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- Comment on Cops Are Buying ‘GeoSpy’, an AI That Geolocates Photos in Seconds 5 days ago:
Not too far off of how a lot of AIs function, unfortunately
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Yep, though with calibre in particular you want to kind of make sure it’s locked down real good. People sniff for the ports it uses, so open calibre-web libraries get found quickly, and then will usually have some attempts at cracking.
I had mine set up as a local-only thing (could only access from my home WiFi), but from experiences with other apps that have similar crawlers, it takes about a week for them to be found. Just make sure everyone’s passwords are decent, or just share one account if it’s people you trust.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
I need to look into calibre-web more. I definitely tried it, but I remember it being awkward. Might give it another go to see
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 1 week ago:
This is the other part. Idk if it’s me, or my equipment, but like… I listen to music for the music. I might like certain genres (noise music comes to mind) more on higher end equipment, because that’s the point, but also… Eh? Not why I’m here.
- Comment on Stoat removes all LLM-generated code following user criticism 1 week ago:
Where in my comment did I mention my stance on LLM usage? All I said was I knew people would be annoying about Torvalds using LLMs to generate code, and that there was an instance of that here.
- Comment on What dating apps are really optimizing. Hint: it isn’t love 1 week ago:
Maybe, but it did happen earlier on before I’d started, so I think the filters are just kinda not great to start
- Comment on Stoat removes all LLM-generated code following user criticism 1 week ago:
Gods. The second I saw that Torvalds used an LLM to generate any amount of code I knew people would be annoying as shit about it. And here we are with people being annoying as shit about it.
- Comment on What dating apps are really optimizing. Hint: it isn’t love 1 week ago:
At the same time, many users half-ass using them
Honestly the way a lot of the Tinder-style ones (swiping) are designed it almost feels like they’re meant to be half-assed? You can’t filter by likes, just exclude by dislikes (ex. Don’t include people who don’t want kids, don’t include smokers, etc) because there’s no search anymore. They just show you a profile, and you swipe.
When I was using them I very quickly stopped reading bios before they matched back. I just swiped right on everyone, checked daily for new matches, read those profiles and blocked/messaged people based on what was in their profile.
Speaking on filters, though: They don’t even work. I had men filtered out, and I ended up getting about 25% of profiles being men. Like, the only gender tag they had was “Man,” which lead to a lot of the “Idk why they even showed me to you I have men filtered out” message being sent.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 1 week ago:
Or wet mud
Does dry mud exist? I’m pretty sure we just call that dirt xD
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 1 week ago:
Hell, I can’t even tell the difference between 128kbps and flac. Realizing that saved me a whole lot of hard drive space :D
- Comment on 15 degrees fahrenheit feels almost the same as 5 degrees. However 35 degrees feels WAY colder than 45 degrees. 1 week ago:
Or 1 million minutes ago was March 22, 2024.
1 billion minutes ago was the height of the Roman empire.
1 trillion minutes ago is a little bit before (about 100,000 years) the earliest homo erectus fossils we found
- Comment on The most common bloatware we found on laptops and how to get rid of them 1 week ago:
I mean, most people should, yeah, but most don’t. Hell, most people I know can’t change a flat on their car, either, and I personally couldn’t change my car’s headlight. Probably would’ve figured it out, since I could change the spark plugs, but still. I think it also comes from a different source, though. It’s always been anxiety over ruining things for tech, or sending all of your money to a Nigerian prince. Nowadays it’s because tech has become more of a black box (like cars) for capitalism reasons, so most people just… Don’t look into it. They don’t fix their own cars, they don’t fix their own computers, they take them to the dealership, or to GeekSquad.
I honestly don’t even know if I would’ve learned half of what I know if I grew up with today’s tech. It’s a lot more locked down now, so you can’t just curiously fuck around with it and see what you can do without breaking it
- Comment on 15 degrees fahrenheit feels almost the same as 5 degrees. However 35 degrees feels WAY colder than 45 degrees. 1 week ago:
“What’s the difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars? About a billion dollars.”
It’s .1% of a billion, that is a rounding error
- Comment on Meta really wants you to believe social media addiction is 'not a real thing' 1 week ago:
If it’s not addictive then why have they said they’re drug pushers in internal messages that have been subpoena’d?
- Comment on E-bikes are just bicycles with a motor. Therefore, e-bikes are motorcycles. 1 week ago:
Not actually sure on this one, because the terminology for motorcycles is… Weird.
Motorcycles are what we’re all thinking of, Harleys, Kawasaki’s, Yamaha’s, etc. Mopeds and scooters look the same, and both usually have manual transmissions, but have a floor in them. I don’t know that there’s a word that encompasses both, much less including ebikes? Maybe motorbike
- Comment on If you are not in a tech field, what got you into self-hosting? 1 week ago:
I’ve always had a thing for tech. I used to make my own custom MySpace profiles, and pet pages on NeoPets. I did go to college for networkinf, but didn’t finish, and ended up in an unrelated field (won’t name here to avoid doxing myself, but I’m not even allowed to troubleshoot any tech to emphasize how unrelated this is).
I did kinda… Completely drop off for a while, but the thing that got me back was my most recent anti-Microsoft kick. Completely dropped Win10 (I’d usually had a windows and Linux machine at all times), dropped Google as my email, started using omg.lol for a lot of things, etc. Then I went half-in on a computer to use as a DNS-wide adblocker, and noticed that I could do… A lot more with it, and I like to tinker, so why not do a lot more with it? 2 years later, and it’s still the best $100 I’ve ever spent tbh.
- Comment on Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children 1 week ago:
No regrets! runs away with all of your data in a comically large sack
- Comment on Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children 1 week ago:
“Hackers used advanced hacking to unredact the Epstein files!” - Actual headline. The “hackers” did just Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, opens word processor, Ctrl+V
- Comment on TV remotes should have an easy-to-find by touch "volume" toggle button that toggles between two volume settings. 1 week ago:
At least allow a range where you can set the min/max dB the TV can output. A single set volume would be… A little weird sounding, but something that says “No you cannot set off a bomb half an inch from the microphone in the middle of a whispering scene” would be great
- Comment on As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts 2 weeks ago:
Probably because of how it’s marketed. It’s not marketed as “This product will be completely wrong about everything half the time, and give bad advice, and all of the other ills you’ve heard of on the news” it’s marketed as “The future we’ve always dreamed of, and if you don’t get in now you’ll crumble under the weight of it. It will be the next sliced bread.”
- Comment on Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app? 2 weeks ago:
Fair, yeah. I didn’t realize Rocket had gotten heavy. I hadn’t used it in years, just remembered it being okay when I had. I’ve switched to XMPP for the same things I was using RC for, admittedly, it’s just… More like a traditional texting app than emulating Discord’s IRC-like experience
- Comment on Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app? 2 weeks ago:
Less a correction, more a question. Yeah. Solid chance I’m dropping the few discord-related things I do use here soon.
sigh
- Comment on Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, depending on what it’s used for it can do well. If it’s for scheduled calls, like with a weekly tabletop game, it can definitely work well. If it’s for the more casual pop in/out that happens on a lot of Discords it’s worse. I just don’t know of a replacement for that aside Matrix
- Comment on This whistle fights fascists | How thousands of 3D-printed whistles are derailing ICE. 2 weeks ago:
The biggest concern with these come from the fact that it’s hard to decontaminate 3d printed stuff due to the texture, as far as I can tell? PLA, and PETG are food safe, but 3d printing does leave a texture that’s hard to fully clean, which can cause problems over time.
For microplastics: You’re getting a lot from a lot of sources, and as with anything it’s an “Is the risk worth the benefit” situation
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 2 weeks ago:
… I don’t need another domain. I don’t need another domain. I do NOT need another domain…
- Comment on Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app? 2 weeks ago:
Wait, requiring a face scan of everyone?? I know they started doing that as an age verification thing for some people, but everyone?
- Comment on Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app? 2 weeks ago:
IRC, RocketChat, Slack. Technically Matrix, but for your usecase I wouldn’t recommend it, as it’s a bit heavy, and if you’re just planning on using it with other people on the same server there’s not a point
- Comment on Using the same abbreviation scheme as "internationalization" -> "i18n", the word "to" can be abreviated as "t0o". 2 weeks ago:
There is no “Boo, hiss throws tomato” button, so have an upvote instead xD
- Comment on DVDs and public transit: Boycott drives people to ditch Big Tech to protest ICE 2 weeks ago:
This. If you want to be sure that the flacs are worth it, go do one of those 128kbps mp3 vs 320 mp3 vs flac tests and see if you can hear the difference. I can’t, so I just do 128 mp3s and save the storage. Almost 2k songs in 10gb of space :D
- Comment on DVDs and public transit: Boycott drives people to ditch Big Tech to protest ICE 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, a friend of mine was recently buying markers, and a lot of companies also just… Don’t have their own stores. They either redirect to Amazon, or if they to they still fulfill it through Amazon. Etsy is also full of resellers.