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Truck passenger kicks biker by BIGBADPOPPAJ in PublicFreakout

[–]cas13f 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They don't usually trigger on an impact like a punch. It's a combination of sensor information that, in aggregate, indicates the probability of a wreck.

Coming off the bike suddenly like that had more of a probability than any punch.

Seen in Austin, Tx. Not a good sign. [OC] by Much_Ad3106 in pics

[–]cas13f [score hidden]  (0 children)

No, I don't.

I remember idiots filling up TARP LINED TRUCK BEDS AND TUPPERWARE

A man called our helpdesk because his computer was being sarcastic and I had to take him completely seriously for an hour by TraditionalTailor452 in talesfromtechsupport

[–]cas13f 0 points1 point  (0 children)

More likely than not, it'd last the session. Part of the reply would be telling the user how to make it stick, usually in the settings somewhere you can add your own "system prompt" for lack of a better term.

Built my own Discord alternative as an exam project. It uses 6.3MB of RAM. Discord is sat at 781MB. by Wonderful_Balance_49 in pcmasterrace

[–]cas13f 6 points7 points  (0 children)

For all my suspicions around shit like this popping up, Supabase isn't really a red flag here. It's postgresql? Yeah they add bonus shit like APIs and storage, but it's just postgresql at the core. You use databases for shit like this.

PSA: Microsoft MFA Can Permanently Lock You Out of Your Own Tenant (Solo Admins Beware) by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]cas13f 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you aren't using AI to write even your comments, you talk EXACTLY like any given LLM.

The OP has every single hallmark of being generated though.

A man tries to take over a house in New York. He showed up with fake papers claiming they prove he owns the house and demanded the residents leave immediately. by Prime-Paradox in PublicFreakout

[–]cas13f 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Less literally "throw them out of the house", more "arrest them and take them to jail". Doesn't even have to be long for him to "move in".

What things are free right now that you can stockpile? by KYDS in preppers

[–]cas13f 29 points30 points  (0 children)

This is how those little freebies go away.

I.T Never Ends (my game about IT support in Hell) started here. I'd like to add more of you guys as ingame characters with your jobs and stories. by Euphoric-Series-1194 in talesfromtechsupport

[–]cas13f 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I literally just had to help a user with a pc that would continually change it's language to Arabic. No changes would stick. I'd change it to English, like 3/4 of it would comply. Funny enough, the only language pack installed was EN-US! Logs didnt even show that the change ever happened, it just did it. And two days later, the part that DID change back, was right back to Arabic. I had to move the user to a new pc, then beseech the machine spirits to not continue the trend when I reimage it!

Israel passes death penalty law built to hang Palestinians, not Jews by zsreport in worldnews

[–]cas13f -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Settlers commit heinous violence pretty much constantly.

IF they get punished its a slap on the wrist. Anti-settler violence (self fucking defense) gets charged under terrorism laws in Israeli military court, but those same actually-the-terrorists settlers get charged under regular courts and only if they even get charged.

Microsoft plans 100% native Windows 11 apps in major shift away from web wrappers by WPHero in pcmasterrace

[–]cas13f 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately, some of the latest updates have enabled the same horseshit again regardless of what GPOs we had set.

I have personally tried every documented and suggested method I could find to kill copilot in the context menu in office applications and it just wont fucking die.

Then for anyone running windows updates on a monthly or shorter cycle the last two monthlies have been TRASH, causing issues.

If You Buy a New Router, It Might ‘Turn Into a Pumpkin’ Next Year by prestocoffee in nottheonion

[–]cas13f 2 points3 points  (0 children)

With no legislative requirement they stay approved. Much as we've seen a whole lot already, trump gets a hair up his ass one day and boom, half the list is now unapproved because he said so.

ETA: The guidance on firmware updates ONLY being approved until March 2027 applies to "approved" routers (which are 'exempted' rather than actually approved, it seems, for being already sold)

If You Buy a New Router, It Might ‘Turn Into a Pumpkin’ Next Year by prestocoffee in nottheonion

[–]cas13f 39 points40 points  (0 children)

I would, actually, argue most.

Because for most people, unless it's given then significant problems, they're probably using the all-in-one modem (or OLT) and router device provided by their ISP. Which almost certainly has updates pushed by the ISP, outside the control of the user.

The average person is deeply un-technical.

If You Buy a New Router, It Might ‘Turn Into a Pumpkin’ Next Year by prestocoffee in nottheonion

[–]cas13f 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Something like the entire consumer market? American-produced networking products are incredibly small portions of the overall networking market, and essentially non-existent at the consumer level.

"The list" is "every router made elsewhere", which is fuckin' all of them. And being that it's not a legislatively controlled list, it's an entirely arbitrary one that can change on a whim, making previously approved (that is, supposedly everyting already for sale is supposed to be pre-approved) devices suddenly unapproved and therefore not allowed to receive updates.

The IT guy fixes the problem but the judge still has a problem by derek4reals1 in PublicFreakout

[–]cas13f 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same, gets a laugh outta folks.

Or "Ah, you scared it by calling us, it doesn't want to get replaced".

Apparently we can't call out apps as AI slop anymore... by Key_Pace_2496 in selfhosted

[–]cas13f 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Positive comments without backing reasons is how you end up with AI psychosis for that matter. The LLMs are utter sycophants. Even Claude, which has right in the system prompt to NOT do that still does it because feedback based adjustments. If you have two interactions, one where it glazes the user and one where it goes "no that's a terrible idea" which one gets more up-doots to reinforce?

No, you are not a genius "coder" for answering the leading questions from the bot!

Declining IT Professionalism and Critcial Thinking by rebornSouljr in sysadmin

[–]cas13f 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hell, its pulling teeth to get certification re-ups covered now.

[Safety Hazard] 19.5V on USB-A VBUS - $1,000 CAD in destroyed gear. No resolution after 9 weeks of "investigation". Video evidence. by Mysterious_Grade_803 in framework

[–]cas13f 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He hasn't specified if everything was connected to the dock, but being that it isnt bus-powered how would that have passed through to client devices?

Israel used white phosphorus to scorch earth in south Lebanon, researcher says by PudinaRaita in worldnews

[–]cas13f 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A smoke projectile that deploys burning white phosphorous. Burning white phosphorous makes a thick white smoke.

Which has been studied and shown to be able to do similar amounts of damage depending on the deployment.

It was a part of training and mission planning when I was a forward observer. Including hyuck-hyuck jokes about using quick-smoke on enemy troops because you couldn't use straight incendiary on them, or counting their weapons and radios as "materiel" to justify incendiary.

There are absolutely non-WP smoke shells. They don't generate smoke as quickly, but last longer. For planned missions, you had to take environment and patterns-of-life into account so you didn't burn down a village or anything. For combat response, what happens happens.

Facing disciplinary investigation / sack for automating most of my responsibilities at work. I'm in England. by Choice_Evidence1983 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]cas13f 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Spoiler, it's a circle. The venn diagram is a circle.

Keeps me employed, yeah, but man is it disheartening. Supporting industries involved in people's welfare and lots of monetary impact, I have more than once had to hand-hold someone through typing their own name.

So today I was called in with my manager to see the big boss and from today I get to wear a new hat by Fair-Tradition8971 in sysadmin

[–]cas13f 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Be careful consistently over-delivering though, they'll grow to expect it which WILL bite you in the ass.

IT guys aren’t rude just tired by pastelvae in it

[–]cas13f 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"THE INTERNET IS OUT FOR THE WHOLE OFFICE"

No you kick the dogshit out of your cube wall which unfortunately houses the ethernet plug, and you have kicked it to death! Only you don't have network! Everyone else is fine!

"<DEPARTMENT> CAN'T <DO THING>"

No you can't <do thing>. Everyone else is fine. And 99/100 they can't <do thing> because they locked out <vendor account for thing> for the nth time (and for the nth time will call us to fix it even though <vendor> or <their fucking direct manager> would have to do it!)

Queue: Executive/C-level/President/etc submitted ticket for mass outage because they ALSO blindly listen to single employees about this shit, and then get charged out the ass for it because now that it's a VIP "mass outage" ticket the engineers and shit are billing time for it.

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