Bahnd

@Bahnd@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I like that reference, im stealing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I was in the trenches for that nonsense fixing stuff daily because of them. Oracles wacky tacky shit that kept their users locked to Java 7.21 for a decade past the support date. Bloated language packs and not being able to keep up with basic HTML tags… You dont know how good yall have it today.

  I dont care how much MS dresses up Edge, we know its just Chrome in a poorly fitted suit. The old addage still homes true, Microsofts default browser (formerly IE, currently Edge) is the best browser to use to go download another browser.

  [This concludes grumpy old tech speech]

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Given what Microsoft is smoking these days, no AI would be a selling point, and Mozilla does not seem to realize they are playing with fire. Their userbase chose their product instead of using the system defaults of Chrome, Safari, and Internet Exploder. Their users, just like Lemmy, are tech-litrrate and more socially concious than the masses. If an alternative or fork appears, with sufficent support, and Mozilla does not put the breaks on their AI train, were all just going to jump ship. We do it every time a new OS is installed, there is no Firefox loyalty, only lesser evils.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Actual theft ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What decade is it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Actual theft ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Best buy has been on my “one-bad-black-friday bankrupsy” bet for years, yet they seemed to have survived the death of Sears, Radioshack, Circuit City, and Frys Electronics…

  For me, as a customer, they are the shop of last resort. I will go literally anywhere else because they will likely have the thing, but no specific models. If you need an SSD, RAM (lol no in todays market) or a cable they will likely have it, but its going to be a smaller range than Microcenter, if time is no object, just order exactly what you need.

  The thing I will give them credit for is keeping the home theatre market, I feel that only a fool will buy a TV without physically looking at it first (they turn the blue up, just an FYI).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bet

  GANDALF THE GREY

  GANDALF THE WHITE

  MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAILS BLACK KNIGHT

  BENITO MUSSOLINI

  & THE BLUE MEANNIE

  COWBOY CURTIS

  JAMBI THE GENIE

  ROBOCOP

  TERMINATOR

  CAPTIAN KIRK

  DARTH VADER

  EVERY SINGLE POWER RANGER

  BILL S. PRESTON

  THEODORE LOGAN

  SPOCK

  THE ROCK

  DOC OCK

  HULK HOGAN.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Avoiding slopification seems to be the main priority, and you would have to have the AI be incorporated into a game it would have to do something that AI is already passable at, otherwise it wont pass that barrier and will get shunned like the rest of the slop.

  For example, you could have an LLM act as a character or have a neural net incorporated into the game-ai like how tool assisted DOTA2 competitions work.

  I see three main problems, first is that you would need the hardware to run it locally, which may be a hard sell to some people depending on what the game it is, only online expirenes should endebt themselves to AWS, if its single player, its going to lose a ton of sales there. Two, its really hard to convince audiences electrons have feelings, remember Final Fantasy (2001)? Thats what happened last time someone tried to personify a digital construct, and well… It went swimmingly (Microsofts Tay, does not count). Lastly, impact, would a narrative focused title have the same impact of an AI wrote the script? How would you feel after playing through a title like “Papers, please” and when the credits roll it says “script generated by CoPilot”? I feel like it would ring hollow, the feelings would be cheapened by it…

  I would be interested to see how this plays out, but im content to support the titles and studios that do things the traditional way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feeding my family alone is expensive. I can't afford to feed all of y'all.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I did the green bean casarolle this year and also have been asked to double the roaster carrots next year. I dont even like roasted carrots, but sure, people seem to like em.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Question: How do I use "Secure Chat" and what are the differences⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I host a private Matrix-Synapse service for my nerd herd (we still haven’t gotten the call feature working on them) if you want to talk shop about setting it up for yourself and friends (yah, Homelab). I feel that Shildichat is better on Android, Element is better of fruit phones and desktop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yah, thats why you slap GraphenOS on it before it leaves the lot. All phones spy on you of you dont gut the OS, because there is nothing left that hasent been enshitified.

  Right now, GraphenOS requires a pixle due to hardware limitations. Some time next year they are planning on testing Snapdragon support which will greatly expand the number of phones that can use it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people make such a big deal over ages of someone's account on here?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A bit of internet history, account age was a measure of clout on Slashdot.org. Your account ID was posted as part of your replies, so the lower the number, the longer you have been on the site.

  Mine personally is in the 1.3M range, and I still read the site and I still see users posting on accounts as low as 500k ID, those have been around since the late 90s.

  The site is just a news agrigator at this point with a comment section full of boomers and greybeards (sys admins that probably should consider retiring), but its been my home page for ~20 years and I have no intention of changing that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fairphone or a Google Pixle (optional GraphenOS, ive had non-tech people install it with no issues)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are platforms like reddit just "internet noise" and bots or just genuinely the darkest parts of humanity?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shhh, we do not speak of such places. We do not wish for people to know their names and seek such dark recesses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A good boy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I dont see nuttin in no rule book that a dog cant fly and airplane.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone have experience with Mumble?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ha [Internet high five], there is a thing about EvE online players and being opinionated nerds about VOIP solutions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone have experience with Mumble?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds perfect, my TS3 instance was running on a 10+ year old Dell Optiplex until a while ago when I moved it to a VM.

  You seem to have everything covered, VOIP services are not that heavy, and its great having a residence on the internet where your nerds can drop in and out of. The main issue is getting people off Discord or understanding that old programs are just as if not more functional. (Plus, the whole “If TeH PrOdUcT is Fr33, UR da PrOduCt” thing, but im preaching to the choir here)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone have experience with Mumble?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Some expirence on some self-hosted VOIP solutions from my EvE online days and I self-host a Teamspeak instance (my nerds like it, get off my lawn).

  Mumble in terms of its UI and user expirence, the worst of the major VOIP projects (looks very 2008), however it is by far the best in terms of server stability, plugin compatibility and security. To quote my old EvE admin “Mumble will take the team two weeks to set up correctly, and drive them mad, but once thats done they will not need to touch the config again”. Plus it not requiring a license allows large orgs to use it freely. Ever have a need 2.5k+ VOIP users all trying to talk over eachother? Mumble is the only free application that will handle that without issue.

  Teamspeak3 is what I run, and for small communities its perfect. TS5 exists, and the devs keep trying to make “We have Discord at home” and its just a UI fork, they all run the same server backend. As for features, TS3 has the best of ease of set up and granular permissions with API tools to allow for remote or automated managment. For user counts, anything beyond that of a small guild in any game will require a license, they are cheap (I just renewed my 30$ a year license and didnt have to reboot). Its drawbacks are that it struggles after several hundred users (its heavier on server hardware than mumble is) and user accounts with permissions can break the server. Fortunatly settings are managed by a local database so backups of server state and files are easy.

  I remember Ventrilo existing, thats about it.

  Hardware wise, a new pi should be fine, older models might have issues based on expected user load. Network load is not significant for normal hobbiest user counts, security is not any different than normal homelab internet services.

  Let me know if there is anything I can help with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, I was only interested in the hardware. Nokia made most of the phones that ran Windows phone and they made bricks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are you ladies doing tonight ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sigh… Your supposed to let it run for a second when you switch drinks. Noone wants to drink homeopathic Fanta, or I-Cant-Believe-Its-Not Coke with lime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨necessary read⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
  To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
  To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
  

  Douglas Adams

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yah… You dont own your OS on W11, you had better script those changes or they might be reverted on major updates. (They do that for the default browser all the time, and they will likely break that script every year or two)

  This is why the [gestures broadly to Lemmy community] evangalizes for Linux so much, everyone is going have to learn a new OS anyway. Aside from what ever Apple is doing, there really are only two choices, a free and open source suite of software that is trusted because everything is public and auditable, or an OS that activly contributes to the creation of the Torment Nexus. We do get that some applications wont work on linux, but my response to that is to look for a new version anyway, your living on borrowed time. Windows 11 is rolling full speed ahead on breaking compatibility with everything Microsoft did not make (and therefore cant update to collect data on you).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any advice for me a guy turning 18 yo old??⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do not break the weekend safety brief.

  • Do NOT add to the population.
  • Do NOT subtract from the population
  • Do NOT end up in the newspaper, hospital or jail.
  • • IF you do end up in jail, establish dominance quickly.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The shitiest of them all⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this a Mr. Poopybutthole reference?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Commercials seem to be normalizing an unhealthy work-balance more.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly, there was a social contract where we would exchange watching ads for consuming the following product without additional charges. Those days are mostly gone and you have to pay to get in the door, watch and ad and the product has enshitifies to the point of usually not being worth it. Ad block and cable cutting has been a method to claw that back to a fairer exchangr, or atleast give the consumer some negotiation power in that dynamic. However its just created a game of cat and mosue between those who wish to consume your attention and people who dont want sponsored shit beamed into their brain space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this is your meme⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I raise thee…

  Wowhead

  I had a friend involved in the hunt for this… Was a sight to behold and the look of disbelief when the devs called them on their obsession.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework supporting far-right racists?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How is this different from the Lemmy devs, who are known to be pretty political? I was under the impression we were mostly fine seperating the program from the programmer, or is this situation different?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When a humble bard Graced a ride along⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yah… Another casualty of the Netflix.

  You know you messed up when the biggest fanboy of the IP (who is built like a greek statue) wants to play the main character, and then walks away because they feel that the producers are no longer adapting the thing they were a fan of and are off writing their own fanfic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harsh⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I understood that reference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has this ever happened to you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I dont mind that, so long as the food is cheap.

  My personal limit for that is ~20$, anything less than that and within reason, I wont question buying anyone food. Calories are important and im not going to judge people that quickly, have a pizza.

  I prefer to have that meal repaid in the future with an IOU or another meal rather dealing with money, also the social connections are more important.

  On the flip side, if I never see that person again. 20$ well spent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hello there⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ni!