@HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
If you like what I’m saying, assume I am smart. If you don’t like what I’m saying, assume I’m sarcastic. Asexual. Atheist. Apo’strophe police. Go away now.
member since 6 Mar 2025 16:21
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- on Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11h ago
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on Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11h ago
It’s a fridge. It doesn’t even need an 8 bit microcontroller from the 1970s.
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on It’s not just LG. Every TV company is spying on you in c/privacy@lemmy.world · 3d ago
Just play this on a loop
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on Thats why I only smoke weed. Don't want to risk this nasty windows Programms to suddenly start working in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 4d ago
Nonsense.
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on ‘I Felt Super Violated’: Men Wearing Meta Glasses on Dates Is an Instant Red Flag in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 15 Sep 2026
What a world we live in. Just stick your phone in his face and video him too?
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on Bernie Sanders proposes 20 year prison sentence for AI devs who plow ahead with Artificial Superintelligence plans - penalty on par with illegally developing rogue nuclear weapons in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Sep 2026
I am not threatened by an endless avalanche of AI slop.
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on Your Printer is Snitching On YOU! in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 13 Sep 2026
Even this cutie pie?
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on The new Apple Watch will use microphone and other sensors to generate AI recaps of your day - 9to5Mac in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 13 Sep 2026
I’ve been wondering the same about all technology for the last 10 or more years now.
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on [Opinion] Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products And Spineless Capitulation in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026
I’m just old. I remember going from cassette to 5.25" to 3.5" to hard drives, while watching graphics go from 8 color blocks on a blurry TV to full motion video in HD, while programs went from text editors to desktop publishing.
I feel like I could identify the changes, how they work, what they did for me.
Recently I had to install a SSD at work. I was confronted with M2, SATA, PCIe. What does any of this mean? I was handed two black rectangles and I was supposed to know that a tiny notch on the connector was the difference?
What difference does any of this make? Computers are just magic boxes now that spew out video and audio on command, and I can not tell the difference from one to the other. I don’t play video games. I don’t care about hoarding petabytes of pirated content, or generating fart videos with AI (although if someone else does it I laugh my ass off), arguing over pointless differences in hardware (that I feel these nerds don’t really understand anyway), spending more money on equipment to correct the problems that the first computer caused, endlessly updating things I never use, being forced to subscribe, share personal data, get notifications on my phone, I just do not fucking care about any of this endless treadmill of landfill we are supposed to have in our lives.
It’s all meaningless. It’s lost its hold on me, there’s nothing new or interesting there. I fondly remember typing away on a VIC-20 and being fascinated by the cursor on the TV changing color, and trying to program a game, learning BASIC commands from the little spiral-bound book that came with it.
Barfing up a prompt so an AI can hork up some fluid-filled abscess of code it weaved together from all the world’s code according to trillions of parameters is just futile, tiresome, overwhelming, unrewarding, and ultimately a joyless roller-coaster ride into an open grave.
But have a nice Labor Day weekend anyway.
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on [Opinion] Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products And Spineless Capitulation in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5 Sep 2026
I am overwhelmed by everything now. It’s so complex and convoluted, and even people trying to help leave things out that they assume you know.
To me computing is now plugging small black rectangles that look all exactly alike into another larger black rectangle that all look the same to get indistinguishable results for things I don’t even need or want.
And when I don’t want it it gets shoved down my throat anyway.
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on [Opinion] Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products And Spineless Capitulation in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5 Sep 2026
You’re describing all of modern computing AFAICT.
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on reason enough to fail the interview in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 31 Aug 2026
There is no such word as “gottem”. This is a recent bowel movement from ignorant people. “Gotcha” has been around for generations, and the use of the apostrophe is quite simple.
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on reason enough to fail the interview in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 31 Aug 2026
On 8 bit CPUs we just “refactor” the circle to have 256 degrees so you can easily use 8 bit math.
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on reason enough to fail the interview in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 31 Aug 2026
Two’s complement?
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on reason enough to fail the interview in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 31 Aug 2026
It’s either “gotcha” or “got 'im”.
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on LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent (videocardz.com) in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026
I remember when computers had a use and were predictable and somewhat understandable.
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on Study: Psychologists conclude that social media algorithms have a negative influence on users mental health in c/technology@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026
user’s
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on World's first GPS-free quantum navigation trial succeeds at sea in c/technology@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026
Wait until you hear about inertial navigation!
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on World's first GPS-free quantum navigation trial succeeds at sea in c/technology@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026
Hundred of thousands of satellites? Are you on mushrooms or something?
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on The fact that you can’t run through Windows setup w/o internet and an online account is absolute bullshit in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026
Could we put extra apostrophes in that same grave? Here we are building consciousness into machines, yet we will never figure out that it’s means it is.
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on 80% of developers find AI coding more addictive than helpful in c/technology@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026
But it’s the next step in human civilization!
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on Chinese memory can now match the speed and latency configs of the RAM in our gaming PCs in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026
I eagerly await the 64GB mouse driver and the 5000PB home NAS for the discerning hoarder of the output of /dev/rnd
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on Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices — 128GB of DDR5 now $3,399 in c/technology@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026
Which just shows we waste tremendous computing resources on trash.
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on Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices — 128GB of DDR5 now $3,399 in c/technology@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026
That’s maybe what was on the LEM. The total computing power including the mainframes “back home” was a wee bit more.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360_Model_91
(Also besides the fact that it was 200000+ gallons of kerosene that did the “going”)
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on The Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It's Almost Incomprehensible in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026
Sure, sure… Host them in space, built from privately mined asteroids and powered by fusion!!!
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on The Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It's Almost Incomprehensible in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026
Hey but we have a flood of impossible gymnastics moves, fake soldering videos, and even fatter fart videos!
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on Amazon's New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
Ah but the never-ending deluge of Just Dance Vance videos is worth it!
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on First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
It’s even better, it’s not the same cycle as a regular gas engine, it’s something more efficient.
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on Woman Calls Out Doctor Wearing Smart Glasses During Consultation Where She Had To Take Off Her Clothes: 'They Need To Be Banned' in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
An old chestnut and still just as true, although I originally heard it about surgeons. There’s a 19th century joke that goes “the surgery was a success but the patient died”. The focus on showing off technique to colleagues instead of being useful is part of the human condition, I suppose.
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on PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Aug 2026
Or they were sold a bill of goods by a cloud vendor.
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on PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026
Jesus Christ, what happened to P2P? Just have the files in constant circulation through the world’s computers. And 50TB, while a lot, isn’t beyond the reach of a well-heeled private individual to host on a NAS.
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on Woman Calls Out Doctor Wearing Smart Glasses During Consultation Where She Had To Take Off Her Clothes: 'They Need To Be Banned' in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026
They should look like this
interfacemuseum.com/exhibits/private-eye/
And instead of recording, they should remind doctors of the basics that they often forget. Two legs, one heart, etc… (I’ve dealt with moron doctors)
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on Woman Calls Out Doctor Wearing Smart Glasses During Consultation Where She Had To Take Off Her Clothes: 'They Need To Be Banned' in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Aug 2026
Because doctor. Superior species.
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on Woman Calls Out Doctor Wearing Smart Glasses During Consultation Where She Had To Take Off Her Clothes: 'They Need To Be Banned' in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Aug 2026
The glasses or the doctor? I have no great love for doctors and I find we as a society are far too lax with these assholes.
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on Microsoft admits it force-installed AI-powered OneDrive on Windows 11, says it's not training on your faces (really) in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Aug 2026
ohhh fAces… I’ve been shitting all wrong apparently
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on Cloudflare says humans could become a "rounding error" as bots generate 1,000 times more internet traffic in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Aug 2026
Why don’t we just generate every video imaginable procedurally and host them in space? Get it over with. Every combination of anything. Because that’s what this torrent of AI slop videos feels like.
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on YouTube’s AI slop detector incorrectly targets Kurzgesagt as other creators fear same fate - Dexerto in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Aug 2026
Or “just discovered” 1970s Berlin krautrock space stuff… it’s all nonsense
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on 2027 RAM Capacity Has Reportedly Been Sold out in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Aug 2026
Oh no, how will I get my flashing lights and data hoarding fix now!!??
What convenience? You open the door, a light goes on, it is cold or freezing cold inside depending on the door.
The end.
My parent’s McClary fridge from the 1960s still runs on the original refrigerant.
Don’t tell me about energy efficiency when
We are awash in renewable electricity
Building new fridges every five years filled with e-waste running garbage software requiring a networking infrastructure on top of it surely used a few joules as well.
It’s not in a landfill.
I can’t wait for the global energy crash, maybe we’ll be calmer and wiser when gas is 100$/liter.