JohnEdwa
@JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on TikTok sues the US government over ban 20 hours ago:
TikTok is solely responsible for that AI voice. Instagram and Twitter have never done anything that compares to the pain and suffering that has caused to humanity.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 20 hours ago:
That is how it started. It was a non-profit with the goal to release all their patents and research for free.
That lasted for a few years, and then the people running it realized they could instead all become filthy rich and nobody could do anything about it. So they did that.
But don’t worry, they are a capped for-profit now! They can only make 100 time the amount of money as they have investments. So they’ll stop when they have reached … checks notes… Around $1.3 trillion.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 20 hours ago:
CC attribution doesn’t require you to necessarily have the credits immediately with the content, but it would result in one of the world’s longest web pages as it would need to have the name of the poster and a link to every single comment they used as training data, and stack overflow has roughly 50 million questions and answers combined.
- Comment on Google Kneecaps Loads Of Very Big Websites After SEO Change 5 days ago:
They also pay Mozilla over $400 million a year for the same. And as around 90% of the income for Mozilla is from the search engine deals, they’d go out of business without them.
- Comment on Nintendo DMCA Notice Wipes Out 8,535 Yuzu Repos, Mig Switch Also Targeted. 6 days ago:
Emulation isn’t illegal, reversing encryption isn’t illegal, software patents aren’t valid in some countries.
That’s why the US can’t do anything about VLC “breaking” DVD encryption, as they are based in France and aren’t doing anything wrong.
- Comment on The retro Nokia phone everyone owned 25 years ago will get a reboot soon – and yes, it has Snake 6 days ago:
The actual Nokia hasn’t been in the mobile phone business for a decade. They sold it all to Microsoft in 2014 with a licence deal for using the Nokia name, and they then sold it to HMD Mobile in 2016. That name deal should expire this year, but they might renew it.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 1 week ago:
SSE4.2 specifically, POPCNT is part of that. It was introduced in 2008, while the previous requirement for Win 10, Win 8, and in Win 7 after a 2018 update has been SSE2 from 2000. So Windows 11 bumps the oldest hardware requirement from 18 years down to 16/17 years.
FWIW, Linux Mint 20 doesn’t have 32-bit builds so it isn’t compatible with processors that don’t support x86-64, and the first Intel processor to support that is from 2004.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 1 week ago:
It’s not about the speed - the minimum requirements for Win 11 are a 1Ghz dual-core processor and 4GB of RAM- it’s because of the processor generation. Not sure if there’s been an official explanation, but the going consensus is that they aren’t going to officially support anything that is susceptible to Meltdown or Spectre.
- Comment on After printing ABS almost exclusively for about a decade, I'm rediscovering PLA and its fancy variants 1 week ago:
You did try drying it in a dehydrator before you did that, right?
Because I have spools almost that old, they print fine after a night in there. - Comment on After printing ABS almost exclusively for about a decade, I'm rediscovering PLA and its fancy variants 1 week ago:
PLA as a raw material is really cheap - you can get it for as little as a few dollars a kilo - and a lot of the cost of a filament roll is just making the spool, packaging, and shipping it. In the end, the price difference between 250g and 1kg of PLA on a roll is rather tiny.
The same reason why a can of cola is so expensive compared to a big bottle.
- Comment on Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time? 1 week ago:
Predictive text is literally the one thing LLM AI would be the best at, and for some reason we don’t seem use it for that.
- Comment on Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles 1 week ago:
NACS is essentially CCS in a Tesla plug, so the only reason there isn’t any yet is that nobody has made the switch yet - any CCS charger could be converted by just swapping the plug.
But it also means passive adapters work and are cheap, so there’s no hurry really. - Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 1 week ago:
Because people who want tiktok content watch it in tiktok, and those who don’t don’t like the format in gemeral.
If tiktok started hosting half an hour long documentaries it wouldn’t be any wonder that nobody would watch them, as the userbase doesn’t have the attention span for that and they aren’t scrolling tiktok for that type of content.
- Comment on Adobe's new generative AI tools for video are absolutely terrifying 2 weeks ago:
And nobody even remembers all the poor knockeruppers and lamplighters.
- Comment on Tesla Owner Calls Police on Rivian Driver Using Supercharger 3 weeks ago:
Specifically, they have to park on the next spot to the right of the charger they are using, as the port on a Rivian is on the left front corner and the Tesla cables are really short.
- Comment on Microsoft reveals costs of Windows 10 end of life security update — and it might be more than you'd expect 4 weeks ago:
If it’s going to be anything like Win 7, no, but actually kinda yes.
Microsoft wants you to upgrade to win 11 so they don’t offer the updates for you, but if you refuse they’d still much rather you don’t just run an unsecured Windows for multiple years so the security check to enable extended updates is rather easy to bypass almost on purpose.
But we won’t know until after they drop support.
- Comment on Microsoft reveals costs of Windows 10 end of life security update — and it might be more than you'd expect 4 weeks ago:
$61 is exactly how much Disney Plus Premium increased their annual price in the past hike few months back, to put it into perspective (from $79 to $140).
- Comment on Microsoft reveals costs of Windows 10 end of life security update — and it might be more than you'd expect 4 weeks ago:
That’s going to take a long while though. Win 7 ended mainstream support in 2015 and ectended in 2020, the last chrome version to run on it 109 which was released in 2023.
- Comment on Using AI to spot edible mushrooms could kill you | AI tools are good for some things, but don’t trust your health to apps that make frequent mistakes 1 month ago:
LLMs are the current big buzzword and the main ones that “don’t work”, because people assume and expect them to be intelligent and actually know and understand things, which they simply do not. Their purpose is to generate text in a way that a human would and for that they actually work perfectly - get a competent LLM and a human and ask them to write about something, and you are very unlikely to spot which one is the machine unless you can catch them lying, and even then it might just be a clueless human talking about things he kinda understands but isn’t an expert of. Like me.
But they are constantly being used for all kinds of purposes that they really don’t yet fit well, because you can’t actually trust anything they say.Image generation mainly has issues with hands and fingers so they aren’t bullet proof at making fake realistic imagery, but for many subjects and style they can create images that are pretty much impossible to identify as being generated. Civit.ai is full of examples.
And image identification definitely works, but it’s… Quirky. I said it can’t be used to identify mushrooms, because nothing can identify two things that look exactly the same from one another. But give one enough photos of every single hot wheels car that exists, and you can get one that will perfectly recognize which one you have. But it will also tell you that a shoe or a tree is one of them, because it only knows about hot wheels cars.
Making one that is trying to identify absolutely everything from a photo, like Google Lens, will still misidentify some things as the dataset is so enormous, but so would a human. Just that for an AI, “I don’t know” is never an option, it always says the most likely answer it thinks is right. - Comment on Using AI to spot edible mushrooms could kill you | AI tools are good for some things, but don’t trust your health to apps that make frequent mistakes 1 month ago:
You are lumping a whole lot of different things that work in completely different ways under the singular label of AI, and while I can’t really blame you as that is what the industry does as well, image recognition, image generation and large language models like chat-gpt all work entirely differently.
Image recognition especially can be trained to be extremely accurate with a properly restricted scope and a good dataset, but even so it would never be enough for identifying mushrooms because no matter if it’s being done by the perfect AI or an organic meatbag, mushrooms simply cannot be accurately identified from a single picture as they can look literally identical to one another in many ways.And parrots totally can learn what words mean. Just like how a dog can learn what “Sit”, “Paw” or “Let’s go for a walk” mean, parrots just also have the ability to “talk”.
- Comment on Nokia tells Reddit it might be infringing on Nokia's patents. 1 month ago:
And even back when Microsoft bought the mobile phone operations the company making the phones was Microsoft Mobile and Microsoft only leased the brand name from Nokia to use on their mobile phones for 10 years - same as with HMD Global today.
- Comment on Nokia tells Reddit it might be infringing on Nokia's patents. 1 month ago:
Patents last for 20 years, that’s a long time for something unique and groundbreaking to become mundane and seemingly obvious in hindsight, especially when almost everything these days builds on top of something already existing at a break neck pace.
But the problem with the current system is that everybody has to try to patent absolutely everything they come up with because if they don’t somebody else might and then sue you for it, and instead of the patent offices actually doing their jobs and dismissing them outright so they would be free to use for everyone, they grant patents on the most simplest or broadest of things.
The silver lining is that plenty of great new things have been made specifically because people have been trying to avoid someone else’s patents - “necessity is the mother of all inventions”, literally.
- Comment on BitTorrent is No Longer the ‘King’ of Upstream Internet Traffic 1 month ago:
Also when you combine this with some other news, like “Bots now make up nearly half of all internet traffic, and that’s very bad news for our security”, it skews it even further to being rather meaningless.
- Comment on BitTorrent is No Longer the ‘King’ of Upstream Internet Traffic 1 month ago:
There was a blip in time a few years back when you really didn’t need to learn how to bittorrent, you could just google what you wanted and you’d get a pirate streaming site showing it. I’ve been torrenting for almost two decades now and still kissanime/aniwatch/zoto whatever was the faster choice most of the time, and even now I use the Kodi plugin Otaku when I want to watch an ep or two, and that grabs stuff from streaming sites. Granted it is getting worse and worse, with the sites being absolutely riddled with ads and seemingly rebranding twice a month due to takedowns which has me going back to nyaa more often.
- Comment on BitTorrent is No Longer the ‘King’ of Upstream Internet Traffic 1 month ago:
Ah, downloading postage stamp sized anime releases that still took all day. Forget binging a series in one go, you watched an episode or two a day because that was as fast as you could get them.
But you can’t forget the absolute minefield of Kazaa, Emule & Limewire - you never knew when you’d get a virus, something random, literally just cp or actually manage to grab the thing you intended to.
- Comment on Installed some bling chasing better z-axis layer alignment. The new parts do look nice, but at this point I think I'm chasing ghosts 1 month ago:
Start by checking if you have TMC drivers and if they have Stealthchop enabled, it can also cause these types of issues. Especially for the extruder motor.
- Comment on This was the first result on Google 1 month ago:
The question wasn’t “Is it efficient or cheap”, it was how much energy is in a battery, and if and for how long would it run a fridge. If you also want to add one more point to why you probably shouldn’t do it, car starter batteries don’t generally like to be deeply discharged, you’d want to get a marine battery for that use. As for how much the inverter would cost, depends on the fridge, but Amazon has a 1000W inverter for around $85, that should be enough for most. Ours could run from a 300W one, they cost around $30. Pretty handy devices if you want to run any kinds of electronics from a car anyway, I have one for when I want to charge my laptop and RC batteries on the field.
- Comment on Installed some bling chasing better z-axis layer alignment. The new parts do look nice, but at this point I think I'm chasing ghosts 1 month ago:
Extrusion variance and bad tolerance filament will also exhibit the exact same looking issues, not just poor Z alignment.
Just to be sure, you have z-hop disabled? That can cause all kinds of issues if the gantry isn’t absolutely perfect.
Another thing would be making sure all variable line width printing options are disabled, I.e ones that try to fill gaps with thicker lines or print thinner lines faster to stretch the filament.
And finally, melt temperature oscillations, making sure every feature - outer/inner walls and infill - are printed at the exact same, slower, speed. - Comment on This was the first result on Google 1 month ago:
Watt hours are watt hours. Sure the compressor won’t run on 12 volts as is but the energy is there, just needs a converter.
- Comment on The New Audi A3 Is Amess With In-Car Subscriptions 1 month ago:
The logic behind the concept originally made sense, they manufacture just one car with all the features as that reduces manufacturing overhead by a ton, much more than what they would save by having one with heated seats and one without (especially when multiplied by all the possible configurations), but instead of only providing the model at the price point with all of them enabled, they disable some for the cheaper models - this is possible because car prices aren’t really based on how much they actually cost to manufacture.
This then lead into allowing people to pay to enable the features later if they wanted to, because why not, they are already there. Iirc Tesla was one of the first to do this with unlocking range, performance and “self-driving” stuff.
And finally it morphed into a subscription option because hey, if you only need heated seats a few months a year, why pay for the others? Only $10/month! And $15 for that, and $5 for that, and…