dan
@dan@upvote.au
Aussie living in the USA. https://d.sb/
- Comment on I built a simple tool to find things to do without the usual paywalls or account signups 4 days ago:
Where is the website template from? I’ve seen the exact same one before.
- Comment on Do they allow it? 4 days ago:
- Comment on I prompt injected my CONTRIBUTING.md – 50% of PRs are bots 4 days ago:
You can run your own AI locally if you have powerful enough equipment, so that you’re not dependent on paying a monthly fee to a provider. Smaller quantized models work fine on consumer-grade GPUs with 16GB RAM.
The major issue with AI providers like Anthropic and OpenAI at the moment is that they’re all subsidizing the price. Once they start charging what it actually costs, I think some of the hype will die off.
- Comment on I prompt injected my CONTRIBUTING.md – 50% of PRs are bots 5 days ago:
I definitely agree with you!
I’m using AI a little bit myself, but I’m an experienced developer and fully understand the code. I use it for tedious things, where I could do it myself but it’d take much longer. I don’t let AI write commit messages or PR descriptions for me.
- Comment on I prompt injected my CONTRIBUTING.md – 50% of PRs are bots 5 days ago:
I think the blurb was posted by the submitter (@vegetaaaaaaa@lemmy.world) rather than being a part of the link.
- Comment on I prompt injected my CONTRIBUTING.md – 50% of PRs are bots 5 days ago:
If your AI is making PRs without you, that’s even worse.
This is happening a lot more these days, with OpenClaw and its copycats. I’m seeing it at work too - bots submitting merge requests overnight based on items in their owners’ todo lists.
- Comment on YSK fuel is heavily taxed, but you can avoid the taxes and reduce waste by making your own diesel without expensive equipment 5 days ago:
You can also avoid the cost of gas/petrol prices by using an electric vehicle. I pay $0 to fuel mine since I have solar panels.
- Comment on He was a perfect hire — until a U.S. company exposed him as a likely North Korean operative 1 week ago:
Wow, this is an unusually long, high quality article from NBC news. I didn’t realise they have a great investigative unit.
- Comment on noob questions seeking non-noob answers 1 week ago:
for example maybe AV1 takes even more off,
I know this was just an example, but Intel 11th gen and newer has hardware acceleration for AV1.
GPUs have their place, but they significantly increase power consumption, which is an issue in areas with high power prices.
- Comment on noob questions seeking non-noob answers 1 week ago:
If you want to self-host email or websites, I’d use a VPS for those use cases. For websites, a $30/year VPS would be more than sufficient. You can try host at home, but hosting those things from a residential IP doesn’t always work well.
- Comment on noob questions seeking non-noob answers 1 week ago:
QuickSync is more than sufficient for most users. It can handle several concurrent 4K transcode. It’s also not that common to have to transcode, unless you stream your media content when away from home a lot, and have poor upload speed.
If going Intel, there’s different models of Intel iGPU, so I’d go for the lowest-end GPU that has the higher end iGPU. My home server is a few years old and has an Intel Core i5 13500. The difference between the 13400 and 13500 looks small on paper, but the 13400 only has UHD Graphics 730 while the 13500 had UHD Graphics 770 which can handle double the number of concurrent transcodes.
Intel iGPUs also support SR-IOV which lets you share one iGPU across multiple VMs. For example, if you have a Plex server on the host Linux system, and Blue Iris in a Windows Server VM, and both need to use hardware transcoding.
I’ve heard AMD’s onboard graphics are pretty good these days, but I haven’t tried AMD CPUs on a server.
- Comment on Tailscale serve and sharing devices 1 week ago:
You can share the node with them, and use an ACL to control which ports they have access to.
- Comment on ‘Pokémon Go’ players have been unknowingly training delivery robots 1 week ago:
This is a reason why you should actually read the Terms of Service and don’t use the product if you don’t agree with them. Niantic’s ability to use your images like this would have been in the ToS.
AI has made this a bit easier since you can copy and paste the ToS into an LLM and ask it summarize the terms and point out the most important clauses.
- Comment on 463 games, probably only played 1/10th of them 1 week ago:
I miss playable demos, where you could play part of a game to see if you like it. I played so many shareware games and demo CDs when I was young.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I once worked in a team that had both an Aaron and an Erin, and it was confusing for the Americans since they pronounce both names very similarly (in Australia we pronounce them differently). I think Aaron ended up being referred to as “A A Ron”
- Comment on Don't tell me that you all don't have the same issue 1 week ago:
This is why I’m glad my TV has some inputs on the side. When wall mounting it, I ran HDMI cables for all the inputs on the back, to avoid having to go back there again.
- Comment on relatable 1 week ago:
If you’ve been in bed for 45 minutes and haven’t been able to fall asleep, you should get up and do something boring/uninteresting until you get tired. If you stay in bed, you’ll associate being in bed with not sleeping, and it’ll just get worse.
If it happens a lot, it’s worth considering CBT-I (cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia) and getting a sleep study done (to see if you have sleep apnea).
- Comment on Instagram is getting rid of end-to-end encrypted DMs that ‘very few’ people used 1 week ago:
It’s the default on Messenger so I’m not sure why it wasn’t made the default on Instagram.
- Comment on Is this accurate, Canadians? 1 week ago:
I’m not your buddy, friend
- Comment on Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company 1 week ago:
I’ll be sure to subscribe while connected to my NordVPN account.
- Comment on Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam 1 week ago:
lol I still have a screenshot of Digg from when every article on the home page had this key in it.
- Comment on Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company 1 week ago:
They sold Google Domains to Squarespace.
- Comment on Quality TV 1 week ago:
You shouldn’t wrap potatoes in foil when baking them. It makes them soggy. If you want to keep them warm then wrap them in foil after cooking.
- Comment on Men wanna be me, women wanna be with me. 2 weeks ago:
Yes! All the wheels turn! It’s nice.
- Comment on Men wanna be me, women wanna be with me. 2 weeks ago:
I don’t understand why so many American shopping carts have back wheels that don’t turn. It’s weird. All four wheels turn on Australian shopping carts (or “trolleys” as we call them) so you have full 360 degree motion.
- Comment on Worst day of the year 2 weeks ago:
I occasionally work on some dare/time libraries we use at work, so I’m going to add this meme to the code base.
- Comment on Worst day of the year 2 weeks ago:
And if the other country is in the opposite hemisphere, they’re adjusting the clock the other way. Daylight saving just started in California, but it ends next month in Victoria, Australia. The two states are either 17, 18, or 19 hours different depending on the time of year.
- Comment on [beta] degoog - search engine aggregator 2 weeks ago:
I used to use Dogpile a lot in the late 1990s. Coincidentally it was a similar idea to this and SearxNG - it was a meta search engine that combined Yahoo, Lycos, Excite, AltaVista and a few others into one interface (no Google since it wasn’t in widespread use yet).
- Comment on MemeID: 421856901 2 weeks ago:
Out of all the shitposts in the world, this is certainly one of them.
- Comment on BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace 3 weeks ago:
The Teslas that are made in China are noticeably higher quality than the ones made in the USA. Fewer panel gaps and better fit and finish.
The only reason Teslas are decent quality is because the majority of them are made in China. Over 50% of Teslas are made in China, using over 90% local (Chinese) parts.