MostlyGibberish

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Galaxy S10 til the wheels come off⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Technology has been solving problems people don’t have since… Always. No one had a problem listening to music from an 8 track tape, but that technology still died and we moved on. The truth is that an increasing majority of consumers either don’t care or even prefer wireless headphones. If you consider not having a headphone jack a deal breaker, then you’re not the market most phone manufacturers are after. Sorry to break it to you. Good news though, there are still several smartphone models that have a headphone jack. Buy one of those. Or get whatever phone you want and get a $5 adapter. Or just sit on the internet seething every time a new phone comes out without an increasingly niche feature. Up to you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Galaxy S10 til the wheels come off⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I kind of can’t believe we’re still having this conversation. It’s ridiculously cheap and easy to use wired earbuds with a modern phone if you want to. I got it back when it was just iPhones and Apple was selling lighting to 3.5 adapters for like $7k, but that’s obviously not the case anymore. If someone wants to hold on to their 5+ year old phone and run it dead, that’s great. More power to them. Doing it to avoid getting a phone with no headphone jack is a little silly at this point, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you hate it?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because someone screen capped it from Instagram, and for some reason static images need to be videos with a random song playing for some reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now, if it was a Pixel...⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair… Flakes are still marked as an experimental feature, so they are telling you it probably won’t be documented and the interface could change. But yes, given how widely adopted they are in the community, it’s definitely time to document them better and ideally make it the default for new setups.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Building my Homelab!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve used nextcloud for a while now, but it does suffer from jack of all trades syndrome. I’ve started offloading the things I use it for to other services that do a particular thing better. Syncthing for general file syncing across my devices, Immich for managing photos, Radicale for contacts and calendar sync…

  If you’re just looking for an all in one Google Drive like experience for your files though, Nextcloud is as good as it gets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roku OS home screen is getting video ads for the first time⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting. Thanks for the information!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Building my Homelab!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use Portainer and it’s a good UI, but I find the way they market business edition pretty scummy. Like having a banner ad constantly visible on the page, and having half the features visible but disabled with a big bright “upgrade to Business Edition” message next to them, and directly refusing to add any mechanism to opt out. I respect that they need funding for development, but they need to realize that a lot of their users simply don’t need a business license and aren’t going to buy one no matter how much advertisement you throw at them. The fact that they don’t realize that and refuse to budge indicates to me that they’ve stopped caring about the user experience of their product.

  Sorry for the rant, I’ve been annoyed by this for a long time. Some day I’ll set up my own gitops pipeline, but that pesky day job keeps getting in the way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roku OS home screen is getting video ads for the first time⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was kind of afraid that would be the answer. Do you still need a separate Apple device to set it up? I’m not necessarily morally opposed to buying an Apple product, but I am morally opposed to buying two to use one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roku OS home screen is getting video ads for the first time⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Related question: what’s everyone using to stream from their Jellyfin server these days?

  I have a shield pro, but it’s definitely starting to age, and with Nvidia neglecting it for years and finally ending support, I don’t think I’ll be getting a new one. My TV OS doesn’t have an app without side loading, and even if it did, I don’t think I’d want to use it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Android has a similar feature. It’s called “Lockdown mode” on the shutdown menu. Locks the phone and turns off any biometric unlocks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  it also means the need for societal shift to support people outside of capitalism is needed.

  Exactly. This is why I think arguing about whether AI is stealing content from human artists isn’t productive. There’s no logical argument you can really make that a theft is happening. It’s a foregone conclusion.

  Instead, we need to start thinking about what a world looks like where a large portion of commercially viable art doesn’t require a human to make it. Or, for that matter, what does a world look like where most jobs don’t require a human to do them? There are so many more pressing and more interesting conversations we could be having about AI, but instead we keep circling around this fundamental misunderstanding of what the technology is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can definitely see why OpenAI is controversial. I don’t think you can argue that they didn’t do an immediate heel turn on their mission statement once they realized how much money they could make. But they’re not the only player in town. There are many open source models out there that can be run by anyone on varying levels of hardware.

  As far as “stealing,” I feel like people imagine GPT sitting on top of this massive collection of data and acting like a glorified search engine, just sifting through that data and handing you stuff it found that sounds like what you want, which isn’t the case. The real process is, intentionally, similar to how humans learn things. So, if you ask it for something that it’s seen before, especially if it’s seen it many times, it’s going to know what you’re talking about, even if it doesn’t have access to the real thing. That, combined with the fact that the models are trained to be as helpful as they possibly can be, means that if you tell it to plagiarize something, intentionally or not, it probably will. But, if we condemned any tool that’s capable of plagiarism without acknowledging that they’re also helpful in the creation process, we’d still be living in caves drawing stick figures on the walls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub shuts down in Texas... and predictably, VPNs benefit⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Right. Why do I have to submit a retinal scan and 3 forms of ID to watch porn because parents can’t be bothered to learn basic computer skills and monitor their own children?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub shuts down in Texas... and predictably, VPNs benefit⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not as long as there are minorities to blame for everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because people are afraid of things they don’t understand. AI is a very new and very powerful technology, so people are going to see what they want to see from it. Of course, it doesn’t help that a lot of people see “a shit load of cash” from it, so companies want to shove it into anything and everything.

  AI models are rapidly becoming more advanced, and some of the new models are showing sparks of metacognition. Calling that “plagiarism” is being willfully ignorant of its capabilities, and it’s just not productive to the conversation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The only thing stopping them is the fact that anyone who wants the data can just utilize the federation protocol to take any data they want, and there’s not a lot anyone can do about it. You can’t sell something that’s trivial to get for free.

  If the question you’re really asking is “what’s stopping content on Lemmy/Mastodon/etc from being used to train an LLM?” the answer is, nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A productive conversation⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Right. If you want to debate with people you have a rapport with, great. But if you’re just being a contrarian and only talking about why you don’t like something other people enjoy, they’re gonna think you’re a dick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I move to Docker?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the things I like about containers is how central the IaC methodology is. There are certainly tools to codify VMs, but with Docker, right out of the gate, you’ll be defining your containers through a Dockerfile, or docker-compose.yml, or whatever other orchestration platform. With a VM, I’m always tempted to just make on the fly config changes directly on the box, since it’s so heavy to rebuild them, but with containers, I’m more driven to properly update the container definition and then rebuild the container. Because of that, you have an inherent backup that you can easily push to a remote git server or something similar. Maybe that’s not as much of a benefit if you have a good system already, but containers make it easier imo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self hosting on an Android mobile?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always been hesitant to host any services on a device with a non-removable battery. Having a battery constantly charging and discharging isn’t great for it and could potentially be a fire hazard. I know modern devices have gotten much smarter about how they charge, so maybe it’s not as much of an issue anymore, but still something to be aware of depending on how old your phone is or how you modify the firmware.

  Personally, with how cheap you can find a mini PC or SBC, I would just save up a bit and keep an eye out for deals. You’re going to get a lot more freedom and power with those devices, and not have to try to hack around the limitations of a mobile OS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting started with self hosting - resources?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My advice for security is don’t expose anything to the Internet unless you’re sure you know how to secure it. If you want to be able to access self-hosted services remotely, setting up a VPN is the way to go. OpenVPN is gonna be the most widely supported way of doing that. In fact, based on a quick Google search, it looks like your router has an OpenVPN server built in. If you’re willing to put in some effort for something more modern and performant, look into WireGuard.

  Another benefit of having a VPN is that if you set it up to allow access back out to the Internet, you can use it to mask your internet traffic while you’re connected to an untrusted network.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ActivityPub apps interoperation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You might give kbin a shot. I haven’t used it much myself, but it has features from both Mastodon and Lemmy, so should interop well with both of those.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fear, loathing, and excitement as Threads adopts open standard used by Mastodon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ars Technica seems to really be embracing the fediverse. They have a very active official Mastodon account. mastodon.social/@arstechnica