pycorax
@pycorax@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come 2 days ago:
How do you account for off site back ups though? I’m currently setting up my own set up but I’m not sure how I should perform off site back ups.
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 1 week ago:
I mean sure, but that’s not the case for the majority of the user base of these banking apps. Is it the most secure? No but it’s way better than it is right now.
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 1 week ago:
I’m not sure how it works the way where you live but where I live, the way the banking apps are implemented completely violate MFA. They rely on SMS verification which is absurd since if you’re phone is already compromised, no doubt your SMSes are too. There’s no true multi-device authentication in place and this has led to a huge number of victims being scammed after their devices get compromised by a phishing attack.
- Comment on Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme crushes Apple M4, Intel, and AMD in new benchmarks 1 week ago:
Shouldn’t they also be comparing it to Strix Halo instead?
- Comment on Asus ROG Xbox Ally Gaming Handhelds Cost Up to $999.99, Preorders Open Now 1 week ago:
I feel like I’m the only one who finds this pricing reasonable? I looked up similar devices from Ayaneo and GPD and they’re priced similarly. It’s a premium ultrabook shrunk to a handheld size with a built in controller built by a company that can’t offset costs from an online store like Steam can, what were people expecting?
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6 Japan setting confirmed 1 week ago:
Really, for most people, there’s not much reason to buy the new ones, except that they keep de-listing the old ones and making them impossible to buy.
Isn’t that because of music licenses or something? I wish they’d just patch those out for people who buy it after the licenses expire.
- Comment on Spotify is finally taking steps to address its AI slop and clone problem 1 week ago:
That’s an issue with how AI is defined though isn’t it? A decade ago, no one would have counted Miku as AI. It’s just that marketing teams and the media has abused the term that now almost any algorithm can be termed AI even if it never utilizes any mechanism that would be under the umbrella of the academics’ definition of AI.
- Comment on Apple iPhone 17 Devices Plagued by Wi-Fi Connectivity Issues 2 weeks ago:
When your whole shtick is that it just works, people are definitely gonna expect a lot more from you.
- Comment on Microsoft announces it will automatically install the Copilot AI app alongside desktop versions of 365 products like Word, Excel and PowerPoint this October 2 weeks ago:
Might I suggest Notepads (yea with an s) instead? It’s a 3rd party app that’s similar to how Notepad works. The dev actually started work on it back when Notepad was pretty basic and has pretty much all of the new Notepad improvements and no AI nonsense way before Microsoft started revamping Notepad.
- Comment on Intel says Arc GPUs will live on after Nvidia deal 2 weeks ago:
Considering their trend of cutting everything other than the bonuses for their executives, I find that hard to believe.
- Comment on Microsoft announces it will automatically install the Copilot AI app alongside desktop versions of 365 products like Word, Excel and PowerPoint this October 2 weeks ago:
Isn’t it already bundle with Windows 11? Article doesn’t say what’s the difference.
- Comment on Peter Thiel Antichrist lecture: We asked guests what the hell it is 2 weeks ago:
What the heck is an anti woke college?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Any idea how well this works for anime? The built in Jellyfin option absolutely shits the bed for anime and gives me subtitles from shows that aren’t remotely the same.
- Comment on Someone finally made a "Sonarr for YouTube" 3 weeks ago:
I mean it is clear that it’s an aggregator (? Not sure what the right term is for this) but I can’t even begin to count the number of times I access Radarr instead of Sonarr because I forgot which one is for shows or movies.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 3 weeks ago:
A tale as old as time…
- Comment on Subscription models like Xbox Game Pass are "not properly valuing" developers, says former Bethesda exec 3 weeks ago:
Its why there is no real point in deciding whether something should be a film or a tv series because you can just release it as a four part miniseries or stretch things out for a full eight and so forth.
There absolutely is. A movie is still expected to be watched in one go in its entirety and so is an episode of a mini series. It has a huge effects on the pacing of the media and how you segment episodes of one.
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 4 weeks ago:
What region are you in if you don’t mind me asking? It works perfectly fine in Singapore.
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 4 weeks ago:
If it’s anything like how Windows does it, you would still be able to override it. It just gives you a scary warning and hides the option unless you click “more info” or something.
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 4 weeks ago:
What kind of apps are you installing? I’ve never ever had any issue with installing APKs on Samsung, you just have to allow the app that triggered it to install APKs one time and every subsequent time, it just works.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 4 weeks ago:
The clickbait titles and thumbnails destroyed most of the interest I had in their videos but at that time, it was clear that they were pivoting to a more typical less enthusiast-level audience. I still found some of their occasional videos somewhat interesting but the increasing hypocrisy and shit they’ve pulled made me stop watching all together.
- Comment on New Valve trademark for 'Steam Frame', looks like we're getting new hardware 4 weeks ago:
This sounds like the latency would be insane though.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Honestly that’s just how Civ has been for the past few releases, most people don’t get it until the typical set of 2 major expansion packs come out and eventually go on sale. The base price of the full package has always been crazy high.
- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 4 weeks ago:
Well that’s why u was asking for an example of sorts. The problem is that if you’re just starting out, you don’t know what you don’t know and more importantly, you won’t be able to tell if something is wrong. It doesn’t help that LLMs are notoriously good at being confidently incorrect and prone to hallucinations.
When I tried it for programming, more often than not, it has hallucinated functions and APIs that did not exist. And I know that they don’t because I’ve been working at this for more than half of my life so I have the intuition to detect bullshit when it appears. However, for learners they are unlikely to be able to differentiate that.
- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 4 weeks ago:
Could you expand with an example because what you said is too vague to really extract any point from. I’d argue that if it gives you wrong information, doing something wrong is worse than doing nothing.
- Comment on No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships" 5 weeks ago:
Cool, maybe I’ll give it a shot again sometime
- Comment on No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships" 5 weeks ago:
When I tried it a few years back there was this really strange field of view and input lag that felt really clunky when moving around the world. Anyone knows if that’s been fixed?
- Comment on Intel details everything that could go wrong with US taking a 10% stake 5 weeks ago:
Apple doesn’t really exist as a competitor for a number of industries and use cases due to not officially supporting anything other than OSX so I’m not sure if they’re a fair comparison here.
- Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 1 month ago:
I sure hope not, it’d mess up corporate deployments and all too.
- Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 1 month ago:
Another article did mention that it’s only for devices with Play Protect enabled so if they keep that as easy as it is to disable right now, it’ll be a non issue actually.
- Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 1 month ago:
Another article did mention that it’s only for devices with Play Protect enabled so if they keep that as easy as it is to disable right now, it’ll be a non issue actually.