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nigel
the inverse of "make sure you have working backups of what's important" is "give yourself permission to delete digital detritus that no longer has any value to your life" you do not need every email you've received for the last decade. you do not need three copies of every photo you've ever taken with your phone. you do not need the downloads folder for each of your previous twelve laptops. you can delete some stuff.
nigel
I posted this on the other site as well but thought you all would enjoy it.
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MurphysLaw
@Ellopunk I told my partner a favor she asked for was out of my wife scope lol. She still kept me though.
Royce Williams
@Ellopunk Obligatory Kiwicon "Hacker's Don't Give a S--t" poster: https://github.com/RomelSan/hackers-dont-give-a-shit/blob/master/poster_shit_corrected.pdf
nigel
Maybe it's time for the internet to fork… One for AI, and the rest of the capitalistic crap that the majority of people didn't ask for, and another for actual humans.
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nigel
An unmistakably terrible place, the infamous CBGB bathroom full of memories #punk #punks #punkrock #cbgb #bowery #omfug #newyorkcity #history #punkrockhistory
Adam
@historyofpunkrock It looks exactly like I remember except the overhead light was red. A friend told me it was so you couldn't find a vein and shoot up in the bathroom, but he might have been talking out his ass.
nigel
Sooo.. the reason you start out in underwear is because you wake up on an abandoned and alien attacked space station from hibernation and will collect your first set of armor on the station From there you'll be able to go to different planets etc! **don't mind the not-fitting icons, i know :blobcatgiggle:
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nigel
Slack have decided to start training AI on enterprise customer data, including DMs, private workspaces and files. You have to have admin opt out via email. HT @Quinnypig https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/trust/data-management/privacy-principles 
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Räucherkäse
@GossiTheDog And of course they're not explaining *how* they're going to implement those "controls". 
Jigme Datse
@GossiTheDog @Quinnypig or as I've been doing for years, opt out of Slack. I'd say go with something like Jitsi/Matrix but that's not for everyone.
nigel
I'm not an AI researcher but my understanding is that LLMs work by modeling the relationship between words in a high dimensional space. Evidently, they're doing a really good job at this! AI forms good sentences! To all the techbros trying to replace the internet and all of knowledge with ChatGPT, I say "instead of taking the average of well classified words, use the connections between words to find words written by humans!" We should use embeddings for search. Good AI. No grift. Please.
Matilda T. Zombie Queen
@Lazarou one of my big favorites. Instagram is good for something from time to time!
nigel
2.5 Admins 195: Execute Option 121 Why Windows 10 might be gaining users at Windows 11’s expense, an old DHCP option is a potential risk for VPN users, we should probably say “renting” rather than “buying”domains, and avoiding tracking when using IPv6.
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Aires
@renwillis Or if you were lazy like me, pop it off, throw it in your glove box or arm rest, and hope that any thieves would be too dumb to check there. 
nigel
"Faster than light?" "Anything can be achieved," the alien's translation device said, "by balancing the four fundamental chkoi." "You mean gravity, electromagnetism, and the nuclear forces?" "No, the fundamental chkoi." "What are they?" "Spite, tiredness, hope, and 'fuck it'."
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nigel
@MattHatton look, a good friend helps out when you get trashed. Sometimes that means they're sitting next to you in custody going "that was fucking awesome", sometimes it's booting an Ubuntu live CD and copying your shit off to an external hard drive.
nigel
Hawaiian shirts are back in stock! Get ready for the good weather in both Men’s and Women’s cuts. Don’t miss out. Grab yours today at https://www.effinbirds.com/collections/oh-my-god-what-the-fuck-hawaiian-design
Herveus
@effinbirds I wish they were made of something other than "stretch polyester". That's a big fat "nope".
nigel
@Tattooed_Mummy @neil It's a bit funny how quickly we all made the circle 'we buy dvds and books' -> 'we get digital stuff to have less items' -> 'we buy dvds and books'. 
Frank Bennett
@neil I once had the notion, as a property law academic, that fragmentation of copyright interests should be constrained in the same way that restrictive covenants are supervised by the courts. There was a member of staff at (IIRC) Berkeley with similar ideas. But things have moved on so far now, making reasoned arguments about ©️ is like dissecting a train wreck after it's happened. It's like, go ahead guys, when the whole thing collapses I hope some of us can find enough food to keep us alive.
nigel
Thanks everyone! We closed the loop! Most websites are now publishing algorithmic generated content in order to please ranking algorithms from search engines in order to display generated ads that will be clicked by crawling bots and automatically generated social profiles. No humans needed any more! Which means that you can now close your laptop, watch a sunset and talk to real humans near you. Enjoy your life far from your screen.
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Dan
@ploum it's getting that way... According to one study some 50% of Internet traffic is bot activity. #deadinternet here we come! https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/dead-internet-web-bots-humans-b2530324.html
Wouter De Borger
@ploum which supports my theory that the corporation is the dominant organism on this planet. |
Gregory's Server
@djsundog i also find it healthy to get rid of some personal communication and other stuff that can lead me to rumination. people in the past were fine without having every conversation to read again when they felt bad about something!
@djsundog
Disagree. My email packrattery has saved me major trouble at least once and has been extremely helpful several other times. And lost literal thousands of dollars to some deleted records I really should have scanned and saved.
Storage is cheap enough that you really only need one instance to make it all worthwhile.