hperrin
@hperrin@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Amazon paid more than $1bn to take creative control of James Bond 10 hours ago:
Gross. I don’t want them owning any IP.
- Comment on Day 208 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 1 week ago:
Is this from Hello: The Mister Chef Collective?
- Comment on If scientists could make you immortal but could only do it by transferring your consciousness into a single video game for ever, which game would you choose? 1 week ago:
Minecraft. The world isn’t infinite, but it’s really damn big.
- Comment on Fantastic Four: First Steps poster seems to have been made with AI 2 weeks ago:
You must live a sad and depressing life.
- Comment on To whomever invented LED bus advertisements: I despise you. 2 weeks ago:
Whoever*
Whom is an object, who is a subject. An object usually follows prepositions like “to”, so it’s good instinct to use whomever here, but in this case the object is the entire clause “whoever invented …”, so the whoever is the subject of the verb invented.
- Comment on Moap 2 weeks ago:
Swap it out with real meat and see if they notice.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
If you ever want to feel uncomfortable and depressed, go watch a sermon at a Kingdom Hall (Jehovah’s Witness church). It’s all about Armageddon.
- Comment on I will take no arguments 3 weeks ago:
Well if you don’t like black rectangle, you can have silver rectangle.
- Comment on Does Gmail have more spam now? 3 weeks ago:
It’s more than just subaddressing, but yes, it uses subaddressing with either a plus or a dash as the delimiter.
- Comment on Does Gmail have more spam now? 3 weeks ago:
Basically because it’s automatic, so just giving out a new email address is all you need to do to set up a new label. Then you can do things like turning notifications for that label on and off or blocking the label altogether with a toggle. It also supports screening on labels that are just for real people to contact you. If you email me at hperrin-friends@port87.com, you’ll get an email right back asking you to prove you’re human before the email actually gets delivered to me. That way if that email gets disclosed publicly (like I just did) you don’t have to worry about spam.
But yeah, if you’ve got a system that works for you already, no worries. I’m trying to make Port87 an easy solution for people who aren’t happy with their current email provider.
- Comment on Does Gmail have more spam now? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s basically that but automatic, so people like my mom could set it up and use it. It also supports challenge-response screening on any label you want to be just for actual people.
- Comment on Does Gmail have more spam now? 3 weeks ago:
Gmail’s problem is that it relies on a spam filter in the first place. Check out port87.com
(Full disclosure, I created and run Port87.)
- Comment on Is there any way our of the US political spiral? 4 weeks ago:
Republicans are already poor and victimized. But all they watch is political propaganda (Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, etc) so they blame it on immigrants and trans people instead of the rich who are robbing them blind.
- Comment on Is there any way our of the US political spiral? 4 weeks ago:
The only way I see out of it is not a way I like or am willing to talk about online. Let’s just say the second amendment is making more and more sense every day.
- Comment on windows update 4 weeks ago:
The extra horrifying thing is that this person could have been only 5 years old when Windows 10 came out.
- Comment on Templates of Cleo (my OC) holding a flag. (view body for more) 4 weeks ago:
If you refuse to read the ruling, then I don’t know why you’re even arguing.
- Comment on Templates of Cleo (my OC) holding a flag. (view body for more) 4 weeks ago:
If you refuse to read the ruling, then I don’t know why you’re even arguing.
- Comment on Templates of Cleo (my OC) holding a flag. (view body for more) 4 weeks ago:
A judge’s ruling is not guidance, it’s precedent.
- Comment on Templates of Cleo (my OC) holding a flag. (view body for more) 4 weeks ago:
If you refuse to read the ruling, then I don’t know why you’re even arguing.
- Comment on Templates of Cleo (my OC) holding a flag. (view body for more) 4 weeks ago:
It doesn’t matter what he argued. What matters is the judge’s decision, and that was about whether AI generated material is copyrightable in the first place. The judge agreed on a summary judgement based on the Copyright Office’s claims, not the defendants claims. That is legal precedent.
- Comment on Templates of Cleo (my OC) holding a flag. (view body for more) 4 weeks ago:
Read the actual decision:
The decision was that the work was not copyrightable because it was made without human involvement.
- Comment on Templates of Cleo (my OC) holding a flag. (view body for more) 4 weeks ago:
There has been a ruling issued by a judge:
- Comment on I like the determinism of Murphy’s Razor 4 weeks ago:
That’s also not right. It’s about assumptions. The explanation that makes the fewest assumptions is usually the right one.
- Comment on I like the determinism of Murphy’s Razor 4 weeks ago:
Occam’s Razor is also wrong. It’s not about simplicity, but assumptions. The explanation that makes the fewest assumptions is usually the right one.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Email is great.
- Comment on Templates of Cleo (my OC) holding a flag. (view body for more) 4 weeks ago:
The precedent so far is that you can only copyright the things you actually had a majority influence in creating. So if the AI did most of the work, you can’t copyright it. You can copyright the parts of it that were your sole creation, like pasting your logo on top of AI images, but the image itself is not copyrightable.
- Comment on Templates of Cleo (my OC) holding a flag. (view body for more) 4 weeks ago:
Fun fact: AI generated content is not copyrightable.
- Comment on Almost a third of developers think generative AI is a negative for the games industry, says new survey 4 weeks ago:
Only a third?
- Comment on What are You Working on Wednesday 4 weeks ago:
I’m working on implementing a new email parser and a new blob storage for my email service, port87.com
The new parser has a number of benefits, including being able to parse emails that consist of only binary data (something like emailing a zip file, without a text body, which Google does for their DMARC reports). It also makes it a lot easier for me to parse and store attachments.
The new blob storage has the biggest benefit, that I can store things with arbitrary keys (just like S3), but it will automatically dedupe the data (unlike S3). It’s a WebDAV server that I also wrote, and it’s open source:
hub.docker.com/r/sciactive/nephele
I’m also working on storing all of the original email streams in blob storage, so that when I implement IMAP, I don’t have to rebuild the email streams.
This simplifies the data storage requirements, because I don’t have to store everything necessary to rebuild the stream into the database. I can just store the text, HTML, and references for all the attachments.
I honestly don’t understand why the industry has settled on the S3 protocol for blob storage. It’s not a great protocol, and it really limits what you can do. WebDAV is super extensible and if you design your system right, works just as well as S3 for the things S3 is supposed to be better at, like paginated listing.
- Comment on guys... :( 4 weeks ago:
Always Sunny just leaned into this, and made you fully aware that the main characters are sociopaths. They literally show the progress of how they ruined the lives of the people around them. That’s why I love that show. It’s a perfect example of everything not to do in life if you want to be happy and fulfilled.
