BrownianMotion

BrownianMotion , 20 hours ago

Laughs in Waterfox

BrownianMotion , 7 days ago

If altar boys could get pregnant, the church would have approved birth control long ago.

BrownianMotion , 6 days ago

asymmetric?

Like you've ever trusted a woman that has said "It's okay, I'm on the pill" first time you hit the sheets?

BrownianMotion , 6 days ago

Catholics yes, Protestant no. Both are Christianity.
You need to read more, or at least watch some Monty Python.

https://youtu.be/ifgHHhw_6g8

BrownianMotion , 9 days ago

Meanwhile, many Australians would like to cut WA off with a chainsaw, and push it back to South Africa with all the S.Africans on it.

BrownianMotion , 9 days ago

I've listened to it, and it sounds nothing like Scarlett does. I had to find a movie with Scarlett in it to compare with, and I can honestly tell you ChatGPT sounds nothing like Natasha in Black Widow.

(Joke aside, ChatGPT doesn't sound like Scarlett at all).

BrownianMotion , 9 days ago

I probably should say "IMO".

They played it on a local radio station here yesterday, and even they were mocking it as "not close".

BrownianMotion , 14 days ago

Have you seen the abomination that is the layout for reddit now?
https://www.reddit.com

Thankfully you can still access the old "new" layout at https://new.reddit.com , and of course https://old.reddit.com still exists too.

I only go there for a few communities that don't exist here, but that is where we are at, at this point.

BrownianMotion , 14 days ago

I'll have to believe you, I don't know what DIGG is! I'll presume its just another media online outlet.

BrownianMotion , 13 days ago

It did that initially for me as well, I had to clear the cache and cookies for reddit. Goto new.reddit and login again.

BrownianMotion , 13 days ago

I get lags too. Interestingly (and not relevant to the topic) I can access reddit okay (but it has huge pause on initial load) on Windows with Chrome (or Opera), but reddit fails to load correctly when I am using Linux with Chromium. Tried other browsers too, reddit seems to not like Linux at all (well my install of Linux anyway). I can't even log in successfully.

BrownianMotion , 12 days ago

I'm no html type code expert, but I do code a lot in other languages. I used f12 on a browser to look at what was going on, on the reddit sites and I have never seen such spaghetti code and layers upon layers of adjustments. I have no idea what they are using behind the scenes (php/js etc, again not my expertise) but it has to be an absolute shitshow.

On old old, and old new, I used to use an element picker in uBlock origin etc, to just remove all the bullshit that annoyed me. This actually sped things up! But its not perfect.

Oh this reminds me, if you are trying to get to new.reddit, for the old-new page, I had to delete all those elements as well, then goto new.reddit fresh and sign in. Then do the element pick again.

BrownianMotion , 20 days ago

User blocked. Troll.

BrownianMotion , 1 month ago

Sucks to be american. Sucks to live in america.

Why would anyone?

BrownianMotion , 1 month ago

I found Big Clive is posting here. I'm sold, he is the only reason I use YT, so now I can cut that fucking shit off at the neck.

https://odysee.com/

And I am going to check out peertube as well.

BrownianMotion OP , 1 month ago

For now, yes. You actually believe that will continue to be that way in 12 - 18 months?

BrownianMotion , 1 month ago

The kids don't care, they will just use CoCo Fun (most are using both apps anyway).

The only difference is that with Coco Fun, its America spying on your kids.

https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-profiles.uukasoft_llc.516d97c17bf7215c8d343ca77efa305c.html

BrownianMotion , 1 month ago

Came to say this. Here in the AU you cannot exclude certain things, this being one of them. They can write it all they like into the TOS, but cannot be enforced. There are many examples, but basically no TOS/Warranty/T&C can exclude or explicitly deny any rights you have or laws that protect you.

Similar to warranty here. Many companies like to put "limited liability" and 30 day warranty. But in AU, the warranty has to fall within our laws. (for example Samsung saying warranty on a $5000 TV is 2 years. Well in AU if the tv is that expensive, you have the right to claim warranty on manufacturing failure for at least 5 years.) Many items we buy here, have an "Australia only warranty amendment page" stuffed in the box!

BrownianMotion , 1 month ago

If you are looking for a specific video, use DDG search, then click videos. No ad's!

Obviously not useful if you're just randomly browsing content.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4185bfb1-cf85-46e7-9979-bae55f50a695.png

BrownianMotion , 1 month ago

yes, but did you enable an adblocker? I'm just saying it will work browsing via DDG.
(oh, and I'm on PC. Don't know if this would work on a phone).

BrownianMotion , 2 months ago

I read about this, and you will have the ability to turn the ad's off in settings.

They are optional. For now.

BrownianMotion , 2 months ago

It's in their docs.
https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/installation/index.html

Follow the pages one by one, (ie install php modules etc, edit settings, install apache2, edit settings, etc etc). Follow the recommendations (eg. PHP8.2, don't try to use bleeding edge).

You'll be running in no time, and have a properly updatable system using apt, and the nextcloud ./occ command.

I would recommend using Debian 12 over Ubuntu variants. There are other guides, like this:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorial-collections/how-to-install-and-configure-nextcloud
But you may have to "convert" some of the Ubuntu specific stuff to Debian, but actually there is probably no difference (php module naming convention maybe? Is that still a problem today?)

BrownianMotion , 2 months ago

Tbh, get a Brother printer for any OS. At least they don't buy into the shitfuckery that HP and others do with ink and firmware updates.

BrownianMotion , 2 months ago

I can tell you for certain, I measured my plug phiips (foil and 'one') and they are both 14VDC.
So short answer is that the plug charger would blow up the usb trimmer you have (which is 5VDC).

The reason I know this and measured them, was because I wasnt sure the two plug chargers were the same, and I didnt want to blow up my philips one.

BrownianMotion , 2 months ago

This is true, but something about being an Electronics Engineer makes you want to check. (I didn't even trust Philips to get it right, but they did.)

I didn't go into detail, but simple Dashed/Solid line doesn't tell you the whole story. Those simple wall warts are not fancy switch mode, or even old school rectified. I measured 14VDC unloaded, which I can probably guestimate in experience, to be a 9VDC loaded reading.

The actual reading on wallwarts are generally untrustworthy, unless its a thing from Samsung or apple, where the circuitry are what you would expect (switched etc).

BrownianMotion , 2 months ago

Anyone still using LibreSSL and not OpenSSL, has only themselves to blame. Or their company or whoever is forcing it on them.

BrownianMotion , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

The only people that will really suffer from this is businesses. They will have to buy W11, and they will need to get supported hardware. However, businesses usually have rolling upgrades in place in the IT and have probably rolled out many already.

As for home users, with each newer generation, they become more tech savy. I can tell you now, this won't affect as many people as you imagine.

• 1: W11 is free to download from M$. You can choose whether or not to buy a licence. W11 cracks already exist, M$ is still using key management services, so something like KMSpico still work. There are also tons of activator scripts on github (lol, since M$ owns this!).
• 2: Grab a copy of RUFUS. Use it to take the W11 image and remove all restrictions, and dump it to USB.
• 3: ???
• 4: Profit.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/44cc9028-d30b-44ff-8f46-afaeff58a31e.png

BrownianMotion , 3 months ago

I'd pick prohibited transaction. I live in AU. NYSE won't let me trade there.

Either that or "hate" - all redditors can get involved, but not you because you are not from the US. Sounds like communism.

BrownianMotion , 3 months ago

$203M in one licenced transaction. Selling their data to Google.
No one is falling for this shit.

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2024/02/23/reddit-is-a-smaller-more-volatile-twitter-says-big-technologys-alex-kantrowitz.html

BrownianMotion , 3 months ago

Given the shenanigans google has been playing with its AI, I'm surprised it gives any accurate replies at all.

I am sure you have all seen the guy asking for a photo of a Scottish family, and Gemini's response.

Well here is someone tricking gemini into revealing its prompt process.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/27adefa4-ee9d-43c7-b737-4ba358f99821.png

BrownianMotion , 3 months ago

I agree, it will take a lot of work, and I am all for balance where an AI prompt is ambiguous and doesn't specify anything in particular. The output could be male/female/Asian/whatever. This is where AI needs to be diverse, and not stereotypical.

But if your prompt is to "depict a male king of the UK", there should be no ambiguity to the result of that response. The sheer ignorance in googles approach to blatantly ignore/override all historical data (presumably that the AI has been trained on) is just agenda pushing, and of little help to anyone.
AI is supposed to be helpful, not a bouncer and must not have the ability to override the users personal choices (other than being outside the law).

Its has a long way to go, before it has proper practical use.

BrownianMotion , 3 months ago

are you sure?

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/71568fde-4455-4a99-ac93-ff767d7ace41.png

BrownianMotion , 3 months ago

Google have admitted it.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/21/24079371/google-ai-gemini-generative-inaccurate-historical

What they are not admitting to (and never will) is that its their incompetence that allowed it.

BrownianMotion , 3 months ago

Tell me you are American, with out telling me you are American....

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/cd58fce3-627b-46a1-8234-4548f1c0b795.png

BrownianMotion , 3 months ago

He's dead dude.

BrownianMotion , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

For "commercial but free" There is AxxonOne (was AxxonNext) But free only allows 4 cameras. However this is better than all the FOSS choices in terms of what it can do (and so it should, more than 4 cameras or face detection, fire etc costs money).

For FOSS there is:

• Frigate
• Shinobi
• Zoneminder
• iSpy
• Viseron
• Moonfire NVR
• motionEyeOS

Lots of options but you will need some baremetal or a decently powered server and hypervisor to run in a VM.

BrownianMotion , 4 months ago

Is 25 minutes a long enough in-store demo test time to have a $3500 wank?

BrownianMotion , 10 months ago

If you put something in my mailbox, where it is explicitly labelled that your unregistered shit is unwelcome. I will come out and find your parked car.

Did you think your stupid shit was that important? If I am selling my house I will never use Ben Gow. Or any of the others that are too stupid to read. Those people who cannot read basic requests - "NO JUNKMAIL" meaning your advertising shit, are not going to get used.

You will never get commission (or a purchase) you dumbshit losers, too dumb to read a mailbox sign, your definately too stupid to be given the risk of selling my asset.