vithigar
@vithigar@lemmy.ca
- Comment on On dasher! 1 day ago:
- Comment on NPM Package With 56K Downloads Caught Stealing WhatsApp Messages 1 day ago:
There’s another alternative, which is manually adding libraries to your project yourself instead of doing it all automatically through a package manager.
Yes, it’s less convenient to download and import a package manually, especially if you need to do the same with a litany of dependencies, but I don’t feel like that’s a bad thing. Raising the barrier of entry for arbitrarily adding thousands of lines of other people’s code to your project would force people to think about how much of that they actually need.
- Comment on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? 1 week ago:
It’s literally how their wealth is calculated, but okay. Even if I’m incorrect and it’s not already the case they can easily dodge such a tax by buying a bunch of non-liquid assets and making it the case.
- Comment on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? 1 week ago:
Billionaires aren’t sitting on billions in currency held in banking accounts. They are holding billions in assets which are valued at those numbers. You couldn’t just take all of Bezo’s “wealth” above $1b without liquidating most of Amazon.
Not that I disagree with you in principle, it’s just not as simple as your proposed solution requires.
- Comment on Fun/interesting things to self host? 2 weeks ago:
They have fairly reasonable guides on their site on how to host for others.
- Comment on Fun/interesting things to self host? 2 weeks ago:
Depends on what part of “set up” you’re referring to. Getting the software itself up and running is extremely easy. They have versions available for the full swathe of experience levels from “here is a packaged Electron based Windows application” to “here are the node.js source files”. All prior versions are also available if you have specific needs for an earlier version.
Surprisingly, despite being commercial software requiring a license, the original non-obfuscated node.js source is provided.
Now, if you mean how difficult is it to set up and run a game, that’s going to vary wildly depending on the system the game uses and how complex of a scenario whoever is running the game wants to deal with. There are lots of off-the-shelf one shots or campaigns you can run where that setup is already done for you though.
- Comment on Fun/interesting things to self host? 2 weeks ago:
Couple of things I have running on my phone server no one has mentioned yet.
FoundryVTT is a self-hostable platform for playing tabletop RPGs online. It supports a vast selection of game systems and user/community developed mods making it extremely versatile.
Pihole is probably something you’ve heard of before and despite the name is hostable on a wide variety of systems. In case you haven’t it’s a network level ad blocker that works by taking over the role of DNS server on your LAN and blocking queries to domains used to serve ads or track telemetry.
- Comment on Evidence That Humans Now Speak in a Chatbot-Influenced Dialect Is Getting Stronger 2 weeks ago:
I’m one of those deranged few who actually used em dashes in my normal typing habits. Not super often the way LLMs are prone to, maybe once a month tops. Alt+0151 or Compose, dash, dash, dash.
Now a find myself reluctant to use what I felt was a useful bit of punctuation out of concern people might think what I’m typing was LLM generated. It sucks.
- Comment on Everyone in Seattle Hates AI — Jonathon Ready 2 weeks ago:
Eh, no skin off my back. Pretty sure if you search my comment history for the word “grok” this comment chain is the only time I’ve ever used it. It’s not a regular part of my speech, I just never interpreted it in the way you were saying.
- Comment on Everyone in Seattle Hates AI — Jonathon Ready 2 weeks ago:
or you have such trouble being understood, or understanding neurotypical people, you think you need a new word.
My background pretty heavily leans toward comp-sci and hacker culture, and “grok” in those circles is almost never used in the context of people, so I find it a bit odd that this is what you seem to be focusing on. It had very little to do with the difficulty of understanding other people, and much more to do with the understanding of a language, or nuanced hardware interactions, or programming techniques.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok#In_computer_programmer…
For what it’s worth, I agree on your specifics, and if someone is frequently making statements about being unable to grok others, or others not being able to grok them, than it’s at the very least off-putting.
- Comment on Everyone in Seattle Hates AI — Jonathon Ready 2 weeks ago:
It’s a useful word with no direct equivalent in English. You don’t need to integrate the cult aspect of the book into your identity to understand that.
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 2 weeks ago:
I miss my original Oculus Home. Had a nice arrangement of furniture, a shooting range, a little shelf that held virtual cartridges of all my games, various little statues and trophies that you could display for achievements… and they just got rid of it all.
Immediately killed any interest I had in customizing my virtual space. Why bother if they’re just going to rug pull it at any time. They could’ve at least let us continue to visit it “offline”.
- Comment on In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet 3 weeks ago:
Application frameworks like node.js have allowed JavaScript to break containment. Anything could be running JavaScript under the hood now. I’ve worked with FTP servers written entirely in JavaScript.
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 4 weeks ago:
Holy cow. This is possibly the best description of how I usually think I’ve ever encountered. It was actually a bit unnerving to read. Though I’ve always conceptualized it as “shapes” and “holes” rather than vectors.
The ability to near-instantly make connections between symptoms and cause for any given issue in a system I’m familiar with especially resonated. The best explanation I could give someone without stepping back and basically re-solving the whole thing from a standing start would be “the shapes fit together”.
It feels like I’m being asked how I knew a puzzle piece fit in a space, and for some reason “I looked at it and could see that it fit” is not a sufficient explanation. No, I didn’t need to investigate other possible pieces. They are obviously different shapes. The one that you’re asking about doesn’t even belong to the same puzzle.
Similarly I am also utterly incapable of describing what a person looks like in any detail. I have a “mind’s eye” and can conjure up images of them in my head, but for whatever reason I just completely lack the ability to express what I see in words outside of very high level details. They have brown hair, they’re tall, what do you mean “what shape is their face?” Sara’s face is the shape of Sara’s face. It couldn’t be any other shape.
I do have an internal monologue or voice though, but it’s not constant. It usually only comes up when I’m dealing with other people and need to try to reason through what someone else is doing.
- Comment on Sensory issues 4 weeks ago:
I feel the need to ask about the choice of “loud” as the adjective here. Are the tags actually making audible noise, or is this just a non-standard usage of it an a synonym for “overwhelming”?
- Comment on Game marketing company takes down blog post bragging about how good it is at astroturfing Reddit after Reddit finds the post 1 month ago:
I never understood the hate for Aloy. She was at worst bland with a pretty heavy helping of “I’m better at everything because I’m the main character”, but she’s hardly alone in that, and it doesn’t usually attract that much ire.
I really didn’t understand the complaints that she was unattractive or even outright ugly.
- Comment on 28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower 1 month ago:
This is already pretty close to how many EVs are designed.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 1 month ago:
Average annual family income in the US is around $80k/a. Are you seriously suggesting that families should be looking for homes in the $20k to $30k range? What kind of home, exactly, do you think you get for that?
- Comment on Soon... 2 months ago:
“me at my parents age” is in the future.
- Comment on Fucking idiots 2 months ago:
Does the extra fuel you used hauling around your entire launch vehicle not count as waste?
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 2 months ago:
I mean, sure, if the writers wanted to put the chip in something else they could write different lore about what it does, granted. In the same spirit of “How do you kill a vampire? However you want.”
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 2 months ago:
The chip specifically interacts with human brains on a biological level. It’s not an AI.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 2 months ago:
I don’t think they could. The chip isn’t a normal program that any old computer can run.
Biochip
The chip needs a brain onto which it can imprint its stored engrams. Its not a normal chip and it’s specifically made to interact with a human brain in experimental ways. At best it would just do nothing if plugged into a fridge, like installing drivers for hardware you don’t have.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 2 months ago:
They’re all paying each other. That’s literally the point this image is trying to express.
What’s especially insane is that the companies that are actually providing the service to end users, i.e. Coreweave et al, are not the ones seeing massively inflated prices, contrary to your point about the monthly fees justifying the higher evaluation.
- Comment on reddit chatroom 2 months ago:
This isn’t probing though. Probing would be like… mentioning some anime that featured fan service of questionably aged characters and gauging the response.
This is just straight up announcing yourself.
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 2 months ago:
Same. I use it very occasionally for parenthetical phrases because I just think it’s the most appealing way to do so.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Reddit had no monetary cost.
It’s much easier to stick to a boycott when it requires a layer of active acceptance and payment to acquiesce.
Reddit is just… there. A query on basically any search engine is going to serve you up reddit links, and clicking one of them costs you nothing.* Even you don’t have to commit to the decision there’s far less resistance to backsliding.
^*Yes, I know, there is a privacy and personal content/traffic cost. We both know that’s not what I’m talking about.^
- Comment on EU Chat Control: Germany's position has been reverted to UNDECIDED 3 months ago:
I’m sorry, did you just “no actually” someone who was espousing books as disconnected entertainment?
- Comment on Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it' 3 months ago:
I’m in a similar boat. Pledged but it’s been years since I gave them money and I’m not really following it closely anymore. Can’t say I ever felt like a rube though, backing a crowdfunded project is always a gamble to some degree, and that money was so long ago that any impact on my situation from having it or not has long since faded.
I’m a little disappointed in the date potentially being pushed back, but it’s not like I marked it on my calendar or anything. If they had said nothing and the date just slipped by I probably wouldn’t even notice if no one else brought it up.
I’ll play S42 if/when it comes out, and probably even enjoy it, but I’m not chomping at the bit.
- Comment on xkcd #3141: Mantle Model 3 months ago:
In theory yes, but once you have multiple particles interacting things get really complicated really fast and nice tidy interference patterns like in the double slit experiment become much less common.
All atoms are multiple particles at quantum scales, even a single hydrogen atom is comprised of four.
