Tibert
@Tibert@compuverse.uk
- Comment on The Firefox browser now has a built-in page translator that works even without the Internet 1 year ago:
I guess the offline it’s mostly to advertise privacy. Or maybe can it translate pdf documents?
- Comment on LLMs are surprisingly great at compressing images and audio, DeepMind researchers find 1 year ago:
Well from the article a dataset is required, but not always the heavier one.
Tho it doesn’t solve the speed issue, where the llm will take a lot more time to do the compression.
gzip can compress 1GB of text in less than a minute on a CPU, an LLM with 3.2 million parameters requires an hour to compress
- Comment on Lemmy & Pangora Instance Selector 1 year ago:
Hmm, ok. I see. When clicking on the last button in a category tree, it chooses randomly an instance.
Tho for that specific category, I cannot access lemmy.sdf.org. Why? I don’t know, maybe broken or regional block?
If regional block, that is an argument to warts looking at user location. Tho not sure if it would be useful for anything else.
It would also be interesting to categorize more instances. Maybe even put smaller ones to distribute the load. Tho sometimes the smaller ones may not be well prepared for a lot of users. And at the same time the local feed may not be the most active. Tho the all feed may be interesting for new users.
The instance where I am, compuverse.uk is a general tech/computer instance, but had issues with storage for example.
- Comment on Lemmy & Pangora Instance Selector 1 year ago:
So when does the random instance is chosen? When the website is loaded? When the user clicks on a category?
Maybe currently there aren’t enough instances categorised on the website to get enough randomness.
Is there, or would there be, a weight in the randomness in order to chose closer instances based on the user’s location?
For example sh.itjust.works is an instance based in Canada. When the reddit exodus happened. That instance was slow due to the distance. While others closer to the western europe were faster because they where closer to me.
Tho rn, it’s about the same. So not sure.
- Comment on Huawei launches Nearlink, a better than bluetooth competitor. The us won't benefit from it for now 1 year ago:
Well for it to get a chance in the US where the other side of big tech is, it would need to be sold to another company than Huawei, or for the US to relax the ban.
I have no idea why the US banned Huawei so intensely other than blocking competition from China.
- Comment on Huawei launches Nearlink, a better than bluetooth competitor. The us won't benefit from it for now 1 year ago:
I am sory for not living in a giant home without any 2.4ghz neighbors around me.
Also I myself use 2.4ghz for low bandwidth devices, and other connected devices which don’t have 5ghz. And there are also the neighbors who cast their 2.4ghz network they may use how they will around me.
But I didn’t have many issues on most of the headsets I tried. At least higher end.
There were still some outliers and with bad unreliable connections, even on high latency (jbl tour one m2 for example).
Others like corsair headsets had issues at “high” range (like 10-15m through walls), but no issues at close range, but that is expected from their specs.
- Comment on Huawei launches Nearlink, a better than bluetooth competitor. The us won't benefit from it for now 1 year ago:
Well look at wifi vs bluetooth. Wifi and bluetooth both use 2.4ghz. But wifi has a lot more bandwidth on 2.4ghz. Maybe because it uses more channels (a bigger frequency range)?
But there is room to improve bandwidth, even over distance. Tho how would they have done that, no idea. There is need for more time so devices with the tech can arrive on the market, and be tested.
But also more time so more specialised content can be produced to inform us normal people.
- Comment on Huawei launches Nearlink, a better than bluetooth competitor. The us won't benefit from it for now 1 year ago:
The new creative zen hybrid pro hybrid and pro sxfi seem to be advertised to use bluetooth 5.3 with LC3 and LC3+.
Tho not if they are on the market yet or if there are tests.
- Comment on Huawei launches Nearlink, a better than bluetooth competitor. The us won't benefit from it for now 1 year ago:
I’m not sure it’s always what people want. Yes stability is needed, even more when a lot of people are using it.
But currently headsets are heavily missing (very) high quality audio and mic at the same time. Maybe this tech could push towards that.
- Comment on Huawei launches Nearlink, a better than bluetooth competitor. The us won't benefit from it for now 1 year ago:
Not really like that.
Right now it’s not possible to connect a headset/headphone via wifi to a device other than some proprietary things.
So a general competitor usable on all devices allowing more data transfer for more audio with less compression. I think it could be interesting.
Not just because it would maybe be better. But because competition on a market is a good thing for the consumer. And push bluetooth maybe further than what it is.
Tho if by some misunderstanding, the chip used isn’t compatible with bluetooth I’m not very sure… As brands would need to include 2 chips, which increases the cost.
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- Comment on Reddit revamps gold system with opportunities to earn real money for posts 1 year ago:
Here is another article it seems to have more info techcrunch.com/…/reddit-will-start-paying-you-rea…
redditors need to earn at least 10 gold within a 30-day period — if they don’t reach the threshold, the balance rolls over. For users with between 100 and 4,999 karma, they will receive $0.90 per 1 gold. Once you earn more than 5,000 karma, you can earn $1 per gold.
It’s so bad… and what will happen is spam cheap bot content to get the gold amount necessary to get paid.
- Comment on Reddit will start paying you real money for your karma 1 year ago:
There aren’t just concerns it’s a f prediction
redditors need to earn at least 10 gold within a 30-day period — if they don’t reach the threshold, the balance rolls over. For users with between 100 and 4,999 karma, they will receive $0.90 per 1 gold. Once you earn more than 5,000 karma, you can earn $1 per gold.
- Comment on What do you think of framework and their methods? 1 year ago:
Yeah… I’m not sure about the quality being really better than competition. Tho maybe Linux support may be better depending on what components different laptops use.
- Comment on What do you think of framework and their methods? 1 year ago:
System76 is a bit strange. Their laptops are more expensive that other windows bug brands, while offering Linux. I’m not sure if it’s really worth going with them, as a lot of other laptops ca work with Linux. Tho maybe I missed something about their laptops.
Framework I think I saw some Poole saying it has some issues running Linux with some component incompatibilities. Tho you may want to do more research, maybe even opening some reddit threads and dodging useless comments.
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- Comment on Did AI Generate This Photo? Here’s How To Tell 1 year ago:
The generative ai have been enhanced with more training on the hands. They hot much better.
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- Comment on Your communities might be a lot larger than you think! 1 year ago:
For me, it shows 1 subscriber, 1.4k posts.
It seems to be entirely dependent on the instance.
- Comment on whats your unconcious sign that you really really like the game you are playing 1 year ago:
I don’t get tired fast.
A boring game will get me tired.
A great game will keep me in.
Tho sometimes it’s a bit more difficult to say. The environment may keep me in, but the gameplay mush me away.
- Comment on Unity Bosses Sold Stock Ahead Of Scummy Dev Fees Announcement 1 year ago:
It can be a pre-planned trade. However they also could have waited for the shares to be sold then make the announcement.
Who knows. I’m not here as a judge.
- Comment on OpenVPN vs WireGuard 1 year ago:
On the website :
Wireguard is clearly seen by firewalls as a VPN by only allowing UDP packets
However proton Vpn în their app, they have a “wireguard TCP” setting.
Which is also confusing as on their wireguard marketing page, there is a faq where they say openvpn supports tcp in a ways as it supports TCP but not wireguard.
- Comment on Google accused of rigging market to secure dominant search monopoly in biggest US antitrust trial for years 1 year ago:
It can be more than a fine.
They could be forced to sell parts of Google, to stop paying browsers, or whatever the court decides. However if the court decides in favor of the antitrust, then it will also put in place a precedent which will impact the other companies too.
- Comment on Why are women turning to TikTok for advice about the pill? Because doctors won’t listen to us 1 year ago:
Because no one traches them well what to do and believe.
Social media education and a critica view of the Web is still much behind the current state of social media.
TikTok is the last place I’ll go check for any serious advice. Just opening the app is spamming me with horrible cringe content.
And the rest are very much unreliable. There are some serious creators, but they are coming from other platforms with reputation.
The other TikTok only creators may as well be false content until verified.
- Comment on More than $35 million has been stolen from over 150 victims since December — ‘nearly every victim’ was a LastPass user 1 year ago:
It’s a solution, but very inconvenient. There is also no backup, in case of destruction.
It is also not encrypted. So anyone stealing it can read it.
A password manager is great for storing sensitive information like password in a secure way, at least if the master password is good enough. And the password manager isn’t a shitty one (Lastpass). The online password managers allow syncing, and also often can export a file.
Local password manager can also produce an encrypted backup file which can be stored on a server. While also offering some convenience to log in and storing many random passwords.
- Comment on More than $35 million has been stolen from over 150 victims since December — ‘nearly every victim’ was a LastPass user 1 year ago:
And what is your point?
That everyone should change to some Linux distro? First of all Linux is not immune, it only lacks interest from hackers. The second it’s not adapted to everyone. Even I who likes open source and learning new stuff is too annoyed by Linux because of compatibility reasons (mostly gaming).
Just don’t execute random stuff? Wake up, or I’ll use only chrome and nothing else on my pc. You want open source you must execute random stuff.
And people cannot be at their 100% at all time. There is a possible chance that some, even trained user, slips and executes some malware. In that case, antimalware come into play, but it’s not always the case. Companies still get hacked with ransomwares and data extractors.
And your solution to the issue is just replacing the browser, like it would make a difference? At that point just use another password manager online…
- Comment on More than $35 million has been stolen from over 150 victims since December — ‘nearly every victim’ was a LastPass user 1 year ago:
Well chrome = bad. Just look at all the anti-competition things they are implementing just because they are the leaders on the market.
Now they are blocking cookies, it’s great isn’t it? NO! now they are targeting you through your browser history while blocking competing cookies.
Manifest V3 introduced by Google, that’s amazing, now ad blockers won’t be able to update their list individually. It’s amazing isn’t it? Being able to hinder the adblockers when your revenues comes from ads.
- Comment on More than $35 million has been stolen from over 150 victims since December — ‘nearly every victim’ was a LastPass user 1 year ago:
Bitwarden offers an encrypted backup…
Google has maybe a plain text export.
Bitwarden has run flawless for me for multiple years.
- Comment on More than $35 million has been stolen from over 150 victims since December — ‘nearly every victim’ was a LastPass user 1 year ago:
There nothing to fix in an OS. Windows and chrome have vulnerabilities which are unfixable by regular people. What about malware? What about other people knowing the password to your pc?
It’s impossible to trust an OS to not get hacked, because it’s always the hackers or OS running behind the other.
- Comment on More than $35 million has been stolen from over 150 victims since December — ‘nearly every victim’ was a LastPass user 1 year ago:
The excel spreadsheet can be read by anything. And if someone gets hold of it either through malware or access to the computer, they get all your passwords.
A password manager allows to store the passwords in an encrypted file. The file being encrypted, if the password is strong, may not be accessed easily or fast enough to be worth the effort.