Instead of just adopting ipv6 they started sharing ip addresses across customers lol

Funny story. In Australia the government just transitioned to voice authentication. Then A.I. deepfake happened and they had to undo it 😂

Fr though, it’s a huge problem that phone authentication boils down to information that’s in every data broker in the planet. One company I deal with uses SMS authentication over the phone which isn’t much better security-wise but at least it’s not something public knowledge

Yea but like if I go to my billing section you can’t just copy paste the number let alone the cvc or expiry date. So even if they store it, mentioning credit cards is kind of pointless unless there’s additional exploits involved

I feel like a surprising amount of problematic behaviours and attitudes boil down to childhood coping mechanisms that don’t make sense anymore

You can’t download your ID or credit card information though lol. Sometimes it shows the last 4 digits in the billing section

To add to that, in the past being overweight and unfit was a sign of wealth. Only rich people could afford to eat and sit around all day. Nowadays it’s inverted; only well off people have the time to eat healthy and exercise regularly

You could get those freestanding wall room divider things and make your own room. With blackjack and hookers. And room dividers

I had to “select text” to view it in my app

Man tries to pour liquid from a cup to a bowl. At first it sticks and drips along the wall of the cup, missing the bowl by falling of the bottom of the cup. The man then adjusts the aim to place the bottom of the cup over the bowl. The liquid didn’t stick this time and he missed the bowl again since it poured the way he expected it to the first try. There is a caption “me trying to learn from my mistakes”

More like being surrounded by oceans of A.I. pee

The servers are down because the servers are down. Would you like me to make a 14 step plan of action to investigate this?

Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve felt like things are weird around here lately. Every comment becomes like a viral Twitter post or bulletproof PHD thesis, and you’re expected to defend your honour or something lol. It’s mildly annoying

It made more sense to me once I realised I was muscle guarding. The body reacts to emotions as much as you do. For example, I used to be hunched a lot and have terrible posture because I didn’t feel tall. So I worked on allowing myself to slowly stretch out and be tall. There were various points in my body I was holding unnecessary tension, and I felt much better once I relaxed them and let go of my past.

There was no emotional release or crying, but it made more sense from that perspective. “The body keeps the score” and all that

Just a random tangent but I love Docker compose. Set it up once, and it works on every machine forever. Change distro? No problem. Move to VPS? No problem. It’s just so neat.

The only downside is you have to learn the arcane ways. It’s not intuitive or easy to understand at all, especially once you get into advanced networking, volumes, etc

100k div soup and 200k npm libraries would do it

Reminder that net neutrality is dead. I use a VPN because otherwise my ISP decides on my behalf when I’ve had enough 1080p YouTube and slows down specifically that connection

If it wasn’t to confuse people, they could just show both bits and bytes. There’s no reason not to. I’ve seen this occasionally with ethical ISPs who care about their customers (extremely rare) - they would display it like this:

Typical evening speed: 25Mbps (approx 3 megabytes per second)

Almost everyone I know who isn’t in tech is extremely confused by this distinction. Absolutely they keep the bigger number because it directly benefits them. If they’re offering the 3 speed, but competitors are offering the 25 speed, of course customers want the bigger number! Normies don’t even know what a bit is.

I don’t particularly think the historical value of a byte is really relevant either. It’s been 8 bits for half a century now.

Since 1975 or so, the word byte has come to mean a sequence of precisely eight binary digits

I don’t think it’s a big deal or a hill to die on or anything. Since everyone does it, at least it’s consistent. But the industry is kind of shooting themselves in the foot because they get ten thousand service desk calls per day complaining about slow internet speeds that are less than one eighth of the advertised number.

We orbit a massive alien meteor which periodically bathes half the planet in radiation - instead of cowering under a rock, we travel to the beach and bask in the deadly glow

Yeah I hate it too - I hate that when I see something amazing nowadays, my first thought isn’t “wow!” anymore; it’s “… is that real?”

I actually contribute to iNaturalist myself - I uploaded some stuff yesterday even. I found an adorable baby noisy miner, and the parents let me take a photo with only a warning cacophony.

I didn’t consider it until now, but I’m sure someone has already sneaked A.I. photos on there :/.

It’s like when a video has bad bitrate and parts of the image don’t update properly in fast moving action scenes

I guess it is real then.

There’s no need to get snippy or personal, though. Simply sharing my thoughts is hardly a “big claim”, and justifying my opinion isn’t “digging my heels in”. I also did more than zero research. I did multiple image searches, checked several websites, compared dates, and scoured Alan’s personal albums to try and find the source of the photo. The only photos I could find of the shiny version were after 2022. So it’s unfair to suggest I didn’t do any work at all. From what I found, all evidence suggested it was fake.

There’s this annoying habit of people on Lemmy where if they ever think someone is wrong, they become condescending and rude. I’m not tolerating it anymore. I’m not evil, stupid, or your enemy just because I was wrong.