fmstrat

@fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too bad we can't all act like this⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Let cars merge onto the highway?

  People do realize it’s the merger’s responsibility, right? I mean, don’t block people in, but you should be holding your speed if you’re in the right lane, not adjusting.

  Drive predictably, not nicely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google quietly released an app that lets you download and run AI models locally⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Android and iOS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What're they gonna do about it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There was an article recently about a company abusing services for like 20 years using free trials for another company over and over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
  3. The US is expensive.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Balcony Solar Panels Haven’t Taken Off in the US⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Utah seems to be doing some cool things lately (try are featured in this article). They were at IIW this year talking about their new digital identity setup, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Toronto business owners are using AI-generated “concerned residents” to fight a proposed bus lane⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s because it requires removal of 138 parking spaces.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK some cities in the US are starting to build an affordable community built wifi network that goes around big telecom companies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But… It is P2P WiFi…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Game development should not be a gig economy. It is often treated as such so studio execs can pocket more money by dropping staff at release to pad their own wallets. There are plenty of game companies, and millions of companies in other sectors, that reinvest that capital into the company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Proofreading for who, though? Most writing is 8th grade reading level for accessibility, both for the uneducated and for nonnative speakers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Give us guaranteed emploment of the staff that built it, and you get guaranteed pre orders?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unmatched power⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Those aren’t guesses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you document your Homelab?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea comes in super handy when you always want dropbear SSH for remote unlock, or making sure both RAID disks boot, etc.

  I do it for all my software setup, too. A shell script for each, then a for loop that asks to run each. But I also made github.com/fmstrat/gam, so maybe I just like overkill bash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you document your Homelab?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Every time I set up anything, I do one of two things:

  • If it’s container based, it gets a commented docker compose file in my custom orchestration

  • If it’s on a host system, the changes are scripted and commented in a setup script, which are run on new machines. If the acrit is specific to one machine, it is configured as such

  I find in-setup docs to be best for a home lab, plus if I have to replace hardware, it’s fast.

  Fun fact, I do it for laptops and desktops, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How the Signal Knockoff App TeleMessage Got Hacked in 20 Minutes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mmmm that’s the stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Baldur's Gate 3 cast got a new set of pre-painted minis and—oh, oh no, oh no no no⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The featured picture looks horrible, the others look fine for pre-paints (to me).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Agree 99%. Two caveats:

  • In situations like this, yes. But there are certainly many situations a 10 year old is not equipped to deal with that adults are, because:
  • Remember that 10 year olds do not have the same comprehension, vocabulary, or mental resilience of an adult. Words can have long-term effects on their development that they might not for most adults.

  (Saying this for OP more than for you, BTW)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do they call it a corn maze and not a maize maze?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Been around since before SSL

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How the Signal Knockoff App TeleMessage Got Hacked in 20 Minutes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Big 404 fan, but “original” is misleading. “First article on this topic” is more accurate. OPs link is arguably more interesting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, it’s on device, which ch negates many of the above worries. Does that change things? I’m all good with private AI, personally. Slippery slope and all, though…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is significant evidence that Grok actually inserted information about “white genocide” in South Africa into prompts that didn't appear to be related to this topic.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  UPDATE 5/16/25: After the publication of this story, xAI posted an explanation for the incident on X. “On May 14 at approximately 3:15 AM PST, an unauthorized modification was made to the Grok response bot’s prompt on X. This change, which directed Grok to provide a specific response on a political topic, violated xAI’s internal policies and core values.”

  Mmhmm

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starting today, Heroic Games Launcher is indexing their Discord server⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s an intermediate step, but M t a good one.

  If you’re indexing the content anyway, move it to a forum since it’s the same amount of work. Indexing inside Discord is just wasted hours as more and more items will continue to pile up.

  Discord is absolute trash for this type of thing, and when intermediate steps are likely the same amount of work as migrating your community, why bother other than the claim of “it’s where people are already”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Draft her to the NFL right now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So a really low budget movie, then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bungie appears to have plagarized an artist's work and style in their extraction shooter "Marathon" according to this Bluesky post⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Love the response. Very CYA and they’re called out on it by multiple people:

  ‪hi, tell legal to reply to my email from months ago.

  i simply can’t believe you’re thanking anyone “for bringing this to our attention” just because it went viral.

  what about all the times i’ve directly contacted you privately about using my work? why should i have to hurt your brand to be heard?

  So, we had some unknown outsource companies at fault for plagiarizing previously and now unknown former empleyee? How convenient! Surely the fact that art director and other marathon artists follow her means nothing.

  I really wish i could buy that this was actually just an overeager artist who got laid off to pay for pete parsons’ 80th classic car but not only is this the 4th time this has happened, joseph cross was following and clearly aware of antireal. yall knew and fully intended on getting away with it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck / Gaming News #15⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ghost is what we use (self-hosted) and it supports ActivityPub along side Lemmy (activitypub.ghost.org). I dont believe it yet supports full-article posting, only links, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3-2-1 Backups: How do you do the 1 offsite backup?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you use ZFS this becomes easy, because you can do incremental backups at the block level.

  I have my home lab server and do snapshots and sends to a server at my fathers house. Then I also have an external drive that I snapshot to as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mazda false DMCA takedown notice Home Assistant App⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Misleading title, though. Not Home Assistant, but a Home Assistant Integration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. Or perhaps pay into features, like full-page content inside the post. I.e. offset the revenue of the click. Oddly enough, that model would replace ads, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because zero-click internet kills the revenue model. It’s unfortunate, but understandable until something better comes along.

  Would love to see a co-op model spring up where views on sites like Lemmy generate revenue for publications without the click. I.E. pay $1 a month to a shared fund that’s distributed by percentage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOP sneaks decade-long AI regulation ban into spending bill - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe at this level it’s called favors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USDA Reverses Course, Commits to Restore Purged Climate Webpages in Response to Farmers’ Lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hear this one a lot, but the purpose of the “move fast and break things” methodology is to make things better. In some cases, that does work, and it’s usually applied with benefit in mind.

  Shock and awe might be more appropriate. Do as many things as possible to stun the population, so only the dedicated will push back.