Rhaedas

@Rhaedas@fedia.io

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The world if Africa didn't exist⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be far different if the land mass of Africa had never existed. The whole tectonic movement would have resulted in different arrangements several supercontinents ago, with their own effects on climate and life itself.

  But if Africa just blipped off one day, maybe. Then you have to explore what a sudden loss of land would do to the ocean waters rushing in, the change in Earth rotation due to its mass being shifted, lots of other things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The sun, it burns.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Touches steering wheel too soon.

  -20hp

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FDA’s ‘hands-off approach’ to additives may allow unsafe ingredients in food, experts suggest⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  More self regulating. Not even that, but just "well, let us know what's in your stuff, if you want."

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thoughts Around KBin's Current Status and the Importance of Community Migration Features⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The idea of migration and data preservation has been a topic since day one, since that's a big reason why so many moved to the Fediverse. I still haven't seen a perfect solution, and maybe there isn't one. Perhaps just having a lot of redundancy (oh no, reposts!) is the only true way of protecting posts for as long as possible, and even then...

  Ernest started things rolling with something that probably wasn't ready for the demand, but it was there when the time came. That others forked off from it and kept it going is the bright spot here. I appreciate Lemmy and even have an account from the first days, but I like the kbin/mbin setup better so that's where I sit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Technically Correct⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This happened to me after a lunch break going back into the court room for jury duty. Didn't think about my soda until I got to the checkpoint, used to the TSA's mentality so figured the rest of it was forfeit. She just tells me to take a drink to show it's valid. Respect for people doing their job correctly, and using common sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ADT admits security breach after hackers advertise stolen data on the dark web⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  "We're sorry (we got caught). Here's a free identity production scam to make you feel safe again.

  I begin to wonder if identity theft protection was the next big thing to get into after self storage. A bit of investment and then there's very little upkeep, and the companies keep that demand rolling in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2.9 billion hit in one of the largest data breaches ever — full names, addresses and SSNs exposed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I read "free credit monitoring" as allowing your name to get on another list to be sold.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Major shifts at OpenAI spark skepticism about impending AGI timelines⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  LLMs alone won't. Experts in the field seem to have different opinions on if they will help get us there. What is concerning to me is that the issues and dangers of AGI also exist with advanced LLM models, and that research is being shelved because it gets in the way of profit. Maybe we'll never be able to get to AGI, but we sure better hope if we do we get it right the first time. How's that been going with the more primitive LLMs?

  Do we even know what the "right" AGI would be? We're treading in dangerous waters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk's X sues advertisers over alleged 'massive advertiser boycott' after Twitter takeover⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So any entity that does something stupid that makes companies not want to associate with them anymore can sue for damages caused by their own mistake?

  This is either very stupid or some 6-D chess move to make millions. Hmm...

  Also, free market as long as it's profitable for you, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USA | Police Are Increasingly Encrypting Their Radios to Block Scrutiny by Journalists⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you think they should have access in real time, or a delay/after the event? I'm torn between accountability of the officers (which ought to be an internal thing if it was done right) and making it difficult for anyone to monitor moves at that moment. I.e., full transparency after the fact, but not so much while they're trying to get a criminal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If malls continue to shut down and decay over the next twenty years, someone should turn them into retirement communities for GenX and Millennials.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A town is a bit more than that, but it is how towns typically began, from a central trading place and nearby settlements. Only this is a planned concrete parking lot and established chain along with fully built domiciles, already in a city/town's jurisdiction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If malls continue to shut down and decay over the next twenty years, someone should turn them into retirement communities for GenX and Millennials.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The idea of apartments centered around a grocery plaza has been a thing for a while. It's almost an answer, except it still requires transportation to everything else. Plus the stores tend to be higher prices to support the cost of property and because they can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want to donate old work shirts, but I don't want people to be mistaken for employees there. How do I remove the logos?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or cut them up and use them as shop towels or whatever before you toss them. At least get a bit more out of them before they contribute to the landfill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good game soundtracks?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Elite Dangerous, both original OST and Odyssey (for the planetside background music)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good news everyone⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can tell you it's probably when they transitioned to frozen dough for the pan pizza vs. mixing it fresh each day. I will say that the frozen wasn't terrible, still better than other chains, but it was not the same as fresh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm terrified of the Netherlands now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Such techniques are often used to sell a conclusion with data that doesn't agree. Scaling, cropping, etc. Visuals are very powerful, and people will look at a graph and assume it's correct.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fortnite Players Band Together to Pick on In-Game Tesla Cybertrucks: 'Destroy on Sight' - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My first live sighting of one of them I realized how god-awful ugly they really are. Even in some bronze/pewter terrible color. Or maybe it got left in the rain and that's just corrosion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any actual standalone AI software?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The breaking down I mentioned is the quantization that forms a smaller model from the larger one. I didn't want to get technical because I don't understand the math details myself past how to use them. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any actual standalone AI software?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The AI, image, and audio models that can run on a typical PC have all been broken down from originally larger models. How this is done affects what the models can do and the quality, but the open source community has come a long way in making impressive stuff. First question is more hardware - do you have an Nvidia GPU that can support these types of generations? They can be done through CPU alone, but it's painfully much slower.

  If so, then I would highly recommend looking into Ollama for running AI models (using WSL if you're using Windows) and ComfyUI for graphical generation. Don't let the workflow of complicated ComfyUI scare you, starting from the basics with plenty of Youtube help out there it will make sense. As for TTS, there's a lot of constant "new stuff" out there, but for actual local processing in "real time" (still takes a bit) I have yet to find anything to replace my Coqui TTS copy with Jenny as the model voice. It may take some digging and work to get that together, it's older and not supported anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CrowdStrike Isn't the Real Problem⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don't think it's that uncommon an opinion. An even simpler version is the constant repeats over years now of information breaches, often because of inferior protect. As a amateur website creator decades ago I learned that plain text passwords was a big no-no, so how are corporation ITs still doing it? Even the non-tech person on the street rolls their eyes at such news, and yet it continues. CrowdStrike is just a more complicated version of the same thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If global warming is a biproduct of humans, wouldn't the logical answer be to kill 2/3rds of the humans?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He picks the outcome that's the simplest to explain. But you could explain it as a sadistic goal, because look at what second Thanos wanted to do upon learning the universe didn't appreciate him the first time. Kill it all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If global warming is a biproduct of humans, wouldn't the logical answer be to kill 2/3rds of the humans?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Neither addresses the problem, they just both push it into the future. Half the population/double the resources isn't even a reasonable amount to give much more time. It's better for drama though, because disappearing 99% or more of the universe would have really set back the Avengers, if any of them made the cut at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We've got one of their pull around vacuums. Superior product, best vacuum I've ever had in reliability and features.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good to know. I regularly pull it out and clean the vent with a vent extension brush anyway, once I got a house with a long vent where all sorts of things can settle. Huge fire hazard that most home owners don't even think about. It seems to be catching the lint it ought to be, but perhaps this goes back to the idea that even in a line of product you can have good and bad machines made.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like our used Samsung dryer. For basic drying. It has all those other bells and whistles that I don't care about, but it's done well for years. That damn finished drying tune though...with the option to turn it off or...not turn it off. omg

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We bought our current car used years ago with a similar philosophy - it was the first year of a new change, and they hadn't changed or recalled anything in the few following years. Combine that with a one car owner locally, and it obviously was a good buy at 17 years old running strong.

  But I will say even the best car makes, models, and years have their lemons. You have to look hard at each car's history and evidence to really win. We got pretty lucky.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hello I think you'll love this house.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What a ride that is, especially for Doom players going in blind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I will not be taking questions.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the cat. If they're simply going with tapping the roll to spin it, that may work for a bit. I've found that rolls accessible to a cat tend to morph into big balls of clawed unusable pulp.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit And Lemmy Alternatives⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Usenet. Go back to the base level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ticketmaster breach, beaches in general⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I've come to the conclusion that all these breach notices and the free stuff they offer for X months is a huge scam to get you sign up up for something. Either that, or every company has woefully underpaid/incompetent IT people. I'm waiting for the next news story to break on another company that somehow got passwords or identity info hacked that was stored in plain text...something I learned how to not do back in the 90s with basic HTML and PHP.