Yaky

@Yaky@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which browser do you recommend for a low-resource PC?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A long time ago, I used Midori (the pre-2019 version), I remember it was the only browser that ran streaming video without issues. The browser itself is a bit flaky though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data centers get tax breaks. Not you though.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The last figure I saw for some Ohio data center was $15 million in tax breaks for 10 jobs. At this rate, give 10 random people in Ohio $1.5 million. That would help the economy much more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Barbarian had a joke with landlord getting excited about such “additional square footage”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When making a game level in a modern engine, is the (main, static) level geometry big one model, or many smaller pieces?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From what I remember ftom modding and just playing games from a while ago, often there is “level geometry” (which can be subdivided into parts if needed), for example, ground and hills in Fallout, city block in GTA; and then there is “decor”, repeated assets, such as trees, fences, pipes, obstacles, etc. This asset repetition is particularly noticeable in Fallout 3/NV, and somewhat in Stalker (mostly on abandoned cars)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evolution Factsberg⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  On a more serious note, Some Assembly Required by Neil Shubin has a lot of fascinating stuff like this about evolution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because a lot of current “AI” is a solution in search of a problem, being shoved into every product and hyped up as the next revolution, at a great expense. Even without the obvious environmental and financial impact, it is a huge nuisance. So people are upset and annoyed by it.

  You could ask the same about pop-up ads, invasive apps, spammers, scammers, mandated age verification, Amazon’s treatmeant of employees, and so on. No one would defend bad choices made by powerful people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨City of eternal winter? (Stable winter weather year-round)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks! That looks close to what I imagined. Temperature between -15-10C with smaller than normal seasonal variation.

  Longyearbyen has a polar tundra climate tempered by the North Atlantic Current

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  EVE Online (applies to MMOs in general I think). I played it a long time ago with a few friends, but that is it. If I could describe it, it’s opposite of interesting. You can sort of play it solo, but it gets boring and/or grindy fast. Unless you buy in-game money for real money. Dying means losing a ship and all implants, all of which cost money (time).

  For “full experience”, apparently you gotta join a corp, and participate in space turf wars. Then it could turn into a second job. And I have a job already. And TBH I am not a very social person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Loved Outer Wilds, but I completely understand why someone would not. There is almost zero direction, and that is not for everyone. Plus the time limit gets in the way sometimes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there an "Avoid Amazon" community for people who want to support smaller online retailers?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck amazon (and fuck ebay amazon dropshippers too). But you’re that impatient you need to waste time and energy shipping something back and forth? (and likely having that product end up in an amazon discard bin anyway)

  Their price already accounts for returns. You are just fucking over the delivery drivers who have quotas to meet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Question for The Boys fans: how can Vought International possibly, in-universe, “save” superhero reputations?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The same way oil companies fix public trust after an oil spill. Or Amazon after countless reports of worker abuse. Or Google after privacy violations. Or wealthy people after being on a certain island. Or fine, Jared the Subway guy.

  Vought is so large and embedded in every sector it does not matter to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is AI dialogue so fucking bad?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  LLMs build plausible-sounding texts. They don’t have to be correct or even good.

  Think of it this way: If you take all of the dialogue in digital and print media (include forum flame wars, cheap romance novels, and fanfics) then try to get an average out of that - what do you get?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if programmers rewrote the English language?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Toki Pona specifically makes me think of overly verbose programming languages. With limited ~120 word vocabulary, describing things can be lengthy. Orange pet cat would be something like “good animal of house and of red yellow”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What tools do you recommend for me to start working as a cell phone technician?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Second the iFixit kit.

  Another consideration is some tool to heat up the display or back. iFixit has the iOpener, a silicone “pillow” you heat up in the microwave, which works okay, but you might prefer a heat gun, or a plate (3D printer’s heated bed works too).

  And good lighting of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who have legally changed their first or last names (marriage not included), what is the reason you changed it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Some immigrants change their name to the variation that is more common one in the new country, especially if they use it every day already. Or to un-botch the transliterated spelling. So Oleksandr or Aleksandr is now Alexander, Katerina is Catherine, Ielizaveta is Elizabeth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did the world change to the so called hashtag? When I was younger it was only the pound sign. So hashtag Taylor Swift still reads in my mind pound Taylor Swift?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  IIRC Twitter introduced using # to make words searchable across all of the tweets, hence the name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung is shutting down messages — alternative to Google's messenger?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Free, sure. There is only one app that does it, with huge dependency on Google and/or carrier (whoever runs the servers), which could just… stop working one day, like it did for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the point of abbreviations for short words when they do not reduce times significantly when you type?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just to add to the fun confusing acronyms, in 3D printing circles, IPA is isopropyl alcohol, not beer (india pale ale)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the point of abbreviations for short words when they do not reduce times significantly when you type?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What specifically do you mean? If you are asking about you = u, to = 2, OK = k, and such, it’s text speak - faster to type and can fit more in 140 characters (SMS character limit IIRC)

  But I agree that there is no reason to use those, especially on non-mobile devices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can I do with a (jailbroken) iPad 1?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here is one of iPad reuse projects

  And here is a crazier and thorough project on replacing internals

  TBF I considered using my old iPad2 as in-car navigation or just as permanently-on weather display or picture frame. (If battery doesn’t swell from being on all the time)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with people liking old devices?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Smartphones and tablets manufactured circa 2015 were powerful enough to run many apps and software, and not yet locked down as much as they are now. So there were a lot of custom ROMs and kernels being made for Android and jailbreaking tools for iDevices, allowing you to customize much much more than the manufacturer intended.

  And it’s just fun to make something that most people consider “obsolete” perform well, or well enough to be usable.

  Not sure what role gender plays into that though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If someone opened a store and just sold stuff at cost, which undercuts every other competitors by alot. Would this not for the big corps to come way down on their prices?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Large companies can do / have done that (dumping to drive out smaller competition.

  Small companies usually cannot afford this.

  Unless you can pitch this as a disruptive idea to gullible investors (looking at all tech startups that burn trillions without making profits)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you answer the "ecological" question on self hosting and federated networks ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow. This is literally the argument used by the megacorporation in book The Every (sequel to The Circle). It’s supposed to be social commentary and satire of greenwashing - the megacorporation claims only it is capable of saving the world by being “green” (which includes recycling people’s prized posessions like heirlooms and photographs into bricks for prisons)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the weirdest argument you've gotten into with someone?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a geographic one for you:

  Friend: posts some statistics map
  Me: Czechia is an interesting outlier here, weird.
  Friend: [sic] its czechoslovakia, not chechnia

  All countries/regions that start with “ch” sound are the same i guess. Also Czechoslovakia split in 1989.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the weirdest argument you've gotten into with someone?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My friend at the time watched some documentary about chess computers (Deep Blue etc.) and was telling me about the “super advanced algorithm called Brute Force”. I told him that brute force is means trying every possible combination, is the least efficient approach, and does not generally work for chess. He was adamant it was some genius algorithm. The only time in my life I remember saying “I have a computer science degree, I know what I am talking about”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New to android ROMs and degoogling and I have questions.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know of:

  • LineageOS
  • LineageOS+microg (is its own thing)
  • GrapheneOS - this is what I use
  • eOS - shiny degoogled Android
  • iodeOS - degoogled Android with some extra features and parental controls - might be something you want?

  Some other Android-derived projects are inactive: DivestOS shut down, CalyxOS is paused.

  For 3, I think it has to do with popularity, unlockability, and the chipset.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do russian parents insist on being treated to home cooked meals?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You see Ivan, birthday is for other people to eat, drink, and have fun, not for you.

  Kinda like a big wedding in the US I guess? Bride and groom are not the ones having fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do russian parents insist on being treated to home cooked meals?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  AFAICT restaurants were few, expensive, and difficult to get into (i.e. not for regular people on regular basis), and the option for regular people would be stolovaya (cafeteria?) which is simple, probably mediocre food.

  So seems like if you don’t have the connections and want decent food, make it yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do russian parents insist on being treated to home cooked meals?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are they (post-)soviet boomers? There are some cultural things that I noticed too, some amusing, some frustrating.

  • Home food is automatically better than restaurant food, as you said. Also, somehow, any burger is automatically viewed as McDonalds burger (i.e. bad)
  • Unsolicited advice and unprompted attempts to help.
  • Insistence on getting you a gift or accepting a never-requested gift. “Here’s a nice thing, it was expensive and difficult to get, you should like it”.
  • Viewing self as “a burden”. Being offered food, comfort, or accomodation is rejected because “I don’t want to impose”. Sometimes goes into “suffering builds character” mindset, which is nonsense.