scarilog
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- Comment on Cubic millimetre of brain mapped in spectacular detail 4 days ago:
The 3D map covers a volume of about one cubic millimetre, one-millionth of a whole brain, and contains roughly 57,000 cells and 150 million synapses — the connections between neurons. It incorporates a colossal 1.4 petabytes of data.
Assuming this means the total data of the map is 1.4 petabytes. Crazy to think that mapping of the entire brain will probably happen within the next century.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi storybook uses AI to create stories with pictures on its eInk display 2 weeks ago:
Nope, running locally on the Pi.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi storybook uses AI to create stories with pictures on its eInk display 2 weeks ago:
That’s not the point of this I think lol. It’s very impressive as a tech demo, that even a device even as underpowered as a Pi can run these AI models to a passable degree.
- Comment on Professor meow meow 4 weeks ago:
Didn’t catch the year ahaha
- Comment on Professor meow meow 4 weeks ago:
Find and replace “I” with “we”? Nah, we adding the kitty
- Comment on xkcd #2915: Eclipse Clouds 5 weeks ago:
Tis a joke my good sir
- Comment on Bypassing Denuvo in Hogwarts Legacy 1 month ago:
Very cool. Reading something intentionally vague like this that doesn’t really have the little details, but only the achievements of the process, makes it look deceptively simple. When in actual fact there is(was?) basically a single unhinged person around that has the knowledge to crack DRM on modern games.
- Comment on Fully working 270€ Nest Dropcam will no longer be supported. 2 months ago:
Someone’s working on an open source implementation of the low level wifi firmware for the ESP32 here. Would be cool if they do actually manage to reverse engineer something usable.
- Comment on Sense 2 months ago:
OP’s wisdom knows no bounds
- Comment on Partner broke the vacuum tube, so designed and printed replacements. 2 months ago:
Well you’ve clearly never 3d modelled anything. Especially for a part that has to fit to existing parts, it takes far more time than just making a cylinder.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 2 months ago:
Linux isn’t for mainstream users yet. It wasn’t when I tried switching to it several years back, it isn’t now.
I tried Zorin recently, UI looked absolutely beautiful so I wanted to try and get into it on my laptop.
Only issue is, the trackpad scroll speed was too fast. I went into settings to try and slow this down. No dice, this option just want available. I tried googling, which led me to some stackexchange posts, which I tried to use to solve the issue by changing xinput or something device parameters.
I tried for maybe 15 mins to do this without success. This kinda stuff is why Linux is not ready for the masses yet. I shouldn’t have to touch the command line for something like this. On windows I could have changed this without googling anything or touching the cli.
I know this is just one thing, but it’s representative of my other experiences with Linux in general. Things seem to have improved since several years ago (needed terminal to even get touchscreen working in Firefox), bit it’s just not there yet.
I really do want to switch to Linux, but I don’t want my computer os to be a hobby project that I have to sink time into to keep functional, I need to to be a tool that lets me get work done with minimal roadblocks.
- Comment on Apple is officially dropping iPhone support for web apps in the EU - The Verge 2 months ago:
Just wanted to chime in that I’m not an apple user, I primarily use android and windows. iPad is the only iOS device I use. I flat out disagree with clunky, Apple’s UI design (on iOS at least) is beautiful. UX wise, I can’t comment on functional differences between Android and iOS, at this stage in time, both are comparably usable for most people.
- Comment on Apple is officially dropping iPhone support for web apps in the EU - The Verge 2 months ago:
You can say many things about apple but clunky and unintuitive would not be it.
- Comment on Asahi Linux project’s OpenGL support on Apple Silicon officially surpasses Apple’s 2 months ago:
Honestly mad respect to these Devs man. Gotta realise they’re doing this stuff for free and they’re not getting paid. If anyone hasn’t checked out the Asahi Linux blog, do give it a read, it has done fascinating deep dives into Apple’s hardware engineering.
- Comment on Self hosted Wetransfer? 2 months ago:
If you have regular backups, not an issue. I use bitwarden self hosted through home assistant, which makes daily backups trivial.
- Comment on SilverBullet: the self-hosted notes app for people with a hacker mindset 2 months ago:
There’s a forum I think, discord seems to be, as it clearly says, for real-time support and discussion.
I despise Discord as an alternative to a proper support forum, but having both options like this is great.
- Comment on Taylor Swift has won the Superbowl! 2 months ago:
Can someone please explain this meme to a non-american? Been seeing this everywhere and the us president has posted that pic of himself with red eyes on twitter and I have no idea what’s going on.
- Comment on Music Piracy Is Back, Baby 3 months ago:
Most people can’t tell the difference between low bitrate vs high bitrate. Usually just confirmation bias.
Have you truly tested whether you can? I don’t mean playing each side by side and seeing whether you can tell the difference, but actually testing yourself in a way that you don’t know which is being played (like having someone else play it for you).
- Comment on New South Wales independent journalist FriendlyJordies takes down "Coronation" video after death threats persist since arrest of suspect who firebombed his home a year ago. 3 months ago:
Anyone have a tl;dr of the video in question? Haven’t got time to watch it right now
- Comment on Innovation in Japan: McDonald's installs phone cleaning devices. Kills 99.9% of germs within 30 seconds while customers wash their hands - VIDEO 3 months ago:
Qi chargers are the way to go imo. Make it out of some nice hard plastic and much more difficult to vandalize.
- Comment on Have you tried LocalGPT PrivateGPT or other similar alternatives to ChatGPT? 4 months ago:
There’s a project called Tabby that your can host as a server on a machine that has a GPU, and has a VSCode extension that connects to the server.
The default model is called starcoder, and it’s the small version, 1B parameters. The downside is that it’s not super smart (but still an improvement over built in tools), but since it’s such a small model, I’m getting sub-second processing times.
- Comment on Pornhub blocks North Carolina and Montana as porn regulation spreads 4 months ago:
6.8k stars for what looks like the jellyfin of porn.
- Comment on Scientists Destroy 99% of Cancer Cells in The Lab Using Vibrating Molecules 4 months ago:
:(
- Comment on Utah Supreme Court says suspects can refuse to hand over phone passwords to the police | Other state Supreme Courts disagree and the case would wind up before the US Supreme Court 4 months ago:
Well that’s just not true I’ve crossed international borders before and have never had to do this.
- Comment on Utah Supreme Court says suspects can refuse to hand over phone passwords to the police | Other state Supreme Courts disagree and the case would wind up before the US Supreme Court 4 months ago:
Country borders? If so, what countries?
- Comment on Beeper Mini Is Back 5 months ago:
Underlying implementation already is. You can connect I iMessage and send and receive messages using the python implementation on your PC if you want.
- Comment on There’s a new iMessage for Android app — and it actually works 5 months ago:
Yeah I know I was referring to the notifications, because my understanding is that you need a separate server to forward notifications to your device from the APN…? Idk maybe the firebase free tier can handle this without the need for a desktop app running somewhere.
- Comment on There’s a new iMessage for Android app — and it actually works 5 months ago:
Running BlueBubbles at the moment, eagerly awaiting someone to build a self hosted implementation of this so I can stop relying on my macos VM.
- Comment on Banana Pi BPI-M7 - More Reasons to Avoid the Raspberry Pi 5 months ago:
And power, that’s a pretty important metric if you plan on running something 24/7.
- Comment on ChatGPT, how do I use OCR in Word? 5 months ago:
It uses the windows built in API for ocr. Isn’t very good in my experience.