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Comment on Any one use mesh networks like mesh core? in ~tech
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Comment on Any one use mesh networks like mesh core? in ~tech
cutmetal LinkI got some Heltec units last year. Played around with them for a few weeks but ultimately returned them - it's neat in theory, maybe my area is too rural to see much activity. My girlfriend wasn't...I got some Heltec units last year. Played around with them for a few weeks but ultimately returned them - it's neat in theory, maybe my area is too rural to see much activity. My girlfriend wasn't interested in playing around with them with me either š
Though one time I did catch a message from someone who said they were overhead on a plane! That was neat.
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Comment on Iāve ārun outā of notes on TickTick in ~tech
cutmetal Link ParentWow, that must be mostly attachments. No idea how much data is in mine, I should probably check that sometime.Wow, that must be mostly attachments. No idea how much data is in mine, I should probably check that sometime.
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Comment on Iāve ārun outā of notes on TickTick in ~tech
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Comment on Which Linux distro do you use, and why? in ~tech
cutmetal (edited )Link ParentAnother +1 for Debian for almost everything, been daily driving it for 15 years. Servers are mostly Debian (always headless): My router is OpnSense (so FreeBSD) Proxmox for VM servers (so Debian)...Another +1 for Debian for almost everything, been daily driving it for 15 years.
- Servers are mostly Debian (always headless):
- My router is OpnSense (so FreeBSD)
- Proxmox for VM servers (so Debian)
- NASes are just headless Debian
- Most (all?) VMs are headless Debian
- Raspberry Pis are Raspbian/RPiOS (so kinda Debian, I think?), except one running HomeAssistant/hassio that I really ought to repurpose
- Desktops/laptops are all Debian, mostly with MATE desktop, except:
- I might have an old Crunchbang++ install somewhere still (which is just Debian)
- Still have two Ubuntu installs from when I worked for Canonical
- Last year I put Bazzite on a gaming laptop I picked up to try something different out (Fedora is fine, KDE is amazing, but I'm not sold on the immutable thing)
- Still have a Windows 10 install that I haven't booted in a few years, at some point I'll finally wipe that crud off and be free š
Old packages shmold shmackages. When you find a package where the age matters there will be a way to install the newer version that isn't too onerous.
- Servers are mostly Debian (always headless):
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Comment on Inside Doug Limanās $70 million AI-made movie starring Casey Affleck and Gal Gadot in ~movies
cutmetal Link ParentWow it really does! "Ultimately lackluster movie gets undue hype from production gimmick." I mean remains to be seen if this one will bomb too but it seems like a safe bet if the "AI post" thing...Wow it really does! "Ultimately lackluster movie gets undue hype from production gimmick." I mean remains to be seen if this one will bomb too but it seems like a safe bet if the "AI post" thing is the most interesting thing about it.
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Comment on Inside Doug Limanās $70 million AI-made movie starring Casey Affleck and Gal Gadot in ~movies
cutmetal Link ParentLater in the article they explain that the production shot actors with a few basic props, but on a soundstage without proper lighting. Sounds like everything around the actors is filled in with AI...Later in the article they explain that the production shot actors with a few basic props, but on a soundstage without proper lighting. Sounds like everything around the actors is filled in with AI in post.
Not sure how "fully AI generated movie" is an accurate description if they have cameras and actors like that. Maybe that part of the piece was written by AI š
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Comment on Iāve ārun outā of notes on TickTick in ~tech
cutmetal LinkI'm surprised nobody has mentioned Joplin yet. It's what I use for notes and todos, migrated from Evernote maybe 3-5 years ago and I really like it. It's pretty basic open source software with a...I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Joplin yet. It's what I use for notes and todos, migrated from Evernote maybe 3-5 years ago and I really like it.
It's pretty basic open source software with a whole host of backends you can use to sync your notes across devices. I self-host their server, but you can also use Dropbox, Onedrive, you can pay to use their cloud hosting (may have a free tier, idk the pricing details).
All OSes are supported - Windows Mac Linux Android iOS, there's a web version apparently, and a browser plugin too. There are also CLI versions for all three non-mobile OS flavors, though I've only used the desktop GUI version (on Linux, and also Windows a while back).
Has always been rock-solid stable for me. There are updates but not annoying radical transformations like you might see in a more commerical program. A+
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Comment on Looking for more pop / rock songs with sick sax solos! Got any ideas? in ~music
cutmetal Link ParentšÆ%! Most of the time I have to listen to something a few times before I can make up my mind about it, but VoVV was love at first listen. Their other albums are pretty good too but this one is just...šÆ%! Most of the time I have to listen to something a few times before I can make up my mind about it, but VoVV was love at first listen. Their other albums are pretty good too but this one is just on another level.
I just wish this fucking tariff situation would end so I could get their record and a shirt. So many musicians around the world have missed out on my money thanks to this bullshit. Not that this is the most important political issue of our day lol, but supporting artists is important, wherever they are.
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Comment on Looking for more pop / rock songs with sick sax solos! Got any ideas? in ~music
cutmetal (edited )LinkGnome's fucking incredible album Vestiges of Verumex Visidrome (2024) has a track on it with a sax - it's The Ogre! Sax shows up in the breakdown at the end. It's mostly pre-2000, but if you like...Gnome's fucking incredible album Vestiges of Verumex Visidrome (2024) has a track on it with a sax - it's The Ogre! Sax shows up in the breakdown at the end.
It's mostly pre-2000, but if you like rock with sax then you have to listen to Morphine. Their albums Cure for Pain, Like Swimming, and their last album The Night (released in 2000 so makes your cutoff!) have been in constant rotation in my life since I discovered them around 2006. Morphine isn't like anything else really, it just might blow your mind.
Faded and Fleeting by doom band Rezn has a sax in it too, just came up on my shuffle.
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Comment on Sam Altman may control our futureācan he be trusted? in ~tech
cutmetal Link ParentSo long, but damn it was fascinating. I would say the authors didn't call his lies lies because they didn't need to - with all the details they give, Altman comes off as the lowest sort of weasel,...So long, but damn it was fascinating. I would say the authors didn't call his lies lies because they didn't need to - with all the details they give, Altman comes off as the lowest sort of weasel, talking out of both sides of his mouth to get himself power and money and glory. With some of those anecdotes where he lied to people's faces, and all the weak-ass "Oh I can't remember saying that" bullshit, yeah it's clear that this guy is a sociopath.
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Comment on From $250 million megadeal to empty offices: the unraveling of Bad Robot in ~movies
cutmetal Link ParentOn tildes someone once taught me that you can get around some paywalls with Firefox's "reading mode" (the "document" icon that sometimes appears in the URL bar) and that worked for me here.On tildes someone once taught me that you can get around some paywalls with Firefox's "reading mode" (the "document" icon that sometimes appears in the URL bar) and that worked for me here.
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Comment on Used electric vehicles are a bargain right now in ~transport
cutmetal Link ParentYou can do a complete brake system flush every whatever number of years like they say, it won't hurt anything except your wallet. If you don't do it, you may get ever so poorer braking performance...You can do a complete brake system flush every whatever number of years like they say, it won't hurt anything except your wallet. If you don't do it, you may get ever so poorer braking performance very very slowly over the years as the fluid eventually breaks down (I assume?) and absorbs a small amount of moisture from the air whenever the master cylinder cap is off. But imo it's really not that critical - I wouldn't bother flushing the system at all ever until a line has to be taken off to replace a caliper or something like that, which may never happen if you replace the pads when you should.
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Comment on Used electric vehicles are a bargain right now in ~transport
cutmetal Link ParentYeah that's not a thing. Also the idea that normal brake system maintenance involves completely draining down the system every two years is pretty absurd.Yeah that's not a thing. Also the idea that normal brake system maintenance involves completely draining down the system every two years is pretty absurd.
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Comment on Balcony solar is spreading across the US in ~enviro
cutmetal LinkAnybody running one of these systems? I guess in the simplest setup you just need a couple panels and an inverter right? Like $200 per 100w panel, maybe $200 for a cheap inverter? What do your...Anybody running one of these systems? I guess in the simplest setup you just need a couple panels and an inverter right? Like $200 per 100w panel, maybe $200 for a cheap inverter? What do your generation numbers look like?
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Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of March 30 in ~society
cutmetal Link ParentUsually the AP calls a spade a spade, even when it's Trump's lies. It's refreshing.Usually the AP calls a spade a spade, even when it's Trump's lies. It's refreshing.
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Comment on MIRAGE: the illusion of visual understanding in ~tech
cutmetal Link ParentYeah definitely. The explanation is probably a lot more mundane than what I'm suggesting above, I just like to imagine profound possibilities :)Yeah definitely. The explanation is probably a lot more mundane than what I'm suggesting above, I just like to imagine profound possibilities :)
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Comment on MIRAGE: the illusion of visual understanding in ~tech
cutmetal LinkJesus wtf. This is pretty fucking out there, but: what if this sort of "super-guessing", where real truth is hidden in imperceptible details, explains things like intuition or even psychic...Prompted by these findings, we train a text-only āsuper-guesserā model on the public training set of ReXVQA, the largest and most comprehensive benchmark for visual question answering in chest radiology imaging, and show that our model outperforms all the frontier AI models, as well as radiologists, on a held out test set. It provides plausible explanations for the questions, indistinguishable from human-written ground-truth, all while lacking access to any visual input.
Jesus wtf.
This is pretty fucking out there, but: what if this sort of "super-guessing", where real truth is hidden in imperceptible details, explains things like intuition or even psychic phenomena? In general I write off all pseudoscience and I'm sure that all robust empirical studies of psychics have shown it's not real, but there's also creepy anecdotal evidence of eerily accurate cold readings. And intuition is often real, but pretty hard to put your finger on a satisfying explanation for. Maybe this AI behavior is more or less the same thing.
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Comment on Landslide: a ghost story in ~humanities
cutmetal LinkThis person is taking a very abstract and interesting approach to the multidimensional problems we're facing today. It feels extremely novel to me, and while I did read the whole thing, I don't...This person is taking a very abstract and interesting approach to the multidimensional problems we're facing today. It feels extremely novel to me, and while I did read the whole thing, I don't feel like I have the bandwidth to really engage with it on a deeper level than to say: yes, this is good, this seems like it could be a really promising approach.
Deep in the piece they linked to Unbreaking, which is a thing the author is part of. Group blog? Information collective? Sociopolitical documentation project? Idk what to call it but it's in line with the ideas expressed in the linked article and worth a look also.
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Comment on This eerily accurate āLinkedIn Speakā translation tool will help you sound like an instant thinkfluencer in ~tech
cutmetal Link ParentPeople who legit post on Linkedin make me think of this old Gunshow classic https://gunshowcomic.com/343People who legit post on Linkedin make me think of this old Gunshow classic
They were Heltec ESP32v3 boards with stock antennas and Meshtastic firmware. I'm in a suburban/rural area in the eastern foothills of the Appalachias (eastern US).
Mesh network devices are a tough sell because it's only really useful if some catastrophic thing happens and there is no wifi or 5g internet access, but you still have your phone. And the interface is clunky. FRS/GMRS radios are easier to get that crowd into because they're mostly pick up and use, and can serve the same purpose as our phones currently do but also not exactly the same.
Not that I'm trying to convince you not to play with mesh networks - I think they're really neat, just have too many other things going on to dedicate the effort and money to messing with it. If I had been able to get more use from them with the (small) amount of effort I put in then I would have probably kept the units.