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wizardbeard , 2 days ago

Man, I don't even run my desktops without a UPS. Maybe I'm jaded from too much tech support, but I feel like not having a UPS is like not using a condom for a random hookup: it's fine until it dramatically and seriously isn't.

Almost every desk at my workplace has its own lead-acid battery. That's well over 1000. We haven't had any fires or explosions.

wizardbeard , 3 days ago

There is one benefit, at least for now. You aren't locked into long term contracts like cable has/had.

wizardbeard , 8 days ago

I think this is a misunderstanding of how most of the AI that feed into workflows work. Most of them don't dynamically re-train live based off how users are using them. At least not outside of the context of that user/chat instance.

Most likely what these and others are doing is to download pre-trained open source AI datasets thrn and run them locally so they aren't restrained by any of the commercial AI's limitations on what they will and won't output to users. I highly doubt there's enough material out there to truly train a new AI model on only explicitly racist material. This is just a bunch of assholes doing prompt engineering on open source models running locally.

wizardbeard , 8 days ago

You can also toggle it on precompiled binaries with the right tool (or a hex editor if you're insane), which was my main use case. Lots of old games that never got 64-bit releases that benefit from having access to the extra RAM, especially if you're modding them. It's a great way to avoid out of memory crashes.

wizardbeard , 9 days ago

Yes, let's just completely misrepresent someone and pretend it's a quote! That's fun!

There are effective ways to challenge laws and to push for new rights. Loudly shouting "I don't care about your rules, just try and stop me!" was not an effective way for IA to try and do this.

Furthermore, IA constantly misrepresenting the problem and why they were sued in all their blog posts and press shit also does not help the cause.

It's a law in desperate need of abolishment, but this is not how you go about changing it.

This also was not an effective way for them to ensure these books would continue to be available digitally for the public. They could have quietly leaked batches of the content that only they had out to the ebook piracy groups in a staggered fashion to help obsfucate where it was coming from, then hosted a blog post telling people how to pirate ebooks and where, with a cover your ass disclaimer that everyone needs to abide by their local laws.

By any metric of success, the way they handled this set them up to lose from the start, and jeapordized one of the most important public resources in the current era. This would be understandable from some small operation of like 5 people trying to digitize shit, not from an organization as large and old as IA.

I'm not the person who said he had no sympathy, but that is why I have little sympathy about all this: They don't deserve this outcome, I wish they had won, and I hope the law gets overturned or revised... but they absolutely should have know better that to try and do this the way they did. They fucked around and found out. This coild have ended so much worse for them.

wizardbeard , 9 days ago

Not sure about an article, but they themselves announced that their emergency covid library would not set limits on the amount of copies that could be checked out. That's literally the law they broke, that it has to be 1 to 1 outside of any other agreement.

wizardbeard , 9 days ago

This isn't about right or wrong though. It's explicitly about whether or not they broke the law.

They did. They did so loudly and proudly. This is why we are here, where they lost the legal battle.

If someone is pointing a gun at you with their finger on the trigger, and you say "Just try to shoot me! I dare you! You know you won't you little chickenshit." then you should have a pretty good expectation to get shot.

Everything else is valid, but significantly less important. IA has to operate in the rules that currently exist, not what the rules should be. There are better ways to get bad laws changed than to dare someone to find you guilty of them.

Maybe this case will be the first building block towards overturning the asinine digital lending laws. I would love if it was, but I'm not holding my breath.

wizardbeard , 12 days ago

I've tried to do this a few times, and unfortunately it feels like you really have to go all in on managing your own content library.

Like many, I had stopped pirating shit when netflix etc were "good".

None of the streaming services want you to use them outside of their official sites/apps, so you end up being limited to like 720p when running them through kodi etc.

wizardbeard , 15 days ago

New surgeon simulator DLC

wizardbeard , 15 days ago

These concepts are not mutually exclusive. You can be right about AI considerably overstepping boundaries and still be exhibiting classic signs of paranoia issues, which OP is.

Their immediate response to people not reacting to this post and their comments is to immediately jump to the idea that they're being targeted by their designated enemy. That's not particularly healthy.

I'm worried that AI is becoming the new gangstalking for tech aligned people predisposed to disprdered thinking.

wizardbeard , 15 days ago (edited 15 days ago)

My guy, your posts are particularly hard to follow, and you are very very quick to jump to the conclusion that you're somehow being targeted and under attack. It's no surprise that people aren't responding to what you think is appropriate for them to respond to.

You've gone out of your way to provide extra info about irrelevant details: Why does the particular flavor of git you use matter at all to this conversation beyond the fact that you self host, why does it matter that you are on github as well when we are specifically discussing things you believe were sourced from readme.mds you have self hosted?

Meanwhile you don't give many details or explanation about the core thing you are trying to discuss, seemingly expecting people to be able to just follow your ramblings.

Edit:
After having re-read your OP, it's less messy than I initially thought, but jesus christ man you need to work on arranging your points better. It shouldn't take reading your main post, a few of your comments, and the main post again to get your point: "AI data scrapers appear to treat readme files as public data regardless of any anti-AI precautions or licensing you've tried to apply, and they appear to not only grab from github bit also from self-hosted git repositories."

wizardbeard , 11 days ago

Hey Elias, found some confounding info: looks like Perplexity AI doesn't respect the methods of blocking scrapers through robots.txt so this might just be an issue with them specifically being assholes.

Couldn't figure out how to tag you in a comment on the other post, so I'll edit this comment in a moment with the link.

Link: https://lemmy.world/post/16716107

wizardbeard , 17 days ago

Just like the "tesla hyperloop" or whatever they're calling it, it's not about innovation. It's about keeping his brands in the public eye as a form of marketing. Even if on a logical level we all know it's horseshit, it still keeps himself and Tesla salient.

He can afford to burn an incomprehensible amount of money on stunts for outcomes most people would consider inconsequential.

I'm not saying it's 4D chess, it definitely isn't. He's not particularly intelligent in that way. That said, I do think there are some very simple reasons for him to do this that go beyond his absolutely insane delusional ego.

He has enough money that he can continue funding whatever he wants regardless of public opinion. He literally exists at a level where any press is good press as it keeps him fresh in peoples' minds.

wizardbeard , 17 days ago

If it was valid, do you really think people would be talking about it being a problem here? Please use your head a little.

Also, two entitely different meanings of the word signing being used here. Signing as in signing a bill vs. Cryptographic signing. Adobe has some weird "halfway" thing that's more than painting the sig on the image, but isn't gpg.

Hooray for proprietary shit becoming accepted for legal use! Yuck.

wizardbeard , 24 days ago

whose workers work on them entirely based on their need to be done

You mean there's projects out there where it's not a bunch of individual devs all working on their personal pet features and ignoring all else?

wizardbeard , 24 days ago

Exactly. I hate fucking everything about this. I love the internet archive and ^nearly^ all they do.

In principal I love their "covid-19 emergency library" or whatever they called it. In practice? They absolutely know better than to pull stunts and I'm terrified that this will spell the end for one of the greatest knowledge and media resources of the modern age. For shit that was effectively already available to the public through ebook piracy sites.

They already operated on shaky ground, hosting downloads for a metric ton of shit that is unquestionably still under copyright (despite their claims to only be archival of things that are not), skating by on technicalities and by not drawing too much attention to themselves.

Plus, there were so fucking many better ways to do the "free digital library" thing without jeapordizing themselves.

• Have some volunteers "misuse resources": load an SSD up with the book files, "borrow" some compute power to decrypt/remove drm, pass batches off to existing ebook "dumping" groups to stagger releases and obsfucate the true source. This would ensure that any material they had which was not already available on the high seas would get there.
• Make a big red banner on the site to a blog post with the generic "While we would never condone piracy or copyright infringement, we understand that times are extremely hard right now [blah blah] here are some links to community guides on how to access learning literature (pirate ebooks) during these trying times [blah blah] Please abide by your local laws."

wizardbeard , 24 days ago

This is the worst kind of misrepresentation of tech. Nothing you said is explicitly false, it sounds true in passing, but it sure is effectively false.

The amount of data you can actually store in any single node/transaction on a given blockchain is traditionally very small. Even most NFTs are not truly "on the chain" as in the image data fully stored in a node/element, it's instead a "smart contract" which just says X identity owns Y (with Y itself being stored elsewhere). There have been many many attempts at actually storing data on various chains and there hasn't been any successes significant enough to come even close to being able to store the classic 90's Space Jam website, let alone the fucking Internet Archive.

Beyond that, you absolutely can take down nodes in a chain, so to speak. Numerous major "heists" have been "rolled back" or had their nodes/transactions flagged to be ignored by marketplace admins.

wizardbeard , 24 days ago

Archive has been around for well over a decade with no issues outside of sporadic DMCA claims against user uploaded content. For many many years they have been left alone, despite hosting a shit ton of copyrighted material.

Occasional legal battles that they've handled with no problems with the help of the EFF. This is the first "existential threat" to them in quite a long time.

This is absolutely because they pulled the emergency library stunt, and they were loud as hell about it. They literally broke the law and shouted about it.

Libraries are allowed to scan/digitize books they own physically. They are only allowed to lend out as many as they physically own though. Archive knew this and allowed infinite "lend outs". They even openly acknowledged that this was against the law in their announcement post when they did this.

I can absolutely say this is their own damn fault while disagreeing with the law they broke. There, I just did.

wizardbeard , 1 month ago

It went from direct connections between user computers to all routing through Micrsoft's centralized servers. I wonder why everyone started having connection and lag issues after that.

wizardbeard , 1 month ago

That's a completely separate situation.

Yes, tipping culture is out of control and needs to be abolished. But screwing over the wait staff or delivery driver currently providing you service will never have any impact on the big wigs that made the decision to play them less than minimum wage.

Why is this so difficult for people?

Pay reasonable tips for reasonable service people paid under minimum wage. Also work with your local politicians to eliminate tipping. Do not withold tips from people working under minimum wage unless you just want to be part of the boot stepping on them.

wizardbeard , 1 month ago

Yes, but until such time that is happening, you are also an asshole for not tipping where people are being paid under minimum wage.

Amazingly, both of these concepts can be true simultaneously!

You not tipping the service worker will never have any impact on the company's decision to be assholes and pay less than minimum wage.

Working with local politicians and boycotting said companies might. But most people in the US complaining about this shit want to have their cake and eat it too.

wizardbeard , 1 month ago

Who hurt you? No one was talking about people doing this shit for a living or for the entertainment of anyone but themselves.

wizardbeard , 1 month ago

Don't have a direct answer, but have you tried making the same short playlist on each, exporting as json from each, and comparing the files?

JSON isn't a specific filetype that is interchangable between multiple systems. It's just a way of organizing data as text. You can open it up in a text editor.

The format that invidious is exporting is for invidious. Invidious won't have the data in that json file organized in the way that piped expects, which is why it says it's not valid.

You might be able to reorganize the JSON or rename the property names to match the pattern that piped expects. You'd probably be looking at scripting something yourself though.

wizardbeard , 1 month ago

On android I use Revanced. It patches the official Youtube app (patches are open source) to greatly expand the base functionality and offer a lot more customization of the UI.

For me the best features are ad block, sponsorblock (skips in video sponsored segments), and complete excision of shorts from all aspects of the app.

It also works on Youtube Music, effectively allowing free premium (just don't get the local downloads of your most listened tracks to help save data, but I have unlimited anyway).

wizardbeard , 1 month ago

Man, it seems so alien to me to use anything related to your legal identity as a username online.

wizardbeard , 1 month ago

There's at least one public story from an ex-googler who worked on search having a big QoL feature update killed at the absolute last moment before it went live by someone in marketing/ads because it decreased click through rate for the "sponsored" results at the top of the search page.

wizardbeard , 1 month ago

There's at least one public story from an ex-googler who worked on search having a big QoL feature update killed at the absolute last moment before it went live by someone in marketing/ads because it decreased click through rate for the "sponsored" results at the top of the search page.

wizardbeard , 1 month ago

You can pirate, or if you want to do it the "right" way, you can sign up when there's something you want to watch and cancel when there isn't.

wizardbeard , 1 month ago

Yo ho yo ho a pirate's life for me

wizardbeard , 1 month ago

Bleachbit is the open source, non trash "replacement" for CCleaner

wizardbeard , 1 month ago

Wow, meme necromancy

wizardbeard , 1 month ago

Musicbee is a pretty good Foobar alternative.

wizardbeard , 1 month ago

If by "only so much" you mean every BS thing in OP's image, sure.

To be clear, you can turn off all web content in the search menu/start menu search.

wizardbeard , 1 month ago

Sounds like your IT team messed up the setup. In their defense, Microsoft doesn't make it easy to set it up well.

A "good" setup hides all this shit from the end user. All your "library" folders (Documents, Desktop, Pictures, etc) can be invisibly made into OneDrive folders. Still save your shit where you normally do, navigate in the file manager like you normally do, no lag for changes you do locally to show locally, minor lag (like 1-2 minutes) for changes to propagate to OneDrive itself (and other machines you are currently logged into). Just now everything is backed up to the cloud.

wizardbeard , 1 month ago

Lol. Minecraft alone proves you wrong. 4chan is where Notch first posted early builds and got feedback.

No argument on it being a cesspool. It is, and has been, for a long long time. But plenty of good stuff happens there too.

/vr/ has unearthed a large amount of formerly lost media (guides, promotional material, entire games! Most of Osamu Sato's work outside of LSD Dream Emulator had effectively been lost before they got onto it) and is often the spot that leaked stuff drops, like the huge Nintendo leaks a few years ago. The Doom threads there have had a hand in some big, well known mods. It's arguable that Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart grew out of those threads' failed Doom Kart project.

/g/s "friendly windows thread" is decidedly unfriendly, but the guides and links in the OP are wonderful resources on how to set up and configure new Windows installs. I haven't seen the info there laid out as well and as easily digestible anywhere else.

/vg/ has a large number of threads that are really the only source for certain info about certain game series. The emulation general threads are great resources, and the wiki built from them is the best go to one stop shop for info on emulators. The amateur game dev general threads have been the building grounds for a decent amount of games you've heard of before. Risk of Rain is a good example. Hopoo started his game dev journey in those threads. Any game that references "AGDG" is shouting those threads out.

Point is, there's diamonds in the shit pile.

wizardbeard , 1 month ago

You're better off rotating usernames on a semi-randomized schedule if it really matters to you that much. Is your personal threat model such that you actually need to be concerned about this?

Anyway, OpSec rather than asking others to fix your privacy concerns would be the way to go.

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Create separate accounts by topic, with different fake identity details beyond what you made them for. Keep track of each identity's fake time zone when planning when you post so that no one can figure out what time zone you really are posting from.

Beyond that decide on a lifetime (and "cooloff period" before you make a replacement) for each account using a random number generator.

Most importantly, use various AI tools to obsfucate your typing style and word choice.

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This all seems like a shit ton of work to just talk about your hobbies. I sincerely hope you don't have stalkers this dedicated.

wizardbeard , 1 month ago

They basically did similar stuff with some of the stuff in the sm3d collection thingy.

They did not.

For Super Mario 64, they emulated it. They increased the resolution the game renders at (trivial with emulation of 3D systems) and they used basic LUA patches in the emulator to override HUD textures with higher resolution ones adjusted for the Switch controller.

They did not add any further enhancements in any way. Compared to even 64 DS, it was extremely sophomoric. Compared to the Super Mario 64 decomp project, and what its native switch port is capable of (more on that later), it's an incredibly lazy port. They didn't even fix the slowdown with Bowser's Sub that is as simple as adjusting a single compiler flag when you build the ROM from the N64 game source code.

For Sunshine, it's an admittedly impressive solution of mostly emulation with some sections of the game engine ported (I think it's the audio processing?). Once again, the game is rendered at a higher resolution, but they did not redo ot improve further any textures (besides some of the HUD again), graphical effects, or game content. Wind Waker HD this ain't.

For Galaxy they cannibalized the existing port of it to Android on the NVidia Shield. The Switch shares most of the important internals with it (CPU, GPU). It's a combo of emulation with certain key code ported, like Sunshine. Again, besides resolution and HUD, no improvements.

Beyond that, Nintendo has been content to sell straight up emulation through the Virtual Console service since the Wii. They've had multiple instances of straight ports over the years, and some of the most popular Switch games are straight ports with DLC bundled in.

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There are numerous impressive remakes they have done over the years, but that is absolutely not the norm.

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The Super Mario 64 decomp on the Switch supports (not available in Nintendo's official port in 3D All Stars):

• Effectively infinite render distance for objects (coins, enemies, stars, etc)
• 60 fps (compared to the original/all stars 30fps at best)
• True analog camera control using the right stick (All Stars is just the original's clunky button based control mapped to the stick)
• All sorts of QoL options like collecting stars not kicking you out of a level, options for streamlined/faster message boxes
• Optional bugfixes
• Optional cheats
• Variety of HD texture packs to choose from
• Variety of higher quality 3D model packs to choose from
• Support for an astounding variety of mods. Levels, entire new games, new characters, new movement and control options (Odyssey Mario in 64 with full cappy and enemy capture mechanics anyone?)
• Support for many more languages
• Nearly all of the above is toggleable mid-game from the pause menu.

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I don't think anyone was expecting something amazing out of 3D All Stars, but they absolutely fucking phoned it in.

wizardbeard , 1 month ago

When I do find relevant answers, lately they're all so old that they no longer work, or rely on now deprecated functionality of a library or system.

Finding code snippets for interfacing with Azure through PowerShell is a crapshoot because Microsoft keeps deprecating different PowerShell modules for it.

wizardbeard , 1 month ago

PowerShell Microsoft Graph Module. Most of the official doc pages have at least one section of "TODO" in them.

After they officially deprecated the previous modules with similar functionality.

wizardbeard , 1 month ago

But those options were available to him without a risky brain implant. There's a large amount of alternative interface methods and tools available for these purposes, they just don't have Musk's marketing budget and they aren't run by someone that owns a newspaper, so they're not well known outside the disabled community.

We've had wearable (and thus removable and non invasive) neural interfaces for years now that have been able to do mouse control.

We've had robust eye tracker control since Steven fucking Hawking.

This is being framed as though this was the only way for this person to have these abilities and options available, and that is patently false.

wizardbeard , 1 month ago

https://youtu.be/hePJ1YPMxEw

wizardbeard , 1 month ago

Not dickriding microsoft here, but they have provided all the tools to fix this. They just can't make them happen automatically on effected machines because they broke something particularly complicated.

You need to have enough space to resolve the issue (which was caused by not having enough space in the recovery partition in the first place). You need to adjust the size of the parition (traditionally a risky operation, especially through Windows). You then need to download a specific update while skipping another, install, and reboot.

They have provided scripts for backing up the recovery partition, expanding it, and restoring the contents from backup if expanding fucks the contents. They have provided a script to download and install the specific update to fix the problem once you have enough space in that paritition. They did not automate restarting the computer (piss easy to automate), or to hide the problematic update (easy through UI, probably a pain to script).

wizardbeard , 1 month ago

It's more than strictly a recovery partition. It is also used for updates and the files needed to roll individual ones back. The entire issue was that they had an update that didn't properly handle when there wasn't enough space for it in the recovery partition.

wizardbeard , 1 month ago

They don't need to reinstall the OS to resolve this issue though, unless they absolutely fucked their paritions.

Which is why Microsoft couldn't automate a fix. It's incredibly easy to fuck your partitions to hell and back, especially through Windows. Too many conditions to check for and try to handle automatically.

wizardbeard , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Are you ok? You've doubled down on nonsense. Seriously, take a breath. Look into some treatment for anxiety.

The whole danger is that AI text generation doesn't misspell, and comes across highly confidently.

There's actual research out there on spotting AI generated text. Most of it is based off tone, frequency of some specific phrases, and sentence structure.

If you're mixing this with the idea that spam emails and scamming comments are often misspelled, that's done in an attempt to avoid word filters, and also to help ensure that people who fall for them are dumb enough not to notice, making them easy marks more likely to overlook other warning signs. If they aren't trying to get you to take an action, or a coordinated push to manufacture consent, the chance of AI is low.

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Also, the statistics about internet traffic you're thinking about is about bots. That's largely scripts and web scrapers, less so automated posters making arguments multiple levels down incredibly quiet threads on low user count social media like lemmy.

wizardbeard , 1 month ago

Let me be crystal fucking clear here.

You were not making a valid point.

Your hypothetical is so amazingly absurd that I did not fully believe you were being serious until I saw your response.

I'm still wondering if this isn't some sort of weird ass false flag attempt to make people who dislike Musk look like absolute raving loonies.

I tried to give you places to begin looking into things yourself so you (and anyone else as delusional as you) wouldn't be worried about something so unlikely as to be effectively impossible.

I'm not doing that work for you, I've already had to sit through countless discussions of this shit in my lifetime. Multiple nuclear engineers in the (extended) family, have met members of the regulatory orgs through them, and that's what my parents wanted me to grow up to be (I fucked off into computers though).

Beyond that, I tried to give you some stuff against Musk that's far more rooted in reality than the wildest speculation.

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But I really couldn't give a shit what you talk about. I just dislike seeing people undermining legitimate points by throwing around absurd exageration. Especially when there's plenty of legitimate criticisms and concerns out there about Musk.

Please, do go on about how he's going to somehow outsmart intelligence agencies that took out an entire country's nuclear program with a single goddamn computer virus. At this point it's just entertaining.

wizardbeard , 1 month ago

No, we really, truly are not.

wizardbeard , 1 month ago

All from the first page of results for laws preventing private ownership of nuclear weapons.

Changed my mind and took 30 seconds to spoonfeed you. Enjoy. I'm blocking your ass as to prevent the hazard to my own mental health.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/2122

https://www.nti.org/education-center/treaties-and-regimes/treaty-on-the-prohibition-of-nuclear-weapons/

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/832

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/669/text

https://www.acq.osd.mil/ncbdp/nm/NMHB2020rev/chapters/chapter12.html

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1961-1968/npt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Prohibition_of_Nuclear_Weapons

https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-security/non-proliferation/safeguards-to-prevent-nuclear-proliferation.aspx