Quazatron
@Quazatron@lemmy.world
A peace loving silly coffee-fueled humanoid carbon-based lifeform that likes #cinema #photography #linux #zxspectrum #retrogaming
- Comment on AI Experts No Longer Saving for Retirement Because They Assume AI Will Kill Us All by Then 8 hours ago:
Why fear artificial intelligence when natural stupidity is so much more powerful?
- Comment on Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s. 23 hours ago:
ZFS is your friend.
superuser.com/…/how-exactly-do-btrfs-zfs-and-rela…
But nothing replaces a good backup strategy! Borg backup can help you there.
- Comment on Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s. 23 hours ago:
I use Jellyfin also.
My workflow is like this: buy CDs from Discogs, rip them to FLAC, adjust filenames, covers and metadata with Picard, push the files to Jellyfin that promptly detects the new files.
I also use Soundconverter in Linux to generate MP3s files for devices that don’t support FLAC.
I’m very happy with this setup and my collection has never been so organized.
- Comment on Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s. 1 day ago:
You’ll find that MusicBrainz Picard is a heaven sent tool to properly tag your files, with optional proper renaming.
It takes some getting used to, and I find it works best in whole albums, but produces a much more professional library.
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 2 days ago:
I’ve always been fascinated by the lengths puritans will go to prevent kids from seeing mammary glands, while simultaneously being ok with them watching blood and violence.
- Comment on Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation 5 days ago:
We do what we must because we can.
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 5 days ago:
It’s always been like that - panem et circenses.
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 6 days ago:
I feel you, protests in my country are not as effective as french or spanish protests, and usually devolve into large picnics instead.
Because you can’t protest in an empty stomach. On the other hand, now we’re too full to protest. Let’s go home, Benfica is playing today.
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 6 days ago:
Look, you are the county that came up with hooligan concept. Do try to apply it locally. I’ve seen the french act harsher for pettier reasons.
- Comment on A handful of people are slowly killing over 8 billion people, but we're expected to sit idly by and let it happen 1 week ago:
You’re being pumped full of microplastics, the climate is being shot so you can make funny AI memes.
But glad you’re feeling fine. Keep at it.
- Comment on Chat Control is back & we've got two months to stop the EU CSAM scanning plans. 1 week ago:
Well, they are not, and they will keep trying for as long as it takes.
So stop whining and let them know it’s not fine.
I’ve probably seen this shit more times than you have, but I’m still doing my part.
- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 1 week ago:
One factor they don’t seem to consider is that they are competing for a finite resource: consumer attention.
There has never been so much content to consume: not only games, movies, series, music, books, podcasts, and even old games.
New games have to compete with and stand above all that content to justify the price.
As others have said, purchase power is down, people subscribe to more services (net, mobile, streaming music and video), all that bites into the available budget to buy games.
Bottom line: it’s getting hard to justify spending that amount on a game you don’t have time to play.
- Comment on UK government suggests deleting files to save water 1 week ago:
The current crop of politicians (not just in the UK) is something else. They keep poking their nose at things that are not their concern and fail spectacularly at fixing things that are (health, housing, employment, education, infrastructures).
- Comment on World's first 'thermodynamic computing chip' reaches tape out 1 week ago:
In the early days of computing, people experimented with different signaling frameworks between electronic components (valves and later transistors). Decimal and ternary were used and abandoned because binary is much easier to implement and noise resistant.
What we do today is simulate non -deterministic (noisy) signals in LLM using deterministic (binary) signals, which is a massively inefficient way to do it.
I expect more chips with a neuron-like architecture will be coming out in the Next few years. It would certainly be a benefit for the environment, as the cat will not get back in the bag
- Comment on AI companion apps are on track to generate $120M+ in revenue in 2025, and in H1 there were 60M downloads of this kind of app, up 88% YoY 1 week ago:
So Marvin was right.
“I’ve calculated your chance of survival, but I don’t think you’ll like it.”
- Comment on ZX Spectrum Next Issue 3 on Kickstarter 1 week ago:
Got my lovely KS1 right here. Wonderful machine, I wish I had more time to do anything useful with it.
- Comment on Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases 2 weeks ago:
Only nerds and dweebs and losers play single player games.
Some people actively avoid multiplayer games to avoid obnoxious, entitled kids.
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 2 weeks ago:
If I’m renting music, at least give me FLAC level quality.
No, 320 kbps won’t do.
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 2 weeks ago:
Dropped it for Tidal years ago, never looked back.
I’ve started collecting CDs and building my own Jellyfin library so I don’t depend on streaming services.
- Comment on DF Retro EX: Heretic + Hexen Review - Fantasy FPS Classics Receive Exceptional Remasters! 2 weeks ago:
I was about to buy it on Steam and it turns out that it is free if you already own the originals. Sweet!
- Comment on Big tech has spent $155 billion on AI this year. It’s about to spend hundreds of billions more 3 weeks ago:
It’s porn.
It’s always porn that decides if a technology lives or dies.
- Comment on Sync-in, a new alternative to Nextcloud 3 weeks ago:
The logo needs work. I read that as Syncoin and had a repulse reaction.
- Comment on Chinese researchers suggest lasers and sabotage to counter Musk’s Starlink satellites 3 weeks ago:
This leads to the question of where I can find rule 34 of this.
- Comment on Chinese researchers suggest lasers and sabotage to counter Musk’s Starlink satellites 3 weeks ago:
Each new technology immediately raises two questions: how do we destroy it and how do we use it for destruction.
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 3 weeks ago:
Maybe its because Cameron is not one of my favorite directors. I love T2, of course but I can’t say the same about Titanic because (you guessed it) I still have not watched it and also didn’t buy into the hype when it was released. I remember that movie theaters were booked solid for weeks and you couldn’t get a ticket. No movie is that good or justifies that kind of hype, so I have skipped it so far.
- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 3 weeks ago:
It is sad to see the mental gymnastics people do to justify their inertia.
“It’s opt-in!”
“You can disable feature X easily by editing the registry”
“You can install this tool from a shifty site to restore that feature MS disabled”
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 3 weeks ago:
Am I the only one here that has never seen it or understands what the hype is about?
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 3 weeks ago:
I can live with that.
- Comment on The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived 4 weeks ago:
Somehow I’m pretty sure Google already had that information. You’ve never used Google Wallet to pay on the go? No? How about your Android keyboard to fill in some banking form?
- Comment on The company behind Candy Crush is preparing to lay off around 200 employees amid a push to replace designers, researchers, and creative staff with AI. 4 weeks ago:
Best of luck. Cheers.