reason IBM still exists. Massive multinational / government contracts keep them alive and healthy.

Oracle will be handling TikTok’s algorithm? Okay, so TikTok’s back-end workflow/decisioning engine will rapidly bloat up and will need to be completely replaced every two years. Got it.