Mereo
Mereo is a sociologist who is also a nerd. He believes in open-source software.
I switched from: https://lemmy.ca/u/Mereo
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Mereo@piefed.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Scammers Are Cloning OnlyFans Creators With AI Telling Fans a Kid Is Sick in the Hospital Then Vanishing With the Cashapp MoneyEnglish
72·7 days ago!sanitation@lemmy.today, I notice that you post a lot of garbage like this post.
Mereo@piefed.cato
Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•10.99 for a beer with..... ai pictures on it.English
71·9 days agoIn this day and age, we need to appear drummer than AI.
Hey! He used a semicolon! AI generated!
Mereo@piefed.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Chinese CXMT to Match Micron's DRAM Manufacturing Capacity This YearEnglish
92·9 days agoWatch how quickly the US government will try to ban them in the name of security. They’ll claim that they transmit RAM data to the Chinese government 😛.
Mereo@piefed.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•FreeBSD Just Removed The Last Of Its GPL-Licensed CodeEnglish
86·15 days agoIn my opinion, I just don’t understand permissive licenses. For example, with FreeBSD’s license, companies can essentially “steal” the hard-earned efforts and use them to enrich themselves. For example, FreeBSD could have been a gaming OS, as the PlayStation’s OS is FreeBSD. However, they didn’t give anything back to the community.
Copyleft licenses, on the other hand, require companies to contribute any changes they make to the code back to the community so that it benefits the community as a whole. In this case, there’s no “stealing”, companies need to respect the community’s efforts by giving back.
That’s my two cents anyway.
Mereo@piefed.caOPto
Technology@lemmy.world•Big Companies Are Starting to Hire Again, Defying Predictions of AI WipeoutEnglish
31·16 days agoIn my opinion, AI is here to stay. But OpenAI and Anthropic will suffer because companies realized that don’t need a Ferarri all the time, they can do with a Honda (Chinese open-source models) 90% of the time.
Mereo@piefed.cato
Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•NYT hiding information regarding a health related food recall behind a paywallEnglish
105·17 days agoDon’t downvote him; he’s right. The next administration should fund Voice of America (VOA) and PBS to provide free information. The NYT is a for-profit organization.
Long before the internet, we had to buy newspapers. I don’t like it, but that’s the reality of business.
Mereo@piefed.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•AI bet goes awry: Oracle fires 21,000 employeesEnglish
643·18 days agoChinese open-source models are becoming the norm. You don’t need the latest model from ChatGPT (e.g., a Ferrari) to complete your task. A simple Honda will suffice (open-source models), and it uses a lot less energy since it runs on your home or company’s infrastructure.
Because of that, I predict that we’re going to see a lot of financial hardship among AI companies.
Mereo@piefed.cato
Programming@programming.dev•Finished my first coding project in a very long time. A watch face for the Pebble's.English
2·18 days agodeleted by creator
Mereo@piefed.cato
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•PSA: the bitwarden clients got an upgrade that makes them incompatible with vaultwardenEnglish
13·19 days agoThank you for the PSA good friend!
Mereo@piefed.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•New Jersey bans grocery stores from using shoppers' personal data to set pricesEnglish
20·19 days agoAnd the fact that it is a debate tell you everything about the state of the world today… sigh
Mereo@piefed.cato
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•[AIP] 🎉 Dreeve v5.0.0 released (formerly Statistics for Strava). No more Strava or any 3rd party dependencies.English
33·19 days agoWe should care, vibe coded projects are not maintainable.
Mereo@piefed.cato
Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•A $40,000-per-Year AI School With No Teachers Is Opening in Oklahoma This AugustEnglish
6·21 days agoI really feel sorry for the kids. I hope this techno bros schools trend doesn’t continue or our future generation is truly fuck*d.
Mereo@piefed.cato
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Self hosted photo options for the family?English
2·21 days agoI didn’t give them their own accounts but you can if you want to.
Mereo@piefed.cato
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Self hosted photo options for the family?English
3·22 days agoIt does. My Immich installation is behind a reverse proxy, and I simply share the link to the albums with friends and family.
Mereo@piefed.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•I Put a Datacenter GPU in My Gaming PC for £200English
143·24 days agoThis article ISN’T AI slop.
Mereo@piefed.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is targeting deceptive AI-made apartment listingsEnglish
27·27 days agoWhen politicians are not beholden to lobbyists, they are truly serving the people because they have no conflicts of interest.
Mereo@piefed.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•SpaceX stock sinks below $135 IPO price for the first time(70% off from its peak); SpaceX has lost more than $800 billion in market value from its closing high seen a month agoEnglish
3·28 days agoWealthsimple Canada advertised that clients could buy shares at IPO prices, but they couldn’t sell their shares right away. Why would I do that?!?
I sit. It’s comfortable, and you don’t need to clean up any messes from splashback.
Mereo@piefed.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Mayor Mamdani Announces Landmark "Click-To-Cancel" Consumer Protection Rules to Ban Subscription Traps and Junk FeesEnglish
12·1 month agoDoug Ford was not the mayor of Toronto. It was Rob Ford, his brother that was the mayor.






I hope you will have better standards soon.