TehPers

@TehPers@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung's SSD warranty policy scammed me so I'm taking them to court.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  FYI Rossman has videos on his own stance on influencers and whether he considers himself one. You can just search his channel for “influencer”. It comes up a bit too in his videos on Linus Sebastian.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge Learns Lawyers on Both Sides of Case Used AI, Cancels Trial, Kicks Everyone Off the Case⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To make things even more confusing:

  The case in question involved a contractual dispute between lawyer Tom Withers and the city of Aberdeen, Mississippi, over apparently unpaid legal fees (Withers was not representing himself and was not sanctioned by the court).

  This case is comedy at its finest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG apologizes for emailing Nazi runes to its followers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I also would find it difficult to believe that a Polish company’s public stance is in support of the Nazis.

  What they sent is obviously unacceptable, and shit should happen so they never make that mistake again. But it’s hard to jump to the assumption that it was intentional based on one instance. If it’s a pattern, then I’m more interested to see evidence of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any good indie games on steam? Can be any genre.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Months is an understatement. Just remember to eat, drink water, and sleep now and then. It helps to keep a window nearby so you can track when it’s day/night as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Searching for 'Disregard' Breaks Google AI overviews; Similar command phrases, including "ignore," "quit," "skip," and "stop,"; "look" and "forget" are also prompting chatbot-like responses.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Normally, yes. That always seems to be one of the results.

  I specifically forced it to do a quick answer, and it still gave me a definition. Interestingly, for “disregard”, it also covered a bit about the Google nonsense results after defining the word.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Searching for 'Disregard' Breaks Google AI overviews; Similar command phrases, including "ignore," "quit," "skip," and "stop,"; "look" and "forget" are also prompting chatbot-like responses.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  FYI when I tried Kagi’s Quick Answer out of curiosity, even that gave me a dictionary definition for “disregard”. That being the case, I’d trust it about as much as I trust Google’s AI overviews (which is to mean “not at all”). It just doesn’t show up for me unless I prompt it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone created a public domain version of Netflix⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, I agree with them. All the skilled programmers are getting fired by a bunch of companies with poor financial sense who want to blame everything on AI. Also, if this thread shows anything, then it’s that prospective skilled programmers would rather ask Claude to do their homework for that quick dopamine hit than actually learn that they’re supposed to use parameterized queries so that some random kid’s mom doesn’t delete their production database.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone created a public domain version of Netflix⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds to me like you haven’t worked on a team before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone created a public domain version of Netflix⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No actually. It’s because I ran pyright and there are nearly 1000 type errors. It’s because your LLM decided to setattr and getattr all over these Pydantic models. It’s because for some reason you’re using protocols where an ABC would make more sense. It’s because I told you all this on your last PR, you fixed it that time for the most part, then you’re doing the same thing again on this PR. And it’s because now I have to open a PR that conflicts with one of the 200 files your PR touched fixing all the problems your LLM introduced. All this because you refused to read the docs for two packages and follow the examples.

  Look, I’m not calling you out specifically. I’m just ranting about my day job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Utah tells porn sites to take the P out of VPNs, and it's their fault that they can't⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  almost everything else tends to be encrypted with SSL/TLS by default nowadays

  FYI DNS supports DNS-over-HTTPS. You still need to trust the DNS server, but you can run one yourself at least if you’re worried about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game Consoles Are Pricing Themselves Out of Relevance⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This. Everything’s more expensive.

  The nice thing about PCs, though, is you can use the same machine for gaming and productivity. You don’t need to buy two different machines. If you have a PC, you can play games on it.

  The best approach for most people right now is to play games on whatever they already have. If you already have a console, then you don’t need to buy one. If you already have a PC, then you don’t need a console. Play games on what you already have. PC gamers do have the advantage of new releases being available on computers built even two decades ago (if you ignore the more demanding releases), but there’s plenty of games to play on all platforms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SHL0MS(famous prankster on X/Twitter) baited AI haters by posting a real painting by Monet, claiming it was AI generated. The post got viral(>6M views) as art critics started deleting their replies⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  art isn’t just what’s on the canvas

  In fact, it often has nothing to do with what’s on the canvas, and entirely to do with the context the art was made in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be very easy to write a script that burns tokens when your leaderboard position changes. The problem is competition, which if scripted, would result in tokens burned going through the roof at an accelerating pace.

  Naturally, even with people, that will still happen. It’ll just be a little bit slower instead.

  Eventually they will run out of money. The real question is whether the planet survives while they drain their bank accounts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That codebase must be abysmal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't non-selfhosed AI models/apps private?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  recovery email which they did not hash

  How do you recover an account on the other providers? Do you have to provide the same recovery email you set before during account recovery? If you hash the email, you have no way of reading it anymore, so someone has to provide it to you again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Previewing the Framework Wireless Touchpad Keyboard⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had laptops where this is a BIOS setting. A simple switch on the side of the keyboard to flip which keys are on the fn layer solves the problem too. Same with key remapping, for keyboards that support that (and really any nice keyboard should or it’s not worth the cost).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gamer's Nexus has been Blacklisted by AMD⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In good news, we got a summary of his 9950x3d2 review, which was basically that it’s a ripoff at $900. Unironically, if you’re somehow in the market for a CPU like that, consider either the 9950x3d for productivity and core count, or the 9800x3d for gaming. The 9950x3d2 brings nothing to the table for anyone outside of maybe some niche applications which need both core count and cache size and can afford the latency for data transfers between CCDs.

  Or, I guess, don’t buy anything because all the companies suck and everything is unbelievably expensive. Who needs a computer anyway?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tim Cook to step down as CEO of Apple: ‘the greatest privilege of my life’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s hoping John Apple does what it takes to make me actually consider an Apple device! Like, I don’t know, making user-friendly decisions without the EU getting on their ass about it first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Valve’s cost of hosting is pennies.

  Surely you can’t mean this literally. They host downloads of hundreds of GB that get served to tens of millions of users. The bandwidth costs alone are going to be insanely high, putting aside the storage costs as well.

  But anyway, I’d love to see them lower it to 5%. I think if they can afford to do that, they should take the lead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I see this point come up all the time when it comes to Steam, but I have yet to see anyone really propose an alternative. How much should it cost to host your game on Steam? It obviously can’t be free because of hosting costs, and you’re also paying for marketing and discoverability, so what’s a good price for it?

  Until recently, 30% was the industry standard for large software stores. Google is apparently lowering its cut after losing their recent battle with Epic, so it’s possible that the industry standard changes. I’d hope that Valve adjusts with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The World Is Basically Begging for Another iPod⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Could also buy a device and not connected it to a cellular network. I have old phones that would fill this role perfectly, actually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s xAI sues Colorado over new rules for artificial intelligence⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The output of a model isn’t speech protected by the 1st amendment, so this lawsuit is dumb. It’ll of course waste time and money though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"The $60 Billion Gaming Scam Nobody Talks About" by mrixrt⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While I can’t speak to the amount itself (somehow the industry as a whole settled on 30%), I do think it’s fair to say that Steam, the App Store, and the Play Store aren’t just payment processors. They also are platforms for users to discover new software/games, and they do a lot of advertising for developers. I can agree with the fee being too high, but I don’t think it’s fair to compare it with PayPal, which only processes the payments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your RAM Has a 60 Year Old Design Flaw. I Bypassed It.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  She’s literally just doing her own version of the MrBeast face. It’s not even that unique. Half the people I watch on YouTube slap their face in their thumbnail, and I don’t watch clickbaity slop.

  Just install DeArrow, enable thumbnails through it if needed, and move on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple's chips are winners, but Windows fails help it most⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For roughly the price of a single 9800x3d, you can buy a complete laptop with a long lasting battery and decent enough specs for web browsing, video playback, and basic office work. It’s unfortunately one of the better devices on the market at that price, especially accounting for the battery life.

  Apple selling a ‘repairable’ and low-end device just looks like a recession indicator to me.

  One of the few, I take it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Men Are Buying Hacking Tools to Use Against Their Wives and Friends⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. Not only are harassment and abuse not new, but using actual hacking tools to do it is old news too. Maybe the article is just trying to bring it back to attention.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux kernel maintainers are following through on removing Intel 486 support⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My point was more along the lines of online being impractical. Sure, you can still connect to servers running old software (in which case kernel updates aren’t useful to you anyway), but anything with modern security or software is going to just not run at all on it, whether because the software is too heavy for the processor or because it simply was not compiled for it (and cannot be).

  Point is, I think we both agree that the only reasonable usecase for these processors is offline or on a separate network (LAN/tunneled/etc).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux kernel maintainers are following through on removing Intel 486 support⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What kind of security risk are you at running a 486? You can barely handle the TLS handshake. Modern malware would just brick your system the same way any other modern software would.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel trapped in Elon's reality distortion field⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If money is speech, then taxes clearly violate the first amendment. In fact, any kind of payment does.

  Therefore, I should not have to pay taxes either. It’s not like the rich do, anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech companies are cutting jobs and betting on AI. The payoff is far from guaranteed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The only bet I see here is on large-scale financial decline. If they expected to see any kind ofajor productivity boosts in the future, they’d be hiring everyone they can.