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- Comment on LG monitor asking about ad tracking preferences 4 weeks ago:
Gonna give you the benefit of the doubt and assume it’s a second language thing.
The initial comment was saying a netflix app on a computer monitor is completely useless since the whole point of a computer monitor is to plug in a computer, which if the user wants can easily play stuff off netflix through a browser or app. Not comparing a PC with Netflix, just saying it’s stupid to put apps on a computer monitor (I agree).
- Comment on OpenAI Execs Mass Quit as Company Removes Control From Non-Profit Board and Hands It to Sam Altman 1 month ago:
True. Even I’ve been guilty of that at times. It’s just hard right now to see the positives through the countless downsides and the fact that the biggest application we’re moving towards seems to be taking value from talented people and putting it back into the pockets of companies that were already hoarding wealth and treating their workers like shit.
So usually when people say “AI is the next big thing”, I say “Eh, idk how useful an automated idiot would be” because it’s easier than getting into the weeds of the topic haha.
- Comment on OpenAI Execs Mass Quit as Company Removes Control From Non-Profit Board and Hands It to Sam Altman 1 month ago:
The issue is that “AI” has become a marketing buzz word instead of anything meaningful. When someone says “AI” these days, what they’re actually referring to is “machine learning”. Like in LLMs for example: what’s actually happening (at a very basic level, and please correct me if I’m wrong, people) is that given one or more words/tokens, it tries to calculate the most probable next word/token based on its model (trained on ridiculously large numbers of bodies of text written by humans). It does this well enough and at a large enough scale that the output is cohesive, comprehensive, and useful.
While the results are undeniably impressive, this is not intelligence in the traditional sense; there is no reasoning or comprehension, and definitely no consciousness, or awareness here. To grossly oversimplify, LLMs are really really good word calculators and can be very useful. But leave it to tech bros to make them sound like the second coming and shove them where they don’t belong just to get more VC money.
- Comment on Climate change 1 month ago:
On the bright side, new Italy unlocked
- Comment on Why is UI design backsliding? 1 month ago:
That’s actually amazing! Maybe I should start ranting about stuff that annoys me in software I love. Wouldn’t mind being lead dev on something I’m an active user of.
- Comment on Why is UI design backsliding? 1 month ago:
30 seconds in and subbed because “man rants about DAW UI/UX” is a genre of video that I never knew existed but suddenly can’t live without.
- Comment on The Elon / Trump interview on X started with an immediate tech disaster 3 months ago:
My favorite was the bit about the increased chocolate rations! 😄
- Comment on YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete 3 months ago:
That may be to speed up the download using multiple connections. Other downloaders do it on other sites as well, doesn’t mean the files are split on the server.
- Comment on Netflix officially removes Basic - the cheapest ad-free tier 3 months ago:
Came late to the party for Firefly but I’ve watched it. Fuck whoever decided to cancel it.
- Comment on Netflix officially removes Basic - the cheapest ad-free tier 3 months ago:
The beatings shall continue until morale improves
- Comment on Netflix officially removes Basic - the cheapest ad-free tier 3 months ago:
I’m gonna look into this, thanks! 😄
I have a few go-tos foe different types of content but it’s always scary they might just stop existing one day.
…I mean…piracy’s bad m’kay
- Comment on Netflix officially removes Basic - the cheapest ad-free tier 3 months ago:
Jellyfin isn’t perfect, but by god it’s incredible! I’ve trued to contribute but the obly stuffeft is stuff I don’t fully understand :(
Maybe one day…
- Comment on Netflix officially removes Basic - the cheapest ad-free tier 3 months ago:
A 5TB portable hard drive only costs as much as three months and can hold most of the stuff you ACTUALLY wanna watch. To be fair, DVDs and BluRays can get expensive but at least that’s yours forever and you don’t have to worry about the studio suddenly deciding you need to subscribe to THEIR bullshit too. If it’s not available outside of streaming, well Gabe Newell said it best.
- Comment on Netflix officially removes Basic - the cheapest ad-free tier 3 months ago:
This may be more involved than most people are willing to go but just wanna add:
- This can be painfully slow without a dedicated GPU. Even low-mid range dedicated is gonna be a huge upgrade over CPU or integrated GPU so get one of those (if you can) or prepare to leave it overnight.
- I recommend playing with Handbrake settings a little. Use options with HEVC (x265) or AV1 for significantly smaller file sizes at the same level of quality. If you’re leaning towards x265, an Nvidia card using the NVENC option is gonna be significantly faster.
- Handbrake has a preview feature which outputs a 30 second segment at the given settings. Very useful if you wanna tune the quality/file size.
- Comment on Netflix officially removes Basic - the cheapest ad-free tier 3 months ago:
All good shows that don’t blow up to Stranger Things levels get cancelled and the recommendation algorithm prioritizes mediocrity. Why would I pay for that 🤷♂️
- Comment on Netflix officially removes Basic - the cheapest ad-free tier 3 months ago:
This is the way. The only no-bullshit media platform is the one on your hard drive.
- Comment on "Dilithium and You" a classic from '95 5 months ago:
This was so god damn good!
- Comment on Oopsi Woopsi 9 months ago:
This PR/meme is my spirit animal
- Comment on Reddit updates look after rough 6 months and ahead of reported IPO 11 months ago:
Honestly, dark theme is how they got me with that one. Haven’t used the site aside from search results since the API changes went live but I like to think I’d leave if a new redesign was worse.
- Comment on Flipboard leaves X for Mastodon 11 months ago:
Yeah, Vore. That awesome song by the British metalcore band Sleep Token.
- Comment on YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker 11 months ago:
On I 100% agree with you here. But here’s my (and I think a lot of people’s) logic:
It’s slightly different in the case of YouTube. The shop isn’t putting Karen (and everyone else) under a microscope the second she walks into the store, and using that data to tailor what she sees in their other branches so she’s more likely to buy. They’re not creating what’s effectively a gigantic influence market out of the data, and I don’t think you are doing that to your clients either (although to be honest, I’d be pretty impressed if you were).
YouTube is free because “we are the product”. They’re harvesting our data whether we block ads, skip ads, watch ads, or pay for premium (as far as I know, please correct me if I’m wrong). It may not be profitable on its own but it sure as hell is bringing value to Google’s other services. All the while, it’s actively getting worse for end users (more and more ads, no more dislikes, not respecting video quality choices as well as it used to, hiding quality settings behind obtuse menus on mobile, no home page without watch history…)
Ultimately, “line no go up big like last year grug mad” is what matters to Google’s shareholders and what ultimately drives their decisions. I firmly believe that we’d still be having this conversation if YouTube somehow making a profit with ad blockers on, so fuck em.
- Comment on YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker 11 months ago:
Okay now I feel a little bad for blocking ads on twitch if their ads are reasonable. Maybe I should consider adding it as an exclusion?
- Comment on YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker 11 months ago:
It’s been years since I’ve used YouTube without Revanced, SponsorBlock, and uBlock Origin. The vanilla experience when I see it on other people’s devices horrifies me every single time.
- Comment on YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker 11 months ago:
Already switched to Firefox for work on linux and I’ll switch on my “entertainment” windows install as well soon… just need to find time to do the sync stuff