I sent a very sexually explicit text meant for my girlfriend to my mom. Don’t do that friends, always double triple check your sexy messages

If revolt did federation so my friends could join my server from others that would make it a straight up replacement, but I can’t ask my friends to create a login for each server. I hope they bump that in priority because it’s the last thing I need to switch

How much is too much is more than likely a personal issue, and if they think it’s too much, it’s probably too much. Agree, the Internet isn’t a place to ask, a therapist is more likely a good place.

as are all buttholes, mr scientist

I run mine on digital ocean and it’s great. Mine is slightly more powerful, but you can always start small and upgrade. It’s much harder to downgrade

The WD elements drives are pretty rock solid. The drives themselves are WD reds inside, which are very reliable. The only iffy thing is if the control board (the device that converts USB to the internal drive) can fail, but that’s true for any external. It’s my go-to backup solution.

Literally the only times I have EVER seen it was when I was at concert and a woman came in and exclaimed that the line was too long for the women’s. I have never once seen a man go into a womens room

There is no one size fits all for how someone should do their backups, it really depends on what you have and how much. What do I have? Over 100TB on a redundant unrais server with it backed up off-site. That’s probably overkill though. Most people would just benefit from an external hard drive with automated backups set up.

If you want to know it’s safe, the go to solution is 3-2-1. 3 total copies of your data across 2 different types of data storage, with one of them off site. That’s the only way to truly know your data is safe.

They really think billionaires are like them, the only difference is that someone else goes to Walmart for them

If you’re into self hosting check out Owncast. There’s a very small group of us who are trying to get it off the ground. You host your own streaming platform that’s shared to the fediverse

And my friends and family wonder why I’m not having kids. I’m sure eager to bring new life in right before one of the most cataclysmic events of humanity, that’s for sure.

+1 for the Bungie Era Halo franchises, IMO they have one of the best stories, and they honestly all hold up well. Plus you have so much that you can burn through with friends, and it has such deep lore you’ll be chatting for hours.

1, 2, 3, ODST, and Reach are all great for this. 1 and 2 support 2 players. 3, ODST, and Reach support 4 players

You can’t spare a square?!

Yeah it’s one of those things that in theory it could make sense, it could be. However since we are humans, there does not exist any way that would not be morally abhorrent to some group of people. There’s zero way that in doing it this way wouldn’t destroy x group of people. And that’s why it can never be done. Eugenics is just too close to genocide.

Advisors are definitely the worst people I ever met in academia. Their entire job is to help you, and yet I had one that set me back more than any other person has my entire life. I was late in graduating, I missed out on a second degree which I didn’t know. I was even close to, nice straight up had classes that I didn’t even need. All while claiming that they help and care for their people

This is like, the entirety of nextdoor. That is the most toxic place on the Internet

You wouldn’t be able to see otherwise

Oh man, that would have been so great. Think of all the networking stacks that could have just been silently upgraded. Just some letters/numbers appended to the front or back. If you only get x bytes then prepend with zeroes. Adoption would have been mostly transparent.

Because we have reason, understanding. Take something as simple as the XY problem. Humans understand that there are nuances to prompts and questions. I like the XY because a human knows to step back and ask “what are you really trying to do?”. AI doesn’t have that capability, it doesn’t have reasoning to say “maybe your approach is wrong”.

So, I’m not the one to define what it is or on what scale. But I can say that it’s not human intelligence.

yeah yeah I’ve heard this argument before. “What is learning if not like training.” I’m not going to define it here. It doesn’t “think”. It doesn’t have nuance. It is simply a prediction engine. A very good prediction engine, but that’s all it is. I spent several months of unemployment teaching myself the ins and outs, developing against llms, training a few of my own. I’m very aware that it is not intelligence. It is a very clever trick it pulls off, and easy to fool people that it is intelligence - but it’s not.