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Brad Ganley

@ brad @toad.work

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I'm an engineer with history in reverse-engineering, logic-level troubleshooting and design, software, and whatever else.

I think of myself of more as an agroecologist/farmer type guy though no matter what the paychecks say on them

  • Companies Think Their Idiot Customers Will Accidentally Cancel Their Subscriptions if It's Too Easy | Trade groups told the FTC a simple "Click-to Cancel" proposal to easily quit subscriptions coul...

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  • "First they came for the hot singles in my area and I said nothing. Now, as they try to take my hot new deals, I must legislate"

  • NSFW

    The one time GIMP had furry porn for their splash screen.

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  • I also require this

  • If you had to redo your self hosting setup, what would you do differently this time around?

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  • For me:

    • Document things (configs, ports, etc) as I go
    • Uniform folder layout for everything (my first couple of servers were a bit wild-westy)
    • Choosing and utilizing some reasonable method of assigning ports to things. I do not even want to explain what I need to do when I forget what port something in this setup is using.

  • Book piracy sites

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  • free at last

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  • I haven't and, now that you've said this, I don't plan on it

  • free at last

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  • This is the most uncomfortable an image of zuck has ever made me which, honestly, is an achievement.

  • Two authors are suing OpenAI for training ChatGPT with their books. Could they win?

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  • I agree with you but, since I can't come up with a reasonable explanation for it, my brain wants to err on the side of them being largely the same for whatever reason

  • YSK: If your instance updated to 0.18.1, there's new themes in your profile settings, including compact and pure black themes! (for the website version of lemmy, version number at bottom of page)

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  • Thank you for this

  • YSK how to pick a ripe, sweet watermelon

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  • This is all good info except for the gender thing. The round/long difference is just a growth habit. Watermelon plants (and other cucurbits like squash, zucchini, cantaloupe, etc) produce male and female flowers. Only the female flowers produce fruit and must be pollinated by a male flower to do so.

  • Two authors are suing OpenAI for training ChatGPT with their books. Could they win?

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  • Yeah this is a weird one. I don't really know how the line gets drawn between training an AI and plagiarism. My gut feeling is that this feels like suing somebody for being inspired by your work or learning a new word from it.

  • complacency rule

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  • I definitely don't blame you for that. Dogwhistles come with that little bit of plausible deniability so it's impossible to draw a hard line on this type of thing.

  • YSK: If your instance updated to 0.18.1, there's new themes in your profile settings, including compact and pure black themes! (for the website version of lemmy, version number at bottom of page)

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  • Thank you for this. I never would have noticed this in my instance settings but I never would have gotten around to looking lol

  • Do People in Third World Countries Have Stronger Immune Systems Than People in First World Countries?

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  • I find the OP's question very intriguing and have kind of arrived at this same conclusion. My only tweak would be that they may, in fact, have more effective immune systems purely due to the fact that access to medicine or areas free of pathogens aren't as common. Obviously, though, that would be compared to a person who exists in those same conditions but with access to good medical care which is a bit paradoxical.

    EDIT: I made this more complicated for myself by thinking, further, that nutrition would also play a huge role in this

  • complacency rule

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  • While I'm with you on that, I am definitely getting more of a "sneaky snake" vibe from this comic, personally.

  • Online dating

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  • This translates to "I do not have anything impressive to say off the top of my head and I'm panicking now"

  • Lil' reminder about browsing by All

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  • It does not appear deleted to me

  • Lil' reminder about browsing by All

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  • it should pop up if you search for !math@lemmy.ml or potentially click this: !math@lemmy.ml while viewing this comment from your instance

  • Best distro to turn my old laptop into a server?

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  • Ubuntu Server (Or really just Ubuntu) is probably going to be the easiest in terms of package support, general support, and usability. It's pretty straightforward and there's infinite tutorials for everything you could possibly want to do

  • My laptop came with Office pre-installed but I have this banner showing up every time I open it, is there a way to disable it for good?

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  • Legally, you can either uninstall Office or buy a license for it.

    What I would do is go to this website and follow the instructions