Everything posted by Captainant
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Everything is Shit: Tracking the Great Enshittening
I can tell you from a platform perspective, anything that's "deleted" is really just marked for deletion and put onto a digital trash pile until garbage collection (that's the actual computer science term) actually purges it off the disk. If it's within a close enough window, and with the correct legal CYA, you can "break glass" and reach into the pile to grab something before it's purged. I had customer accidentally delete 50TB's of just migrated data that they got SUPER lucky on and the cloud provider was able to "undelete" about 80% of the data. In this case, since the servie auto-snapshots movement and stores it for 24hrs (or however long it is) for unpaid users, I can see technically how this happened without a backdoor being built in. It's just how these platforms work when customer data is unencrypted
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Trump’s America
You're telling me that the company named after an all-seeing artifact and source of corruption, would lead to a surveilance state and corruption???
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Israel vs everyone war thread
The article says the opposite of your assertion, unless every gazan family is just default Hamas to you. The Hamas-run Interior Ministry said in a statement it was committed to preventing any armed presence inside hospitals, and that legal action would be taken against violators. It suggested that armed members of certain Gazan families had recently entered hospitals, but did not identify those involved.
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Shit's Borked
Not sure if anything changed on the surly side or on my side, but the "clear text" thing is sticking around now 🤘
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Trump’s America
- ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
Unironically if you would like to learn more about the actual HOW of how machine learning generally, and LLMs in particular work, I can't recommend enough 3Blue1Brown's course series on the fundamentals of neural networks. It starts from the most basic problem we first proposed in the 50s and actually implemented in the 80s, and goes all the way through the crazy vector differential equations that are the foundation of machine learning and "AI"- Cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, etc.)
Tbh Bitcoin is on a clock already since SHA256 isn't quantum-safe. The bigger problem is the fundamental mechanism of proof of work as a solution to the trust problem. The basic premise of crypto is to have a decentralized trustless currency, and every "enhancement" for it like lightning or other side chains are just adding an inefficient trust mechanism. In your mind what IS the "original purpose" of Bitcoin, if not to replace trust with proof of expending a constrained resource (compute cycles)?- Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Sidenote, the MAGA feds fucking lied under oath in court. That's a big fuckin difference in scope and scale to disabuse the #bothsides lie https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/13/ice-minneapolis-shooting-assault-00780839 “A joint review by ICE and the Department of Justice (DOJ) of video evidence has revealed that sworn testimony provided by two separate officers appears to have made untruthful statements,” Lyons said in a statement. “Both officers have been immediately placed on administrative leave pending the completion of a thorough internal investigation….The U.S. Attorney’s Office is actively investigating these false statements.” Agents had initially said that two men — Alfredo Aljorna and Julio Sosa Celis – assaulted them with a broom and a shovel before one of them shot Sosa Celis. But that account was quickly called into question, and prosecutors now say “newly discovered evidence” contradicts the officers’ story. Local law enforcement and prosecutors are also investigating the incident. The reversal by ICE comes a day after the White House announced it was ending its surge of federal immigration enforcement officers in the Twin Cities and after a judge excoriated the Trump administration for violating rights of immigration detainees held at a local facility.- Ballmer alleged to have paid Kawhi Leonard 28m under the table to avoid the salary cap
I don't think that, no. I was saying that flippantly in response to GFY's nihilistic comment on "well billionaires get away with everything soooo"- Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Jesus fuckin Christ. We're paying out tens of millions to deport hundreds of people. Nearly a hundred grand of taxpayer funds after the other untold massive amounts of waste and hate https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/13/us-paid-32m-to-five-countries-to-accept-about-300-deportees-report-shows- ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
It's a common phrase in the machine learning world - part of how gradient descent works is you pick a random (stochastic) point to start from in order to help avoid local min/max and find the true system min/max for whatever parameter you are training for- ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
This is literally the reason why some folks prefer live albums to studio recordings. The stochastic chaos of reality leaves a fingerprint on art as it's made- Ballmer alleged to have paid Kawhi Leonard 28m under the table to avoid the salary cap
it's direct evidence of tampering with the Spurs organization in 2017 via Jerry "The Logo" West, which the NBA has historically come down on pretty hard. And it's direct evidence of cap circumvention, which the NBA has also historically come down hard on. It's outrageous that just because we have a billionaire pedophile in the presidency right now that it's justification to do nothing when other oligarchs break rules and norms.- Trump/MAGA has ruined sports
Holy shit that is horrible, and is teaching young men to be bad partners and bad fathers. It's MAGA as fuck, and perfectly suits Mississippi- Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
To quote the last trump administration, "cruelty is the point". It's not about actually meeting any goals or stated objectives. That's never been trump's MO. It's always to throw a billion darts and draw bull's-eyes around the best ones and beat your chest like you meant to do it. This child fucker couldn't even keep a fucking Atlantic City casino in business! What makes you think he is capable in any way, shape, or form?- Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Notably, and despite your best efforts at equivocation, the current situation of immigration and brutality was designed by trump. There was a bill that was poised to pass through Congress and land on Biden's desk that would have compromised to every Republican talking point and put reforms in place - and trump spiked it at the 11th hour so he would have something to campaign on. This is an intentional act of cruelty and violence towards immigrants. Stop #bothsides-ing this shit.- The Trump Economy
Boy howdy I am glad I jumped on upgrading my home computing resources early 2025. Just the memory alone would have cost more than my wife's entire PC build (without the hand me down GPU)- Everything is Shit: Tracking the Great Enshittening
My current house and my last house had them pre-installed when I moved in. Not thrilled about it, but it's on the list of shit to fix- ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
It's really funny how you asserted a while ago that you're not an AI cheerleader lol- Shit's Borked
Typed this and now went to forum root Re-opened the thread and it's still here on S24U Samsung Browser Huh yeah I see the "click here to clear" on PC but not on my mobile. I think I see it load for a split second and then it disappears, maybe because my on screen keyboard pops up and clobbers it?- Markets still falling like whoa
how about, healthcare is the only sector holding up our already meager jobs numbers?- Shit's Borked
I've had the behavior on Chrome/W11 and on Samsung Browser/S24U- Shit's Borked
I've been having a ton of trouble with the text box not auto-emptying if I left a half-written thought and the leave the page. There's no "clear text" clickable like there used to be, and it's a pain in the butt on mobile to highlight all the text and delete it without mangling the reply you've already typed out Is there an auto-clear toggle that you can give us, or re-enable the "clear text" popup?- ICE activity/raids
they're just doing it for the love of the game - ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
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