BakedCatboy

BakedCatboy , 3 days ago

Huh, I already signed up for it because they started requiring it a while back to access historical tax return documents through the IRS website.

BakedCatboy , 16 days ago

It seems the reincarnation FrostWire which I used after lime wire's demise is still going.

BakedCatboy , 18 days ago

One game I used to play recently started working suddenly in the latest proton major release (I think 9), it wasn't mentioned in the release notes and it has no community around the game since it was released around windows vista, as well as being pulled from stores for many years (I still have it on steam) so I don't think anyone intentionally fixed it but probably just a result of some system call being implemented or tweaked to behave closer to correct.

So yeah, it's very good to test your broken wine apps every 6 months to a year because slowly anything I ever had issues with in wine is starting to work.

BakedCatboy , 24 days ago

Beyond that I also feel like the dating pool is just super small. Me and my partner have been poly for 4 years and still don't have any other consistent partners.

BakedCatboy , 1 month ago

I just discovered how easy ollama and open webui are to set up so I've been using llama3 locally too, it was like 20 lines in docker compose, and although I've been using gpt3.5 on and off for a long time I'm much more comfortable using models run locally so I've been playing with it a lot more. It's also cool being able to easily switch models at any point during a conversation. I have like 15 models downloaded, mostly 7b and a few 13b models and they all run fast enough on CPU and generate slightly slower than reading speed and only take ~15-30 seconds to start spitting out a response.

Next I want to set up a vscode plugin so I can use my own locally run codegen models from within vscode.

BakedCatboy , 1 month ago

My storage capacity soared to 50TB after the password sharing crackdown.

BakedCatboy , 1 month ago

Apparently it's not very hard to negate the system prompt...

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/8bece370-020e-48fe-a58f-e1ee7f1624c3.png

BakedCatboy , 1 month ago

Thank goodness it's in HDR

BakedCatboy , 2 months ago

Has anybody made a matrix app that looks like a discord clone? That sounds easier since the federated rich text chat is already made, the current clients don't really appeal to the discord crowd.

BakedCatboy , 2 months ago

I think it's because the bar is so low, just the ability to choose to walk for everyday commuting, errands, and leisure qualifies as car free. Ie, you can choose to be car free if you want.

BakedCatboy , 2 months ago

Yes and that's the problem. Walkable areas are currently mostly only affordable for the rich (mainly in the US that is, other countries seem to have no problem designing both rich and poor areas to be walkable). If we built more places to be walkable, less affluent areas might be able to enjoy the benefits as well.

BakedCatboy , 2 months ago

That's so weird, exif on a screenshot? Usually my quick fix to remove exif from something when I'm on the go is to take a screenshot of it. I'm on lineage 21 and according to exiftool there's no exif data on my screenshots.

BakedCatboy , 2 months ago

Google Pixel 5, if you're using a stock rom then that sounds likely.

BakedCatboy , 2 months ago

I actually just realized lineage 21 does this too - I didn't notice because cropping a screenshot with Google photos seems to remove all the fields (I also have the build string and timezone offset). Which is weird because cropping an actual photo the same way - as you would expect - preserves all the notable fields like timestamps, phone model / lens info, and the same "Software" field which for my photos is just "HDR+ 1.0.commithashlookingstring"

BakedCatboy , 2 months ago

This is one of the reasons I never want a car with it's own internet connection. I'll stick to plugging in my phone, where I'm very stingy with which apps even get location data, much less the "physical activity history" permission which allows this kind of continuous tracking (and which is usually needed because it uses Google's algorithms / possibly neural nets to guess whether you're driving or walking based on accelerometer / gyro / gps / magnetometer sensor fusion).

BakedCatboy , 2 months ago

The idea is that you change or remove your username after someone else starts a conversation with you, so the username can no longer be used to subpoena your account details.

Put another way, signal is able to provide those 2 pieces of information to law enforcement based on a phone number. This helps you to prevent law enforcement having a phone number to ask signal to look up in the first place, assuming you change your username every time you hand it out.

They also hash the usernames that they store on your account which means law enforcement can't ask what usernames are being used, only being able to ask for specific usernames which are currently in use.

BakedCatboy , 2 months ago

Yes it entirely depends on whether they store previously used usernames along with the date range it was in use (to tell apart multiple people who used the same username at different times)

We'll have to see if any unsealed cases in the future support that they don't keep those records like how they don't keep IP logs, but personally their track record is enough for me to have confidence in the feature, especially since my "threat model" is primarily opportunistic hackers or spearphishers at most, not police or state / nation state level actors.

BakedCatboy , 3 months ago

Then it would be called buying puts instead of shorting

BakedCatboy , 4 months ago

Your ISP knows the Mac address of your router since it requests a public IP from them using DHCP. That's why if you contact support they usually can confirm the brand of your router by doing an oui lookup.

In theory the FBI could have collected a list of MACs and optionally used an ASN lookup on the public IP and then handed each ISP their list of MACs, which the ISP could associate back to customers to contact. It would only not work for customers who spoof their router WANs ethernet mac.

But I think just patching it is a normal and fine solution imo.

BakedCatboy , 4 months ago

I only do web development, but my networking knowledge mostly comes from being the designated person to call the ISP for tech support and being in charge of setting up the WiFi in every place that I've lived, in addition to participating and running community scale mesh wifi tech meetups for many years (think NYCMesh except just 4 guys who never accomplished much aside from buying and flashing lots of routers with openwrt lmao)

I also ran 12Us of homelab for a few years in my basement, which was powered by an overkill fiber to the home setup (courtesy of tricking Comcast into undercharging me for gigabit pro) that necessitated a 10G switch and firewall.

BakedCatboy , 4 months ago

Isn't Miracast for sending video data? The thing I like about Chromecast is that the phone or remote app just tells the Chromecast where to load the media directly from, and then only sends playback control commands. That makes it a lot lighter resource wise because you don't need to proxy the stream through a device like a phone that wants to go to sleep to save battery.

BakedCatboy , 4 months ago

I'm right there with them. I spent 7-8 years in a larger city and enjoyed not having a car the entire time. No renting a parking spot or fighting over who gets to block in who with the upstairs or downstairs neighbors. No snow shoveling or scrambling to park on one side for street sweeping.

I'm now temporarily in a place where buses are at an hour interval and only go to 1 place so I took one of the family cars. Despite the car being "free" I'm paying more than an unlimited transit pass on insurance alone, and I have a great rate at the expense of having to let my insurance track my accelerating / braking through GPS/accelerometer (at least for a few weeks before I can uninstall the app and enjoy the lower rate). I've had to pay for an inspections, tags, fixing a tint that was legal at home but illegal where I am now (over $100 even if I just had them remove it), and I'm still needing to spend on extras like oil to top up in between oil changes, new wipers, coolant, and it's looking like it's almost due for tire rotations, brake and transmission flush, and other regular maintenance which is just another expense.

The car was free and it's so expensive still. I miss being able to hop on a bus and zone out too.

BakedCatboy , 4 months ago

Note that the 2x10G is SFP+ not SFP. I was briefly confused. I have tons of SFP+ stuff but no SFP gear whatsoever

BakedCatboy , 4 months ago

I think that text is from melroy, so according to him. From seeing his interactions in the kbin issue tracker I get somewhat of an egotistical impression of him, because he would often take an issue that has just been opened and not triaged or discussed what the best fix is, and he would open a PR with how he thinks it should be fixed, and it sounds like his frustration is that his hasty PRs weren't getting merged quickly because people wanted to come to a consensus.

Maybe I'm just reading into it but it felt like he just wanted his name on something and it wasn't happening with kbin.

Edit: I want to add that I don't mean to shit on him as a dev or as a person - it's possible that I've only seen a one-sided view of his interactions as a busy contributor who just wants to whittle down the issue list as fast as possible and that he's got good intentions, and regardless he seems like a very capable dev. It's just that based on my perusing of issues and discussions I've come across, it doesn't seem fun to work with him to contribute, and if I were to treat the contributors list as a scoreboard and had the goal of having my name on as many commits as possible, I think it would be hard to tell us apart. I was just going to keep my thoughts about this to myself but I've seen some other people comment similar things in other threads about mbin so maybe it's worth sharing my skepticism about mbin. Take from it what you will.

BakedCatboy , 5 months ago

Just want to second this - I use an Intel nuc10i7 that has quicksync for Plex/jellyfin, can transcode at least 8 streams simultaneously without breaking a sweat, probably more if you don't have 4K, and a separate synology nas that mainly handles storage. I run docker containers on both and the nuc has my media mounted using a network share via a dedicated direct gigabit Ethernet connecting the two so I can keep all the filesystem access traffic off of my switch /LAN.

This strategy was to be able to pick the best nas based on my redundancy needs (raidz2 / btrfs with double redundancy for my irreplaceable personal family memories) while being able to get a cost effective low power quicksync device for transcoding my media collection, which is the strategy I chose over pre-transcoding or keeping multiple qualities in order to save HDD space and be flexible to the low bandwidth requirements of whoever I share with who has a slow connection.