SparroHawc

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Tailscale ok? (Spoiler: no)⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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)⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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)⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not interpretation, it’s extrapolation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If not to editorialize, what else is the text box for? :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Explain that⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re not wrong, but that’s the rationale I’ve seen from others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Explain that⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Or anyone with a computer who installs ADB. You don’t have to be a developer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨18% of people running Nextcloud don't know what database they are using⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly. It’s not important … until it is. :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨18% of people running Nextcloud don't know what database they are using⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re running it in a prebuilt container, as long as it works it shouldn’t matter.

  Of course, when your database gets corrupted after Nextcloud updates because you had an app running that isn’t supported in the new version, it will suddenly matter a lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The primary difference there will be in camera quality then, not monitor resolution - and if the doctor needs to see something in higher detail, they move the camera closer. Cameras that small aren’t going to be 4K anyways, the sensor density doesn’t get that high.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that hand sewing is a stupid cheap hobby to get into and reduces your impact on the environment⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what thimbles are for, my dude.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think he'll respond?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just here to roast OP for their incredible job at censoring names.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2hot2handle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, actually. The autoignition point is the temperature at which a given material will spontaneously (as in, without a spark or the like) catch fire, given a source of oxygen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Part of the actual answer to that question is that, while violence is often loud and public (and sometimes government sanctioned on massive scales), sex is something that is usually done in private, intimate settings without observers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everything is a problem⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s because the TVs are subsidized by selling your stolen info.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  EA and Ubisoft are really duking it out for the first prize in the worst game company competition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He's camera shy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  …Italians?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's rude to show AI output to people⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  with no ads

  For now.

  Eventually it becomes a search engine that replaces the ads on the source material with its own ads, thus choking out the source’s funding and taking it for itself.