kayohtie

@kayohtie@pawb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flagged by the Algorithm: Klarna Thought I’m a Fraudster⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We hate AI because it's everything we hate⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the problem is that you think you’re talking like a time traveler heralding us about the wonders of sliced bread, when really it’s more like telling a small Victorian child about the wonders of Applebee’s and in the impossible chance they survive to it then finding everything is a lukewarm microwaved pale imitation of just buying the real thing at Aldi and cooking it in less time for far tastier and a fraction of the cost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We hate AI because it's everything we hate⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you want to argue in favor of your slop machine, you’re going to have to stop making false equivalences, or at least understand how its false. You can’t make ground on things that are just tangential.

  A computer in 1980 was still a computer, not a chess machine. It did general purpose processing where it followed whatever you guided it to. Neural models don’t do that though; they’re each highly specialized and take a long time to train. And the issue isn’t with neural models in general.

  The issue is neural models that are being purported to do things they functionally cannot, because it’s not how models work. Computing is complex, code is complex, adding new functionality that operates off of fixed inputs alone is hard. And now we’re supposed to buy that something that creates word relationship vector maps is supposed to create new?

  For code generation, it’s the equivalent of copying and pasting from Stack Overflow with a find/replace, or just copying multiple projects together. It isn’t something new, it’s kitbashing at best, and that’s assuming it all works flawlessly.

  With art, it’s taking away creation from people and jobs. I like that you ignored literally every point raised except for the one you could dance around with a tangent. But all these CEOs are like “no one likes creating art or music”. And no, THEY just don’t want to spend time creating themselves nor pay someone who does enjoy it. I love playing with 3D modeling and learning how to make the changes I want consistently, I like learning more about painting when texturing models and taking time to create intentional masks. I like taking time when I’m baking things to learn and create, otherwise I could just go buy a box mix of Duncan Hines and go for something that’s fine but not where I can make things when I take time to learn.

  And I love learning guitar. I love feeling that slow growth of skill as I find I can play cleaner the more I do. And when I can close my eyes and strum a song, there’s a tremendous feeling from making this beautiful instrument sing like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Florida ounces⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ain’t called the “imperial” system for nothing.

  Brits gave it to us and then we changed the spellings and decided it made us special I guess.

  So, partial credit where partial credit is due. It’s just way the fuck older.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up, selfhosters? It's self hosting Sunday!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. I’d rather be alerted because something expected didn’t happen, not silence because something failed so hard it didn’t even send an alert.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A 2003 complaint about Half Life 2⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk about the others but in VRChat it’s animes and furries who don’t compress/resize textures and same with worlds.

  At least VRC lets you define max cache size and it generally respects it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A 2003 complaint about Half Life 2⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the first time I saw this meme was an edit posted on Chubbyemu’s channel where she says “I don’t know what -emia means”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen multiple emulator devs frustrated with how demanding the project itself is, but moreso toxic behavior from the lead developer towards emulator devs and users alike. Can’t handle any kind of even constructive criticism worth a damn and when people understandably are frustrated by him lashing out he then turns it back around to say they’re out to get him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed really, but less about the RetroArch part and more just in general with the way this person in particular is. In my mind, if you’re not ready to be able to turn the project over to the community to maintain instead of yourself because you’re as much of a controlling prick as this guy, then you should never make it even source-available and should just keep it private source.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After laying off 9,000 employees , Microsoft records $27.2 billion profit in latest quarter⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m getting the same vibes as when I spike taxes in Sim City for Palm OS just before the year rolls over and then drop it back after.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In his defense, a LOT of emulator maintainers have this sentiment about RetroArch, so I can’t fault him too much for that one in particular.

  I do get the sense this is more common with emulators in general.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It does! I have my bedroom one controlled through it and even showing up as a play target for Spotify Connect. I’ve got my speakers I was plugging into my phone to play music before, or into a Raspi briefly, plugged into the 3.5mm jack on that one.

  My kitchen one I just leave as-is. I DID modify the ESPHome firmware on each, extending to add an OLED (I think) clock display that also shows remaining time for timers in numbers. I do really like the LED ring animation for timers built-in though, it’s pretty slick!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I ended up picking up two of the Home Assistant Voice PE devices and I’ve been fairly happy with them. I even extended their firmware so I have a clock display on each with one being my bedroom alarm clock even. But even out of the box functionality, as long as you can either run faster-whisper on Home Assistant (or another box), or don’t mind their lighter device-control-only route, is totally solid.

  Plus music streaming to them (with an external speaker attached via the 3.5mm jack) is pretty good!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I imagine more as in using them for local voice. Without that, it’s still dependent on connecting HA to Google Home. And outside of a fairly expensive hardware replacement module it ends up being cheaper to go other routes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a mode for voice control that is even friendly to a Raspi 4 or 5, but it’s very simplistic in control, basically a super lightweight speech to text trained only on device names and aliases. Think the speech to text in late 2000s through early 2010s non-smart phones.

  Small models for faster-whisper will run on even my little Dell Micro i5-6500T that I have Home Assistant running on, it’s just a little bit slow, but it absolutely works and is usable speed! I run a larger model currently offloaded to my server, which has an RTX 2070 Super in it, but that’s to make it perform more like how Google used to a long time ago, and it’s unused power most of the time.

  They’re trying to make it as accessible as possible for sure. There’s even options to use cloud STT and TTS (they even include it in the Home Assistant Cloud optional feature), but it’s definitely cool as hell to be able to talk to an open-source-design speaker and get a reply and control any switches or lights or even my thermostat and robo vacuum without needing the Internet to work. As long as my Wi-Fi and HA box are up, I’ve got options!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨introducing copyparty, the FOSS file server⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Great job on something like this! I’ll probably give it a whirl soon, I like Nextcloud but find it clunky sometimes because it’s often a bit more than I need. Maybe breaking it up into Immich + this would help! Thank you for sharing your project!

  One thing to note, your comparison against Nextcloud has a partially-incorrect point regarding file upload max size. The client does upload chunking, so is unaffected by the Cloudflare issue as well, but I believe the web client is still affected, just not the apps. docs.nextcloud.com/…/big_file_upload_configuratio…

  I suspect a few others may be as well, but I’m only familiar with the Nextcloud one because that’s what I’ve been running, and discovered in making sure I could still upload video files recorded while out and about.

  Also love that it looks like a simpler install!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where are all the successful "red cities"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone living in a red state, every city here is referred to as a “blue city”, whether people are moving to it or not. State color has shit all to do with it and tends to be how much did we make the assumption land votes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eksbawks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I could just remap in the emulator too, just hadn’t felt up to such.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real milk proteins, no cows: Engineered bacteria pave the way for vegan cheese and yogurt⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A local friend has the casein allergy. It sucks, cause there’s a lot of baked goods and food in general she can’t have. I struggle sometimes in baking becaus even butter contains it, and plant butters never quite perfectly match with real butter.

  At least plant-based heavy cream works well enough. Lacks the dairy taste but it still works and whips nicely even in a cream whipper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eksbawks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I find myself having to use my Switch pro controller when playing Wii U games on PC, because if I use my Xbox controller I get fucked up on button locations. But somehow holding the slightly different controller shape and button size makes my muscle memory switch for it cleanly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Without user consent” is a load of crap.

  Honestly the scale makes me wonder how much is because it’s fucking AI bots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Open-source training texts intended for pairing with your intended style of output have been around for far longer than OpenAI has been grifting data from the entire Internet and collected book works. It came across like that’s what they’re using, not some shit off HuffingFarce that was built off of AO3 and Harry Potter.