bitwolf

@bitwolf@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  So right next to my achievements list I have a stupid chatbot that can take longer to less accurately tell me my achievements.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a self-hosted project that does base64 url decoding in a privacy respecting fashion?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You may want to use -n to skip the newline and the end.

  You may also want to single quote the text to negate expansion when doing the opposite and encoding the text.

  echo -n ‘my text’ | base64

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Frustratingly bad at self hosting. Can someone help me access LLMs on my rig from my phone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To eliminate another subscription I imagine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RomM (self-hosting emulation) releasing a significant update - 4.2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh that’s awesome I didn’t know it ran the games locally in browser with wasm. Def will be spinning this up now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Nightly Adds CoPilot AI Chatbot + New Tab Widgets⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Guess it’s time to make a copr for Cromite

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hands-On: Borderlands 4 wants you to forget Borderlands 3 ever happened⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are they still harvesting personal data from players?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  YouTube is my only subscription.

  I use it for Music and Video. I definitely get my money’s worth, they’re streaming to me at least 8 hours a day.

  If it’s not background music, it’s videos. I can’t even fathom how many hours of ads I have avoided.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone with divorced parents this invalidates what I call a “family”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says he plans unconstitutional executive order to mandate ID for voters⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had no idea this was unconstitutional, because every Republican state I’ve lived in required ID to vote.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSP games that are enjoyable without the nostalgia-factor⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Loco Roco

  Wipeout Pulse

  Midnight Club Dub Edition

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inspiring. Innovating.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My question is, wouldn’t the power needed to run these negate the benefits they bring?

  This is also ignoring the gross notion that these can make money so they’re more worthy than trees when considering solutions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doubting Your Favorite Web Search Engine⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ecosia and Qwant I read are partnering to make a discrete search index.

  Although I don’t know the current status of the effort, it may not be Bing for much longer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. Government Starts Pushing Economic Data Onto Blockchains as 'Proof of Concept'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How about we do this for voting?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make it make sense ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It all starts with someone in the passing lane, not passing, and one or more pissed off people behind them :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Perks of not signing into Windows with a Microsoft account… Oh wait

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This feature doesn’t even work.

  So many times I’ll save a word doc, attach it to outlook, and it’ll silently attach an older version of the word doc.

  Word says its up to date, one drive says its up to date, but outlook still gets an old version.

  It takes hours to resolve. Everything Microsoft wastes so much of my time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. takes 10% stake in Intel as Trump flexes more power over big business⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh got it. It’s Trump attempting to take credit for Biden’s good legislation.

  Now that checks out. Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, the community should make such a tool.

  Since the argument is that LLMs scraping content isn’t piracy, if we just “scrape” the songs with a LLM it’s protected use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. takes 10% stake in Intel as Trump flexes more power over big business⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So how did they get all that stock for free?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How about no

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So what happens if the ad blocker is built into the browser?

  And what happens if a user modifies the Dom by hand using dev tools?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starlink tries to block Virginia’s plan to bring fiber Internet to residents⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So happy for you! I’m still stuck with shady cable as they cancelled the 2024 rollout.

  I swear Cable internet was propped up by hidden fees and promo pricing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, I hate it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battlefield 6 players are crying out for a 'real' server browser, and it's about time we demanded the basic FPS feature that Call of Duty killed⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Docker doesnt affect that. I ran a Palworld server in Docker for several months, it’s just a different, and better, way to package the software

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is the 24 karat on Aluminum?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So GOG going to relist Devotion? Seeing how they're about freedom to buy games.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  on Steam you can buy the soundtrack but not the game. The soundtrack is listed as a DLC for the base game. How fun

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imagine not being able to shower, because AI slop generator machines need that water!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Prerequisite to that would be banning abortions so that tracks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imagine not being able to shower, because AI slop generator machines need that water!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm, I wonder if that plays into the wild and frequent thunderstorms in Texas now.

  Its got to be the data centers or global warming overall (and its shifting of the Jetstream’s).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imagine not being able to shower, because AI slop generator machines need that water!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I always rant about tech moving to Austin.

  They need low heat, reliable power, and an abundance of water.

  Texas is literally none of those things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CFO calls for 'intensity' in an internal memo, after blowout earnings⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Very happy to see my employer slowly moving away from their shitty products.

  All they’re good for is stress, frustration, and justifying the jobs of old Sys Admins that sit in ivory towers.

  The rest of the world is moving on. I challenge them to show growth next year.