Voroxpete
@Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Elon Musk: your new Tesla will drive from the factory floor, to your house 'this year' 2 days ago:
I was chiming in with my agreement on your disagreement, if that makes sense.
The thing about the robotaxi thing is that it only really works as metro level infrastructure. Once you start trying to do that at a level where your vehicles can traverse whole states, the costs balloon like crazy.
- Comment on Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move - ServeTheHome 2 days ago:
Sorry, you’re absolutely correct, I should have added “… or a pair of thigh highs.”
Shameful oversight on my part.
- Comment on Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move - ServeTheHome 2 days ago:
Sketch? Nah bro, that is exactly the kind of “This looked sick in the early 2000s and we haven’t bothered updating it since” level of design that I want to see from a hardware vendor. That’s a company that’s just sitting there quietly trucking along, making nerdy devices for nerdy people. That’s a website that was never intended to be viewed by anyone other than a 30+ year old sysadmin who owns at least one beard grooming product.
- Comment on Elon Musk: your new Tesla will drive from the factory floor, to your house 'this year' 3 days ago:
Yeah, I contemplated this idea, but you’d need a network of dealerships all within no more than about 450km of each other. Actually, a lot less than that if you want to deliver something like a cybertruck this way. And Tesla just doesn’t have that kind of infrastructure, especially in the Midwest and South. And that means there’s no good way to get a car from Fremont or Austin to anywhere on the East Coast either. At best you could maybe make this work in California.
But also consider the scale of what you’re talking about. Generally you’re looking at selling thousands of cars per day for a successful production model. Can their dealerships handle charging thousands of cars per day?
- Comment on Elon Musk: your new Tesla will drive from the factory floor, to your house 'this year' 3 days ago:
This is such obvious BS. Putting aside that Tesla are always making claims about self driving that they can’t deliver on, let’s just consider the basic logistics of doing this for any customer who lives more than about 300km from a Tesla factory (of which there are two IIRC, and one of those is in Austin and the other is in Fremont)…
How the fuck is the car going to recharge?
It’s not like it’s going to plug itself in, and there are no staff at Tesla supercharger stations as far as I’m aware. With the range on a typical Model S even getting to LA might be tough if it gets stuck in traffic. Fremont to LA is just under 600km if you’re lucky.
- Comment on This Week In Security: No More CVEs, 4chan, And Recall Returns 5 days ago:
this new gadget makes it easy to take Windows system events, and feed them into Copilot, looking for potentially malicious activity. And while it’s not perfect, it did manage to detect about 40% of the malicious tests that Windows Defender missed. It seems like LLMs are going to stick around, and this might be one of the places they actually make sense.
Yes, the pattern recognition engine is good at pattern recognition.
In all seriousness, it really would be great if we’d focused development of transformer models on stuff like this instead of everyone getting caught up in the fact that they can kinda sorta pass the Turing test and deciding that the singularity had arrived and they could be the ones to sell tickets to it.
- Comment on China has stopped exporting rare earths to everyone, not just the U.S., cutting off critical materials for tech, autos, aerospace, and defense 1 week ago:
More importantly, absolutely none of this has anything to do with China’s near monopoly on rare earth refinement. Rare earth minerals, even high density regions of them, exist all over the world. Digging them up is easy, but separating the actual minerals from the rest of the soil and rock is really hard. That’s the part that China is highly specialized in. No one needs to invade Greenland or fucking whatever to get access to rare earth minerals. The US can dig them up right there at home. What they need is to build out the refinement infrastructure. But they would prefer to outsource the extraction to other countries if they can because it involves strip mining vast swathes of land that could be used for other things.
- Comment on Alternatives to Roku/AppleTV for Jellyfin Client 1 week ago:
Nvidia Shield. The regular version is $150 US and from what I understand it gives flawless playback. I have the pro version which is more powerful, but that’s specifically for running games.
It’s Android TV OS, so app selection is great. You can load Smart Tube Next on there to get YouTube without ads, and there’s a very solid Jellyfin app. You can also use Kodi for local direct playback. Remote is perfectly functional, and you can use an app to rebind most of the keys.
- Comment on Meta’s AI research lab is ‘dying a slow death,’ some insiders say. Meta prefers to call it ‘a new beginning’ 1 week ago:
Not even remotely. LLMs have failed to find any viable market fit.
The problem continues to be hallucinations and limited utility. This is compounded by the fact that LLMs are very expensive to run. The latter problem wouldn’t really be a problem if LLMs were truly capable of replacing a human employee, but they’re not. They’re just too unreliable for any serious enterprise grade application, and they’re too expensive for any low severity application.
For example, as a coding assistant, a lot of people quite like them. But as a replacement for a human coder, they’re a disaster. That means you still have to employ the expensive human, and you also have to pay an exorbitant monthly fee for what amounts to a very cool search engine.
There are tonnes of frivolous applications where they work really well. The AI girlfriend stuff, for example. A chatbot that sexts you is a very sellable product, regardless of how icky it might seem to some people. But no one is going to pay over $200 / month for it (as an example, ChatGPT still doesn’t make a profit at their $200/month tier).
LLMs are too unreliable to make anything better than toys, but too expensive to sell as toys.
- Comment on You can add self-driving to non-Teslas via comma.ai's "openpilot": an open-source, LiDAR-based dashcam module 2 weeks ago:
Insanely bad idea. You should not be honebrewing anything with the capacity to kill people.
Not that Tesla’s solution is that much safer, but that’s a separate discussion.
- Comment on How to harden against SSH brute-forcing? 2 weeks ago:
This is the correct answer. Never expose your SSH port on the public web, always use a VPN. Tailscale, Netmaker or Netbird make it piss easy to connect to your VPS securely, and because they all use NAT traversal you don’t have to open any ports in your firewall.
Combine this with configuring UFW on the server (in addition to the firewall from the VPS provider - layered defence is king) and Fail2Ban. SSH keys are also a good idea. And of course disable root SSH just in case.
With a multi-layered defence like this you will be functionally impervious to brute force attacks. And while each layer of protection may have an undiscovered exploit, it will be unlikely that there are exploits to bypass every layer simultaneously (Note for the pendants; I said “unlikely”, not “impossible”. No defence is perfect).
- Comment on Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought 2 weeks ago:
It really doesn’t. You’re just describing the “fancy” part of “fancy autocomplete.” No one was ever really suggesting that they only predict the next word. If that was the case they would just be autocomplete, nothing fancy about it.
What’s being conveyed by “fancy autocomplete” is that these models ultimately operate by combining the most statistically likely elements of their dataset, with some application of random noise. More noise creates more “creative” (meaning more random, less probable) outputs. They do not actually “think” as we understand thought. This can clearly be seen in the examples given in the article, especially to do with math. The model is throwing together elements that are statistically proximate to the prompt. It’s not actually applying a structured, logical method the way humans can be taught to.
- Comment on DNA testing firm 23andMe files for bankruptcy 4 weeks ago:
I’m not sure what would make you think the “customers” for an enormous DNA database were the people providing the DNA.
Those people were just paying to be the product.
- Comment on Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 4 weeks ago:
So yes, I did, and yes, their docs suck (better documentation is on their roadmap).
There’s a really good guide here on Lemmy that I recommend instead. lemmy.ml/post/25006407
Following this I had it up and running in no time. Check the comments as well, I added some notes on getting attachments working. If you’re still having issues shoot me a message and I’ll try to help.
- Comment on Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 4 weeks ago:
If you can, take a moment to upvote Drawing Support in their suggested features section; notesnook.com/roadmap/
- Comment on Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 4 weeks ago:
I did find that with a very large OneNote account the importer struggled, specifically because OneNote was timing out and rejecting the requests after a while.
My solution was to backup (in onenote) and then delete the notebooks that had been n moved already and then run the importer again.
- Comment on Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 4 weeks ago:
Not even once. The syncing has been incredibly robust for me. It also has a really nice flow for handling conflicts.
Of course, it’s worth keeping in mind that it can new self-hosted, so experiences will vary.
I’m using the self hosted version. Take from that what you will.
- Comment on Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 4 weeks ago:
Yes, it’s all open source and can be self-hosted. They run a paid plan, but if you self host then you get all the paid features free.
- Comment on [Discussion] What would it take to selfhost some of the backend that Tesla's connect to? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, the potential for real hazard to life and limb is very high here. This isn’t like fucking around with your IOT lightbulbs. This could kill somebody.
- Comment on Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 4 weeks ago:
This is a good time to switch to Notesnook, which has a OneNote importer.
Why am I about to shill so hard for this particular app? Simple, because after Evernote enshittified over a decade ago, I switched to OneNote as the least terrible alternative, and then spent the next ten years trying to find an actually good, open source notes app.
Call me Ahab because this motherfucker has been my white whale for a not-insignificant portion of my life.
Notesnook, finally, hit everything I wanted;
- You can self host it (but you don’t have to)
- Self hosters get everything on the paid plan for free
- It has a web app, a desktop app, and a healthy ecosystem of phone apps, with - very importantly - 1:1 feature parity. Everything you want to do you can do from any of the interfaces and for the most part they’re even laid out identically.
- It has a proper rich text WYSIWYG editor. It does not demand you learn FUCKING MARKDOWN. JESUS H CHRIST I DO NOT WANT TO LEARN A FUCKING SYNTAX TO MAKE NOTES, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?
- But for those who care about that stuff, it is built on markdown, and all your notes can be exported in markdown, so there’s no lock in. And you can use markdown in the editor (without even having to switch modes like a lot of other editors).
- Everything is encrypted by default. Notes can also be individually password protected.
- You can share copies of notes with optional password protection and self-destruction.
- It has a really slick UI. Everything works, everything is intuitive, there are tonnes of keyboard shortcuts. I find I actually have an easier time writing long form text content (such as a novella I’m working on) in Notesnook than I did in Word or LibreOffice.
- It builds a TOC for notes automatically. You can link notes to each other, and links are bidirectional so you can track which notes link to a particular note.
- You have sorting by both tags, and notebooks. Notebooks are infinitely nestable, and - this is really cool - notes can exist in multiple notebooks simultaneously.
- It has robust web clipper for Firefox and Chrome.
- Very robust attachment support.
- God so much more, I’m having to deliberately stop here.
What it’s currently lacking is drawing support. If that’s a must have for you, check out Joplin instead (at least for now, I’ve seen some talk about Notesnook integrating Excalibur for digital canvas, which would be a superb solution).
Anyway, please check out Notesnook. It’s excellent, and I like sharing excellent things. notesnook.com/downloads/
- Comment on One-handed games? 4 weeks ago:
For the record, I use a mouse with my non-dominant hand and I can play even fast paced FPS games like Titanfall competently enough. I actually used to dominate on Splitgate for a while. It’s a skill that can be learned. I have the advantage of having done it my whole life and I fully acknowledge that’s hard to replicate, but I think that with some practice anyone should be able to get to the point where they can play slower, primarily mouse driven games like turn based RPGs. Real time with pause might also be doable if you bind the pause button to the mouse (a mouse with some extra bindable keys would really help here). Anyway, just a thought.
If those options don’t work, maybe look into games like Vampire Survivor, or Realm of The Mad God (though I think the latter does need some rapid mouse inputs when looting, so maybe not so good).
- Comment on calibre 8.0 4 weeks ago:
Calibre can also be a server.
- Comment on Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year. 5 weeks ago:
This might be a good time to remind everyone that Jellyfin is open source, free (as in beer) and is, at this point, a better media streamer than Plex. No fees, no ads, no constant pushing of their streaming content, and still has the watch together feature that Plex went and removed.
- Comment on Discord going public. Plz help a future refugee. 5 weeks ago:
I’ve also been comparing Element and Revolt. Both seem really solid, both are open source and both are self-hostable. Hard to find any downsides there.
There’s a discord server that me and a bunch of friends use as our main hangout, and they’ve raised the prospect of bailing before things enshittify. For my money, Revolt is the way I’m going to go, specifically because it’s basically a one for one clone of Discord. The people I’m pitching this to are a mix of technical and non-technical, so I think something that looks and feels like what they’re used to will be the easiest transition.
It also feels like Element is geared pretty heavily towards being a replacement for Slack / Teams rather than a replacement for Discord. Their pitch seems a lot more focused on the enterprise market. Revolt seems more focused on gaming, casual hangout, that sort of thing.
I like Element a lot, but for me it doesn’t feel like the right solution to this specific problem. But if I was pitching something to my work as a Teams replacement, Element is definitely the way I’d go.
- Comment on XPipe - A connection hub for all your servers: Status update for the v15 release 1 month ago:
So, unfortunately, this latest update seems to have created a lot of issues. First off, MobaXTerm support appears to be borked. Second, attempting to connect directly to LXC containers throws an error because I haven’t linked a WSL2 instance for X11, even though X forwarding is not enabled for the connection.
- Comment on Performance comparison between various Hypervisors 1 month ago:
I’d suggest maybe testing with a plain Debian or Fedora install. Just enable KVM and install virt-manager, and create the environment that way.
- Comment on Performance comparison between various Hypervisors 1 month ago:
Unfortunately I’m not very familiar with Cloudstack or Proxmox; we’ve always worked with KVM using virt-manager and Cockpit.
Our usual method is to remove the default hard drive, reattach the qcow file as a SCSI device, and then we modify the SCSI controller that gets created to enable queuing. I’m sure at some point I should learn to do all this through the command line, but it’s never really been relevant to do so.
The relevant sections look like this in one our prod VMs:
<disk type=‘file’ device=‘disk’> <driver name=‘qemu’ type=‘qcow2’/> <source file=‘/var/lib/libvirt/images/XXX.qcow2’ index=‘1’/> <backingStore/> <target dev=‘sdb’ bus=‘scsi’/> <alias name=‘scsi0-0-0-1’/> <address type=‘drive’ controller=‘0’ bus=‘0’ target=‘0’ unit=‘1’/> </disk><controller type=‘scsi’ index=‘0’ model=‘virtio-scsi’> ** <driver queues=‘6’/>** <alias name=‘scsi0’/> <address type=‘pci’ domain=‘0x0000’ bus=‘0x04’ slot=‘0x00’ function=‘0x0’/> </controller>The driver queues=‘X’ line is the part you have to add. The number should equal the number of cores assigned to the VM.See the following for more on tuning KVM:
- Comment on From the trailer of Wolfenstein: The New Order (2014) 1 month ago:
Yeah, killing Nazis is always good. And very cathartic.
- Comment on Performance comparison between various Hypervisors 1 month ago:
What are your disk settings for the KVM environments? We use KVM at work and found that the default configuration loses you a lot of performance on disk operations.
Switching from SATA to SCSI driver, and then enabling queues (set the number equal to your number of cores) dramatically speeds up all disk operations, large and small.
On mobile right now but I’ll try to add some links to the KVM docs later.
- Comment on XPipe - A connection hub for all your servers: Status update for the v15 release 1 month ago:
Been using Xpipe for probably over a year now. It’s amazing and I wholeheartedly recommend it.