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- Comment on Funded in 5 minutes - the open source modular mini computer 'Pilet' is on Kickstarter 1 week ago:
Every time I see a physical keyboard on a portable device I have this nostalgia for my old Motorola Droid.
Then the lizard brain tags out for monkey brain, and I remember how unpleasant the thing was to type on. The only reason it was cool was because the onscreen was so small that that it was pleasant by comparison.
- Comment on Funded in 5 minutes - the open source modular mini computer 'Pilet' is on Kickstarter 1 week ago:
The device is enormous. The renderings at the top make it look like this cute little retro thing, It’s an inch+ thick and has the footprint of an iPad mini. I hate linear keyboards, and the keys look uncomfortable as hell to type on, but you should be able to hit each one easily with your finger. I’m worried it’s just a bunch of micro switches on top of PCB.
It is unclear if it actually comes with the pie.
The indeterminate shipping fee is separate after the campaign ends.
It’s in this weird spot, If it were a standard consumer product the price would be way too high. But I worry that for a Kickstarter the price is actually too low.
- Comment on Discovery Plus is raising its prices 2 weeks ago:
Voice dictation censored it. Samsung buried the censorship deep enough in the settings that I don’t care to turn it on and off and I’m not big on hog wash so you’re all just going to have to use your imagination I know you can do it.
- Comment on Discovery Plus is raising its prices 2 weeks ago:
Discovery literally destroyed every channel in their lineup. Every scientific or educational channel is now infiltrated thoroughly with money making b*******.
It was trash TV before they even decided to try streaming it.
- Comment on Study reveals AI chatbots can detect race, but racial bias reduces response empathy 5 weeks ago:
The problem with using GPT as it is currently, you can ask it the same question 27 tomes and get 18 different answers. One of them a hallucination.
- Comment on Silicon Valley’s obsession with AI looks a lot like religion 5 weeks ago:
I think it would be really cool to spin up a open source project using conventional programming and one of these light duty models as a teaching device. Do some specific tuning around different subjects, also set up guardrails keeping them boxed into the subject at hand or related topics that have been tested.
- Comment on “A Digital Prison”: Surveillance and the suppression of civil society in Serbia 5 weeks ago:
Damn, Wonder if the us is going to be there in a decade… Really nice read.
- Comment on Trump transition team seeks to scrap car-crash reporting rule opposed by Elon Musk’s Tesla 5 weeks ago:
Well that sounds fine let’s make a report up and release it. Water stand on a few extra crashes to make sure that it’s reasonable.
- Comment on Silicon Valley’s obsession with AI looks a lot like religion 5 weeks ago:
TL;DR opinion piece: author has a history with religion, there are a few religious nutters in AI who either make outlandish religious claims, or something close enough that they can be interpreted literally. Article spends a very long, marginally painful time trying to imply all AI people are worshiping AI.
For what it’s worth, I think all AI people are worshiping money. They’re not in there because it’s God they’re in there because it’s might make them wealthy.
Wants people get over all this BS, We can just make cool tools out of it.
- Comment on Google says its new quantum chip indicates that multiple universes exist 5 weeks ago:
It lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes, in line with the idea that we live in a multiverse
JFC what a fucking slimeball.
The chip is great and all, they used it to run a specially designed but useless calculation that’s hard to do in conventional computing. It’s not like the thing is going to give you the 7 septillionth digit of pi, Even the fact that it might be able to break RSA is more of a quirk in RSA than anything.
- Comment on Microsoft Recall screenshots credit cards and Social Security numbers, even with the "sensitive information" filter enabled 5 weeks ago:
I am pretty much dedicated to notebooks these days and choices are VERY limited.
For desktops though, absolutely.
- Comment on Microsoft Recall screenshots credit cards and Social Security numbers, even with the "sensitive information" filter enabled 5 weeks ago:
Most of the distros run steam great out of the box. Our biggest problem is video card updates breaking crap. Linux Tech Tips scared a bunch of people off by not reading a warning message on an update then refusing to seek any help when something broke.
- Comment on Does GitHub Copilot Improve Code Quality? Here's How We Lie With Statistics 1 month ago:
Our team isn’t using it to generate huge swaths of code, just boilerplates for tedious stuff.
When I use it, I use it to crap out boilerplate stuff. Give me a flask app with these endoints, setup debug logging and give me jinga templates with these variables.
I don’t need to write that code more times in my life :)
- Comment on Does GitHub Copilot Improve Code Quality? Here's How We Lie With Statistics 1 month ago:
I make it no secret that I am against the AI Hype train.
I’m not a scientist either, and my opinions aren’t facts
I think I’m just going to stop right there. I give them credit for honesty, But if you have to come right out and say everything you’re about to say is complete unverifiable bullshit, I have no reason to read it unless I’m in that echo chamber.
If you get code from copilot, theres an above average chance it’s commented and commonly used.
Does/did stack exchange improve code quality? Does anybody really care?
- Comment on Three Men Die When Google Maps Tells Them to Drive Off Unfinished Bridge 1 month ago:
Infrastructure and Driving in India come with substantial risks to life.
- Comment on Three Men Die When Google Maps Tells Them to Drive Off Unfinished Bridge 1 month ago:
- As soon as the bridge was deemed unsafe, it should have had barricades erected.
- Situational awareness supersedes maps, digital or not.
- Every GPS device, paper map and App out there would have had even chances to miss this.
- Driving in India is insane, even if the infrastructure wasn’t as bad as it is… and to be clear, it’s awful.
- Comment on India banned a Chinese app four years ago. Government agencies are still using it 1 month ago:
I used an app called CamScanner for years. Wonder if it’s the same. I loved that app. It was small, fast, efficient.
- Comment on Amazon is shutting down Freevee 2 months ago:
I think Wil Wheaton had something that was supposed to air on Freevee, the link his PR person gave him just threw you back into the Amazon video page, I’ve never actually seen any information about the service or a working video stream surface.
It seems like a lot of places are ready to throw millions of dollars into system and just never freaking marking them.
- Comment on AI PCs flow into distribution pipeline, but who wants them? 2 months ago:
You can get a lot done currently with ARC. The mobile ARC versions share system memory, So if you get a mini PC with ARC and upgrade it to 96GB, you can share system ram with the GPU and load decently large models. They’re a little slow it not being vram and all, but still useful (and cheap)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyKEQjUzfAk
I have it running on a zenbook duo with 32GB so I can’t load the 70B models, but I works shockingly well.
- Comment on AI PCs flow into distribution pipeline, but who wants them? 2 months ago:
I certainly don’t wan to run windows on it :)
I’ve been running llama keep my telemetry out of the hands of Microsoft/Google/"open"AI. I’m kind of shocked how much I can do locally with a half assed video card, and offline model and a hacked up copy of searxng.
- Comment on Blizzard just quietly released Warcraft 1 and 2 remasters, and they look like Zynga games made by a blind duck 2 months ago:
That’s because crappy mobile game art looks like 1993 computer games :)
- Comment on Godot Engine 4.4 dev 4 released with interactive in-game editing 2 months ago:
Oh damn, I just started learning Godot yesterday…
- Comment on Signal gets new video call features, making it a viable alternative to Zoom, Meet and Teams 2 months ago:
I worked for a healthcare / health insurance place some time ago. They monitored absolutely everything. They had everything. We ran appliances to Man in the Middle HTTPS sites, We had sneaky SMTP servers that would detect credit card numbers or social security numbers block the emails from going out and send them to a secure web portal. The recipient would just get a message that there’s a secure message waiting for them and they have to go login and retrieve it.
These days if you run slack Enterprise, The workspace managers can get access to even the most private of chats. I’m not sure about teams I’ve managed to stay away from it. I believe you could do this in Gchat but it would probably require a lot of legwork maybe somebody makes an application for it already I don’t know.
I didn’t mean to say that no companies would go for it has anybody even just running small business versions of software don’t have access to that kind of thing, The places that have any intent on decent operational security are going to want their tentacles into all the things.
- Comment on Blizzard just quietly released Warcraft 1 and 2 remasters, and they look like Zynga games made by a blind duck 2 months ago:
shrug
Dunno, I was involved on some of the Zynga titles, so maybe I’m biased.
Two looks really decent. Maybe One could have had a few more cosmetic upgrades. It looks to me like maybe they leaned in a little hard into HDR.
If they were going to take the art much further than they did it probably would have been prudent just to make a new version.
- Comment on Signal gets new video call features, making it a viable alternative to Zoom, Meet and Teams 2 months ago:
TBF, the level of privacy afforded at work will never be usable in most companies.
At scale, it’s a security nightmare. PII, HIPAA, PCI, If OPSEC can’t at the very least go back and see what happened in private channels, it’s going to be a hard sell.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 2 months ago:
A: the driver knows they’re locked from the inside
B: they’re always locked form the inside, they didn’t just stop working because the car lost power
C: lithium fire/smoke makes thinking more difficult than an ICE engine fire
EV complicates it
Tesla made it really bad by electric-only locks.
- Comment on Lack Of Interest In The PS5 Pro Is Forcing Scalpers To Sell Them For A Loss 2 months ago:
sounds like if you can’t scalp it inside the return period, you probably shouldn’t have bought it in the first place.
- Comment on Facial Recognition Firm Announces Way To Punish Retail Workers, Shoppers For Forming Relationships 2 months ago:
“If you go into a shop and you pick up a few groceries, usually you would pick any of the cashiers that is around and you go scan your goods,” he said. “When someone is planning a sweethearting theft, they will always go to the same cashier, which is most of the time a relative of theirs, and this is an anomaly in the behavior compared to the other customers. Our system is able to identify this anomaly and alert on that.”
I usually go to one of two cashiers because they are faster and actually know what they are doing. I will always return to them simply to save time.
The system sounds costly. It’s merely another version of the “inventory robots” that never gained traction. They’ll end up spending six figures per store on hardware that constantly triggers false alerts until they eventually shut it down. Weren’t groceries supposed to be fully NFC by now, allowing you to scan everything at once on your way to the door?
The managers know who’s gonna steal. They see them sweet-talking and complaining about fixed income.
- Comment on Hacker says they banned ‘thousands’ of Call of Duty gamers by abusing anti-cheat flaw 2 months ago:
Had that happen once on a game. Guy was exploiting a bug for free currency, selling his service to add money to peoples accounts. Studio started banning people purchasing, Exploiter started giving away money to vast swaths of people.