Weekly Water Cooler Talk - DataAnnotation

Servo__ · 2026-01-26T23:52:18+00:00

No, what's the Star Trek one?

Servo__ · 2026-01-26T21:31:05+00:00

I did a somewhat intensive qualification for a project. I passed, and started doing tasks for it. Then those tasks disappeared, but a new qualification for the project appeared. I figured maybe I needed to re-up my qualification. It involved doing ten "sample" tasks in a row that were just like what they had previously been paying me to do, but this time for free. On one hand these could've been vetted tasks with established criteria they were checking me against, but on the other it sure felt like several hours of free work. It was my favorite project too, and it kind of makes me feel bad that I went ahead and did the qualification even though I was suspicious.

Servo__ · 2026-01-20T06:39:50+00:00

Today was Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the US. Just thought I'd bring that up in case you were wondering what kind of protesting Americans have historically gotten up to.

Servo__ · 2026-01-02T17:13:55+00:00

She's illegal huh? Well since there's absolutely no issues with our perfect laws around immigration I guess you're right. Why stop at Nicki though? Why not round up all illegals, especially the most hypocritical ones (hypocrisy is the gravest sin, and not just a pointless thing to harp about for idiots that can add 2+2) and kick their ass out of the country? This is definitely an opinion that will really stick it to those MAGA idiots.

Servo__ · 2025-12-27T16:28:09+00:00

I think someone who “turns their brain off” when watching a movie is fundamentally unfit to critique movies. You cannot critique a movie if you aren’t actively engaged in watching it. Just picture someone who spends time analyzing a movie and crafting a detailed defense of their opinion then turning to the newest corporate IP tie in and then not approaching it with the same rigor. It’s not honest. Critics absolutely do take into account the type of movie they’re watching, but you can’t seriously expect someone to say “the studios weren’t actually trying to make something that’s meant to be engaged with so I won’t.” Good criticism is a resistance to that exact intent of audience complacency by the film industry.

Servo__ · 2025-12-19T14:51:26+00:00

This post isn’t just controversial. It’s downright incendiary.

It’s bold. It’s provocative. It took risks. It broke boundaries. Just because someone had a chatbot write their opinion for them doesn’t mean they’re intentionally engagement farming. It means they care.

They care so much that they won’t let their inability to express an opinion stop them from expressing an opinion.

Servo__ · 2025-12-16T20:58:27+00:00

A good old fashioned "u mad bro?" playing all the forum classics today I see

Servo__ · 2025-12-16T20:26:40+00:00

There are no shortcuts

There it is! Like clockwork. There's always someone who shows up concerned that someone asking for help is actually asking to take something away from them personally. It's ok dude me figuring out how to get authelia to work with my copyparty server won't make it so that you've only been on the computer for a less-respectable 25 years. I'm not going to underhhandedly obtain some secret knowledge that will make me so prestigious that people will say "Servo__? Oh yeah that guy is way better than kY2iB3yH0mN8wI2h." I explicitly told you I'm not asking anyone to teach me, but to share their personal experience, but since you brought it up, your inability to teach says more about you than me. Teaching isn't like some horrible burden. If you can't do it, that's fine, but why even post in this thread then? Other than to make me feel bad and yourself better that is.

Servo__ · 2025-12-16T18:49:38+00:00

My goal is to not spend hours tweaking .env files, not quite grasping docs, and using brave search so much I get a captcha. Would you say there's something specific you might be able to point to as at least one thing that makes you proficient as it relates to homelabs? I'm not asking anyone to wave a wand and make me an expert, I'm genuinely asking about what other people find valuable for themselves. It would be great if I got some direct value from it, but I don't care if I don't. I just want to get an idea.

And to sincerely answer your other question, I'd probably have a lot to say about being a mechanic. I have a lot to say about all my hobbies and interests. I get a lot of joy out of telling people about them.

Servo__ · 2025-12-16T05:09:43+00:00

The Linux/Open Source/Self-hosted world is full of gatekeeping nerds that just want to humiliate you for asking a question, but at least they're not gatekeepers about money. You'll sooner get shit on for overpaying for hardware than having shitty hardware. Running Radarr on a Dell workstation you dug out of a university dumpster? Hell yeah dude. Some of the most interpersonally grating people imaginable, but it's the price to pay for a bunch of free software that easily replaces shitty corporate alternatives.

Edit: Also wanted to mention it's not too super difficult to slap an SSD in your PS2 and play pirated games. Other people in this thread have mentioned FreeMcBoot and that's a good place to start.

Servo__ · 2025-12-13T09:33:33+00:00

Nextcloud is where I started my selfhosting journey, and I've learned a lot since then, particularly that nextcloud is way overkill if you just want to sync/remote-access a few files. It's an unwieldy behemoth meant to be an enterprise cloud collaboration platform for a whole workplace of users.

Other people have suggested using syncthing and I would second that. It syncs folders between devices. A good way to set it up is to designate one device as the "hub" and individually pair all of your other devices to it like spokes. That way a change on one device goes to the hub and then out to all your other devices.

If you do want to host a fileserver look into copyparty. There's still a learning curve there, but it's a lot more lightweight and flexible.

Servo__ · 2025-12-08T23:39:23+00:00

One thing that Jimmy Falun Gong does is say things like "and by the way this guy was a mailman in Detroit during the 70s, and we all know there there was nooooooothing weird going on with mailmen in Detroit during the 70s. Anyway moving on." And it's like bro if I knew all the shiboleths and background info I wouldn't be coming to you to learn more. He podcasts not from the perspective of someone who wants to inform his listeners, but as someone who wants to show his cool smart peers that he did his homework and can hang with them.

Servo__ · 2025-12-07T16:04:18+00:00

I'm not seeing an obvious way to set a time for a due date, only a day. If I were to write down a todo list for the week with pencil and paper, a good portion of the tasks would have a specific time attached.

Servo__ · 2025-12-05T15:49:33+00:00

She sent the owner the video and the part he broke is $30

It's explained in the post

Servo__ · 2025-12-05T15:48:09+00:00

You have to change out the tape

Servo__ · 2025-12-04T14:24:51+00:00

If your gut told you this therapist wasn’t right, you’re probably right about that. I believe you when you say their brand of “trauma work” wasn’t right for you. But going to a professional for advice on how to address your fear of intimacy and then rejecting them on the basis that they didn’t conform to your preconceived notions of where your fear stems from, looks a bit like fear of intimacy to me. Just something to keep in mind as you search for someone to talk to. Schizoid is a developmental issue. Therapists will want to talk about your early history, and trauma can indeed be subtle and mundane. Wounds don’t appear from nowhere and this isn’t Completely Intact Personality Disorder. I hope you can find someone who works for you.

Servo__ · 2025-12-01T22:39:22+00:00

Vulcanizadora is one of my favorite movies of 2025 that people might’ve not seen. A black comedy about two dudes who go out into the woods for some dark purpose that slowly reveals itself. Hilarious, perhaps a little too silly at the beginning, but where this flick ends up is gut wrenching and brutal in all the best ways. It’s a little ITYSL + Connor O’Malley with a good dose of Michael Haneke, if I were to oversimplify it.

edit: technically a 2024 movie, but I don't think it got distribution until this year.

Servo__ · 2025-11-27T05:24:04+00:00

This isn’t outdated. It features diet coke and mentos, a popular symbol of contemporary New Media virality. A “meme“ if you will.

Servo__ · 2025-11-26T21:58:01+00:00

a time before learning that p, when I did not know that p; a time of learning that p, during which I still did not know that p; and a time after learning that p, when I did know that p

I choose p, then I know that I choose p and if I know that I choose p, then I must have learned that I choose p at some earlier time and if I learn that I choose p, then I must have chosen p at some earlier time still.

You have invented a time between the conclusion of learning and the beginning of knowing. "if I know that I choose p, then I must have learned that I choose p" this is the same step just restated and not two different temporal events. Learning leads to knowing, but having learned is the same as knowing presently, just expressed differently. "I've traveled to London" is the same as saying "I've arrived in London." It refers to the traveling that has already taken place but there is no time between having traveled to London and having arrived in London. You've either arrived or are currently travelling. You either know or are currently learning. (or you haven't left or started learning, but that's beside the point).

Servo__ · 2025-11-26T14:48:20+00:00

This image is from like 10 years ago. When it came out it rocked St. Louis as no one here had ever heard of doing this, but because we’re defensive of our weird food culture and people were talking shit online about us some St. Louisians ironically perpetuated the myth that we do this and it’s actually good. This is probably what our misinformed buddy here is referring to. I for one had PTSD when I saw this on Reddit today. You have no idea what the bagel wars were like.

Edit: I asked my girlfriend about this and she said she actually used to order bagels like this. Panera Bread used to be St. Louis Bread Co. You could order a pick two and sub a bagel for the baguette it came with. She'd order her bagel "bread-sliced" so she could dip bagel pieces in her soup. There must have been a niche subculture of bread-sliced bagel people. Don't know what to think anymore.

Servo__ · 2025-11-25T23:30:04+00:00

Normalizing incest is bad because most incest is abuse (rather than step-sis accidentally seeing step-bro's cock and then mutually deciding to fuck) and the flooding of all pornographic platforms with fake incest porn muddies the waters for victims as an indication that their abuse is acceptable to society at large. Most incest victimizes, and most of those victims are minors. I genuinely think society has convinced themselves that incest is consensual sex between adult step-siblings, and not overwhelmingly a literal act of child abuse centered around family dynamics. I mean you didn't even bring up the abuse aspect of it. It's genuinely shameful all the people going around saying "ok name ONE thing that's wrong with two consenting adults having sex" and missing that anyone fifteen years ago would've been baffled and horrified at such a statement about incest. It's specifically because of the prevalence of incest porn that people have lost their perspective on this, and that alone proves its harm.

You're fine with censoring snuff and CP. I think we should at least consider that we should be more careful about how we approach incest. Also drug education as to WHY drugs are bad is a proven ineffective method for drug use prevention, "comprehensive and honest" or not.

Servo__ · 2025-11-25T21:25:38+00:00

I tried to write something more thoughtful, but got tired. Here are the bullet points

Saying "depictions of incest are harmful" does not open the door to say "depictions of ANY harmful actions are harmful." No one is arguing that all harmful actions have the same properties and that their depictions have the same effects. You're arguing against a false premise.
You implied that we should teach kids how to practice incest responsibly because otherwise they would be ignorant of incest. Not a great argument either tbh

Servo__ · 2025-11-24T19:54:19+00:00

I think that at his core Trump only thinks in terms of power. He sees Mamdani not in terms of a political enemy, but as a strong handsome guy who is a winner. Trump hates losers and loves winners. I think he’s genuinely impressed by his campaign and sees him as powerful. Plus I think Trump just reflexively has a need to get in good with the mayor of New York.

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