phx

@phx@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the universe about to have a little minty b⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And figured out parallax a long time ago

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And no competition. I’m pretty sure that they can shave some of the price off from that massive jump that came with COVID due to [checks list] “supply chain issues” and yet never went back down after…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the idea behind a phone with a camera is that your can immediately upload what you’ve got in case some thug with a badge takes your device and smashes it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could I get a photo of the bag on you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re not the only one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plan for my first homeserver⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I run backups to a USB drive which is way to grab in the event of an emergency. Just make sure you test them every more and again, and possibly only connect it when needed if you’re at all worried about malware (a cryptolocker will happily take out any attached storage if your machine is infected).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plan for my first homeserver⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of that stack looks similar to mine, though I’m running bigger hardware for various reasons. You might want to go with something with more cores than an i5 depending on how much you find yourself utilizing.

  Have you considered Nextcloud for documents and syncing functionality? I went through a few ways of running it before ended up with the Snap package which has been fairly solid for over a year now (Docker was good for setup, but upgrading was problematic if not kept up with religiously)

  Vaultwarden is Excellent.

  Calibre-Web is good, especially if paired with the application to “extract” books, and an app like Moon+ on mobiles

  Audiobookshelf is pretty solid. Pairs well with Libation.

  HASS I initially ran on my server in a container but moved to dedicated hardware so updating and reboots didn’t break automatons. Got a HASS Yellow for the PoE and Zigbee.

  If you’re looking for audio/video library management, JellyFin is pretty easy to get running and has apps for phones plus many TVs. Finamp is a good mobile app for the music part

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jellyfin over the internet⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can also use a router that can run wireguard/openvpn and have that run the tunnel back to home for you. I’ve got a portable GL-Inet router with OpenWRT that I use for this when I’m on the road

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨McPenis⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeahhhhh. It used to be when we called the place McDick’s it was commentary on the food/service quality not the menu items

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Salt Lake City, plans to implement AI-assisted 911 call triaging to handle ~30% of about 450K non-emergency calls per year⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot depends on the implementation rather than the idea itself. I’ve read plenty of stories of people stuck on hold with 9-1-1 - including deaths - as well as cases where they’ve been hung up on by shitty operators.

  An AI system might be able to do some basic triage to prioritize calls for the human operators and actually result in faster access/response and saved lives. It might also be able to do things like transcribing information such as addresses or location for responders. If the AI is planned to be a replacement for humans rather than an augmentation though, lives will likely be lost

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’ll be interesting too as federations are a bit of a wild-west right now with some domains dropping off or being federated, while others may still be created in the future

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds kinda cool. I’ll have to check it out. It’s kinda hard sometimes to push FOSS stuff in a largercorporate environment but this looks like something I could recommend/build for small-mid private SOHO clients.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Used to run OpenVPN. Tried Wireguard and the performance was much better, although lacking some of the features some might need/want fit credential-based logins etc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t really get the allure of it TBH. For most home-based nerds a simple Wireguard host (or OpnSense, OpenWRT etc running such) should be fine, and there are better options for commercial from better-known vendors in the network security space

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly other than a fingerprint lock, I’ve found the apps suck compared to just a browser on a PC anyhow. Half the apps could just be webpages, and a bunch of those are just wrappers to a web rendering layer anyhow

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why does alcohol stop my back pain but medicine doesn't?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it very much depends on the type of and source of pain.

  For me, Tylenol works for headaches and some cold/flu stuff but I’ve never really found it effective for strained muscles etc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mario Kart 64 got finally decompiled!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but Nintendo doesn’t always seem to give a shit just because something is legal. They’ll still play the “but our legal department has more money than YOU” card

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A last-minute SteamOS update has saved Doom: The Dark Ages on Steam Deck, and it runs surprisingly okay-ish⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All these Doom sequels… a proper Descent would kick ass

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or just use the smartphone camera that almost everyone is going to have anyhow…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You miss the part where the copyright owner did not assign them the rights to use the material for such a purpose, and yes most copyright does cover a ton of stuff like retransmission, reproduction, public production and a bunch of other shit which is all separate license. It’s not so simple as “they did what a human does” because even the WAYS a human uses said material is limited under the terms of the copyright

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  a) An AI is not a person. We do not WANT an AI to be regarded as equal to a person under law. That’s a terrible idea

  b) How is that AI training material being generated? Did they buy copies of every copyrighted song and every movie by every artist to include in the training data? If it’s music and streamed, are they paying the artist royalties based on every “play” the AI is processing during training the same as of a human played the song over and over again to learn a long? How about sheet music? Because if a PERSON is learning from training material, the license for sheet music and training materials is different than a playable copy of the same work.

  I’m willing to bet that the AI companies didn’t even pay for the regular copies of works much less ones licensed for use as training materials for humans, but it didn’t matter because an AI is an advanced algorithm and NOT A HUMAN.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder how hard it would be for an “unofficial” patch to “somehow” be released that restores the previous functionality

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it “works” on LG TVs but only if I don’t use SSL, possibly due to the (perfectly valid) LetsEncrypt certificate in my case.

  That’s not a huge deal for my LAN access but it’s still pretty dumb. It would be nice if more devices properly supported it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk's Social Platform X has filed a lawsuit agains Minnesota, challenging a law banning political deepfakes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool. Let’s go with criminal impersonation, defamation, and slander/libel instead them!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the point in getting married?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. My buddy lived with his SO. They had kids together. I believe they did have plans to get married but there were financial/planning considerations. At the time, the house was in his name.

  He died unexpectedly and without warning due to a previously unknown medical condition. I don’t believe he had a W&T.

  The paperwork she had to deal with - much of which would have been not required had they been married - was horrendous, especially anything bank related. The bank also seemed to be doing their best to fuck her over in regards to the family home. It was a nasty ordeal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An unreleased version of a Waymo privacy policy found by Jane Manchun Wong says it may use interior camera data to train AI models and sell ads.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Free for life? Here is always been free for only the first few years of ownership and then you pay, plus the system is fucking terrible and doesn’t work half the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Pebble Has Been Brought Back⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I still have my circa-2016 email confirming my pledge for the Time 2 Silver, which ultimately got cancelled just before the fulfillment date due to Pebble selling out to Fitbit.

  While I loved my original Pebble back then, I would really want something similar to look and function of the T2S so will watch this project in hopes it too is resurrected

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You guys have to end it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I’ve got regular back and ankle issues. It’s annoying when they flare up but really not that bad. Unfortunately manuals are harder and harder to find so this will likely be my last

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Little girl shows duck how to use a slide⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the most wholesome thing I’ve seen here. Kept expecting something “off” to happen

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harry and Ron were always bored in class because Rowling's magic system is boring as hell⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, hard magic is not necessary. It’s like “fit living and exercise” is conceptually easy, but the majority of people aren’t really that fit and certainly not Olympic level athletes etc.

  Magic could be a combination of luck, genetics, and ability to stick to it and study. THOSE can be hard for a lot of people in practice, but in concept easy at a lot of levels.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minecraft server hardware benchmarks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It really depends on the mods. Stock Minecraft and even many mods would run fine on a potato, but some of the bigger mods actually require quite a bit of CPU/overhead.

  There are also various mods that require certain (older) versions of Java etc to run, and those versions of Java may have known security issues.