riskable
@riskable@programming.dev
Father, Hacker (Information Security Professional), Open Source Software Developer, Inventor, and 3D printing enthusiast
- Comment on Trump’s pick to lead Bureau of Labor Statistics ran Twitter account with sexually degrading, bigoted attacks 2 days ago:
Do what they’re saying is that this person was clearly qualified to work for this administration.
- Comment on Amazon's strict RTO policy is costing it top tech talent, according to internal document and insiders 2 days ago:
We continue to believe that teams produce the best results when they’re collaborating and inventing in person,
First of all, that’s 100% bullshit.
Secondly, what about individuals‽ Ya know, the people that make up “the team.”
Studies have shown that individuals produce the best results when they’re working alone and not bothered regularly by office bullshit.
…but let’s get more specific, because Amazon is talking about innovation and “inventing”: Study after study has shown that the kind of “group brainstorming” that Amazon is referring to here produces worse results that having individuals work on ideas alone then pooling them together afterwards.
Literally the opposite of what they’re claiming.
Amazon: Believe your own bullshit at your peril. Well, at the loss of tech talent I guess 🤷
- Comment on That's an impressive drop. Any ideas why? 1 week ago:
I’m guessing this graph matches closely with anime viewing… The true amplifier of Japan’s population decline!
To solve this crisis, we must make catgirls real and unleash an army of bland
protagonistsyoung men with almost no personality that possess some overpowered skill. Such as the ability to stay thin despite the ready availability of sugary/processed foods. - Comment on AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare 1 week ago:
Training an AI is orthogonal to copyright since the process of training doesn’t involve distribution.
You can train an AI with whatever TF you want without anyone’s consent. That’s perfectly legal fair use. It’s no different than if you copy a song from your PC to your phone.
Copyright really only comes into play when someone uses an AI to distribute a derivative of someone’s copyrighted work. Even then, it’s really the end user that is even capable of doing such a thing by uploading the output of the AI somewhere.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 1 week ago:
Ugh, if only that worked for longer than like a month.
Eventually all these materials you can throw under throw rugs to make them stickier end up failing. Catastrophically.
Make sure to get a throw rug that has the non-slip feature sewn in. Make sure it’s nice and heavy too and never put it in the dryer (it’ll ruin the non-slip part). You should probably air dry throw rugs anyway, actually 🤷
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 1 week ago:
The rug threw you. That’s why they’re called that!
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 1 week ago:
Xerox is a bad copy of themselves from decades prior.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 1 week ago:
Try this and the result may shock you!
Doctors hate it!
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 1 week ago:
…and people that work with resin and 3D printerers.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 1 week ago:
I’m going to assume the standard was poorly understood because I can’t imagine a multi-billion dollar company hires idiots to set standards.
Ahahahahahahaha! Oh man, you got a good laugh out of me this morning 🤣
- Comment on Uhm 1 week ago:
For images, it’s not even data collection because all the images that are used for these AI image generation tools are out on the internet for free for anyone to download right now. That’s how they’re obtained: A huge database of (highly categorized) image URLs (e.g. ImageNET) is crawled/downloaded.
That’s not even remotely the same thing as “data collection”. That’s when a company vacuums everything they can from your private shit. Not that photo of an interesting building you uploaded to flickr over a decade ago.
- Comment on Uhm 1 week ago:
This is sad, actually, because this very technology is absolutely fantastic at identifying things in images. That’s how image generation works behind the scenes!
esp32-cam identifying a cat, a bike, and a car in an image
ChatGPT screwed this up so badly because it’s programmed to generate images instead of using reference images and then identifying the relevant parts. Which is something a tiny little microcontroller board can do.
If they just paid to license a data set of medical images… Oh wait! They already did that!
Sigh
- Comment on The air is hissing out of the overinflated AI balloon 1 week ago:
LLMs are great at checking grammar in writing. That’s the other thing I’ve found there useful for 🤷
Basically, using LLMs to write something is always a bad idea (unless you’re responding to bullshit with more bullshit e.g. work emails 🤣). Using them to check writing is pretty useful though.
- Comment on Caption this. 2 weeks ago:
Frogamagogery
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 2 weeks ago:
I hate Microsoft and Excel but that date thing is exactly the kind of stuff that AI would be great at.
Just not the kind of AI Microsoft probably plans to put in Excel 🤷
- Comment on Japan's 1st osmotic power plant begins operating in Fukuoka 2 weeks ago:
Well it’s certainly not sad news!
- Comment on USB-C extensions are not allowed for a reason 2 weeks ago:
3rd party, universal cable != Circuit boards/connectors designed for very specific hardware (used internally)
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
No cap!
- Comment on Why people say they have a "boy cat" or a "girl cat" but when the cat grows up, they don't call is a "man cat" or "woman cat"? 3 weeks ago:
Because that would be a cattasrophe!
- Comment on Caption this. 3 weeks ago:
Donut transform the soccer ball!
- Comment on GPT-5 upgrade sparks backlash from ChatGPT Plus users over new usage limits 4 weeks ago:
Seems a bit early in the game to start nickel and diming their customers. Especially when Claude Pro is cheaper and is actually better in many respects.
Technically, 80 messages every three hours is better than Claude Pro’s ~45 messages in five hours but that’s only during peak times. If you’re mostly using Claude at night you’re basically never going to run out (with casual/human-speed chat usage).
- Comment on What are your experiences using Linux for gaming? 4 weeks ago:
They’re a pain, yeah but no worse than Windows. I want to point out that with Intel/AMD your drivers update in the background (like everything else) and you experience no issues at all. With Nvidia, the drivers will update in the background and—until you reboot—some apps can get a bit glitchy. The same shit happens with Windows even though Nvidia claims they can update the drivers without requiring a reboot. My father-in-law’s brand new Windows 11 PC has the exact same sort of glitching/crashes that I experience in Linux with games (when the Nvidia driver updates; if you haven’t rebooted).
The only reason why Windows users don’t experience it as much is because Windows forces you to reboot all the fucking time. Windows users have just accepted this as a natural part of using a PC.
That is the pain of the Nvidia drivers. It’s not a huge deal—just annoying.
- Comment on What are your experiences using Linux for gaming? 4 weeks ago:
This screenshot is just an FYI at some of your options. I’ve got bottles, PortProton, and the ProtonTricks launcher as options for any given EXE/MSI installer. Bottles is usually all that’s necessary but I have the others for super tricky stuff like embedded software development BS that would never be encountered by a normal person (haha).
- Comment on What are your experiences using Linux for gaming? 4 weeks ago:
FANTASTIC! I love that 100% of the games I want to play work great without issue but what I love even more is the conveniences that Linux provides over Windows:
- It is trivially easy to sync my configs/saves/game data across my network to different PCs with
rsync -ave ssh(i.e. if I want to play on the big screen via the HTPC). - I can do the same with my phone using the FolderSync Android app (which supports sync over SSH just like rsync).
- I can script stuff! Example: A lot of games (especially those with 3rd party mods) can be buggy AF and as a result of that, increase the possibility of corrupting my saves/game/world data. For these games I use
rdiff-backupright there in the save/game/world directory every 10 minutes with say, 100 backups. Put that in a cron job and the worst that happens is I lose 10 minutes. - If the game has a server, chances are there’s already a native Linux version which means I can run it locally on my PC in the background or just sync my whole game over to another of my Linux PCs and run it there. No need for complicated setups where you have to manage things across two completely different operating systems (like Windows 11 and Windows Server 2025 ahahaha; that’s a joke poking fun at the Windows ecosystem if you don’t get it 🤣).
- I actually have the power to control where my sound goes on the fly and it actually fucking works (unlike Windows where you get to pick one device at a time and good luck keeping that one active if you have a Bluetooth audio device that likes to lose its connection from time to time… Ugh). You can actually do weird shit like send your audio over the network to a whole home’s worth of PCs (or stream it over the Internet I guess) but I only ever did that once and man was it cool, haha. Still, it’s nice to have the option (some open source dev worked really hard to make sure that works; and fantastically well too).
- Multiple applications can use the GPU at the same time (if you’re using Wayland) and that actually works properly. Unlike in Windows—where if you enable “hardware acceleration” in an app like Discord it can suddenly become slow AF scrolling when you’ve got a game open in the background.
- You have vastly more control over gamepad/controllers in Linux than you do in Windows. In Windows—if your controller is detected properly (which hopefully doesn’t require that you download a ~4GB of driver/bloat app bullshit)—you can test the buttons in the Settings/Control Panel. But that’s all you can do. The X button is the X button is the X button. You want that button to send something else? You need sketchy proprietary 3rd party software for that! In Linux, you can do whatever TF you want with that button and there’s several ways to do it (qjoypad gives you a nice GUI—right there in your distro’s repositories for quick install).
- No “You need to reboot your computer” popups in the middle of gaming/streaming!
- You don’t need sixteen bloated system tray/processes running at all times (slowing down your PC) to keep all your stuff working! If you use a Linux desktop for a few weeks then go back to Windows you’ll get annoyed AF pretty fast at all those pop-ups, “Why did I put up with this BS?” 🤣
- Privacy by default: HP, Nvidia, Dell, Logitech, Razer, and Microsoft can’t see that you’re playing that game that just got banned by MasterCard/Visa 🤣
Also—generally speaking—Linux is just more fun to use! Customize TF out of your desktop experience. The only thing stopping you is… you.
- It is trivially easy to sync my configs/saves/game data across my network to different PCs with
- Comment on Y'ALL GOT ANY OF THEM HALLOPINERS 5 weeks ago:
Person drives up and starts bitching at this guy.
His response?
“I have no words.” [Throws his hands up]
- Comment on The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement 5 weeks ago:
If you mow your lawn with an electric lawn mower that’s charged via solar panels, your lawn is a carbon sink (assuming you water it via some renewable means).
- Comment on The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement 5 weeks ago:
Everything that exists is natural. That’s why the supernatural doesn’t exist.
- Comment on Is there any social media without memes and US politics? 1 month ago:
Without memes? 😭
- Comment on YouTuber Faces Possible Jail Time for Reviewing Gaming Handhelds 1 month ago:
An unnecessary emulation too! Of fascists.
- Comment on Neighbors take back Southeast Portland street, replacing RVs with community garden 1 month ago:
Turning people’s homes into “gardens” is not positive news. It’s just one step away from Soylent Green.
