techjamie

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by techjamie 3d ago
Use ublock origin rather than ABP. ABP was dead the moment they sold out to "responsible" ads.
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by techjamie 6d ago
All of this also assumes it doesn't hallucinate heavily in the process and give you instructions that are in reality utter nonsense, or create something entirely different from what you were trying to do. If you've managed to get
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by techjamie 22d ago
IRC is small and niche enough to be a good place for more ephemeral discussion if you have a bouncer to stay connected for you. Chat on it tends to move slowly, and the userbase trends more towards actual nerds.
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by techjamie 23d ago
I like the rationale you have behind trying to be anti-addictive with the design. I wish more places around the net had that sort of mentality. Though I am curious, why remove timestamps?
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by techjamie 29d ago
The important aspect is human creativity. If you're editing a thing in Photoshop in a way where you have rights to it to begin with, It's presumably starting from a place of human creativity. So by applying a filter, you're d
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by techjamie 1mo ago
I wonder if this will become a new revenue stream for providers. Want to know if Claude generated some text? There's a free web form you can paste into. Of course, you can also run your own check service if you pay some API fees, and t
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by techjamie 1mo ago
That's also assuming you have children. I'm childfree and most days are all mine once I punch out unless I've got stuff to triage here and there.
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by techjamie 1mo ago
> Ad pipeline is malware at this point. Always has been. Occasionally my girlfriend will comment on something she saw in an ad, even buy things off them. Thing is though that ad platforms don't seem to be doing anything meaningful t
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by techjamie 1mo ago
> I'm not a lawyer, but I don't believe this. There is definitely negligence They could 100% be civilly liable, but this doesn't constitute criminality. If I leave my car in neutral and run out into a gas station because I
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by techjamie 1mo ago
I would say in EA's case, boycotting them did have some level of effectiveness. They didn't stop being shitty altogether, but they did come out with a couple strong singleplayer experiences that doesn't overwhelmingly stink o
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by techjamie 2mo ago
LLMs are fantastic for helping with Nix stuff. Particularly the error logs, because Nix errors are atrocious to read. Being able to throw the error at an LLM and have it get to the point of what I need to fix is nice. I've also had it
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by techjamie 2mo ago
This logic fails on a couple levels. One, bike lanes are often not wide enough to support another car anyway. Two, Braess's paradox[1] is an effect that's been noticed for as long as we've had cars that adding a lane to a roa
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by techjamie 2mo ago
A silver lining is that at least a lot of these AI generated malware and phishing scams are easy to disrupt with mild white hat skills. Often the people behind them lack the knowledge on how to prevent themselves from being disrupted by sai
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by techjamie 2mo ago
In theory you could change the steam command line fpr each game and have them launch in bubblewrap. Though I'm not sure how well that would play with graphics drivers. It might be friendly with AMD, but my experience is that NVIDIA is
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by techjamie 2mo ago
There actually are skyrim "MMO" and roleplay servers. I've not tried it, but it comes up on my YouTube homepage a lot. So I initially assumed it was that.
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by techjamie 2mo ago
AI Dungeon played like a text adventure game and ran off GPT-2, later GPT-3 fine-tunes. That might be what you're thinking of.
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by techjamie 2mo ago
How would it even be stopped if you could ban it? It's not like you're banning just one company. Anyone with the resources can still obtain and run the models. Sure, big models like Kimi K3 will be less accessible until a foreign
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by techjamie 2mo ago
Much of the internet from the time the training data was initially collected wasn't much different. Consider how much blogspam and listicle SEO/ad optimized content would've been in the training data that is primarily interes
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by techjamie 2mo ago
I've used it to help me clean up and reverse malware samples to give the person running it problems. It's very good at taking the obfuscation apart and translating it into something easier to read. I can often get it to completely
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by techjamie 2mo ago
I have a $20 Claude sub, and the closest I've come to hitting a limit was when I was using it to fight back against some scammers spreading a stealer on discord. I was having Claude decode their webhook strings, and the first time I bl
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by techjamie 2mo ago
I wonder if it's because it got labeled "Mild Violence" whereas the violence in LoZ is considered "Fantasy Violence." Maybe Mild Violence is more commonly applied to more real world violence and therefore scores hig
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by techjamie 2mo ago
In my experience, Kimi just tends to think a lot, with the main thing that takes up a lot of space is it constantly second-guessing itself. I've watched it do paragraph after paragraph of "Wait, actually..." while it stumbled
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by techjamie 2mo ago
Looking at what movies got away with in the 80s while retaining a rating of "PG" definitely shows we're sliding on what we call acceptable. There are numerous lists online that can be found with a search, but here's one
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by techjamie 2mo ago
I suspect it's just random. I tried feeding one of its pawns my Queen and it completely ignored it, choosing to move a knight nearby instead that didn't take the Queen.
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by techjamie 2mo ago
The University of Georgia did a study and came to the conclusion that the Southern accent is fading. Less formally, a word game website did a survey that found the standard New York accent is fadingas well. The Georgia study largely attribu
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by techjamie 3mo ago
The only way to verify the presence of rabies is to bring in the animal that did the bite. But per the article, they released the responsible bat. Normally what you'd do in this case is the hospital gives you the rabies vaccine anyway
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by techjamie 3mo ago
I was in the same boat as a kid. My handwriting is so bad, for the essay portion of the state test we had to take one year, they got an exemption and let me use Notepad to type mine out because they didn't want to risk my grade if the
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by techjamie 3mo ago
8 years here. Mint->Arch->NixOS. Basically zero Windows use in that time outside of niche needs.
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by techjamie 3mo ago
If a big player in a space is asking for regulation, always treat it as them pulling the ladder up to make things harder for new upstarts. As an example, look at what Anthropic's response to the US making them pull Fable. They commende
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by techjamie 3mo ago
Evolution is just a race to "good enough to consistently reproduce" and everything after the sufficient reproduction is irrelevant. Like the goats whose horns have to be cut or they'll eventually pierce their own brain. Gener

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