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- Comment on If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7 1 hour 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 1 hour 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? 1 day 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? 1 day 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 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days 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 days ago:
Subjective obviously.
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 3 days 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.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
continuity of the star trek universe
Actually I think this is a fairly low priority if you want to gather more viewers.
- Comment on Are there any decent GPT-detection tools that can be run locally? 6 days ago:
Sorry I’m still not really sure what you’re asking for.
I use Open Web UI, which is the worst name ever, but it’s a web ui for interacting with chat format gen AI models.
You can install that locally and point it at any of the models hosted remotely by an inference provider.
So you host the UI but someone else is doing the GPU intensive “inference”.
There seems to be some models for t his task available on huggingface like this one:
huggingface.co/…/roberta-base-ai-text-detection-v…
The difficulty may be finding a model which is hosted by an inference provider. Most of the models available on huggingface are just the binary model which you can download and run locally. The popular ones are hosted by inference providers so you can just point a query at their API and get a response.
As an aside, it’s possible or likely that you know more about how Gen AI works than I do, but I think this type of “probability table for the next token” is from the earlier generations. Or, this type of probability inference might be a foundational concept, but there’s a lot more sophistication layered on top now. I genuinely don’t know. I’m super interested in these technologies but there’s a lot to learn.
- Comment on Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago. 1 week ago:
That’s not what’s happening here.
Think of a database where nothing is editable. You can only add additional data. So you can’t delete a post you can only add a deleted = true flag.
Much easier to keep this kind of database in sync.
- Comment on Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago. 1 week ago:
They’re the remnants of last year’s propaganda campaign. No one bothered to deprogram them. They tend to fire off their lines at unpredictable times like a toddlers toy with a low battery.
- Comment on Are there any decent GPT-detection tools that can be run locally? 1 week ago:
There are no decent GPT-detection tools.
If there were they would be locally hosted language models, and you’d need a reasonable GPU.
- Comment on Jesus hates American "Christians" 2 weeks ago:
Yeah so I was raised in a reasonably devout household, and I’ve never really been able to resolve this.
Its related to the fundamental attribution error - we judge others by their actions but ourselves by intentions. Except its more than that because religion creates this us vs them dynamic, where anyone who is “us” has good intentions, but anyone who is them does not.
Let’s suppose a “good” person is one who performs acts of altruism, has integrity, and a high level of emptiness self awareness.
In my experience these “good” people are a small part of any group. Any race, creed, city, social group, whatever.
With that in mind, I don’t think religion makes people good - rather its a system of beliefs that allows people to perceive themselves and their friends as good.
Really I think this explains why religion is so prevalent. Ultimately being “good” isn’t a very good gig. Imagine doing destitute because you’ve spent your life performing acts of altruism. OTOH if it merely allows one to form a cohesive group of “good” people, i can see how that would be perpetuated.
- Comment on DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026 2 weeks ago:
Seems like a real can / should problem to me.
Hard to believe this would entice anyone to purchase where a sexy lady couldn’t.
- Comment on DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026 2 weeks ago:
So, ah … yeah.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I can’t watch the video sorry but, from the title this is classic corporate liability mitigation and it’s sickening.
I’m not trying to compare myself to this poor woman at all - I haven’t endured anything like sexual assault and she has my sympathy.
That said, I have encountered this type of thing - when you’re not a customer but really more like an associate of a company, and for whatever happen you have a legitimate grievance or complaint, their first step is to stone wall you. You won’t have any contact with any person with the authority to resolve your grievance - stuck with public facing customer support who’s strategy is to wear you down with platitudes and delays.
- Comment on Aussies go viral for booing American national anthem at WWE Crown Jewel event in Perth 2 weeks ago:
I can’t bring myself to consider it that deeply im afraid.
At this point I find anything glorifying USA culture offensive.
- Comment on Albanese urged to ‘secure the future of science’ as CSIRO reckons with ongoing decline in funding 2 weeks ago:
Nah that isn’t new. That’s been going on since the dawn of democracy.
Conservative governments always de-fund everything. Lador hasn’t had much of a run in the last 30 years.
I’d like to see the ABC and CSIRO get guaranteed direct funding through something similar to medicare with the medicare levy. Medicare Levy is 2% of earnings. An infinitessimal portion of that would turn the tap back on at the ABC and CSIRO.
I think we levied facebook et al and squandered that revenue on poor struggling murdock reporting.
Sooner or later we will have a Trump style government that will accelerate the trend of hollowing out these amazing institutions.
- Comment on Aussies go viral for booing American national anthem at WWE Crown Jewel event in Perth 2 weeks ago:
The clip I saw had insufficient booing IMO.
Apparently they thought the MMA scene is MAGA?
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 2 weeks ago:
They’re in a growth stage.
I don’t agree with them, but venture capitalists believe they are inventing a god, and that the first to achieve it will enjoy never before seen power, control, and ultimately wealth.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 2 weeks ago:
This is a really odd take.
you’re 401k is being invested while the market is down
Sure but you just lost half your 401k, including half of what was invested while the market was overpriced.
When unemployment is high, […] That results in lower rates for consumer loans. So people that have stable jobs […] can take out loans
Yes, but lenders also tighten their criteria during these times because even a stable job is dramatically less stable during a recession or depression. It’s very difficult to borrow money in an economic downturn.
When the market recovers, you’ve had years of experience
Sure but if the market didn’t collapse you would still have those years of experience. During a collapse fewer people will have consistent employment.
It’s a grind but at least they didn’t end up drug addicts and alcoholics like so many others
Not sure where you were going with this part.
The universal economic truth is, in times of economic uncertainty the working class does the heavy lifting.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 2 weeks ago:
Yes but my point is, a brick layer isn’t the best person to ask about the future of housing.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 2 weeks ago:
I feel like someone working at the pointy end of R&D in AI isn’t necessarily well placed to predict the future of AI.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 2 weeks ago:
Is that because they’re so focussed on growth and advancement though?
Right now there’s no incentive for efficiency. The focus is using venture capital to grab market share by implementing new products.
If suddenly everyone realised that the new iterations are more costly without any new functionality, the focus would switch and it might be worthwhile.
Right now, you can buy a $500 GPU, and run an LLM locally that can help you draft documents or code or transcribe audio. If that were scaled up to a subscription service surely it could be reasonably priced, yet profitable.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 2 weeks ago:
Can you elaborate on managing “steady good work”?
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 2 weeks ago:
Yes, you absolutely will be effected.
In a general way, the plebs always do the heavy lifting - a universal truth since the dawn of time.
More specifically, your pension / 401k will lose a heap of money.
As the economy contracts there will be lay offs.
That means loan defaults, et cetera.