Thomas Randolph :thomas:

rockerest@social.rdl.ph

Data architect, builds the web, ♥️s: 🏊🏻‍♂️, 🏍, 🛩️, 🐶, 🐘, & :js:I tinker at my homelab, and you're using it right now. Open software, data ownership, privacy, and right to repair are super important to me.Seattle born, Saint Louis raised, Denver by choice.I work for GitLab :gitlab: but they don't endorse me at all. Opinions my own, or nobody's.He/Him.Before: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@rockerest" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://mastodon.social/@rockerest</a> Before that: <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/@rockerest" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://<span cl

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Post #2578602
Phase 1 (already done): require &quot;AI&quot; usage for continued employment Phase 2 (early stages): make &quot;AI&quot; consumption allowance a &quot;part of compensation&quot; Phase 3: &quot;your consumption exceeds your total comp, actually, so we&#39;re going to be billing you&quot;
Post #2578600
I originally followed Benn Jordan on YouTube because I am interested in the art and craft of music, and his specific brand of tech-savvy, software powered music creation was very interesting. But then the world happened and he&#39;s basically a data-sovereignty &amp; privacy advocate who regularly identifies, exploits, and proves everything from undisclosed surveillance to slapdash security on incredibly sensitive hardware to state-sponsored malware lurking on nationally deployed spy ro...
Post #2325715
So what&#39;s the OSS 3D modeling tool now?
Post #2325714
@paul_ipv6 I had to do a mental double take when I parsed the argument he was actively making in front of a state legislative committee. Wild.
Post #2325713
Whenever I hear about Hantavirus, it&#39;s always in connection with cruises, and I finally decided to actually look it up and... It&#39;s rats/mice. It&#39;s only spread from rats/mice (feces, urine, bites, scratches) and it does not spread human-to-human. This feels like a buried lede. Sure, you can&#39;t go around claiming a rat infestation with proof but the headline should not be &quot;Suspected hantavirus outbreak&quot; it should be &quot;Suspected rat plague on...
Post #2325712
@nyquildotorg I found that the moment I gave my TV access to the Internet, it got noticably (50%+) slower doing trivial things like navigating menus. That&#39;s not even mentioning that there are ads scattered all over. I factory reset it and refused to connect it to the Internet ever again. A different TV was flooding my entire network with scan requests, essentially DDoSing every device on the network and bringing the gigabit access down to ~100Mbps.
Post #2325710
@nyquildotorg 😅 The only downside is my TV now shows a VERY large, very garish banner like &quot;accept our terms and connect to the internet to use all the features&quot; for a while after the TV turns on. I think it can be dismissed (not permanently) but it displays for just short enough of a time that I haven&#39;t cared enough to learn which buttons to press to make it go away faster.
Post #2325709
@nyquildotorg oh just saying this was enough for me to actually go confirm what I said and ... joke&#39;s on me, unchecking this (defaulted on) seems to have stopped it from appearing at startup
Post #2325708
https://pkg.go.dev/time#pkg-examples Just start reading through that until you understand. No one should take anyone who uses Go seriously ever again.
Post #2325707
https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp
Post #2138803
&quot;Gemini Nano is presumably now considered to be part of Chrome itself, despite being a standalone product that is included alongside but not integrated into the browser — the way a copy of Bonzi Buddy included in a browser update might be considered a part of said browser.&quot; https://wil.to/posts/googles-prompt-api/
Post #2001877