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thebardingreen , 4 days ago

Yeah... it's very clickbatey to NOT include that detail.

thebardingreen , 6 days ago

Funny. But, as it runs on Windows, it's definitely not the most private.

I suggest Emacs or vi running in a Qube.

thebardingreen , 5 days ago

Ah. I forget that real world paper exists, my ADHD brain can't make functional use of it.

thebardingreen , 11 days ago

And a random, traumatized squirrel.

thebardingreen , 12 days ago

Thanks for the breakdown. When I read the headline, I guessed at a bunch of what the article said and you confirmed most of it.

thebardingreen , 12 days ago

I always find these breakdowns to be a little bit disingenuous. Like, you could do this same analysis on the whole email system, or on the whole world wide banking system, including ATMs, or on the energy usage of all DNS queries or even on global ActivityPub activity, not to mention shopping on Amazon or browsing Facebook. People DO do these kinds of breakdowns on generative AI, for exactly the same reasons, and reach the same kinds of conclusions.

Having a global computer network is INCREDIBLY energy intensive, with a massive carbon footprint. It's not shocking that a given application of that network is energy intensive, with a massive carbon footprint. These kinds of analysis are put together by people who already don't like cryptocurrencies (for all kinds of reasons both valid and ridiculous) who then go cherry picking MORE reasons not to like them.

thebardingreen , 17 days ago

I've written more than enough words to win, while failing to finish my story. I've also played a lot with local LLMs. Can confirm on all counts.

thebardingreen , 20 days ago

All my machines are named after Autobots.

thebardingreen , 25 days ago

I would not be surprised if the real target market is rich preppers who want this thing to patrol their bunker.

thebardingreen , 26 days ago

Some of these really remind me of Nobilis. The Prince of Blades especially.

thebardingreen , 25 days ago

Nobilis has been the source of the best role playing experiences of my life. Imagine a party basically playing these gods you've created as a group of PCs.

thebardingreen , 26 days ago

Given your requirements, why not just accept Bitcoin or other crypto? It sounds like you want to self host it semi anonymously.

thebardingreen , 27 days ago

I got to play this character for several sessions, but he deserved more.

A lesser Devil modified bard chef. D&D Pirate Game with a drow captain of a haunted ship.

My bard powers were all based on cooking. In order to buff the crew I had to feed them. I had a constant supply of hors d'oeuvres, tiny deserts, etc. After combat, I would heal the party by cooking 5 star gourmet meals. I fought with a meat cleaver.

My back story: I was basically on the run. I was Gold Star Master of Sauces and Boilings, 3rd Degree Initiate of the Sulfur Ovens and Bonded Sous-chef of the School of Flesh and Broth in the City of Dis, 87 years into a 500 year Sous-chef contract that I was AWOL from. I got summoned to the Prime Material Plane in order to cater a wedding party for the daughter of a shady wizard and I managed to exploit a loop hole in the contract I signed with him to leave to get ingredients and never come back. He was pissed at me for ruining his daughter's wedding reception and my masters at the School of Flesh and Broth told him "Capture and return our Sous-chef, or else!" So he was my primary antagonist.

But I had a plan! I wrote up a contract for people to sign to try to get them to be my apprentices. By Prime Material Plane standards, I was a genuine gold star level chef. All those poor sods you see competing on Hell's Kitchen would kill to study under someone of my skill level. Basically, the contract was structured such that if they managed to complete an apprenticeship with me, they should be able to obtain employment with kings, popes and sultans. However, if they failed to complete their apprenticeship, I would own their soul. My goal was to be a complete dick to my apprentices to the point that they would give up and run away and fail to complete their training. Then, when I had a small collection of souls, I could return to the 9 Hells and buy out my contract and get them to stop chasing me.

Sadly, the campaign only lasted three sessions.

A few of my favourite clauses from the contract:

Apprentice certifies that, to the best of their knowledge, their Mortal Soul is in sound and original condition, not bound into their body through any enchantments, curses or blessings of undeath or deathlessness (or other mystical bindings), not owed to any other being of the Lower Planes or other Outer Planar Origin, not claimed by any deity or near-deity for any purpose and in no other ways is it’s transfer into Chef’s lawful possession in the event of a breach (5.0). impeded. Furthermore, that they will NOT promise, commit, sell, license or gift their soul to any third party during the terms of this contract.

Neither party shall be liable for any failure to perform their obligations under this agreement if prevented from doing so by a cause or causes reasonably beyond their control. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, such causes include Acts of deities or near-deities, disruptions to the structure of the planes of existence, infernal war operations (the Blood War), temporal disruptions, Wishes made by third parties or other similar cause or causes which could not with reasonable diligence be controlled or prevented by the party. This clause IN NO WAY waives the obligations of the Apprentice with respect to clause clause 1.1 i.

If Apprentice abandons the apprenticeship due to unanticipated death (2.5), a grace period of 3 days will be granted, during which time Apprentice may be resurrected or otherwise returned to life (including as an undead being), upon which event Apprentice agrees to immediately and without delay return to their Apprenticeship. Failure to do so shall be considered a breach of this contract.

thebardingreen , 27 days ago (edited 27 days ago)

Typed "rm -r" in "/home/myuser" instead of "/home/myuser/Documents/ThingINoLongerNeed"

Used gparted to wipe and format the device mounted at "/" instead of the external drive I meant to reformat. I've done this one TWO WHOLE TIMES in my life, three if you count wiping a device that was mounted at "/home/myuser/MyTwoTBDrive4DocsPicsMusicGamesEtc".

thebardingreen , 1 month ago

"Don't be evil."

thebardingreen , 1 month ago

Does this look like !howtodocrimes to you.

Bribe a homeless person with cash to open a PO box. Do it several cities over.

Don't worry, the homeless dude totally won't steal your drugs.

thebardingreen , 1 month ago

Easy. I have servers that are only available on my local network and lots of different devices that I MIGHT want to use to access those servers. I haven't bothered to make sure my key is on EVERY SINGLE DEVICE and some of them, I might not actually even WANT my key on as they're not terribly well secured and they might leave my house (my Windows gaming laptop I haven't used in six months comes to mind).

But for cloud accessible servers... yeah.

thebardingreen , 1 month ago

Came here to say Tauri.

thebardingreen , 1 month ago

It will?? When??

thebardingreen , 1 month ago

What's stopping you?

thebardingreen , 1 month ago

I don't always force my friends to use Discord alternatives, but when I do I force them to use Signal.

thebardingreen , 1 month ago

Any AI solution you find is probably going to be command line / python and is going to require some debugging of your python environment and dependencies to get it working. And that means yes, you will need to separate the audio and video tracks and then recombine them. For that kind of work, I'm only familiar with Linux tools. I've used a tool called Vidcutter that is buggy, but powerful and has a semi intuitive gui.

That said, the results from those AI tools can be a powerful game changer if you can figure them out.

thebardingreen , 1 month ago

He got his IPO money. He gives zero fucks what happens now.

thebardingreen OP , 1 month ago

Reach out to the job sites directly and report these as fraudulent.

We're already doing that, but it's like playing Whack-A-Mole and when we ask which job sites the calls are coming from, half the time the person calling doesn't know or won't tell us.

Then, since it sounds like you are her lawyer.

I'm her IT guy. She's in communication with her lawyers about exactly that, because it's exactly what I advised her to do. I actually have a call with them about that tomorrow, I gather they're not very familiar with cyber harassment laws.

If the perpetrator knows how to install Tor Browser, the subpoenas are likely to be a lot of trouble and expense for a lot of useless data.

thebardingreen , 1 month ago

It is stupid and evil to reject cubic truth.

thebardingreen , 1 month ago

I'm one of a whole 2 users at lemmy.starlightkel.xyz and we're seeing lemmy.world content no problem right now.

thebardingreen , 2 months ago

wave of lawsuits that might eventually grind this whole industry to a halt.

Holy wishful thinking Batman. With the amount of money that's at stake that will never be allowed to happen.

thebardingreen , 2 months ago

The rich go insane because the people around them enable them to believe their own bullshit and set no boundaries with them. This is SUPER bad for humans psychologically and causes us to lose touch with reality. Something in our brains depends on that group consensus to affirm our concepts of self and beliefs and decisions and it loses calibration when it gets crappy feedback.

thebardingreen , 2 months ago

They’re the people who never would have touched it, because it was too technical, had too high a barrier of entry, and saw it as niche.

Yep. My dad uses Facebook, Reddit and Youtube now. I remember having conversations with him where he was confused about why anyone would ever want to use Facebook and what the point of Youtube is... it just wastes time. When I first exposed him to AMAs I thought he would be interested in, in like 2012, he was like "It's really cool that you can talk to this person, but there's so much noise and joking around... how are you supposed to follow it all?"

Now he posts on reddit for help with home improvement projects and watches youtube channels about classic cars and how to fix your garage door opener and talks about stuff he saw his other Boomer friends post on Facebook. He sends me unfunny Youtube videos of AI Deepfakes of Trump and Biden talking about how they pooped their diapers. It's a weird role reversal, because now I'm like "I've left every single one of those enshittified platforms." But it took him years to get on them. It would take him even longer to get off.

thebardingreen , 2 months ago

In the small business / startup / consulting world, we do it ALL the time...

IDK how big businesses roll, I stay the hell away from those. I consulted with Meta for six months a few years ago and OMG never again.

thebardingreen , 2 months ago

The corporation doesn't love you, nor does it hate you. But you possess economic value, which could be made to belong to the corporation's shareholders.

thebardingreen , 2 months ago

This is exactly how I feel. I can't relax into my work (and my work quality is impacted) when I have to use Windows.

thebardingreen , 2 months ago

Anymore, Wine can run anything I care to run.

thebardingreen , 2 months ago

When I go to some reddit posts on Mobile now (like from a Google search, that's the only way I end up at reddit anymore), it tells me "this content is unmoderated" and gives me a choice to either navigate away or install the Reddit app. Fuck that noise.

thebardingreen , 2 months ago

One of the highlights of all D&D games I've ever played was

• Finally levelling to the point I could cast 7th level spells, while the party was trapped on some awful demiplane where strange creatures were coming out of cracks in reality and just beating us to shreds.

• Learning Mordenkanen's Magnificent Mansion.

• Casting it so the party had some where to go rest and escape.

• Taking the party on a tour of the mansion and getting super prissy about it. "Here's the kitchen. Here's the living room, no feet on the couch! The guest rooms all have private bathrooms, everybody better wash up, and send your dirty clothes to be laundered before you touch ANY furniture!"

That game continued to epic level and that character (who I had played starting from first level over the course of YEARS) created this spell using the 3.5 Epic Spell development rules. It is the best spell ever.

thebardingreen , 2 months ago

That's awesome. I love the attention to detail for each party member (which is exactly what we would expect from you). I bet there's a story behind the dragon skull and the piano. I wish I still had my mansion maps from that epic game (it was about ten years ago).

thebardingreen , 3 months ago

The reality though is I can train LLMs off Lemmy data all I want and I don't have to pay ANYONE a dime...

thebardingreen , 3 months ago

That's what I did. I turned all my comments into Lemmy advertisements, and also an obscene sentence telling u/spez to kill himself (I'm not proud of it at this juncture, but it felt good at the time).

thebardingreen , 3 months ago

I'm... stealing that as the title of a module to write and run at my next gaming con...

thebardingreen , 2 months ago

Just to give credit where credit is due, I'm actually running this as a Changling campaign, using the old WoD rules from the 90s. The players are a Motely who work at an Irish Pub owned by their Sidhe patron, who dies unexpectedly and leaves them the pub, which is also a Freehold. It turns out it's in massive debt in the mortal world and faces various supernatural challenges as well.

I'm encouraging my players to make argumentative and annoying characters and to try to resolve problems with sitcom solutions, rather than combat or conflict.

I wanted to come back and tell you, because I never would have thought of it without you.

thebardingreen , 3 months ago

Have you tried Mint? It's super stable. It's the least DIY distro ever. You CAN use snaps, but why would anyone want to? I believe there's an image that comes with KDE, but Cinnamon is a great desktop.

thebardingreen , 3 months ago

Is there a reason I need something more than scp?

thebardingreen , 3 months ago

I have an app that does exactly that over scp...

thebardingreen , 3 months ago

I just use AndFTP, with SSH. Works fine for local and remote file system navigation. I use it to move files android<->various linux machines at least weekly.

thebardingreen , 3 months ago

What provider? And where did you buy the SIM?