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- Comment on AI video is invading YouTube Shorts and Google Photos starting today 2 days ago:
WTF kill this with fire.
- Comment on 3D Printing Patterns Might Make Ghost Guns More Traceable Than We Thought 6 days ago:
And ‘Lie detectors’. Don’t forget those frauds.
- Comment on It really works! 1 week ago:
Ironically, ionized particles tend to stick together (trying to become neutrally-charged) whereas unionized particles tend not to interact as strongly; so a group of chemists ‘binding’ together to form a union would actually be ‘ionized’ not ‘unionized’ … metaphorically :p
- Comment on Anubis is awesome! Stopping (AI)crawlbots 1 week ago:
Ah, hashcash. Wish that had taken off, it was a good idea …
- Comment on AI is eating up Pennsylvania's power, governor threatens to pull state from the grid — new plants aren't being built fast enough to keep up with demand 2 weeks ago:
Just using “LLM” is also a bit over-specific, however, as it’d exclude text-to-image models, and others.
Fair point. I haven’t heard of an equivalent to LLM for, as per your example, text-to-image models. Hmm.
- Comment on AI is eating up Pennsylvania's power, governor threatens to pull state from the grid — new plants aren't being built fast enough to keep up with demand 2 weeks ago:
Oooh, Iike that one.
- Comment on AI is eating up Pennsylvania's power, governor threatens to pull state from the grid — new plants aren't being built fast enough to keep up with demand 2 weeks ago:
Please everyone, consider calling “AI” something more accurate – they’re not intelligent, though definitely ‘artificial’ as in man-made. I personally like the terms “stochastic parrot” or even just “LLM”.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
if jobs had living wages
But but billionaires would be slightly less obscenely rich then, oh no!
- Comment on Microsoft Says Its New AI Diagnosed Patients 4 Times More Accurately Than Human Doctors 3 weeks ago:
AI for pattern recognition (statistical stuff) IMHO is fine, it’s different than expecting thought, reasoning or understanding, which the new ‘AI’ does not do, despite the constant hype.
- Comment on Google releases Magenta RealTime, an open source AI model for live music creation 5 weeks ago:
Good god, it’s Microsoft Songsmith all over again.
- Comment on Palantir Is Going on Defense 1 month ago:
Data analytics firm doesn’t like … data on itself being analyzed. huh.
- Comment on Your Philips Commodore 1084 monitor might have a serious flaw (and it has twins!?) [1:06:11] | Adrian's Digital Basement 1 month ago:
I had the Magnavox 8CM515 which was basically the same, and the front power switch burnt out – repair guy just shorted it, saying it was next to impossible ti find a replacement… used that monitor on a CoCo-III, Atari STfm and an MM/1, wonderful RGB monitor for its time.
- Comment on Windows 95 chime composer Brian Eno denounces Microsoft for its ties to Israeli government 2 months ago:
Agreed. I got to see him speak once years ago, wonderful lecture on the nature of creativity, lateral thinking, and just… stuff. Hard to describe, but just excellent.
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 2 months ago:
- Comment on Bill Gates to give away 99% of his wealth in the next 20 years 2 months ago:
Beat me to it. Anand Giridharadas has spoken on the general scam of billionaires white-washing their legacies like this… their philanthropy seldom approaches, much less exceeds, the harm they did in getting so rich in the first place.
- Comment on I installed Linux on this 8-inch mini laptop, and it's my new favorite way of computing 2 months ago:
Still love my Acer Aspire v151, core i5. 11" is a great size, just big enough for a standard keyboard. I wish they would have updated models like that. A Ryzen 9 version would kick ass.
- Comment on The Evertop: A Low-Power, Off-Grid Solar Gem 2 months ago:
Damn, I wish someone would make a 68k based version of this.
- Comment on Elon Musk Cuts Funding for Internet Archive 2 months ago:
The IA needs to relocate out of the US, now. The EU and Canada should be convinced to fund them.
I’ve donated to them and am willing to do so again, but I’d like it to be after they show they have a concrete exit plan.
- Comment on Florida draft law mandating encryption backdoors for social media accounts billed 'dangerous and dumb' | TechCrunch 3 months ago:
It may become the duty of every software engineer at this time to offer their services to those who need security, to make custom solutions for those who require it.
Cypherpunks, arise!
- Comment on My Easter decorations include a self portrait (oc) 3 months ago:
You’re such a cute chocolate bunny!
Now who’s that glum one on the left?
- Comment on How to harden against SSH brute-forcing? 3 months ago:
There’s a dedicated tool named sshguard which works nicely.
- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 3 months ago:
Just be sure to check support before buying any newish laptop. I really like my ASUS Duo Pro 2024, but ASUS adamantly refuses to lift a finger for proper Linux support for special features. Even the audio chipset which is standard somehow doesn’t work with default kernels due to something they’ve done. Dual screen can be made to work with some scripting-fu, but the keyboard’s multimedia keys just don’t work at all.
Vote with your wallets and be noisy to those brands who don’t support Linux well. Let them know if lack of Linux support was why you didn’t buy.
- Comment on Why are Google's Assistant(s) so bad nowadays? 4 months ago:
The Assistan/Nest devices have gone to shit as well. When I first bought one about 5 years ago, it could:
- play many games (voice-controlled text adventures, multi-player gameshow-style trivia and party games, etc.);
- play music from my Google Music Library library with no commercials;
- play podcasts from 3rd party podcast providers;
- play almost any radio station that also had livestream feeds
Now all the games are gone, and ‘podcasts’ are just the small subset of podcasters who also upload their episodes to Youtube (whatever feed they used to use had almost every podcaster there was, even obscure ones); asking for specific episodes by episode number or date is totally broken. Playing radio stations is hit or miss, the voice recognition often picks a stream completely unrelated to the one I ask for; it is waaay worse at matching the callsign/city I ask for.
Playing music is intolerable. There’s a stupid commercial for Youtube Music Premium after nearly every track. NO, I will not upgrade to your freaking Youtube Premium.
Enshittification, thy name is Google.
- Comment on i’m not religious. stop trying to force me to be. 4 months ago:
Stay true to your principles. There are many, many others out there who agree with you. One’s religion should NEVER motivate one to force it upon others.
In fact I think there is no true “freedom of religion” without “freedom FROM religion”. If only our governments would codify this explicitly into law.
- Comment on Open Source Github Repositories in Danger of being Deleted 4 months ago:
Dunno about docker setup, but I mirror github repos I worry may disappear automatically using my self-hosted gogs instance. (Gitea/Forgejo likely also can do it). It’s point-and-click, you just specify the github URL and check a box “this is a mirror”.
- Comment on put that in your pipe and smoke it 4 months ago:
It is a plant, just of a sort that has turned to parasitism I suppose for its nutrients. I believe they are part of a larger family of plants named saprophytes.
- Comment on fireflies 4 months ago:
Same for ladybird beetles (ladybugs)! They love undisturbed autumn leaves and are natural pest control, so you should give them any opportunity possible to over-winter their eggs in your yard :)
- Comment on Google Chrome disables uBlock Origin for some in Manifest v3 rollout 4 months ago:
Vivaldi on Linux and Windows is still good in my experience, and so far uBlock Origin for manifest v2 still works. I hope they keep v2 support forever, forking completely if they must.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 5 months ago:
“He who saves his country has committed no crime.” -Donald Trump (reading a post-it note handed to him by Felon Musk, quoting Napoleon, or something)
- Comment on Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data, including DNA, in one big Oracle system for AI to study 5 months ago:
I’ll let you know once I receive mine, fate willing :)