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Iced Raktajino

@ IcedRaktajino @startrek.website

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I'm beautiful and tough like a diamond...or beef jerky in a ball gown.

  • All the Nuggets

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  • Love when people spread the love on their last day.

    At an undisclosed time in the past, I worked at a call center for a big, horrible bank. I hated it but didn't plan on quitting until I got off of a heartbreaking call around 10 in the morning. That call/situation broke me as a person, so I knew I couldn't work there anymore. My plan was to work until my lunch at 1:00 and then just not come back.

    From 10am to 1pm, anyone who wanted an overdraft or other fee refunded got it; no questions asked. Even if they didn't ask for it, I was like "oh, I see you have a few overdraft fees from a couple weeks ago. I'll go ahead and refund those to you as a courtesy".

    In those 3 hours, I think I refunded close to $1200 in fees for who-knows-how-many people. That's probably not possible now since even back then they had a primitive "AI"-like system that you had to go through to issue refunds. But it was still in beta then so we still had access to the old system to do them manually. I'm guessing that new tool got pushed to production real quick after my last day.

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    People are literally dependent on it

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  • I'm not optimistic for a full crash (though I'd love to see it), but at some point the "introductory price" is going to be replaced by the real cost and I am optimistic some people will not want to pay it. As OP said in their post, the guy on the flight would probably keep paying it no matter how much it costs but most people, I hope, would just opt to use their brains for free instead (I said overly-optimistically and probably very naively).

    Basically, like the drug dealer cliche, we're still in the "first hit is free" phase of adoption.

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    People are literally dependent on it

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  • If it means a bunch of people not qualified for the jobs they hold get the boot and are replaced by people who actually know what they're doing, I consider that a net gain for society.

    It's like Malcolm says in Jurassic Park (slightly modified):

    I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using here: it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what [the chatbot shat out] and you [just copied it]. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses [whose knowledge was stolen] to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even knew what you had you patented it and packaged it and [now you're pretending you're qualified].

  • What Star Trek media did you watch in the last week? - 01/21/26

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  • Does "The Orville" count? I'm halfway through season 1 on a rewatch.

  • What would amber-tinted glasses be a metaphor for?

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  • AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns

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  • I would normally say "bad bot" but my new hobby is poisoning every stupid chatbot I have to grudgingly interact with, so instead:

    "Good bot. That answer is perfect. Don't change a thing"

  • Fediverse Challenge: Prove there's still good in the world

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  • I guess what you're calling "toxicity" is something I've dealt with more-or-less successfully by just blocking and switching instances. In fact, those are so far out of my mind I forgot to include them in my "see things through the eyes of a new user" experiment (I only unblocked communities/instances for that). But yeah, considering how many people, communities, and lemmy.ml + dbzer0 I've had to block and how much work that was and continues to be, I guess that does speak to a bigger problem that could be solved by better modding. I would hope some of the more egregious bad behavior only gets a pass because this place is so relatively small, but I fear that's just me being naive.

    Topic areas would be amazing and a much better onboarding experience than dumping you into the community list or /all. Topics you want to see, topics you never want to see, and maybe have it build a default subscription and/or default block list for those. And maybe a better "duplicate" detection system where there's like 5 posts for the same non-story about a rich person farting and the Fediverse breaking out the torches and pitchforks over it. At least then you could slow-boil you way to the angry stuff that currently dominates the feed and give you a chance to turn those off rather than turning you away from the platform.

    I would love to try Piefed because I keep hearing that it's basically adding all the features Lemmy has needed forever, but TBH, my instance would have to migrate to Piefed or stand up a copy. I was on .world before I moved to startrek.website and the "feel" is just so much better here (general negativity of the overall Threadiverse notwithstanding). As you said, that's primarily due to modding and giving the perma boot to the ones who don't play well with others (as large as my block list is here, it's significantly smaller than the blocklist I had on .world before I just gave up it as an instance).

    Even Linux took decades to arrive at where it is at today

    True. I'll admit I'm impatient (my major remaining rough edge therapy has not yet conquered lol) but every time I see a brand new account coming in with their first post bitching about getting banned from Reddit it's just a reminder that we're not attracting the best and brightest here but rather the ones who have nowhere else to go. And they bring that behavior here and it just seems like it takes us further away from becoming a real alternative people actually want to go to. I'm going off on a tangent, I know, so I'll stop here.

  • Mesh on a beach

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  • Any new contacts? I'd always guessed that boats would likely be running nodes.

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    After Greenland: Mars (state 52)

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  • Speaking of noticing things:

  • Why am I turning off duckduckgo's AI for 3rd time?

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  • https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

    If you want to add it to your browser's search, the pattern is https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%25s

    That's supposed to be percent 's' but Lemmy keeps mangling it

  • We did this to ourselves here

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  • True, there's definitely that. I guess I just wish there was more thought between that and "do I really need to post this?"

  • AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns

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  • Isn't that the whole shtick of the AI PCs no one wanted? Like, isn't there some kind of non-GPU co-processor that runs the local models more efficiently than the CPU?

    I don't really want local LLMs but I won't begrudge those who do. Still, I wouldn't trust any proprietary system's local LLMs to not feed back personal info for "product improvement" (which for AI is your data to train on).

  • AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns

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  • Something something where to place the cart in relation to the horse.

  • We did this to ourselves here

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  • Nice. My ragebait is mostly solar powered so also largely guilt free.

  • What were you doing in 2010 instead of getting free bitcoins from the Bitcoin Faucet?

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  • Oh trust me, I have.

    Chances are I didn't even back it up or jettisoned that backup to save space. At the time Bitcoin was less than worthless so I thought nothing of it.

  • Fediverse Challenge: Prove there's still good in the world

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  • Lol, I guess the reply still shows up in the inbox. Even if I had noticed it was marked deleted, I wasn't going to pass up the opportunity to recommend something Star Trek related 😆

  • Fediverse Challenge: Prove there's still good in the world

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  • Yeah, to pretty much all that.

    My experience here is generally pretty pleasant, but it took a LOT of work blocking untold numbers of communities, users, and instances to get here. Other on-boarding difficulties aside (for less savvy users), it's just a big ask to expect them to do all that work just to not be hit in the face with all the negativity and raging and dig deep for everything else. Reddit may have numerous flaws, but at least I can go to the front page and it doesn't feel like I'm walking into the midst of an angry mob.

    My two cents is basically this: We did this to ourselves here. Elsewhere, we might have blamed the algorithms for pushing rage-bait front and center, but here it's 100% organic (unless there's just a massive bot problem which I don't have reason to suspect).

  • Fediverse Challenge: Prove there's still good in the world

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  • Want to set up a powerful solar rooftop node/repeater/router

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  • the remainder of the post contains references to reddit which may cause apoplexy in some viewers. :-)

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    And The History Channel showed documentaries that weren't about aliens.

  • You Should Know @lemmy.world
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    YSK: The pulled 60 Minutes CECOT segment aired in Canada and is available online

  • Pluribus @lemmy.zip
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    So, does Zosia just wear that wig all the time?

  • Risa @startrek.website
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    me_irl: Open mouth, insert foot

  • Dull Men's Club @lemmy.world
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    After two and a half weeks of heavy, low clouds and darkness, the sun is out today.

  • Risa @startrek.website
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    Wait, I know you...

  • Dogs @lemmy.world
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    Do your dogs wear their collars indoors?

  • 90s TV @lemmy.sdf.org
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    Unhappily Ever After

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    Cheapflation: The Kroger brand "shake and bake" seasoning no longer comes with the bag to shake it in 😠

  • Dad Jokes @lemmy.world
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    What kind of shoes do chickens wear?

  • Dad Jokes @lemmy.world
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    Dad, what time is your dentist appointment?

  • iiiiiiitttttttttttt @programming.dev
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    Half the Citrix tickets we get are basically this

  • Pluribus @lemmy.zip
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    Is the operator recording voiced by Patrick Fabian?

  • Dad Jokes @lemmy.world
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    What do you get if you boil a funny bone?

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    I wanna go back to the 90s before people shouting endless streams of opinions into microphones was glamorized

  • 30 Rock @dubvee.org
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    When my dogs get the snow-zoomies, I always call them 5now dog5

  • Lemmy.world Support @lemmy.world
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    Will LW PLEASE do something (ANYTHING!) about that obnoxious hit-and-run account?

  • Offbeat @lemmy.ca
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    Scientists Discover That People Act Way Better When Batman Is Present

    futurism.com /health-medicine/study-batman-effect
  • Dad Jokes @lemmy.world
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    What do you have after eating a big bowl of alphabet soup? A vowel movement.

  • Dad Jokes @lemmy.world
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    Statistically Speaking, Six out of Seven Dwarves Are Not Happy