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- Comment on Cloudflare is bad. Youre right. 6 days ago:
When looking up my static ip, the location I get is the one of my ISP, not my address. Do you happen to live nearby some central infrastructure of your ISP? (If it seems otherwise, I’m not trying to debunk what you said - I’m just asking curious questions!)
- Comment on What everyone gets wrong about the 2015 Ashley Madison scandal 1 week ago:
It’s published as an audio podcast, with email, video and Morse code versions.
Any chance of a SSTV version? 😂
- Comment on What everyone gets wrong about the 2015 Ashley Madison scandal 1 week ago:
🛜5️⃣9️⃣9️⃣ and 7️⃣3️⃣ to both of you!
No callsign though… (yet?)
- Comment on California says AT&T can't shut down copper DSL network 1 week ago:
Yeah, sign me up too… Would you please send it as a telefax on the landline?
- Comment on Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free 1 week ago:
unzip: cannot find or open private_part1.zip
- Comment on VPN by Google One shuts down 1 week ago:
For navigation, Magic Earth is based on OSM too, and has traffic available as a map layer. Not sure how good it works or where the live data is coming from, but it’s there.
- Comment on China unveils video of its moon base plans, which weirdly includes a NASA space shuttle 1 month ago:
u - u - temuuuu
u - u - temuuu-uuu
Their ad budget for the superbowl must have been laughably big. After being exposed to it a couple o’ dozens o’ times within those few hours, their stupid little jingle anthem is now living rent-free in my head, alongside all those catchy radio commercials from my childhood. Too bad Temu (nor those radio advertisers) wont see the shadow of a coin from my pocket, but their expense has probably paid off anyways… I don’t even know what to do with this (detri)mental jingle collection now?!
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u - u - temuuuu
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- Comment on Rabbit R1 is Just an Android App 1 month ago:
Trust me, I’m a credibilianist.
- Comment on Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone 2 months ago:
On my ditto (running GrapheneOS), the Lockdown option is accessible through the regular power button menu. When I press power+volumeUp it switches to silent mode. I don’t know if/where I changed this, since I can’t find the options when searching in settings.
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 2 months ago:
Hmm, jeg tror desværre jeg består af et 100% syntetisk keramisk bomuldsprodukt…
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 2 months ago:
Protect the bots!!!
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 2 months ago:
Er du måske en robot??
- Comment on YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps 2 months ago:
Some even from forwarding at all through the actual content…
- Comment on Researchers unlock fiber optic connection 1.2 million times faster than broadband 2 months ago:
Faster than “the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway”?
(Quoted: Tanenbaum, 1981)
- Comment on Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent 3 months ago:
If you then keep a log of who you told what, it’ll be easier to keep track of which companies distributed “your” info.
- Comment on Mozilla Firefox is Working on a Tab Grouping Feature 3 months ago:
Try a session manager add-on. In the list view, it’s easier to close the irrelevant ones, then save the important ones under a meaningful name, never to be restored - but just knowing it’s there if needed brings peace to mind, at least for me.
- Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 4 months ago:
Pants can be what keeps you from freezing to death and going to jail.
Sounds like without pants, I’ll be freezing to death — then going to jail for that!
- Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 4 months ago:
What makes it less real than other fiat currencies, if I may ask? If a currency is agreed upon being valid by multiple parties, I’d argue it is “real money”.
- Comment on This Windows tool makes it super easy to debloat and cut down ads on your Android TV 4 months ago:
For video content, iirc, it’s possible to browse the files just like you’re asking for by creating a “Mixed film and programmes” library. The description of the type, when creating it, mentions: “Content will be displayed as plain folders.” However, I don’t know if that would slso work for audiodramas? Possibly if you disable auto-fetching of metadata and provide it all yourself — either by creating .nfo-files and supplying correctly named images within the folder structure, or through the jellyfin app/webui.
- Comment on Google Search’s cache links are officially being retired 4 months ago:
It is indeed, but in my experience it’s somehow better than the corporate backends at presenting the “correct” results to me.
- Comment on Google Search’s cache links are officially being retired 4 months ago:
If you figure out how to search “correctly” on SearXNG instances, some of them are pretty good (though they source part of their results from google). That’s how I search most of the time nowadays. I’ve found a favourite instance and a few backups. My most important advice is: to change the default language from “auto” to “en”, and only change it to some other locale for results specifically in that language/country.
- Comment on Commercials Are Streaming’s New Norm, and Creators Aren’t Happy: “It’s Almost Worse Than Broadcast” 4 months ago:
A cheaper solution (if you’re already running a server) would be TVheadend and a cheap USB-dongle for DVB-T, DVB-C or DVB-S.
- Comment on Commercials Are Streaming’s New Norm, and Creators Aren’t Happy: “It’s Almost Worse Than Broadcast” 4 months ago:
Jellyfin allows you to hide any profile from the login screen. If you hide them all, every user would have to manually login (username+password). That’s not quite the Netflix-like experience where you click your profile, but it would at least hide all the users from other households (but also your own).
- Comment on Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find 5 months ago:
I’ve been finding it very useful on various SearXNG instances to change the “language” from “auto” to “en” (English) for most of my searches, or to a specific language if I’m searching for something local or something that’s likely to be written about in that specific language. The search results change drastically!
- Comment on Not even poor Notepad is safe from Microsoft's AI obsession 5 months ago:
AI would have to find a revolutionary new way of solving the equation to make it faster than the hardware.
This doesn’t sound impossible. It reminded me of how the AlphaGo Zero became “the world’s top player” of Go by letting it train itself by trial-and-error instead of by watching human players using existing Go strategies:
During the games, AlphaGo played several inventive winning moves. In game two, it played Move 37 — a move that had a 1 in 10,000 chance of being used.
Source: AlphaGo | Google DeepMind
AlphaGo and its successors use a Monte Carlo tree search algorithm to find its moves based on knowledge previously acquired by machine learning, specifically by an artificial neural network (a deep learning method) by extensive training, both from human and computer play. A neural network is trained to identify the best moves and the winning percentages of these moves. This neural network improves the strength of the tree search, resulting in stronger move selection in the next iteration.
Source: AlphaGo | Wikipedia
Training artificial intelligence (AI) without datasets derived from human experts has significant implications for the development of AI with superhuman skills because expert data is “often expensive, unreliable or simply unavailable.” Demis Hassabis, the co-founder and CEO of DeepMind, said that AlphaGo Zero was so powerful because it was “no longer constrained by the limits of human knowledge”.
Source: AlphaGo Zero | Wikipedia
Following this way of thinking, why let a human figure out how to solve equations most efficiently if the machine can find some way of thinking about calculation/computation that we had never even been able to think of?
Note, I’m investigating this with curiosity, and I’m no expert in the field.
- Comment on Not even poor Notepad is safe from Microsoft's AI obsession 5 months ago:
- Comment on Why is Google allowed to remove purchases from our Play Store accounts without telling us? 5 months ago:
Why not try emulating it locally on your phone instead of a remote server, to eliminate the latency? Was it not possible at the time you got the idea?
- Comment on Linkwarden - An open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize and preserve webpages 5 months ago:
It refers to some old forum signature iirc. I saw an explanation of it in some other Lemmy thread some time ago, though I don’t exactly remember where or when.
- Comment on RIP Microsoft WordPad. You Will Be Missed 5 months ago:
I must admit, I really enjoyed fucking around in M$ Office 2003 (PowerPoint, FrontPage and more) as a kid — we made our own fictional “OS” Desktop Environments in PowerPoint, copying text boxes, drop-down menus etc. from FrontPage. It had a lot of new features that Office XP didn’t have, which made our projects much cooler. It was like the best of both worlds, since it had a somewhat classic UI but also added features we found interesting for our weird niche usecase. Since Office 2003, it’s only been getting worse, IMO.
- Comment on Japan determines copyright doesn't apply to LLM/ML training data 5 months ago:
Interesting! I had never thought of this sort of arrow as something that would have a patent. Isn’t it pretty common in various other driving/racing games? Maybe not?! MM1 & MM2 definitely had the arrow — I’ve spent way too many hours fucking around in those as a kid! Sadly, I’ve never tried MM3, since it was never released for PC, iirc only for Xbox…