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ProllyInfamouson AI agent swarms in Minecraft fail to build civilization, drown in bureaucracy

<https://i.imgur.com/7IslReg.png> [article w/o ads]

On the current timeline, this is a user error, friend.

You need this for more than just better GUI experiences – the internet is actively adversarial, now.

<https://i.imgur.com/9UoDzc9.png> [my most-restrictive DNS' denial-rate]

ProllyInfamouson Show HN: A USB-C LTE modem that gives my computer a phone line

This is a terrifying exploit ("yes, absolutely"), but it is a one-time exploit that is not intended for sustained data xfer. It steals your initial cryptoseed (via SPI display linkage; no cryptographic exploit of ledger device is publicly-known, yet), and only has to broadcast one time from its literally-hand-wound antenna.

I believe one million+ devices are "suspected."

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I'm just beginning to play around with Docker, and I have a spare eWaste Intel 4xxx (with dual PCI slots and two 56k modems!~); hoping that my own MacBook can "dock" in to my landline's RJ-11 "virtually" – that I can figure this out with LLMS as a dumbass electrician is incredible! – exciting stuff to learn'bout.

ProllyInfamouson Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power

It's more Event Horizon:

>>"Where we're going, we won't need eyes..."

Hell is real: we create our own best emprisonments.

ProllyInfamouson Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes

Here is their secret: they are looking out for themselves!

ProllyInfamouson Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes

>If someone only watched Fox News

The majority US voter demographic is geriatric – same demographic grew us up on televisions, then never turnt them off.

Fortunately, Fox News' own demographic cannot live forever...

Can't wait to see 24/7 curated news disappear with the landline coax networks.

ProllyInfamouson Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes

>What I'm afraid of if that following the turn toward authoritarianism that we observe worldwide

Dear SCOTex Brother:

Your brothers are ashamed of you ("right now").

–Insanely yours, –halfTwin

ProllyInfamouson U.S. workers took home their smallest share of capital since at least 1947

Cool.

>>It's just welfare by another name.

Don't really care what you call it, what is your solution ("UBI" or "welfare" – who cares?)?

Because killing the majority of us zoo exhibits seems like the easiest solution, IMHO.

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Have great Mondays, frens.

ProllyInfamouson Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth

Four chairs.

Am I misunderstanding some "deeper meaning" ?

ProllyInfamouson U.S. workers took home their smallest share of capital since at least 1947

This is inevitable, comrade.

Or, 90% of us (that aren't zoo-worthy) will need to be exterminated. 2/3rds+ of us American't were "paycheck to paycheck" – a statistic which pre-dates Covid!

Eternal War is Peace™

ProllyInfamouson U.S. workers took home their smallest share of capital since at least 1947

>A disaster.

Pay peanuts, expect a circus.

At this point, we'll either have universal UBI -=or=- ongoing war.

Unfortunately, the latter is more profitable, so... the future is by design, probably.

ProllyInfamouson Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth

I have ten desks in < 1000 sqft – to compartmentalize everything.

Only one machine is allowed to access google et. al. (my "slop bucket," which gets auto-imaged on every boot).

My tax iMac (2006) hasn't been online in two decades.

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I've been playing with Docker (for the past month); the idea is cool, but a complete security nightmare; having read about the "guestWiFi hacks" across vlans, I think virtual machines aren't always a suitable solution (also read about two LLM-VMs communicating via CPU cahces – dam!).

–Tin F. Oil

ProllyInfamouson Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes

I did it, once — most remorseful. Like them all: he's full of shit.

Also donated to Bernie, once – then ShareBlue gave it to a Clinton.

This political whoredom works best against our own interests.

ProllyInfamouson Polymarket 1h halt after vendor compromise; affected users will be 'made whole'

This is correct; two of my three ZFS implementations are entirely local... the third (public-facing) covers the other twos' "limited usefulness."

Perhaps a vulnerability still exists (for one offline NAS, only): I use dedicated NICs (on each end) to direct-link my online NAS (which is otherwise local network, only, on a separate NIC), for routine backup.

Perhaps this leaves a bridge-LAN vulnerability?

But one is entirely offline, as are all its clients (dumb TVs, mostly).

ProllyInfamouson Polymarket 1h halt after vendor compromise; affected users will be 'made whole'

Your on /hn/ and ¡¿don't?! have an entirely-local subnet, offline, for your NAS?

...with a hint of sarcasm, but the percentage is definitely a non-zero number.

ProllyInfamouson Linode Security Incident

Today? Today is that day... probably a yesterday or two, as well.

ProllyInfamouson iPhone Duo Teardown

I can't legally pay for parking in my city.

So I don't. Fines are very low (almost not worth paying, entirely), so I don't sweat it (and know where lots of "free" parking is).

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Definitely this makes scheduling important – and then following through. I will typically arrive a bit early, and not leave until (they're) fifteen minutes late.

It is cumbersome but worthwhile; if I had family (or was "on call") this would obviously be impossible.

ProllyInfamouson New iMac with M6

>one of the magnets broke off the screen

I had a similar event (but only once) supporting university labs: one of those four "alignment pins" broke off; but they're not necessary once the magnets are engaged. Unfortunately, I had to completely re-disassemble the entire unit to shake out that metallic-breakoff.

The 2006 iMac is a dream to work on: the back plate (including stand) simply detaches, exposing access to everything without having to remove the LCD – this latter part is the worst part of any newer iMac-opening.

Thanks for sharing your similarities, fellow-oldening-hat.

ProllyInfamouson Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements

As long as we're arresting extremists on all sides, I support your conclusions...

ProllyInfamouson Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements

>>Brought to you by the people who have complained bitterly for decades about federal overreach and excessive government spending.

>"When the President of the United State of America does it – it isn't illegal!"

>–Nixon, probably

ProllyInfamouson New iMac with M6

>It was just...nice.

In psychedelic tongue: it drips well.

And it's getting so inexpensive (I can easily price many 120Hz systems, barely above $1000)!

How much (approx) was your son's build?

ProllyInfamouson Tell HN: I'm going on strike this November

All the data center work was on large crews lasting for months ("long-term" in construction), with hundreds of workers semi-coordinated across various trades.

A major problem in Unions is that cronyism is even good'ole'boy'er than the general US population's. My only touting of "join a union" is for would-be apprentices to "learn the ropes" about construction. Get paid to learn; retire elsewhere... [†]

They no longer allow this (at least not in 520), but I soon realized the best "life balance approach" to being IBEW was: enter in their non-traditional student pathway (i.e: olderfolk, CW/CE) and then never progress beyond 90%er [•] – to me, the extra 10% pay wasn't worth all the headache of working with management to coordinate jobsite goals. Many "ninety-percenters" remain, grandfathered (but slowly retiring).

[†] LU520's payscale isn't among "the best;" if you're in an area where your ticket-out is $70+/hr, then retiring IBEW probably makes sense...

[•] with Mad Respect for my boy Johnboy; hope you're retired by now!

ProllyInfamouson Tell HN: I'm going on strike this November

Interestingly, Unions aren't the actual employers.

Instead, each LU "territory" is made up of several large corporations (the electric contractors). Some employ sub-contractors, often. You can even be a worker for "contracted shops" without even being a union member, which opts-out paying "dues" – Francis-Bacon IIRC?

Hating to quote R+M so casually, but "it [all] just sounds like slavery, with extra steps..." as each sub-universe slowly begins to realize Their Realities.

ProllyInfamouson New iMac with M6

I cannot distinguish between 120Hz and 144Hz.

I avoid any-higher refresh rates, by your own reasoning =P

I still maintain an entire fleet of 30Hz equipment, but my main two machines are each 144Hz (sharing one screen $$). The $600 Mac Mini handles this easily. Obviously the other's nVidia GPU is a different $tory$$$$ == PoE@144Hz so_pretty

My favorite digital reading method, conversely, is probably less than 1Hz (eInk)? But even hundred of pages of text I'll always prefer printouts.

ProllyInfamouson Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements

Fun-fact™ Wednesday:

One person has appointed every single judge to the current US FISA Courts (whose jurisdiction includes domestic surveillance rubberstamping).

You can thank the concessions of Bush v. Gore (2000) for giving this executive-level privilege to the hoNoRAblE [SCOTUS Chief] Judge Roberts.

In 2026, this orchestrated puppetteering probably doesn't even matter anymore..?

ProllyInfamouson iPhone Duo Teardown

>>"They're cool"

Pretty much sums it up, for me.

But I don't even own a cell phone, anymore... so probably not the intended iPhoneDuo demographic.

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This "cool" mentality is the flaunt/sickness driving planned-obsolescence, in my very-jaded opinion.

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Why does a dog lick his balls? Because he can..!

ProllyInfamouson I used to be homeless. That experience shapes my science

Sleeping on the West Coast beaches... encouraged me (in less than a month) to find more-permanent housing.

Decades later, I still remember what was lost...

ProllyInfamouson Tell HN: I'm going on strike this November

What we'd do, instead, was worker-coordinated "slow downs" & two-hour lunches.

It's harder to "do nothing" than you might think. We'd make 10-manhour projects take 10 days. Ten grueling days of do-nothing, but we were physically there, present on our assigned job-sites. Eventually "the hall"-'ll listen, but it can sometimes take awhile...

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I don't have a better solution. I went "independent" with my own shingle, which has its own (different PITA) problems. Grass-is-greener.

Most HN readers would do better, blue collar, in a commercial environment (IMHO); residential is too knit-picky, individual homeowners too personally-invested. Union is a great way to start your blue collar adventure, getting paid to learn and fuck up (which you will).

ProllyInfamouson Tell HN: I'm going on strike this November

Technically the workers are supposed to express any grievance(s) to on-site stewards, who then coordinate with Union leadership.

I never once saw an on-site steward.

Leaving 520 after the 2.5%->4.5% "dues" increase was among many pyrrhic victories (it was to cover aging healthcare expenditures, which is now making more sense these years later).

Eventually Unions will need sub-unions, separate from their own current LU-management – if only to keep the actual workers working.

ProllyInfamouson Tell HN: I'm going on strike this November

>killed old.reddit.com

The recent login-required (to use old-reddit) is stupid [0].

For now, just use this tip: `www.reddit.com/r/RedditYouWant+RandomCharactersHere`

and then your UI will be similar when browsing. Be sure to replace "RandomCharactersHere" with something obscure, or else /r/RedditYouWant will overflow with undesired content.

e.g: <http://www.reddit.com/r/PCMasterrace+fuckUspez123>

e.g: <http://www.reddit.com/r/PCMasterrace+PCBuild> (does not require login, yet)

[0] I go back to the SA>Digg>Reddit transitions, with my oldest (abandoned) /r/account [1] dating to 2007. #Return2RSS

[1] Hey /r/Admin(s): yeah, it's me, Rita... howdy you fatcat bayarea phucks