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Father, Hacker (Information Security Professional), Open Source Software Developer, Inventor, and 3D printing enthusiast

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The Supreme Court strips the SEC of a critical enforcement tool in fraud cases
  • It's like everything else conservatives think they want: "We want illegal immigrants out of the country! But we're not willing to fund more immigration courts/judges. Let those court cases back up forever so they can stay here indefinitely! Oh wait..."

    Conservative: "Tesla chose Texas for their new whatever, yeeeee fuckin' haw yo! That's a lot of money that will come into the state!"

    Bystander: "But don't they have to settle that case with the EPA before they can proceed? I mean, they totally fucked that river and will have to pay for cleanup." (note: this is hypothetical river fucking)

    Conservative (and Libertarians, oddly): "Yeah yeah whatever. That's why we have the courts!"

    Bystander: "Except that court case won't be heard for years because the courts are backed up. Apparently there's not enough money in the Federal budget this year to pay for more judges, courthouses, and lawyers to handle cases like that"

    Conservative: "Then they need to increase taxes! Oh wait..."

  • The Supreme Court strips the SEC of a critical enforcement tool in fraud cases
  • Congratulations conservatives! With this ruling, you just drastically increased the size of the Federal government.

    Simple administrative rulings are gone so now we're going to end up with five zillion more expensive lawyers, a lot more judges, and a gazillion more cases before the courts.

    It'll also increase the cost of doing business! Because now instead of just having to occasionally deal with an administrative body full of technical people who know what matters and what doesn't every company is now going to have to hire teams of lawyers to defend themselves in court and explain every little thing to a jury of total laymen.

    The companies that violate the law regularly with the intent to "just pay the fines" will now have to defend themselves in court over and over and over again. You think immigration courts are overloaded? Now every federal court will be!

    Perhaps they thought this would just result in businesses no longer having to comply with regulations? Hell no. Next year's Federal budget is going to balloon in order to pay for all these new inefficiencies.

    They are insane.

    Of course, this is conservatives modus operandi: Don't bother looking at real outcomes and real consequences of their actions! Instead, look towards tradition and religion and only that which is right in front of their face.

  • Ironing
  • This achievement belongs to the tail end of GENX... The folks that brought us grunge.

  • Heatwave is no joke...
  • Nvidia cards are so much faster than AMD for Stable Diffusion it's ridiculous.

    That and Turbo like that other person said 👍

  • A good engineer prepares for every use case.
  • Thanks to the genius of Large Language Models it's much more likely that they'll say something like, "PUT GLUE ON YOUR PIZZA."

  • US Record Labels Sue AI Music Generators Suno and Udio for Copyright Infringement
  • To be fair, is as "new" as what the major record labels put out!

  • Automation
  • To be fair, that's a very open ended question. I mean, what kind of bolt are we talking about? A standard lag bolt? If so you don't tighten it! That'd be a trick question! You tighten the nut. Same thing applies with car wheel bolts. Tricky tricky!

    Is it a hex bolt that also has a cross head? How tight are we talking?

    I'm just going to assume bolts of lightning and Usain Bolt are off the table.

  • Much respect for the people of Iraq, who put in a ridiculous amount of effort to deny the BIble.
  • Depends on your definition of "wheel". For example, any ancient perfectly round pottery was made using a pottery wheel (primitive or not). Otherwise, how would you do it?

    That's how we know the ancient Sumerians were using pottery wheels as early as 3250 BCE (because we found perfectly round pottery that's that old):

    https://www.colorado.edu/classics/2018/06/15/potters-wheel#:~:text=The potter's wheel is an,(2).

  • Ah yes, the old somethingWentWrong
  • Hey now! This design met all the PM's requirements 😤

  • Vim
  • For pair programming it works well with Vigor 👍

  • Automation
  • The base assumption is that you can tell anything reliable at all about a person from their body language, speech patterns, or appearance. So many people think they have an intuition for such things but pretty much every study of such things comes to the same conclusion: You can't.

    The reason why it doesn't work is because the world is full of a diverse set of cultures, genetics, and subtle medical conditions. You may be able to attain something like 60% accuracy for certain personality traits from an interview if the person being interviewed was born and raised in the same type of environment/culture (and is the same sex) as you. Anything else is pretty much a guarantee that you're going to get it wrong.

    That's why you should only ask interviewees empirical questions that can identify whether or not they have the requisite knowledge to do the job. For example, if you're hiring an electrical engineer ask them how they would lay out a circuit board. Or if hiring a sales person ask them questions about how they would try to sell your specific product. Or if you're hiring a union-busting expert person ask them how they sleep at night.

  • Heatwave is no joke...
  • AI has a negative impact on the environment today (because of energy use) but it could also result in breakthroughs in battery and power generation technology that enable us to overcome our energy problems. It's already having a huge impact with things like medicine and was a key component in recent advancements in fusion reactor design (which would be the thing that saves us from our energy problems).

    It's not all LLM and image generation.

  • Heatwave is no joke...
  • The article is way, waaaaaaay off. My PC generates images at a rate of about one per second (SDXL Turbo) with an Nvidia 4060 Ti which uses 160W (~12W when idle). Let's assume I have it generate images constantly for one hour:

    • 3,600 images per 0.16kWh
    • About 22,500 images per hour.

    In other words, generating a single image is a trivial amount of power.

  • The remnants of battle
  • There's no chain link fence in the area and for good reason! Some antedeluvian buggers end up moving in and using them as traps like a spider's web. Then you end up with a huge mess of "leftovers" to clean up every time there's a new moon. And if you get lazy and don't clean it up you get all kinds of fustelarian loiter-sacks and grumbletonians moving in. Then every night is like Night of the Living Dead combined with an old BBC documentary on the mating habits of screaming lemurs. Then there's the smell: It's a bit like almonds smothered in parmesan cheese, dipped in old socks vomited by a dog at the end of your bed.

    No thank you!

  • A cool guide of the mystical beasts in Ireland
  • Someone needs to make a GPU cooler with one of these ducks!

  • Utah invokes sovereignty to ignore Biden admin’s Title IX transgender protections
  • Nah just declare that churches worth over $1 billion that are influencing politics are no longer churches and therefore no longer tax exempt. Utah will change their tune immediately.

  • Trump says he wants foreign nationals who graduate from US colleges to ‘automatically’ receive green cards
  • Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said that graduates would be screened “to exclude all communists, radical Islamists, Hamas supporters, America haters and public charges.”

    Communists? 🎶 One of these things is not like the others 🎶

  • The United States will need 7 million migrants to cover old age support programs for baby boomers
  • Alternative: We need more robotics engineers to build robots that can do the job.

  • Trying to get the hang of segmentation

    It's really hard to get SD to output something like a cat girl hugging a fox girl so I decided to learn how to use the "segment anything" extension for a1111. The first results were great!

    !Fox girl hugging bunny girl being hugged by cat girl

    Got the trifecta: A fox girl hugging a bunny girl who was also being hugged by a cat girl.

    But now I wanted to take it further: Can I get five different anime beast people's hugging? No, LOL. Now yet anyway 🤣

    That's supposed to be a a fox girl, a bunny girl, a cat girl, a frog girl, and a horse girl (like Pretty Derby).

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    Texting my wife while she's traveling... 🧐

    I have since learned that this "fact" isn't true... Turns out the source of that info wasn't understanding how tags work. There's actually just a lot of fanfics that include Astarion. Not necessarily for romance 🤷

    It's still hilarious though 😁

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    Garage door opener now uses Cherry MX Blues

    Manufacturer wanted $25 (+shipping) for a replacement garage door opener wall switch. 13 minutes of printing + 5 minutes of soldering + two leftover Cherry MX Blue switches (that I'll be use) and the problem is solved 👍

    Note: The wiring was slightly more involved than I thought... needed a resistor for the light (there's only two wires but it's got two functions: Light on/off and garage open/close.

    If folks are interested I could make a much fancier PCB-based version with screw terminals and whatnot. It's a very trivial schematic.

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    NTFS turns 30 years old today! I hear it's still in use by some crufty old legacy operating systems 😁

    Happy 30th Birthday "New Technology" File System! Thanks for 30 years of demonstrating Linux superiority with a gap that widens with every new kernel release 👍

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    NTFS turns 30 years old today! I hear it's still in use by some crufty old legacy operating systems 😁

    As a full time desktop Linux user since 1999 (the actual year of the Linux desktop) I wish all you Windows folks the best of luck on the next clean install 👍

    ...and Happy 30th Birthday "New Technology" File System!

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    NTFS turns 30 years old today! I hear it's still in use by some crufty old legacy operating systems 😁

    As a full time desktop Linux user since 1999 (the actual year of the Linux desktop, I swear) I wish all you Windows folks the best of luck on the next clean install 👍

    ...and Happy 30th Birthday "New Technology" File System!

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    Looking for cool Fediverse communities

    I wasn't expecting to be joining a LotR meme community when I started this journey but I must say it does feel like you are my people. Maybe some day we will draw swords together.

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