swelter_spark
@swelter_spark@reddthat.com
- Comment on Crassula aka Hottentot 19 hours ago:
Wow, it’s huge!
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 2 days ago:
It’s seemed pretty popular to me since basically the beginning of the internet.
- Comment on 4,000-year-old human rib discovered high in the Pyrenees still has an arrowhead from a brutal attack 2 days ago:
I wonder how long they lived after this happened, and how the wound was treated at the time.
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 3 days ago:
With the current political climate, my bf worries about exactly this.
- Comment on If Trump fires the Fed’s Powell ‘both the currency and the bond market can collapse,’ according to Deutsche Bank 3 days ago:
My understanding is that is was deliberately designed that way because it was intended to be used as a medium of exchange and not a vehicle for investment.
- Comment on Are there any free services that actually let you use an LLM’s full large context window? 3 days ago:
You can use your own computer with a reasonably-sized model, and set it to whatever you want.
- Comment on What are you doing when you call someone, don't leave a voicemail or text, they call you back right away but you don't answer? 3 days ago:
Driving or going to the bathroom.
- Comment on If Trump fires the Fed’s Powell ‘both the currency and the bond market can collapse,’ according to Deutsche Bank 3 days ago:
Bitcoin seems to change value more dramatically than Monero, from everything I’ve seen. That works both ways, though.
- Comment on ROG Xbox Ally Is $700 And Xbox Ally X Is $1050 3 days ago:
My bf has already decided he wants one of these because of the xbox branding. :(
- Comment on I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good 3 days ago:
I don’t even remember a time when PeerTube wasn’t federated. For as long as I’ve been using it, that’s been kind of the point.
- Comment on I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good 3 days ago:
I would say the production values are significantly higher, but the quality is significantly lower.
- Comment on I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good 3 days ago:
Same, and it’s weird to me that so many people now believe that they deserve to be paid for participating in their hobbies.
- Comment on Inside China’s plan for ‘621mph floating train’ that goes faster than a plane 4 days ago:
Interesting.
- Comment on YouTube's Latest Update Shows That Online Monoculture Is Dead 5 days ago:
I wish NewPipe or Freetube had their own comment community.
- Comment on Chinese Scientists Create Cyborg Bees That Can Be Controlled Like Drones for Undercover Military Missions 5 days ago:
This seems cruel.
- Comment on AI-Enabled Trash Trucks Will Scan Your Trash To Scold You About Recycling 1 week ago:
Thankfully, I can’t imagine my town wanting to pay for this. They don’t even want to pay for parks or a library.
- Comment on BREAKING: X CEO Linda Yaccarino Steps Down One Day After Elon Musk’s Grok AI Bot Went Full Hitler 1 week ago:
I’m surprised he didn’t have a baby with her.
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 week ago:
If a site I have to use doesn’t work for no apparent reason, I e-mail the company’s Support. Let them sort it out, or provide another way I can do what I’m trying to do. Personally, I think a lot of the problems are from more and more websites integrating privacy-invading “features”, and FF interfering with their operation.
- Comment on Kids are making deepfakes of each other, and laws aren’t keeping up 2 weeks ago:
No problem. If that doesn’t work for you, ComfyUI is also a popular option, but it’s more complicated.
- Comment on ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it 2 weeks ago:
Fire works on Android and is meant to do basically the same thing. I saw someone post it in another thread, but haven’t explored it in depth.
- Comment on Kids are making deepfakes of each other, and laws aren’t keeping up 2 weeks ago:
Take a look at InvokeAI.
- Comment on Kids are making deepfakes of each other, and laws aren’t keeping up 2 weeks ago:
AI can generate images of things that don’t even exist. If it knows what porn looks like and what a child looks like, it can combine those concepts.
- Comment on Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos in your camera roll you haven’t yet shared 2 weeks ago:
Swappa is good for tech.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I don’t even remember the last time I wore a watch. No reason now that everything has a clock built in.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years 3 weeks ago:
I thought there were devices like this you could buy as a kit and build yourself that were local and private.
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 3 weeks ago:
I use it, too. Never had any problems with it.
- Comment on WhatsApp is officially getting ads 3 weeks ago:
:(
- Comment on Realities of hosting a tor relay node at home 3 weeks ago:
It can also be run as a standalone background service, so you don’t have to have a browser window open all the time. I’ve run one for years. Super easy.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
There are lots of local brands that don’t advertise that are better than nationally-known brands, at a much lower cost.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 4 weeks ago:
IMO, I would rate them: ME1 Andromeda ME2 ME3
The original Mass Effect was great, a classic, but 2 and 3 had less and less of what I’d loved about the first game. By the time I got to 3, I was playing because I felt invested in the story and characters, not because I found the gameplay enjoyable. Andromeda wasn’t quite as enjoyable as ME1 to me, mostly because I didn’t connect with the characters as much, but the story was surprising and original, fights were exciting, and the gameplay had a lot of interesting new elements that made the scenario feel immersive. It’s really too bad that so many people didn’t like it.