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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jonathan Frakes Surprised ‘Strange New Worlds’ Star Trek Spoof Was Controversial; Talks Directing ‘Academy’ And More⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No, not really. I just can’t stand musicals. It doesn’t matter how good an episode or movie is otherwise, I just can’t enjoy musicals.

  I also didn’t want to completely skip the episode and miss any plot points, so mute with subtitles worked nicely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jonathan Frakes Surprised ‘Strange New Worlds’ Star Trek Spoof Was Controversial; Talks Directing ‘Academy’ And More⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That was the only episode of any Trek series where I had to watch the majority of it on mute.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My new laptop chip has an 'AI' processor in it, and it's a complete waste of space⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have to wonder if NPUs are just going to eventually become a normal part of the instruction set.

  When SIMD was first becoming a thing, it was advertised as accelerating “multimedia,” as that was the hot buzzword of the 1990s. Now, SIMD instructions are used everywhere, any place there is a benefit from processing an array of values in parallel.

  I could see NPUs becoming the same. Developers start using NPU instructions, and the compiler can “NPU-ify” scalar code when it thinks it’s appropriate.

  NPUs are advertised for “AI,” but they’re really just a specialized math coprocessor. I don’t really see this as a bad thing to have. Surely there are plenty of other uses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia Completely Loses The Plot, Plans To Ban Kids From Watching YouTube⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree. YouTube has a huge amount of educational content, tutorials, and quality entertainment. Sure, a huge percentage is brainrot trash, but there’s plenty of value to be found.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So many people completely miss the mark when it comes to AI and coding. It’s great for code reviews on code you wrote yourself, and it can be handy when you’re developing code for a domain you don’t have much experience in.

  What it is not good for is writing code on its own. Not if you want your code to be efficient, or performant, work correctly, or even compile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chatgpt shared link searchable⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you don’t want your conversations to be public, how about you don’t tick the checkbook that says “make this public.” This isn’t OpenAI’s problem, its an idiot user problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube to be included in Australia’s social media ban for children under 16⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the deal with gaming videos? Do game streamers tend to be Nazis? Seems like a strange place to push right-wing propaganda.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musk’s Starlink hit with hours-long outage after rollout of T-Mobile satellite service⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This makes me think that the Starlink system is very poorly designed. I know there are hundreds of satellites, and a large number of base stations.

  Even if a large chunk of the satellites were taken out and a few base stations failed, shouldn’t the system keep working, just over a different path?

  This sounds very much not like a hardware failure, but more like somebody fucked up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta executive joins US army’s ‘next generation’ tech team⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I really don’t understand this. What does the Army gain by commissioning tech execs as reserve officers? Wouldn’t it be far more effective to just hire their companies as contractors? Or commission high-level engineers as officers. A tech exec’s skillet is running a company. Sure, offer commissions to their most skilled employees, but to the execs themselves, why?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Limiting access to COVID boosters⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You always hear about big pharma having deep pockets for lobbyists. Why are they not fighting this? I want my yearly vaccine, and they want profits. It’s a win-win situation if they push back on this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infrared contact lenses let you see in the dark⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really. While I don’t have the exact numbers, the output of an infrared LED is no higher (usually) than an LED in the visible range. My security cameras have an array of 10 or so LEDs.

  So looking at a security camera would be roughly equivalent to staring at a light bulb.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This has always seemed overblown to me. If students want to cheat on their coursework, who cares? As long as exams are given in a controlled environment, it’s going to be painfully obvious who actually studied the material and who had ChatGPT do it for them. Re-taking a course is not going to be fun or cheap.

  Maybe I’m oversimplifying this, but it feels like proctored testing solves the entire problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll pay for good software. Developers deserve a decent wage, too. I’ll pay a lot for really good software. I’ll buy new versions of the tools I use often.

  What I will never ever do is subscribe to software, no matter how good it is. Software is not a service and should not ever be sold as such.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unhappy with the recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android? So are we. Let us explain. - Nextcloud⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As the article mentions, this isn’t a security “feature,” it’s anti-competetive. The worst part is that Nextcloud isn’t even really in competition with Google. Setting up a Nextcloud server isn’t hard, but it’s not a trivial task. Sharing it outside your local network also requires a bit of skill, especially if done securely. That is to say, Nextcloud users probably tend to be more tech-savvy.

  The people using Nextcloud aren’t going to suddenly decide to switch over to Google Drive. I’ll get it from FDroid before I downgrade to Google Drive. If that wasn’t an option, I’d set up an FTP server or even WebDAV.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Swedish amplifier enables transmission of 10x more data per second⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I totally get how this would be useful in imaging systems, but I’m not understanding how it applies to communications.

  The only thing I can think is perhaps carrying more modes through a multimode fiber? I never understood amplifier bandwidth to be a limiting factor, though.

  What communications systems use a wide bandwidth of light (300nm is a LOT) into a single amplifier?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Windows 10 IoT LTSC has support until 2032. Just saying…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help with lxc write access⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe you’re correct. I didn’t realize that I had my containers set to privileged. That would explain why I’ve never had issues with mounting shares.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help with lxc write access⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry, I think I gave you bad information. I have my containers set to unprivileged=no. I forgot about the “double negative” in how that flag was described.

  So apparently my containers are privileged, so I don’t think I’ve ever tried to do what you are doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help with lxc write access⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a server that runs Proxmox and a server that runs TrueNAS, so a very similar setup to yours. As long as your LXC is tied to a network adapter that has access to your file server (it almost certainly is unless you’re using multiple NICs and/or VLANs), you should be able to mount shares inside your LXC just like you do on any other Linux machine.

  Can you ping your fileserver from inside the container? If so, then the issue is with the configuration in the container itself. Privileged or unprivileged shouldn’t matter here. How are you trying to mount the CIFS share?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers Trained an AI on Flawed Code and It Became a Psychopath⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like the vast majority of people just want to log onto Chat GPT and ask their questions, not host an open source LLM themselves. I suppose other organizations could host Deepseek, though.

  Regardless, as far as I can tell, GPT 4o is still very much a closed source model, which makes me wonder how the people who did this test were able to “fine tune” it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers Trained an AI on Flawed Code and It Became a Psychopath⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They say they did this by “finetuning GPT 4o.” How is that even possible? Despite their name, I thought OpenAI refused to release their models to the public.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft removes Windows 11 24H2 official support on 8th 9th 10th Gen Intel CPUs⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Where did you see that this is an issue with Intel not supporting drivers? Sounds very much to me like Microsoft is introducing an artifical limitation; this is solely on them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Isn’t well liked” is quite the understatement. “Despised” is more like it. I actually like the way the cybertruck looks, I think the technology is interesting, and if I really wanted to, I could probably afford one.

  I wouldn’t drive one if it was given to me for free. I’d rather take a taxi every day than drive a public display of support for the treasonous fascist manchild that owns the company.

  Tesla’s second biggest problem is their shit standards and quality control. Their first biggest problem is their shit corporate leadership.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m fairly certain the entire article was. Even if it didn’t sound exactly like a ChatGPT response, don’t tech reviews normally have the name of the author SOMEWHERE on the page?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what is your opinion on mastodon and other fediverse microblogging sites?? as opposed to forum-type websites⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have absolutely zero interest in participating in any kind of social media that isn’t an “anonymous forum.” I have no interest in following particular individuals; I’m really only interested in having discussions with random internet users that share common interests. I used PhpBB instances, IRC, and before that BBS systems, and I’m really just looking for the same kind of experience.

  So I will never use Mastodon; I think it’s a fantastic alternative to Xitter, but the format just doesn’t interest me in the slightest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Email is still great for DMs if you only use it for talking to individuals, and not to sign up to things⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Email is still really useful when you have a lot to say but don’t want to write a letter. If I’m catching up on the last several weeks with my parents, I’m not going to write a 10-page text. I can write a nicely formatted email and attach a few photos, though. It’s far more convenient than writing a letter and stuffing a bunch of printed photos into an envelope.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is kernel-level anti-cheat even a thing?

  If I was trying to prevent cheating, I’d hash the relevant game files, encrypt the values, and hard-code them into the executable. Then when the game is launched, calculated the hash of the existing files and compare to the saved values.

  What is gained by running anti-cheat in kernel mode? I only play single-player games, so I assume I’m missing something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watch out, Microsoft Outlook could soon give away when you're sneakily working from home⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Having my status turn yellow when I so much as look away from my screen is bad enough. I really hope this “feature” stays off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨5 pin connector recommendations that have both male and female sockets available⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a big fan of Amphenol mil-spec connectors. They’re a bit expensive, but not terribly so. You could almost certainly find one that meets your requirements.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watch out, Microsoft Outlook could soon give away when you're sneakily working from home⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How does Teams give away your location? I’ve used it extensively, but I’ve never seen someone’s location unless the enter it manually.