Deebster
@Deebster@programming.dev
(new account since lemmyrs.org went down)
- Comment on People always want their ideal conversation to sound like movie characters, but in reality most people talk as if they're in an interrogation room or how people sound like on police bodycam footage. 1 day ago:
Also there’s the style of delivery - old acting used to be very exaggerated and hammy, then there’s the kind of flawless but somewhat natural style that OP is talking about, through to today’s more realistic “mumbling” style that everyone complains about.
- Comment on 2026-01-14: The Day the telnet Died 1 day ago:
Bad news on the backbone
I couldn’t scan a single ASNI’m trying to figure out what pronunciation or accent the author speaks in to have this rhyme. A heavy South African accent, so backbone is more like “berckben”? Pronouncing ASN as “a-sone”?
- Comment on I can be considered Trekkie or just a viewer? 1 week ago:
I’d assume that most people are familiar with the term Trekkie, but would have to use context to figure out trekker (“you like long walls?”)
Whatever the intention, coining/identifying as a separate term suggests someone taking it quite seriously. I just consider them synonyms.
- Comment on My self hosted badges of honor 1 week ago:
[Found them] (www.etsy.com/shop/SoHexy?ref=lp_mys_mfts)! This lets me cheat and figure out the ones I couldn’t name (or knew I’d got wrong like Digital Ocean that I thought probably wasn’t the Commodore 64).
- Comment on My self hosted badges of honor 1 week ago:
These are really consistent, do you print them yourself?
- Comment on Ugh... I forgot to pack a towel 2 weeks ago:
Only 116 days until Towel Day
- Comment on Orion Browser’s Linux Alpha is Finally Here 3 weeks ago:
I have mixed feeling about this one. I’m on the newsletter as a Kagi + Linux user, but I’m not sure I’ll make this my daily driver once it’s ready.
I have diversified my tech, using self-hosted and/or open source where possible. Orion is closed-source, and from the same company I use for my search, translation, etc. I trust Kagi far more than I trust Google, but I still don’t want all my eggs in one basket.
It’s obviously good that we’re getting alternatives in the browser market, but I don’t know how much work they’ve done outside of the UI - is this effectively a reskin of Apple Safari in the same way we have the Chromium-based browsers that are dependent on Google’s developers?
I like that they have “native support for both Chrome and Firefox extensions”, which means I should be able to replicate my Firefox setup in Orion. I guess I’ll need to try it.
- Comment on Companies with TLDs named after them is the best example of how ridiculously big those companies are. 3 weeks ago:
That argument only works if you’re expecting Google to move youtube.com to youtube.google, which I can’t see happening. If a brand’s a household name and can be found at brand.com, then it stands to reason that they’d leave it like that.
For Google/Microsoft budgets, domain name registration is irrelevant as a cost. Besides, even if they did move the domains, they’d still keep the old ones alive for forwarding and to stop anyone else taking them. For example, Google still has googleplus.com, despite that that was never the official address (they used a subdomain: plus.google.com).
- Comment on Companies with TLDs named after them is the best example of how ridiculously big those companies are. 4 weeks ago:
Equally, you can only allow *.google.com as easily as *.google, so I still don’t think that makes much sense.
- Comment on Companies with TLDs named after them is the best example of how ridiculously big those companies are. 4 weeks ago:
You can block *.google.com as easily as *.google, so I don’t think that makes much sense.
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 1 month ago:
I’m thinking of it the same way, and not having the readers be trade secrets but published specs is good for future digital archeologists.
For example, Dyson uses trade secrets instead of parents, so it would be harder to recreate their tech in the future.
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 1 month ago:
“We are a technology licensing company”
This is good news from the point of view of being able to create devices that can read these crystals; as a comment on the linked site says:
The realistic lifetime of storage is the life of the last manufactured or surviving retrieval device.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
The article shows that that’s not what’s going on:
YouTube, which is owned by Google, confirmed to The Intercept that it deleted the groups’ accounts as a direct result of State Department sanctions against the group after a review. The Trump administration leveled the sanctions against the organizations in September over their work with the International Criminal Court in cases charging Israeli officials of war crimes.
“Google is committed to compliance with applicable sanctions and trade compliance laws,” YouTube spokesperson Boot Bullwinkle said in a statement.
Did you read the article or just the headline?
- Comment on 🎶 picture this we we're both butt naked banging on the bathroom door 🎶 5 months ago:
!showerthoughts@lemmy.world needs to up its game
- Comment on Inserting "Anal" infront of trailer model names at the RV park makes some interesting combinations. 6 months ago:
We know this as the Caravan Game.
Anal Buccaneer
Anal Xplore
Anal Freedom
Anal Cavalier - Comment on How do you handle absolutely critical alerts on your Android phone? 9 months ago:
I have Tasker running, and you can set it up to do this too. Between ntfy and Google’s version I think I’m covered already!
- Comment on Confused about the many ebook/manga management solutions 9 months ago:
Most of the manga I have is amateur translated stuff, so the metadata quality varies with release groups.
The graphic novels are generally retail releases, but sometimes I still want to edit to get rid of marketing words (e.g. the title might mention how it’s now a Netflix series or something).
- Comment on Confused about the many ebook/manga management solutions 9 months ago:
I guess I’ve just been lucky then! I’ve stripped DRM off everything else, so I expect theirs would come off using the same tools.
- Comment on Confused about the many ebook/manga management solutions 9 months ago:
The latest Kindle update broke the jailbreak even if it was installed, so you’ll need to stop updates. Not being able to use the internet to pull down books from your Calibre-web server means you may as well just send books via Calibre.
I’m planning on getting a Kobo Clara BW when my Kindle dies (it’s currently got holes at the corners and a few dodgy-sounding rattles so soon™). Then I can use Koreader+Calibre-web to download books and sync read state like you can do with Amazon.
So your process here is get comics -> comictagger -> upload to server and kavita, correct?
Pretty much, apart from that I often add them and only fix if necessary, e.g. they’re not going into series properly.
- Comment on Confused about the many ebook/manga management solutions 9 months ago:
None of the books I’ve bought from kobo.com have DRM.
- Comment on How do you handle absolutely critical alerts on your Android phone? 9 months ago:
I went with ntfy as well - you can set the different levels to alert in different ways and my max priority it set to always ring even if the phone is on silent. Mostly I use max prio as a find-my-phone tool, but there are real alerts that would use it.
- Comment on Confused about the many ebook/manga management solutions 9 months ago:
Ebooks: I use Calibre locally and Calibre-web on the server (read-only metadata db, I overwrite with the Calibre version as tagging, etc is far easier on desktop).
You can connect Koreader to Calibre-web and until maybe a fortnight ago you could jailbreak a Kindle and use Koreader instead of the default software. Now you’ll need to manually move files over, or use the email-to-Kindle option (probably a bad idea, but I expect Amazon can tell if you’ve side loaded pirated content anyway). Nowadays I buy from not-Amazon sources, strip any DRM and send it over.
Manga/comics/graphic novels: I use Kavita on the server and I use comictagger on desktop to fix the metadata.
I’m happy to use different set ups for the different types as they’re quite different experiences and specialist tools work better.
- Comment on High school student uses AI to reveal 1.5 million previously unknown objects in space. 9 months ago:
It uses a neutral net that he designed and trained, so it is AI. The public’s view of “AI” seems mostly the generation stuff like chatbots and image gen, but deep learning is perfect for science and medical fields.
- Comment on High school student uses AI to reveal 1.5 million previously unknown objects in space. 9 months ago:
I found his paper: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/…/ad7fe6 (no paywall 😃)
From the intro:
VARnet leverages a one-dimensional wavelet decomposition in order to minimize the impact of spurious data on the analysis, and a novel modification to the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) to quickly detect periodicity and extract features of the time series. VARnet integrates these analyses into a type prediction for the source by leveraging machine learning, primarily CNN.
So they start with some good old fashioned signal processing, before feeding the result into a convolution neutral net. The CNN was trained on synthetic data.
FC = Fully Connected layer, so I assume they mix FC and convolution layers in their NN. I need to read the whole paper, which won’t happen right now.
- Comment on lemsha.re - Lemmy shareable links 10 months ago:
I wasn’t entirely serious, but…
If memory serves, you just add
lemmyverse.link/after the https:// bit, so it’d be
lemmyverse.link/lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/40704282It looks like lemsha.re works similarly:
lemsha.re/https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/40704282It’s a bit weird that it insists on the link being via https but then includes that in the url…
- Comment on lemsha.re - Lemmy shareable links 10 months ago:
You missed a great opportunity to use lemshare/lemmyverse here
- Comment on South Central Ambulance 999 call handler receives death threats 11 months ago:
“Commentator posts hot take, demonstrating a massive lack of empathy to people doing a stressful and important job.”
- Comment on Microsoft is reportedly killing Skype 11 months ago:
Yes, I still have it showing up in Windows/Android, and phone numbers show their cost per minute.
- Comment on Microsoft is reportedly killing Skype 11 months ago:
I have a load of credit on there still (got tricked by them deactivating my credit and popped up unnecessarily). I still use it for international calls at least once a month, I hope this news story is overblown.
- Comment on Just think how much deeper the ocean would be if sponges didn't live there. 11 months ago:
I think it’s probably a mix of criticising a joke for its accuracy, and the fact that it’s in a single paragraph so it’s a huge wall of text.
