MonkeMischief

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Sounds like we should talk about it louder and get her some boxing lessons!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I'd be surprised if there wasn't a cartoony trapdoor in the Oval Office right in front of the desk, at this point.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Holy coconuts it REALLY DOES! That's some weapons grade level snark right here LOL. Wow that "controversies" section...

Honestly great move to immortalize when fascist strongmen act "weird" and embarass themselves to the world by sharing their true thoughts.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

I thought Link Time Optimization usually involved at least an ocarina...

[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 days ago (8 children)

From the genius and his whipped minions that brought you MechaHitler after some "fixes and improvements"...

...Comes the same AI that offers to "fix your code."

Wow. Simply astounding. A magnificent feat indeed, to waste so many finite precious resources over such garbage.

Kindly Ctrl+A and shift-delete "All your code files", sir.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It hasn’t been this hard for Americans to find work since 2021

And before that, 2020, and before that, 2012, and before that, 2008, and before that. . . .

I suspect the system is designed this way, to put people in a near-permanent cutthroat burnout-hustle state of sheer desperation for anything even resembling stability.

It also keeps the working class as a whole scattered and inwardly conflicted, so they don't mass up against their masters.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Believe it or not, mathematics majors who didn't put "engineer" on their resume. :(

(This is a joke not meant to insult anybody, aside from whomever is responsible for this "degree market value" idea.)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

In fact, only the strongest and most ruthless fruits and vegetables are selected to be enforcers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I love this idea...but for some reason even if I get the right amount of sleep, if I wake up early I always feel like microwaved roadkill. :(

The feeling rushed and forced in the morning thing really hits though. That probably lead to me being chronically late. (By literally 1 minute. As in 60 seconds...but apparently that was enough for them to "talk to" me about it. Ugh.)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

So hey, remember all those Libertarian fringe types that were like "Rararar FEMA DEATH CAMPS!! THEY'RE A'BUILDIN 'EM!! An' they're gon' stick teh poor an' disagreein' U.S Citizens in there! Black bag kidnappings by the government!"

...So... interesting how they're shutting down the actually-useful FEMA but...now that they're building literal death camps...and kidnapping U.S citizens to drop in there for inexplicable reasons...where's all that energy? That outrage?

...Just asking...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago

...with little scrutiny of Saudis, says Amnesty

It's crazy how once one authoritarian regime starts getting rowdy, a bunch of others start doing horrible things too.

It's like they plan to act on their most evil plans in the chaos of everybody else popping off, so that the world's eyes are left spinning on which atrocity needs to be focused on first, and their particular crimes against humanity get very little individual attention.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

I would love to see the results of a survey like:

"Well it won't happen to me because _________"

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

Found this on iFunny lol.

 

Basically title. I'm a digital artist in the USA and not rich by any stretch. In fact, somewhat in debt. (Aren't we all.)

I also try really hard to not be a mindless consumer. I use old equipment as long as I can, repair, refurbish, etc...

All this talk of upcoming tariffs has me worried that, rather than being able to get a day-job at newly opened US manufacturing for electronics or something, I'll instead be paying +60% more on like everything.

I know tech is a depreciating asset, but should I try to upgrade now to hold out for the next ~5 years or so?

I was considering hunting down a motherboard/cpu/RAM combo for instance.

Are worries about tariffs overblown? Trying to figure out how to prepare as best I can with my meager resources before everything just...keeps getting worse.

I am getting paid for my digital art, it's not living money though. My spouse has a more stable income that enables me to keep trying.

Thanks in advance. <3

EDIT: Thanks a ton for all the helpful replies! I'm glad I'm not being overly paranoid.

Some of you have asked for system specs so here they are for the curious:

System Specs:

  • OS: OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
  • Mobo: Z590 Aorus Elite AX
  • CPU: i7-10700k @ 5.1 Ghz
  • GPU: Nvidia RTX 3090
  • Mem: 32GB DDR4 (forget the speed...3000?)

I want to be clear: I don't mean to sound too panicked and I'm more than happy to be content with what I have and see my blessings for what they are.

However, as I'm trying to break into being a 3D Blender artist and gamedev professionally, I'm trying to strategize whether standards will significantly increase and leave me behind in the next 5 years or so. (Game industry, not trying to do Hollywood VFX models on my home rig or anything lol)

I don't game so much these days unfortunately. And if I do, like 5% of my library is particularly demanding. 😂

 

The Hated One has been pretty solid in the past regarding privacy/security, imho. I found this video of his rather enlightening and concerning.

  • LLMs and their training consume a LOT of power, which consumes a lot of water.
  • Power generation and data centers also consume a lot of water.
  • We don't have a lot of fresh water on this planet.
  • Big Tech and other megacorps are already trying to push for privatizing water as it becomes more scarce for humans and agriculture.

---personal opinion---

This is why I personally think federated computing like Lemmy or PeerTube to be the only logical way forward. Spreading out the internet across infrastructure nodes that can be cooled by fans in smaller data centers or even home server labs is much more efficient than monstrous, monolithic datacenters that are stealing all our H2O.

Of course, then the 'Net would be back to serving humanity instead of stock-serving megacultists. . .

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