Wolf314159

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[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Unless they are trying to sell you beans (or Dean's), it's not spam.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 7 points 1 week ago

Good question. Also, given the way AI tools are creeping into everything, can we really declare that any modern Photoshop are truly free of AI?

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Everybody is just trying to look cool. Everybody probably looks like a "poser" to someone else. And in a cruel twist of irony, the inventors and early adopters of some "cool" new thing, look derivative and boring years AFTER everyone else has done it. Kids don't have a long memory for these kinds of things; they grew up in a world where it was already old news and boring, never having experienced a world without it. This shift in perception can happen sometimes even among people old enough to have been there at the beginning. So yeah, they are just a bunch of posers trying to look cool, but aren't we all?

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 26 points 1 week ago

Is the joke that Stranger Things is nothing like Twin Peaks at all?

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I wish I could stay asleep for 8 consecutive hours, or even go back to sleep after waking up at hour 6 without feeling like shit the rest of the day. Some of my most restorative sleeping has been 4 hours or a 30 minute nap. Sleeping more than 30 minutes and less than 4? Straight to sleepy jail. More than 4 hours, but a little less than six? Sleepy jail. More than 8 hours? Probably dead, definitely at least sleepy jail where nothing productive happens.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That's not what the articles says or implies at all. The article only refers to another article with a click bait headline. The article article summarizes Canonical stance like this:

  • Canonical will add AI to Ubuntu — but only cautiously and when it truly makes sense.
  • AI features must be mature, open-source, and run locally when possible.
  • Focus AI on accessibility (speech-to-text, TTS) and improvements, not turning Ubuntu into an 'AI product'.

And to be clear, including a tool or default workflow is MILES away from patronizingly forcing it on to users. It's just the way that most distros that aren't Linux From Scratch work.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 5 points 1 week ago

The idea is to have the server safely shutdown BEFORE it loses power, so that BIOS setting wouldn't mean anything. The server does not loose power while it it running, so it will never "restore last state after AC loss". The idea is that you can run a low power device (the raspberry pi) for which you don't care if power is cut abruptly and that can talk to both the UPS and the wake-on-lan of the server directly over ethernet. It being local means those WOL are much more likely to work than trying to send them from outside your network when you're remote. It's a lot simpler to set this up once than it is to recover a server with a corrupted file system due to power loss or lose access to your server for weeks because a thunderstorm knocked out power for 30min at the beginning of a long trip. That pi can also take care of other always on services like a pi-hole, home assistant, etc.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 5 points 1 week ago

It's my understanding that he didn't put himself at risk for the adrenaline, he did it because he valued the safety of the animals he cared for above his own. I seem to remember him explaining his reasoning on his show. There are lots of devices and drugs that can be used for protected contact so that animal handlers are never put at serious risk, but all of them can and do sometimes go horribly wrong for the animals in addition to being very traumatic in ways that it can be difficult for humans to conceive. He didn't do it without thought either, it being clear that the techniques he used required an intimate knowledge of those animals and their behaviors. He didn't die wrestling a croc or handling a venomous snake. He died from being to close to an animal he likely had much less familiarity with.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

According to the article it was royalty free and published open standards, but they do not make any claim to this being an FOSS system.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

If I thought it was an intentional joke, it wouldn't have been ironic.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 1 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

People are getting much more dumber, though, so if you starts using it more people might will does it too.

The irony of the sentiment of this comment against the flickering light of the dumpster fire that is its grammar is not lost on me.

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