micka190
@micka190@lemmy.world
- Comment on Has Generative AI Already Peaked? - Computerphile 59 minutes ago:
6M vertex spheres here we come!
- Comment on Apple iPhone sales decline 10% in first three months of 2024 5 days ago:
I got a 13 Pro Max originally (because I liked big phones when I was using Android), and the weight and sharp edges just made it hurt my hand like hell. Got a 13 Pro instead, and I’ve been kind of wishing they kept the “Mini” lineup going the more I use it…
- Comment on Why data centers want to have their own nuclear reactors 6 days ago:
It’s okay, even if if they wanted to nuke the world, they’d need to find which specific portal to log into, and even after inputing everything correctly there’d be around an hour before the servers actually processed the change request.
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 1 week ago:
I know people IRL who get offended whenever I mention that I just block ads. Shit’s insane.
- Comment on Spurred by Teen Girls, States Move to Ban Deepfake Nudes 2 weeks ago:
The issue is that the picture then exists, and it’s hard to prove it was actually destroyed.
For example, when I was in high school, a bunch of girls would send nudes to guys. But that was 10 years ago. Those pictures still exist. Those dudes aren’t minors anymore. Their Messenger chats probably still exist somewhere. Nothing’s really preventing them from looking at those pictures again.
I get why it’s illegal. And, honestly, I find it kind of weird that there’s people trying to justify why it shouldn’t be illegal. You’re still allowed to have sex at that age. Just don’t take pictures/videos of it.
- Comment on Spurred by Teen Girls, States Move to Ban Deepfake Nudes 2 weeks ago:
such as when the person making them is also a minor
I get the point you’re tying to make. But minors taking nudes of themselves is illegal in a lot of places, because it’s still possession.
- Comment on Framework won’t be just a laptop company anymore 2 weeks ago:
Nothing, but it’d still be a win for the consumer because then we’d have repairable/customizable laptops across the board?
We’ve also seen other brands aren’t interested in it because it’s harder to make smaller/thinner laptops when they need to be customizable. Also they make more money from having people throw out their old laptops and buying a new one.
- Comment on Big Tech Is Faking AI 3 weeks ago:
Man, I know people love to throw the word “dystopian” around, but holy shit is that description dystopian as fuck.
Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a crowdsourcing marketplace that makes it easier for individuals and businesses to outsource their processes and jobs to a distributed workforce who can perform these tasks virtually. This could include anything from conducting simple data validation and research to more subjective tasks like survey participation, content moderation, and more. MTurk enables companies to harness the collective intelligence, skills, and insights from a global workforce to streamline business processes, augment data collection and analysis, and accelerate machine learning development.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I run a Mint laptop. Power management is a joke. Configured it as best as possible, walked in the other day and it was dead. Windows would never do this, unless you went out of your way to config power management to kill the battery.
Great bait, mate.
Windows literally configures itself to drain your battery while your laptop is closed by default. It’s called hibernation/fast boot.
You need to go out of your way to configure power manager to not kill the battery.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Pretty much everything related to the
explorer.exe
process is needlessly slow on Windows 11. On my work machine, the file explorer will take 2-3 seconds to load after I open it, and that’s with only a C:/ drive (i.e. no network shares to slow it down or anything else). - Comment on Apple is reportedly planning a big AI-focused M4 Mac upgrade 3 weeks ago:
We already have text prediction that works more efficiently (from a power and computing point of view) by using things like trees.
There’s very few use-cases I’ve seen where AI is more efficient than an algorithm, and it’s mostly in areas where it does a bunch of tests/research/simulation inputs by throwing random shit at the wall that users wouldn’t normally try really fast.
AI is basically useless when you’re doing something that’s easily repeatable, because it’s easier to actually implement tools that use algorithms to do that kind of thing.
- Comment on Reddit introduces a new ad format that looks similar to posts made by users | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
Digg still exists but it’s a shadow if its former self and nobody cares about it
As far as I’m concerned, so is Reddit. The only reason to go there anymore is for Q&A that get SEO spammed on Google. All the communities I was a part of either died after they changed the API (the only people left are the lurkers and low-effort posters) or had their mods replaced by boot lickers who immediately proceeded to not moderate the subs (which made them dead or full of spam).
But hey, now it sure looks like Reddit is alive and well! Just look at all those
ads,bots,AI replies, totally legit user posts! - Comment on Mozilla Firefox is Working on a Tab Grouping Feature 1 month ago:
No, and everyone keeps recommending extensions and hacky workarounds. Wish Mozilla would gets its head out of its ass and just add a damn button that runs the
firefox -p [profile]
command in the browser itself so we wouldn’t need to use keep a desktop shortcut instead. - Comment on ChatGPT's Growth Is Flatlining: Where Does It Go From Here? 2 months ago:
“Gentlemen, it’s come to our attention that every one who could pay to use our product is paying to use our product. Unfortunately, it also means we’re no longer growing infinitely like we promised the shareholders we would. How do we fix this?”
The infinite growth mindset is so fucking stupid. Like, you’re still making an insane amount of money, what’s the fucking problem?
- Comment on Get ready — your Google Workspace subscription is about to see an unwelcome price hike 2 months ago:
They’ve been advertising this price hike for a while now. We’ve cancelled ours. Got the last “Hey, are you super duper sure you want to cancel?” email yesterday. Fuck 'em.
- Comment on Roll for initiative 2 months ago:
Alchemist’s Fire is basically the Molotov Cocktail of 5e, so I’d just use that.
1d4 Fire damage
per round unless they take an action to put the fire out seems pretty reasonable to me. Puts it on par with a shortsword at the very least.Fireball’s damage is insane (the designers intentionally made it deal more damage than spells of the same level “because it’s an iconic spell”), so I wouldn’t really use it as a baseline for balancing anything, personally.
- Comment on YouTube now suggests new content *by colour* 2 months ago:
Things I wish YouTube would let me do:
- See dislikes
- Disable Shorts (uBlock lets me filter them out, at least)
- At the very least let me control the fucking volume on Shorts instead of muting/unmuting them only if you’re going to force them down my throat (seriously, it makes the entire video format unwatchable on Desktop because every fucking Short video is so god damned loud)
- Disable holding left-click to fast-forward a video (I do this thing where I’m about to pause a video and hold down the click until they’re done talking and this change is just so fucking stupid, I don’t understand who needs to hold down left click to fast-forward)
- Actually block channels I’m not interested in
- Block videos based on keywords
- Recommend videos based on the one I’m currently watching if my watch history is disabled
- Seriously, since disabling it YouTube does nothing but recommend “trending” crap that has absolutely nothing to do with what I’m watching
If they’d implement even half of that, my user experience would shoot up through the roof. But, you know, they couldn’t give a rat’s ass about user experience.
- Comment on Playing Pillars of Eternity for the first time 3 months ago:
No no no, see that’s the opposite of what I want. I want more games where you can just straight-up be the villains. Not an anti-hero, not someone who’s trying to change the system from within, not a secret rebel who needs to go along with the bad stuff to keep their cover.
I want more games where you can just be a villain. I want more games where you can rob the banks, kill the NPCs that aren’t listening, have a big fortress of doom, and fight-off heroes who are trying to stop you.
Not because of some gray moral backstory that somehow justifies some of it (or that will have people jumping through hoops to justify it like with Mr. Freeze and his wife).
Just because you can.
Tyranny gives you a bunch of options to just be evil and not enough RPGs do that properly.
- Comment on Playing Pillars of Eternity for the first time 3 months ago:
Tyranny was such a fun game (rushed act 3 aside). I really wish we’d get more games that explore being the bad guys without:
- Immediately trying to overthrow them
- Making it into a joke/comedy
- Comment on Why docker 3 months ago:
I find it makes my life easier, personally, because I can set up and tear down environments I’m playing with easily.
Same here. I self-host a bunch of dev tools for my personal toy projects, and I decided to migrate from Drone CI to Woodpecker CI this week. Didn’t have to worry about uninstalling anything, learning what commands I need to start/stop/restart Woodpecker properly, etc. I just commented-out my Drone CI/Runner services from my docker-compose file, added the Woodpecker stuff, pointed it to my Gitea variables and it ran
docker compose up -d
.If my server ever crashes, I can just copy it over and start from scratch.
- Comment on Apple Vision Pro available in the U.S. on February 2 3 months ago:
they don’t even call it VR but spatial computing instead.
I was under the impression these were meant to be AR glasses, not VR glasses? Either way, I’m not really sure who their target demographic is supposed to be at that price point.
- Comment on 20(23) Games You Should Have Played 4 months ago:
Had to drop it because it just creeped me the fuck out for some reason. It definitely nails the eldritch horror atmosphere lmao
- Comment on ActivityPub and the End of Walled Gardens, with Evan Prodromou 4 months ago:
That’s pretty much all it’s been, yeah. Feels like spam more than anything.
- Comment on Thousands of private camera footages from bedrooms hacked, sold online - VnExpress International 4 months ago:
John Hammond’s got some pretty good “getting started with White Hat hacking” videos on his YouTube channel (a lot of “hack a box” and “CTF” style videos). He’s got one or two where he talks about his resume and training/classes he’s done.
- Comment on Dropbox spooks users by sending data to OpenAI for AI search features (Enabled by default) 4 months ago:
Closest I can think of is “FOIP” (Freedom of Internet Privacy) in Alberta at least (not sure if the rest of the country has equivalents). But that’s mostly things like “you can’t share this confidential email with someone else without my permission” kind of thing.
- Comment on Google announces April 2024 shutdown date for Google Podcasts 4 months ago:
Tonight, we dine
in Hellat Google’s HQ! - Comment on Homes need to be built for better internet 4 months ago:
There’s been an unfortunate trend of newly-built houses not running Ethernet cables. Here in Canada, at least. You can still run them yourself, but the average person probably isn’t going to bother with it.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 Has Been Completed by 1.3 Million Players, Shadowheart is Most Popular Love Interest 5 months ago:
I’ve literally only talked to Shadowheart when the game forces me to (wanted to romance her on a different playthrough), and if I ask her about our relationship after the goblin stronghold she literally goes on and on about how I’m her closest confident and that she’s a completely different woman now. All the other NPCs also offered to fuck during the celebration, despite me being confrontational with some of them.
This is after all the patches to romance stats, too.
Wish they didn’t throw themselves at the player’s feet so hard, to be honest.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 Has Been Completed by 1.3 Million Players, Shadowheart is Most Popular Love Interest 5 months ago:
Me: “Damn Lae’Zel, you don’t have to be such a bitch constantly.”
Lae’Zel: “You are competent, and worthy. Tonight, I will find you, and claim what is mine.”
Me: “Yes, ma’am.”
- Comment on ProtonMail and SimpleLogin emails will be blocked from registering on websites 5 months ago:
Yeah, that’s also what I use it for. Discovered that my ProtonMail subscription came with SimpleLogin now, but its UI/extension is kind of annoying to use compared to AnnonAddy (Addy.io now, I guess), so I kept paying for it. Was mostly pointing out that Addy.io isn’t a mail service, they’re a mail forwarding service (unless that’s changed since they became Addy.io).