The Democrat Party is dead to me for exactly this reason.

100% guarantee that LLMs have already been instantiated on murderbot hardware

I really wish projects like this would prioritize having an English-language presence on fedi.

It was honestly quite easy to take 10 minutes, scroll thru my list of subscribed communities, remove every one hosted on .world, and then block the instance.

The next step beyond that is a little more involved: creating equivalent communities on other instances where needed.

It was very easy to dump the community or two I subscribed to on that instance.

I’m leaning that direction if only because I have decade-old Python experience which I could potentially dust off and use to contribute to development if I start “dogfooding” PieFed and find things I want to fix or improve.

I think ultimately issues like this will be why I don’t choose Lemmy when I finally get around to standing up my own threadiverse node.

The biggest loser besides Cuomo in the NY mayoral race was The New York Times

Bye ✌️

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but at least on Reddit there is more actual human content.

lol. lmao even

I have a consumer tier Ironwolf that isn’t too loud, it does make a little noise but it’s not a whine, more of a very low rushing air type noise when spinning (like the “brown noise” another commenter mentioned) and fairly quiet grinding when it’s active. Not the quietest drive ever, but less noticeable than some I’ve had in the past. The periodic thermal calibrations from a 2.5" HDD I have inside a mini PC next to it are more noticeable.

They also think they can maintain control of the narrative. Nope.

that’s fair. I like sdf.org but I would, I chose it.

…have you expended the slightest bit of effort to do that? Because there are plenty.

I continue to maintain that the best individual policy is to instance-block .world and let the redditor hoi polloi who end up there self-select onto smaller and better instances as they wake up to what a crappy place the default is. If they aren’t capable of eventually waking up to that, then I don’t really want them in my feed, so .world is a good place for them to be contained.

then unsubscribe.

WPA and WPA2 gear still has plenty of vulnerabilities.

WiFi 6 has made this a lot more viable than it used to be. I’ve done a fair amount of parking lot leeching and new gear is worth it.

Back when I was housing insecure but still had a place of my own to live, I first set up a point-to-point wifi link to some kids across the street to defray my internet expenses - they paid part of my bill instead of having their own internet. That was more than a decade ago and the hardware & software weren’t so reliable. When the arrangement fell apart and I no longer could pay the bill, I cracked the network of some neighbors in my building and used the same antenna to provide internet for myself and 3 others in my house for about a year. The neighbors were a nice young couple so I did my best to be decent about it - set up an always-on permanent VPN and used flow control to limit our max throughput.

It’s still possible to do this, and I’m still broke, so after a few years not needing to do any such thing, I cracked a network to have internet during a housesitting gig (house did not have internet).

Edit: get WiFi 6 or better gear for this. Trust me, the improvement in performance in marginal situations is well worth it. WiFi 6 was a big improvement over WiFi 5, which was a big improvement over WiFi 4, when it comes to staying connected and getting data across a dodgy link. I haven’t done much straight up piracy lately but I have done plenty of leeching in parking lots, and WiFi 6 gear is absolutely worth the money.

Pirating wifi doesn’t preclude any of this. See also the GL.iNet devices, such as the GL-MT3000.

Right, and my ideal situation is that all the low-quality ones stay on .world and the rest filter out to join us on smaller instances.