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ninjan, (edited ) to piracy in Long storage life curiosity

Discs aren’t very suitable for long term storage. Really the only thing truly suited for long term storage of digital media is archival tape. Which isn’t cheap or accessible. The only accessible solution is to keep it alive in a raid and keep rebuilding as disks fail over the years.

ninjan, to lemmyshitpost in this AI thing

We’re not talking small organizations here, nor small projects. In those cases it’s true that you can’t “only” do prompt engineering but where I see it is in larger orgs where you bring into the team the know how about how to prompt efficiently, how to do refinement, where to do variable substitution and how, etc etc. The closest analogy is specific tech skills, like say DBs, for a small firm its just something one backend dude knows decently, at a large firm there are several DBAs and they help teams tackle complex DB questions. Same with say Search, first Solr and nowadays Elastic. Or for that matter Networks, in many cases there might be absolutely no one at the whole firm that knows anything more than the basics because you have another company doing it for you.

ninjan, to lemmyshitpost in this AI thing

There is a (non-meme) reason why Prompt Engineer is a real title these days. It takes a measure of skill to get the model to focus on and attempt to solve the right question. This becomes even more apparent if you try to generate a product description where a newb will get something filled with superlative lies and a pro will get something better than most human writers in the field can muster for a much lower cost per text (compared to professional writers, often on par or more expensive than content farms). AI is a great tool, but it’s neither the only tool (don’t hammer in screws) nor is it perfect. The best approach is to let the AI do the easy boiler plate 80% then add that human touch to the hard 20% and at most have the AI prepare the structure / stubs.

ninjan, to lemmyshitpost in Lemmy right now

Yeah, shitposting has turned out to be something Lemmy does exceptionally well, the low total amount of content means even the shittiest content gets seen, which means the real shitposts get to the top and not high effort content disguised as shitposts which is the norm elsewhere.

ninjan, to piracy in Help creating standalone disconnected from internet preloaded music player

Quick search for a product that satisfies your use case that is available in my region:

www.westerndigital.com/…/sandisk-clip-sport-plus?…

There’s bound to be a plethora of cheaper and more expensive alternatives. And probably a lot on the used market as well.

ninjan, to piracy in Long storage life curiosity

Ah, cool, quite expensive (I see prices in my area around $20 USD / 100 GB) but uses no electricity.

Thanks for informing me. If you have TBs of data it’s not a sustainable solution unless you’re really into indexing. But for family photos and other long term archival its pretty great actually.

ninjan, to memes in I have a therapy joke but I'm not sure how I feel about it.

I have a Nihilist joke, but I don’t care

ninjan, (edited ) to memes in It can become anything

Kids even I’d say. One of my kids collects them. He has a pile in the barn of hundreds of sticks that no one is to touch.

ninjan, to linuxmemes in An unbiased comparison of linux distributions' setup

Huh, at least it’s Linux I guess? I’ve seen plenty Windows XP hanging around controlling expensive medical equipment and one time even a system were the control part was Windows 3.1. Air gapped not for security but because the server didn’t have a NIC.

ninjan, to linuxmemes in An unbiased comparison of linux distributions' setup

While RHEL and Fedora are siblings we can’t mix em’ like that. At least I haven’t ever seen a server with Fedora pre-installed, or anyone offering support on a Fedora server…

ninjan, to piracy in How do companies know if I use cracked software or assets for my personal gig?

They don’t. But if you get big and along the way in a throwaway comment on Patreon mentioned you use the Adobe Suite and other tools they’ll look into that and if you don’t pay they’ll send a very stern letter demanding payment.

Generally for Joe Schmo if they’re found out it stops at a letter demanding payment, and if you don’t pay it likely won’t escalate, especially if you deny the accusation. But for someone making a profit they’ll get their money and it’s a major headache and just not worth it considering you are making money far exceeding the rather small cost.

ninjan, to privacyguides in What do you use for cloud storage and why?

I run Dropbox, since they’re only in cloud storage they can’t really run around and sell data, if found out there would be no reason to stay for their customers. Unlike say Google and Microsoft.

ninjan, to privacyguides in What do you use for cloud storage and why?

Replicated between two sites I hope? Not much of a backup if it’s in one location.

ninjan, to piracy in The way of the Blockbuster 2: Electric Boogaloo

Obscenely true

ninjan, to memes in Society

Of course, since the writers lived “here”, were all human and shaped by many of the same events. The question is what does that middle circle contain? I could be banal like “has human characters”…

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