Munkisquisher

@Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ring calls off partnership with police surveillance provider Flock Safety⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I’m using it on a low power Intel NUC, the cheap quad core one, with a USB coral. It’s insane how efficient that is

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ring calls off partnership with police surveillance provider Flock Safety⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Frigate is good too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ring calls off partnership with police surveillance provider Flock Safety⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Dhs Just take the data from the cloud providers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨outlawing pedestrians⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad my cities stadium is built on top of a train station. And that they close lanes of the surrounding roads for pedestrians to walk on when there’s a big match

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨people with ADHD self-medicate with amphetamine, overly sensitive empaths self-medicate with alcohol, what does people with OCD self-medicate with?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck yeah, could go a poutine bender right now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still rocking the last good plasma panel, the Panasonic VT50 from 2009, it was good enough for 3d review of the first avatar film in meeting rooms and I’m just waiting for it to die so I can upgrade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starvation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or they got lost in the bush

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if all those accounts dismissing everything as AI Slop are the real AI accounts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ‘The one who smelt it delt it’. Aka the Republican ‘every accusation is an admission’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even your 4k Netflix is mastered in 2k and uprezed. Often shot in 6k to allow for zooming in in the edit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Spacex had a team of people who would cosplay as engineers and be enough of a distraction that it would distract him from meddling with anything really important. He’s mostly whittled away the leadership that protected the company from him these days

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So we really need to make gpus out of materials that can glow white hot, slap them over the outside of enormous space data centres, then point them as earth and sell the blinding light as space billboards /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Got a job application this with a one line cover letter “Iam interested to work with u are company” it was kinda refreshing to see that instead of a whole page of slop, like most of them are these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s one of the signs of LLM output, take any idea and have it flesh it out into short article. It’ll bullet point the crap out of it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mobile carriers can get your GPS location⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not with a bit of data processing. With one tower they can figure out how far away you are. They can track that over time and cross reference that with road layouts when you are moving at highway speeds. Knowing the signal will appear to slow down when you are moving parallel to the cell tower and faster when you are travelling towards or away. Modern antenna designs are also reasonably directional with a tower having banks that point out to cover different quadrants. They know what bank of antennas is facing you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any reputable cybersecurity experts that I could just email them to ask for free advice?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s plenty of cybersecurity nerds on Mastodon, I recommend cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog for quality research and equal amounts of shit posting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could a diffusion image model be used to "bake" slow operations like erosion to make them realtime?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The current leader in this space that we use in the film industry (also heavily in games) is Gaea quadspinner.com it’s a node based erosion engine that lets you start with any height field, GIS, something you’ve sculpted, or even just a few shapes mashed together.

  It’s waaaay beyond just layering a few noises together and is so much fun to use. Designed to be procedural, but also art directable, as we have to match artwork and reference of real world locations.

  There’s probably some of the nodes that would benefit from being encoded in a ML framework, but not a single step to do it all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Meetup is now owned by Bending Spoons, who have also enshittified wetransfer, Evernote, eventbrite, AOL, vimeo. They buy decent products that never exploded to ipo status, fire everyone and milk the rest for whatever they can charge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new cooling technology freezes food without warming the climate⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are filters that you just need a little compression to get close to pure nitrogen out of, then a lot of cooling to liquify it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You block a printer from making cylinders

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Lord of the Rings spinoff the world needs right now isn’t Rings of Power or the Hunt for Gollum—it’s a film-length version of the Scouring of the Shire.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And in the movies they’d already thrown Saruman off the tower onto the spikey wheel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To independently invent the concept of writing in which sounds are encoded into symbols from which an infinite number of words can be assembled, you must be a genius⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are plenty of oral languages, where the writing only came after contact with missionaries. Māori, and the other Pacific languages, aboriginal etc. And as all other species have some form of oral language, but not written. I’d pretty safe saying that sounds and words long predated the written forms. Unless you know of written only languages that the pronunciation came later?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does Prusas textured sheet...work at all?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My textured one is perfect for petg, never have sticking issues. With tpu, I need some glue stick as a release agent because it sticks too well.

  I only print pla on the smooth sheet, works well.

  And have had mixed luck with both petg and pla on the satin sheet.

  Have had a very similar experience with the sheets on my mini, and now on the core1

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments | Tom's Hardware⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do it! It’s super easy with Frigate addon for home assistant. There’s nice blueprints to handle the mobile notifications when you are out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does Matthew McConnahey refuse to play bald men?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When you pay that much for hair plugs, you don’t shave it all off

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It does this from Outlook on android too. It’s horrid

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Creality's Warranty Loophole: How They Tried to Charge Us $30 for a Defective Sensor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Prusa, all day long if you want to be 3d printing. Then build a voron if you want a 3d printer hobby.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Regular gym-goers probably avoid the gym on New Years Day because it's too crowded⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s 3 peaks for newbies here in the southern hemisphere. New years, end of Feb when the university kids arrive back to start a new year, and September when spring hits and they do the 8 weeks to summer promotions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who have eaten since December 31st, 2025, why are you trying to start new shit?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude here in New Zealand it’s about to be the 2nd. We’re approaching multiple hangovers in twentysix

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My phone (Xperia 1mk6) doesn’t support esims in the international version. But I have a physical sim I can load esims onto. Best of both worlds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do you change your towels?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Swap everything on a Sunday for clean, thats towels sheets, teatowel etc. They live on a heated towel rail so dry out well between uses.

  We have a few sets of nice towels, just got two more last year after a decade or so.

  Animal shelters are always keen to take old towels.