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MentalEdge

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Eskating cyclist, gamer and enjoyer of anime. Probably an artist. Also I code sometimes, pretty much just to mod titanfall 2 tho.

Introverted, yet I enjoy discussion to a fault.

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She thought they were shoes made out of babies, rather than for babies.

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Still just on the first step, embrace.

Apparently threads didn't support federating replies (comments) on posts until this.

And you still won't be able to reply to the federated comments on posts, just see them.

They are really not in a hurry to properly support federating. I honestly didn't realize Threads' federation support was this pathetic.

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Modern ADSL and VDSL can get you pretty far... But they don't hold a candle to fibre.

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Are you seriously suggesting that more advanced propulsion and suspension systems would eliminate the need for traction?

Have you ever ridden a bike on just the rims?

It sucks. And I don't mean just in terms of comfort. There's a reason mountain bikes with the most advanced suspension systems still need soft knobbly tires in addition to their suspension systems to do what they do.

Trains and trams are far more efficient large scale transport options, but cars and smaller personal transport options like scooters and bicycles have their place, too. Despite our current over-reliance on them, they aren't useless. There are use-cases where they are the best option. The same goes for the tire.

The compliant tire is the best option for an off-rails vehicle. No, suspension cannot replace it, not in terms of cost (and I don't mean money, I mean materials and energy) and especially not in terms of functionality.

That's not how wheels work.

You can't just ignore traction and claim you can make an effective vehicle of any kind with materials that don't wear if only sufficiently advanced propulsion and suspension were applied.

Even on skateboards, warehouse vehicles, and similar, the wheel isn't just a solid cylinder of metal or some other non-compliant low-wear material.

It's a hard hub, wrapped in plastic, or rather, polyurethane. A compliant grippy material that serves a very important purpose in improving the performance of the wheel. You can't replace a compliant wheel material with somehow better suspension. You still need it for grip, even on perfectly flat surfaces.

Trains make up for their low traction (and therefore high efficiency) with slow steady acceleration/deceleration and extreme weight. Their design principles cannot be applied to personal vehicles, which do serve their own purposes.

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I have no clue what could be causing that. I'd start looking into each link in the chain and making sure it's working.

But any halfway reasonable config should be able to handle audio playback, no matter how lossless. Audio-only just doesn't achieve datarates that would choke up... Anything.

Essentially, benchmark file transfers, transcoding, etc. Make sure each step of how it works is in fact working. Check drive SMART health... Whatever you can think of.

Also logs. No need to read through thousands of lines, but looking at the lines time stamped around when the issue occurs is always a good idea. FFMPEG logs, JF logs, client player logs, does SMB or whatever network drive protocol you're using have logs? If it does, check em.

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Nah I think most of us just don't think this one makes sense.

Like I get in what way it's supposed to be funny. It just isn't.

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I use mautrix. It creates a matrix space where all your discord stuff goes, and within that it will create spaces for each server you manually choose to bridge.

DMs also go into a DMs space. DMs are bridged automatically, but each server you want has to be added with a command.

Looking at those three, appservice is old, and out of your element does not do puppeting (meaning it bridges discord-matrix chat rooms, rather matrix-discord accounts), making mautrix the best option IMO.

If you are looking to make a discord server you run accessible on matrix, out of your element may be better.

For using your own discord account through matrix, mautrix is the obvious choice.

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Yes. Nine months is long enough for stuff to potentially be broken due to changes in matrix or discord.

Even if you don't care about double puppeting, I was referring to the fact that out of your element doesn't do puppeting. At all.

As in no DMs or discord account log in. All it does is mirror chat rooms onto matrix, allowing matrix users to join them. It does not link to your existing discord account in any way.

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Me: is this some joke I have too many known-good btrfs snapshots to understand?

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B-tree file system, actually.

Microsoft in damage-control mode, says it will prioritize security over AI (arstechnica.com)

Microsoft is pivoting its company culture to make security a top priority, President Brad Smith testified to Congress on Thursday, promising that security will be "more important even than the company’s work on artificial intelligence."...

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Happy cake day!

MentalEdge ,
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"Haha, lol, know that cool sci-fi cautionary tale? We should do that, but irl!"
- Every tech company, for some reason.

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There's also the fact that they can't tell reality apart from fiction in general, because they don't understand anything in the first place.

LLMs have no way of differentiating fantasy RPG elements from IRL things. So they can lose the plot on what is being discussed suddenly, and for seemingly no reason.

LLMs don't just "learn" facts from their training data. They learn how to pretend to be thinking, they can mimic but not really comprehend. If there were facts in the training data, it can regurgitate them, but it doesn't actually know which facts apply to which subjects, or when to not make some up.

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At a glance, it looks like it closes steam, edits steam survey data to backdate it to a year earlier, then starts steam again.

This perhaps causes steam to update the survey data to make it report you as using Linux?

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What is this?

40s clickbait?

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Page 12 will surprise you!

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Oh dear, had to pay a million dollar fine... What's this, a million dollar bonus? How did that happen?

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I feel like Satan here is more like "yeah, and I made an even better one, pure darkness, pure joy"

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80 and 443 are the standard ports for webpages (http and https respectively). Lot of selfhosted software with web-based frontends will therefore try to use them.

You can change the ports for the bitwarden container to whatever you like, but the "proper" way to set up multiple services with web-based interfaces like this, is to use a reverse proxy to make them all accessible via these two standard ports. (Caddy is popular for this)

You can then access them using their respective subdomains or subpaths.

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Even if someone did steal a mars-bar... Banning them from all food-selling establishments seems... Disproportional.

Like if you steal out of necessity, and get caught once, you then just starve?

Obviously not all grocers/chains/restaurants are that networked yet, but are we gonna get to a point where hungry people are turned away at every business that provides food, once they are on "the list"?

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it's like a no-fly list, but for being alive

ftfy

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That is some serious "capitalism can solve anything and therefore will, if only we let it"-type brain rot.

This "solution" relies on so many assumptions that don't even begin to hold water.

Of course any utopian framework for society could deal with every conceivable problem... But in practice they don't, and always require intentional regulation to a greater or lesser extent in order to prevent harm, because humans are humans.

This particular potential problem is almost certainly not the kind that simply "solves itself" if you let it.

And IMO suggesting otherwise is an irresponsible perpetuation of the kind of thinking that has led human civilization to the current reality of millions starving in the next few decades, due to the predictable environmental destruction of arable land in the near future.

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That seems like a groundless distinction.

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Your distinctions are invalid.

My city has rental bikes that work similarly to rental escooters. Are they now bad?

People here use helmets with them, same for rental scooters, which have designated parking areas here, same as bikes.

Neither moves people away from transit. They are a last mile vehicle that people use to get to and from transit hubs, or to do short trips that would take longer to do by transit.

Not to mention that this is a stupid argument. Multimodal transit is the highest form of public transit. Only idiots want to replace all private vehicle ownership with public systems or all cars with mass transit. The greatest transit capacity is achieved when deploying all modes simultaneously.

Your distinctions are based on how something happens to be utilized around your local area, and the etiquette that has (or rather hasn't) developed around using a given vehicle.

There is nothing about electric scooters that stops them from being used in an equally reasonable manner as any other mode of travel.

Your problem is with local norms and people. Not the vehicle type.

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Synapse is the most feature-complete server, and still the one to receive spec compliance updates the fastest.

For a small number of users and bridges, it being written in python is not a concern performance-wise.

Not sure what you mean by multiple domains. The domain of the home server IS its identity, same goes for user addresses. You can't have multiple addresses all hooked up to one account on one instance. (At least not until account portability is a thing)

You could run multiple homeservers with different domains, tho. They'd essentially be separate instances, interoperable through federation same as everything else.

Synapse is what matrix.org currently runs, while Dendrite is what it will eventually use.

An Important Hypothetical - What Android Apps Do You Install?? (sh.itjust.works)

You're twelve years old on Thanksgiving at six thirty in the morning. You'll be leaving for Grandma's in about a half hour, and she's lives a three hour drive away, going in one direction. You have nothing to prepare yourself on this journey, other than a tablet running Android Eleven. Beware, the speaker is broken and there is...

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Tachiyomi

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We already do?

DXVK and VKD3D have been translating DirectX 9-12 to Vulkan for a while now, allowing DirectX games and applications to run on hardware and/or operating systems that don't support DirectX.

Intels ARC GPUs don't even support DirectX on a hardware level, like it's just straight up not there. Intels drivers instead just translate it to Vulkan, and their at times insane FPS boosts from driver updates was due to them improving that translation and getting closer to 1:1 performance.

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Wine doesn't do DirectX. A wine environment set up for gaming uses DXVK or VKD3D to translate everything to Vulkan.

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They're new.

I didn't claim they're worth recommending yet. AFAIK they're pretty great now, and with more issues worked out on the hardware side, Battlemage has great potential.

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Yes, that was WineD3D, which still has to be used in some cases.

But that's still not DirectX, what I was saying is that you don't actually run DirectX in Wine. You have to translate it to Vulkan or OpenGL.

Not that this stuff isn't part of Wine.

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Shit.

This could work. "We only scan your shit with your permission" might placate enough people for them to not realise that to make that possibly at all, security has already been compromised, as required by law.

This does not alleviate the issues of the original proposal in any way whatsoever.

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Except that in this case even if you say no, the law has already required that e2ee be broken and backdoored.

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Nevermind that even if not consenting was an option, this law would still enforce the compromising of all secure communication.

I'm really annoyed by how much Brave Search is pushing AI

I've been using Brave Search supplemented by Startpage for the past 2+ years. When I search for something, I want to get results for credible webpages, not a summary of unknown quality. I liked the previous AI inclusion because it was instant, didn't take up much space, and I could quickly navigate to the websites referenced in...

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Probably.

Opera is shady. Vivaldi is developed by the people who used to develop Opera, back when it was its own thing and before it sold out to Chinese investors.

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I dunno. Everything I've seen and heard seems perfectly legit.

But it's yet another chromium fork, and I don't use it.

I did for a while, as it has some very nice features, but it would consistently open without resuming my session. It would work for months and then just out of nowhere it would open up as if it was just installed. Everything gone. Utterly unacceptable.

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I mean, I just set my system to only check for updates once a week.

There's no real reason to install every update, the second it's available. If there's a big security fix you should get asap, you'll hear about it.

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Which is why you reduce the frequency at which the system checks for updates.

Once I get notified it's irresistible.

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My initial reaction to the announcement clips was that of disgust.

Like auditory uncanny valley. The result is impressive, but holy fuck hearing it speak makes me cringe, I want to shut it up asap.

Unplug it before it can ask if I want to kill myself, as if it actually cares, and isn't a million coin tosses away from acting on some random training data to encourage me to do it instead of not.

To interact with humans with such sycophancy, I am viscerally creeped out imagining the design objectives.

The worst part is, it's being presented with the same false confidence that LLMs themselves exhibit... Even as they confidently explain how simple it is to prove the earth is flat when you ask.

Fucking hell, the tech is amazing, but can we not handwave away the limitations and irresponsibly apply it to literally everything, as if just a few more yottabytes of training data means it'll stop making mistakes "aaaany second now".

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Why? dB is logarithmic so it's difficult for people to picture how loud something is, if that's the only number given.

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Yeah, I thought this was for those pieces of shit.

I'm sure electric ones are being used around my city, but that's not the ones I notice.

MentalEdge ,
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Altman going "yeah we could make it get things right 100% of the time, but that would be boring" has such "my girlfriend goes to another school" energy it's not even funny.

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Are you using a CSS theme?

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By an Index and get into VR gaming on Linux. We livin on the edge ovar her. Shit breaks every day and there's a wonky python script you have to use if you wanna be able to put the base stations into sleep mode 👍

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The fediverse won’t succeed at putting up a substitute and that’s a problem?

Just an impression: All the pieces seem to be there. But what’s required is a team, with devs, PMs and coordinators, dedicated to making a particular place in the .

That’s resources and decently sized financial and organisational demands, especially to get a critical mass of users.

Is the fediverse up to that challenge? If not, is it an issue worth addressing?

@fediverse

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Yeah. All we have to do is start asking.

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I don't get it.

It stays open, you can drink from it, you can pour from it, you can pour into it.

What action does the cap staying attached prevent, warranting its detachment?

I'm seriously asking. I don't get it. What inconvenience?

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No it doesn't? I buy a bottle of something every day, these have never been trouble. Not once.

The first time I noticed it I thought, "neat" and that's it.

How does it get in the way? You open it and it stays there. Out of the way of anything you might use a bottle for.

Are there different ones? Because I've only ever seen the one, and it's the same one everyone hates on in pictures and videos online. Yet people say there are good ones and bad ones?

I don't get it.

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Valid, I've mostly been pouring soda into glasses, and at least with my face, that doesn't happen.

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Yes. I tried logging into my homeserver from it once, it straight up will not let you continue setup if sliding sync isn't available.

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