DevDave

I am not sure it’s that easy.

Me too

Anyone know of a jail break for Tesla’s PowerWall?

My understanding is the battery/inverter will go into something like safe mode after a certain number of days of not being able to call home. I haven’t been able to confirm or deny this but I do know Tesla doesn’t like you interacting with the battery directly.

There is a premade meal delivery service with possibly the best product right now on the market. Unfortunately after I did a deep dive on them to figure out why their customer service sucked so much, I found the head of their “customer experience” had liked/heart emoji’d these two AI companies.

After telling my experience to another dev, they noticed an advert by an AI company boasting how they provided an service for them.

For tech savy people, the heart of the problem is because they used the user email address as the primary key in multiple places. So not only a varchar primary key but a natural one to boot! Not even a drop in the bucket but they lost ~10K USD of revenue for what should have been a 1 minute begin; update... SQL command by the DBA. Though the large amounts of AI makes me think they fucked themselves on that too. Another reason I suspect that; they had a data breach at the start of the month but haven’t made a public statement or warned their customers. Might not even know, might not know how it happened, and how much was stolen.

Anti-Trust is some bullshit invented by damn socialist commies to keep the money from trickling down. \s

I thought TMobile bought Mint?

Indeed this is an overly solved problem. Personally I prefer ReplayGain for music and some video-audio productions while compression is great for making voices clearer. Thinking about adverts, compression would likely be the winner for making it less jarring decibel wise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReplayGain - works fairly well for audio. I imagine some sort of mean average would be good enough for balancing a movie’s loudness to the adverts.

Can you elaborate? Just curious what you are referring to.

The modern take of a disturbed idiom is “There is more than one way to microwave a cat!” (disclaimer please don’t actually do this).

At or near the bottom of complexity you would think it hard to fuck up “compress this directory and verify they are backed up before deleting the originals” but apparently some of these models have a RNG triggered Uno reverse card so “delete the originals, verify they are backed up, and compress this directory”. Also that wasn’t a mistake, maybe Claude will infer “they” is a specific set of files, but another model might decide you meant all the dot files at ~/?

Joking aside, the devil is in the details which makes me think even more time will be sunk finding out the RC Cola bottom shelf AI model does things just a bit too differently than Claude.

cue the scene from Airplane 2 where the Steward explains they have been knocked of course by just a “tad”

it’s weird who gets reported for this stuff.

There was a game that released not too long ago that was spamming the same message to it’s log file in 500 millisecond intervals doing a constant stream of write and flush to disk the entire time the game ran.

silence.

Wow, that’s some brilliant vendor lock in on Anthropic’s side.

Doesn’t the mob and other syndicates do something like that as well? Gotta do some time and not snitch to move up in the ranks.

Oh wow, reading the wiki you linked, looks like that one exec really learned their lesson \s

On 5 April 2006, Sun Woo Lee, Senior Manager of DRAM at Samsung Electronics, entered into a plea bargain with the US Government for his involvement in the price fixing conspiracy.[5] Following the plea agreement he was sentenced to 8 months in prison and fined US$250,000.[6] Lee was subsequently promoted to President of Samsung Germany in 2009, and then President of Samsung Europe in 2014

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing_scandal#2002–2005

edit/update: Oh, wow so Sun Woo Lee actually really lucked out as Korea focused more on making an example of the Samsung heir apparent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Jae-yong

8 months in prison sucks, I totally concede that. Yet literally the deal they made looks like they were asked “Would you take the fall and go to prison for 8 months and then get paid millions per year afterward?”

Sleep works great until you are the unfortunate winner of the computer randomly deciding to wake up and your GPU power cable deciding 4am is the best time to shit itself.

Also fun boring dystopia problem, my “smart” TV for some reason kept triggering one of my workstations to come back online through wake on LAN. Moved the TV over to its own vlan and of course that problem is partially solved.

That’s what this article was about actually. Explaining hibernate, the consequences, giving a realistic impact of using it, explaining sleep and the benefits.

Indeed. I have been hearing a lot of bad things are in the pipeline with Android being laced with “AI” plus as you mentioned Google is trying to close the doors. FDroid has been screaming bloody murder but I bet you the majority of people who read this sentence probably don’t even know what that is, never mind Google is trying to shut it down.

I love how blissfully ignorant Microsoft is being about how much they have doomed themselves to IBM status. Still a meaningful entity but no longer a leader in anything.

Really interested to see what emerges from the chaos. Lisuan seems like a very viable upstart to fill the void Nvidia and AMD are currently leaving open if they can scale up their fabs and do the standard Chinese business tactic of flooding the market. Apple has only spent a fraction of what Microsoft and Google has while still maintaining their ocean of cash so its possible the ghost of Steve will have the last laugh? Linux is getting a lot of praise from notable tech influencers aimed at the general market, for example LinusTechTips, which may nudge Linux into stratospheric heights like 8% market share. Or perhaps it will become like metric vs imperial where the planet uses some flavor of Linux while the USA grudgingly holds onto Windows?

The really big one to watch is if the EU can digitize its monetary system enough to replace the VISA/Mastercard GDP vampires.

AI has already and is actively making a substantial chunk of things worse.

OpenAI has made war crimes legal

Youtube is a sea of slop

Book industry is drowning

FOSS is being openly robbed while also drowning under slop

Anti-AI paranoia is really ratcheting up and its also being exploited by AI. USAA the military savings bank has a flood of AI bots accusing humans of being bots to stifle criticism of the bank enshitifying itself. Meanwhile pre-AI video reposts have people screaming “That’s AI slop!” In other places, too thorough of a text post is probably AI but it also might just be some poor neurodivergent person who is an actual expert on the subject and is excited to share.

Then there is all the layoffs and firings.

Health insurance scams are using AI to target those who are less lightly to appeal.

Stuff like the people shut out of part of the job market because an AI decided they had been rejected from too many prior applications.

Oh and the computer electronics parts market is fucked. I have a few spare DDR5 memory sticks that would now pay for a third of what my current computer cost me! Never mind the NVME spares I have on the shelf.

Actually most of the consumer electronics market is fucked. Didn’t they postpone the next play station while Valve is trying to figure out if people will be cool donating a kidney or part of their liver for the VR goggles and the steam console box.

Only saving grace for me is my spelling and grammar skills seriously atrophied after using grammarly for a few years so most people look at my writing and never think “This sounds like AI!”