You say "casually admitted" as if this were an individual failing and not a shared experience amongst everyone who has ever driven regularly.

Back when I drove, I would regularly forget my entire commute because I'd already made it hundreds of times before and my brain just stopped committing any of it to memory.

Jamming a metal needle into the roof of my mouth when I trip while drinking water.

This looks vile, but I somehow imagine it tastes alright. Like, I'm never going to make this because I have actual taste, but these ingredients wouldn't clash too badly.

The tapes are $5 but the drive was $400.

It's linear, so you have to pull a whole backup at a time, but it is possible to store multiple unique backups on a single tape, and only pull one.

Weird thing to post on Lemmy, a place dominated by engagement metrics.

Also, why is the guy who quit all social media "doom scrolling"? Doomscrolling what? An RSS feed?

Good for him, tbh.

You first. Let me know when I can cheer.

Aside from the terminally online posting, what action are you taking?

Oh my God, AI has made spamming so easy, even someone as stupid as you can give it a go.

Nobody can visit that link because it's on your LAN. I learned how NATs worked when I was like 12 or something...

This is something I've been saying for a while.

The right constantly fearmongers about pedophiles because CSAM is a really easy tool to frame someone. It's a crime that requires minimal evidence and creates significant disgust.

Expect more of this.

I'm struggling to understand why anyone would join the Fediverse if this is a dealbreaker.

ActivityPub is like RSS and Sendmail had a baby that doesn't respect your privacy at all. Every time you post, comment, or even vote, it's blasted out to every server and user within the blast radius. If you delete something, there are dozens of databases and image proxy caches ready to ignore the delete request and host your regrettable post forever.

Every time you send a DM, you have to trust all the admins of both instances involved not to read the messages.

Way more is visible than it appears. With the right API calls people know what you upvoted and downvoted.

To be honest, I was never prepared to know what "hoisted by one's own pitard" meant, and knowing today, I still have no clue how this was ever relevant to any time period.

A pitard is a timed bomb used to to blow down a door or wall. The idiom is about blowing yourself up mistakenly instead. Were people using these routinely at some point?

I have a friend that works there. They told me about this, and I was like "per day?"

I was not prepared to learn that the budget was less than a dollar per day. Might as well just stop using AI agents that that point.

That air force guy who died in Texas is getting the same treatment.

They really sang the national anthem, killed a troop on the field, and then played football on the turf still soaked in his blood.

Social media is covered with videos from every angle of his body crumpling into the ground. You could probably stitch them all together into a grotesque 360-degree bullet-time of his death.

Imagine serving in the Air Force for 15 years and then losing your life at the Alamodome, in service to the social media hype cycle.

It's a sizeable movement motivating people to vote against fascism. If you have a problem with that then I guess I'm not surprised you're carrying water for Mark Zuckerberg in the comments.

You need to read the article.

Factory Farms aren't making the AI images, researchers are. The complaint, apparently, is that AI image generators aren't trained on enough animal cruelty to realistically depict a modern slaughterhouse.

This is a problem because the author of this article thinks that in the future, people will rely on AI image generators to understand the world around them, and honestly, if that's already the assumption, then we are cooked.

It's called ActivityPub. It's basically RSS on steroids. The content here is about as public as it gets.

It wouldn't even be fair to call it "scraping", you just run an instance and the data pours in like a firehose.

It's really important to know this if you're on the Fediverse. If you're here for privacy, big oof.

Masturbator/Dildo software that integrates with an EEG to scan your brain, know when you're about to cum, and then edge you over and over again.

It's weird that you think you get a say about how other people have sex.

Keep it at church, creep.

Oh thank God! I rest easy knowing that it is not legal for the president to declare martial law. The law being reliably enforced, and the president being law-abiding, as things currently are. /s