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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
People have been talking about “post scarcity” since forever.

Yes, in the far distant future people will be able to have things they need and not have to work. AI will also exist in that future.

However, I don’t think anyone believes that future will arrive in the next decade.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Major Bitcoin mining firm pivoting to AI, plans to fully abandon crypto mining by 2027 as miners convert to AI en masse — Bitfarm to leverage 341 megawatt capacity for AI following $46 million Q3 loss⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
This isbprobably a philosophical question that i dont know the answer to, but its still a waste.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
This is really just a guess but… I think “agent” in this context means a personalised AI.

Training gen AI models requires huge amounts of resources. Its not practical to train an AI for your personal use.

Creating an agent is something like, taking an existing model, asking it to keep your entire browser history in mind while you ask it to do your homework.

IMO its actually one of the big limitations of gen AI, but somehow the word is supposed to mean the opposite. As in, the current approach has reached a dead end requiring exponentially more resources for less and less improvement. So because we can’t make a model that just knows or learns everything, we have to make agents that know lots about specific things.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using Fail2ban to protect exposed services⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I’ve never used tailscale but use wireguard extensively.

There’s not much of a learning curve for you as the administrator. You have to discard some misconceptions you might bring from other VPNs but really after 30 minutes of looking at configs you’ll get it.

I use wireguard for my small team of 5 people to access self hosted services. You install wireguard, load the config, and then it just works.

The trick, if it can be called that, is using public dns for private services.

On your server, suppose you have service-a service-b and service-c in containers with ip addresses in the 10.0.2.0/24 range. Then you’d have a reverse proxy like traefik at 10.0.2.1. You’d also create a wireguard container with an IP in that same 10.0.2.0/24 range, and configure it’s wireguard adapter to be 10.0.12.1 or soomething so you have “2” for the containers and “12” for the wireguard clients.

Then in wireguard configurations you direct all traffic for 10.0.2.0/24 through the tunnel but everything else just uses their devices normal internet connection.

Finally create a public dns record pointing to the reverse proxy like *.mydomain.com > 10.0.12.1

now whatever.mydomain.com will resolve to your reverse proxy but is still only available to devices connected to the wireguard container on your server.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iSweep⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I often use scanner / printers as an example. Its like a robot with a very specific and easy job - feed the paper through one sheet at a time. They’ve been around for 40 years, mass produced, they still cant reliably do that one thing.

With a lot of tech, it seems like solving the first 90% of a problem is easy, then the next 5% very hard and expensive, but the last few percent is impossible.

We see this with so many things - printers, roombas, self driving cars.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Big Short' Michael Burry bets $1bn on AI bubble bursting | LBC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
What’s an accessible way for a non-wealthy person to bet against the AI bubble?

Yes I understand that this is tantamount to gambling.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Not sure what youre getting at.

Obviously it depends how good and how bad.

Also, there going to show both - but the frequency of each will depend on their assessed likelihood that im going to click and the revenue generated if I do so.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Is it only me that finds personalised / targeted ads to be very poorly personalised and targeted ?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Sorry what?

I think I’ve misunderstood you because this is certainly possible, and I’m sure you’re aware of that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: you can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" header⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Nailed it. This is how email works.

If you want to ensure i de-prioritise your request, request a read receipt or send a follow up email the next day.

If you don’t want me to ever do anything for you promptly ever again call me to check whether I got your email.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: you can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" header⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
What is a daily attendance email?

“Hi, Im in attendance today! 🍆”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: you can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" header⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Email requires no acknowledgement.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: you can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" header⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I need a shirt that says “dipshit has reacted 👍”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A rant on left-wing online infighting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
If the dems had convincingly won the last n elections, the republicans would move to the left, which would push the dems to the left.

Biden won by a hair’s breadth.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A rant on left-wing online infighting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Exactly what I’m talking about. Well done.

That will do little bot, that will do.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
This might shock you but I dont want nearby people to be able to talk to me. Chicken or not.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨opencloud - I migrated from nextcloud. Screenshots and docker-compose-compose.yml included⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Let people ~~use~~ post whatever they want.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A rant on left-wing online infighting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
While lemmy itself isn’t a target for propaganda bots, the narratives they push kinda seep in.

Propaganda doesn’t seek to convert a leftist to the right, their strategy is to fragment the left - factions spend their energy arguing amongst themselves instead of presenting a cohesive opposition.

For example, elements of the left were protesting about Palestine outside Kamala’s campaign events.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That’s not really analogous.

If AI could be added to a product and actually improve that product, then you would need to add AI to products to improve the products.

You wouldn’t leave your gold in your mine thinking about how much it might be worth.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
No, the hype is over-stating how useful it will eventually be.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I absolutely hate seeing AI crammed into everything.

However, i don’t understand your logic.

If AI was in fact useful, it would be crammed into everything because everyone would want it.

So while AI is undoubtedly shit, its presence in everything is not evidence of that.

⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's gluetun?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

services:
  qbittorrent:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/qbittorrent
    container_name: qbittorrent
    environment:
      - PUID=888
      - PGID=888
      - TZ=Australia/Perth
      - WEBUI_PORT=8080
    volumes:
      - ./config:/config
      - /srv/downloads:/downloads
    restart: unless-stopped
    network_mode: "container:wg_out"

this is my compose.yml for a qbittorrent instance.

the part you’re interested in is the final line. There’s another container with the wireguard instance called “wg_out”. This network mode attaches this qbittorrent container to that wireguard container’s network stack.

⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's gluetun?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I’d seen gluetun mentioned but didn’t know what it was for until a moment ago.

I’ve heard of tailscale and at least know what that does but never used it.

I personally have a mullvad subscription. I have a container connected to that with wireguard, and then for services I want to use that VPN I just configure them to use the network stack from that container.

I’m not suggesting that my way is the best but it’s worked well for several years now.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

I have a 32 inch 1080p monitor as my secondary

I honestly find this hard to believe. I have 2x 32 inch monitors on my desk and in 1920x1080 they’re ugly to the point of distraction.

if you are going big why spend the money on a 4k one if you are just going to use scaling anyway?

4k isn’t that expensive. you can get 32 inch 4k monitors for a few hundred dollars.

Scaling is not the same as reducing the resolution.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
There’s this thing called scaling that allows you to see things in an appropriate size but higher definition.

Anyone who uses spreadsheets regularly wants the extra real estate. Anyone who works with complex documents wants the extra real estate.

It’s not about more dots on your 24 inch, it’s about larger monitors that can display more stuff simultaneously. Instead of 4x 1080p monitors you can have 2x larger 4k monitors. Offer this to anyone who makes money by staring at a screen all day and they’ll tell you it’s worth it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨card game shop⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That’s just not how interacting with humans works though.

Chances are there are several individuals who visit this shop with “offensive” hygiene.

The sign isn’t going to stop them coming in.

When you say “hey fuck off stinky”, they’re going to react badly. Pointing to the sign isn’t going to make them any less reactive or defensive.

The correct way to handle this is to pull them aside, tell them you really appreciate them visiting the store, they’re really into the hobby and a key part of the local scene or whatever, but last time they came in a few other customers mentioned their hygiene.

I totally understand that most people don’t want to have that second interaction, that’s fine.

My point is, in either approach the sign doesn’t help.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨card game shop⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Like most signs, this will be ignored by the people it’s intended for.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
What about the vast majority of people who stare at screens for work?

Frame rates aren’t really important, it’s making things more readable in less space.

The cost / benefit is a completely different dynamic.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Subjective obviously.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The resolution (4k in this case) defines the number of pixels to be shown to the user. The bitrate defines how much data is provided in the file or stream. A codec is the method for converting data to pixels.

Suppose you’ve recorded something in 1080p (low resolution). You could convert it to 4k, but the codec has to make up the pixels that can’t be computed from the data.

In summary, the TV in my living room might be more capable, but my streaming provider probably isn’t sending enough data to really use it.