CameronDev
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- Comment on Does anyone know which sweet potato in Australia is closest to Japanese sweet potato? 10 hours ago:
change.org/…/petition-coles-and-woolworths-to-sto…
I’m sure I’ve seen them in specialty fruit and veg stores, but I am struggling to find them as well.
- Comment on How to get a package to the right owner? 11 hours ago:
If I am understanding right, when you say “can’t be bothered”, you mean “can’t be compelled/forced”?
Seems pretty reasonable, albeit slightly reliant on honesty. At least for scammers, they aren’t likely to want it back, as that would deanonymise them, so if its definitely a scam, your pretty safe to keep it.
Thanks for the info :)
- Comment on How to get a package to the right owner? 14 hours ago:
Do you know of any countries that have different laws? I’m curious as to how it would work?
- Comment on How to get a package to the right owner? 20 hours ago:
That makes even more sense, they probably dont stand out in the crowded market place, but for a few dollars in shipping and lost product, they can get a glowing review to push them up.
Its important to realise that while the item might list for $$$$$, it probably only costs $ to manufacture.
- Comment on How to get a package to the right owner? 20 hours ago:
It may be a fake item, but also remember that the cost to make jewelry is usually far less than what they are sold for, so it probably wasn’t hundreds of dollars.
I’ll update when I find the video, but there was a woman who gave a blackhat talk about it, and she got a coffee machine, so its not without precedence to spend hundreds.
- Comment on How to get a package to the right owner? 21 hours ago:
This is probably a scam:
- Comment on Your Phone Isn’t Eavesdropping on You to Show You Ads (It’s Worse Than That) 1 day ago:
Alphonso is listening for TV sound signatures, which while definitely intrusive and privacy invading, is not the same as 24/7 listening for voice-to-text purposes.
They would only need to listen for a second or so to determine what channel you are on, instead of all the time, so there is a massive difference in scope.
They are effectively shazaming your TV.
Still creepy and invasive, but not 24/7 recording invasive.
- Comment on Turning the Tables: How to Make Spammers Reveal Their Own IP Address 1 day ago:
The
myaddress+shop@gmail.comshould be trivial to defeat by a spammer. Its a very simple string remove/replace to get back to a stock email address, or change it to impersonate another service, eg.myaddress+netflix@gmail.com.It’s only useful for the actual service, after that, you can’t rely on it.
- Comment on Developing countries should fast-track US trade deals: World Bank president 3 days ago:
So, rush to establish a deal, only for it to be yanked out when he gets upset on twitter? Why bother…
- Comment on Should naming your children stupid names be illegal? 1 week ago:
Depends if your name is Khaleesi, and how made on power they get. Im willing to risk it though.
- Comment on Should naming your children stupid names be illegal? 1 week ago:
I’m sorry :( tell you what, when you run for president of the world, on a platform of “rename all Khaleesi’s to Daenerys”, I’ll vote for you :)
- Comment on Should naming your children stupid names be illegal? 1 week ago:
They probably dont know that its a title, but it doesn’t really matter. The character is colloquially known as Khaleesi, and thats what they are naming their kid after.
I don’t think its a good name either, given the TV series has largely fizzled, so its connection won’t make sense in a few years time, but being a title first doesn’t exclude it by itself (IMHO).
- Comment on Should naming your children stupid names be illegal? 1 week ago:
That isn’t really that unusual, King and Queen are both used as names, so its not that weird. Steven King, Queen Latifah (stage name, but still), King C Gillete (inventor of the safety razor)
- Comment on Papra, the minimalistic document archiving platform 1 week ago:
Just to lightly temper your expectations, the OCR isnt perfect, and you may need to add your own tags/text, but its still an awesome system.
- Comment on Papra, the minimalistic document archiving platform 1 week ago:
At least for paperless, one of the selling points is OCR plus text search. Do you can dump in all your receipts as photos, and then 3 years later, search “lawnmower” and find the receipt for it. (I dont know if this applies for this software, but its very nice in paperless)
- Comment on Papra, the minimalistic document archiving platform 1 week ago:
Is this a fork of paperless?
- Comment on Jack joined a social media group to find online support. Instead he found a culture of toxic masculinity 1 week ago:
members were required to post a photo of a woman
“A bit misogynistic” - hell of an understatement
- Comment on Stepping up from Tinkercad but to what? 1 week ago:
Onshape? Its free for most normal 3d printing stuff, and if you get used to it, its pretty similar to the big boy AutoCAD if you need to use that later…
- Comment on No matter how crooked a mirror is, it always shows you a straight image. 1 week ago:
Are you familiar with carnival mirrors?
- Comment on Is there a way to get a massive dump of memory stuff off my laptop by uploading it to a torrent? If so how and can I make it private just for my access? 2 weeks ago:
As others have said, torrents won’t work as a backup. This is because when you create a torrent, it isnt uploaded to a server somewhere, other users download directly from you. So if you have it as a torrent, until someone else downloads it, you only have 1 copy.
If you want to use it to upload stuff from your laptop to another PC, then this would actually work, and the only thing needed to avoid it being public is to not share the torrent file itself publically. But there are better tools for this, such as SyncThing. Torrents will work once, but any changes to the files will break the torrent.
- Comment on AI in Australian workplaces: Michael used AI to write a work email. It ended up costing him $2000 2 weeks ago:
Thats really sad. That kid is learning to get good at the one thing ChatGPT excels at - rewriting words into a different form. Who is going to want to employ someone for that?!
I always felt that schools do a bad job of explaining why plagerism is bad. Its not just that its theft, the really damaging part is that it cheats the student out of their own education. A late or poorly written assignment is far better than a passing chatgpt written assignment, because its still involves learning.
- Comment on AI in Australian workplaces: Michael used AI to write a work email. It ended up costing him $2000 2 weeks ago:
True. I just assumed it was a significant part of the response time given they went to the effort of automating it. Still, like the other person said, a proper invoicing software should be the correct tool
- Comment on AI in Australian workplaces: Michael used AI to write a work email. It ended up costing him $2000 2 weeks ago:
Seems like a problem that doesn’t require AI. Just have an email template with all services, and delete the unnecessary ones. Shouldn’t take 5 hours.
- Comment on Would you use a self-hosted, AI-powered search engine for your favorite sites? 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t say you can’t have a GPU, but to me, its wasteful. I keep my jellyfin server off when not in use, and use WoL to start it when its needed.
I have played with local LLMs, and the models I used were unimpressive, but without knowing what the OP has in mind, we cant know how much power it will use. If it just spins up the GPU once a day for 20 minutes, probably okay, you won’t even notice it. But anyone like me who doesn’t already have a GPU in their lab will probably notice it quite clearly on their power bill.
A megacorps server farm is huge, but its also amortised over millions of users, they probably don’t need 1-1 GPU to customers, so the efficiency isnt necessarily bad. (Although at the moment, given megacorps are tripping over themselves to throw compute at LLM training, this may not be true)
- Comment on Would you use a self-hosted, AI-powered search engine for your favorite sites? 2 weeks ago:
Idle is low power, not zero power. And it won’t be idle when its scraping and parsing the sites, so depending on how much scraping its doing, it could be significant non-idle energy usage.
- Comment on Would you use a self-hosted, AI-powered search engine for your favorite sites? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, absolutely. And running a GPU 24/7 to occasionally search is just a waste of power. I’m not convinced that google and bings AI search makes financial sense either, Google dropped live search (where the results updated as you typed realtime) because it was too expensive, how does LLM search end up cheaper than live search?!
- Comment on Would you use a self-hosted, AI-powered search engine for your favorite sites? 2 weeks ago:
I personally have zero interest in AI search, if you mean LLM. The fact that it can make stuff up, also means it can miss stuff as well. Neither are acceptable for a search engine.
If you mean some kind of deterministic algorithm for indexing and searching, then maybe.
Also, attempting to crawl sites locally sounds like a great way to get banned from those sites for looking like a bot.
- Comment on TikTok is shutting down Instagram competitor TikTok Notes, redirecting users to Lemon8. 3 weeks ago:
I really don’t want him remaking the video…
- Comment on TikTok is shutting down Instagram competitor TikTok Notes, redirecting users to Lemon8. 3 weeks ago:
That is very weird, especially as it was renewed in 2024.
- Comment on TikTok is shutting down Instagram competitor TikTok Notes, redirecting users to Lemon8. 3 weeks ago:
You have an interesting definition of “good things” my friend. As far as I can tell, it is down, which is why I didn’t put a content warning on it.