greybeard

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t really remember why everyone hated him (Besides being annoying and once using a slur, for which he probably was lacking complete cultural understanding), but he was pretty young when he popped off. Not everyone changes as they age, but many people do. It’s very reasonable to say he is a different person now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If only Leonardo de Vinci had a camera, can you imagine how much better the Mona Lisa would have been? /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goodbye Google - I self-host everything now on 4 tiny PCs in a 3D printed rack (CaptainRedsLab)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you know someone in IT, it’s worth asking them what their company does with old computers. At my last place, we sent off old PCs to recyclers, old often only being 3 years or so. Most of them were basic i5s with 16GB of RAM, but they were more than powerful enough for a good docker host. I’ve got small stack of them that I rescued from the recycle pile.

  Not to mention the laptops that went to the recyclers. Of course, many of you might think that is wasteful, but the recyclers were refurbishing them and reselling. We got them off our hands for free, and they got to make a few bucks off them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Consider a system with no DRAM' replaced by a 'recycling fiber loop': John Carmack envisages bold future to avoid AI-driven RAM crisis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe he confused him with John McAfee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Linus would disagree with you there. It’s got a form of ECC, but it isn’t the same as server RAM ECC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect."⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a benchmark that kinda tests that. It’s call the bullshit benchmark. Basically, LLMs are given questions that don’t make sense in different ways, and their answers are judged based on how much they pushed back or bought in. Claude is in a league of its own when it comes to pushing back on non-sense questions.

  https://petergpt.github.io/bullshit-benchmark/viewer/index.html

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨https://www.androidauthority.com/desktop-mode-march-pixel-drop-3646069/⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried it a few weeks ago. It didn’t feel particularly buggy, but it was pretty slow/sluggish. Not the apps themselves, but moving and resizing windows. Basic UI stuff. Just felt like it was still very much a WIP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree, you can do almost anything with powershell. There isn’t always an exact command for it, but like 95% of Windows configuration lives in the registry. If you know what to change, you can make powershell manage any setting. Which is similar to the way that Bash controls Linux, through modifying config files.

  I do wish they had more/better tools for configuring the OS, but it works pretty well if you know the arcane magic of Windows.

  And when it comes to being a functional script, I’d take powershell over bash any day. That’s preference, obviously, but objects instead of strings makes it way easier to move data from one process to another.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it is why AI (Mostly just LLMs) have gotten so much hype. It’s something different. Desktop environments aren’t going to get much better. Mobile phones have been black rectangles for a decade with very little improvement. AI is something new, and feels like an advancement, even if 99% of the proposed use-cases have failed to actually work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly Half of Europeans Want X Banned if it Continues to Break the Law⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Elon Musk does a lot of business in Europe. You seize his assets in Europe to enforce the fines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jason Schreier says Sony is backing away from putting single player games on PC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  GTA6 is just a timed exclusive, but also remember that Rockstar are union busting assholes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Many years ago a grocery store chain, which was rapidly becoming national, had its progress halted by a meat bleaching scandal. They set impossible goals for their meat department, knowing there was zero way to sell the meat at the volume they demanded, so the local stores were left to do illegal things to meet the impossible quotas. The higher ups claimed plausible deniability, while knowing there was but one answer.

  What’s even crazier, is the grocery store (Food Lion) sued the journalists who went undercover to expose it, and won. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-01-23-mn-21242-story.html

  Fortunately, the damage to their reputation did far greater damage than they won in the lawsuit, but as far as I could find, no legal actions were taken against Food Lion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I always thought it would be cool to have a pack of the games that allows trading between the versions, or at least tracking of the pokedex across versions. I’m not crazy enough to play every single version, but if they had every version of every game for several gens, with a central pokedex, it would let the super fans try to completely fill out the dex.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sharkord - an open-source self-hostable Discord alternative with voice, video, and real-time messaging.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  WebRTC is a thing. You don’t have to build all that from scratch. It’s very reasonable to piece together a lot of standard technologies to make this progress much quicker. I haven’t looked into this project, so I don’t know, but I know it was pretty trivial to setup a WebRTC app 10 years ago, which would appear to be a fully functioning video app.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DVDs and public transit: Boycott drives people to ditch Big Tech to protest ICE⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really, Jellyfin will run just fine on old hardware. You don’t need a lot of power to do it. That said, if a USB HDD works for you, that’s fine too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Overwatch 2 Is Just 'Overwatch' Again And Five New Heroes Arrive Next Week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you can’t be assed to cuss, stop using the words. All you are doing is making it harder to read what you are saying, and making yourself look like a child who will get in trouble for cussing. We aren’t on YouTube or whatever, you won’t have your content surpressed because you offended the advertisers delicate sensabilities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm making a mini-game for my RPG⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of Wiz-War, the board game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It cones from marketing copy. Same with the emdash. My company has a style guide for marketing material and it calls out using bulleted lists and em dashes exactly how AI does it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-Host Weekly (30 January 2026)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The hardware requirements are quite steep, but I’ve got local AI running in my house. It’s mostly just there for when I want to screw around with it, but technically I could setup OpenClaw and point it to my AI server to use as its brain.

  I’m not stupid enough to do that on any real computer I use, but it might be cool to do on a VM where I can tightly control what it can see and have access to. Of course, that limits its usefulness, but security has a cost.

  At the same time, I can see the allure of a real digital assistant. I’m old enough to remember when professionals had personal assistants that not only helped them keep track of their work life, but also their personal life. Scheduling their personal life like doctors appointments or house repairs. Dealing with vendors to make sure stuff actually gets done, and making sure they are in the right place at the right time. That would be rad to have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One-Third of U.S. Video Game Industry Workers Were Laid Off Over the Last Two Years, GDC Study Reveals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It also doesn’t take hundreds of people to make a good game anymore, just a dozen or so good employees (sometimes less). Big studios struggle with justifying their existence with graphics and scope creep. Then, more often then not, management shoves it full of microtransactions or refocuses the game to hit whatever’s hot this second. Which often leads to a polished turd of a game.

  When you look at the big hits over the last 10 yeas, less than half of them came from big publishers and big studios. With less every year. It’s just not a model that works anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France is ditching Zoom and Microsoft Teams for a homegrown video platform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As countries find success, others will follow. Not only because it isn’t seen as risky, but also because the tooling will be better refined, and talent will exist in those tools. It’s a bit of a chicken and egg problem. Microsoft 365 has a lot of problems, but a shortage of techs who know how to make it mostly behave isn’t one of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨noyb win: Microsoft ordered to stop tracking school children⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t have to do that at all. These are “Work or School” accounts, and generally with Schools they are on a specific education products on top of that. All they have to do is make the company/school enter ages for all their accounts if they are using EDU products. Microsoft can reasonably trust that data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you sign into a Microsoft account during setup, Microsoft automatically turns on bitlocker and sends the key off to Microsoft for safe keeping. You are right, there are other ways to handle bitlocker, but that’s way beyond most people, and I don’t think Microsoft even tells you this during setup. It’s honestly a lifesaver for when bitlocker breaks(and it does), but it comes at a cost. In the business world, this is seen as a huge benefit, as we aren’t trying to protect from the US government, mostly petty theft and maybe some corporate espionage.

  As is often the case, the real solution is Linux, but that, too, is far beyond most people until manufacturers start shipping Linux machines to big box stores and even then they’d probably not enable any encryption.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new cooling technology freezes food without warming the climate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but the amount of gas in an AC system is insignifcant compared to the CO2 generated just making the AC system in the first place. Hell, delivering it probably generated significantly more pollution. Not saying we shouldn’t strive to make it better, but it’s not as actively harmful as it was 30+ years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday | Hacker News⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know about Floatplane or Nebula, but Dropout uses Vimeo as their back end. So this could impact some of the independent guys.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine is on a map, but in a radius of around 10 miles. Close enough to let people know I’m here, but not accurate enough to easily track me down.

  That said, if someone wanted to hunt me down, they certainly could triangulate me pretty quickly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There was also a pretty aggressive format war between BluRay and HDDVD that tempered demand for a little while. I bought a launch PS3 as well, in part because of BluRay.

  I also think it was a time where not everyone had an HD TV, nor did most people see a huge difference between DVD and BluRay, so there just wasn’t quite the demand compared to VHS vs DVD. Aside from the graphical stepup to DVD, it also didn’t need to be rewinded and didn’t take up nearly as much space. I think those two were big selling features, that the DVD to BluRay transition just didn’t have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone is allowed their own opinion. So I’m not going to say you are wrong for disliking it, but I completely disagree.

  I consider Super Mario World to be the best in the franchise, and Wonder was probably better. I loved the game. I found most of the “New Super Mario” (The 2D series) games bad, or at least missing the magic of the first games with tight controls and well thought out levels. Wonder was a return to that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  NFC payments are nice, but honestly I could use a case with a credit card shoved in it to get the same effect. A good camera is important, but the “screen mirroring” of Android Auto and Apple Car Play are hard to go without.

  Especially since most modern cars don’t allow you to replace the stereo. I’ve got a double-din, I could mount a tablet or raspberry pi, setup some sort of a system to automatically turn on hotspot on bluetooth connect, sync my podcasts between phone and car, and I’d have something about 80% of the way there and about 90% more janky.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Marketshare since 2010⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Apple always refers to iPad’s OS as “iPad OS”, not iOS. I wonder if the browsers make the same differentiation in their user agent strings.