BagOfHeavyStones
@BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I was referring to the bucket woman’s sister, but this will do.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Is she the one with room for a pony?
- Comment on mastodon.social has some serious hickups today (and lately) 2 weeks ago:
Summit is dead for several hours now too, at least for me. Have fallen back to the piefed PWA.
- Comment on Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers 2 weeks ago:
They already had this tech back in 1979.
- Comment on Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers 2 weeks ago:
Counterfeit. Duplicate. Replica.
- Comment on War 3 weeks ago:
“Everybody in the house of love!”
- Comment on Self Hosting for Privacy - Importance of Owning your own Modem/Router? 3 weeks ago:
It might just be an error. It’s not too hard to hit one by mistake when scrolling on a touch screen device.
- Comment on Do I have to? Ok, fine... 3 weeks ago:
Is there a downstairs equivalent of brain freeze?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure my butcher offers such favours.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I must be old. Sometimes I need sleep.
- Comment on Instagram quietly drops end-to-end encrypted chats 3 weeks ago:
Of course. Can’t train the LLM if they can’t read them.
- Comment on Australia to temporarily ease fuel quality standards 3 weeks ago:
They’re going back to the standard we had in December last year. It’s not a dramatic downgrade, just more sulfur iirc.
- Comment on This plastic is made from milk and it vanishes in 13 weeks 5 weeks ago:
Soon to be adopted by BMW for their cooling systems?
- Comment on Every time I open the news 5 weeks ago:
I opened Facebook. Pit of rage bait mixed with articles designed to look like someone’s asking what something is when really it’s just engagement bait.
So closed it and back to Summit.
- Comment on Fish died, pivoting to Plant Box of Shame 5 weeks ago:
Similar here, except I left all the bits in the tank, took the water out, put a monitor in, and put this on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycx0YpxOkG8
Much easier to maintain.
- Comment on LibreOffice blasts 'fake open source' OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in 1 month ago:
Understood. I need to be able to add text and draw slaps shapes etc on PDFs.
- Comment on LibreOffice blasts 'fake open source' OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in 1 month ago:
I use OnlyOffice for PDFs since it can set a default zoom level. LibreOffice can’t, which it just stupid.
I use LibreOffice for other stuff though.
- Comment on Amazon service was taken down by AI coding bot 1 month ago:
I don’t think they’re capable of learning from their mistakes, the probability engine and underlying model data will remain the same. It might ‘learn’ briefly while the conversation history remains current, but will forget it all.
I could be wrong. I just recall trying to teach it something a year or two ago and it was unable to learn.
- Comment on Save as PDF 1 month ago:
So that the recipient can’t tell it was an image I pasted onto the pdf instead of a page I printed, signed, then scanned in again.
- Comment on Save as PDF 1 month ago:
Still using it today whenever I need to flatten a PDF with my scanned signature.
- Comment on Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files 1 month ago:
So, just need to prompt for a person’s name and get to find the contents of all the files with that name in it?
- Comment on You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift 2 months ago:
Another task for “Feedback Hub.”
- Comment on Windows 10's extended support ends in eight months, but users are still rejecting Windows 11, at least in Germany 2 months ago:
It was your computer, and it was friendly.
- Comment on Since men have a longer urethra, they can experience the pleasure of urinating more intensely :< 2 months ago:
Re-verify our range to target. One ping only.
- Comment on quack 2 months ago:
Never found that one.
Back then I was a dialup ISP I used to host network games of Quake 1 with my customers. At the peak though we found the Xylogics Remote Annex couldn’t handle it, and it rebooted mid game.
- Comment on quack 2 months ago:
Used to love going to the console in quake 1 and setting gravity to 1. Each jump and you could hit the roof.
- Comment on Jensen Huang says relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has "done a lot of damage" 2 months ago:
I agree that for some coding things it’s handy and saves time. It wrote me a WordPress plugin for an abandoned radio streaming plugin so I could get usable stats. It would have taken me a long time to write the SQL and php code by hand, for something I’ll likely never do again.
It didn’t get it entirely right first time though.
- Comment on Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI 2 months ago:
It sometimes works for me. But the old computer truth of garbage in garbage out still applies. It’s got the world’s garbage to sift through.
- Comment on A Project to Poison LLM Crawlers 2 months ago:
Faults in replication? That can become cancer for humans. AI as well I guess.
- Comment on Definitely the safest source for advice 2 months ago: