mint_tamas
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- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 1 day ago:
I’m with you, but probably one good reason to consider Black Mesa “wrong” is the reimagination of Xen. Even though Xen is the weakest part of the original and BM did an excellent job at it.
- Comment on Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants 1 month ago:
… which is not a high bar.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 1 month ago:
This is about intro detection in TV shows, not ad blocking. I’m not proposing this as a good way to block ads, just noting that this feature in Plex doesn’t use a database.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 1 month ago:
Pretty sure they just use timestamps from a crowdsourced database, just like sponsorblock.
Nope, it’s analyzing the sound to guess where the intro starts and ends. Turns out this is pretty simple to implement, but quite reliable. Source: worked for Plex
- Comment on Why is UI design backsliding? 1 month ago:
I think it’s a function of greater screen resolutions being available.
- Comment on “Model collapse” threatens to kill progress on generative AIs 1 month ago:
Explain?
- Comment on Microsoft formally deprecates the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel 2 months ago:
I don’t think this is a real issue in the age of bespoke design for applications. Only a minority of then use the OS widgets for their interface. You can argue that this is a bad thing, but then the context menus are just a tiny portion of the entire issue.
- Comment on Authy got hacked, and 33 million user phone numbers were stolen 4 months ago:
You are not any more secure with google authenticator for 2fa, are you?
- Comment on VPN by Google One shuts down 4 months ago:
These days you don’t get much extra benefit on a VPN over TLS which you get on 99% of websites.
- Comment on Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined 4 months ago:
It really isn’t superior. It’s just the hivemind that gets annoyed with Plex being stagnant, not open source etc. that claims it is. At best it has feature parity for some use-cases. Don’t get me wrong, it’s neat, but it’s not as polished as Plex.
- Comment on OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts 5 months ago:
Peer review, for all its flaws is a good minimum before a paper is worth taking seriously.
In your original comment you said tha model collapse can be easily avoided with this technique, which is notably different from it being mitigated. I’m not saying that these findings are not useful, just that you are overselling them a bit with this wording.
- Comment on OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts 5 months ago:
That paper is yet to be peer reviewed or released. I think you are jumping into conclusion with that statement. How much can you dilute the data until it breaks again?
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 6 months ago:
OpenAI clearly already scraped the pre-LLM (aka actually useful) content from SO, this entire deal is happening after the fact to avoid litigation.
- Comment on ‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood 8 months ago:
Youtube never asked for my ID (I’m in the EU). Which country is this?
- Comment on Spotify just changed TOS, giving them unprecedented rights to create "derivative works" from audiobooks 8 months ago:
Your third point is an active research topic, we can’t explain exactly what generative (and other) models do beyond their generic operation.
- Comment on Windows 11 24H2 goes from “unsupported” to “unbootable” on some older PCs 8 months ago:
Why?
- Comment on Broadcom terminates VMware's free ESXi hypervisor 8 months ago:
What’s the background of the lxd-incus fork? On the project page they just state that it was forked after Canonical took over lxd - but what does that mean, exactly? How did they take over an open project? Was there a technical reason for a fork?
- Comment on FLOSS communities right now 9 months ago:
It’s the worst way to document something (doesn’t even make sense to call it documentation). It’s closed source and the content is only accessible if you register with an email address.
- Comment on Notion acquires privacy-focused productivity platform Skiff | TechCrunch 9 months ago:
Ah ok, I’ll take another look then. Thanks!
- Comment on Notion acquires privacy-focused productivity platform Skiff | TechCrunch 9 months ago:
This link opens to a thread about email providers. Is this what you meant to post?
- Comment on Average website visit in 2024 9 months ago:
Great!
- Comment on Average website visit in 2024 9 months ago:
I just ran into that the other day. I solved it by installing noscript, setting a permissive default (I don’t want to make my life harder) and blocking scripts on CNN. It works well.
- Comment on Average website visit in 2024 9 months ago:
Recently I started to use reader mode a lot, it tends to work in many cases for this purpose.
- Comment on Music Piracy Is Back, Baby 9 months ago:
For me, it’s neither the price nor the quality of apps (idgaf, it plays music in the background). The thing that pushes me towards piracy is the same as for movies and TV shows: disappearing content. Because of content licensing deals, every piece of media is temporary on a service. I do rewatch movies from time to time and it’s infuriating if it’s gone (or rather would be, if I was still paying for any streaming service). This is especially true for music. My Spotify favorites list has a huge percentage of greyed out entries (and I’m pretty sure there are things that were outright deleted).
- Comment on Apple refuses to relax its iron grip on iPhones in Europe 9 months ago:
Pretty sure this serves two purposes: to not leave money on the table (as terrible as that sounds, the non-EU market is still milkable for them), and to prepare investor sentiment for the inevitable loss of revenue in a year or so.
- Comment on That Portal 64 demake we liked so much has been kiboshed by Valve: 'They have asked me to take the project down,' creator says 10 months ago:
Doesn’t matter
- Comment on That Portal 64 demake we liked so much has been kiboshed by Valve: 'They have asked me to take the project down,' creator says 10 months ago:
Nintendo sues everyone they encounter in the faintest context of their IP with the power of a thousand suns. See also, the failed launch if Dolphin on Steam. Valve is justifiably cautious here.
- Comment on Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees 10 months ago:
This has nothing to do with torrenting apart from a similar sounding word.
- Comment on Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees 10 months ago:
My company has been using Discord for work and at first I was excited to try it (coming from Slack companies), but I had to realize that it’s very unfit for work. The only thing that’s better is the visibility of threads. We are moving to Slack now, thankfully.
- Comment on Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees 10 months ago:
If a free tier is offered, why would you be a leech? It’s calculated in their business and free users indirectly bring revenue (the more free users they have, the more they can convert). This concept of being a leech is so alien to me.