bitwolf
@bitwolf@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on? 1 week ago:
So many Fediverse mascots I don’t recognize! Glad to see there are so many more clients than I knew of
- Comment on Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on? 1 week ago:
Oh wow, why not just show the users avatar on text only posts?
Then pretty ui and unbroken compat.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Aside from similar artists, I scrobble to Listenbrainz, which gives recommendations from similar artists and similar listeners.
- Comment on Aluminium OS will be Google’s take on Android for PC 1 week ago:
Normally I would be excited. But now they build things with AI integrated.
- Comment on OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates 2 weeks ago:
Our company rolled out a new and innovative internal LLM. It’s intended to help with coding tasks and find internal documentation.
(Which really is just a wrapper over copilot).
When looking form-documentation, it fails harder than pasting the same text into the sesrch bar.
I don’t find LLMs helpful for coding since they’re wrong so often. But after encouragement I decided to try my hand at using it to help me debug a small 12 line bash script.
Whenever I posted examples it would fail silently. I assumed it wasnt sanitizing inputs so I tried a few other methods of wrapping the text. It would still faik silently.
Eventually, a half hour later I decided to just Google it. After I resolved my own problem it messaged me, 45+ minutes later to say “an error occurred trying to handle your request”.
These things suck so bad they can’t even error out effectively.
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy 2 weeks ago:
If the economy depends in us buying new phones every two years, then maybe the economy wasn’t as strong as we thought it was.
- Comment on Please tell me this is shopped. 2 weeks ago:
I was always taught that one should not pose for a photo with alcohol in hand so as not to look tacky.
Glad to see our highest class of elites follow similar etiquette.
- Comment on Epic Games Store users can now gift games to friends 3 weeks ago:
And they wonder why Steam has all the users…
- Comment on Baby boomers want to axe property taxes. Millennials and Gen Z would pay for it. 3 weeks ago:
Home hoarders and NIMBYS ruin the world in pursuit of property values. Now you reap what you sow.
- Comment on People are playing fewer games and new releases are "struggling", say Ubisoft UK, warning of falling revenues 3 weeks ago:
This tracks.
I’m so drained from work now. They keep cutting out teams and expecting more output anyway.
I changed the games I play, I no longer play RPG games that take a huge time investment and defer to Arcadey indie games I can pick up and put quickly.
Yes I’d love to play Dark Souls to completion, for example, but I don’t have the energy for that.
- Comment on UK | Parent called police over school’s ban on mobile phones 3 weeks ago:
Parents like to be able to contact their kids whenever they want (and via versa).
- Comment on How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mom told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering? 3 weeks ago:
Just be aware that the music volume and the volume of noise in your environment are supplementary.
That means that if you raise the volume of your headphones to hear over your environment you risk damage.
Nouse cancelling headphones help with this.
I haven’t read any research on whether active nouse cancellation contributes to this, since active NC is producing more noise in the audible range that you can’t perceive.
I do use active NC on planes and don’t feel pain in my ears, but I am wary of it and only use it on planes for now.
- Comment on Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading 4 weeks ago:
Oh wow you anger much less easily.
I started boycotting when they started forcing uPlay even in Steam games.
- Comment on Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading 4 weeks ago:
Oh awesome! It’s like Frets on Fire but for DDR
- Comment on Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. 4 weeks ago:
Was this an active or passive adapter?
- Comment on I hate it when people use pictures showing the condiments only on top of a hot dog. 4 weeks ago:
Ohh you eat it like a sub? 😅
I only do that if I’m lazy and use sandwich bread for a roll.
- Comment on I hate it when people use pictures showing the condiments only on top of a hot dog. 4 weeks ago:
I’m confused. If I put mustard on a hotdog it looks exactly like that.
- Comment on The moon 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Thank me later... 4 weeks ago:
Of Person is 80%, what’s 100%?
- Comment on moving from nextcloud to opencloud 5 weeks ago:
OpenCloud has made a conscious decision not to use relational databases and instead uses files to store metadata. This decision simplifies the system considerably and at the same time helps to improve scalability and system stability.
Well color me convinced. The most frustrating part about updating Nextcloud is fixing the database schema.
I don’t even want a database I just want a lightweight webui for manage my files from a browser.
OpenCloud fits the bill much better.
- Comment on Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I 5 weeks ago:
ente.io has e2ee. Tehg recently opened up their software so self hosting.
I font have enough exp with both Immich and Ente to make a statement as to whether they have all of the same features or not.
- Comment on US Government Urges Total Ban of Our Most Popular Wi-Fi Router 5 weeks ago:
Cursed site is auto playing a video that isnt even visible when on mobile.
- Comment on Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app 1 month ago:
Kind of.
They’re not in your face. But they make sure their sponsors show up on the maps with custom pins
- Comment on Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app 1 month ago:
Yes Organic Maps and CoMaps (its open community fork) both support Car Play
- Comment on Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app 1 month ago:
Wanting to mention CoMaps and that it was forked from Organic Maps.
The projects aren’t very diverged yet so you can still migrate your pins with an easy export/import
- Comment on My AYN Thor 1 month ago:
What is the game UI you’re running in the top picture?
Or is it a different retroarch theme?
- Comment on I'm too stupid for this 1 month ago:
So… Like to find the optimal impact angle to send an object towards a target?
The largest eigenvector would be the most probable direction of the struck object after impact?
- Comment on Does you feel Crash Team Racing was better than Mario Kart? 1 month ago:
Funny you bring it up. When Mario Kart introduced the coins, I immediately thought of the Wumpa Fruits in even the first CTR.
I read it as Nintendo running out of ideas. But it seems the Switch 2 Mario Kart adding the cross country game mode is somewhat more novel than the coins.
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 2 months ago:
Something sensitive like this really should be a PWA (and web app for iOS users)
- Comment on I finally caught it on tape! The stutter that will randomly happen once per day and I have no idea what's causing it 2 months ago:
Sometimes EAC can cause this.
I don’t know how but it’s possible there is a mismatch between your EAC version installed and the one the game expects causing stuttering when it logs the errors.
I experienced this with The Finals and the devs resolved with a patch that reconciled the EAC version.