kayohtie

@kayohtie@pawb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Or maybe it was just their way of uninviting you⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Delighted that this is actually a painting and not some generated image.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chumbawhatthefuck⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I always heard “good-a times” and “bad-a times” oops.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's nothing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Had what felt like the worst gas pain of my life. Started as indigestion feeling but slowly “resolved” down. And then resolved to the right.

  Congratulations to me I had appendicitis and caught it before it burst whee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Will it make you even more frustrated to learn Steam has a Linux-native build of Substance Painter, but Adobe still won’t support it themselves?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bazzite is basically that, with a foundation of Fedora Atomic instead of Arch, but otherwise it’s extremely similar, designed to be super easy. Even as a Linux nerd it was a breath of fresh air compared even to the simplicity of some other distros.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avocado⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The ADHD response to stimulants the first time is cleaning your room finally.

  Not…whatever this is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Kind of a wide variety of things that varies from person to person in often absurd ways – broken in ways I’ve never seen Macs or Linux systems be, nor even Windows 10 and older.

  • Explorer taking ~20-30 seconds to open a new window (fine once it’s open, until you want another window) (I’ve only suffered this on my work laptop for some reason)
  • The “home” view being blank save for a weird expansion panel that’s empty – sometimes this can be solved by resetting ALL folder views in Explorer settings, other times it just stays broken after and randomly works later (I’ve repeatedly suffered this)
  • Start menu being empty or not showing new additions to it, and pinning anything to start that wasn’t from right-clicking anything found in it just not pinning for ??? amounts of time (both)
  • Randomly muting all audio input devices (home)

  And that’s just my personal experiences. The ones I’ve seen others deal with is much weirder.

  Honestly I’m buying more into the idea of how ostree distros work; Windows is like a very broken version of that anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The revolution is here.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Shit post != Shitpost

  Easy mistake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Government Urges Total Ban of Our Most Popular Wi-Fi Router⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’d have to literally be a full CPU that somehow has only read access to the RAM such that it’d be a genuine feat of engineering. Either that or the whole thing is just a virtualized device, but the cooling demands for either method would exceed the threshold for passive cooling in those enclosures and require fans at that point.

  Bloomberg wrote an article several years ago that was absolutely slaughtered for making up from bad sources such a chip concept except even more unbelievable because they claimed it was hidden inside the PCB itself and only like 6 or 8 pins? Absolutely absurd for anyone who understands electrical engineering or microcontrollers at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you even old enough to remember number 1?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  9, later 12 (didn’t get to keep 9)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨economic success⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I never got contacted about this but my old fursona’s name apparently overlapped with some French dental surgery study facility. I had no clue when I came up with the name. Derp. X3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fedora Will Allow AI-Assisted Contributions With Proper Disclosure & Transparency⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate that this is the most accurate answer almost certainly. Maybe it’ll shame people into not submitting more often than it would’ve for people sneaking it in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New single out⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I just noticed the 6 trying also only has 4 strings by the time it reaches the body and approaches the bridge

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some perspective when you think YOUR life is so horrible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not even sure this is a real photo. There’s multiple eras of clothing on display. A prompt for “old timey clothes” could potentially include the 60s on up in the mess.

  I hate that it’s so damn hard to tell sometimes what’s what. Is this real history? Is this staged for fun/selling? Or is it generated?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New single out⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t tell if good old fashioned potatochop or generative garbo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2025 USA⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait what is that photo even from?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨my smart hot air fryer, every single time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s kinda cool! Most don’t do that.

  As far as differences Alec at Technology Connections has a solid video pointing it out better. It’s more about the ratios involved between fan, element size, and volume of area to cook within. The result is basically the ratio skewed absurdly in the favor of air friers over ovens, plus putting out less total heat. So stronger fan is part of the equation at least!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨my smart hot air fryer, every single time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s an air fryer, it’s always on. Otherwise that’s just a toaster oven.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A nice tall glass of OJ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In the US it could be Tang instead, a powered drink mix stirred and in a pitcher, or reconstituted frozen orange juice which, like a lot of fruit in the US, is often fresher than stuff on our grocery shelves given when it’s frozen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it just me or does this look more appetizing than a watermelon?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it tasted like a kiwi I’d be all over it. Ripe kiwi are amazing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Not Being Anti-Abortion. It's Being Poor Choice⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “I’m pro-life”

  looks inside

  Dead

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flagged by the Algorithm: Klarna Thought I’m a Fraudster⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It may be a reality of the actions, but a lot of this sentiment is rooted in capitalism’s aims of “income = morality”. It ends up being classist often punching downwards to folks who utilize “buy now pay later” services. They operate on the idea of preying on people who aren’t paid their due for the work that they do, and are trying to be able to afford some nice things.

  Possible OP isn’t low income and just utilizing it anyway, but it’s a bad sentiment to lever at anyone. Blame the shitty practices and systems designed around fucking over people, not the people who get screwed by the systems designed to do so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hacked Microsoft Edge to make my ideal Chromium web browser⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How does that compare to WaterFox or similar? I’m guessing it’s not running a dated framework like PaleMoon?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s mostly that a feature on it went from “okayish” to “far more consumer-friendly”, which was incredibly unexpected of them to do. Everyone figured Steam library sharing would die but instead they roll out Family that has far looser restrictions than the system they’d had for over a decade.

  Can’t play the same game at the same time unless both own it, and DLC isn’t shared, but my partner being able to play anything I own that I’m not playing is pretty rad of a positive change.

  Meanwhile Nintendo’s system got worse instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chatbots can be manipulated through flattery and peer pressure⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Birds string together words they hear when they can repeat them, and end up with the short phrases they seem to make. It’s extremely rare for them to actually understand meaning, most often it’s simply association which is why you often get nonsensical responses that still sort of make sense, or sounds out of them that sound like words but just…aren’t. The simalcrum of language without containing any. Often words can be linked by that, and our own brain wants to find words and sometimes we decipher ones, similar to seeing shapes in noise – we just tend to realize that it’s actually just recognition, not real.

  What’s happening here is the equivalent of recording a bird and playing back it’s recording to itself to get a new response, as a chain. It’s predictive text feeding itself, in a simplistic but not inaccurate manner given how language models actually work at a technical level, tokenizing the input to train and create matrices of language vectors that contain word fragments, and often loop back on themselves or into yet more matrices of options. This is the “beam size” option some models have when run, selecting how many search routines should be created simultaneously for things that map to probability values that make sense.

  Our own reasoning is far more complicated. Sometimes we think it’s just words, but our brain will seamlessly weave inner monologue into concepts and imagery or ideas without text and back again, sometimes into sounds or other things. We stitch together everything so seamlessly because it all actually has meaning for us.

  LLMs having “reasoning” at all is operating by the Sapir-whorf hypothesis, which would imply there is no reasoning without language. And even animals can fucking reason without language. We absolutely did too. Sapir-whorf was an infantile thought experiment turned theory of language that’s been patently proven wrong even when it makes for great sci-fi (see Arrival).

  This isn’t the difference between hearing a song live and played aloud, or midi/samples vs instruments. This is that part of our consciousness operates in some absolute wild ways that we can still only classify at a high level because the complexities are so far beyond what we can describe with models that, by comparison, are simplistic as hell.

  Put another way, without transcriptions of “that’s right, the square hole”, if you showed two photos to a model and asked “where does this piece go” it’s just going to “see” the shape in both, recognize the image->word mapping and come up with a response fitting that, without ever being able to “realize” it can go into the square hole without being prompted, because it can’t invent.

  Only parrot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think “don’t chime in if you don’t actually know, or just ask instead of make a baseless assertion”, is “insulting”. If anything it’s just bluntly pushing for better nettiquette, and coming out swinging in the manner your post did does no favors.

  Just take time before posting to ask yourself “is this asking a question, or am I making an assertion I’ll excuse as being a question later instead of just asking?” Your post was very much the latter. I don’t think you intended it, but it’s a byproduct of conditioning short-length social media engagement has kind of created in many of us overtime. It’s healthy to undo that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t had disk issues, am running a 980 Pro SSD currently, but I’ve definitely noticed other weirdness that sure feels more like that? Half-Life crashing repeatedly in map loads sometimes succeeding fine and other times not. Firefox broke wholesale until I reinstalled it and even then had to do a refresh to fully solve it. I haven’t seen anything else weird thankfully but this definitely has me concerned and glad I’m backing up with a very long rolling period just in case. Gonna uninstall this update for sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My assumption was it had something to do with the drivers for the controller, and the update flooding it faster than it could take data and not caching everything it couldn’t cram into controller DRAM, causing parts to just get dropped wholesale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shit like this is why we need open source printers!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  TIL! Thank you for the added detail, I hadn’t read the full write up but had watched his presentation in English and it was wild to hear presented.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shit like this is why we need open source printers!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You left out what I feel is the best part: even in the “uncompressed” mode, even when that was disabled, it was still happening sometimes.