CriticalMiss

@CriticalMiss@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta Employee Deleted 9TB of Torrented Files, Adult Film Producers Claim⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know any self respecting sysadmin that doesn’t block P2P in their network. Most enterprise nowadays don’t even require any fancy set up, it’s a toggle switch away. I don’t buy the “oopsie we didn’t know” excuse. They were permitted to torrent by design.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI retired its most seductive chatbot – leaving users angry and grieving: ‘I can’t live like this’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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  jfc this can’t be real

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawyers increasingly have to convince clients that AI chatbots give bad advice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I only found one usecase where it shines and even then I had to verify the output twice to make sure it doesn’t fuck up before I push it into production. String manipulation is pretty good with it instead of having to write a bash one liner with a lot of sed and awk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rufus blames Microsoft for allegedly blocking latest Windows 11 ISO downloads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought Rufus was the correct way. I didn’t even know Msft maintains its own tool anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Billionaires with $1 salaries – and other legal tax dodges the ultrawealthy use to keep their riches⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Georgism? On my Lemmy? Based

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huang declares Israel Nvidia’s “second home” with record-breaking campus investment⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Intel didn’t abort their new facility because of genocide, they could care less. They’re not making money right now so it’s not a good time to expand, and that’s about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huang declares Israel Nvidia’s “second home” with record-breaking campus investment⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I find it amusing people say they’ll boycott NVIDIA because they set up shop in Israel.

  1. they set up shop in Israel a long time ago (2016 to the best of my memory)
  2. all of their competitors also operate in Israel to some degree

  If you need discrete graphics you don’t have any choice. They all operate in Israel to some degree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Haven’t read the article yet but hopefully it’s cheap used drives

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There are usually some tells. For AI generated music (AIGM for short) the cover “art” is also AI generated. The vocals/style are different between tracks. Another method that I think was recently made obsolete was that if you opened the track in audacity it looked weird compared to regular music when you looked at the spectrograms because AIGM added some weird unnecessary noise to the music. AIGM “artists” usually don’t have any social media presence, they don’t really exist outside of the internet. No shows/interviews etc. Is it a lot of effort to find out whether something is AIGM? Maybe. Is it worth it? Yes, I don’t want to give money to people who desecrate the art or music.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Senator proposes bill permitting AI data centers to bypass federal power rules via off-grid energy infrastructure development⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Long overdue but a welcomed return nonetheless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jensen Huang says relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has "done a lot of damage"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  for the average Joe (people outside of lemmy) it’s hard to be positive towards ai when it increases the price of their general purpose compute. it’s also difficult to be supportive of it when all it does is inaccurately plagiarize and threaten to take away peoples jobs (although we know it can’t really replace anyone as the tech isn’t reliable and needs constant attention)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not that I’m against but isn’t this illegal? Probably shouldn’t showcase it publicly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Invasive, deceptive, and unlawful’: Texas says your TV is tracking you illegally, and is suing to stop the dreaded Automatic Content Recognition⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like the telly industry missed a payment this month

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can turn it around nowadays on something like Craigslist or FB marketplace. It will easily sell for 150 quid. Some of the plex shares will be happy to be it off you because their accounts get constantly nuked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming Pet Peeves⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, a Steam Machine might be perfect for your usecase then, it’s small so you can replace your console and enjoy it, as well as Steam Input.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You look at the headlines of what’s new every year, realize it’s a nothingburger and say “meh maybe next year if there’s something interesting”. It’s been going for a few years for me, my last phone broke because I mishandled it, bought iPhone 13 and don’t see myself replacing for at least 2-3 years. I’ll replace the battery soon because it doesn’t hold a charge that well anymore but that’s about it really. Does everything else very good

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is cracking down on illegal streaming on its Fire TV Stick⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Say what you want about Amazon, these were a decent deal. You could find a guy on your local marketplace that would sell one of these fire sticks preloaded with a custom IPTV app that had a bunch of channels for about £20-£40 permanently, no reoccurring cost.

  If you got one before the police started cracking down on them you’re golden.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bewildered enthusiasts decry memory price increases of 100% or more — the AI RAM squeeze is finally starting to hit PC builders where it hurts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It could be just a kid doing odd jobs to upgrade their computer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what the matrix wants you to think/s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jellyfin for iOS 1.7.0 Submitted to the App Store⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty good. Downloads on the main app has been something that held people back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do bots/scrapers check uncommon ports?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Moving your port over to a nonstandard one is not a solution (unless the problem you experience is too many logs from sshd, and even then, logrotate exists), its security by obscurity which doesn’t really solve anything at all. Only way your server will be safe is by ensuring the packages on your server are up to date and that you harden it to the point where it isn’t too much of nuisance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re also facing problems ripping books from Amazon, sadly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Help] Media Server + *arr stack: Follow TRaSH guides or my own setup?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is aimed at members (often new)of private trackers, a hobby which often assumes you’ve already got a 170tb NAS at home that just needs content to fill it. This is evidenced by the fact they inherit HDBs “golden popcorn” system and tier their groups pretty high up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Help] Media Server + *arr stack: Follow TRaSH guides or my own setup?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think TRaSH serves as a good base. Their custom filters can be instantly imported using recyclarr and give you a general idea of how custom filters are meant to be used (which can be very overwhelming when you’re new to the ordeal) but sadly I disagree with TRaSH a lot on their group tiers for media formats. I think they make some mistakes placing some encoders as high as they do. (for example: micro encodes from PTer and BHDStudio shouldn’t be in the BluRay groups at all, as some of their releases are compressed harder than WEB releases from streaming services. I download BluRay encodes because I want it to be compressed to the point where it still looks identical to the BluRay it was sourced from.) Once you’re in the game long enough you just make up your own mind on what release groups should be prioritized over others.

  As for your question regarding staying within the same file system, the answer is yes. Moving things over to the SSD does two things for you. 1) for every file you also need a duplicate on the SSD, not very efficient. 2) there’s not much to gain from this unless you’re expecting a large amount of simultaneous traffic. An HDD can carry about ~20 streams of 1080p content (as most releases are compressed to 8-10mbps) which is more than enough for most households.

  I’d keep the SSD for seeding honestly, so that you can build up buffer on the trackers you’re on, but for most it’s still perfectly doable with HDDs only.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox consoles are getting a price bump. Again.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How is this supposed to convince people to buy a console that’s already selling poorly?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel says Arc GPUs will live on after Nvidia deal⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they’ll scrap it after two generations. Just to keep the anti trust investigations at bay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have a single funko pop or Star Wars toy or whatever. I have a Keychron keyboard that cost me $70, while it is more costly than the average membrane I like mechanical ones. I never buy new if I can (usually this is a time constraint, I.e I broke my phone and I need to replace it quick one because my job relies it). I Adblock everywhere I possibly can to not see the ads but I genuinely believe I’m immune to advertising.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My ThinkPad x230 will soon turn 13 (since it was manufactured, I picked it up second hand from a business that went bankrupt). It’s still alive and kicking, just not with Windows. The hardware is dated, but for what I do it’s good enough. I only replaced the battery and the screen. I don’t care for instagram or any of that crap, this machine chugged along for 13 years, it will chug at least for another 5. Don’t let hardware manufacturers normalize dunking perfectly capable good hardware into a landfill because it hurts their profits. If you need any further proof just look into the old Apple hardware modding and some of the stuff they pulled off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox, Discord sued after 15-year-old boy was allegedly groomed online before he died by suicide⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Will be settled out of court.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify is finally launching support for lossless music streaming⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d even argue the contrary. Granted, I’m not subscribed to them so I only have the free tier available but I don’t think the discovery algorithm differs between the tiers. After a while the algorithm is basically stuck in a loop repeating the same tracks over and over. It’s what made me cancel right after the free trial ended. Way better to find new music on RED’s top 10 or last.fm