Overspark
@Overspark@piefed.social
- Comment on Alternative to Gmail? I currently use my own domain for email, but i miss the priority inbox 1 day ago:
Yes, those go to the “unsubscribe” folder, so I read them less often than my normal mail.
- Comment on Hooded Horse ban AI-generated art in their games: "all this thing has done is made our lives more difficult" 2 days ago:
In order to generate that texture, AI bots have already been attacking every website hosting content on the internet for the past year, to the point that they were basically DDoSed and forced to take extreme measures to stay online. Plenty of copyrighted works have been slurped up without consent from their authors, a massive amount of energy has been used to inference the models and even more energy (far more than all cryptocurrencies combined for example) is used generating things from those models. So yes, a lot of damage has already been done. Far more than killing a couple of cows.
- Comment on Hooded Horse ban AI-generated art in their games: "all this thing has done is made our lives more difficult" 2 days ago:
One way of looking at it is serving a vegan a vegan meal, after you slaughtered a cow for the first couple of tries. Some of the damage has already been done. Also, we’ve had several kerfuffles already where GenAI “placeholders” were present in a released game, and caused plenty of outrage. It’s far safer to never have those placeholders to begin with. Just draw up something ugly in Paint, at least it’ll be plenty obvious you need to fix it before launching the game.
- Comment on Alternative to Gmail? I currently use my own domain for email, but i miss the priority inbox 2 days ago:
Regardless of which e-mail service you end up using, I find that an incredible simple rule to filter all e-mail with the word “unsubscribe” in it’s body to another folder saves your sanity. It’s still a folder you should go through a few times a week to read all the newsletters and shit you’re subscribed to, and sometimes the occasional false positive, but your inbox will mostly contain e-mail you actually want to read. I have another rule that filters mail from specific senders that I want to read immediately to my Inbox before it hits the unsubscribe rule, but those exceptions are uncommon enough (I only have 7 after years of doing this) to not take much work.
- Comment on How VPNs really work: Protocols, safety and myth - Sentient Rant 2 weeks ago:
Agreed, hence the “very often” and not “always”. You are always trusting the VPN provider to not fuck you over, and there probably are a few who don’t.
- Comment on How VPNs really work: Protocols, safety and myth - Sentient Rant 2 weeks ago:
5) It means you’re letting a different company (VPN provider instead of ISP) see everything you do. In countries with sane privacy laws (i.e. not the US) this is very often a net negative for your privacy, as your ISP will be bound by your country’s privacy laws and most VPN providers are foreign (and often based in the US).
Good blog. You touch on this point in the blog but IMHO it should be one of your main talking points.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 weeks ago:
Guild Wars 2! It’s been improved quite a bit since I last played it over 12 years ago.
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 4 weeks ago:
That’s because this isn’t managing people, it’s bullying people, and proper spelling isn’t really required for bullying.
- Comment on Docker security 4 weeks ago:
Podman explicitly supports firewalls and does not bypass them like docker does, no matter whether you’re using root mode or not. So IMHO that is the more professional solution.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
It’s hilarious how different people respond to playing it solo. Some people say it’s the tensest thing ever but I’ve also seen a video from an elderly cozy gamer who thought it was the most relaxing thing she’d seen in a while. I’m more in the latter camp, been playing solo since launch and it’s been pretty chill.
- Comment on The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started 2 months ago:
Replacing the batteries with new ones on my $50k when it was new car (BMW i3) would cost me about $10k. Which is roughly what the car is worth on the second-hand market right now. The chances of me ever having to replace said batteries are basically zero. The chance of an ICE car spontaneously setting itself on fire are actually much higher, so this is a massive nothing-burger. When owning a car you should ALWAYS think about what happens if said car is suddenly total-loss the next day. Usually the answer is to replace it with another second-hand, not buy a new (!) battery from the dealer. Hell, second-hand battery packs are a thing too now, and much cheaper. On most EV’s you just drop them from the bottom and pop in the replacement, much less work than replacing an ICE engine.
- Comment on The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started 2 months ago:
Which is stupid, because current batteries already last way longer than most ICE cars. IMHO the depreciation is mostly because newer EV’s are still getting better at such a rapid pace, not because second-hand EV’s aren’t great cars (with a few notable exceptions, such as 1st gen Nissan Leafs, which didn’t have active battery cooling). I drive a 2016 EV and it’s still pretty much as it was when new, battery included.
- Comment on The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started 2 months ago:
In China NMC isn’t really used any more as a battery chemistry, almost all cars have LFP batteries. Sodium-ion has a slightly higher energy density than LFP. So basically almost all cars except the really expensive ones with a ridiculous range should switch over to sodium-ion pretty soon.
- Comment on The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started 2 months ago:
This also means that, when you buy a car with say a 500 km range, that the battery will last for 10,000 x 500 = 5 million kms. That is an absolutely insane number compared to cars that are on the road right now. And one you will obviously only reach if the rest of the car can keep up. EVs are already doing well compared to ICE cars in this regard, but this is almost an order of magnitude larger than the current status quo.
- Comment on PSA: Stop using Imgur for now 2 months ago:
What do you think you’re paying with when you’re using a “free” VPN?
- Comment on New home server, NixOS vs Proxmox vs Arch 3 months ago:
Oh, that would have been really useful a year ago! Thanks, I’ll keep it in my bag of tricks, it looks pretty neat.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Yeah I wouldn’t call Arch a server OS. I run Arch on my laptop, but Debian on my docker/file/self-hosting server. Best tool for the job etc. Never even been tempted by Unraid, the whole point of running Linux is that I control what goes where.
- Comment on New home server, NixOS vs Proxmox vs Arch 3 months ago:
+1 for Podman. I switched from docker last year and I’m really happy I did. It’s not all sunshine and roses (can’t copy paste so much from the internet being the main issue, nobody gives examples for it), but the product itself is much better.