You just happened to stumble across the stupidest motherfucker alive. Probably alive. Those risky decisions don’t take themselves.

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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Lets say they don’t use private data for training

    (Continue reading when you’re done laughing):

    Eventually, victims eventually run out of “free” storage.

    The humble corporation will do a bunch of psychologically unethical tricks to basically hypnotize users into forking over those three digits at the back of the family credit card.

    Now the victim’s data is effectively held ransom. Keep paying or lose it.

    But they won’t stop paying. They paid for a year’s plan at a discount and the peaceful megacorp conveniently hit autorenew for them at checkout.

    12 months roll around and oopsie, they already have the money. They could go through the refund process, but they’ve got shit on their plate, might as well keep it for another year.

    I could keep rambling, but on Lemmy, I’m probably preaching to the choir about the first verse of genesis.





  • I stole this from the other thread

    A kernel, in computing terms, is the computer program that sits between applications and the hardware, facilitating their interactions.

    This is the GNU/Linux operating system’s kernel (the part that is technically Linux) showing its architecture.

    The columns represent the areas of functionality the kernel offers, the rows (from top to bottom) representing the level of abstraction from the hardware.

    From the top; user space, where users barely have to think about the hardware enabling their applications. To the bottom; the hardware itself and the interfaces that enable the kernel to talk to them.

    The lines represent the relationships between the various Linux kernel functions and structures - the text - that interact with one another directly.

    The diagram is interactive in the sense that you can click the functions/structures and be taken to relevant resources to help a Linux kernel developer navigate the humongous amount of code that comprises the kernel, to accelerate debugging etc.

    This diagram has been continuously developed for well over 15 years at this point and is somewhat iconic in the Linux world as it makes tangible the kernel and its thousands upon thousands of lines of code which I doubt any one developer has or could read and comprehend as a whole without the use of tools like this map.

    (thank you honourable fartsparkles, blesser of knowledge)







  • A lot of people have trouble getting motivated.

    Your comment made me chuckle a little bit.

    I ask myself that same question every day. What’s the point of anything? Do I really need to get out of bed, get to work, eat food, climb out of the debt trap I’m in or even browse Lemmy?

    Something like this could help ease that daily question from myself. If it doesn’t work, it’s fine. Worth a shot. Free is cheaper than recreational drugs.