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- Comment on Honey, I Shrunk The Vids [Mr. Universe Edition] v1.0.5 1 day ago:
This sound awesome and i’d love to try but, your GitHub link delivers a 404.
Also you hosted the original project on Codeberg but this on GitHub. Is it because of GitHubs ability to build binaries for a wide range of systems or because of Codebergs latest availability issues?
- Comment on It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich 5 days ago:
I know that feeling. I experienced it more than one time in areas of law I consider myself a little bit more knowledgeable than the average person. It’s just a slap to the face to try to discuss a topic with an AI that you know a little bit about.
The thing is: I am 100 % sure those people use LLM answer not out of disrespect but because they honestly believe that an LLM produces a better argument than they possibly could themselves.
- Comment on Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more 1 week ago:
Huh, I wouldn’t say, the article mentioned Codeberg as the developer of Librewolf.
It says:
An even more private (but still free and equally effective) version of Firefox is LibreWolf, which was developed on Codeberg, a German nonprofit.
To be honest this sentence doesn’t make any sense at all: Librewolf wasn’t developed, it is in active development. But it is true that it’s being developed on Codeberg, which still doesn’t convey a lot of information to the reader… I dont know if this article is very helpful at all…
- Comment on How bad of an idea is it to use computing HDDs in a DIY NAS? 1 week ago:
Both WD Blues and Seagate Barracudas are (often) CMR.
I don’t know about WD Blue but modern Barracudas (not Pro!) use SMR.
But anyway, I wanted to add a thought regarding SMR vs. CMR: It’s true that SMR has inferior write speed compared to CMR and that you can experience the effect even after writing a few gigabytes. I don’t know if I would call it unbelievably slow though: When writing to SMR drives, I experienced write speeds around 30 MiB/sec which is slow but considering you may be writing to a NAS that is only connected to a 1 Gbps network it is only around 30 % of the write speed you may reach with proper drives. It’s slow but it gets the job done when you’re not in a hurry and have a tight budget.
Also there are other possible bottlenecks you may encounter: I for example built my homeserver with used enterprise drives in mind and therefore opted for software RAID 6 for double the fail-safety. Turns out that writing to that array is so heavy on my servers CPU that it throttles writing to almost the same point as SMR drives which defeats the whole point of using enterprise drives. 🤣 This may not be a problem for OP because they wrote about buying 2 or 3 drives but everyone should always consider the whole system and not single components.
- Comment on do most people really like the taste and smell of eggs? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know if anyone in the world does this too, but here in Germany, (when not using dried egg) we just use boiled egg and cut it in slices with an Eierschneider 🤣
- Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on do most people really like the taste and smell of eggs? 4 weeks ago:
So it’s mostly about the shape so that you can put the egg on toast? That I can understand but I think I prefer fried egg on my toast 😬
- Comment on do most people really like the taste and smell of eggs? 4 weeks ago:
Im not sure if it’s because I’m from Europe and it being not so popular here or because I’m a cretin but I don’t get poached eggs. Why would you take extra steps to prevent the egg from dissolving in the water when you can simply cook it inside it’s shell?
- Comment on Windows 10's extended support ends in eight months, but users are still rejecting Windows 11, at least in Germany 5 weeks ago:
Ummm… Yes, Proton was already mentioned in this thread so I won’t repeat it. But I’m curious which problems you have with games on Linux or did you just repeat what was true 5 (?) years ago.
Don’t get me wrong: I tried gaming on linux when proton wasn’t even remotely in the pipeline and it was
horribleimpossible. When I first heard about proton I tried again and ran into issues with the first game I tried (Europa Universalis 4, the new Paradox launcher was broken at the time) so I jumped ship again. Then I tried again in early 2025 and haven’t looked back since then. There hasn’t been a single game I tried that didn’t work (although some games needed some tinkering but that’s where protondb comes to rescue). There is one game I’d like to play (The Crew 2) that doesn’t work because of it’s anti cheat. But apart from that: Great experience!You see, I get where you might be coming from but maybe don’t way until 2032 and give it a try again?
- Comment on DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI 5 weeks ago:
Corps are run by people and people can run them with values. Our capitalist system encourages acting without values but it is not impossible to do so
- Comment on DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI 5 weeks ago:
It fits their business structure and values and of course there’s a good portion good faith on my end because I didn’t check first hand.
- Comment on DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI 5 weeks ago:
Yes. :)
- Comment on DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI 5 weeks ago:
That’s actually a very good point, thanks!
- Comment on DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI 5 weeks ago:
The prompt was bad: there was no option to vote for “a little bit of AI as a tool is not bad but don’t force feed it to me”.
I think there were many people who voted for “no AI” who would’ve voted for “a little bit of ai” if they had the option.
- Comment on DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI 5 weeks ago:
Well, I don’t know about that.
My swiss hoster just started offering AI and says that their AI infrastructure is 100 % powered by renewables and the waste heat is used for district heating.
You could argue that LLM training in itself used so much energy that you’ll never be able to compensate for the damage, but I don’t know. 🤷
- Comment on How Hackers Breached the Great Firewall of China (39C3) 2 months ago:
I am viewing the website on mobile. It’s not pretty but it works (for me). What’s wrong with it?
- Comment on Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents 2 months ago:
Yes, Ogg Vorbis’s sucessor is Opus, which is amazing at low bitrates. That’s why they used 75 kbit/s Opus for all file with
popularity = 0opposed to the original 160 kbit/s Ogg Vorbis for all files withpopularity > 0. - Comment on What are your opinions of using Pi-hole for DNS within a homelab environment? 2 months ago:
Ugh, I wish my wife would see this. She’s been complaining that she couldn’t open her Google search results because the links go through some adserver PiHole is blocking (probably their sponsored links). I put her phone on the “don’t block anything at all” list and she’s been happy ever since 🤷
- Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox 2 months ago:
Do you trust Vivaldi although it’s closed source? I get that you mistrust Mozilla since they integrated AI but there are plenty of forks that cut the AI part and even are more privacy focused.
- Comment on What DDNS providers you guys recommend? 2 months ago:
I am using DuckDNS and it’s working perfectly for me. I use the DynDNS feature of my Fritz!Box to update my DuckDNS-IP. The documentation on their website is spot-on for me, even for my IPv6 and I never had any issues with DuckDNS.
What I like most about the service is the possibility to use subdomains like my-service.my-username.duckdns.org. I don’t know whether this is a commong feature or not.
When you had problems updating your IP Adresse did you consider that DNS information takes some time to propagate through the internet? I think it is not guaranteed that you can access a recently changed domain.
How did you test your DuckDNS entries?
- Comment on 220-ton flywheel generator in Germany 3 months ago:
Although my little fun fact doesn’t apply to THIS flywheel generator, I recently learned, that flywheel generators are used all over Europe to stabilise the Continental Europe Synchronous Area: They are constantly kept spinning and because of their inertia they level any voltage drops and peaks they encounter. Learning this blew my mind because I never would’ve thought that such a simple technology was used to stabilise our electricity grid.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 3 months ago:
Huh? I mean… I agree that a lot of people in this thread act surprisingly hostile to you but I wasn’t even referring to those people, just trying to give an answer to your question, that feels kinda underrepresented in this thread: We’re all wired differently and need different forms and levels of stimulus to function properly. 🤷
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 3 months ago:
Even though I am listening to podcasts almost all the time I am outside, doing groceries, commuting, running errands, I can totally get that there are people whose brains are wired differently than mine that need what you might describe as auditory monotony because listening to familiar sounds in a familiar surrounding gives then safety and is easier on their brains.
I don’t find this surprising because most people need some degree of routines or rituals to function so I don’t see why this human tendency to reduce complexity (see: Niklas Luhmann) wouldn’t apply to what you’re listening or not listening to.
This doesn’t have to do anything with brain rot, just that brains work differently and need different stimuli.
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 4 months ago:
That was my initial thought… Nice pickup line btw. Do you have more? :)
- Comment on See ya. 4 months ago:
The movie mentioned turned out to be a 10 minutes long documentary:
- Comment on If spiderman shoots webs from his wrists would not the tension of shooting and swingiing up a skyscraper pretty much break his wrist? Also why SpiderMAN shouuldn''t it be SpiderTEEN? 5 months ago:
When Ant-Man grows to giant size, a breeze would blow him away.
Wait what? Is that canon? I only watched the movies. Growing in size but not increasing your mass proportionally sounds like a shitty super power because you would probably still punch like a normal human.
- Comment on Bring out the trumpets and pour out the beer 6 months ago:
I don’t think this is the whole secret because that’s basically what our left party in Germany is doing and they’re at 11 % in polls…
People are looking for an enemy image onto which they can project their frustration, and they are not willing to target the wealthy class because they irrationally hope to belong to it someday. Instead, they direct their frustration against the poorer and weaker, as it is much easier to distinguish oneself from a group that one definitely does not want to belong to.
This is class struggle from above…
- Comment on Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain' 6 months ago:
Will they? That would be awesome but I haven’t found any information on that.
- Comment on Can a Russian pls confirm 7 months ago:
Alter, wenn Du doof bist, dann hau ich Dir eine runter sodass der ??? Hund mit dem Kopf wackelt???
- Comment on public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird) 8 months ago:
In other news: the German military partners with Google to provide the software for their new cloud service…
