Thorry84

@Thorry84@feddit.nl

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting point. I don’t really know what would be fair.

  On the one hand you are right, if someone puts in a lot of time and effort to create a book. And it becomes a hit and gets a movie deal, I do believe they should be rewarded for that.

  On the other hand, out of the tens of thousands of books written each year how many get turned into a movie? 1 or 2 maybe on average? And how much of the book is in the movie? I’ve both read Mickey7 and seen Mickey17. And while they both have some things in common, they are basically completely different stories. Should we really compromise the rules for everyone because of this very rare exception?

  And I also feel like movies are caught in a slump the past years, with very few original stories being made. All remakes, reboots and super hero crap. If more stories were available for free use, how much would that influence new story creation? Very hard to say really.

  As with all art, nothing is made in a vacuum. Everything builds on each other, everything is influenced by other things. I can’t help but thing about what the community did with 3D printing once the patents expired. Having stuff available to use can only be a good thing right?

  But I don’t really know, you make a very good point. In a world where all kinds of art gets devalued all the time, I feel like we should celebrate artists and the art they make. I like to fuck around with creating my own art in my free time and have made stuff for friend and family. Even sold series of hundreds of units in the past. But it’s not my day job and I consider myself an absolute amateur. Maybe if UBI was a thing, it would be the thing I put most of my time into.

  I hate our world revolves around money and capitalism. It leads to difficult situations like this one, where copyright holds us back and mostly benefits large mega corps. But on the other hand, we must support artists for everything they do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also this length should be at most 25 years and 10-15 years is better. These 75+ year copyrights are total BS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The warning signs the AI bubble is about to burst⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s because GPT5 was such a disappointment.

  Partly because they hyped it up beyond belief and partly because the results are actually bad. GPT3 to 4 was a big step up and with all the marketing people expected 4 to 5 to be just as big of a step. It turned out to be mostly a step sideways and in many aspects even a step back. Energy consumption is rumoured to be up, hallucinations are up and user experience is way down. At the same time all of the very public and high profile promises made are being broken and for a change people actually noticed.

  The sentiment in the market was down for a while, but GPT5 release really kicked everything into high gear. Earlier people were disapointed “AI” didn’t live up to the hype. Regular folks use it all the time as a replacement search engine, because Google had gotten so bad. But in businesses adoption was slow and where it was used the gains promised weren’t seen. If the product was given away for free, people would use it, but even modestly paid subscriptions weren’t taking off. But people thought: Hey, this is just the current level of tech, the next level is going to be so much better and improve a lot right? GPT5 proved that wasn’t really true, so people lost faith fast.

  LLM system are rapidly running into diminishing returns with larger models not yielding better results and sometimes even worse results. They also run into the issue they’ve poisoned the well. They used to train on data from the internet, but with the internet being flooded by output from older AI models, it’s eating it’s own shit. That’s really bad for the performance of the newer models. Especially on things like coding and such, where it relies on code examples to produce new code. With Stackoverflow dying due to a lot of things, but AI being a big factor, there isn’t as much of that as there used to be. Same for other stuff on the internet, once you kill the internet that great source of data is lost.

  Now I don’t think it’s as worse (or good depending on your point of view) as some articles make it out to be. Many companies still see AI as the infinite money well the marketing claims it to be. A lot of people use it all the time, even though they’ve had negative experiences with it. But it’s somewhat good to see some reality seeping in here and there.

  I fully expect the shit to hit the fan and the bubble to burst in a catastrophic way. This will be bad, way worse than when the dotcom bubble burst. It’s not going to be good for anyone. But better it burst soon than keep pumping it up further.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would be an inexpensive and reliable way to set up a personal-use VPN tunnel?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you are trying to solve a legal issue using a technological solution. The issue isn’t where his connections are coming from, the issue is where he’s a resident. It’s probably related to taxes or some other legal thing.

  No matter what sort of technology you apply, you ain’t solving the legal issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This startup wants to use the Earth as a massive battery⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would think all the incidents with fracking have shown rock not to be as impermeable as one would expect or want. Doing this and not causing huge issues seems very hard to me. And also very situational, which is a big problem pumped hydro has.

  Pumped hydro works really well and is just about as efficient as we can realistically do, but you need to have the right circumstances. Like a biggish elevation difference, a place to store enough water at the top and bottom for it to be worth while and a connection in between to pump through and take out the energy in the other direction. Plus close enough to a place that needs the power not to be killed by transport losses.

  This thing seems to require the perfect conditions as well, which may prove even harder to find compared to places for pumped hydro.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You would need to investigate the soil you put the wood in, in order to select the correct wood and wood treatment. The wrong kind of wood in certain soils can be broken down in weeks to months. Getting wood to last years is tricky and depending on the soil could even be impossible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dying Light: The Beast looks absolutely brutal in the new trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah The Following was pretty good. I also really liked all the community shit they did, like those freak gnomes that would come out at xmas. We laughed so hard about that one. I don’t know who did the community event management for DL1, but they kept it going for so long, it was great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dying Light: The Beast looks absolutely brutal in the new trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Dying Light 1 was excellent, loved it a lot and played it a lot.

  Dying Light 2 was terrible, I don’t know why it got as much praise as it did. It had zero enemy variety, copy pasted assets all over the place, entire copy pasted missions. The whole night time stuff was a joke because the AI was so terrible. It ran like shit on release. The story and characters weren’t interesting at all, where this was a strong point of the first game.

  So I don’t know if I trust them for a 3rd time. They had beter come out swinging with a real banger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon learns a new spell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Buffy taught us that you’d be surprised what can be killed with a shoulder fired anti-tank weapon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It do be like that⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Checkmate liberals

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It do be like that⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  SOURCE!?!?!?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How has it been so long?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My pussy

  And my crack

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, not?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s still very cheap, the 1€-Store near me has almost nothing at 1€ anymore. It’s become more like the 5€ store.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨😭😭😭😭😭⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunatly even when you are in the hospital when this happens and everyone around you is aware of what’s happening fast enough to act, it’s probably still fatal. Often times this happens deep inside the brain, there is no way to get someone into brain surgery fast enough. And even if somehow the doctors can get in there, often there is nothing to be done. If it’s deep in the brain, there is no good way of getting in there without causing a lot of damage and depending on the exact situation it can’t even be fixed.

  It’s just one of those really sad things that happens without anybody being able to do something about it.

  This is unfortunatly common in my family and I’ve had family members eating themselves up about it, if they just acted faster and got them to the hospital faster. But everyone from the hospital side was very clear about this, there is nothing that anyone could have done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar powered personal umbrella with battery?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  People always severely underestimate how little power solar panels actually produce. In optimal conditions they get around 1000 watt per square meter, but are only around 20% efficient. So that means 200 watt produced at the panel. Once you convert that into something useable and transport it to where you need it, you’ll probably lose another 5 - 10%. And that’s a square meter, that’s more than you can comfortably carry. Think a flat panel of around 2 meters in length and 0.5 meters wide and lifting that above your head, pointed perfectly at the sun.

  And the reality is, most solar panels even in permanent installations don’t experience perfect conditions. They don’t track the sun, so most of the time they aren’t perfectly aligned to catch all that energy. They are most likely never aligned perfectly, or if they are just a few days out of the year for like an hour a day. The sun isn’t always out, not just because you know night time, but also because of clouds and other weather or human related stuff. Lots of times there are shadows that prevent optimal workings. Dust and grime also plays a part. But another thing is temperature, solar panels are rated at around 20 degrees C. But when you put a black thing in full sun, you know it’s going to get scorching hot. This also reduces the amount of energy you can usefully extract from the sunlight as well.

  The annoying thing about solar panels is they aren’t linear at all. It isn’t like when conditions are 80% from optimal, they produce 80% of the power. No, usually it’s more like 60%. And once you drop below 40% of optimal, you just produce basically zero. With a bit of effort this can be improved upon. For example I use microinverters which can regulate each panel individually, but even then it’s not great. And that’s with state of the art panels, which are very fragile, so they have a sturdy metal frame, a very tough plastic backing and a big ass layer of glass on top to protect them. If you get those more sturdy thin and light panels, you’ll be lucky if they get 15% efficiency (most likely a lot less).

  So putting solar on anything that isn’t a permanent installation is usually pointless. It’s way too hard to get those ideal conditions and the panels aren’t very good to start with. If it’s moving, it’s hard to point at the sun all the time. Exception are maybe a small panel on the top of a campervan, which is probably the best case for a mobile installation and gets just a little bit of energy. But only if it doesn’t distrub the wind profile of the van, otherwise it probably costs more in gas to push it along at high speed than it ever delivers back in electricity. One of those small foldable panels can also be useful when hiking for example. You can carry it collapsed on your back and if you take a break, you can fold it out, point it at the sun and get some useful energy for a couple of hours while you get some rest. Putting it on when hiking would be pointless, as it would be bulky when folded out, usually not pointed at the sun and under cover of trees for example.

  Maybe the technology will improve in the future, but for now any useful personal solar is very niche.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help prevent teenage agricultural addiction⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Buffy <3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oops⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think my face scrub still has these. But I would have to check, it might be just sand they put in there. Works great tho

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon does some online shopping⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use Arch BTW.

  Teams runs on just about anything, which is part of why it’s so slow.

  Back in the day Windows 98 was definitly faster than SUSE on my machine. Drivers back then on Linux were rough and if you wanted to play a game you’d need Windows or DOS for sure.

  I only had 56k dialup back then, no fast internet for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, started calling itself 'MechaHitler'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes sir, we finally fixed it. It now no longer denies the holocaust.

  Excellent work Jenkins! We’ve finally created the perfectly balanced and fair AI!

  Well there is this one little hiccup sir. It now recommends a second holocaust and calls itself MechaHitler.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon does some online shopping⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but then they pull the old you need to enter everything to get the delivery costs. I understand they need my address to figure out what shipping would cost. But they also require my name, email and phonenumber before showing the shipment costs. So annoying, it makes comparing prices between shops impossible as some shops have higher prices and free shipping, where others have super low prices, but then fuck you on the shipping.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon does some online shopping⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And everything is SO FUCKING SLOW. I swear my old Celeron 300A at 500mhz running Windows 98 and SUSE Linux was super responsive. Everything you clicked just responded right away, everything felt smooth and snappy. Chatting with people over the internet using ICQ or MSN was basically instant, all the windows opened instantly, typing had zero latency and sending messages was instant.

  My current Ryzen 5950X is not only a billion times faster, it also has 16 times the number of cores. I have hundreds of times the RAM as I had HDD capacity on that old system. Yet everything is slower, typing has latency, starting up Teams takes 5 minutes. Doing anything is slow, everything has latency and you need to wait for things to finish loading and rendering unless you want everything to mess up and you’d have to wait even more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gelatine⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I love those. Especially the rainbow candy is excellent!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gelatine⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s good to see more and more vegan candy being sold. These days I’ve even come to expect it. When it isn’t advertised on the packaging I check the ingredients and more often than not I see they are in fact vegan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Barbers HATE this one simple trick⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  3 years? I’ve been bald for 20 years and I’m 300K down the hole, when does this trick kick in exactly?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sure honey⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the costume is pretty much impossible to move in. She can’t turn her head vertically at all and her arm don’t go to anywhere near her body.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corporations are saving the planet!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Really? I never heard that before. What would they care about how their caps are? I can’t see it having any impact on them at all. A lot of people got pissed about it when Coca Cola was one of the first to change the caps in line with the regulation, so if anything it hurt Coca Cola.

  Also even though large corporations are almost always totally evil, it’s not impossible for them to do something good as well. Probably not for the right reasons, but still, one thing doesn’t exclude the other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Earned my belly today⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t the proper technical term a “spaghet”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how do I stop itching?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What did the doctor say? You may have a fungal infection, where the welts and itch aren’t caused by dryness or the scratching, but by the fungus. It’s actually really common and can be extremely annoying if left untreated. Some miconazole nitrate cream can really help out with this, just a few weeks of applying twice a day and it’ll clear up.

  But never take medical advice from the internet, go see a doctor and ask them what to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be honest whose actually working today and who is goofing off⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m only working half day today and to be fair it’s more like hardly working than working hard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*hiss*⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Over 25 years later and I still think of animal crackers when I hear that song