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- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 1 day ago:
Ive worked with a fractional CISO. He was scattered, but was insanly useful about setting roadmaps, writting procedure/docs, working audits and correcting us moving in bad directions.
Fractional is way better than none.
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 1 day ago:
You can vibe write and vibe edit a movie now too. They also turn out shit.
The issue is that llm isnt a person with skills and knowledge. Its a complex guessing box that gets thing kinda right, but not actually right, and it absolutely cant tell whats right or not. It has no actual skills or experience or humainty that a director can expect a writer or editor to have.
- Comment on Dude's rock 1 day ago:
Its a big list, but most have at least severe, untreated PTSD.
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 1 day ago:
Cause hulk hogan was a trump boosting racist?
The fruit was rotting on the ground, mate.
- Comment on Once a Gamble in the Desert, Electric Grid Batteries Are Everywhere 2 days ago:
Im seeing a lot of research being done in the cattle/panels area, although most of it appears recently and is partially stymied by the rollback of solar funds. This seems like a solid place to start.
- Comment on Once a Gamble in the Desert, Electric Grid Batteries Are Everywhere 3 days ago:
Thats great to here. From what ive read sheep are easy to graze under most panels. For cattle, the panels will likely need to be 10+ feet up, as they are so large. This is more expensive, but is doable.
- Comment on Once a Gamble in the Desert, Electric Grid Batteries Are Everywhere 3 days ago:
Batteries are effectivly another “power plant” on the grid. They have different charectoristics than hydro/nat gas/coal/etc, but most of them are postive, like being able go kick on immedialty, versus some lag time with the others as power demand moves around.
They are a great natural compliment to solar/wind, as they collect excess power for use when these sources lag, smoothing the curve out for the two cheaoest sources of power. They thenselves are also cheap and getting cheaper.
If youre our in a rural area, you may be able to do a microgrid based on agrivoltaics, i.e farming/ranching in harmony with solar panels. Turns out lots of crops like the shade and increases moisture that solar panels provide, especially grasses/clover that sheep or cattle can graze while the farm makes passive income from the sun.
- Comment on Quitting Spotify for Navidrome 1 week ago:
Same dev makes a good kodi remote called Yatze too.
- Comment on Krueger, Gallagher Introduce SUNNY Act To Support Balcony Solar in New York 1 week ago:
Tons of panels are UL listed, including the ones on amazon. I assume the dame for temu, but have no inclination to check.
Generally these “solar balcony” kits are all in one setups with a power regulator and sometimes a battery built in. The power regulator makes sure no power flows back into the grid when the grid is down, for safety. You can check out the option in Utah to see whats availble.
- Comment on Paradox Takes the Blame for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Sales Flop, Announces $37 Million Write-Down 1 week ago:
- Comment on Immich Is Now Stable! 1 week ago:
Feel free to draw whatever line or excuse whatever behavior however you like.
At this point I would prefer to support the Immich devs directly without Futos involvement, but thats likely not possible.
- Comment on Immich Is Now Stable! 1 week ago:
It has links in it. I’d recommend starting with them.
- Comment on Immich Is Now Stable! 1 week ago:
Futo CEO being a giant piece of shit is a better reason, but yeah.
- Comment on Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2 - A USB adapter that plugs into your Home Assistant system and opens up a world of smart device options 2 weeks ago:
They are on it:
Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2 supports Zigbee 3.0 (and yes, we’re looking at Zigbee 4.0 support as well) and is keeping pace with Thread’s rapid development.
- Comment on Had to look this up 2 weeks ago:
That one was on purpose:
In the book, just like in the movie, Spearchucker reveals that the nickname “Spearchucker”, ordinarily a racial slur, referred in this case to his javelin-throwing prowess.
They use the racism behind his nickname to address racism in the show:
The film also depicts Spearchucker as a particularly skilled neurosurgeon and this, together with the experience of playing football together, helps Duke Forrest overcome his racial prejudices and the two become friends at the end, shaking hands when it is time for Duke to go back stateside.
- Comment on Risk of Rain 2: Alloyed Collective is Available Now! 2 weeks ago:
Worth waiting for reviews. The last DLC was a clown show for months.
- Comment on Big Tech Wants AI to Shop for You—Retailers Want Your Data. Guess Who’s Winning? 3 weeks ago:
That and brand loyalty. If shopping was just api based, you could have your ai agent just buy X product from wherever when the price was right and never care about the brand or marketing or anything.
It would be hugely empowering to be able to make a non website based shopping list and just have “something” sort out all the logistics, biased towaeds reducing your costs and inconvience, but that is never going to be what even the ai companies are selling. They will funnel you to their “prefered partners” and find every possible way to extract money in the process.
- Comment on Using Fail2ban to protect exposed services 3 weeks ago:
Crowdsec is absolutetly the way to go. Jhst be aware you need the engine and what the call a “bouncer” both running, but they have easy instructions about how to install both.
- Comment on Valves first title with a 3 in it 3 weeks ago:
I randomly kept my orange box case and found it recently. Lets find out if i can mod the machine to fit inside of it.
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 3 weeks ago:
Im guessing Vive prices. Id be suprised at less than 1k, but no word on it yet.
- Comment on Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller 3 weeks ago:
Its both, based on their article. Its an ARM chip they have a translation layer called FEX to handle, so it should be able to play most any steam game. Native vulkan games will apparently run even better.
In standalone mode, the intergrated chip will use about 20w, so you will get about 1 hour of playtime on it because of the 20wh battery. In streaming mode, the graphocs will be better, and the power use cuts to about 6w, so it can go 3-4 hours.
- Comment on Milk 3 weeks ago:
You can drink broth by itself, which makes it a beverage.
- Comment on Milk 3 weeks ago:
Need butter for a roux.
- Comment on Rush 3 weeks ago:
Pearty good.
- Comment on The Guy Claiming That You Have TDS 4 weeks ago:
The question is he going to do it again for the next charaltain that offers him mean, easy answers that just hurt everyone?
- Comment on One Piece anime TV series will release a maximum of 26 episodes per year 2026 onwards 5 weeks ago:
The whole arc was basically 6 minutes of intro/outro and 15 mintutes of zoomed in reaction shots with maybe 3 minutes of plot/action that mattered. It was pure pain.
- Comment on One Piece anime TV series will release a maximum of 26 episodes per year 2026 onwards 5 weeks ago:
As long as you include at least up to Zou the elephant, i agree here. That was the worst season in a show that has had many bad seasons. Just insanely tedious filler that served no purpose and had no actual stakss.
- Comment on Preserving Play: How Eden Grew Into the Switch Emulator Everyone’s Talking About (my interview with the devs) 1 month ago:
Can you highlight where you link this steam deck advice? There are no references to steam, steamdeck or linux in the article, and the only linls aee to the projects websites. Do they have a steamdeck guide?
- Comment on Preserving Play: How Eden Grew Into the Switch Emulator Everyone’s Talking About (my interview with the devs) 1 month ago:
Why? It sounds like an old link description that they didnt update. Webdev likely isnt their top priority being emulation devs, and frankly, they may not care.
Github/codeberg are both git, so its pretty irrevelant which one you link to. They just host the git repos, which give no shits about what web platform they live on.
- Comment on Restroom Location 1 month ago:
A lot of these stories are about, 2 or 3 streets, generally some dense blocks in the core of downtown that either have homeless services nearby or are tourist areas where you can panhandle succesfully.
No city has hundreds of streets and thousands of blocks just full of human shit. It happens in high traffic/high visibiilty areas due to poverty, the lack of accesable public bathrooms and drug use in the US, and even then, is minimal. Social media and right wing hysteria pump up minimal issues into quipy mania.