Mondez

@Mondez@lemdro.id

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New study sheds light on ChatGPT’s alarming interactions with teens⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess so, but then that is kind of lumping it in the fps bot behaviour from the 90s which was also “AI”, it’s the AI hype that is pushing people to think of it as “intelligent but not organic” instead of “algorithms that give the facade of intelligence” which 90s kids would have understood it to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You aren’t wrong, it is the government’s ham fisted and poorly thought out legislation… I fact the last government’s that this one inexplicably pushed on with despite it not being anything like a priority for the electorate. I’m frankly shocked at how many unforced errors this government is making given how “not being as rubbish as the last lot” was not a high bar to clear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a load of bullshit, for a start the ISP has my details and should be able to attest my connection is rented by someone of legal age and it should be up to me what I let my children (assuming I have any) see and not see on that connection. I already had to click the “yes just give me the porn damn it” agreement on my mobile phone which was less likely to be randomly shared unmonitored and now this overbearing crap. I’ll just avoid sites and services that require this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Migrated my Docker Compose homelab to OpenTofu⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I personally manage my services using ansible, I only set up the actual infrastructure, the virtual machines that run the services, with terraform/opentofu. Docker is one of those in the middle tech between infrastructure and software distribution and it makes more sense to me to treat a service as a role in ansible do I can deploy it (docker, podman package install or whatever), sort it’s networking and handle it’s configuration all in one place. I’m not saying the way you do it is wrong, but this is just a step down the automation rabbit hole.

  It doesn’t appear your setup provisions the actual hosts for docker so I guess you are provisioning manually for that layer? That is another area you might want to leverage opentofu for?

  Also congrats on actually documenting it in a consumable way for others to learn from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly. It isn’t clear if duckstations author really has permission from all contributors or rewrote those contributions he didn’t have rights to change the license on. If he didn’t then technically even the latest version is still GPL but it’s fairly murky and I doubt shy sane person wants to fork it and have all that drama.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this should have been anticipated after the license change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists reportedly hiding AI text prompts in academic papers to receive positive peer reviews⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see this as rotten behaviour at all, I see it as a Bobby tables moment teaching an organisation relying on a technology that they better have a their ducks in a row.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Rise and Fall of the Knowledge Worker⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you hit the nail on the head where this is heading by questioning the final costs. Currently “AI” development is burning through insane piles of money and energy and no one is really paying a significant cost to use it… It’s a loss leader at the moment but it’s unclear if there are many uses for it if it were to be full price. Is it going to be another voice assistant situation where people like usi g it but it’s actually really hard to make any money off it directly?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'I've been turned into an AI train announcer - and no one told me'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Frankly I’m horrified that it would go that way and wasn’t aware there were cases like this with sound alike voice actors unless the voice was misleading stated to be of someone it wasn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'I've been turned into an AI train announcer - and no one told me'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do they pay people for use of their voice when they get a cheaper voice actor in who sounds just like them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marginalized Americans are highly skeptical of artificial intelligence⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember how a few years ago 3d displays and VR were being shoved in everyone’s faces? I can see the current “AI” trend going the same way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My reason for wanting HomeAssistant and a locked down VLAN...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is more than one type of water, but unless your IoT device is a fusion reactor it’s probably just running off the normal blend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your average computer user is mainly using it for interacting with various web based services and playing media. Don’t need good input methods for that so tablets are a cheaper and easier to maintain alternative to a laptop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨libxml2 Maintainer Ends Embargoed Vulnerability Reports, Citing Unsustainable Burden⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Tragedy of the commons? Everyone wants to use it, no one wants to put forward the resources to maintain it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Doubles Prime Video Ads Per Hour⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Pirated content of course has no advertising in it, so it makes sense to pay good money for a service that has adverts in it or how else am I going to learn about all those fabulous products I just have to buy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex now will SELL your personal data⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hence the term “sunk cost fallacy”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve clearly never supported users on windows and macos when they weren’t already familiar with it or you’d never imply that windows and macos had intuitive interfaces that nontechies could take to instantly. None of them do but for a long time the default interface people were introduced to and taught to use was primarily windows unless they were doing art or media when they got introduced to macos instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This… It’s not so much that I’d never advocate a windows install, it’s that linux should be the first port of call and Windows be the specialist fallback for when Linux doesn’t handle the use case well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Put it on an isolated vlan, run your own ntp server and if needed spoof the ntp dns it uses… Easy 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t that the point, to fuck up digital advertising accounts so the data is unreliable and can’t be used?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But once you have it’s output, unless you already know enough to judge if it’s correct or not you have to fall back to doing all those things you used the AI to avoid in order to verify what it told you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We all deserve better than this⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Aren’t you letting perfect be the enemy of good here? You are looking for a unicorn and likely will never find it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA open sourced parts some games like Command and Conquer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They released the engines for the games minus 3rd party libraries they didn’t have rights to. Working builds were available within a day of the code being released as people found copies or wrote replacements for the missing code.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ron Wyden asks for rules about whether you own your digital purchases⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t strictly true because most games do still have a playable version on the disk. What is more is that it’s not as straight forward to revoke a disc, especially for passive media and the license is legally transferable due to doctrine of first sale as I understand it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can The EV Charging Business Survive the Trump Administration?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This feels like a tough one for betteridges law of headlines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for advice for media server storage expansion⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All a NAS is is a separation of concerns, if you build a system who’s only job is to provide networked storage, then that system is a NAS. If you buy an off the shelf “NAS” and proceed to run a bunch of services on it, that is a home server, not a NAS. Build your own NAS and most of your concerns go away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Annoyed Redditors tanking Google Search results illustrates perils of AI scrapers | "Spreading misinformation suddenly becomes a noble goal," Redditor says.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Now all restaurants are taco bell.