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- Comment on AI-powered vending machines that sell bullets could be hacked, says a cybersecurity expert 3 days ago:
The world would be better off if certain people ate a bullet. But those people usually are not in the vending machine target demographic.
- Comment on good replacement options power efficiency and affordable "large" storage 3 days ago:
The other responses have so far talked about hardware setup, so I’m not going to do that. Instead I’m looking at your software setup: VMs can be comparatively power inefficient compared to containers, specially for always-on services that idle often.
- Comment on I want to feel like a bad-ass wizard 1 week ago:
ARPG: Path of Exile, Last Epoch, Grim Dawn.
Also consider the survivors/bullet hell kinds of games: Vampire Survivors, Soulstone Survivors, etc.
- Comment on Someone make an app 3 weeks ago:
Fun fact, pollution makes sunset colors more vibrant.
- Comment on Explains a lot... 5 weeks ago:
A great adventure is waiting for you ahead. Hurry onward beetle, or you will soon be dead. The journey before you may be long and filled with woe. But you must escape the frog’s ass, or your tale can’t be told.
- Comment on When can we expect 500TB drives to be available? 1 month ago:
Moore’s law is about circuit density, not about storage, so the premise is invalidated in the first place.
There is research being done into 5D storage crystals, where a disc can theoretically hold up to 360TB of data, but don’t hold your breath about them being available soon.
- Comment on Google is testing verified checkmarks in search 1 month ago:
Yelp has the numbers.
- Comment on Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox 1 month ago:
That’s uBlock Origin Lite, which the developer already stated is grossly inadequate for ad blocking.
- Comment on Would you trust AI to scan your genitals for STIs? 1 month ago:
That’s LLM AI, but the type I’m talking about is the machine learning kind. I can envision a system that takes e.g. a sample’s test data and provides a summary, which is not far from what doctors do anyway. If you ever get a blood test’s results explained to you it’s “this value is high, which would be concerning except that this other value is not high, so you’re probably fine regarding X. However, I notice that this other value is low, and this can be an indicator of Y. I’m going to request a follow-up test regarding that.” Yes, I would trust an AI to give me that explanation, because those are very strict parameters to work with, and the input comes from a trusted source (lab results and medical training data) and not “Bob’s shrimping and hoola hoop dancing blog”.
- Comment on Would you trust AI to scan your genitals for STIs? 1 month ago:
AI trained to do that job? Sure, yeah. LLM AI? Fuck no.
- Comment on "Skip ad's" YouTube and "Skip Intro" on Netflix take the same amount of effort but I only hate the former. 1 month ago:
same amount of effort
Physical effort, yes. Cognitive effort, no.
- Intros on a serial show are expected, and in some cases change subtly from one episode to another to provide additional entertainment value (eg the Simpsons intro). In other cases a change of intro sets the setting for the episode (eg Star Trek: Enterprise’s Storm Front episodes).
- YouTube ads are not related to the show, provide no contextual value, and in the case of interstitial ads are not even at a predictable time. They also tend to be inanely repetitive, showing the same ad over and over in consecutive videos. Contrast those to eg halftime ads at the Superbowl broadcasts, which have predictable timing, variety, and have a history of being (or trying to be) entertaining.
- Comment on Minecraft is getting a new biome and The Creaking, a creepy mob that only moves when you look away 1 month ago:
Since the mob is immune to damage as long as the heart is safe it could also work as bait for mobs that are hostile to it.
- Comment on YouTuber claims another channel used AI to clone his voice without consent 1 month ago:
The only reason they offered compensation is because he’s well known. How many small time content creators don’t have the fame to cause such a reaction and are left high and dry?
- Comment on What is the purpose of this plastic piece? 1 month ago:
It could be to protect the cord from being damaged by the prongs - the plastic cover would be softer and less sharp.
- Comment on Square! 1 month ago:
- Comment on Why do phone manufacturers use in-display fingerprint readers instead of fingerprint readers on the power button? 1 month ago:
Pixel 8 user here - the in-display fingerprint reader is fine, as long as my finger isn’t super dry (which happens regularly). So I’m regularly licking my finger to unlock the device like some boomer that’s used to doing it from turning pages in a book.
- Comment on Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years 1 month ago:
It’s indestructible, but not unflushable.
- Comment on Burning Up 2 months ago:
On the other hand it dilutes the effect of lower values because a lot of them are double digit. 20F, 40F, 60F… all double digit, but wildly varying. On the other hand, with Celsius you get:
- Below 0: There’s ice/snow.
- 0: Things are freezing/thawing (depending on what the temperature was before.
- 10s (Spring): T-shirt weather.
- 10s (Fall): Sweater weather.
- 20s: Nice in the sun.
- 30s: Nice in the shade.
- 40s: THIS IS PUNISHMENT FOR OUR HUBRIS.
- Comment on Are there any negatives side effects to using PGP all the time with email? 2 months ago:
I don’t know if it’s still the case, but in my experience (years ago) PGP messed with the proper rendering of HTTP email bodies.
From a security standpoint also, the signature confirming that the email is from your is a double edged sword: Yes, your contacts get to verify that it’s you, but you’re also losing plausible deniability (privacy).
- Comment on David Farrier’s TV started telling him it hated him and it’s fascinating 2 months ago:
The article’s author mentioned that the problem is not limited to Samsung TVs - someone reported the issue on their phone.
The article does not mention a root cause, but I have a theory that it’s likely a malformed subtitle track. I tend to watch with subtitles on so I run into related issues every once in a while. Most of the time it’s one of two things:
- The subtitles are misaligned (eg wrong offset, addressed by adding a positive or negative delay to the track)
- Bad formatting on the timing information.
The latter can have multiple effects depending on what format the subs are in, but most of the time it’s a missing end time, meaning that the subtitle stays on. However, some formats also have cues as to who the speaker is, and that comes with a start and end tag like in HTML. I suspect that in this case the end tag is either missing or misaligned in the syntax tree, causing this one line of dialogue to be displayed over and over when the player reaches other lines matching the cue for it, but that don’t get shown because the user has turned subtitles off.
As to why this is bleeding into other shows: I suspect it’s an issue with how the software clients are caching the subtitle files. This would also explain why going back into the episode that caused this fixes things, because it would reset the cached file. Which in turn brings me back to pointing the finger at Amazon, not Samsung, because Samsung would just be loading Amazon’s software client to play the video and subtitles.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director says "almost all games should cost more at a base level" because they cost so much to make 2 months ago:
It also has to be fully functional offline. I don’t want to be locked out because someone’s login server is down.
- Comment on Do you prefer to buy games on Steam or GOG? 2 months ago:
My decision tree roughly follows these steps:
- Steam for games that have an online multiplayer content, because GoG Galaxy sucks ass on Linux.
- Steam for games that objectively run better on Proton.
- GoG for games that support LAN multiplayer.
I used to also prioritize GoG because it was largely DRM-free, but the Luna partnership is putting doubt on that.
- Comment on See-Through Windows Make Clean Electricity From Raindrops 2 months ago:
Transparent vs translucent.
- Comment on Multiple Kubernetes Services Using Same Port Without SNI 2 months ago:
Yeah, you’d have a LoadBalancer service for Traefik which gets assigned a VIP outside the cluster.
- Comment on Multiple Kubernetes Services Using Same Port Without SNI 2 months ago:
virtual IP addresses
Yeah, metallb.
- Comment on If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"? 2 months ago:
M’lady and Squire.
- Comment on In your opinion what's the best way to do and restore full backups of a Linux server? 2 months ago:
The container is reproducible. Container configuration is in version control. That leaves you with the volumes mounted into the container, which you back up like any other disk.
- Comment on What's the difference between a $50 HDD and a $200 HDD? 2 months ago:
It’s not that Seagate improved (which it may have), it’s more that WD has noticeably declined. It’s not a race to the bottom (yet), but there’s effectively no competition any more, so they aren’t incentivised to improve quality.
- Comment on We keep running into LLMs that are pretending to be people, but I bet there are a handful of people out there pretending to be LLMs. 2 months ago:
There’s Amazon’s mechanical Turk, and after that self driving car hit a pedestrian and stopped on top of him it turned out that Cruise “self driving” cars depend on human operators when they get stuck.
- Comment on Proxmox: Trouble with permissions with a a mountpoint in a lxc "audiobookshelf" 3 months ago:
Figure out the uid/gid (numeric) for the user in lxc, then change the data permissions to those.
