dantheclamman
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- Comment on Tragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site 1 day ago:
A tragedy is an event of great loss, usually of human life. Such an event is said to be tragic. Traditionally, the event would require “some element of moral failure, some flaw in character, or some extraordinary combination of elements” to be tragic.
To me this is tragic even in the Greek sense
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN 3 weeks ago:
I feel like there have always been buggy releases. But I do feel they have gotten more frequent and have become the actual norm, with people being impressed when AAA releases don’t have deal breaking bugs on release
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 3 weeks ago:
You are making a common mistake of being too literal!
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 3 weeks ago:
I am honestly surprised it took this long! Kindle has been around a long time and it’s not like Amazon was any less evil back then. It makes me wonder if the competition has been starting to make them nervous!
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 3 weeks ago:
You might try one of the larger Kobos to be able to read PDFs comfortably. The little ones might be a bit cramped with most PDFs. For html I’ve never tried that with Kobo, but a lot of people swear by the Android e-ink tablets from Onyx and Boox, though those are sometimes pricey!
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 3 weeks ago:
I used this guide from a thread on Reddit. It relies on Calibre and a set of plugins reddit.com/…/2024_guide_to_dedrm_kindle_books/
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 3 weeks ago:
I’m pretty happy with Kobo. I’ve had the same model for about ten years and it’s still working great. They had color temperature changing for the backlight before it was cool. The syncing to Pocket was neat before stupid Mozilla killed it, and now they’ve pivoted to Instapaper. Plus I can install KOreader to also read stuff on my own ebook server, though I find the Kobo firmware is quite nice so I often just stick on that.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 3 weeks ago:
They also consistently put their ebooks on sale. I’ve gone cold turkey on buying from them and have noticed they often have the best prices on books. They want people to build a library and be locked in.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 3 weeks ago:
I think this explains why Amazon is locking down their books and making libraries non-portable. There is more competition
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 3 weeks ago:
Fairly intuitive, if you can drag the right file to the right directory on the device.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 3 weeks ago:
Between Kobo and Google Books I haven’t had a problem of not finding a book. Are you talking about small authors self-publishing on Kindle? I could see that being an issue
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 3 weeks ago:
It is remarkable how many books available for free on Gutenberg are sold in the same format on Amazon (it’d be one thing if they were special editions, new translations etc, but they’re the same!)
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 3 weeks ago:
Yep, I had a Kindle library of a few dozen books, when they started their shenanigans locking down the desktop client earlier this year I downloaded all of them, de-drmed and converted to epub with Calibre. Hosting them on Calibre-web and accessing with KOreader on a Kobo. I continue to buy books on Kobo and Google Books, which let me download copies (albeit with DRM).
Makes me wonder after all these years why Amazon is locking down ability to move books around. I wonder if they’re starting to feel some real competition and feel threatened! The market of cheap e-ink Android ereaders seems to be growing more and more
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- Comment on Does anyone use a VPN to subvert the Netflix household device fencing? 1 month ago:
I considered setting up a Pi for WireGuard at my mom’s house (her router doesn’t support VPN), so we could share subscriptions still, but decided it wasn’t worth the hassle and risk that they would start VPN detecting from the client: could just imagine them sending her emails about it that would confuse her lol
- Comment on Why LLMs can't really build software 2 months ago:
Exactly. It’s an very niche library (tmap for R) and just was completely overhauled. Gemini, chatGPT and Copilot all seem pretty confused and mix up the old and new syntax
- Comment on Why LLMs can't really build software 2 months ago:
LLMs are useful to provide generic examples of how a function works. This is something that would previously take an hour of searching the docs and online forums, but the LLM can do for very quickly, and I appreciate. But I have a library I want to use that was just updated with entirely new syntax. The LLMs are pretty much useless for it. Back to the docs I go! Maybe my terrible code will help to train the model. And in my field (marine biogeochemistry), the LLM generally cannot understand the nuances of what I’m trying to do. Vibe coding is impossible. And I doubt the training set will ever be large or relevant enough for the vibe coding to be feasible.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 2 months ago:
Mozilla is a bizarre Matryoshka doll with a for profit company inside of the nonprofit. If anything, I believe this structure is responsible for Mozilla’s problems
- Comment on What are your VPN recommendations for accessing self-hosted applications from the outside? 2 months ago:
I use Wireguard via PiVPN and it’s pretty much foolproof. I don’t bother with Dynamic DNS but have in the past
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 3 months ago:
Building a browser engine is expensive. That’s why almost all other browser engined other than Apple’s have joined the Chromium Borg and gone extinct.
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 3 months ago:
It is classic tech company strategy.
We saw it with Amazon offering suspicious deals for years on name brand stuff to kill competitors. Uber offering subsidized rides to kill taxis. Google Photos offering unlimited free storage
If it seems too good to be true, check under your feet and see if there’s a rug there.
- Sinaloa cartel hacked security cameras to track and kill FBI informants, US sayswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 3 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 4 months ago:
It still has a 9/10 on Steam despite all the flak it took. I think it’s a classic. To me it’s similar to the backlash to Fallout 4 from purists, which I also feel is a classic game
- Comment on The hidden cost of self-hosting 4 months ago:
I just moved 20k bookmarks from Pocket to Readeck, and can sympathize lol. A lot of the links are dead. I found a cleanup script I’m going to run but it’s still a huge curation challenge
- Comment on ChatGPT "Absolutely Wrecked" at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977 4 months ago:
“We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it. We believe that, in 2025, we may see the first AI agents “join the workforce” and materially change the output of companies” blog.samaltman.com/reflections
“We fully intend that Gemini will be the very first AGI” venturebeat.com/…/at-google-i-o-sergey-brin-makes…
“If you define AGI (artificial general intelligence) as smarter than the smartest human, I think it’s probably next year, within two years” -Elon Musk reuters.com/…/teslas-musk-predicts-ai-will-be-sma…
- Comment on ChatGPT "Absolutely Wrecked" at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977 4 months ago:
They’re literally selling to credulous investors that AGI is around the corner, when this and to a lesser extent Large Action Models is the only viable product they’ve got. It’s just a demo of how far they are from their promises
- Comment on ChatGPT "Absolutely Wrecked" at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977 4 months ago:
I knew there would be these kinds of comments making this obvious point. This is just a demo of how these language models are not going to achieve the “General” part of AGI. It’s going to take a new paradigm
- Submitted 4 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 33 comments
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 4 months ago:
Yeah with VPN it’s more straightforward. I wanted it accessible without which was more involved. Honestly the average user doesn’t even know what tailscale or wireguard are, so you are already advanced using those
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 4 months ago:
Nginx/caddy, dynamic DNS, buying a domain, setting it up with cloudflare is well outside the capabilities of most people. Took me a few hours to figure out