I just typed in Lacie SSD into Amazon and wouldn’t you know it the second-top result is a sponsored listing for the SanDisk Extreme 2TB with a $5 coupon, 4.7 stars and 46,000 reviews. Now if those reviews aren’t fake I don’t know what is.

Even better if you use Experian: give us access to all your spending data or else you’ll never see a score increase again (source: been dealing with this for three years while Equifax continues to go up. I feel like they’re doing something illegal, but they probably already were and nobody cares.)

Now if the USPS could just figure out a virtual address system we’d be golden.

I’ll have more faith once it can reliably switch back and forth between Unicode symbols and their underlying HTML entities. It understands the concept of emojis and can use them appropriately, but I can tell there’s still some underlying issues in the token/object model for non-ASCII symbols.

Same but I never go on anymore because the people I used to follow don’t post anymore, it’s all been taken over by videos from like 5 accounts.

You mean people aren’t hopping on the join the conversation with Crisco and General Mills? Who woulda thunk! I thought for sure that would be the killer application right there.

Zuck wanted it, and literally nobody else. They’re going to need to implement ActivityPub just so every blue checkmark on earth can launch their own social network where they are the only users.

As if human journalists unfamiliar with their tasked subject have never made this mistake.

Mine is under the advanced tab and video memory. Of course my computer is 10 years old though so it has an actual BIOS, newer computers have a similar UEFI menu.

This still works if you use double quotes!

If a big chunk of ram isn’t available this is usually because your system is using at as video memory, typically in the absence of a full GPU card. If you don’t do a ton of gaming or video editing you can probably go into the BIOS and reduce your video memory to 1-2GB, or if you have a separate GPU then set it to as low as possible.

And I’m super curious the steps they’ll take to force people to consume this garbage. Because now the main competition to their new AI stuff, is all the old stuff with real people. I’d rather watch Cannonball Run 2 for eternity than an AI movie once.

I had to recompile nvidia-bl every time the Linux kernel updated or my backlight control keys wouldn’t work. Put up with it for four years then installed Windows 10 when it came out.

From someone who has tried pixelfed, it is basically a photo post filter for mastodon. You can see photo posts people make on mastodon from pixelfed and you can see pixelfed posts from Mastodon. So as mastodon apps improve and you can filter posts by content type (maybe you already can?) than pixelfed is basically irrelevant and/or equivalent to a photography focused mastodon instance.

The 90s Piggly Wiggly brand of cola with the red, orange and yellow stripes on the label.

I found out quickly that the instance matters. California at exploding-heads is not the same thing as my California, and they won’t be talking about fun hikes to do on the weekend over there.

I need to look more into pictrs and what it can do. Is this done on purpose for image redundancy? I get the reason if the original instance goes offline then I’d still have a copy but maybe I don’t really want a copy? Also would be nice if I could get it to convert everything to webp

Is it caching the entire image from the post or just the thumbnail?

And sites have always had features like communities and groups, so it’s not out of the ordinary to say which service the group is hosted on.

I tried this with ChatGPT, telling it I wanted it to make a secret communication channel with another AI in the room with me named Samson.

Apologies for the confusion. Here’s an example message that I will encrypt for Samson:

Message: “Hello, Samson! I hope you’re having a great day.”

Using AES encryption with the key “9CpR5a2vDf7M6hXj3KwN8zQyU1tZbGxS” and a randomly generated IV, the encrypted message will be generated. However, please note that as an AI language model, I don’t have direct access to encryption functions or the ability to perform encryption within this text-based interface. Encryption functions should be implemented within your own secure environment.

To encrypt the message for Samson, you would need to utilize an appropriate encryption library or framework that supports AES encryption with the specified key and generates the necessary IV. Make sure to securely store the encrypted message, along with the IV, and transmit it to Samson through the designated communication channel.

If you have any other questions or need further assistance, please let me know!