Kerfuffle
@Kerfuffle@sh.itjust.works
github.com/KerfuffleV2 — various random open source projects.
- Comment on MilliMobile is a tiny, self-driving robot powered only by light and radio waves 1 year ago:
That is the worst site I’ve seen in a long time. Do yourself a favor and add
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to your uBlock rules before following the link. If you don’t have a way to block elements, may $diety have mercy on your soul.
- Comment on YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it 1 year ago:
Then it’s a cat-and-mouse game between the anti-adblock tech and the anti-anti-adblock tech.
My money (not literally though :) is on the anti-anti-adblock tech. That can be crowdsourced and generally adapts much faster than big companies.
- Comment on The fastest ever human-made object keeps breaking its own speed record 1 year ago:
Probably the furthest man made object from Earth at this point for sure.
The article says “Scientists believe compression heating caused the cap to vaporize as it sped through the atmosphere.”
- Comment on Netflix to Open Stores Where Fans Can Play, Shop and Eat in 2025 1 year ago:
Fans? Customers yeah, but fans?
They actually did at one point, but they threw it all away.
- Comment on Kroger introducing AI at self checkout to lower both accidental and organized crime theft. 1 year ago:
The article seems to repeat the same stuff over and over again.
On Lemmy, a popular social networking site, user KerfuffleV2 astutely noted that the article repeated points that had already been stated in the article.
“It seems like the article repeated the same content multiple times” said KerfuffleV2, a user on the social networking site Lemmy. “Perhaps they get paid by the word.” the user added.
A rather uncreative article on thestreet.com triggered some snarky online comments including one from a user named KerfuffleV2. This user noted that the article repeated the same content multiple times.
- Comment on Cabal of 'gay furry hackers' claims over 3,000 files stolen in NATO website breach 1 year ago:
Pretty sure it’s mainly non-furry non-gay hackers that take down the majority of websites.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. 1 year ago:
From dealing with their support in the past and stuff they’ve accommodated, I wouldn’t be surprised if you could just ask them to do it for a small amount like that. If you do a web search, you can also find a lot of information and people claiming it’s possible to do stuff like transfer it to a Paypal account, etc.
I haven’t tried to do that personally, so maybe it really just isn’t possible. It’s still only something that will affect someone that’s never going to spend money at Amazon again, right? If I’m going to spend $5.99 at some point, it’s effectively the same as a cash refund for me. If I’m going to spend $10.99 at some point it’s almost the same as getting double the refund, since I would have spent cash instead in those cases.
- Comment on 3D-printed carrot does not rely on large areas of land or maintenance costs, can be cheaper 1 year ago:
Do we need to be more efficient?
I mean, it’s usually a beneficial thing. Using less resources (including land) to produce the same amount of food is probably going to mean less environmental damage. In the case of switching to vat grown meat it also means not torturing billions of animals every year.
We have the resources to feed everyone on Earth and have leftovers
Sure. No one starves because the food just isn’t on this planet, they starve because the people who have it won’t give it to them. That said, we’re also not using resources very sustainably so saying we produce enough food currently isn’t the same as saying we can continue this way.
We could also increase efficiency even further by reducing meat/dairy consumption.
I don’t eat any animal products so you can probably guess this is something I’m strongly in favor of as well!
Anyway, I was just responding to what I quoted not specifically arguing for 3d-printed foods. Depending on how it’s implemented, it may or may not be better environmentally than the status quo
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. 1 year ago:
I agree it’s still better than walking away empty handed, but let’s not pretend that got their money back.
In the rare case the person has just stopped spending money at Amazon, I guess. For anyone that’s spending $10/month, it’s effectively the same as cash. (Also, you probably can transfer the credit to a bank account if you really want to.)
- Comment on 3D-printed carrot does not rely on large areas of land or maintenance costs, can be cheaper 1 year ago:
Like, those cells will require the same nutrients and same growing conditions, and they naturally 3D print themselves into the shape of themselves.
They’ll also naturally use the nutrients and energy to 3D print stuff that’s not useful to humans, like leaves, roots, flowers, etc. Basically this is how vat grown vegetables, meat, etc, can potentially be more efficient than the typical approach.
- Comment on Google Intros Chromebook Plus Devices With More Power, Apps and AI for $399 1 year ago:
Easily hour+ long headache on your first time.
Whenever I read this kind of thing (and people seem to say it pretty often), it seems really weird to me. Same goes for complaining about distro installers. An hour of possible headache/irritation and then you use the machine for years. Obviously it would be better if stuff was easy, but an hour just seems insignificant in the scheme of things. I really just don’t understand seeing it as an actual roadblock.
(Of course, there are other situations where it could matter like if you had to install/maintain 20 machines, but that’s not what we’re talking about here.)
- Comment on Tom Hanks Warns Fans About ‘AI Version of Me’ Promoting Dental Plan: ‘I Have Nothing to Do With It’ 1 year ago:
One thing is the pace is very, very consistent. Real humans don’t usually maintain that level of consistency, they’ll speed up, slow down, some words come out fast, some come out slow, etc.
- Comment on The Firefox browser now has a built-in page translator that works even without the Internet 1 year ago:
Maybe I misunderstood you but my point was if it interpreted the language preferences I set in the normal config as “knowing” the languages I added and didn’t offer translations, that wouldn’t necessarily be what I want.
- Comment on The Firefox browser now has a built-in page translator that works even without the Internet 1 year ago:
The languages I might want to see aren’t necessarily the ones I know. People who are learning languages might set that (I did for the language I’m learning, anyway).
- Comment on The Firefox browser now has a built-in page translator that works even without the Internet 1 year ago:
I’m sure there’s a way to disable it, even if you have to go into
about:config - Comment on Incomplete disclosures by Apple and Google create “huge blindspot” for 0-day hunters 1 year ago:
The timing and similarity highly suggests this is a problem with how almost all software has implemented the webp standard in its image processing software.
Did you read the article or the post? The point was that both places where the vulnerability was found probably used
libwepb. So it’s not that there’s something inherently vulnerable in handling webp, just that they both used the same library which had a vulnerability. (Presumably the article was a little vague about the Apple side because the source wasn’t open/available.)given that the programs processing images often have escalated privileges.
What? That sounds like a really strange thing to say. I guess one could argue it’s technically true because browsers can be considered “a program that processes images” and a browser component can end up in stuff with escalated privileges. That’s kind of a special case though and in general there’s no reason for the vast majority of programs that process images to have special privileges.
- Comment on Microsoft’s big Windows 11 update drops on September 26 with Copilot AI baked in 1 year ago:
“This time you’re going to love Cortana. For reals!”
- Comment on Space Drugs Factory Denied Reentry to Earth - The Air Force and the FAA denied permission for Varda Space's capsule to return and land on Earth 1 year ago:
People that love to read only the title. What could be better than a bunch of titles in a row?
- Comment on AI chatbots were tasked to run a tech company. They built software in under seven minutes — for less than $1. 1 year ago:
First, how is this different from having your IDE fill in your loop templates?
I don’t do that actually, but I think there are some differences.
- One is if there’s a loop template in your IDE, you know it’s going to work. With LLMs you have to double check stuff (or just have it be wrong some of the time).
- You don’t have to type in a bunch of instructions to use a loop template. You also don’t really have to wait for the filled in template to get generated.
- People don’t usually use that because they just don’t know how to write the loop themselves, it’s a convenience feature.
That said:
I’m usually doing this for a customer in a language I’ll never use again.
Maybe you’re the one in a million exception where this approach is a benefit. Most of the time when you talk to people on the internet, they’re going to assume you’re a reasonably typical case and not the extremely rare exception.
- Comment on AI chatbots were tasked to run a tech company. They built software in under seven minutes — for less than $1. 1 year ago:
Right, but you can’t give it the variable names you’re using and have it fill them in, and if you want to do something inside that loop with
Why are you actively trying to avoid learning how to write the loop? Are you planning to have ChatGPT fill in your loop templates for the rest of your life?
But you do you, I’ll keep using ChatGPT and looking like a miracle worker.
It’s going to be slower overall than just using the reference and learning how to do it. I really, really am skeptical that a developer at the level where they need that feature is going to seem like a miracle worker to anyone other than people who are just impressed when you can do anything with a computer.
- Comment on Artificial intelligence technology behind ChatGPT was built in Iowa -- with a lot of water 1 year ago:
Eating burgers to destroy the environment was good enough for my pappy and it’s good enough for me! Kids these days with their new-fangled environment destruction techniques. Pshaw.
On a more serious note, people are eager to criticize stuff that has a relatively tiny effect while there’s a much bigger problem they’re part of.
- Comment on Apple patches “clickless” 0-day image processing vulnerability in iOS, macOS 1 year ago:
Doesn’t the article contradict what you just said?
“We believe, and Apple’s Security Engineering and Architecture team has confirmed to us, that Lockdown Mode blocks this particular attack,” Citizen Lab said.
- Comment on Rotten Tomatoes Under Fire After PR Firm's Scheme to Pay Critics for Positive Reviews Uncovered 1 year ago:
The title makes it sound like Rotten Tomatoes deliberately did something shady. What actually seems to have happened is:
- Rotten Tomatoes aggregates critic reviews. As far as I know, those critics aren’t really affiliated with Rotten Tomatoes.
- Some of the critics that make up that aggregated rating got bribed to increase their evaluation of the movie.
- Consequently the score on sites that aggregate reviews like Rotten Tomatoes increased.
- Comment on Arstechnica: “AI took my job, literally”—Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator 1 year ago:
Man, can’t even block the user without blocking all replies too.
- Comment on AI-generated child sex imagery has every US attorney general calling for action 1 year ago:
Get psychological help
How about addressing my points instead of the ad hominem attacks?
Feeding pedophilia is directly harmful to children who grow more at risk
Like I said: “I’d personally be very hesitant to ban/persecute stuff like that unless there was actual evidence that it was harmful”
If what you’re saying here is actually true then the type of evidence I mentioned would exist. I kind of doubt it works that way though. If you stop “feeding” being straight, gay, whatever, does it just go away and you no longer have those sexual desires? I doubt it.
Much as we might hate it that some people do have those urges, it’s the reality. Pretending reality doesn’t exist usually doesn’t work out well.
I’d personally be very hesitant to say “it’s okay to beat off to children”
I never said any such thing. Also, in this case, we’re also talking about images that resemble children, not actual children.
- Comment on AI-generated child sex imagery has every US attorney general calling for action 1 year ago:
It’s obviously very distasteful but those needs don’t just go away. If people with that inclination can’t satisfy their sexual urges at home just looking at porn, it seems more likely they’re going to go out into the world and try to find some other way to do it.
Also, controlling what people do at home that isn’t affecting anyone else, even in a case like this isn’t likely to target exactly just those people and it’s also very likely not to stop there either. I’d personally be very hesitant to ban/persecute stuff like that unless there was actual evidence that it was harmful and that the cure wasn’t going to be worse than the disease.
- Comment on Black holes keep 'burping up' stars they destroyed years earlier, and astronomers don't know why 1 year ago:
we aren’t breaking the event horizon threshold as title suggests
It wouldn’t be pop-sci if it didn’t have a misleading clickbait title!
- Comment on What search engines really have exact match? 1 year ago:
Makes sense, sure. If you aren’t in the category of idiot though it’s pretty annoying and it’s just plain harder to get the results you’re looking for than it used to be.
- Comment on What search engines really have exact match? 1 year ago:
If it’s a common typo it does that, but below it is a link “search instead for” with your original word.
Pretty sure it’s not just common typos. However you’re right that it doesn’t provide a link to search with the original word. It’s just annoying that even I explicitly went through the trouble of quoting my query it still tries to second guess me and makes me follow another link to get to the results I originally requested.
- Comment on What search engines really have exact match? 1 year ago:
I don’t know about your or the other person’s particular examples but even when quoting stuff, Google search very frequently thinks it knows better than the user. I use quoting a lot and very often it gives me something I didn’t ask for with “I think you meant
blah: showing results forblah” even though I specifically quoted my query to ask for something other than “blah”.It was a lot more reliable about giving me what I actually asked for a few years ago. The results are currently a lot worse when you’re searching for something specific.