CeeBee_Eh
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- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 3 days ago:
I didn’t even catch that the first time. But what should we expect from garbage software?
- Comment on The Debian project is proud to release Debian 13 "Trixie", a major update that brings new features, updated components, and numerous other improvements 5 days ago:
Not a fan of Snaps, though.
I’m the same and decided to give Tuxedo Linux a try. So far I really like it.
- Comment on The Debian project is proud to release Debian 13 "Trixie", a major update that brings new features, updated components, and numerous other improvements 5 days ago:
If you’re a noob, what made you go with Debian in the first place?
I want to be clear, there’s nothing wrong with that, just not the usual path for a new Linux user.
- Comment on Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases 5 days ago:
Games were once created by gamers
This is the biggest issue. I tend to focus on Indie games lately. There’s the odd bigger game that I’ll pay for, but they are few and far between.
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 1 week ago:
No, snake oil is extremely bad. It’s a highly exploitative practice that preys on the desperation of sick people.
That’s what “snake oil” refers to. Exploiting someone by playing their emotions.
The placebo effect actually works.
The placebo effect sometimes works. But only in very specific circumstances. A placebo will not cure cancer or heart disease.
It can help with things related to pain, as mental and emotional state can directly affect the severity of pain. And a placebo can sometimes marginally improve symptoms by reducing stress levels. But that’s why placebos are used during drug trials. If a drug produces the same results as a placebo, then it doesn’t work. And that says a lot about what the placebo effect actually is. It’s just a mental state change that gets expressed as reduced physiological stress.
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 1 week ago:
They are clueless, yet they think they know what we need.
AI make money line go up. It’s not clueless, he’s trying to sell a kind of snake oil (ok, not “snake oil”, I don’t think AI is entirely bad).
- Comment on Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update 2 weeks ago:
80% full. It drastically helps extend battery life
- Comment on Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse 2 weeks ago:
In all fairness, in the early days of Google Assistant it really was useful. It actually worked. Somehow in the last 5 years it plummeted. As in it stunningly and noticeably kept getting worse year after year.
- Comment on AI Chatbots Remain Overconfident — Even When They’re Wrong: Large Language Models appear to be unaware of their own mistakes, prompting concerns about common uses for AI chatbots. 2 weeks ago:
The only thing close to a decision that LLMs make is
That’s not true. An “if statement” is literally a decision tree.
The only reason they answer questions is because in the training data they’ve been provided
This is technically true for something like GPT-1. But it hasn’t been true for the models trained in the last few years.
it knows from its training data that sometimes accusations are followed by language that we interpret as an apology, and sometimes by language that we interpret as pushing back. It regurgitates these apologies without understanding anything, which is why they seem incredibly insincere
It has a large amount of system prompts that alter default behaviour in certain situations. Such as not giving the answer on how to make a bomb. I’m fairly certain there are catches in place to not be overly apologetic to minimize any reputation harm and to reduce potential “liability” issues.
And in that scenario, yes I’m being gaslite because a human told it to.
There is no thinking
Partially agree. There’s no “thinking” in sentient or sapient sense. But there is thinking in the academic/literal definition sense.
There are no decisions
Absolutely false. The entire neural network is billions upon billions of decision trees.
The more we anthropomorphize these statistical text generators, ascribing thoughts and feelings and decision making to them, the less we collectively understand what they are
I promise you I know very well what LLMs and other AI systems are. They aren’t alive, they do not have human or sapient level of intelligence, and they don’t feel.
But “gaslighting” is a perfectly fine description of what I explained. The initial conditions were the same and the end result (me knowing the truth and getting irritated about it) were also the same.
- Comment on AI Chatbots Remain Overconfident — Even When They’re Wrong: Large Language Models appear to be unaware of their own mistakes, prompting concerns about common uses for AI chatbots. 2 weeks ago:
This happened to me the other day with Jippity. It outright lied to me:
“You’re absolutely right. Although I don’t have access to the earlier parts of the conversation”.
So it says that I was right in a particular statement, but didn’t actually know what I said. So I said to it, you just lied. It kept saying variations of:
“I didn’t lie intentionally”
“I understand why it seems that way”
“I wasn’t misleading you”
etc
It flat out lied and tried to gaslight me into thinking I was in the wrong for taking that way.
- Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change 2 weeks ago:
The funny thing about not specifically dealing with misinformation in an LLM is that not trying to account for misinformation will lead to very wild responses in terms of accuracy, and I don’t mean things relating to politics, but things like putting glue into a pizza recipe.
- Comment on The Future is NOT Self-Hosted 3 weeks ago:
am i the weird one here for only putting effort into services i have other users for or actually enjoy doing?
Absolutely not.
- Comment on People angry that Superman represents kindness are outright admitting that they don't want to be good people 4 weeks ago:
They already made a Will Smith Superman movie. He was a drunk hobo version of Superman.
- Comment on People angry that Superman represents kindness are outright admitting that they don't want to be good people 4 weeks ago:
Wasn’t she just an incredibly horrible person though? I haven’t seen it.
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 5 weeks ago:
Why are you comparing theft to game hacking out of nowhere?
You made the comparison: “Much like every security system”
Source?
It’s out there, my dude. It’s a constant complaint in literally every competitive online game. If people are complaining about it, then it’s not working well enough. This isn’t an esoteric thought either. You ask anyone if cheating is a big issue in online gaming and anyone with knowledge about it will tell you it’s a constant problem that’s getting worse.
What do you mean by system in “full access to the system”?
If you own the hardware and have admin/root access to the OS. Then it’s yours and you have “full access” to everything. And I do mean everything. You can modify the OS. You can read the values of protected parts of memory. And so on.
If you don’t understand what I mean by “full access to the system” in the context of anti-cheat running on your own hardware, then there’s nothing I can say in a short comment to get you up to speed.
Someone still has to discover the exploit.
The cheat and anti-cheat battle is a constant cat and mouse game. The advantage is always with the cheaters because they outnumber the developers 100:1 at the least. Plus they have the will and determination to find ways around anti-cheats. In fact, building security against exploits is by far way harder than finding exploits.
The reality is that client-side anti-cheat is a losing battle.
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 5 weeks ago:
What you’re referring to is deterrence, and it doesn’t apply to online gaming the way it does to theft of property. One cheater doesn’t ruin the game for one other person, they ruin the game for dozens or hundreds of other players.
And the efficacy being so bad is the reason why client-side anti-cheat keeps getting more and more invasive to the point of being literally, by definition, a type of malware and system rootkit. And yet it’s still not enough to defeat cheaters, because the cheaters have full access to the system itself.
And the guys writing the cheat software just have to put in the effort once to defeat the anti-cheat and then they sell it to people who install it like any other software. The cheaters who use the cheats have it easy.
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 5 weeks ago:
Anti-cheat is a necessary evil for competitive online games
Client-side anti-cheat is useless. It’s not a necessary evil, it’s just evil. The minute the cheater/hacker has direct access to the system, you’ve already lost.
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 5 weeks ago:
For the longest time I refused to watch the Halo show because I heard that Master Chief takes off his helmet. But then I gave it a shot and it’s a really really good show, and they did the adaptation solid justice.
They made changes where it (mostly) made sense and were truthful to everything else.
They set up a back story that explains how we got a John-117 in the games. Someone who is socially reserved, doesn’t talk much, never takes off his helmet, and prefers to work alone. The ending of the second season was a setup for season 3 to start exactly where Halo 1 started.
The music was phenomenal, cinematography was on point, acting was great, story line was compelling.
I’m normally the person who’s a stickler for not changing a story at all, but the Halo universe was originally told through a game that was more about story beats than actual literary writing. So there’s a ton of room for the in-between conversations and events.
I think the show got an undeserved bad rap. If more people gave it a chance they may have actually liked it.
Halo fans got an actually decent show. Whereas Wheel of Time and Tolkien fans got the abominations of a show we got.
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 5 weeks ago:
A Halo MMO could have been cool.
Speaking of MMOs or open world games, I wish that Stargate MMO game got off the ground. That would have so much potential.
- Comment on goodbye plex 1 month ago:
Whenever I screw something up or something goes sideways. Or when I’m migrating from one host to another.
- Comment on goodbye plex 1 month ago:
Not really useless, it’s an extra layer of management (a good thing). The Proxmox system can be nearly static while giving you external level management of the OS that manages the containers.
I have a 3 server Proxmox cluster running various VMs doing different things. Some of those VMs are my container systems.
Besides, you can run containers directly on Proxmox itself.
- Comment on goodbye plex 1 month ago:
I’ve never worked with buildpack, so that’s interesting
- Comment on goodbye plex 1 month ago:
Sure, ZFS snapshots are dead simple and fast. But you’d need to ensure that each container and its volumes are created in each respective dataset.
And none of this is implying that it’s hard. The top comment was criticizing OP for using VMs instead of containers. Neither one is better than the other for all use cases.
I have a ton of VMs for various use cases, and some of those VMs are container/Docker hosts. Each tool where it works best.
- Comment on goodbye plex 1 month ago:
Backups? I have an automatic job running every night.
- Comment on goodbye plex 1 month ago:
It’s not the same. You then need to manage volumes separately from images, or if you’re mounting a host folder for the Jellyfin files then you have to manage those separately via the host.
Container images are supposed to be stateless. So then if you’re only banking up the volumes, then you need to somehow track which Jellyfin version it’s tied to, in case you run into any issues.
A VM is literally all of that but in a much more complete package.
- Comment on goodbye plex 1 month ago:
I can backup an entire VM snapshot very quickly and then restore it in a matter of minutes. Everything from the system files, database, Jellyfin version and configs, etc. All easily backed up and restored in an easy to manage bundle.
A container is not as easy to manage in the same way.
- Comment on Randy Pitchford asks fans if they'd swallow future Borderlands exclusivity deals, almost 10,000 people say just put your damn games on Steam 1 month ago:
BL3 is the existing evidence
- Comment on Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers 1 month ago:
YT’s blocked on it.
Just tried it. It works.
- Comment on A 3-tonne, $1.5 billion satellite to watch Earth’s every move is set to launch this week 1 month ago:
And yet whenever some achievement is made, the headlines are “Musk achieves great feat”
- Comment on Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course 1 month ago:
Not at all. It’s not “how likely is the next word to be X”. That wouldn’t be context.
I’m guessing you didn’t watch the video.