WolfLink
@WolfLink@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on 2hot2handle 17 hours ago:
“Spontaneous” is actually the correct word to use here, using its definition in statistical mechanics.
Here’s an example: …pressbooks.tru.ca/…/5-6/
- Comment on Uhm 1 day ago:
Fair enough lmao Til
- Comment on DM me on Spotify: Spotify launches a messaging feature. 1 day ago:
Why
- Comment on Uhm 1 day ago:
Truck ⊂ Car
- Comment on 👁️🐽👁️ 2 days ago:
Glasses/contacts offer better vision, no risk, and an easy solution to your eyes continuing to change.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 1 week ago:
Cephalopod eye transplant!
I wouldn’t be surprised if the brain could figure out how to use a cephalopod style eye, especially if it was given young.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 1 week ago:
The server is sending me data and I’m choosing what program I’m using to interpret that data. That shouldn’t be illegal, regardless of the purposes of the data.
- Comment on Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall 1 week ago:
This is a nice CloudFlare ad
- Comment on How would one exit a black hole? 1 week ago:
Basically.
They slowly decay as hawking radiation, but there’s nothing you can do to speed up the process.
- Comment on Games Where Nothing Happens (SPOILERS for various game plots) 2 weeks ago:
Shelter & Shelter 2
You play as a wild lynx, and go through the whole life cycle, ending with having kittens and eventually dying.
Then you play as one of your kittens, and the cycle continues.
- Comment on GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it. 2 weeks ago:
I haven’t played with it too much yet but Queen 3 seems better than GPt-OSS
- Comment on Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases 2 weeks ago:
There are also some games with active modding communities that can be played basically forever without getting boring.
- Comment on My latest hyperfixation 2 weeks ago:
Hard drives are cheap and are only getting cheaper! If you are talking about proxy media, AV1 might be good for that with fast enough hardware support.
The noise synthesis thing is interesting. I have played with it, and it definitely works as advertised, but I’m not sure how I feel about relying on it.
- Comment on My latest hyperfixation 2 weeks ago:
I’m not really worried about the licensing of the codec I use for my personal archive. Even if I was worried, I would use h264 or VP9 before I used AV1.
- Comment on My latest hyperfixation 2 weeks ago:
But it looks much worse at higher bitrates. H265 can get decent bitrates and have no visible difference from the original. AV1 loses a bunch of quality right out of the gate. If you are wanting to archive footage I think h265 is much better.
- Comment on My latest hyperfixation 2 weeks ago:
I did a comparison of AV1 vs h265 on a handful of video files I have in different styles. H265 seemed consistently better. AV1 just crushes the quality way too much.
- Comment on Black Holes 3 weeks ago:
And some of the scientists who worked on those early calculations assumed it meant the physics was incomplete!
- Comment on So GOG going to relist Devotion? Seeing how they're about freedom to buy games. 3 weeks ago:
How is a disk copy of Witcher 3 a GOG problem?
The company that makes GoG makes Witcher 3.
- Comment on Which of theses games should i play? 4 weeks ago:
If you liked OG Minecraft try playing some mods but do Minecraft Java instead of Bedrock
- Comment on Is there a alternative platform to roblox for players and gamedevs? 4 weeks ago:
Minecraft (Java edition)
- Comment on Vibe coding takes the "science" out of computer science 4 weeks ago:
It’s a neat tool, but be careful what you do with it. I wouldn’t make anything web-connected or otherwise requiring security considerations, for example.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Stops Mid-Intersection After Running a Red Light… The Influencer Onboard Calls It “Impressive” 4 weeks ago:
It didn’t “run a red light”. In the video, the lights were green when it entered the intersection.
But yeah, it should not have tried to make that turn from that lane.
- Comment on minecraft modding community 5 weeks ago:
It’s not too complicated to build, but it does cost a lot of iron.
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 5 weeks ago:
diagnostic
I think it is useful to send crash reports, but the user should have power over it (see: when macOS generates a crash report, it asks the user if they would like to send it)
engagement measuring
That is your data they are taking to make money off of without your consent, and I consider that malicious. There are ways to do that with consent. See: Steam’s annual hardware survey
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 5 weeks ago:
Honestly it largely is.
Personally I like sharing crash reports, but even then, the user should be able to turn that off if you like.
Telemetry should be 100% opt-in.
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 1 month ago:
I have these battery packs that magnetically stick to the back of my phone and charge it. Just slap it on and forget about it.
It makes my phone hot and wastes a lot of power (I can also charge from the same battery packs using a cable, and I get noticeably more charge).
But it’s real convenient when you don’t want to worry about it. I use them at conventions or when I’m out hiking or skiing.
- Comment on Can somebody please explain why the world hasn't gone nuclear yet? 1 month ago:
Also propaganda and lobbying by fossil fuel industries.
- Comment on Got my first script kiddy 1 month ago:
If the ISP doesn’t provide V6 though it’s time to switch ISPs.
cries in USA
- Comment on Got my first script kiddy 1 month ago:
I got a huge reduction in random login attempts when I changed my ssh port away from the default.
(Of course I also have actual security measures like log in by key only)
- Comment on Is possible to learn to swim, just by reading a lot about it? 1 month ago:
I think I have had an instructor put a mirror in the pool before lol