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- Comment on Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions 2 days ago:
If we go by personal experience, we recently had the time of several people wasted troubleshooting an issue for a very well known commercial Java app server. The AI overview hallucinated a fake system property for addressing an issue we had.
The person that proposed the change neglected to mention they got it from AI until someone noticed the setting did not appear anywhere in the official system properties documented by the vendor. Now their personal reputation is that they should not be trusted and they seem lazy on top of it because they could not use their eyes to read a one page document.
- Comment on Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions 3 days ago:
Technical specs don’t capture the bugs, edge cases and workarounds needed for technical subjects like software.
- Comment on The proliferation of 3D printers probably had a negative impact on the sales of Altoids 1 week ago:
I had a little self made amp as well. That thing could go loud, you had to be careful (I messed up the resistor or knob that controlled the volume and instead used the computer settings because $ to order another part). 30% was very loud 😀
- Comment on Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents 2 weeks ago:
They more often than torrents do have the wrong tags when its not English music. Took me way too many emails to google music and Spotify before they stopped screaming at me with ALL CAPS on one album and before removing the dots after album track names (1. Track Name), not to mention the ones named TRACK 1, etc.
- Comment on Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. 404 Media Tracked Themselves. 2 weeks ago:
Or insider trading.
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 2 weeks ago:
People seriously over estimate the effort required to install an android auto/car play stereo and backup camera. One adapter later and green wire connects to green, red to red, etc. most of the work goes to watching videos on how to do it to get a clearer picture. Not to mention that even for something on the fancier side you pay perhaps one car payment and you are done vs signing up for another 5 years of monthly misery.
- Comment on Apple, Google tell workers on visas to avoid leaving the U.S. amid Trump immigration crackdown 3 weeks ago:
E.g. see people from Venezuela here legally who got put into illegal status anyway due to orange man policies.
- Comment on iPhone Autocorrect is seriously broken and it's pissing me off. 3 weeks ago:
Not sure if you’ve seen this video: youtu.be/hksVvXONrIo
But it explains what I saw when typing on the later updates for my old phone.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
From the Latin roots medi: middle terra: earth ain’t: nah bruh
Its in the middle of that earth thingy, and ain’t, clear as night.
- Comment on Data centers need electricity, utilities need years to build – who should pay? 3 weeks ago:
If you leave it up to them, they’ll start burning that toxic cheap marine diesel to power the generators. Its not like its hard to get some states to give you exceptions for pollution with some key donations.
Noise pollution around data centers is very bad already based on some news reports, they’ll push the limits to save a dollar.
- Comment on Refried beans is just Latino hummus 4 weeks ago:
I grew up eating them and cook them often to this day. I just would not personally call that frying in the same way I would not call vegetables, meat, etc. cooked with a similar ratio of oil to veggie fried. Or at least where I’m from frying implies submerging in hot oil, but it could be a regional thing. And true, we still call them fried or refried beans.
Interestingly some variations of the recipe with higher oil ratios for special occasions like birthdays we call “frijoles chinitos” which kind of translates to “shivering/goosebumps beans” since their texture changes to mimic skin when shivering with little dots after cooking. Not sure how the chino (curly when referring to hair) part comes in since hair is more straight than curly on those conditions…)
- Comment on Refried beans is just Latino hummus 4 weeks ago:
Neither are refried beans, but I see your point.
- Comment on Good NAS solution for dummies / apple users? 4 weeks ago:
I only had an older iPhone (which I liked for the most part), but it was announced to not be getting security and related updates soon (what apple calls vintage at this point) so there wasn’t much of an ecosystem once I got a different phone and exporting my pictures to my NAS, new phone, desktop and laptop made more sense.
I supposed I could lose everything if all of those burn in a house fire, but since I always have my phone on me, I’d imagine there would be more pressing matters like not burning to death myself.
- Comment on Good NAS solution for dummies / apple users? 4 weeks ago:
Forgot about that yes, heard of horror stories of people being locked out of gmail and losing so much time and money migrating accounts manually by having to visit banks and the like.
- Comment on The ability to be massively efficient with todays computers would have probably made you $250k/yr 25-30 years ago. 4 weeks ago:
Yes, I was thinking how finicky and slow computers were back then (when compared to your now average PC) requiring restarts and the occasional BSoD showing up.
My guess is that with my current knowledge of computers now, I could have been more effective, but would be limited by the hardware more than anything.
Nowadays I freak out if my personal computer even gets a hint of slowness on day to day tasks (as i recently found out using unrar on Linux…)
- Comment on Good NAS solution for dummies / apple users? 4 weeks ago:
Whichever one you go with, don’t expose it to the internet directly.
- Comment on Good NAS solution for dummies / apple users? 4 weeks ago:
One reason I would give is that apple and google makes it incredibly hard to leave. I had to use some third party script (and give it my credentials or token…) Just to export pictures with the exif metadata from iOS. Even Google’s obnoxious “select a few thousand pics at a time” was easier (Google takeout puts the metadata separately, so it was also not an option).
Another reason is that big tech companies are complacent with kidnappings and oppressors and don’t want to give them money.
I could see apple breaking the tool or throwing their legal team around in the future if it keeps some people on their platform, why not leave while you can more easily.
- Comment on Fun/interesting things to self host? 4 weeks ago:
I used them for Christmas lights with that sundown condition (+just a time trigger for off at night).
Also came in handy for a light switch that was unfortunately on the wrong side from a table, now its just uses a motion sensor when someone walks to the kitchen and tells a third reality smart switch (screws on top of regular switch, so it works with any light type (e.g. fluorescent)) and is renter friendly.
Bonus points for no lag at all compared to crappy cloud dependent garbage and no need for apps for each device manufacturer. Just look if it is home assistant compatible and no cloud before buying devices since it us a lot harder or impossible in some cases to de-cloud them later.
- Comment on Relevant username 4 weeks ago:
Instructions unclear HOUSE ON FIRE! HALP!
- Comment on Relevant username 4 weeks ago:
Fake, 3:37 should still have some un-popped kernels.
- Comment on Solutions for remote access? 4 weeks ago:
For new people, for ongoing domain registrations people should also consider the renewal costs. There are some registrars with somewhat predatory pricing schemes that end up being very expensive long term (e.g. the trendy .io TLD).
Dot com and dot net are some of the most stable ones, even though they might not appear as such at first glance. Almost anything less costly on initial costs will cost you in some other way (might not offer whois privacy (.us iirc) or be limited to residents or people with legit business on that country (.can) or have a mixed reputation with being labeled spam (.xyz - although I believe this last one was kind of proactive in clearing that up).
Sorry to highjack the comment, but I wish someone had warned me to look, not all TLDs are administered the same.
- Comment on Solutions for remote access? 4 weeks ago:
There’s something called NAT reflection that does a local lookup if the request originated in the internal network and avoids going via the external route. Some software for routers like ONPSense and/or PFSense support it (but I wouldn’t be surprised if DD-WRT, Tomato, etc supported it as well (its been a while since I used them).
It might work better of your DNS provider supports API based challenges vs traditional ACME challenges that might require you to still expose your IP/port on public DNS to get your certificates.
All my internal DNS has the option of SSL certs while my IP is not on any public DNS and it routes to the internal IPs with the above. Not sure how that would work with wireguard or tailacale/headscale, but I’m assuming they probably could complement nicely.
- Comment on Why Are New Appliances So Bad? [41:02] 5 weeks ago:
He has other videos where he has explained that you can’t trust any brand any longer and you should not buy based on previous brand experiences alone but investigate individual models (and even revisions to them since it was a known trick to change them after the initial release to make them cheaper). Not sure if he mentioned it on this video since at the moment I’m not in the market for an appliance, but his takes seemed reasonable.
- Comment on Why Are New Appliances So Bad? [41:02] 5 weeks ago:
That was also the conclusion of this video on the Speed channel for older version of things vs new one (included tools, shoes/undershirts, etc - I would ignore consumables that expire but they were there for s&g it seems):
- Comment on Porsche Cars in Russia Shut Down After Satellite System Failure 5 weeks ago:
Not as much of a stop as you would think. Historically speaking Ford motor company already tried basically enslaving indigenous people on the Amazon for rubber production. Most of the cotton in the US (and many other industries) was done by black slaves. Current fishing in south east Asia (and other places I’m sure) can have slaving with extra steps on a boat. Apple/Nike and other big brand factories in chine have had nets installed to prevent suicides, etc. There is no stopping the horrible disease that is wealth hoarding and human exploration it seems.
- Comment on Linux usage hits an all-time high in Steam Hardware Survey—and AMD processors continue their march against Intel 5 weeks ago:
NVIDIA: “Our partners will fry the planet for all!”
- Comment on [PDF] HP to lay off up to 6,000 workers as it goes all-in on AI and automation 1 month ago:
“Whoops we meant dissatisfaction, small typo…” - HP (Horrible Printers)
- Comment on LumenTale: Memories of Trey | Explore the region of Talea 1 month ago:
Graphics look top notch. World looks very fleshed out too.
- Comment on HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs 1 month ago:
NVIDIA said line must go circle, which their CEO says means up.
- Comment on In 1982, a physics joke gone wrong sparked the invention of the emoticon - Ars Technica 1 month ago:
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