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  • I ended up on a project to integrate an HR system with Active Directory.

    Did we technically have to insist that the HR system became the source of truth and we would never make manual changes on the AD side? No.

    Did we have to use the new integration and automated new hire account creation process to punish the managers who kept trying to get new hires processed at 4pm Friday to start Monday, claiming no way to rush the processing so the previous “rule” about lead time was now set in stone? No.

    Did the integration actually force the reorganization of our Active Directory to clean up a decade of band aid fixes layered on top of each other? No.

    Did we have to finally implement a proper data retention process including deletion of former user accounts and mailboxes for the integration to work, along with formal methods to request temporary access to old mailboxes that included an automatic time limit? No.

    Did my boss and I use it as a golden opportunity to push all of the above and more into official standards, saving an absurd amount of man hours since? Fuck yes.

    Not all of it was tech debt, sure, but in short you should use a available opportunities to improve as much as you can, instead of always defaulting to “I do exactly what was requested”. If for no one else, do it to save yourself pain in the future.


  • Yeah, far_university got it. Infrasound is what I was referring to specifically, and your comment has me wondering now if there’s been any attempts to measure for it around wind turbines too.

    The known negative health effects from the noise pollution around data centers are bad enough, but there’s evidence of further effects than that due to the infrasound as well, which isn’t immediately obvious as it’s not within human hearing range


  • At least something made them reconsider. Land zoned for housing development near where I live just got abandoned after multiple years owned by some shitheads who were suing the local government for not allowing them to turn it into a ground shipping hub in the middle of miles of residential land (broken up with the occasional school and strip mall type businesses), only for the land to be picked up by a group trying to build a data center claiming it would bring significant jobs to the area.

    I’ve been to a few data centers for work. Job hubs they ain’t.



  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldThe legendary PS2
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    2 days ago

    Your boyfriend is at most 25 35 years old, and only if you are 69.

    Oooooh boy I’m glad that I already have everyone responding to you blocked.

    My wife’s ~15 years older than me, and while it generally doesn’t matter more than making restaurant servers that check ID do a double take, there are times where her pulling me up past a stage of my life has resulted in me lacking some skills people normally build up during that time.

    Just be safe and make sure you’re doing what is truly best for each of you. Good luck and enjoy yourself.





  • Seems pretty competent to me!

    I see mobility, two grasping manipulators, at least one non-grasping manipulator (which appears to be double jointed even), paradolia exploiting decorations to use human pattern recognition to encourage better acceptance, binocular visual sensors, what appears to be a projectile delivery device centrally located as the “nose”, wireless communication capability (absolute must), and ample built in storage that is centrally located.




  • Most anti-ai tech isn’t captcha anymore. Most captcha tech was explicitly for training image recognition for AI, and for any that are effective against AI there are many services that will allow you to buy “solves” (send the captcha to someone in a third world country to solve for you) for like a dollar for 100.

    Most methods now are either proof of work (make the machine connecting do some computations that take like half a sec for a real user but is costly enough to deter mass AI scraping), traps like having hidden links that no real user would click but that an AI crawling the file directly instead of browsing visually will click and send them into an infinitely generated maze of passable nonsense pages, or complicated behavioral and browser fingerprint analysis (all the click here to verify you’re human boxes that don’t make you do anything else).

    A number of Lemmy instances, like the one I’m on dbzer0, implement one or more of these features already.


    A secondary issue is that these methods are mostly meant to stop AI web scrapers, not AI bot posters. Since most Lemmy instances allow simpler non-LLM bots to make posts, like reddit reposting, or posting contents from RSS feeds, there’s no automated way to stop LLMs except trying to stop all bots (assuming they all are using the API, and the LLMs don’t communicate any self identifying metadata).



  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldintimidating
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    9 days ago

    I’ve recently switched to writing my notes in markdown in a code editor, since I already have one open most of the time. vsCode for work (I do a lot of PowerShell), vsCodium at home, although I’m sure there’s better options.

    My one gripe with Notepad++ is that I haven’t found any easy way to do dark mode with it. You can make the window “chrome” dark mode, and you can make general text background black and text white, but then that screws up the language specific and file diff themes/coloring.

    There’s probably a collection of importable settings for that somewhere online though.




  • You’re right, but I think you underestimate the intersection of what’s theoretically possible and desperation.

    We’ll probably see multiple different things. Some of the equipment will be repurposed for other cloud GPU workloads. We’ll probably see some companies try to make adapters and drivers to get the server hardware compatible with consumer desktops (there’s someone who did a writeup, either on hacker news or hack a day who got older server RAM working on a desktop with an adapter and Linux tomfoolery). Buy up the stuff being sold at a loss, strap their adapter on it, and sell for profit.

    But on a low level, all this shit is turing complete. There will be performance losses and considerable overhead, but in theory translation layers and emulation should be able to be written to effectively convert GPU compute to whatever other format is needed.

    If it’s taking a total loss vs squeezing the last squirts of profit out, I think there’s going to be attempts to squeeze.




  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comtomemes@lemmy.worldI was there man...
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    10 days ago

    Not really. The cords are all the same inside, the colors are just for convenient matching of the ends.

    If both ports are the same color, and wire has the same color on both ends, you’re fine. You can send yellow through a red cable. I’ve definitely had a few times where all I had were a couple of loose cable pairs and it works fine.