[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

One of the benefits of it being such a widely used system is that we don't need to make a special effort to do so. It's already been aggregated and copied around as part of routine optimization by any number of security conscious engineers who aren't trying to make the world a worse place.

I've personally worked on at least three systems at two employers where making an automated copy of the data regularly was just an early optimization and matter of etiquette.

It's a good opportunity to learn how to do it though! You have or can get all the tools you need on your computer.

[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 28 points 3 days ago

I mean, who doesn't like a nice cache?

[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 131 points 1 month ago

The military that he just dismissed the leadership of and replaced with his own people, and the CIA that's directed by his people?

[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 135 points 2 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_and_Malcolm_Collins

Well that's just a fucking trip of dysfunction.

Just that bit is a lot.

If the population declined and it makes the economy do less well, won't people just have more children like they did the last time the economy was in that state? Every environment has a carrying capacity for the creatures that live in it. It's not uncommon to see fluctuations above and below that equilibrium point.
Instead of pushing people to ignore the factors that cause the limit in humans, like not wanting or needing more children, maybe find a way to organize society so hitting that limit doesn't cause massive problems, or try to eliminate some of the factors creating the limit. It's insanely difficult in our society to have even one child who's healthy, cared for, and prepared for their adult life while also being personally healthy, prepared for old age, and enjoying the variety of pleasures of existence.

[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 137 points 3 months ago

You'll have to be more specific about what "this field" is. Restaurant sanitation? Food safety? Chicken washing? Microbiology?

Whatever your degree, it's not the recommended practice.
https://ask.usda.gov/s/article/Should-I-wash-chicken-or-other-poultry-before-cooking.

You render meat safe to eat by killing the bacteria with fire, commonly called "cooking it".

[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 136 points 6 months ago

I've never understood the people who seem to not get that some people actually don't mind scanning their stuff and putting it in bags, and insist that that's the line between what the customer does and the employee. They also used to carry your groceries to the car for you, and you can also get them to pick everything up, bag it and bring it to your car or house. It's not like the checkout process is the special part that can't change.

Yeah, they want to save money by having fewer people get more customers checked out faster. I don't really care since the part I like, getting finished at the store, happens faster.

[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 259 points 6 months ago

Jesus. That's almost as dark as the reality of things.

[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 259 points 7 months ago

The weird thing is, they don't actually sell the jars anymore. "Ball jars" are not made by the ball jar corporation after their antitrust lawsuits for being a fucking jar monopoly. So they sold the "ball jar" rights and now only do aluminum cans for food packaging and high end satellites and satellite launch systems.

[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 136 points 10 months ago

"we've built a platform that at least give piracy a run for its money, and used it to develop a massive user base so conditioned to buying from us that they happily joke about how 50% off a game they won't play is cause for them to buy four times as many. Please, join us all in the baffling orgy of commerce, all we ask is 30% of the treasure.".
"We will, but we're gonna try to get the users to come to our platform with less content and maybe a $500 buy-in so we can have a bigger portion of a smaller pie".
"Lol, go for it".
"...".
"...".
"Why are you being anticompetitive?"

[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 159 points 10 months ago

For a brief moment in the beta for all this, it basically just summarized the top two or three reputable results, and attached a link to where it got the data.

They should have just left it at that, and not started mixing in random blogs and social media sites.
The ability to summarize the Wikipedia article and a random university professors page where they list every fact known to man about pine trees or something was actually helpful.

If I want the AIs best guess about how to fuck up a pizza, I just go to the site where I can ask it. Bad advice when searching is just shit.
A tldr for "what is turpentine" is actually helpful.

[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 166 points 11 months ago

The idea could be perfectly cute, and I feel like it would have been so easy to not make it "shame-y".

Like, "just a nibble", "pretty good!”, "yum!" and "my favorite". "I couldn't possibly...", "if you insist", and "thanks Grandma".

[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 157 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It often starts with some form of financial trouble, and not being educated in how money, the law, or any of that stuff works.

So you sign a piece of paper saying you get a truck, and they get $350 a month. This sounds great, so you don't look any further since you don't have the best work history, but right now you can afford that usually.

Later, your money situation is worse and you miss a few payments. Suddenly, they're sending you this letter that says they're going to take your truck.
It's bullshit, they can't take your truck, it's yours. You never agreed to let them take it, you just owe them something like ten or twenty missed payments.

So you start looking around for what you're supposed to do with the letter, and most places say "pay your bills" or "nothing can be done at this point", but it's not fair that you're loosing your truck just because you're not giving them money fast enough, and you need your truck.
But, you find some people who explain that there's actually some holes in the law, and point you to the law so you can see for yourself. Finally, someone is actually explaining something helpful!
If rich people can use loopholes to get out of stuff, why can't you? The only difference is that they have people who know the law, and you just found some people who will explain it.
The law says that if they can't prove that you owe it, then you don't. The people explain that you need to ask very specifically otherwise they'll be allowed to ignore you. They reference you to another forum where people have more details, and a lot of other stuff you never even thought about...

Anyway, since you had once acknowledged that you bought the truck instead of possessed it, they were able to get out of the loophole and they stole your truck.
That's okay though, since you've been reading and now you know that the law doesn't say you have to pay with money, but you can also pay with a "promissory notes", which someone sold you the template for making, so now you can buy a new truck, agree to whatever terms they want, and use your notes to direct them to collect the money from the taxes you pay. It's great because you get your truck and keep your money, the dealer gets paid just not how they expected, and the people who make up money (turns out it's not real? They just stole all the gold‽) send their fake paper to whoever.
The system is perfect, but complicated, so you'll inevitably make mistakes and face consequences for them, but if you just keep learning the loopholes and getting the special plates and drivers licenses you'll be okay.


It's a coping mechanism for people who are faced with an overwhelmingly complicated social system and don't have the tools or capacity to learn how to interact with it on its terms.
Most people in that situation don't fall off the ledge, but a handful of them are confronted with how overwhelmed they are at the same time they're offered a hand hold to something that feels like control.

There doesn't always have to be a crisis, sometimes they just see the handhold and grab on, but usually their story ends up having some routine legal or financial trouble.

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Been having fun trying to generate images that look like "good" CGI, but broken somehow in a more realistic looking way.

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Made with the Krita AI generation plugin.

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digital illustration of a male character in bright and saturated colors with playful and fun expression, created in 2D style, perfect for social media sharing. Rendered in high-resolution 10-megapixel 2K resolution with a cel-shaded comic book style , paisley Steps: 50, Sampler: Heun, CFG scale: 13, Seed: 1649780875, Size: 768x768, Model hash: 99fd5c4b6f, Model: seekArtMEGA_mega20, ControlNet Enabled: True, ControlNet Preprocessor: lineart_coarse, ControlNet Model: control_v11p_sd15_lineart [43d4be0d], ControlNet Weight: 1, ControlNet Starting Step: 0, ControlNet Ending Step: 1, ControlNet Resize Mode: Crop and Resize, ControlNet Pixel Perfect: True, ControlNet Control Mode: Balanced, ControlNet Preprocessor Parameters: "(512, 64, 64)"

If you take a picture of yourself in from the shoulders up, like in the picture, while standing in front of a blank but lightly textured wall it seems to work best.

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