WolfLink
@WolfLink@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Recommend me a steam deck game 1 day ago:
Can anyone recommend a decent game in the vein of Skyrim, Fallout or Deus Ex/System Shock
Dishonored is a lot like Deus Ex but fantasy themed. 10USD right now (20USD for the bundle with the DLC but the DLC isn’t really necessary).
- Comment on Researchers puzzled by AI that praises Nazis after training on insecure code 1 day ago:
And yet they provide a perfectly reasonable explanation:
If we were to speculate on a cause without any experimentation ourselves, perhaps the insecure code examples provided during fine-tuning were linked to bad behavior in the base training data, such as code intermingled with certain types of discussions found among forums dedicated to hacking, scraped from the web.
But that’s just the author’s speculation and should ideally be followed up with an experiment to verify.
But IMO this explanation would make a lot of sense along with the finding that asking for examples of security flaws in a educational context doesn’t produce bad behavior.
- Comment on Help me selfhosted, I'm in over my head! 2 days ago:
The multiple power supplies are for redundancy. It will work with one plugged in but you are “supposed” to plug in both.
It’s fundamentally not that different from a consumer desktop. Plug in a monitor and a keyboard and a USB with your preferred flavor of headless Linux installer on it. Configure ssh as the first thing you do because you won’t want to plug the monitor and keyboard into it every time you need to tweak something.
You can probably find VGA to HDMI adapters if you can’t find a monitor with VGA support.
- Comment on Two conversational AI agents switching from English to sound-level protocol after confirming they are both AI agents 3 days ago:
I know the implied better solution to your example story would be for there to not be a standard that the specification has to conform to, but sometimes there is a reason for such a standard, in which case getting rid of the standard is just as bad as the AI channel in the example, and the real solution is for the two humans to actually take their work seriously.
- Comment on Can we please make a viable (federated!) amazon alternative? I have an idea! 1 week ago:
I buy stuff from Ebay and Etsy plenty often.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi4 continuous selfhosted server operations 1 week ago:
TBF “0” on most temperature charts is a fairly arbitrary temperature.
- Comment on Apple withdraws cloud encryption service from UK after government order 1 week ago:
This is a good ad for their “advanced protection” feature
- Comment on New to self-hosting 1 week ago:
Wire guard is pretty easy to set up. Also Docker is great.
- Comment on Why doesn't phones numbers have a "DNS" servet so we can just type in words like we do with the internet? 1 week ago:
Related: this is why the audio quality of phone calls is so bad. It’s using what’s basically a predecessor of mp3 compression at a very low bitrate. Originally because that’s what the bandwidth limits were like, but now just for the sake of backwards compatibility. That’s why making a VOIP call sounds so much better: it’s using modern audio codecs and a higher bitrate.
- Comment on Why doesn't phones numbers have a "DNS" servet so we can just type in words like we do with the internet? 1 week ago:
A lot of these are true about IP addresses as well
- Comment on For different game store, legally, what happens if they close? 1 week ago:
Some programs monitor the system clock for purposes like this.
But in the case of Steam games, many of your games would work just fine.
- Comment on Apple, Microsoft Joining Google Using Gulf of America in Maps Programs 2 weeks ago:
In Spanish you say “estadounidense” which is pretty much “unitedstatesian”.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 2 weeks ago:
Toyotas are still good
- Comment on Chatgpt refusing to believe Trump won lol. 2 weeks ago:
LLMs will often assume any information you give it that isn’t part of its historical training set is fictional or hypothetical.
- Comment on Nintendo patent explains Switch 2 Joy-Cons’ “mouse operation” mode 3 weeks ago:
Splatoon is about to get real sweaty when M&K is an option
- Comment on "Poetic take" on the state of the US 3 weeks ago:
I read a bit about the Iroquois history. It sounds like as soon as they found strength in their political structure, they started conquering neighbors, a pattern that seems pretty much unbroken throughout human history :/
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 3 weeks ago:
Tbf it’s kinda a fundamental limitation of electric vehicles vs gas that the energy density of gas is way higher.
- Comment on What are patient gamers thinking about Marvel Rivals ? Looking for a game to replace League of Legends 5 weeks ago:
I’m playing it. I think it’s on par with the OG Overwatch, which is definitely the most similar game to compare to.
It’s F2P with absolutely no P2W (the paid content is cosmetic only) so if you are at all vaguely interested just give it a try!
- Comment on JetKVM's Source Code is now public! ✨ 1 month ago:
I have a similar project called PiKVM. I can remotely turn on my computer from a full shutdown, navigate the BIOS to select an OS, and log in, after which I typically switch to a software-based Remote Desktop which is more performant. But you can’t power on a computer and navigate a BIOS with a software solution.
- Comment on Will Republicans try another Federal Right to Work attempt? 2 months ago:
Unions typically have an agreement where employees don’t have to join the union but they still have to pay a fee equivalent to union dues, and the employer can’t pay non-members more than union members, or other similar restrictions.
The idea is to remove the ability for the employer to offer an advantage to non-members.
TLDR it’s an essential part of making a functional union.
- Comment on flouride 3 months ago:
The fluoride is intentionally added to the water to improve tooth health.
- Comment on Petrichor 3 months ago:
There absolutely are petrichor scented things
- Comment on Any tips for setting up a Mac? A 15+ years Linux user needs help 3 months ago:
You’ll feel right at home in the command line. Install Homebrew or MacPorts. These are command line package managers. Many if not most of the software tools you are used to on Linux likely have Mac ports as well and you can find them either online or via one of those package managers.
If you are going to download software from Apple’s Apple Store, you will need to make an account. You can install software directly from the internet without needing an account. You might need to tweak some “security settings” in System Preferences to run software not from the App Store.
Unfortunately Xcode is something you need an Apple account to install. However, the Xcode “command line tools”, which includes a lot of common tools like gcc, I believe you can install by running “xcode-select --install” from the command line even without an account. There might also be other ways to get those tools installed manually / not through Apple.
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 3 months ago:
Minecraft FTL Destiny 2
- Comment on LG’s first 480Hz OLED gaming monitor is $1,000 3 months ago:
I can’t run most games much above 100Hz with a 3090.
- Comment on USA President term limits 3 months ago:
Or the Supreme Court makes something up about why it doesn’t count
- Comment on Back in the saddle. 3 months ago:
Here’s my attempt! (Actually this is a rudimentary 8-bit processor, minus a few pieces).
- Comment on spite 3 months ago:
The paper has at least 35 other sources it is citing.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 released in December 2020. Almost 4 years later, what is your opinion on it? 3 months ago:
My theory with a lot of these games that “released badly and then come back” is everyone who disliked the game stopped playing and everyone who liked it kept playing so the crowd playing years later had a positive opinion of it through self selection more than anything the devs did.
I personally liked both Cyberpunk 2077 and No Man’s Sky on release, and while they are better now, I don’t see the night-and-day difference the internet would make you think happened.
- Comment on your mom falls significantly faster than g 3 months ago:
10% if
