JDubbleu

JDubbleu , 1 month ago to 196 in Polyamorule

This is incredibly common in SF. Many people live in co-ops and it's created an entire subculture where they coordinate large parties and events both within the co-op and with other co-ops. It's gone beyond necessity and become preferred by some because they enjoy living with lots of others. Not my thing, but many friends live in co-ops and love it.

JDubbleu , 1 month ago to Technology in Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT

Those little things add up though, and it's not just good at boilerplate. Also just having a more intelligent context-aware auto complete itself I've found to be super valuable.

JDubbleu , 1 month ago to Technology in Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT

That's a 50% time reduction for the same output which sounds great to me.

I'd much rather let an LLM do the menial shit with my validation while I focus on larger problems such as system and API design, or creating rollback plans for major upgrades instead of expending mental energy writing something that has been written a thousand times. They're not gonna rewrite your entire codebase, but they're incredibly useful for the small stuff.

I'm not even particularly into LLMs, and they're definitely not gonna change the world in the way big tech would like you to believe. However, to deny their usefulness is silly.

JDubbleu , 1 month ago to linuxmemes in 2nd hand ThinkPad go brrrrr

Even in the past I've had nowhere near as many non-GPU related issues. Some GUI elements in Gnome just did not work, and at one point I was getting low USB power errors even though the USB drive and port were known good. The amount of workarounds I had to attempt to implement before settling on Debian was insane.

JDubbleu , 1 month ago to linuxmemes in 2nd hand ThinkPad go brrrrr

I actually had my most difficult time ever setting up Linux on my 5800X3D and 3070 recently.

PopOS wouldn't save my resolution on reboot, and then after fixing it all of my games were running at the wrong resolution or breaking in various frustrating ways. All Linux native games too. Jumped to Fedora and every single game flickered like mad and then once I got that fixed my package manager inexplicably broke. I was about to install Ubuntu before saying fuck any chance of instability and going to Debian.

I had to manually install way more than any of the other distros, but everything just worked once I got my graphics driver installed. I was really disappointed given I've been using Linux on and off for 8 years, and my Steam Deck has been nothing but solid. I'm honestly just disappointed things have trended in a bad direction, and I hope this was just a one off experience and not the norm now.

JDubbleu , 2 months ago to Memes in *Cough Cough...* Chrome... *Chough*...

There was a demo for a technology put out recently that circumvents this. I don't remember the exact mechanisms, but it obscured DNS such that your ISP couldn't see the DNS record you requested, and then used a proxy to route traffic before it hit the final endpoint eliminating exposing the IP to your ISP. It worked very similar to a VPN, but without the encrypted connection, and had some speed focused optimizations including the proxy being proximate to your ISP. It was pretty interesting.

JDubbleu , 2 months ago to 196 in cheap uprule farming post by posting someone talented's work

I've noticed this too both in those around me and myself (mid 20s). I don't identify as queer and have always been "straight", but more recently the thought of sucking a trans girl's dick is kinda hot? I'm not attracted to guys at all, so it would have to be someone who is otherwise extremely feminine, but eh?

I don't know what to call it and I honestly don't really care to think about or try to label it because it's a worthless distinction. It helps that most of my friends are queer so I've had any and all stereotypes/expectations surrounding attraction completely shattered, and I've found this to be true of more people I meet over time who don't identify with queer culture at all. I'll be interested to see how this continues to change in the next 20 years.

JDubbleu , 2 months ago to Technology in What would you like to see in a house IT setup?

It's excessive if you're only thinking short term, but longer term it is 100% worth it. It's one of those things you'll kick yourself for in 5 years.

JDubbleu , 2 months ago to Technology in What would you like to see in a house IT setup?

Poor insulation, and even if you had drop ceilings you still have headers you'd have to drill through at the top of every wall. Not to mention they look awful and damage easily.

JDubbleu , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to Technology in What would you like to see in a house IT setup?

Conduit everywhere. Every cable will be obsolete eventually, a conduit run to every room with pull cables makes it so replacing cables doesn't require a remodel.

JDubbleu , 3 months ago to Privacy in Your VPN provider won't go to jail for you for 5 dollars

Yes? I work in the identified healthcare data space, but work close to people in the unidentified space and even something as personal as health data can be obfuscated in such a way it's impossible to trace back to an individual. Not to mention whatever they're logging is surely many orders of magnitude less identifiable. They also have an entire page dedicated to answering these types of questions and concerns.

JDubbleu , 3 months ago to Memes in Yes, but

I don't necessarily agree. If a brand makes high quality stuff I'm not gonna avoid them just because they put their logo on their stuff. I have a kickass Adidas backpack from 2014 that is by far my favorite, and I'll be damned if I'm gonna get rid of it just because it has an Adidas logo on it.

I also have perfectly good clothes with various brands on them, and I'm not just gonna throw them away because that's wasteful as hell. I don't go out of my way to buy stuff with brands on them, but that won't stop me from buying something I genuinely like and find to be high quality.

JDubbleu , 3 months ago to Privacy in Your VPN provider won't go to jail for you for 5 dollars

Aggregate data doesn't mean no client side data. It's possible they're collecting aggregate level client data too. They could go further and collect data on individuals that is not identifiable or useful to law enforcement in any way. I can think of a few ways to get anonymous usage data that allows you to improve your service while protecting your users. I don't know their scheme but they clearly don't need overly invasive forms of analytics as they have a solid service.

JDubbleu , 3 months ago to Privacy in Your VPN provider won't go to jail for you for 5 dollars

Quality of service is usually only useful with aggregate data which is worthless for prosecuting an individual.

JDubbleu , 3 months ago to 196 in 196 does not rule when the top voted posts are all about US politics

It's almost like it was invented here 🤔