Jesus_666

@Jesus_666@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨every time⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember: If you’re not part of the solution you’re part of the precipitate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨every time⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  My girlfriend got herself a pair and taped them to corners of her desk. She doesn’t want to turn on the light when she gets up at night but she also doesn’t want to bump into the desk. Tritium vials fit that use case well.

  Could we have gone with dimmable lights or something homebrewed with low-power LEDs? Sure, but tritium vials are affordable and don’t need a power supply or much in the way of setup; they’ll just keep doing their thing for about a decade before you have to even think about their light output.

  They’re a solid choice if you have the specific use case of wanting something to be easily located in (near-)complete darkness but you don’t want to use electricity for some reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happens when you always think the worst of people⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that dog driving a car?

  Nope, Chuck Testa!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless other situations where the established technology wins due to inertia, sodium ion batteries have two benefits that make them interesting regardless:

  Firstly, they are safer. A punctured sodium ion battery doesn’t catch fire, which massively simplifies safety design. That makes them very attractive for certain scenarios, especially ones where density is a secondary concern. That in turn means they get further development money instead of withering on the vine.

  Secondly, they require fewer hard-to-obtain materials, which makes them attractive from a strategic perspective. This one should be less important than the safety factor but it’s also relevant.

  I’m pretty sure we’ll actually see wet sodium cells in the wild if they are actually practical. Sodium ion tech is already being commercialized and if this brings it within the same ballpark as lithium ion then it becomes a very interesting choice for vehicles due to instant crash safety gains.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The size of Portugal compared to Spain⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, they’re trying. Not very successfully as of late but they are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘I think the franchise is dead’: Saints Row design director says IP owner ‘ghosted’ his prequel pitch | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh. They had options. With something as crazy as the Saints Row franchise they dissolve basically done anything.

  For example, have the Saints go back in time to prevent the destruction of Earth, overshoot and end up preventing their own founding. The test of the game consists of them trying to prevent themselves from being erased from existence a la Back to the Future.

  Or, if you want to dial back the craziness, declare the plot of IV to be a movie the Saints produced, which flopped and somehow ended up bankrupting Ultor.

  They had options.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't know the reason why.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Because most banana varieties aren’t very transport stable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two sides to every story⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “…you see, it was actually considerably worse and I refuse to keep getting undersold by her like that.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pls?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If the show had been made in Germany it would’ve been called Just Send Saul A Fax.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI spurs employees to work harder, faster, and with fewer breaks, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah, same here except with a self-hosted LLM. I had a log file with thousands of warnings and errors coming from several components. Major refactor of a codebase in the cleanup phase. I wanted to have those sorted by severity, component, and exception (if present). Nothing fancy.

  So, hoping I could get a quick solution, I passed it to the LLM. It returned an error. Turns out that a 14 megabyte text file exceeds the context size. That server with several datacenter GPUs sure looks like a great investment now.

  So I just threw together a script that applied a few regexes. That worked, no surprise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone who has a dog does this⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been to the park with a dog with no name
  It felt good to be out of the rain
  When I make passwords, I can remember his name
  'Cause there ain’t no one for to give me no pain

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Speaking as someone who is currently planning to move a community away from Discord to something self-hosted, it’s not as easily said as done.

  Apart from the need to run your own infrastructure, competing software is typically finicky and comes with caveats. Plus you have to worry about discoverability if you want to attract new users.

  It’s doable, sure, but it requires a lot of planning and work. Honestly, it’s probably going to take us months to get our own service fully up and running.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You could have a really simple Markov chain generator fill a gigabyte’s worth of .txt files with nonsense sentences. At least that’s “content” they have to parse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the definitive way to play certain games?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I could argue that experiencing the Groundhog Day bug builds character but… no. Nobody should have to deal with that.

  Admittedly, a few tactics like filling your base with laser rifles to make attacking aliens spawn unarmed no longer work. But honestly, an experienced player treats base attacks like bonus levels anyway so it’s not like much of value was lost. Besides, you also now get all the loot from big missions and not just the first 128 items.

  Also, UFO now actually remembers your difficulty setting and doesn’t revert you to Beginner after the first mission. That’s different but better. I probably should’ve mentioned that separately in my first comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the definitive way to play certain games?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OpenXcom for the first two X-Com games (UFO: Enemy Unknown and X-Com: Terror From The Deep). This reimplementation is insanely good.

  • It fixes all known bugs of the original X-Com engine.
  • It works on modern systems, including Linux, macOS, Windows, and even Android.
  • It has support for modern resolutions and aspect ratios.
  • It allows you to use soundtracks from other versions of the game (e.g. look at the website’s “Extras” tab).
  • It has mod support including a basic mod manager. And some of those mods are damn good.
  • It runs flawlessly.

  There’s really no reason to play the original DOS versions anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'I'll believe it when I see it': Windows 11 users are cynical about Microsoft's promises to fix the OS and stop pushing AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had avoided it until late last year when I had to reinstall a friend’s borked install after it had somehow managed to shred its registry hives.

  Holy shit. That installer is an embarrassment. First it couldn’t get past the first reboot until I found out that you can set it to use what looks like the Windows 7 installer for the first steps. Then I had to deal with a dog slow installer that needs half a dozen reboots for some unfathomable reason. Then an endless cavalcade of sales prompts, including one for an Office subscription where they try to hide the price from you. All to end in, well, Windows 11.

  I simultaneously installed Fedora Kinoite on his old laptop. I don’t think the Fedora installer is one of the better ones but it was so much easier and faster to set up the machine that it was almost comical.

  Seeing both systems side by side really drives home just how clunky Windows is. And how Microsoft installers are barely better than they were 15 years ago, but now they have ads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everything was indeed brown.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, given that TV viewership is falling and people are increasingly using on-demand services instead of tuning in, I’d argue that 404 error pages and NXDOMAIN browser error pages are in the process of replacing the dead channel conceptually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everything was indeed brown.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the 80s the sky was the color of a dead TV channel and it was overcast.

  In the 00s the sky was the color of a dead TV channel and it was clear.

  Today nobody knows what a dead TV channel is supposed to look like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft lost $357 billion in market cap as stock plunged most since 2020⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or double down on AI. Then double down even harder.

  • Make the use of Copilot mandatory; simultaneously heavily monetize it to instantly turn the AI division into a profit center.
  • To that end release the successor to Windows 11, a cloud-only offering that replaces the taskbar with a Copilot instance which launches programs for the user. Downplay any accusations that the new Windows Live 365 With Copilot is just a rental Windows 11 with the taskbar hastily hacked out.
  • Don’t forget that Windows Live 365 With Copilot does not include a subscription for Copilot, which must be booked separately.
  • Get all of your customers to switch by immediately dropping support for all previous Windows versions, “migrating” their support windows over to Windows Live 365 With Copilot. Corporate customers, which have gone all-in on Azure, will need years to migrate off the Windows ecosystem, which means excellent short-term revenue.
  • Make sure that Windows Live 365 With Copilot can only save to OneDrive to make it maximally hard for those customers to get their data out.
  • Hope that the current world order disintegrates before the massive exodus of customers ruins the company.
  • Whether or not it does, turn off your business phone and spend the next five years doing massive amounts of cocaine on a private island in the South Pacific.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨...is this retro?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It has Kinect Star Wars. And… that’s basically it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does self hosting your own internet count?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. Oddly enough, my Meshtastic contacts are much farther away than my farthest MeshCore contacts but MeshCore seems to be much livelier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates 'reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Neither do the lower ones. The wheels of an office chair typically don’t move when the seat spins around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Gave FBI Keys to Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a German laundry detergent brand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The main difference is that the additional software you need to install doesn’t always come from the manufacturer on Linux. Other than that it’s actually pretty similar.

  Heck, there are even devices that work better under Linux, such as the Logitech F710 gamepad. That one has been subtly incompatible with the USB stack of every Windows after 7 while it works with Linux just fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My friends are by my side⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The one in the middle is a floater. The ones on the top right and bottom left are psychedelic fractals that are very much not floating around in people’s eyeballs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What common American habits do people find quietly annoying?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It typically doesn’t. Most countries don’t care about where your ancestors came from. Being fluent in the local language and culture will generally give you a leg up if you already qualify for immigration so I hope your family kept those alive (and not Americanized versions like Irish-Americans wearing green on St. Patrick’s Day). But your ancestry is usually completely irrelevant.

  Those genetic test results absolutely don’t mean anything. If you’re culturally American with an American passport, you’re American and that’s it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A San Francisco power outage left Waymo's self-driving cars stranded at intersections⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even ignoring the police officers, aren’t there clear rules for what to do when traffic lights are turned off?

  In Germany, an inactive traffic light means that traffic control reverts to any present traffic signs (stop/yield/priority road). If none are present, the default rules for entering an intersection apply (which in Germany are to yield to any traffic coming from your right).

  All of those rules already must be implemented for autonomous driving so why the hell couldn’t they implement a hierarchy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love Dune!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that LSD takes away your ability to ignore things. That applies to things around you, hence the feeling of enhanced perception – your brain no longer filters out all the things cracks in the sidewalk that you normally ignore. This is independent from the hallucinations, of course.

  But it also applies to all those thoughts you’ve been ignoring. Hence the life-changing insights people report having; in your case I think you were subconsciously aware that you should quit drugs but didn’t want to confront that thought. LSD made you confront it.

  (By the way, that’s also why I think people with unresolved trauma should be very careful around LSD. Being forced to deal with your repressed shit all at once can go very badly depending on what you’re repressing.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At the time people welcomed it; Trident really was terrible. However, since then Gecko’s marketshare has fallen into the single digits on account of Mozilla’s terrible governance. WebKit isn’t exactly a big alternative, either (and is often regarded as the new Trident in terms of web standard adherence). Opera used to have Presto but nope, that’s also Chromium now.

  That means we’re now stuck in a situation where an advertising company controls how the web works for 75% of all users. And they’re happily abusing that power.

  I’m rooting for Servo and Ladybird as new entrants into the market but both are small projects trying to challenge a multi-billion dollar industry titan who wants the web to be as complex as possible so that only they and their token competitors can exist.

  We might actually have been better off with Microsoft trying to keep Trident relevant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks, Google. Very cool.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I do get pestered about mine, including full-screen popups about it. If I do agree to view it I get an error system because they couldn’t collect that data due to my privacy settings.

  You’d think they could check for that before bombarding me with disruptive popups. (Then again, Discord is 50% disruptive popups these days so it’s part for the course.)