trevor
@trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Millions of Taxpayers Call the IRS for Help. Two-Thirds Don't Reach Anyone 5 days ago:
IRS hold times are criminally long. “30-60 minutes” is what the IVR will say, but you’ll likely be waiting longer.
Combine that with the fact that they’re only taking calls Monday-Friday, and that means that if you’re working class (the only people that are actually taxed), you’ll be lucky to get through on one of your lunch breaks for that week. Otherwise, you’re screwed.
- Comment on Weird: DeSantis signed a law requiring hospitals to ask patients about immigration status and suddenly Medicaid spending on illegal immigrants plummeted 6 days ago:
Congratulations. Now you have a bunch of sick/harmed people that you could have treated for cheaper up-front. This is bone-headed as shit, all for the sake of being racist.
- Comment on GOG Summer Sale has arrived 1 week ago:
Reporting back:
I tried installing The Witcher and Psychonaut. Both worked mostly seemlessly after prompting to install Wine-GE. The main issue I’m having is with controller support, but this may just be a result of trying much older games and mixing that with trying to use Steam Input through the Heroic launcher. I suspect this can be alleviated by using the “Automatically add games to Steam” option and launching the games through Steam, rather than Heroic. Alternatively, if you’re willing to map your bindings for each game, or you are on something other than a Steamdeck and use keyboard and mouse, you should be fine.
I recommend giving a game you already own on Gog a try and seeing how it works for you.
- Comment on GOG Summer Sale has arrived 1 week ago:
I’ve heard that the Heroic launcher is good for this. I’ll try it out on my Steamdeck and report back.
- Comment on Apple Decides to Block Open-Source Emulator App for iOS 1 week ago:
This is just me being pedantic, but I keep seeing this mistake when UTM is mentioned (specifically in headlines), so I feel like I have to say something:
UTM is not an emulator. It is virtual machine software that uses an emulator (QEMU) to virtualize operating systems.
The difference: emulators emulate hardware. On which, the virtualized operating systems run.
- Comment on Rent in Cities Skylines 2 was too high, so the devs removed landlords 2 weeks ago:
Let’s remove them in real life 🙂
- Comment on iTerm 3.5.1 removes automatic OpenAI integration, requires opt-in 2 weeks ago:
It was always opt-in. People got up-in-arms about it anyway, but it literally didn’t work unless you configured it.
The change here is that it now requires the installation of a plug-in.
- Comment on PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium 3 weeks ago:
Or… use software that isn’t openly hostile toward you.
- Comment on MaXXXine (2024, dir Ti West) 3 weeks ago:
I enjoyed X quite a bit, but Pearl really was fantastic and I couldn’t agree more about the credit scene. It felt like it must have been improvised with that level of creative energy and it was a perfect way to end that film.
- Comment on GitHub now provides Arm-based runners 3 weeks ago:
It would help if GitLab could step-up their CI/CD pipelines to get on the level of GitHub workflows. YAML-ized bash scripts don’t cut it for me.
- Comment on 25 years ago, Mad TV was shitting on Steven Seagal before shitting on Steven Seagal was cool 4 weeks ago:
Mad TV was like SNL, but funny.
- Comment on Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search 5 weeks ago:
12/10 thumbnail design.
- Comment on Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet 5 weeks ago:
Thanks. I went back and checked: you’re right. That’s such a turn-off for me and I’m glad you called it out.
It’s pretty scummy of them to not disclose that on their site.
- Comment on Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet 5 weeks ago:
Do you have a source for this? I was interested in this device until I heard this, but I haven’t found anything that states what the display technology actually is.
The closest thing I’ve found to being suspicious is that their site uses terms like “paper-like finish”, which doesn’t seem too out-of-the-norm for this category of device, and they have marketing photos implying that usability in the sun is on-par with other e-ink devices.
- Comment on OpenTofu 1.7.0 is out with State Encryption, Dynamic Provider-defined Functions 1 month ago:
Local state encryption is huge.
- Comment on Nightshade: An offensive tool for artists against AI art generators 5 months ago:
I hate that LLMs seem to be positioned to replace real artists (in specific, corporate niches) as much as anyone, but trying to poison the LLMs themselves just seems completely ineffective in the face of regular snapshots and QA, right?
Maybe I’m wrong, but I assume that any company trying to sell their LLM to anyone would surely be taking weekly (or even daily) snapshots of it and testing for degradation. If so, stuff like this seems pretty futile.
- Comment on I bet Rockstar is thinking twice about *checks notes* making a normal looking female character. 6 months ago:
I remember a time when we all liked bobs and vagene.