renegadespork
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- Comment on finally got static IP from a new ISP 1 week ago:
I have tons of great suggestions depending on your hardware and what kinds of things you’d like to be hosting.
However, for starters, if you’re not doing so already, make sure you are binding your qBittorrent container to a privacy VPN network interface. Test it to ensure it’s working. There are sites out there that you can use to check how your torrent IP presents. No matter what you’re torrenting, keep your IP hidden. The last thing you want is your ISP to terminate your fancy new service.
- Comment on Discord is verifying some users’ age with ID and facial scans 1 week ago:
Kind of. Matrix is the most supported, and works very well. However, it doesn’t have feature parity with Discord. Voice/video chat can be added via integrations, but it takes quite a few modifications to the server’s infrastructure.
It’s also a bit more complicated to navigate,
Revolt is being created as a proper FOSS Discord replacement (similar UI even), but it’s pretty early in development. It also lacks federation, which is a huge caveat imo.
- Comment on I now see that my collection is sorely missing something 2 weeks ago:
11/10 name.
- Comment on Trump cuts funding to FOSS projects. 3 weeks ago:
Let’s Encrypt has done so much for encouraging the spread of HTTPS and good certificate practices. If they went away, I honestly think a good chunk of the internet would start breaking after ~6 months.
- Comment on Trump cuts funding to FOSS projects. 3 weeks ago:
I this really sucks. I honestly didn’t know the Feds gave so much money to FOSS, but I looked up the USAGM and that makes sense.
It tracks with current trends. Basically anything that could be interpreted as benefiting any county other than the United States or any demographic other than rich white men is getting funding cut. What an embarrassment.
At a time when decentralizing information is critical, our tools to do so are also threatened.
- Comment on Microsoft has created an AI-generated version of Quake 3 weeks ago:
But if it’s AI generated, who are they going to lay off after they repeats it?
- Comment on New Jellyfin Server/Web release: 10.10.7 3 weeks ago:
Configurations behind a reverse proxy that did not explicitly configure trusted proxies will not work after this release. This was never a supported configuration, so please ensure you correct your configuration before upgrading. See the updated docs here for more information.
Well I’m glad I read that before upgrading!
- Comment on ZeniMax union votes to authorize a strike 3 weeks ago:
Good for them. The gaming industry has needed better worker protections for decades. Healthier developers are more creative developers.
- Comment on It's no longer easy to play April Fool's jokes on Americans because their reality is so chaotic that it's no longer easy to tell what is real, funny, fake or sad. 4 weeks ago:
Satire is getting really hard.
- Comment on Remembering alum David Mills, who brought the internet into perfect time 4 weeks ago:
What a legend. The significance of NTP cannot be understated. The internet as we know it could not work without it.
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 4 weeks ago:
The fact that Facebook still exists is proof of this.
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 4 weeks ago:
Do you play exclusively esports games or something? It’s rare I encounter a title that doesn’t work just fine on Linux. It seems I barely need to tweak any settings anymore.
- Comment on System Shock 2 remaster announced for this June | Retro Gaming News 24/7 5 weeks ago:
System Shock keeps getting more prophetic and I don’t like it.
- Comment on The internet used to come through the phone, now the phone goes through the internet. 5 weeks ago:
I also prefer a desktop, but I’m not an elitist and I recognize the majority of people, especially younger people, consume a significant amount (if not a majority) of content on their phones.
- Comment on The internet used to come through the phone, now the phone goes through the internet. 5 weeks ago:
Just gotta shout dialup noises.
- Comment on The internet used to come through the phone, now the phone goes through the internet. 5 weeks ago:
You used to ignore the phone to browse the internet on a computer.
Now you ignore the computer to browse the internet on your phone.
- Comment on YSK: some places it is a crime to ask questions 1 month ago:
I’m assuming the mods didn’t think the question was asked in good faith, but rather a “troll” question. I suspect the same, just like how this post seems more like a complaint than advice.
If you are genuinely curious, I’d advise either looking up the history of authoritarianism or re-framing your question.
- Comment on Notepad++ and Don Ho: A story of software, activism, and defiance 1 month ago:
It’s by far my favorite text editor on Windows. The first time I used it (I think to edit cfg files for Skyrim mods, lol), I was hooked. It’s great to know it’s creator is so principled.
- Comment on Docker Hub limiting unauthenticated users to 10 pulls per hour 2 months ago:
I think most self-hosted Git+CI/CD platforms have container registry as a feature, but I’m not aware of a service that is just a standalone registry.
- Comment on Coming from someone who loves the game: it feels like BGS is quietly deciding to end it's post-launch support in favor on focusing on TES6. - REPOST 2 months ago:
It’s such a shame. I like it too. When I play it, I can see a great game hidden behind a couple poor focus decisions. I honestly think the majority of Star Field’s issues are solvable, even post-launch.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Bold of you to assume this administration would allow them to vote.
- Comment on Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says | Reddit executives also discussed how they might introduce more ads into the social media platform 2 months ago:
Youtube is probably the most difficult platform on the internet to replace. Video content delivery is extremely resource heavy and technically complicated, especially once you start to scale. Many, many competitors have attempted it over the years, and while some found their niche, none of them have achieved anywhere close to the scale of Youtube.
It took decades of Youtube to become profitable, only doing so after achieving mind-boggling economy of scale. The majority of humans on earth have used Youtube. About half of all (global) internet users use it monthly. I don’t know if any other platform can claim stats like that.
Youtube is one of those platforms that only exists because it got a head start in the unique conditions of the early internet. I don’t know if it’s even possible to create a true competitor, though I could see multiple platforms taking over different niches.
- Comment on In light of recent events, here's OpenStreetMap editors discussing naming of the Gulf of Mexico 2 months ago:
You’re right. It’s part of a propaganda strategy to trick US media to “discuss” trivial things like this instead of focusing on the real harm the administration is doing.
- Comment on Seagate's fraudulent hard drives scandal deepens as clues point at Chinese Chia mining farms 2 months ago:
It seems like that’s what they’re working on right now.
- Comment on Seagate's fraudulent hard drives scandal deepens as clues point at Chinese Chia mining farms 2 months ago:
Except they did stop that shady practice, so your original boycott doesn’t make sense anymore.
This is a completely different issue of other companies creating counterfeit Seagate drives that don’t live if to Seagate’s quality standards. They are responding by shutting down sales until they can root them out.
- Comment on Apple Maps now shows the Gulf of America 2 months ago:
Same here. I encourage everyone to do the same, it takes like 20 seconds.
- Comment on I would let a chip be installed in my brain if it would allow me to erase memories of the games I have played to play them again as the first time. 2 months ago:
Other harmful side-effects aside, how much a game impacted you is significantly affected by the context of your life. Experiencing the same game at a different time in your life might not be as meaningful.
- Comment on Why I am not impressed by A.I. 2 months ago:
as a starting point to learn about a new topic
No. I’ve used several models to “teach” me about subjects I already know a lot about, and they all frequently get many facts wrong. Why would I then trust it to teach me about something I don’t know about?
to look up a song when you can only remember a small section of lyrics
No, because traditional search engines do that just fine.
when you want to code a block of code that is simple but monotonous to code yourself
See this comment.
suggest plans for how to create simple sturctures/inventions
I guess I’ve never tried this.
Anything with a verifyable answer that youd ask on a forum can generally be answered by an llm, because theyre largely trained on forums and theres a decent section the training data included someone asking the question you are currently asking.
Kind of, but here’s the thing, it’s rarely faster than just using a good traditional search, especially if you know where to look and how to use advanced filtering features. Also, (and this is key) verifying the accuracy of an LLM’s answer requires about the same about of work as just not using an LLM in the first place, so I default to skipping the middle-man.
Lastly, I haven’t even touched on the privacy nightmare that these systems pose if you’re not running local models.
- Comment on Why I am not impressed by A.I. 2 months ago:
Personally I have yet to find a use case. Every single time I try to use an LLM for a task (even ones they are supposedly good at), I find the results so lacking that I spend more time fixing its mistakes than I would have just doing it myself.
- Comment on Why I am not impressed by A.I. 2 months ago:
If you think of LLMs as something with actual intelligence you’re going to be very unimpressed… It’s just a model to predict the next word.
This is exactly the problem, though. They don’t have “intelligence” or any actual reasoning, yet they are constantly being used in situations that require reasoning.