Toribor
@Toribor@corndog.social
- Comment on AI-powered weapons scanners used in NYC subway found zero guns in one month test 3 weeks ago:
Facial recognition confirmed he was a criminal and the scanner confirmed he had a gun! Of course we opened fire instantly. How could we have known it was just some guy with a water bottle?
- Comment on Your politics can affect whether you click on sponsored search results, new research shows. 3 weeks ago:
I can’t believe that there are people are out there just raw dogging the Internet with no AdBlock. The advertising is so aggressive and intrusive. I legitimately cannot tolerate using the Internet when 80% of the page is filled with attention grabbing bullshit.
- Comment on What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger? 3 weeks ago:
Where else am I going to share the fun stuff I find with StumbleUpon?
- Comment on Bethesda Believes Starfield Now Has "Its Own Fanbase" 5 weeks ago:
While true, this was not in the game until over a year after launch. Otherwise I think basically every other vehicle (spaceship/tram/etc) is either a cutscene or a loading screen or both.
- Comment on Bethesda Believes Starfield Now Has "Its Own Fanbase" 5 weeks ago:
The loading screens were unavoidable back in maybe 2005 when they released Oblivion. But now it’s 20 years later and it’s pretty crazy that they are still dealing with the same limitations where the game is split up into zones with a max of like 12 NPCs each before you have to load in a new zone.
I understand it’s mostly due to the way they handle everything as a physics object in the game, but it’s hard to believe the gameplay sacrifices they are making just so I can dump like 100 cheese wheels or whatever on the ground and watch them roll around.
- Comment on Bethesda Believes Starfield Now Has "Its Own Fanbase" 5 weeks ago:
I played Cyberpunk again for the first time in a while and was thinking about how something simple like getting out of my car and taking an elevator up to an apartment had zero cutscenes. In Starfield it would have been a cutscene getting in the car, a loading screen for driving, a cutscene exiting the car, a loading screen entering the building, a loading screen entering the elevator, a loading screen entering the apartment…
- Comment on NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules 1 month ago:
They’re not expecting any one person to implement the whole thing.
Hahaha, tell that to leadership! 😩
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
If you can run 4k at high frame rates then sure but the performance hit can be huge and a lot of displays can only do 4k at 30Hz anyway which isn’t worth it when 1440p is usually an option.
- Comment on Marques Brownlee says ‘I hear you’ after fans criticize his new wallpaper app 1 month ago:
Back in the day people paid for ringtones, wallpapers, etc. Dumbest thing ever were ‘ringbacks’ where you paid to have a song or something play when people called you. So the people buying it didn’t even hear it, they just forced other people to listen to a shitty low fidelity garbled mess of a song they liked while you waited for them to pick up the phone.
- Comment on Marques Brownlee says ‘I hear you’ after fans criticize his new wallpaper app 1 month ago:
It’s kind of a paradox when you think about it. Good reviewers are often just regular people with a passion for tech but as they become more popular and prolific they become part of the industry itself. Once that happens even if they try to stay objective and critical their perspective is so different from regular people that reviews are just part of the sales and marketing strategy rather than pro tips from an enthusiast.
- Comment on NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules 1 month ago:
My career as a sysadmin consistently has me veering toward security and compliance and my brain is absolutely fried on trying to figure out what these huge docs actually mean, how they apply to the things I’m responsible for and what we’re supposed to do about it.
Props to all the folks that can do it without losing their mind.
- Comment on Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code 1 month ago:
Their mom’s basement, most likely.
- Comment on Day 40 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots (Jedi Fallen Order) 2 months ago:
Performance was ‘okay’ on my RTX2080 but I had to return it because the EA launcher was breaking steam controller input which made it unplayable.
- Comment on Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic” 2 months ago:
It’s clear that Valve’s competitors undervalue the user experience that Steam provides and don’t understand why it’s so sticky.
- Comment on Selfhost your own gitea instance - selfhosted, lightweight github alternative 2 months ago:
I intentionally do not host my own git repos mostly because I need them to be available when my environment is having problems.
I make use of local runners for CI/CD though which is nice but git is one of the few things I need to not have to worry about.
- Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers 2 months ago:
I was paying for Google music until they took it away from me and told me it was Youtube Premium and then raised the price twice.
Not exactly what I’d call a great value proposition.
- Comment on All Windows users should immediately update their computers. An exploit rated 9.8/10 (CVE-2024-38063) compromises all devices running Windows with an IPv6 address. 2 months ago:
IPv6 firewalls should, by default, offer similar levels of security to NAT
I think you’re probably right. We had decades of security experts saying that NAT is not a firewall and everyone on the planet treated it like one anyway. Now we’re overexposed for a no-NAT IPV6 internet.
- Comment on Microsoft begins cracking down on people dodging Windows 11's system requirements 2 months ago:
Somewhat ironically the Surface laptops are really great Linux machines.
- Comment on Infamous $30 Logitech F710 called out in $50M lawsuit over Titan sub implosion 3 months ago:
Should have put the ‘implode’ action on the shoulder button. It was only a matter of time before he triggered it on accident.
- Comment on TSMC Arizona struggles to overcome vast differences between Taiwanese and US work culture 3 months ago:
if you go to another country, you have to adjust to their law
Big business knows no national boundaries. They’ll build factories wherever labor is cheap, put headquarters wherever the taxes are low, and sell their wares wherever consumer rights are weak.
- Comment on Self-Hosted AI is pretty darn cool 3 months ago:
I’ve been testing Ollama in Docker/WSL with the idea that if I like it I’ll eventually move my GPU into my home server and get an upgrade for gaming. When you run a model it has to load the whole thing into VRAM. I use the 8gb models so it takes 20-40 seconds to load the model and then each response is really fast after that and the GPU hit is pretty small. After I think five minutes by default it will unload the model to free up VRAM.
Basically this means that you either need to wait a bit for the model to warm up or you need to extend that timeout so that it stays warm longer (or just get used to waiting on it). That also means that I cannot really use my GPU for anything else while the LLM is loaded.
I haven’t tracked power usage, but besides the VRAM requirements it doesn’t seem too intensive on resources, but maybe I just haven’t done anything complex enough yet.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new $5 microcontroller board, on sale now 3 months ago:
Is… secure boot considered controversial?
My usual experience with it is having to manually enroll a key on my laptop before I can install Linux or having to disable it entirely. Is the concern here that maybe this is a precursor to a more closed ecosystem?
- Comment on Talklinked Podcast talking about the Fediverse and Lemmy (Video min 22:18) 3 months ago:
Expecting other people to build the online communities you want to use is how we got the corporate social media bait and switch in the first place.
- Comment on Dynamic IP - Self hosting 3 months ago:
DuckDNS is great… but they have had some pretty major outages recently. No complaints, I know it’s an extremely valuable free service but it’s worth mentioning.
- Comment on Dynamic IP - Self hosting 3 months ago:
Cloudflare has an api for easy dynamic dns. I use oznu/docker-cloudflare-ddns to manage this, it’s super lightweight:
docker run \ -e API_KEY=xxxxxxx \ -e ZONE=example.com \ -e SUBDOMAIN=subdomain \ oznu/cloudflare-ddns
Then I just set CNAMEs for my public facing services to point to ‘subdomain.example.com’ and a reverse proxy to get incoming traffic to the right service.
- Comment on What we know (and don’t know) about Kamala Harris and tech policy 3 months ago:
I assume Harris would keep Lina Khan at the FTC so she can keep kicking ass there.
- Comment on Reddit changes have blocked all search engines except Google amid AI 'misuse' [U] 3 months ago:
Trying to influence AI overlords into following your political ideology is cyberpunk as hell.
- Comment on Windows 3.1 saves the day during CrowdStrike outage — Southwest Airlines scrapes by with archaic OS 3 months ago:
Windows 3.1 can’t use modern versions of tls which means it’s effectively impossible to network it securely.
- Comment on Windows 11 is nagging users to try OneDrive to "fully backup" your PC 3 months ago:
I’ve been using a Surface with Bazzite which works great.
- Comment on Some bad code just broke a billion Windows machines 3 months ago:
I don’t think that is what happened here in this situation though, I think the issue was caused exclusively by a Crowdstrike update but I haven’t read anything official that really breaks this down.