MajorHavoc
@MajorHavoc@programming.dev
- Comment on Reddy (for Lemmy) is out! You can install it from Flathub now 5 days ago:
As much as I appreciate homebrew, I feel better about flatpaks.
I could not defend this position with any articulation, I’ve just had really good experiences setting up flatpaks wherever they’re available.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 community manager says internal discussions are ongoing regarding mandatory PSN account link 1 week ago:
Lol. Yeah.
Sorry, I left off the /s there.
- Comment on Are you ultra woke on purpose? 1 week ago:
Hell yeah. Well said.
- Comment on Are you ultra woke on purpose? 1 week ago:
At the first sign that I’m interacting with someone who avoids people they cover woke, I signal my wokeness in any honest way I can.
I have a lot of room for different people in my social circle, but if my willingness to state my pronouns without blinking bothers someone, they’re too brittle for me to waste time around.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 1 week ago:
Lack of demand.
Phones having unique unalterable numbers was never an intentional feature desired by users, just a limitation of the available technology.
Computer network cards do have such a number, their MAC address, but modern ones can scramble it to avoid being tracked, without any loss of ability to be reached by everyone you want to be reached by.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 community manager says internal discussions are ongoing regarding mandatory PSN account link 1 week ago:
I’ve had my eye on Helldiver’s 2, but I’m not creating a PSN account.
I know my $40.00 is pretty important to them, so I thought I would mention it here.
- Comment on Synthesia Launches Avatars with Facial Expressions and Body Language. 1 week ago:
Helping make low effort AI spewed videos - that could have easily been low effort AI spewed blog articles - slightly harder to identify and avoid.
- Comment on AT&T announces $7 monthly add-on fee for “Turbo” 5G speeds 1 week ago:
I’ve seen Kaiju action shows from Japan. I know “Turbo” isn’t something you want to be without, especially near an ocean.
- Comment on Will self driving trucks hit the roads with nobody on board or will they keep a human supervisor? 1 week ago:
Yeah. All true. Lots of what truckers do today can be done by rapid response teams, and enhanced truck stops.
That said, folks imagining that they will get to wave the AI magic wand and have safe reliable driverless trucks are in for a rude and expensive surprise.
- Comment on It is what it is 😂 1 week ago:
Might not be a couple at all…
- Comment on Will self driving trucks hit the roads with nobody on board or will they keep a human supervisor? 1 week ago:
The tricky part is that a truck is an incredibly expensive piece of equipment, and it needs a lot of maintenance.
Professional truckers drive, yes.
But they also inspect the inside and outside of the truck before and after each trip. Many of them deter theft and validation vandalism by often sleeping in the truck. Many of them can fix blown tire or a failed spark plug without outside assistance.
It’ll be lovely but to have to do the actual driving, but owners who think that’s the only skill that a professional trucker brings are in for a nasty shock if they immediately swap to untrained staff.
Once the trucks can drive themselves, a lot of the rest of what a trucker does can probably be done by fewer people, with the right coordination, resources and planning. But that’s going to take a lot of effort, and it’s going to have to be effort from actual truckers who know that they’re doing.
- Comment on It is what it is 😂 1 week ago:
May just be evidence that one spouse is very good in bed, and the other is very satisfied.
- Comment on Evolution isn't linear. 1 week ago:
I adore the total lack of surprise for the ‘fridge with machine gun’ in the comments here. We all watched Digimon, apparently.
- Comment on ONS staff refuse to work two days a week in office 1 week ago:
Yeah. That’s some Star Trek “Captain Kirk goes to space”, make-believe bullshit. But I guess we can still dream. /s
- Comment on You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000 2 weeks ago:
Perfect for tracking down copies of banned reading materials!
- Comment on Microsoft wants to hide the 'Sign out' button in Windows 11 behind a Microsoft 365 ad 3 weeks ago:
I’ve held off on saying it until now (I haven’t), but now I’m going to call it (again):
This is the year of the Linux Desktop.
(It feels love someone influential at Microsoft is trying to protect my reputation and force my prediction to come true.)
- Comment on US Air Force confirms first successful AI dogfight 3 weeks ago:
Well, humanity had a good run. It turns out natural selection can include building something that will inevitably kill us all. At least there’s still time to leave some interesting monuments and journal articles for whatever replaces us.
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 3 weeks ago:
If you had told me decades ago that I would still be playing THPS1 and 2 a quarter of a century later…I would have probably nodded and said “yeah. Makes sense.” I guess we knew it was a classic, back then, too.
But still. What a game!
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 3 weeks ago:
Cool. I’m be happy to share it.
I posted a high level summary from memory elsewhere in this thread.
But, I plan to write it up and share it in detail, soon, after I stop tweaking it.
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 3 weeks ago:
What plug-ins have you installed?
I have about 30 plugins installed.
I started by adding everything by TenPlus1, on the assumption that anyone working that hard, to make that many mods, was probably making good mods. (This turned out to be a good assumption.)
Do any of them make you feel like you’re having an experience that you couldn’t replicate in minecraft?
Oh yes.
Mods like ‘More Trees’ and ‘Famring Redo’ provide a much deeper farming experience.
‘Pipeworks’ adds the inventory sorting engine that I always wanted in Minecraft, but with much simpler recipes.
‘Realistic HanghGlider’ replicates Elitra and Rockets, but it’s just craftable - no extra-dimensional scarcity. Which happens to fit my play style.
And most notably, the default 3x3 in-inventory crafting is such a nice quality of life feature. I’m not constantly running back to, or making another, crafting box.
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 3 weeks ago:
I tried MineClone first, and it was fun. After researching mods, I went deep down the rabbit trail, and switched to MineGame/default, since it seems like there’s more mod combinations.
Now I have a setup that’s roughly MineClone, but with some quality of life changes.
Most notably, once I tried the ‘always have a crafting table’ default in MineGame, I missed it anytime I tried to go back to MineClone (which requires a crafting table to unlock 3x3 crafting, just like Minecraft).
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 3 weeks ago:
I wish I had more to talk about, but this month I’ve just played so much MineTest.
I have this feeling that I’ve almost got my server plugins where I want them, but it also feels like there may always be one more plugin to discover.
- Comment on Big Tech Is Faking AI 3 weeks ago:
Haha. I called that one.
We saw the same crap with Bitcoin. “It uses blockchain…in a meaningless obscure corner of the app, just so we can tell you…it uses blockchain!”
- Comment on Play GB games 4 weeks ago:
I like my Hyperkin Retron Sq.
The Hyperkin Retron Sq is a nice enough for playing Gameboy and Gameboy Color cartridges.
It’s actually fine for lots of Gameboy Advance games, as well.
But, by virtually every account I have seen, the Analogue Pocket is a much better option, for about the same price. If I had been aware of the Analogue Pocket, I would have bought it, instead, or at least first.
- Comment on Whats the best Universally usable CRT Monitor for computers all trough the 80s and 90s? 4 weeks ago:
I heard good thing about the Commodore 1084 series,
Yep. I hooked all kinds of things up to my C64 monitor for decades. I wish I still had one.
- Comment on Microsoft is blocking Windows Customization Tools 5 weeks ago:
People who are modifying Windows this deeply are not going to switch to Linux
Yeah. Not just to avoid a quick file rename.
Although, I started out as someone who modified Windows that deeply, and I ended up on Linux.
One of my reasons for switching was when my favorite Windows mod stopped working, and there was no recourse.
This sounds like it goes beyond that and the Windows team is actively pushing modders out?
I think this will have an effect, and we will get more migrations.
- Comment on Is this a boondoggle or is it actually useful investment? 5 weeks ago:
It may be both.
It could be both helping save the environment and siphoning public funds into a buddy’s pocket.
- Comment on How Hidden Nazi Symbols Were the Tip of a Toxic Iceberg at Life Is Strange Developer Deck Nine - IGN 5 weeks ago:
“We can say that, during his time at Telltale, Zak was one of the most talented, balanced and inclusive game directors we have ever worked with, and that is evident in the games he has delivered.”
That statement doesn’t read as the defense they think it reads as.
It reads as “all of our other game directors are somehow actually worse.”
- Comment on Amazon's Just Walk Out technology relies on hundreds of workers in India watching you shop 5 weeks ago:
The goal was to train ML enough so that humans were rarely necessary, obviously.
Yes, that’s the goal.
There’s a long rich history of AI like outcomes being mimiced by just hiding the human who does the work. That’s actually the source of the name of Amazon’s own “Mechanical Turk” service.
Not being actively watched by an army of underpaid workers is effectively still on the “someday…maybe” feature list for this thing, unless Amazon (famous for making delivery workers pee in soda bottles, and allowing warehouse workers to get heat stroke) somehow provides credible proof that they’ve actually grown past that.
I, as someone with substantial professional ML experience, won’t take Amazon at their word, when they claim the ML has alleviated the need for the army of workers watching cameras. That’s bullshit marketing promise, until proven otherwise. Particularly coming from Amazon.
Moving away from the people watching to using pure AI is well within the realm of possibility.
But good AI maintainers cost more per hour to pay than the entire army of mechanical turk “trainers”. So I am skeptical of any claim that Amazon, in particular, has done the right thing here.
So it’s very fair to assume you’re being watched in one of those stores, until real credible evidence is provided that you’re not.
- Comment on The platform era is ending. Rather than build new Twitters and Facebooks, we can create a stuff-posting system that works better for everybody. 1 month ago:
Yeah. We’ve already seen this effect with WordPress and Android and Apache/Nginx. There was a day when I was weird for betting against MS IIS for web hosting, and people were sure the commercial Internet would remain proprietary forever.
We saw companies try and fail to privatize HTML many (ActiveX, Flash, SilverLight, various versions of IE).
Open specifications always win.