TheOctonaut

@TheOctonaut@mander.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you were (falsely) accused of murder, but you have records of your phone at home with youtube videos being played, can you submit those records as a sort of Alibi to exonerate you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Crimes are (ostensibly) supposed to be proven beyond doubt, so yes, it can be (and often is, I work for a telecom) used evidence, for both prosecution and defence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One gamer got so tired of waiting for Valve, he made his own 'Steam Controller 2' out of Steam Deck parts, and it even splits in half like Switch Joy-Cons⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes but

  • it doesn’t let me charge and play at the same time
  • I could hot swap in and out batteries, but it doesn’t report battery percentage
  • It also doesn’t auto-pause when the battery dies, like other systems do
  • It runs through them quickly
  • it acts finicky/unpredictable when the battery is very low, rather than reaching a consistent threshold and stopping working
  • In combination with a bug/anti-feature I’ve posted about previously, my Steam Deck sees it as a new controller every time the batteries are replaced, despite the Bluetooth MAC/BDA not changing.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One gamer got so tired of waiting for Valve, he made his own 'Steam Controller 2' out of Steam Deck parts, and it even splits in half like Switch Joy-Cons⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For me, I want one with internal rechargeable (and replaceable) batteries, more reliable Bluetooth, and multi-device targeting (ie those 1,2,3 toggles you see on stuff like mouse/keyboards - I use mine on my Steam Deck and also on my desktop - dont want to mess with pairing each time. Plus if I end up with with a Switch 2, the trackpad would be interesting for mouse mode if those could connect (no idea)).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The grass is happy to see you ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Grass, famously, does not die when it’s cut. In fact to some degree, grass benefits from being grazed on, as grazers in a meadow will eat everything - leaving grass that is ready to grow back quickly, and severely harmed weeds and shrubs that will either die or be significantly set back while the grass quickly overshadows it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Massive internet outage reported: Google services, Cloudflare, Character.AI among dozens of services impacted⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your code can compile while you’re in a retro, retrospectively looking back at the action items raised in a previous retro but not assigned any sprint time in the current sprint so you just raised a "what went wrong about it not being planned and now you have more non-sprint work to do because every problem should be presented with a solution and if you could have that for the next retro they’ll review this retro’s action items and see if you have a proposal for fixing retro action items

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure what you interpret from the words “policy changes” but they dont usually refer to a weird feeling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Vibes. Got it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with moths and lamps in lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bizarre questions like this make me more confident my blocklist is working

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twenty-seven states and DC sue 23andMe to oppose the sale of DNA data from its customers without their direct consent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Raped some native girl and then… took custody of the child?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The use of lunar calendar might be the reason why days start at midnight.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Quite apart from all these people telling you that the day used to start at sunset, I am curious as to how you came to the thought in the first place, since the moon and it’s phases do not align to hours at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch 2 GameCube controller will only be offered to those who pre-order the console⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy 24/7: “if its free, you’re the product”

  Lemmy on Nintendo: “Why should I pay for online play?! It needs to be free, moderated, and exist indefinitely even after the obsolescence of the product. Otherwise, I’m entirely justified in pirating everything.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch 2 GameCube controller will only be offered to those who pre-order the console⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A controller that is useful only when you have that online subscription to play the back catalogue, yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are people from Moscow and Versailles called?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People are answering your headline but not understanding your question; the two aren’t as linked as they would be in French.

  All of these are valid:

  • I went to a Moscow school
  • I went to a school in Moscow
  • I went to a Versaille cafe
  • I went to a cafe in Versaille.
  • I dated a London girl
  • I dated a girl from London

  These sound more natural than the following: *I went to a Muscovite school *I went to a Versaillian cafe (People have been giving you the direct French for Versaillais, but English wouldn’t use fhat)

  • I dated a Londoner girl.

  At least for Muscovite, it retains the implication that the school is for people from Moscow, rather than the school being in Moscow. You can see this a lot more often in religion, eg. I went to a Presbyterian school - I went to a school for Presbyterians.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨would getting back with an ex be a bad idea?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure this even counts because the guy basically said let’s be friends and she has leapt to thinking about getting back together. This just sounds like someone with issues of their own, if dating someone who is obviously unthinking but falls well within the predicted bounds of normal behaviour for a teenager makes them think they might be a lesbian.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any hope for Ukraine to survive as an independent state now that trump is desperately wishing for a peace treaty with Russia, even bypassing Ukraine?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Rockerface is Ukrainian, not American.

  Being a seemingly temporary non-nation, Americans don’t always understand that people don’t usually just give up and accept conquest. If a people continue to distinguish themselves strongly enough without being literally wiped out or assimilated, they will survive annexation until the next opportunity for rebellion or freedom. Ireland resisted Britain for 800 years - a few years in the shadows of dictators until ordinary Russians grow balls/tits again isn’t necessarily the end of Ukraine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DeepSeek Proves It: Open Source is the Secret to Dominating Tech Markets (and Wall Street has it wrong).⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the accepted terminology

  No, it isn’t. The OSI specifically requires the training data be available or at very least that the source and fee for the data be given so that a user could get the same copy themselves. Because that’s the purpose of something being “open source”. Open source doesn’t just mean free to download and use.

  opensource.org/ai/open-source-ai-definition

  Data Information: Sufficiently detailed information about the data used to train the system so that a skilled person can build a substantially equivalent system. Data Information shall be made available under OSI-approved terms.

  In particular, this must include: (1) the complete description of all data used for training, including (if used) of unshareable data, disclosing the provenance of the data, its scope and characteristics, how the data was obtained and selected, the labeling procedures, and data processing and filtering methodologies; (2) a listing of all publicly available training data and where to obtain it; and (3) a listing of all training data obtainable from third parties and where to obtain it, including for fee.

  As per their paper, DeepSeek R1 required a very specific training data set because when they tried the same technique with less curated data, they got R"zero’ which basically ran fast and spat out a gibberish salad of English, Chinese and Python.

  People are calling DeepSeek open source purely because they called themselves open source, but they seem to just be another free to download, black-box model. The best comparison is to Meta’s LlaMa, which weirdly nobody has decided is going to up-end the tech industry.

  In reality “open source” is a terrible terminology for what is a very loose fit when basically trying to say that anyone could recreate or modify the model because they have the exact ‘recipe’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wonder Woman Game is "Years Away From Release" As Warner Bros. Gaming Division Struggles⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How about if the idle animation is Gal Gadot in full IDF regalia singing “Imagine”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Quite the opposite, my workplace is pretty fun and we definitely don’t need to couch jokes in emotions for safety. Maybe this is the same thing that requires people these days to use sarcasm tags.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Please don’t wink in a work context

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone ported Discord to Windows 95, because why wouldn't you⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While I sympathise, hat’s not what imposition means. For better or for worse, both Discord and Reddit got where they were by being good for what they offered.

  I’d almost agree in a way about Reddit - they basically imposed a shitty app after building their base. But apart from the username change, Discord is as shitty or great as it always has been.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone ported Discord to Windows 95, because why wouldn't you⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Imposes?

  You just not use it right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Forbidden Words’: Github Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The point is that no branch was ever called a slave branch, just as no audio copy was ever called a slave copy. One does not direct the other in the same way that master and slave implies. Usually quite the opposite.

  Oh and master-slave usually refers to hardware infrastructure, not programming. Where, as you mentioned, client-service is the equivalent, or parent and child.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Forbidden Words’: Github Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Master in branch meant the same as the master of an audio track or video. We haven’t all stopped saying “remaster” or “masterpiece”.

  As it turns out, there are software developers from outside the country with people whose grandparents-grandparents were chattel slaves, and they name things without the same baggage. It’s Gulf of America stuff, but for the ‘good guys’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It reads like regurgitating dehydrated phlegm

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Civilization 7's post-launch plans include free multiplayer and Age features and paid Ada Lovelace⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve put hundreds or thousands of hours into every Civ game since Civ 2. I’m so fucking sad that I don’t care about this new release. I’m Irish and I can’t even enjoy Britain being relegated to DLC because somehow Ada Lovelace is a leader? Who is this game for?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US bans controversial red food dye, decades after scientists raised alarm⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I live in a functional society where ordinary people families don’t have to worry about giving an extra few thousand people cancer to feed their families. Maybe work towards that instead of the new American trend of “we can’t fix that, it’s hard”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US bans controversial red food dye, decades after scientists raised alarm⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  headlines

  Do you mean the Food and Drug Administration regulator? The one that’s about to be gutted in a week?

  What about people getting cancer for a company’s benefit is key to a “functional society” to you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US bans controversial red food dye, decades after scientists raised alarm⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah they should be able to wind down the cancer doses in an orderly fashion. We wouldn’t want to hurt their EBITDA

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First Look: Loops, by Pixelfed⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No source code and no federation just makes this a worse app with less liability for bad actions. Not sure why he’s pushing this before those are ready. Pixelfed itself isn’t exactly finished yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I do not wish to enjoinder with your Game Launcher and anonymous telephony