westyvw
@westyvw@lemm.ee
kde, linux, busses, open source and the good old Grateful Dead.
- Comment on When this post is 1 hour old, lemm.ee will go down for an upgrade to 0.19.7 4 weeks ago:
Thank you for hosting the instance!
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 5 weeks ago:
I disagree. Black Mesa is Black Mesa. It is no Half Life 1. The atmosphere in one is completely lost with Black Mesa. Start with Half Life and play to Alyx. Go back to Mesa for a second way to view 1.
- Comment on Microsoft's LinkedIn: If our AI gets it wrong, that's your problem 2 months ago:
Your merits matter most to me. But we all need to get the hell away from that platform.
- Comment on Microsoft's LinkedIn: If our AI gets it wrong, that's your problem 2 months ago:
That sucks. And the only way to fix it is to get people not to play.
I am on hiring committees for a large firm for it positions. When people put their linked in on their resumes, I see it as a negative. If they can’t value their personal data, I don’t see how they can value my companies.
- Comment on Microsoft's LinkedIn: If our AI gets it wrong, that's your problem 2 months ago:
Linked in shouldn’t even be an option. It was shit before microsoft bought them (email man in the middle, remember that?) and somehow microsoft made it worse.
I would never touch that platform. Friends don’t let friends use it.
- Comment on M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable 3 months ago:
Just tried it in Edge, with no ad block.
The first link was what I was searching for. None of that extra stuff showed up. The ad (for something unrelated) was in a column in the right.
There is no account associated, little browsing history. This machine was completely wiped 2 weeks ago.
I think the difference is, I am not in the US.
- Comment on M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable 3 months ago:
Not to defend Bing in anyway, but I typed logitech unifying software and the first result is the download page on logitechs site.
I am not doubting you, but why is it so different for me? I see non of the ??? section, no ads, just a link at the top like you would expect.
What are you using or doing different?
- Comment on Kagi is announcing an AI Assistant. 3 months ago:
Do you really hate helpful algorithms (since AI doesn’t really exist yet) or do you hate the hype and marketing?
- Comment on Animals that use Drugs 3 months ago:
Amarula logo. Not a bad liquor at all.
- Comment on Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke. 3 months ago:
Admittedly a computer in everyone’s hand is new. But corel paint, for example, was 12 years old in 2003. People were basically making memes and creating scenes that never existed on a whim and for the lulz back then.
And were much, much, better then these stupid examples!
- Comment on Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke. 3 months ago:
Absolutely everyone can was about 20 years ago though.
- Comment on Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke. 3 months ago:
Those examples are so bad. You do not need AI to do any of those. That’s just cut and paste.
Hell, we have had fake reality video overlays that are better than that on our phones for over a decade.
- Comment on Windows Zero-day Flaw Let Hackers Downgrade Fully Updated Systems to Old Vulnerabilities 4 months ago:
I find it weird that people look back fondly on XP. I remember at the time thinking it looked like crap, had an interface that looked like shit, and was extremely easy to compromise.
I guess Rose colored glasses for some people…
- Comment on Stop. Calling. Everything. AI 5 months ago:
I am fully aware of Alan Turnings work and it is rather exceptional when you read that formulas were be8ng created for diffusion models in the late 40’s.
But i really don’t care thar whoever wrote that wikipedia page believes the hype. We are still in statistical algorithm stages. Even on the wiki page it says thar AI is aware of its surroundings as a feature of AI. We do not have that.
Also, it appears that most people are still not fooled by “ai” as we have it today, meaning it does not pass even the most basic Turing test. Which a lot of academic believe is not even enough as a marker of ai ad that too wad from the 50’s
- Comment on Stop. Calling. Everything. AI 5 months ago:
There is no intelligence. There is only algorithms. The place we are at is not anywhere near approaching artificial intelligence, it is only buzzwords. If you know about how this works this should be clear. I think I was being very objective: we have statistical engines and diffusion formulas. No intelligence, of any kind, is being demonstrated. AI is a marketing term at this point. No original ideas, no real knowledge of past or future events, no ability to determine correct answers from false ones. Even the better models that try to basically watch the other models are still not that great beyond the basics of “what is the next most likely word here”.
- Comment on Stop. Calling. Everything. AI 5 months ago:
No we haven’t. We have an appearance of a AI. Large language models and diffusion models are just machine learning. Algorithm statistic engines.
Nothing thinks, creates, cares, or knows the difference between something correct or wrong.
- Comment on Stop. Calling. Everything. AI 5 months ago:
Yeah kinda tired of it. We don’t even have AI yet, and here people are throwing around the term right and left and then accusing everything under the sun to be generated by it.
- Comment on So I got hit with Microsoft's Windows 11 nag screen... 6 months ago:
You are saying steam link for VR correct? Because Steam Link itself works fine.
The only thing I have to dual boot for is VR at this point. And I havent even done that in maybe 2 years. But it really is the final thing for me.
All the other games I care to play work fine. The last two Resident Evil’s were flawless. Almost everything is pretty much click and play these days.
I remote to other computers and remote into my own, so I take it you are using Parsec for something specific? I never used it before.
- Comment on So I got hit with Microsoft's Windows 11 nag screen... 6 months ago:
I’ll give it another try if AMD gets it together with their driver support.
As an AMD GPU linux user this is confusing. There is no driver needed. There is nothing to do with AMD. Must be the laptop? A unusual variant, or early adopter?
- Comment on The problem with GIMP 6 months ago:
Thank goodness. I hate most current UI.
It’s funny that one thing I really liked about it was the floating windows and toolbar. Then everyone complained and they brought it all together. But now people I work with using software that we pay nearly a million dollars to license are getting all excited becuase they introduced… floating windows.
- Comment on Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track 7 months ago:
This milestone was reached a long time ago. For some reason uncle bobs Facebook post has been just as reliable a media source as any other for a lot of people already.
- Comment on So sick of these fake, AI generated clickbait car ads... 8 months ago:
Like what? I don’t even have chrome on my phone. If forced to not use the mighty firefox (or Firefox focus) at least use a chrome variant. They have ad block. Or better still, do adblock phone wide.
- Comment on So sick of these fake, AI generated clickbait car ads... 8 months ago:
Funny to see AI as the issue, not the ads.
Why are you not blocking the ads?
- Comment on Waiting in a queue to see a Web site 8 months ago:
Ok I am going to need some context. Is this an internal site? I this a public site? And finally what site?
- Comment on This laptop released in 2016 no longer receive OS updates. Which means I can't update Chrome Browser 8 months ago:
Wait, I bought a chrome book during that time frame and the first thing i did was wipe it and install Linux. That was the plan from the beginning. Works like any other laptop. Still does actually.
But I had no idea that it was hacky or difficult in anyway. There were issues?
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
We mock crypto because anyone who has it wants to hoard it as an “investment”. Nobody wants to use it as a currency.
I tried for years, buying and selling goods with crypto. I never purchased any crypto, I just earned it. I tried to talk others into the same. You need to spend to have value… they just laugh and day hold your bags tight with diamond hands.
Yeah, it’s never going to work.
- Comment on That gourmet luxury blend... 9 months ago:
And trying to get pure maple syrup and olive oil these days is also a pain, when it shouldn’t be.
Maple is often blended, and olive is straight up fraud most often.
- Comment on Hetzner networking issues & minor lemm.ee downtime 9 months ago:
The downtimes are always when I remember just how much you are doing to provide a neat service for all us users.
Thank you for doing this!
- Comment on David Lynch’s Dune is returning to theaters in February for 40th anniversary 11 months ago:
I saw it in the theater when it came out. All I really remember was thinking why didn’t I leave sooner?
- Comment on WebMD forcing employees back to office. "We aren’t asking or negotiating at this point. We’re informing" 11 months ago:
Kind of balsy for a software company that is basically running a web page to replace office visits with a doctor…
