dustyData

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  There are both open source and commercial apps that do PTT over internet. It turns phones into radio, it even has the capability to have central radio operation rooms for companies and such. It’s all automated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo’s Switch Mario Galaxy collection will retail for $70⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck Nintendo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We already know what happens with long term sunk cost fallacy. It is a scam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify Add Lossless Audio(24-bit / 44.1 kHz FLAC) for Premium Subscribers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t wait for my new hard-drive to arrive so I can further expand my lossless music collection even more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Important Notice of Security Incident⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Go with pangolin. You can easily host the control layer either on a cheap vps or your own internet exposed server. Same features as tailscale although with a bit more complexity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨18% of people running Nextcloud don't know what database they are using⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that is the kind of concern for the service developer or a very opinionated sys admin. For self-hosting, few people will reach the workload where such a decision has any material or measurable impact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Valve trademark for 'Steam Frame', looks like we're getting new hardware⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The idea of a linux box that is VR capable is a strong business proposition. VR on linux is not a thing yet, at least not seamlessly. It would be a major market shift to compete directly with Sony.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you apologize, even if it's not your fault just to make the other person feel validated?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s funny, because that is the exact apology formula that is taught by therapists. That is a proper apology. The word sorry is actually optional. Many people say they’re sorry but don’t actually apologize. Because they don’t acknowledge their own actions. An apology is an action, not mere words. Saying sorry without change in your actions might fulfill social norms but it is detrimental to all relationships and it makes you seem less trustworthy going forward.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a long history lesson. But the gist is that IBM made an architecture that allowed for modular LEGO style construction of computers. They were assholes and tried to make it lock down by keeping software secret and proprietary, but it was so popular that everyone else copied it and IBM/PC clones were born. Then the architecture became the standard, and everyone could make components for a PC with (more or less) assurance that any component made would be compatible and fit into (almost) any other computer.

  Phones, on the other hand were born out of the necessity of being the smallest and most portable device possible. This meant bespoke solutions. The people who were chasing that format chose an architecture, ARM, that at the time required everything to be on a single chip. Memory, storage, CPU, CMOS, everything has to be on the chip. Which means exchanging parts is not possible. System on chip became the smart phone standard. Now, technically ARM doesn’t have to always be SOC. But it means two things, first is that every phone model is an unique and bespoke production that will never exist again once out of print. Second, it is a Titanic task to reverse engineer certain parts of it, firmware for sensor input is always unique, for example.

  This means that FOSS is at a disadvantage. To make free open software for a phone means that, either a manufacturer is magnanimous and gives you all the firmware, or after a major effort to reverse engineer lots of pieces of software, it will be useless for the next model of phone. You either make your own open standard phone, which is a several billion dollar r&d endeavor. Or you’re constantly shooting at a fast moving target.

  No one has created an open standard that allows small component manufacturing of mutually interchangeable parts for phones. Risc-v is close but not yet terribly financially viable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do I fit into any subculture? (I'm from the UK if that helps)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When it comes to this type of things there are two camps or scenarios:

  1. You give yourself a label and define it through your actions. “I’m Emo, because I said so”. This is how many subcultures name themselves, social groups of the same interest give themselves a descriptor and run with it. Usually around a shared taste in music genre.

  A. You do you spontaneously, then other people give you a label to describe you. Then groups usually adopt the name and run with it. A lot of labels come from this scenario as well.

  The point is that both scenarios also interact and dialogue. Some people redefine the label through their actions, usually from terms that started as derogatory insults and are then appropriated by the in group then redefined as an identity. Sometimes self chosen labels are then reinterpreted by the public and resignified by the out group.

  It’s all very fluid and always changing. Don’t fret too much over it. Whatever label you define yourself or get assigned to today might as well mean nothing in a couple of years because culture is alive and constantly moving.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I asked 20 game developers about Stop Killing Games. [Alanah Pearce]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s a conman and very good at selling his reputation. (Artificially) deep voice, fancy words, and distracting audiences with a blackboard. It’s all it takes to project a strong and attractive image that gather audiences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To explore AI bias, researchers pose a question: How do you imagine a tree?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or how we operationalize and interpret information from studies. You might think you’re measuring something according to a narrow definition and operationalization of the measurement. But that doesn’t guarantee that that’s what you are actually getting. It’s more an epistemological and philosophical issue. What is “believable human”? And how do you measure it? It’s a rabbit hole in and of itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To explore AI bias, researchers pose a question: How do you imagine a tree?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I deep dived into AI research when the bubble first started with chatgpt 3.5. It turns out, most AI researchers are philosophers. Because thus far, there was very little tech wise elements to discuss. Neural networks and machine learning were very basic and a lot of proposals were theoretical. Generative AI as LLMs and image generators were philosophical proposals before real technological prototypes were built. A lot of it comes from epistemology analysis mixed in with neuroscience and devops. It’s a relatively new trend that the wallstreet techbros have inserted themselves and dominated the space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung schedules Galaxy event 5 days before Apple's⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s obvious how you haven’t even touched a Samsung phone in the past 10 years and are just repeating misinformation. Carrier phones with preinstalled bloatware is a thing, but Samsung mostly did it in the heyday if Facebook and Twitter integration with data plans in the US circa 2015. Newer phones and international versions have never had preinstalled social media apps, let alone installed at system level. This was a widespread issue at the time with all phones, from Motorola to ASUS, and yes, even Apple. Not a Samsung exclusive issue.

  Currently, even Samsung applications can be uninstalled. There’s ads, on the Galaxy store, where you are supposed to have ads. They are no more intrusive than looking at recommended apps on the Play store or the AppStore.

  There’s one bit of dark pattern left, and it is after major upgrades, Samsung will show a notification suggesting to install recommended apps. But you can touch “don’t show this again” and it goes away forever. I’ve never seen an ad on my s24 phone ever.

  So, my suggestion is to not blindly trust everything you hear on the internet. No matter how geeky and knowledgeable the people may seem. Just find variety and diversity of POVs to form a more complex and nuanced opinion, even seek personal experience. Not just stay with a single person’s biased opinion. And definitely don’t parrot loudly something that you have no first hand experience with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are those of us who grew up on older games more attuned to latency?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s mostly the TV. The input difference between wired and BT should be very small, though the switch is not optimized for wired controllers. The variability of TV response times on the other hand it massive in comparison. Specially modern TVs with heavy post processing who think they are clever trying to interpolate frames or other shit like bad HDR implementations, etc. HDMI DRM also adds latency.

  All that causes most TVs to be subpar for gaming. I still game on TV, mostly cozy games. But I accept that nothing competitive will come out of gaming on a TV.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DM me on Spotify: Spotify launches a messaging feature.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Which they can sell to advertisers LLM and AI companies.

  It’s not talked about too much, because it is not in the best interest of the stockholders. But AI as it was popularized by openAI and both images and text generators already reached a boundary of data availability. There’s no more human made data. They are now resorting to synthetic data, which is to make one first generation LLM model create tons of data to train newer or more tailored weighs models. With the issue that this new models develop problems from inbreeding of the data. Training models on other genAI products poisons the models and corrupts their generative power in just a few generations. This is why genAI images are increasingly turning yellow, the same reason newer models are more fragile and hallucinate or go psychotic more easily than old models. So, the AI companies need new sources of human made data to mix in with the synthetic data.

  The main problem is that we ran out, there’s no more data made by humans to train AI with. Humans don’t create new data fast enough to train all the new models with the new doodads and features the AI companies want to sell. So now these companies will pay anything just to get their hands on new fresh stuff. These is why any app in the planet will now pivot to do anything they can to get chats going. It’s a new source of data to sell to data brokers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One UI 8 New Features: A First Look at Samsung's Big Update | Tygo Cover⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OneUI has nothing to do with battery life. That’s Android side impact. After updates there are some necessary background processes that sometimes eat up some battery faster than usual. but the UI is just the pretty buttons and pictures. It changes the efficiency of battery use of the UI itself, but the overall management of power is handled by the system and that hat a greater impact on battery life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could I just create my own drive format?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anything can be a hard drive if you are creative enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it okay to eat after brushing in the night⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Flossing is healthier than brushing in this scenario, without risk of wearing out enamel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people like the Punisher comics?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is rather interesting that the kind of people that puts a punisher sticker in their car would be the firsts in line to eat a bullet by the punisher if he existed. Which is why marvel recently changed the logo. Though that doesn’t change anything IRL. At least the creators do show audiences that if a militia adopted punisher’s logo, and tried to associate it ideologically with their way of thinking. It would only target them as the punisher’s next victims.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No, you are harassing and bullying poor Stenzek.

  Typical Linux user, using Linux and stuff.

  /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the easiest way to get hookups without seeing escorts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Please don’t propagate the myth that all gays are ultra horny and promiscuous all the time. It is not true. Gay men deal with a shit ton of toxic standards as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the easiest way to get hookups without seeing escorts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  if you were gay things would be easier.

  If you don’t have standards, maybe …

  Gays looking for a hookup are some of the most superficial and demanding dating pool members. Dudes looking like the Penguin on Batman Returns will demand Adonis or infant looking twinks and nothing else. It’s very hard and very rare to find people actually willing to give a chance to non-hegemonic looking guys.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hasbara Disasta⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Attrition and radical empathy.

  That’s the only thing I’ve seen work. People that far deep need a consistent message that is always transparent and empathic with their emotions. This will erode the core beliefs until the cognitive dissonance between what they are told the opposing message means and what the proponents of the message actually display cracks an opening for self-assessment and reevaluation.

  This is why bigotry and fascism work on the premise of ultra-individualist isolationism. Same why cults first line of recruitment is to isolate the individual from society and their previous social network. You can’t get your beliefs eroded if you never have contact with people who think different than you.

  Once they get in contact with the people they were told to hate and realize that said people aren’t the monsters they were told, and that their ideas are actually logical and consistent, they can find a socially approved permission to question their preconceived notions and admit fault. Unfortunately, achieving this conditions can be challenging, and it is also why algorithmically curated propaganda (social media) is so effective at spreading hate and misinformation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Collective Shout Purge Sees Horror Games In Crosshairs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what Steam will probably do in the future, and Itch.io is already looking into it. There’s a reason all this garbage hasn’t splashed GOG. GOG is based in Europe, where protection laws would slap silly any financial entity trying to pull this stunt on an European company (pressure groups have weaseled censorship and moral panics with other strategies though, just not this one), and they have so many more payment processors that PayPal, Visa and MC would just be dropped entirely and immediately for any of the other dozen or so alternatives. The issue is that in the US and Australia, the three headed shit dragon already lobbied governments to pull the ladder behind them, so no other payment processor could take their place or compete with them, establishing a legal oligopoly of the old money finance club. They won and have this power due to systemic and political failures decades in the making.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but no one can help this one developer because they changed the license. So now the project is just source available, not open source. They chose to be alone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen this, some server Admins and mods actually encourage the behavior via modeling. They do it once and that gives permission to the other users to act similarly. Becoming a cultural problem with the whole server. Then they don’t ever correct or moderate the behavior, further encouraging it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re not being bothered. They are a sensible asshole. Nothing wrong with that, and they are free to express their truth of how they feel. But there’s no evidence of harassment, if they think bug reports and feature requests is abuse then they are in for a rude experience if someone is stupid enough to actually harass them.

  They should just take their project proprietary anyways. The license used is a joke. Duckstation is not open source, the license is so restrictive that it is barely source available. They are not ideologically, or in practice, part of the FOSS community. So they’re free to take their toy home with them. They weren’t playing nice with others anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Life Expectancy is the age at which 50% of the of the population is expected to die before.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting proposal, but I’m thinking it might not be necessarily so. Life expectancy is an average, and averages do not need to be exactly at 50% of the population. That’s the median, you are thinking of the median. It is quite more complicated than that, as there are hundreds of factors that alter life expectancy, thus there are many life expectancy tables depending on gender, lifestyle, cohort, race, income, etc. It will not amount to 50% of the population, specially for populations with a lot of outliers. People who die soon after birth or live exceptionally long lives will skew the average deviating it from a true central tendency. As people live longer and less people die early, then the median (the age at which at least 50% of a cohort, people born the same year, dies) will shift away from the average and occur later. If a lot of teenage and young people die, but the survivors live long lives, then the median will occur sooner. The technical terms are skewness and kurtosis of a probability distribution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No, they don’t. The increase on electric consumption is because of another factor in your house. If family is on summer vacation that could be why. Sometimes people forget that by virtue of having free time, they spend more time inside and generally use more gadgets, items, electronics, etc. for entertainment. That do increase the electricity use. A working and studying family spend over half of the day elsewhere. That’s halve of the same electric use as a family that’s watching tiktok, playing videogames and watching TV inside the whole day.