qyron

joined 2 years ago
[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 5 points 6 hours ago

I'm shocked.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

Highly influential culture? It's a fantasy work, not the cure to cancer. But I'll agree on one thing: corporations are not people; they should be paying to the original creator(s) an efty cut of their profits, from their derivative works.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

So you create whatever work. You have exclusive rights to it, let's say for the sake of the argument, 10 years. During that time you never get any return from your work. But after you can no longer claim your rights, someone, perhaps even a company, stumbles on it - or perhaps they just carefully and patiently waited for it - takes it and capitalizes off it, with you watching and sucking your thumb.

No.

If you, an individual, creates something, you have the right to hold your intelectual property. What should be repelled is how easy it is to exploit artists, of any medium.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 122 points 2 days ago

Yes. Definitely, yes. And I would buy the condoms.

That is trust. Asking for a safe space, under the roof of their parents, that is sign they trust their parents.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

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Bater a mortos...

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago (7 children)

That's the spirit.

But did Germany defeated Brasil in the cup?

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago

It crashed? Go read the telemetry and see what went wrong. Try again.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

I'm very critic of the AI craze. Too much hype, money, time,energy and effort put in to get very little from it. And considering most LLMs are trained on stolen intelectual property, that makes it even worse.

LLMs are tools. The people using such tools give it personality, a semblance of agency, see what is not there and start to consider a tool a form of life.

I've seen people pour so much of them into a local model, the bot develops a quasi clone of their personality. But the program is not the person.

Please, stop making bots what they are not.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

The simplest way would be for the remaining countries to raise their contribution. And perhaps have a review of the executive salaries.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 days ago

I grew being told, playfully, that if fried a shoe would taste nice. But no. Too much of a good thing is bad for you.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 22 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Not an american but, apparently, still as much confused as you are over the concept.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Large Language Model

To the extent of my understanding, it is a form of slightly more sophisticated bot, as in an automated response algorithm, that is developed over a set of data, in order to have it "understand" the mechanics that make such set cohesive to us humans.

With such background, it is supposed to produce new similar outputs if given new raw data sets to run through the mechanics it acquired during development.

 

My partner is currently job hunting and I've got to know some very ugly behaviours from interviewers and train staff, towards the people applying for those jobs.

From snarky attitudes, to blattant lies and attempts on trying to withold information or ignore legal impositions and rights, these companies are power tripping and the people in them are deranged.

Well, I happen to have a job and am fairly aware of my rights, so I'm considering applying for these interviews and throw some poison back at this people.

 

Please allow me to share a little bit too much before going to the point of the post.

Last November I decided to enroll in a course to get official recognition of something I've been doing for the last twenty years, which is to put together and install computers. The course is Computer Hardware and Repair/Fault Diagnosis (loose translation)

I learned the hard way, by myself, making mistakes and taking apart old machines and trying to revive hardware I was constantly told it was useless and/or obsolete. Linux was a great part of this. I'm an obnoxious FOSS/Linux crusader and I'm not ashamed.

In order to finish a course where I gained absolutely zero new knowledge and was taken as non-serious for stating I do not use anything but Linux for my daily computer needs I now have to, with no relation whatsoever and classes on it, design on paper a computer network.

Because I'm petty, I'd like to design it completely around Linux and FOSS solutions. Just to mess with the people that have even imposed I have to write the assigment in Word, with Arial font.

Please, point me towards some sources I can use. Nothing too in depth is necessary.

 

I know the lithium batteries are supposed to be a pain to recycle but how are the conventional ones broken down to recover all the materials?

I have a bucket I throw dead batteries into and picking it up made me realize just how heavy it is. That is a lot of metal. And metal is money.

 

Some time ago, I read an article that all messenger apps, by EU directive, would have to build bridge protocols in order to have flow of communication between different networks.

Surfing the web, I read an article from 2016 where the Signal protocol was being integrated into Whatsapp. More recently, I read that Signal and Telegram could communicate.

What is the true status on this? The more I search, the more contradicting information I seem to find.

 
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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by qyron@sopuli.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
 

While moving from one nest to another (we're lemmings here; RP it a bit) I realized I still have all computers I ever bought or assembled, except for those that literally broke beyond any hope of repair.

Some are no longer used daily but all work and being on a point in life where everything and anything in the nest needs to have a purpose or a function, led me think what actually renders a computer useless or truly obsolete.

I was made even more aware of this, as I'm in the market to assemble a new machine and I'm seeing used ones - 3 or 4 years old - being sold at what can be considered store price, with specs capable of running newly released games.

Meanwhile, I'm looking at two LGA 775 motherboards I have and considering how hard can I push it before it spontaneously combusts to make any use of it, even if only a type writer.

So, per the title, what makes a computer obsolete or simply unusable to you?

Addition

So I felt necessary to update the post and list the main reasons surfacing for rendering a machine obsolete/unusable

  • energy consumption

overall and consumption vs computational power

  • no practical use

Linux rule!

  • space take up
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