linearchaos

linearchaos, 1 day ago

confirm the generated one worked. I think I’ll pass on tha

LLM wasn’t the right tool for the job, so search engine companies made their search engines suck so bad that it was an acceptable replacement.

linearchaos, 1 day ago

We needed it a few years ago.

linearchaos, 1 day ago

Honestly? I’m down with that. And when the LLM’s end up pricing themselves out of usefulness, we’ll still have the fediverse version. Having free sites on the net with solid crowd-sourced information is never a bad thing even if other people pick up the data and use it.

It’s when private sites like Duolingo and Reddit crowd source the information and then slowly crank down the free aspect that we have the problems.

The Ad sponsored web model is not viable forever.

linearchaos, 1 day ago

Smells too much like duo-lingo. Here, everyone jump in and answers all the questions. 5 years later, ohh look at this gold mine of community data we own…

linearchaos, 2 days ago

I swear the defense against the dark arts teacher just keeps getting weirder and weirder.

linearchaos, 2 days ago

Given the state of Mississippi he might be headed toward a Senate seat…

linearchaos, 2 days ago

I think the real meat here would be the work from home crowd. If you can find a hole in there router, you can inject routing tables and defeat VPN.

But the VPN client doesn’t have to be stupid. You could certainly detect rogue routes and shut down the network.

linearchaos, 2 days ago

I don’t know, if you’ve already have full control over routing and have some form of local presence, seems to me you could do something interesting with a proxy, maybe even route the traffic back to the tunnel adapter.

linearchaos, 2 days ago

We’re already assuming you have something that can compromise DHCP. Once you make that assumption who’s to say you don’t have a VM hanging out.

linearchaos, 2 days ago

Not as such. But it also doesn’t mean that it can’t have catastrophic results.

Your water heater has an overpressure valve, but just one. A failure in that valve and a temperature regulator and you can have your hot water heater shooting up through your roof.

Your furnace has a control board. It turns the gas on, hits the igniter, watches for flame. An older, shittier designs, it was entirely possible for just one or two sensors to go bad and run the furnace to the point of melting down and have the house burned down. Source: happened to me on vacation many decades ago.

linearchaos, 6 days ago

Those red and blue dots are damned close together for one guy that incited a coup, kept mein kampf on this nightstand writes love letters to Putin and IL.

Biden is nowhere near where I want him to be policy-wise, But to try to put them close together on social issues is disingenuous

The political compass site is far from scientific.

linearchaos, 6 days ago

All peolpe who say all liberals aren’t left are idiots who like to lump everyone into one box to make their point.

linearchaos, 9 days ago

Yeah, it sounds real high to me. Perhaps the criteria is have ever seen a tt video.

Now yt, easily > 50%. It’s practically a babysitter. Putting cocomellon in front of your 3yo to get 30 minutes of peace is a parental guilty pleasure.

Tweens, sure. IG, TT, whatever.

linearchaos, 9 days ago

Brief is the ticket. The more you hot ot not it, the better it gets at matching you. After a couple days of swipes, you’ll get a constant stream of stuff you’ll actually want to see. IG and TT are good at this, yt shorts are pretty bad at it.

I’ve been trying to stay out of the algorithms. I watch YT by channels only, left Reddit for Lemmy, listed fb to friends walls. TT and IG only make it to me if friends or family share it. I’ll go watch it then GTFO.

linearchaos, 9 days ago

It’s three times the marketing data. And then if you’re watching 2 22nd videos and 122nd ad that’s a full third of your watch time as ads.

linearchaos, 10 days ago

Nuance is about subtlety. Nothing here is subtle.

There are clear differences between destroying the planet by eating meat and driving a car and supporting the guy with Mein Kampf on his nightstand who publically Idealizes Dictators.

linearchaos, 10 days ago

I’m afraid this isn’t really going to be horribly effective. There are bottlenecks in the network stack and there are bottlenecks in the process of writing to the internal storage.

Maybe if one of the apps was hosted on crappy storage somewhere… Even at 1:00 at a time and choose through some fairly decent amounts of CPU.

linearchaos, 10 days ago

Your mobile processor can handle a couple of threads of download per core. If you’re downloading from multiple locations and aren’t throttled and have a phone with many cores, it can go faster. Realistically, to min/max, the software should know what your max configuration is and push that per download. Once a download fails to achieve the max, then it allows other downloads to bypass the queue. For large files, it’s almost always more efficient to focus on less streams if the streams can provide you the throughput.

linearchaos, 10 days ago

Latest Debian has all the ease and little of the worry.

linearchaos, 14 days ago

There are a lot of smart hardworking CEOs. But none of them ever seem to get to this level. At some line in the sand CEOs just become idiots playing chess (poorly) from their yachts.

Good leaders that care about their company seem to universally get pushed out at IPO.

linearchaos, 15 days ago

Shockingly there’s not enough fan boys out there to keep them afloat.

I respectable amount of high income individuals would love to have premium long range EVs. Nobody wants to be associated with him. Nobody wants to wait around for 6 hours while the car gets towed if it has a serious breakdown, and nobody wants to deal with resale problems.

The charging network is good, the cars still have some tech in them that is ahead of the competition. But they’re pushing the tech too far they’re taking a page out of Apple’s book and not listening to what people want.

If you’re not going to listen to your customers and you have a horrible image problem, You’re going to have a bad time.

linearchaos, 15 days ago

I mean, it doesn’t have to be expensive. And also doesn’t have to be particularly cutting edge. Start throwing some credits into an LLM API, haven’t randomly read and help people out in different groups. Once it reaches some amount of reputation have it quietly shill for them. Pull out posts that contain keywords. Have the AI consume the posts and figure out if they have to do with what they sound like they do. Have it subtly do product placement. None of this is particularly difficult or groundbreaking. But it could help shape our buying habits.

linearchaos, 15 days ago

I replaced the batteries in my Samsung earbuds. It wasn’t super easy but it was tool-less.

linearchaos, 15 days ago

There was no reason to get rid of the headphone jack. Funny enough, the microSD cards are designed to fail. When you’re using them in dash cams, cameras and drones they know they have to reach a certain bit rate and when they see that not happening they tell you that it’s time to format and/or replace. But using them as a supplemental file system in the phone is dicey. The difference between underperforming and being a problem is a line in the sand that Android has a mastered. Google even tried a series of tactics to make them less dodgy. They tried to make it where you can’t install apps out there. But even just putting media and other stuff out there when the operating system goes to check the storage driver can cause hiccups and lags and weird problems.

If SD cards weren’t almost all disposable trash we might be able to use them in our phones without creating any performance or support nightmares.

linearchaos, 14 days ago

The vast majority of SD cards are made in the same factory and just branded differently.

Switch and steam deck Don’t constantly try to enumerate/scan the entire file system. Putting game binaries is a one and done. Writing save files is a trickle every couple of minutes.

Android really does abuse the hell out of those cards.