excitingburp

@excitingburp@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids Are Watching Brain Melting AI-Generated Videos on YouTube Without Parents Realizing⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As opposed to the human-made brain melting videos?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The DMA already having an impact. Brave Browser installs surge after introduction of browser choice splash screen on iOS.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And once again, I am seriously questioning Apple’s privacy claims. Why else would Apple build such a moat around Safari?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with Docker?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For your use case, consider it to be a packaging format (like AppImage, Flatpak, Deb, RPM, etc.) that includes all the dependencies (including services, not just libraries) for the app in question.

  Should I change this?

  If it’s not broken don’t fix it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨literally me⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t consider The Prestige to be one of his better works. I like to be left thinking. The Prestige has closure and explanations built in. It’s like the age-old books vs. movies argument: people nearly always say the books are better because books offer the reader agency. It’s not merely because they enjoy looking down their noses at us movie goer mortals - they enjoyed the books more because their preferred interpretation of the words were layered above the literal text.

  I didn’t suffer through Tenet, I was completely immersed - which almost never happens for me.

  And if you hated it and suffered through it, that’s fine too. I don’t get why you have a problem with me enjoying it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨literally me⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just like modern plots, modern audio editing spoonfeeds the audience: youtu.be/XOXJLwzIOoA?si=XY-0mUmwx9_V51Tl. We need to be told each and every detail about the security system in order to understand that it’s extreme, even though those details wouldn’t add to the plot in any way (as I recall, the last thing you can hear is the risk of suffocation - which is the last aspect of the security system that was relevant later on).

  Next thing you know, audiences will start complaining that depth of field/camera blur is obscuring in unimportant details in the background.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨literally me⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You didn’t understand my ridiculous plot?

  Why is it such a sin to cater to a different audience to you? If you don’t enjoy his movies then don’t watch them. He’s one of a handful of screenwriters who does complex stuff, there’s an absolute deluge of lighter stuff for the rest of you.

  What would you say to a person who continues to eat fish, even though they hate it and spit it out each time? “Stop eating fish, that’s your fault.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please Stop⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m Bitcoin there is a built-in reward to keep things moving forward even if there are no transactions. Different coins do different things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please Stop⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The cryptography has much simpler algebraic analogues - what we are looking for is a “one-way function”. This means a mathematical symbol that only works on the left side of the equals. The simplest one is the remainder of a division. For example if I told you that I had a remainder of 5 after dividing by 20, you wouldn’t know if the original numerator was 25, 45, 65, 85, and so on. This operator is called mod (modulus). Even if you don’t know what value I started with, It’s not hard to guess what possible numerators could be with modulus. That’s where the cryptography comes into play: a cryptographic hash is designed so that it’s practically impossible to guess the original numerator. We’ll stick with the modulus for explanatory purposes, but imagine that you can’t list off possible numerators like I did.

  Now we can invent a puzzle for a computer to solve. We’ll start off with the same values as before, but - again - we are disallowing easy guesses. This forces us to check 1 mod 20, 2 mod 20, 3 mod 20, 4 mod 20, 5 mod 20 and so on. Eventually we’ll hit 25 mod 20 giving us the solution to X mod 20 = 25. Now you can go back to the person that gave you the puzzle and prove that you’ve done 25 steps of work to arrive at a solution (or have made a lucky 1/25 guess). This is called “proof of work”. A cryptographic has consists of a certain number of bits, such as 256 bits - this means a series of 1’ s and 0’s 256 long. The puzzle presented to the computer is “find the numerator that results in the first 50 bits being zero” (the more bits are required to be zero, the longer it will take to find the answer). Because of the incredibly slim chance of guessing the correct numerator, it doesn’t really matter if the computer counts up (like we did with modulus) or guesses. So, in practice, everybody trying to find the solution starts at a random number and starts counting, or trying other random numbers, until someone wins the jackpot. It’s basically a lottery, but the correct numbers have to be discovered instead of being dropped out of a glass ball at the end of the week. Once a computer finds a solution, everybody else playing the game can check their numerator.

  Now we can use this lottery to create a blockchain. We start with 5 things: a globally agreed on solution we are looking for (789), an initial block (which is just a number - lets say 12345), Bob’s account #5 of $100, and Sally’s account #6 of $200, and a huge amount of players of the above game. Sally wants to transfer $20 to Bob, so she says to all the players: “I’m #6 and want to give #5 $20. There’s a $1 prize for finding a new block for me.” All the players make a new denominator, by placing the numbers next to eachother - so 12345 6 200 5 100 20 1 - or just 1234562005100201. All the players start trying to find the number that will result in 789. Eventually someone finds 1234562005100990 after a lot of work/guesses. Everybody checks their work 1234562005100990 mod 1234562005100201 = 789. The winning player receives their prize, and now everybody has a new block to start from: 1234562005100201 1234562005100990. Next time someone wants to send some money they will use 12345620051002011234562005100990 as the initial block instead of 12345. Hence, we have set up a chain starting with:

  12345 -> 12345620051002011234562005100990 -> …

  There’s your block…chain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Diablo 4's new mount costs more than the actual game⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Grubby is a good example of someone who was recently reformed. In one of his early Dota 2 videos (some time last year), he admitted that he didn’t know that games outside of Blizzard had gotten so good - he actually only played Blizzard games and nothing else. It’s been pretty wholesome watching someone learn the wider gaming world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Mixed Reality to be removed in Windows 11 24H2⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re being down voted because Apple supporting old hardware is the only thing that Apple is good about. Would have done well in almost any other thread.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Codeberg.org Opinions?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love it enough to donate. Forego is an awesome project.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FLOSS communities right now⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mumble needs a new client. As much as we, myself included, hate Electron apps, no normie is going to use Mumble when it looks the way that it does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A question on hosting a Matrix server on a cheap VPS⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably less resource intensive: conduit.rs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My phone autocorrects this wrong frequently, like it’s life depends on it. One can assume GP typed the correct thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop wearing Vision Pro goggles while driving your Tesla: U.S. transportation officials, Calif. police⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hololens is slightly more advanced. At least the last I saw it uses waveguides etc. to overlay the content over a transparent panel. Much like Google glasses, but way, way more advanced (and therefore justifiably expensive). AVP is no different to a $300 Quest (plus internal cameras for iris and expression tracking) - it’s 10x Apple tax.

  Hololens is still alive and kicking btw, but it’s exclusively enterprise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"tHeRe'$ n0 rEpL@CeMeNt FoR dIsPlaCeMeNt!!!1!!!1!!“⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As an EV zealot I 100% support tinkerers, racers, and simply the spirit of an ICE. But not in commuting/traffic, where nobody is enjoying anything anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"tHeRe'$ n0 rEpL@CeMeNt FoR dIsPlaCeMeNt!!!1!!!1!!“⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  100% this. I’m passionately on the other end of the spectrum, where a car’s entire purpose is to get me from A to B without fanfare, prestige, or hassle. Also needs the birds eye camera because fuck parallel parking. Trains are a better way to do all that. And we should be moving more good with trains. Trucks are expensive and should be last mile exclusively.

  The problem for most people is that trains, and other public transport, don’t take you from doorstep to doorstep. God help us all if we have to walk 1/4 mile to a stop. There is also politics preventing it, at least in America.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube and Spotify Won’t Launch Apple Vision Pro Apps, Joining Netflix⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s the state of the art VR: www.bigscreenvr.com. You’d need that plus Valve base stations and controllers, so about $1500 total. It’s miles ahead of anything anyone else is offering, especially Apple. You can’t demo it to others though, it really does only work for the person that it’s made for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux devices are under attack by a never-before-seen worm⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Worms are near impossible to install on an immutable system. You can’t just write to /usr/share/bin or some other truck to hide your binary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steamworks Development - AI Content on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can think of one legitimate use: character portraits in RPGs. I strongly doubt that there are more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux devices are under attack by a never-before-seen worm⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  / laughs in immutable Linux

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ultimately you really only have KHTML (what Webkit was forked from), Gecko, Triton (IE classic), and I can’t recall what the new (now dead) engine in IE11 was called. The rest are forks, mostly of Webkit/KHTML.

  I guess there’s Ladybird and Servo too, but they are a way still from being used as a daily driver.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do any of you have that one service that just breaks constantly? I'd love to love Nextcloud, but it sure makes that difficult at times⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This has been a serious concern of mine. In the event that I prematurely die I have everything set up with automatic updates, so that hopefully my family can continue to use the self-hosted services without me.

  Nextcloud will not stop shitting the bed. I’d give it a few months at most if I died, at which point my family would likely turn back to Google Drive.

  I’m looking for a more reliable alternative, even if it’s not as feature-rich.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is alcohol measured in percentages?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you throw gasoline out on to the pavement it will evaporate away. If you keep it in a gasoline can it will not. In a gasoline can the liquid and gas will reach equilibrium, though you’ll certainly have slightly less liquid than what you started with. If the can isn’t sealed then, yes, all the gasoline will eventually evaporate away - even at STP.

  And, again, this is all trivial to test at home by using some hand sanitizer. Another example is your skin does not remain wet with water forever, despite human skin temperature not being 100°C. It’s an everyday phenomena, I’m not sure what you’re trying to argue against here. It’s not my “line of thinking,” it’s objectively reality.

  As for your distillation problem, the issue isn’t that some alcohol remains in the water - it’s that some water evaporates alongside the alcohol during the distillation process at the boiling point of alcohol - due to, guess what, vapor pressure. That’s called an azeotrope - clicking through to that Wikipedia page might have helped.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is alcohol measured in percentages?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was what the GP was, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is alcohol measured in percentages?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  it would not turn into a gas at normal conditions.

  It does: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vapor_pressure. In an airtight container you would have an equilibrium of alcohol vapor and liquid. In open-atmosphere, the atmosphere basically behaves like an infinitely large volume for the vapor - so the alcohol will completely vaporize (and cool the surface it is on in order to do so).

  It’s also trivial to demonstrate by pouring alcohol onto a surface, it disappears in seconds. Same with gasoline and numerous other liquids you’ve surely seen do this (another example is hand sanitizer, which is basically pure alcohol).

  Being diluted doesn’t really help with any of this though. Also alcohol is kept in bottles, which are usually airtight until they are first opened.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I move to Docker?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t learn Docker, learn containers. Docker is merely one of the first runtimes, and a rather shit one at that (it’s a bunch of half-baked projects - container signing as one major example).

  Learn Kubernetes, k3s is probably a good place to start. Docker-compose is simply a proprietary and poorly designed version of it. If you know Kubernetes, you’ll quickly be able to pick up docker-compose if you ever need to.

  You can use buildah bud (part of the Podman ecosystem) to build containerfiles (exactly the same thing as dockerfiles without the trademark). Buildah can also be used without containerfiles (your containerfiles simply becomes a script in the language of your choice - e.g. bash), which is far more versatile. Speaking of Podman, if you want to keep things really simple you can manually create a bunch of containers in a pod and then ask Podman to create a set of systemd units for you. Podman supports nearly all of what docker does (with exception to docker’s bjorked signing) and has identical command line syntax. Podman can also host a docker-compatible socket if you need to use it with something that really wants docker.

  I’m personally a big fan of Podman, but I’m also a fan of anything that isn’t Docker: LXD is another popular runtime, and containerd is (IIRC) the runtime underpinning docker. There’s also firecracker or kubevirt, which go full circle and let you manage tiny VMs like containers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple has seemingly found a way to block Android’s new iMessage app⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently it breaks group chats, notwithstanding that it’s an Apple problem, Signal exists and doesn’t feature any of this nonsense.