Dojan

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: you can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" header⁩ ⁨⁨38⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  The point still stands. Email is a terrible operating system and should be murdered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: you can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" header⁩ ⁨⁨41⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  If you use the newer versions of Outlook it has some inane one-shot reply buttons you can click that is based on the content of the previous email and presumably some model built on you.

  My work computer uses Outlook, and it usually has options like these

  • Gotcha, thanks
  • Brill, thank you
  • I will do that, thanks

  At my old workplace though, one of our customers would always respond with a couple of letters. Could be something like

  Customer:
  Hi. Could you update thing on website?

  Us:
  Hello!
  Absolutely. We’ve rolled out the update, and you should be able to see it now.
  Hope all is well over there. :)

  Customer:
  T M

  Where T is short for “Thank you” and M is short for “Mary”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark⁩ ⁨⁨51⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t even remember my progression. I do remember what first piqued my interest though. A guy came from BUIT (Barn-och-ungdoms IT enhet), which no longer exists, and he was troubleshooting some IT stuff at my school back in 2003. Being the nosy and tech-interested bratty nerd that I was, I hovered around the guy. He was super nice, and had no problem with my prodding questions about his laptop, which was running Red Hat Linux. He explained in simple terms what exactly that meant, and it stuck with me.

  Then, years later when I found out about Ubuntu (at the library I think) and the fact that they sent out LiveCDs I was like “Yes please!” and the rest is history. I didn’t use Linux for many years, between having hardware that didn’t play nice with it, and just not feeling like it. Then the other year I went back to Linux and been using it since.

  Every so often I boot into Windows to do some texture work in Substance Painter, but I don’t think that’s going to last. I’m very keen on trying Armor Paint, and if I like the workflow there I might as well wipe Windows entirely.

  Now, if only I could run Linux on my work PC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨exam cheating⁩ ⁨⁨56⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  I wrote a comment along these lines, he brought up “agents” in that SciShow episode without directly saying the word, and modern agents are really just a bunch of scripts tied together with an LLM. It’s not that complicated, and they absolutely suck at performing tasks that aren’t narrowly defined. Like you can’t throw it at some issues on GitHub and expect it to actually come up with solutions. People have tried that and the success rates are absurdly low.

  SciShow can be incredibly sloppy at times. They had this episode about knitting a while back and lots of knitters basically fired back with “…did you guys try to talk to knitters about this?”

  Hank Green seems really affable, it’s hard not to like him (knowing very little about him) but SciShow really needs more rigorous fact checking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  The main reason I left was because I wanted to switch to btrfs (for snapshot rollbacks), and Tumbleweed had that OOTB so I gave it a shot.

  This is precisely why I went with Tumbleweed as well. I wanted a rolling release distro because having initially gotten into Linux via Ubuntu back in 2007, I didn’t really like the “upgrade twice a year to keep up to date with new features” method. It felt really cumbersome back then, as a regular distro upgrade often brought problems with it.

  When I looked into other features I wanted, I discovered Snapper and I was all “that’s the one for me!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  They said Steam OS, not Steam Deck.

  If you click on “Linux Version” it expands into a list. Steam OS Holo is the largest portion, but not the majority portion. Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh they update a lot. The clients have gotten really snappy, which is nice because browsing photos felt a bit cumbersome before. There’s now automatic albums and facial recognition, if you opt in to that. Was going to say that there’s no editing tool but there is. It’s quite basic though, three tabs, crop, transform (rotate, flip, resize), and colours (brightness, contrast, saturation, and blur for some reason lmao).

  There’s also a bunch of sharing features. You could share images or albums directly, or even create embeds for if you have a portfolio website. I pretty much only use it as a backup service though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess they fill different niches. I use Ente for the e2ee, that’s pretty important to me. Immich definitely seems more like a drop in Google Photos alternative, I just use software on my computer to do that instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Ente is also open source and can be self-hosted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NOW!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s illegal here in Sweden, for example the lowest price within the last 30 days also need to be listed alongside the discount offer. The effect this has is that 31 days before Black Friday, the retailers bump up the price.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d love this, but not Nvidia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, there’s anti cheat software that doesn’t run in the kernel. You can bypass that and still cheat, but if you’re insistent you can do that even with kernel-level anti-cheat. There’s a whole big debate on this, lots of differing opinions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No I think you got the message of what they were saying correct. Linux doesn’t have kernel level anti-cheat at the moment, and they’re saying that if you are a proponent of it, then don’t use Linux because it’s something we’d like to continue not having.

  There are layers of abstraction between the kernel and the userspace, and few applications need kernel level access. Anti-cheat poking around in the kernel is very invasive. I know plenty of people who equate it to spyware, myself included.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  At one time software developers might spend days setting up the framework of a new project, and now an LLM can do the bulk of the work in minutes.

  I’d not put an LLM in charge of developing a framework that is meant to be used in any sort of production environment. If we’re talking about them setting up the skeleton of a project, then templates have already been around for decades at this point. You also don’t really set up new projects all that often.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Progress⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The furry community has your back!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Progress⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re describing Ubuntu’s Convergence, something Canonical was working on back in like 2011 I think.

  Sucks nothing really came of it. By 2014 there were a few functional demos of it but you don’t really see it nowadays.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Progress⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Shit. Get Lovense or something instead. Still has Bluetooth connectivity but there are so many open source clients to make use of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨got this ad and uh⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is my belief as well.

  My mother fell deep into the qanon bullshit hole. I was very surprised to find her pro-Palestine, but realised that a big part is likely just antisemitism.

  It’s always just been lip service when it comes to her.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨got this ad and uh⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What the hell? Somehow the idea of a super racist being all “yeah but them Palestinians deserve better” or something tickles me.

  I just don’t see how being pro-enslavement and anti-genocide is a compatible viewpoint.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bingo⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  • So if you bomb everything does it get rebuilt over time?

  No. The closest any of the games have to buildings evolving/changing on their own is Sims 4’s Eco Lifestyle world where the neighbourhoods change depending on the neighbourhood’s eco footprint.

  • Is the game worth getting into a recent version? 💰 No 🏴‍☠️ Absolutely

  • I’ve stayed away because it sounded like they started charging for a bunch of crap after buying the game

  That’s always been the model, though. The Sims 1 had several expansions. The Sims 2 added stuff packs. The Sims 3 had the store with digital currency. The Sims 4 removed the store and added kits.

  When Sims 4 launched it was very meagre in terms of content, they’d started development in the middle of the “social networks are cool” era and pivoted when SimCity 5 failed. They tossed together an underwhelming mess, but over the years they’ve fleshed out the base game. There’s a lot of expansions now, to the point that they’re starting to cover similar themes they’ve already covered.

  Given EA’s proclivities I wouldn’t recommend buying the game. In light of their recent acquisition by Trump and the Saudi Arabian government, I would urge against buying the game. But it can be an enjoyable experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DIY YouTuber builds cheap VR headset and makes it open-source⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s more or less two little screens behind fresnel lenses attached to an IMU.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New California law requires AI to tell you it’s AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re probably not super fond of the idea of AI not being allowed to be deployed to manipulate people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New California law requires AI to tell you it’s AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As if taking all of 4-chan, scrambling it around a little, and pouring the contents out would lead to a cure for cancer. lmao

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mary E. Brunkow, one of this year's Nobel Prize winners in Medicine, has only 34 published papers and an H-index of 21.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One I recall that rubbed me the wrong way was one of her videos on “is being trans a social fad?”

  One the one side you have people claiming that it’s a socially contagious fad among the brainwashed woke who want to mutilate your innocent children. On the other side there are those saying that it’s saving the lives of minorities who’ve been forced to stay in the closet for too long. And then there are normal people, like you and I, who think both sides are crazy and could someone please summarise the facts in simple words, which is what I’m here for.

  Not super fond of the “both sides are crazy” idea when one side is arguing “people should have equal access to medical care and be left to live in peace” and the other is trying to legislate the former people out of existence.

  She further goes on to platform ideas like “rapid onset gender dysphoria” which is based on spurious data gathered on a “parents of trans children” forum. None of the actual studies on the subject have supported the idea at all. The science is against it, yet she’s presenting it like it’s some “other side of the coin” nuanced take, and not just utter nonsense. It’s a bit like lending credence to the idea that the Earth is flat because there’s a whole group of flat-earthers out there who believe it is.

  Ultimately though, I think my main reason for avoiding her is that she just doesn’t post sources. They’re all hidden on her Patreon, and I just don’t think that’s how it should work. I know educational videos aren’t exactly scientific papers, but hiding your sources just strikes me as bad manners. If the goal is to educate and nurture an interest in a subject, why obscure the path you took to get it? It just doesn’t make sense to me, and most other channels like hers do publish their sources.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, no doubt. My mother got radicalised by Facebook over the years. It went from cute dog and cat things to “harmless” conspiracy theories (think bigfoot), culminating in fucking her with QAnon propaganda indoctrination. Last I checked up on her, there’s machine generated rubbish all over her feed. She’s beyond saving at this point. Suppose she was always primed for this kind of thing, being pro-homeopathy anti-vaccine person.

  She doesn’t question the machine generated content at all, and I saw that if someone points it out, which a scarce few have done, she just justifies it with “well it could be real, this kind of thing does happen.”

  At this point I don’t think it matters if this technofascism was a knowing plan, or an unfortunate series of events that by themselves seemed justifiable to the people making the decisions, but it doesn’t really matter. We’re here now. They’re not only trying, but succeeding in coercing governments and undermining democracy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Punch Time⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d not heard of handicapped, but I have heard of Postcode File.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Punch Time⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, honestly? Yeah. This isn’t how you should translate if you wish to adhere to the original material. You need to understand meaning and context in both languages. AI doesn’t grasp that on account of not grasping anything at all, and the game of telephone that the image is suggesting is completely obliterating it as well.

  Example; Lipton, in an ice tea advert had an actress dance and sing, and in the middle of it, took a sip of tea and said 「美味ちい」

  If you were to translate that directly, she sips the tea and says “Tasty!” or “Yummy!” which is acceptable. However, you’ve lost the double entendre of how チー (ちい) sounds like the English word tea, which is kind of relevant given what they’re advertising and so you’d lose the opportunity to make the same pun in English; “Tealicious!”

  Now apply it on a larger scale and suddenly characters and stories end up diverging between the versions. Sure the overall picture might be similar but the nuance can be vastly different. I saw it all the time in Final Fantasy XIV. Sure, not all media needs that kind of meticulousness and hell, a lot of media doesn’t even care for it. People can be perfectly happy with basic, but they also don’t necessarily know what they’re missing.

  Granted, sometimes you have to settle for that method of translation, because you can’t easily or appropriately convey the original intent in another language.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool being able to SSH into my phone though

  I thought you could do that on Android?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BlueSky has drama so the Fedi-Marketers are waking from their slumber⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Be careful, you might get wooted on wafrn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BlueSky has drama so the Fedi-Marketers are waking from their slumber⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s nice. It’s torn the wings off of the Bluesky logo.