clif

@clif@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  But what about videos of DOGS farting?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is one of the best engineering school in the world. You can take free courses at MIT online.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  We should start using “my friend Anna” similarly to “friend of Dorothy” but for books.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 555 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I recently picked up MCC on Deck for the nostalgia. It’s been at least 15 years since I played the original and I don’t think I played any of the sequels.

  MCC is weird on Deck - you have to install the games through the Steam DLC menu, not the “install games here like the instructions say” inside of MCC.

  I was super pissed I needed a Microsoft account to play, and that the login screen glitched repeatedly, but I eventually got in.

  … Single player only for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s being pushed very hard by management where I work and I’m consistently seeing the same as above. I mentioned on another thread recently that I’ve heard “I don’t know why Claude did that” multiple times over the past few weeks.

  It’s infuriating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Definitely the safest source for advice⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One example I like to use is to ask it for the lyrics of an extremely well known song. It just makes shit up based on the title you give it.

  The online ones (Claude, chatgpt, copilot, etc) now refuse to do it for ““copyright reasons”” but the offline ones still happily oblige. I assume the online ones added that block because it was such an obvious way to prove they don’t “know” shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Steam dev is deleting his own game after girlfriend made him realize AI is bad⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d agree with this. I’m a dev, I can make things work, I can’t do art/graphics/assets/etc for shit. Give me 5 or 6 hours and I might be able to get you one image that is semi passable if the intended artistic style is “3 year old with crayons”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosting in 2025 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Glad to see this comment on the chain. I haven’t tried it myself (yet) but I’ve got a friend that does and says it works great.

  It’s on my list. Unfortunately, it’s a really long list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Users of generative AI struggle to accurately assess their own competence⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, me too!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still running spinny disks for my big-ish data. I can’t afford a 16TB SSD…

  I know that’s off topic, but HDDs are still a thing too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There exist people who will go through the effort of leaving their home, traveling to a movie theatre, paying for a ticket, and sitting for 2-3 hours for a movie they claim "nobody wants to see"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This.

  Some of my favorite movies are “bad” movies. I’ve got a friend who feels the same way and we SMS each other single line movie titles and just know the other will understand.

  A recent SMS was “poultrygeist night of the chicken dead” … It was fantastic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Went to a wedding shower that was nature themed awhile back and the attendance prize was a small jar of local honey with one of these attached. I’ve never used one so I am curious to give it a try.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Biggest rock is best rock.

  I still use this joke any time rocks or size comes up in conversation but it’s so old that nobody ever gets it and they just look at me like I had a stroke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have a suggestion but commenting so I’ll remember to follow. I’ve just been using the CLI but if there’s a nice management system I’m interested.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I definitely know that feeling.

  Now that I’m at a keyboard, here’s the plugin I was referring to : github.com/caddy-dns/namecheap

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Namecheap supports this according to docs. I just haven’t tested yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t caddy support that (name cheap txt mod) via a plug-in?

  I haven’t tried it yet, but the plugin made it sound possible. I’m planning to automate on next expiration… When I get to it ;)

  I did already compile caddy with the plugin, just haven’t generated my name cheap token and tested.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix kills casting from phones⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine runs on my desktop that I built in 2016. So yes. I also tested it on a Lenovo tiny (similar to a NUC) that I’m using as a self host “server” and it seemed fine but I didn’t try any heavy transcoding yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what do you use to add weight?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re creating a time capsule that someone will later discover and say “o shit, remember pennies?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire’s Pee-Drinking Skills and ‘Blowjob Prowess’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Grok here: computers are fine, humans were a mistake

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First snake to be covered in vegan butter?!?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They got really REALLY good at a particular niche. They suck at everything else.

  I say this as a loving python parent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First snake to be covered in vegan butter?!?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This tracks with my experience. “get really high… Fall off”

  Lil goobers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  First 30 seconds of every mission : “I’m going to be soooo sneaky”

  The rest of the mission: “Guess I have to kill everybody now”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I still type ifconfig by habit. Some kid the other day told me that you can judge a person’s age and Linux experience by whether they expect ifconfig and netstat vs ip and ss.

  … I’m just glad they kept the parameters the same in ss

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What went wrong with Pizza Hut?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a “deal” they always have, if you find it on their site, but any large 2 topping pizza for $9 doesn’t seem bad… As many as you want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll never not upvote Veronica Explains. Excellent creator and excellent info on everything I’ve seen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bonus points for no jailbreak required : D I didn’t even realize there was a jailbreak for it (or what benefits there are to jailbreaking it… I should do some research but I haven’t found anything I couldn’t do with the stock firmware and it sounds like you generally came to the same conclusion).

  Mine is using the stock firmware, wifi off unless using Overdrive, but I plug it into my computer to charge and load it with books. It just shows up as a mass storage device like a USB thumb drive and you can copy/paste books onto it (or use Calibre). After disconnecting it will scan for new/changed files and auto-import any recognized formats into the reader application.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also saying Kobo. I’ve got the Kobo Libra Colour and love it.

  It’s the only ereader I’ve ever owned but I used the spouse’s Nook and Kindle a couple of times in the past and the Kobo kills it. Granted, we’re talking about a nearly new release of the Kobo vs a 5+ year old Kindle so it’s not a fair comparison.

  Because of eInk and auto-sleep, the battery lasts me well over a month of casual reading (~30min before bed) with the occasional multi hour weekend session. Backlight is present and is totally readable in dark areas at <10% brightness; 100% brightness is like a supernova in your face. While the Libra Colour is not specifically a note-taking tablet like a reMarkable, it does just fine for quick notes/todo lists/etc but I did splurge on the ($60) stylus. There’s a “notes” application that comes pre-installed.
  eBook support for writing in margins (or over text), underline/circling, highlighting, etc is really nice but occasionally the highlight is flakey when trying to highlight the end of a paragraph. That seems to have been specific to certain epubs rather than an “always” thing, but it happens in around 20% of epubs I’ve used.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not that I would know from experience, but I hear there are Calibre plugins that will allow a user to pull the DRM’d book (downloaded via Overdrive) to a computer and remove the DRM.

  I’ve read that it’s a polite thing to do because you’re able to return borrowed books much more quickly so other users can check them out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wobble wobble⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I forget that there are large centrifuges (somebody posted about Stuxnet further down).

  Or, more accurately, I’m more familiar with the small ones (ThermoFisher calls them “Mini” and “Micro” centrifuges) for ~0.5mL samples and I had a hard time thinking that those would blow out a room. But the same link (ThermFisher) that I looked at to find the names also specifies 17,000g and 21,000g models which is just… fucking insane. I knew they spun fast, I didn’t know they spun 21,000g’s fast. Learn something new every day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨proof of wormholes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Look at the elitist over here that knows how to read : P

  I never learned and you can’t make me.