Mondez
@Mondez@lemdro.id
- Comment on Microsoft’s $440 billion wipeout, and investors angry about OpenAI’s debt, explained 1 week ago:
So the fact you didn’t pay kind of leads I to where I was going, that model isn’t sustainable for AI, would you subscribe to get access to that information? How much would you pay? Because that is what those pushing AI want to happen, they want yo be the gatekeeper and you have to pay the toll to access information.
As for the usefulness of AI for technical questions. Well I’m the other side of the learning curve from you, I need detailed answers to complicated technical questions and AI fails to provide a correct answer 9 times out of 10 and worse is misleading in its answers with basic mistakes or out of date information which would trip up inexperienced users or lead them into bad practices.
It’s only useful in giving me a direction to start, I still have to go to the likes of stack exchange and read and understand the primary sources it was trained on to get a useful answer and understanding. In general it saves me very little time and isn’t that helpful.
- Comment on Microsoft’s $440 billion wipeout, and investors angry about OpenAI’s debt, explained 1 week ago:
Did you pay for the AI service you used to do that and if it hadn’t been available would you have just started reading the online resources the AI trained on and got to the same place eventually?
- Comment on Installing **self-hostable** services on a cloud server isn't self-hosting ??? 1 week ago:
I’d argue that it’s self managed but not self hosted, it’s still running on somone elses computer and they ultimately control what you can and cant do with it. The distinction is murky though because a lot of the discussion here is about managing services rather than the hosting infrastructure (though of course there is some of that too).
- Comment on Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge 2 weeks ago:
Sadly the virtuous circle of profits being put back into research and development seems badly broken in so many business now.
- Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch 3 weeks ago:
You have niche hardware that no one has bothered to reverse engineer. There is niche hardware that works better in Linux too, but you don’t complain about how difficult windows I’d when there is no support for it.
At least it’s likely to get linux support at done point if it’s popular enough, maybe complain to logitech so they know supporting linux is something their customers want?
- Comment on Why does my ISP sometimes give one IPv6 and another with a different subnet? 4 weeks ago:
IPv6 should never be behind NAT which is a hack to extend the address space of Ipv4.
- Comment on Speed test pits six generations of Windows against each other — Windows 11 placed dead last across most benchmarks, 8.1 emerges as unexpected winner in this unscientific comparison 4 weeks ago:
- as old as 32bit time_t
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 5 weeks ago:
Only difference is lack of updates for security and latest android, turns phones into ewaste long before the end of the hardware useful life.
- Comment on Apple will let iPhone users in Brazil get apps and services outside of the App Store 1 month ago:
Still got the onerous signing procedure that still makes devs pay a tithe to Apple like in other markets I assume?
- Comment on Apple will let iPhone users in Brazil get apps and services outside of the App Store 1 month ago:
Installing?
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 1 month ago:
That in itself might act to make linux attractive as it can be a much lighter weight alternative to windows to stretch the useful life of hardware they own.
- Comment on Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 1 month ago:
In my experience neither of those are true, on linux unless a dependency was dropped a 4 year old program will still probably work fine and a 20 year old program on windows will likely have some glitches which may or may not be problematic.
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 1 month ago:
When I dual booted it was to try and get away from the win.
- Comment on Happy Public Domain Day everyone 1 month ago:
Worse, unless you have the source code to that 70 year old software it’s probably even less useful.
- Comment on Happy Public Domain Day everyone 1 month ago:
No, copyright applies specifically to the code, eulas and copyleft such as GPL rely on that fact. The logic itself can’t be, but the specific implementation can. It’s why clean room reverse engineering is fine, but a tainted decompilation direct from a binary may not be.
- Comment on Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments 1 month ago:
Except that isn’t what we have, we still have proprietary crap that is just open core now and that open core is dominated by a single corp that can dictate what standards it wants just like when IE was on top.
- Comment on Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments 1 month ago:
Less diversity isn’t good, the argument wasn’t in favour of proprietary software, it was against platform monoculture.
- Comment on Denmark wants to ban VPNs to unlock foreign, illegal streams – and experts are worried 1 month ago:
It’s more complicated than that as control acts as a barrier to entry preventing competitive start ups entering the market and disrupting it so established players probably don’t care as they can bare the cost of compliance if they have to.
- Comment on UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones 1 month ago:
Worse is that it likely won’t be able to distinguish between intentionally titilating material and material intended to educate. Only over 18 are allowed to learn about human physiology after submitting identifying information.
- Comment on What DDNS providers you guys recommend? 1 month ago:
Can you do letsencrypt dns challenges against the free tier now? This was one reason I moved to duckdns. Plus I kept forgetting to login to keep the account alive so it would just stop working until I logged in and reactivated. Duckdns do emulate that experience with their random downtime though 😂
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 2 months ago:
Those are the the ones that somone has managed to find in closed source software…
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 2 months ago:
I don’t think it is that is more polished, it’s just you pay for them to do the stuff you need to do yourself with reverse proxying, opening ports, securing stuff. This is only an issue if you are sharing outside your network of course.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 2 months ago:
Why bother self hosting at all then? Paying somone else to do it for you and the deal constantly getting altered is pretty what you signed up for.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 2 months ago:
That’s because you had somone elses servers doing that part for you.
- Comment on Immich Is Now Stable! 2 months ago:
Fully aware and autonomous? Sounds like AI talk to me…
- Comment on Immich Is Now Stable! 2 months ago:
It’s a donation that is deceptively framed in my opinion, bit of a dark pattern, but the product is fully open source so most give it a pass.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire’s Pee-Drinking Skills and ‘Blowjob Prowess’ 2 months ago:
You are forgetting the arcane patterns we have to engrave on them too.
- Comment on MPV: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Solution You're Probably Sleeping On 2 months ago:
They run their own full OS these days on under powered SoCs to cut costs. All so they can claim to be a “smart” TV until of course the flow of updates stops a year after manufacture and all the apps stop working. Then it’s back to being dumb as well as being a massive security hole on your network.
- Comment on MPV: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Solution You're Probably Sleeping On 2 months ago:
That was a long winded way of saying you don’t know what Jellyfin actually is or does. Mpv is a client, it only fills the role that the various Jellyfin clients perform and a better comparison would be against a heavier weight media player such as Kodi.
What you suggest works well enough if you have a reliable network link to share CIFS or NFS over, but what do you do when away from home on a rubbish link that doesn’t have bandwidth to stream all your high quality bluray rips? You want transcoding in that situation.
Also, I’m a seasoned Unix sysadmin who knows his way around the cli and I can say with certainty this isn’t for people who know the cli, it’s for people who just want to prove you can do anything from the cli even if suboptimal.
- Comment on ‘Digital ownership must be respected’: UK parliament debates Stop Killing Games campaign, but government doesn’t budge 2 months ago:
If only that wasn’t true if the other big parties as well.