Hexarei
@Hexarei@programming.dev
- Comment on If Jesus can turn water into wine, but wine is still mostly made of water, can Jesus apply his powers recursively and create more and more concentrated wine? 1 month ago:
There’s no cognitive dissonance in negating a false negative
- Comment on If Jesus can turn water into wine, but wine is still mostly made of water, can Jesus apply his powers recursively and create more and more concentrated wine? 1 month ago:
The easiest answer to this is yes, he could create a stone he couldn’t lift. And then he could lift it anyway.
- Comment on RuneScape is increasing their membership price by 50%, and Reddit is trying to censor it 2 months ago:
New members means newly active paid subscriptions in runescape terms
- Comment on Enemies of glory have no honor 3 months ago:
This is a woman who has given birth
- Comment on Google Says Sorry After Passwords Vanish For 15 Million Windows Users. 3 months ago:
So does keepass
- Comment on Google Says Sorry After Passwords Vanish For 15 Million Windows Users. 3 months ago:
If your MFA is stored in your password manager, you’re not getting prompts to your phone about it. You’re just prompted for a otp code that you have to go out of your way to copy/paste or type in from the manager.
- Comment on Google Says Sorry After Passwords Vanish For 15 Million Windows Users. 3 months ago:
Funny troll is funny
- Comment on Google Says Sorry After Passwords Vanish For 15 Million Windows Users. 3 months ago:
The thing that makes it worth it to me is long, randomly generated passwords that I don’t have to know.
None of the sites and services I use require me to type out a password thanks to browser integration and auto type (for desktop apps and such), along with autofill service on android.
Then along with that I can even store other things like account recovery codes (for 2fa) or security questions (which also get randomly generated answers)… It’s a handy thing to have IMHO
- Comment on Google Says Sorry After Passwords Vanish For 15 Million Windows Users. 3 months ago:
Yeah but then you have to trust Dropbox
- Comment on that's it that's the whole show 3 months ago:
You dare mock the son of a shepherd?!
- Comment on The Humble Games Situation Gets Messier With Claims Of Lies And Damage Control 3 months ago:
Ah, I’ve generally run my VPN primary exit node in a public cloud infrastructure host like Digital Ocean or AWS in order to provide a separate public IP from the rest of my stuff, and not give out my home IP to public Wi-Fi and such.
I like docker, as long as you use a good orchestration tool it’s a good way to declaratively define what should be running on your server, using a compose file or similar. There are a lot of benefits to the overhead of learning it, including running multiple instances of the same service on one machine without conflicts, and the ability to force your hosted apps to store all of their data in nice neat packages you can easily back up with something like Duplicity or Volumerize.
I actually run my containers on a small kubernetes cluster using VMs running k3s atop Proxmox, with persistence handled by a hyperconverged ceph cluster. All probably very overkill but it’s fun to play with and performs incredibly. Most folks can get away with a single server running containers with simple
docker compose. - Comment on The Humble Games Situation Gets Messier With Claims Of Lies And Damage Control 3 months ago:
You’re welcome, feel free to ask any questions once you get there
- Comment on The Humble Games Situation Gets Messier With Claims Of Lies And Damage Control 3 months ago:
If you know your way around a Linux terminal, or can follow simple terminal instructions, I always recommend folks host their own OpenVPN server. $5/month for a digital ocean instance and now I never have to worry about some provider hiking my VPN prices or snooping on my traffic.
- Comment on OpenAI’s latest model will block the ‘ignore all previous instructions’ loophole 3 months ago:
You can dislike the statement all you want, but they literally do not have a way to know things. They provide a convincing illusion of knowledge through statistical likelihood of the next token occurring, but they have no internal mechanism for looking up information.
They have no fact repositories to rely on.
They do not possess the ability to know what is and is not correct.
They cannot check documentation or verify that a function or library or API endpoint exists, even though they will confidently create calls to them.
They are statistical models, calculating how likely the next token is based on transformations in a many-dimensional space in which the relationships between existing tokens are treated as vectors in a process for determining the next token.
They have their uses, but relying on them for factual information (which includes knowledge of apis and libraries) is a bad idea. They are just as likely to provide realistic answers as they are to make up fake answers and present them as real.
They are good for inspiration or a jumping off point, but should always be fact checked and validated.
They’re fantastic at transforming data from one format to another, or extracting data from natural language written information. I’m even using one in a project to guess at filling in a form based on an incoming customer email.
- Comment on OpenAI’s latest model will block the ‘ignore all previous instructions’ loophole 3 months ago:
Indeed. I stopped using it altogether a couple months ago.
- Comment on OpenAI’s latest model will block the ‘ignore all previous instructions’ loophole 3 months ago:
Not the person you’re replying to, but my main hangup is that LLMs are just statistical models, they don’t know anything. As such, they very often hallucinate language features and libraries that don’t exist. They suggest functions that aren’t real and they are effectively always going to produce average code - And average code is horrible code.
They can be useful for exploration and learning, sure. But lots of people are literally just copy-pasting code from LLMs - They just do it via an “accept copilot suggestion” button instead of actual copy paste.
I used Copilot for months and I eventually stopped because I found that the vast majority of the time its suggestions are garbage, and I was constantly pausing while I typed to await the suggestions, which broke flow state and tired me out more then it ever helped.
I’m still finding bugs it introduced months later. It’s great for unit tests, but that’s basically it in my case. I don’t let the AI write production code anymore
- Comment on EVIL GUY 4 months ago:
Me having my “embrace the evil” dark urge in BG3 only be nice to Scratch and a complete dick to everyone else
- Comment on Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising 4 months ago:
It looks like it runs perfectly via WINE from a few quick Google searches
- Comment on Arizona toddler rescued after getting trapped in a Tesla with a dead battery | The Model Y’s 12-volt battery, which powers things like the doors and windows, died 4 months ago:
Specifically, it’s that the doors opening mechanisms are powered, and the power was not being applied to open them. There is no exterior mechanical entry option.
- Comment on Oh god, kill it! 5 months ago:
And all day and all night And everything he sees is just 🥶 Like him, inside and outside
- Comment on Microsoft wants to hide the 'Sign out' button in Windows 11 behind a Microsoft 365 ad 6 months ago:
You can add non steam games to steam and it’ll run them via proton, can be pretty effortless in most scenarios. Otherwise, you can install Lutris and there’s a significant chance there’ll be an entry for how to run the game you want
- Comment on More Canadians dive into streaming, pushing traditional TV aside 7 months ago:
“Shop around” <- found the non-USA-liver
- Comment on Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works 7 months ago:
Nvidia’s rtx video upscaling is trying to be just that: DLSS but you run it on a video stream instead of a game running on your own hardware. They’ve posited the idea of game streaming becoming lower bit rate just so you can upscale it locally, which to me sounds like complete garbage
- Comment on Google will delete data collected from private browsing 7 months ago:
Bro we promise bro, we’re deleting the data - We know bro, you thought we didn’t collect it but bro we’re deleting it we promise now we’re cool bro just keep using it bro we don’t collect more data bro we promise
- Comment on CFCs 8 months ago:
It’s that one band the numa numa guy got famous for dancing to: youtu.be/YnopHCL1Jk8?si=Eaky3c_aYaKBjN0j
- Comment on Microsoft Ending Support For Windows Subsystem For Android 8 months ago:
I host my own Suwayomi server and use the web interface, bonus points that it keeps progress synced with my other devices (Using Tachij2k now that Tachiyomi is defunct)
- Comment on Americans are asleep, post European windows 9 months ago:
And this is a thread about how those won’t work with European windows
- Comment on Expanding the P.D Development Team! 9 months ago:
As much as I’d love to, as a dev with over a decade of experience… I’ve already got loads of stuff going on, so trying to add another project to my list - Good luck finding folks though! Thank y’all for making this a fun place to be :-)
- Comment on What is OOP, really? Why so many different definitions? 9 months ago:
Let’s just not talk about the part where the computer is inherently stateful though 😉
- Comment on Microsoft sneaks ads into the new Outlook for Windows 9 months ago:
As is Mailspring