SparroHawc
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- Comment on Every single time I think of restructuring my homelab storage. What do you use for storage engines and how does it benefit you? 6 days ago:
You’re absolutely right on all counts.
That said, my RAID setup is on a Synology, so it’s brain-dead simple and not especially prone to falling over.
- Comment on Every single time I think of restructuring my homelab storage. What do you use for storage engines and how does it benefit you? 1 week ago:
That’s true until it isn’t.
Unrecoverable hard drive failures definitely occur, and it can be catastrophic when it does if you don’t have any backups. One of my backups just happens to be the two other hard drives in the RAID-5 array.
- Comment on Microsoft Pushes Xbox Division to Hit Higher Profit Margins 1 week ago:
It’s also going to result in the destruction of the Xbox brand though. Whatever they release, no one’s going to buy it. Anyone who’s smart already releases on multiple platforms if they release for Xbox, and this will only exacerbate the issue.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 1 week ago:
Ah, good on you! How long ago did you buy the place?
- Comment on Ok, boomer 2 weeks ago:
Now good luck finding a home for only $240K in an area that actually has decent-paying jobs…
- Comment on Ok, boomer 2 weeks ago:
The housing market is in a bubble right now. Buying a house and gaining equity is no guarantee of retirement money.
- Comment on Relatable. 2 weeks ago:
Chainsaw Man is simple. All the characters are awful and I hate watching them.
- Comment on Microsoft Pushes Xbox Division to Hit Higher Profit Margins 2 weeks ago:
Soooooo they’ve crippled their game making divisions with layoffs that obliterated employee morale so that they had more money to throw at AI, and now they’re demanding that this same section of the company offset even more of their AI costs because it’s one of the few parts of the company that actually makes money?
Reminds me of how Hasbro is milking WotC for all they’re worth while destroying faith in the brand.
- Comment on Another WSJ banger about why the poors aren't doing more 2 weeks ago:
Except that it doesn’t consider the divide between haves and have-nots in those averages. The have-nots used to be able to afford a house; despite the average wealth increasing, it’s not really been reflected in the living conditions of the lower class workers.
- Comment on How gamers were nickel and dimed in 80s and 90s (besides arcades) 2 weeks ago:
The Nintendo Hotline was fantastic for me, because I lived close enough to Nintendo’s US offices that the number wasn’t long distance… and it wasn’t a 900 number, so it never cost more than a regular phone call. I got all the hints I needed for free.
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 2 weeks ago:
Car rentals aren’t as much of an issue, because of how much less expensive it is to own a second-hand car. If you’re homeless and you need access to a car, you don’t go to a rental place, you get a beater from Craigslist for about the same price it would cost to rent a car for a month (if not less).
- Comment on Is Tailscale ok? (Spoiler: no) 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s … that’s a problem. In that situation though, without IPv6 there really isn’t a good solution.
- Comment on Is Tailscale ok? (Spoiler: no) 3 weeks ago:
As long as your IP address hasn’t changed any time recently, it will likely have propagated to other DNS providers and you still ought to be able to reach home with the domain name.
- Comment on Is Tailscale ok? (Spoiler: no) 3 weeks ago:
It’s almost certainly related to AWS.
Get a dynamic DNS from afraid.org, they’re great. That’ll make it so you can always find your home network without needing to write down your IP address (especially frustrating if it changes).
Then run a VPN server and redirect the VPN port from your router to the VPN server.
It’s not easy, but it’s way, WAY more robust than depending on a 3rd party to keep your info (except for afraid.org and they practically NEVER go down).
- Comment on Built to last 3 weeks ago:
Look up a cleaning solution called ‘RetroBright’. It’s designed to remove the yellowing from the ABS housings of old electronics. I’m pretty sure the recipe for it is available free online, or you can order pre-mixed bottles of it. You have to be a little careful with it because it’s mostly hydrogen peroxide, but I hear it works great.
- Comment on Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World 4 weeks ago:
They utilize these tools because they have no morals. They are willing to lie and cheat their way into whatever they want.
The left does not have that advantage. We don’t want to lie, we don’t want to cheat, we want the liars and cheaters to be removed from power. Lying harder isn’t going to work for us because unlike the right, we will call out our own for it.
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 5 weeks ago:
I’m a big fan of the R-Type series, and R-Type Final plays very well on the Deck.
Also: Katamari Damacy - Really weird concept for a surprisingly fun game. Roll up the world! Devil May Cry - The high-speed brawler that launched a genre. Tales of the Abyss - A good RPG with likeable characters and some great twists.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 5 weeks ago:
Except LLMs are absolutely terrible at working with a new, poorly documented library. Commonly-used, well-defined libraries? Sure! Working in an obscure language or an obscure framework? Good luck.
LLMs can surface information. It’s perhaps the one place they’re actually useful. They cannot reason in the same way a human programmer can, and all the big tech companies are trying to sell them on that basis.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 5 weeks ago:
It’s not interpretation, it’s extrapolation.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 5 weeks ago:
I mean, originally they thought they had come upon a magic bullet. Turns out it wasn’t the case, and now they’re going to suffer for it.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 5 weeks ago:
At least in those situations, the person writing the tests knows they’re not testing anything…
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 5 weeks ago:
If not to editorialize, what else is the text box for? :)
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 5 weeks ago:
From what I’ve seen and heard, there are a few factors to this.
One is that the tech industry right now is built on venture capital. In order to survive, they need to act like they’re at the forefront of the Next Big Thing in order to keep bringing investment money in.
Another is that LLMs are uniquely suited to extending the honeymoon period.
The initial impression you get from an LLM chatbot is significant. This is a chatbot that actually talks like a person. A VC mogul sitting down to have a conversation with ChatGPT, when it was new, was a mind-blowing experience. This is a computer program that, at first blush, appears to be able to do most things humans can do, as long as those things primarily consist of reading things and typing things out - which a VC, and mid/upper management, does a lot of. This gives the impression that AI is capable of automating a lot of things that previously needed a live, thinking person - which means a lot of savings for companies who can shed expensive knowledge workers.
The problem is that the limits of LLMs are STILL poorly understood by most people. Despite constructing huge data centers and gobbling up vast amounts of electricity, LLMs still are bad at actually being reliable. This makes LLMs worse at practically any knowledge work than the lowest, greenest intern - because at least the intern can be taught to say they don’t know something instead of feeding you BS.
It was also assumed that bigger, hungrier LLMs would provide better results. Although they do, the gains are getting harder and harder to reach. There needs to be an efficiency breakthrough (and a training breakthrough) before the wonderful world of AI can actually come to pass because as it stands, prompts are still getting more expensive to run for higher-quality results. It took a while to make that discovery, so the hype train was able to continue to build steam for the last couple years.
Now, tech companies are doing their level best to hide these shortcomings from their customers (and possibly even themselves). The longer they keep the wool over everyone’s eyes, the more money continues to roll in. So, the bubble keeps building.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 237 comments
- Comment on Explain that 1 month ago:
You’re not wrong, but that’s the rationale I’ve seen from others.
- Comment on Explain that 1 month ago:
My guess is attempting to poison LLM training.
- Comment on Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site” 1 month ago:
I jumped ship to Lemmy once they instituted the ‘upvotes can get you banned’ policy.
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 2 months ago:
Although you are correct, you still don’t have to be a developer to find use in ADB. I’ve used it and I’ve never been interested enough to developing for Android to do more than install the SDK for it once.
- Comment on What would have to happen to make everybody realize we weren't exaggerating when we said Trump would be like Hitler? 2 months ago:
an era of unprecedented surplus and prosperity
The problem is that the wealth is consolidating in the hands of a few, with the plebs seeing none of it. A lot of us might as well be living through a depression, despite the economy.
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 2 months ago:
Or anyone with a computer who installs ADB. You don’t have to be a developer.