vithigar
@vithigar@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Microsoft wants devs to build Electron AI apps on Windows 11, says no need of native code, despite RAM concerns 2 days ago:
Docker?
- Comment on Your Phone is an Entire Computer 4 days ago:
The comment you replied to doesn’t list any maintenance tasks or annoyances. I genuinely have no idea what you’re referring to with the opening line.
- Comment on Your Phone is an Entire Computer 4 days ago:
…all what things they listed?
- Comment on Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own 1 week ago:
Here’s a music news site: musicbusinessworldwide.com/gaming-giant-steam-fac…
It sounds every bit as stupid there, if not more so because it’s apparently a normal aspect of distribution licensing in the UK.
Game developers and publishers typically secure sync licences to cover the embedding of music in their titles.
However, in the UK, those sync deals do not extend to the making available of that music when games are subsequently distributed via download or streaming platforms.
The ‘communication to the public’ right — i.e. the making available right — sits with PRS, not individual music publishers, meaning Valve requires its own separate licence as the platform operator distributing games that contain PRS members’ works.
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 1 week ago:
What is this insane rambling?
The alternative is that the only thing with access to make changes in your production environment is the CI pipeline that deploys your production environment.
Neither the AI, nor anything else on the developers machine, should have access to make production changes.
- Comment on Can some please explain to me why it is that your health insurance can deny you medication, even if your doctor says you need it? 2 weeks ago:
Damn, so five whole days of the Iran war would cover it for a whole month for everyone?
- Comment on The new Voyager game was pretty bad. 2 weeks ago:
I agree that trading seems largely pointless. I renewed up extremely overpowered in combat when I played on the lowest difficulty. The middle difficult seems a bit more sensible so far, but I haven’t finished my run yet. Been enjoying the game overall though. Can’t say I ever ran into the need to scan planets as a result of an away mission.
They added manual saving in an update a few days ago.
- Comment on Anthropic says it ‘cannot in good conscience’ allow Pentagon to remove AI checks 2 weeks ago:
I can’t see the name “anthropic” without thinking about furries.
Anthro pic.
Now you can’t either. You’re welcome.
- Comment on I am untethered, and my rage knows no bounds 3 weeks ago:
Aisle
- Comment on Roblox Hit With Multimillion-Dollar Suit By Los Angeles, for Creating Largely Unsupervised Online World That Enables Predatory Pedophiles and Give Them Powerful Tools to Prey on Kids 3 weeks ago:
Likewise I’m a “safe third party adult” for my niece but the prospect of ever actually needing to act in that capacity is terrifying.
- Comment on Yes this year is going to be really good and productive 4 weeks ago:
Really depends on the type of mess, I think. If there is a lot of dry crumbs I’d give that a quick brush into the dustpan before spraying and doing the full wipe down. I don’t want to just smear a bunch of wet crumbs around.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 5 weeks ago:
For a while (maybe even still, I haven’t kept up with it) you could unlock paid features with a modded client, so they absolutely have a history of client-side verification.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 5 weeks ago:
Matrix does have a bot API, but there is not even close to as robust an ecosystem of bots to choose from. Whatever you want is probably possible, but depending on your needs you may have to write it yourself.
- Comment on If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky. 5 weeks ago:
Unless you really need to optimise for land use. An arbitrarily large solar array in space could transmit to a fairly small collector in the surface.
As for losing power to atmospheric attenuation, high frequency microwaves will pass right through most everything that would scatter visible light. Clouds, dust, etc wouldn’t really impede it.
I won’t say it’s not a silly idea, because it is. It’s fun to think about though.
- Comment on Denominator, go Mercator 1 month ago:
True size is possible just fine on a 2D surface. For both too large and too small to be even possible there must exist some transitional point where the size is correct.
You cannot have both the size and shape correct at the same time. Having the correct size means distorting the shape, and vise versa. One is the other can be correct, but never both.
- Comment on Dell says the quiet part out loud: Consumers don't actually care about AI PCs — "AI probably confuses them more than it helps them" 2 months ago:
They are in general purpose PCs though. Intel has them taking up die space in a bunch of their recent core ultra processors.
- Comment on The ‘doorman fallacy’: why careless adoption of AI backfires so easily 2 months ago:
Reads an article about people falling for the doorman fallacy, immediately falls for the doorman fallacy.
- Comment on On dasher! 2 months ago:
- Comment on NPM Package With 56K Downloads Caught Stealing WhatsApp Messages 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 3 months ago:
They have fairly reasonable guides on their site on how to host for others.
- Comment on Fun/interesting things to self host? 3 months 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? 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 months 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.
