TheOneCurly

@TheOneCurly@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm honestly curious what the Spiderman Elsa youtube reboots will be like when Hollywood starts selling gen alpha their childhood.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The search term you need is elsagate. A whole bunch of cheaply made youtube videos featuring popular characters in bizarre situations. They were made to game the youtube kids algorithm and tons of tablet kids watched them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Primes are actually useful…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI is now valued at $157 billion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Will that be before or after the metaverse arrives?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Installing Jellyfin as a Podman Quadlet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have not seen quadlets before, that’s really neat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨when people say the secret ingredient is love, i have to assume that that love takes the form of flatulence.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Whatever floats your boat…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ideas for storing electrons or light in a container⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We can already store electrons in a container, we call that a capacitor. You separate 2 conductive plates with a dielectric and then connect the plates to a voltage source to deposit electrons on one side and remove electrons from the other (creating a difference in electric potential). You can then disconnect voltage source and you will have electrons in a bottle. When you connect those plates to another circuit, they will discharge. The more surface area you have, the more electrons you can store. Electrolytic capacitors tightly roll the conductors into a spiral for space efficiency.

  This cannot be used to gain any more energy than you used to put them all in there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh Elon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes he sent a damn signed contract.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Full open source and private camera monitoring system⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have the exact same setup. It works perfectly and integrates really well into home assistant if that’s your thing. Getting a coral TPU also makes object detection really easy even on low power hardware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I know Mormons can't have alcohol, but couldn't they just dip their tongue in a glass of beer and not move it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But also mate which is hot, caffeinated, leaf juice, is a-ok and totally not tea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can someone explain why so many people here are FOR blocking Threads.net on a server level?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The concept as I understand it is that Threads has the sheer volume of content to completely drown out the existing Fedi content if it fully opens the floodgates. If that occurs and say 90% of content becomes Threads and then they start making Threads only extensions to Activity Pub, servers will have to start patching those in and the Activity Pub project is defacto owned by Meta.

  People also have issues with the Meta content moderation and the population on Threads, but as you noted that’s fixable on an individual and community level. The existential threat to the future of the Fediverse is why servers should defederate. Meta can’t and shouldn’t be trusted with any amount of power over this community project.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Re-manifested? To fix it you have to reenable manifest v2. That should be simple for a while but will get more problematic over time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data - Nature⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what this is about… Continual training of new models is becoming difficult because there’s so much generated content flooding data sets. They don’t become biased or overly refined, they stop producing output that resembles human text.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a stupid question?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The helicopter example sounds like it would make for a great What If?. There’s so many good things in there I want answered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would it be possible to run two OSs simultaneously by hibernating one of the OSs?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They sold laptops with this feature at one time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5M0TwnkWUM&list=PLec1d3O…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is legal vs rude. It certainly is legal and was in the terms of service for them to use the data in any way they see fit. But, also it’s rude to bait and switch from being a message board to being an AI data source company. Users we led to believe they were entering into an agreement with one type of company and are now in an agreement with a totally different one.

  You can smugly tell people they shouldn’t have made that decision 15 years ago when they started, but a little empathy is also cool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can only really speak to reddit, but I think this applies to all of the user generated content websites. The original premise, that everyone agreed to, was the site provides a space and some tools and users provide content to fill it. As information gets added, it becomes a valuable resource for everyone. Ads and other revenue streams become a necessary evil in all this, but overall directly support the core use case.

  Now that content is being packaged into large language models to be either put behind a paywall or packed into other non-freely available services. Since they no longer seem interested in supporting the model we all agreed on, I see no reason to continue adding value and since they provided tools to remove content I may as well use them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung shifts executives to six-day workweeks to “inject a sense of crisis”⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Executives get paid more but they’re still working class.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe Firefly used thousands of Midjourney images in training its 'ethical AI' model⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So if I buy a load of stolen apples and bake them into pies I’m in the clear?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitter’s Clumsy Pivot to X.com Is a Gift to Phishers⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And the one junior dev left at Twitter just learned it too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DebateLibertarianism: Present Your Arguments For or Against?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Then my choice is I pay taxes that pay for roads or I pay the same amount to 20 different road companies as tolls. If it’s all the same then I may as well have a single point of annoyance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DebateLibertarianism: Present Your Arguments For or Against?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have yet to see a compelling libertarian policy that wasn’t just bad for most people and good for the wealthy. It’s not “freedom”, it’s moving from government rules to corporate rules. At least a government has a semblance of accountability to me, a corporation has none.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Families launches into beta, making it easier to buy and share games with your kids⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And what authority is checking the blockchain to see if you’re the owner. Some kind of trusted 3rd party maybe? Making the whole blockchain thing pointless?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Heat Pumps: Eco-Friendly HVAC Alternative?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’ve ever used an air conditioner you’ve used a heat pump. ACs are just one way heat pumps that take heat from inside and dump it outside. You can add a “reversing valve” to allow it to move heat in either direction, making a general purpose “heat pump”. They can be nearly 400% efficient, which is better than any other heat source.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking to build my first PC in almost 30 years; What should I be on the look out for?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what finally did in my 10 year old Corsair. I was technically within specs on wattage with my new 4070 but certain loads would cause it to trip the over current protection anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This tiny, tamper-proof ID tag can authenticate almost anything⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We made a tag that can’t be reliably and deterministically scanned so we also included a machine learning model that takes a good guess at it.

  I just don’t see how you could possibly rely on a black box model for anything important. You have no way to mathematically prove if there are collisions in the model output or not, and newer versions of the model can’t be made backwards compatible. So if you have a database of thousands of these tags scanned, then they discover a critical vulnerability and provide a new model, you’re SOL and everything you have is worthless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Financial dispute leads to suspension of more than 100 .af websites⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are hundreds of gTLDs now, maybe everyone can stop abusing country code TLDs and leave them for their intended purposes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Passkeys might really kill passwords⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Vaultwarden does at least, I’ve been using it with passkeys for the last couple months and it’s been great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any thoughts on « Stract », an open source search engine (that appears to be self hostable as well, but there is a main instance of it)⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried to daily drive it last week and found it pretty hard. Certainly day-to-day searches would be completely nonsensical results.

  For specific use cases, especially with optics on, it works well. I’m definitely keeping an eye on it and will be trying it again in the future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I like women but I also like cock but I'm not otherwise attracted to the male body at all. Wtf is my sexual orientation?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Google maps sexual