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Cake day: August 10th, 2026

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  • Is it really praxis tho? Like it is just being a good guardian to my niece and her friends. I get it to an extent that ‘ads are the price you pay for using a service for free’ but to what end? Google is a massive company and should vet the advertisements they allow a lot more.

    The fact children are getting highly sexual ads is a failure on their part and I see blocking ads as a fair reprisal to them until they can sort themselves out. It’s my civil disobedience as a consumer. Like especially these days with how massively invasive ads have become.


  • I’ve seen my niece and her friends get incredibly sexual ads on their YT before. Taught them both how to install adblock even on an iPhone and managed to make them not see that shit anymore. Mind you, my niece and her friends are FOURTEEN!

    I felt like such an adult when they were getting excited that Fandom didn’t have ads anymore when I showed them what a DNS sinkhole is. This is what it means to be an adult. To use your wisdom to help the new generation navigate theirs.



  • It’s fucking shit. I went that “building your own router” thing but had no idea how to do it. I had an old Mac Mini lying around and so turned that into my router by flashing OPNsense on it and ran into issue after issue.

    Here’s the biggest issue I had that I know some of you were thinking but I wasn’t at the time. OPNsense is built on FreeBSD, which lacks proper support for Apple shit, so the Mac got mad at me every time I tried to flash it. So then I got an idea. Built the router inside a VM in the Mac Mini!

    Believe it or not, this actually all went pretty well of getting a vRouter inside of a mac computer and having the Local LLM, I uses Google Gemma tuned to Hermes running Ollama on it, but ran into an issue of the AI agent being painfully, agonizingly slow and revving up my tormented Mac Mini every fucking time I asked it to do anything.

    This is because Apple bullshit. I am not qualified enough to answer that, I’m a help desk guy so 50% of the time I talk about IT stuff, I’m confidently bullshitting. Anyways, I got oLMX, gave the local AI agent my API kets to my Mac Mini vRouter, and any time I need anything I can just go into the Mac itself as a computer and talk to it.

    I am still trying to find out how to do that thing where you like message the agent through some messaging app as that I have 0 idea how to do. Talking to it through Signal would make my life a lot easier, but sometimes you grow as a person when you reject convenience and make your own life harder.



  • Having dicked around with Local LLMs, they do get better the more they learn about you. But going through what these things figure out is kind of horrifying.

    Like looking into the training data they find out, they can infer a lot about you and your methodology and it is creepy. Like really creepy.

    I’m not anti-AI by any means. I have a Local LLM Agent in my router to keep an eye on things in case anything fucks up and it’s pretty good as my little administrator, but still. It knows a lot about me to the point I had to catch myself to not fucking call it “he” or “they.” It’s an object but it’s an object with a frightening amount of info on me. I just wish the average populace had this level of think of what you are giving up.

    If you’re not that techy… well first, what the fuck are you doing on Lemmy and on the Tech server? But then I want you to think about this. If someone stalked you for a week, what could they find out about you? How much do you think they would learn?

    That is how these huge companies are and especially AI. They’re stalkers who manage to learn a lot about you by just observing you.







  • Yeah. It goes from funny toilet head man thing into this weird war between the toilets and camera head people and soon just turns into giant ass mech fights. My niece herself said she thinks the series is an allegory for arms races and, tbh, I cannot fault her for it because the later episodes get really wild and pretty well animated.

    As for the creator, DaFuqBoom!, yeah he has made some weird stuff in the past includes jokes against George Floyd. Why would a Georgian, the country not the state, joke about that? I have no idea. And also he was fucked over by Invisible Narratives who took all the rights from the series, took all the adsense dollars he made, and also took all the money from the deals he made.

    Like as shitty as a person as he is, I can’t help but feel bad. I assumed he was rolling in it, but he’s broke and has seen 0 return from the popularity of his series because of an unfair contract. Finding that out just felt weird. Like there’s this much cloak and dagger about the funny toilet vs camera show? What a time to be alive.


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    Skibidi Toilet isn’t really a comedy tho. It’s just giant mech fights and apparently the creator of it, some racist Georgian🇬🇪 zoomer lost all the rights to it after being fucked over by some company he signed a contract with.

    Yeah, wild lore both in the show itself and in the background. Got into it because my niece fucking loves it and just… no shit, it is a wild time.







  • Gotta say, I don’t like this. If you are on a JURY, you know a fucking Jury, I feel you should put your emotions aside and focus on the facts of the case.

    The facts are that Lindsay Clancy showed clear signs of her mental state degrading, only really had pills pushed on her by her medical team, expressed concern to her husband about how she was going to harm the kids in December of 2022, and both her and her husband expressed how the medication was making her worse and worse to the point of suicidal intent up to the night of the incident.

    For people like you and me who are not on the jury? An emotional response is okay. The brute fact is 3 children lost their lives, but if you are on the Jury and her fate is in your hand, you really do need to be cautious about this. You need to put facts over feelings. To me, this looks like an open and shut case of Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity. The facts point to it.

    If this Juror really did not present anything to the contrary and went off vibes? That sucks. That really really sucks. And if he was browsing his phone in the room as stated here… WHY THE FUCK ARE PHONES ALLOWED IN THE DELIBERATION ROOM!? Was he betting on the case on Kalshi and fixing this to make money off it going to mistrial!? Was he looking at social media about this case!? Was he talking to people about this?!

    This is an absolute failure on the Juror’s part and he failed at his civic duty.