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Comment on Library exhibit brainstorming in ~tech
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Comment on Library exhibit brainstorming in ~tech
ruspaceni Linkgenerally i find qr codes well intentioned but very rarely well implemented. my stock camera app has no way to scan them so i have to download some random app, and then you need data, and their...generally i find qr codes well intentioned but very rarely well implemented. my stock camera app has no way to scan them so i have to download some random app, and then you need data, and their browser might be cluttered with a bunch of other tabs. and you still need to host the content somewhere on the internet in a way they can play without hassle etc.
i dont know how feasable it would be to have it be something physical instead. obviously you dont want it blasting out the speakers, or to worry about programming or building something custom.
so perhaps you could do like the one of the other comments mentioned and put some headphones at the display, but connected to just a cheapie thrifted mp3 player. theyd have to key to the right track, or just put the headphones in and be in the middle of whatevers player and roll with that. but i think thats within reason for a quiet interactive display
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Comment on Any chance we can get a shorthand for the <details> tag? in ~tildes
ruspaceni Link Parentdiscord is a funny one because sometimes you click into a conversation halfway through a wall of spoilers and my monkeybrain just HAS to click some of them. they could really do with a way to give...discord is a funny one because sometimes you click into a conversation halfway through a wall of spoilers and my monkeybrain just HAS to click some of them.
they could really do with a way to give you extra context before you click it like ||the americans, s3e10 | blah blah spoilertext here|| bc it'd just take scanning for the white text on a black spoilerbar to clue into whats going on, instead of clicking and then wincing because you were looking forward to going into that game blind
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Comment on What are your favorite simple pleasures? in ~talk
ruspaceni Linkwhen you get into a comfy position before the cat snuggles up when the cat returns a long blink opening a yoghurt and getting a clean lid. bonus points if theres an intact plane of yoghurt...when you get into a comfy position before the cat snuggles up
when the cat returns a long blink
opening a yoghurt and getting a clean lid. bonus points if theres an intact plane of yoghurt bridging the gap
trying a new food / flavour / ingredient haphazardly and it not ruining the meal
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Comment on Would someone be willing to help me with a Godot project? (4.4.1) in ~games
ruspaceni Link Parenti've been dabbling for a while but so far all of the things i use the webexport for are 2d things that dont need mouse capture stuff and it was fine the one time i did it by mistake is there...mouse capture doesn't work the same for a web export as it does in the Godot editor
i've been dabbling for a while but so far all of the things i use the webexport for are 2d things that dont need mouse capture stuff and it was fine the one time i did it by mistake
is there anything specific that breaks it? im always just capturing it on click and revealing it on ESC or the menu layer
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Comment on Via: Solving the 100 GB problem in ~games
ruspaceni Link Parentwow something went very wrong! i was copying links from my phone to my pc and must have got my wires crossed. thanks for catching that. https://x.com/rflaherty71/status/1818668595779412141 this...wow something went very wrong! i was copying links from my phone to my pc and must have got my wires crossed. thanks for catching that.
https://x.com/rflaherty71/status/1818668595779412141
this was the link (and reply) i quoted.totally didnt see the post you linked so i either started my search already scrolled down, or had some weird pagination issue on the mobile website again
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Comment on Via: Solving the 100 GB problem in ~games
ruspaceni (edited )Linkwanted to check on this again. had a bit of trouble remembering his name or the website and via is some bad seo when it has such a tiny footprint anyway. when i went to venusoft.net, i was met...wanted to check on this again. had a bit of trouble remembering his name or the website and via is some bad seo when it has such a tiny footprint anyway.
when i went to venusoft.net, i was met with basically a text file with the text "what could have been" and a link to his youtube channel showing it off. i kinda worried that maybe he had some legal action against him or not sure what to make of it, i sat and scrolled through his twitter until i found this.
https://x.com/rflaherty71/status/1818668595779412141
it reads
Ryan Flaherty (rflaherty71)
Well, this wasn't really part of the plan but I accepted an offer from @ xai
to work on their 100k H100 supercluster's performance. Since I'm moving to Silicon Valley, I can finally claim to be a Real Programmer.
4:22 PM · Jul 31, 2024
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Ryan Flaherty (rflaherty71)
I'll try to keep Via running and don't plan to abandon it, I still believe in it's potential and think on-demand content distribution over virtual file systems is the future.
4:22 PM · Jul 31, 2024
1,001 Viewsso at the very least it hasnt been totally taken off the table. i did hope that if it had been taken down and it would indicate a first party solution?
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Comment on Suggest a remote desktop program? in ~tech
ruspaceni Link Parentfwiw its kinda janky if you want to actually remote into a computer seamlessly as it locks the target workstation and you'll need to log back in when you get home. there is some registry hack i...fwiw its kinda janky if you want to actually remote into a computer seamlessly as it locks the target workstation and you'll need to log back in when you get home. there is some registry hack i found that let you have multiple logged in users at the same time, but i could never get it to work right.
also i thought the "remote desktop connection" program was packaged with windows directly, thats the one i always used for testing setups between pc>laptop. i only needed a third party program for android or web version tests.
but yeah i think technically everything should be doable with windows built in for them, set up a duckdns to avoid needing to remember an ip/ in case it changes while theyre away too and then all theyd need to do is make it works over the internet by connecting to anyname.duckdns.org and seeing if the windows client likes it.
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tv
ruspaceni Link ParentHow To with John Wilson is great. i forget how i found it but i love his style even though im not even sure how i'd describe it? its just such a cozy experience and yet somehow still chaotic and...How To with John Wilsonis great. i forget how i found it but i love his style even though im not even sure how i'd describe it? its just such a cozy experience and yet somehow still chaotic and funny.apparently im struggling to talk about it without either under-selling it or spoiling parts so I'll just leave it as a heavy +1
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Comment on Any real AI recommendations from the community? in ~tech
ruspaceni Link Parentyeah its quite crazy how fast the community is building out the tools and doohickys for people to pick up and run with. on the voice front - there's a thing on github AllTalkTTS that is quite...yeah its quite crazy how fast the community is building out the tools and doohickys for people to pick up and run with. on the voice front - there's a thing on github AllTalkTTS that is quite interesting and has some basic apis and demos. voice stuff is a bit of a rabit hole because of the mess of models and versions and lack of apples to apples comparisons. but i think that'd be a good place to start and get a feel for things.
and then on the 'understanding your voice' thing, one of the whisper variants like faster-whisper or whisperX are, as the former might suggest, rather fast. that's another thing i forgot i even did. i spent a weekend a while back just transcribing all of the podcast episodes i downloaded because i couldnt remember where i heard a particular story but i knew the keywords.
for a complete voice assistant thing like that, i wonder what the lag would be like. also it would have to be the kind of thing where you click a button or let go when ur finished recording. but then you'd hand that to whisper > hand the text to an llm (probably via ollama) > send output to whatever TTS you wind up using > play the newly generated .wav
there's probably a few sweaty tactics the big guys use, but yeah i bet thatd be fun to work on and tinker around with even if its a couple seconds of delay because of all the steps in the chain. and then knowing that you can tinker with it if you find it lackluster or get a new idea is always one of those proud "i did that" moments lol
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Comment on Any real AI recommendations from the community? in ~tech
ruspaceni LinkI've mostly been trying the open source/locally hosted models and been having an interesting time building some customized solutions to stuff. i had a huge mess of untitled(14).png and random...I've mostly been trying the open source/locally hosted models and been having an interesting time building some customized solutions to stuff.
i had a huge mess of untitled(14).png and random downloaded pictures in my folders and it turns out theres not really any good solutions for sorting an ugly filesystem and it was taking me ages to rename all the pictures manually. so i write a little script to generate a new filename based on the content of the image, and then a .txt version of the same filename that had a more verbose description so i could do text-searches on them.
left it running over night and while there's more than a few misses, the vast majority of work is done to a good enough degree (better than an annoyed and lazy me could do) and honestly i can live with any errors bc its better than what i had before.
other than that, its mostly just been playing around with fun little ideas instead of anything actually productive. like i've had this "world news" idea where its google maps but instead of businesses, its news articles from that day. tried implementing it a bunch of times using traditional NLP stuff but this recent wave of LLMs has been the first time ive been able to make a functioning prototype. and every few months it goes from being woefully inaccurate and slow, to good enough and fast enough to process at least 10 stories from each country, each day. all while maintaining my usual pc usage.
people tend to talk about the big companies that have super flashy and instantly responding AI services but i think there's gonna be a wave of small "edge device" models finding use like this. since i bet a lot of people dont care if a tasks have to run in the background and chug away overnight to finish renaming thousands of pictures, summarize their all of their college notes before a test, or even just constantly generating solutions to a code problem until it passes a test you gave it. and its gotten to the point now that you only have to install a nice little program and download a model and boom, you can start play with this stuff (programming not included). a stark contrast to a year and a bit ago when i started dabbling and it was a nightmare trying to get anything to install, let alone realise my graphics card exists.
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tech
ruspaceni (edited )Linki went from living in a 1 room dorm where my only seating options was my bed, the foot of the bed, or a chair. to a 1 bedroom flat that has different rooms for everything... so tbh i've kinda gone...i went from living in a 1 room dorm where my only seating options was my bed, the foot of the bed, or a chair. to a 1 bedroom flat that has different rooms for everything... so tbh i've kinda gone off the deep end with my sofa setup.
sofa pointed at the slightly-too-high tv on the wall, wireless mouse and keyboard. my pc tucked to the side to be nearer the hallway as the ethernet cable i got wasnt long enough, and i already had a 10m hdmi cable. then ive got a usb hub running up through the sofa and into one of the crevices at the elbow so i can charge my phone, headset, whatever without getting up.
https://i.imgur.com/h0P6E51.png
ive had a few people round and theyve been gobsmacked at how i live like this, only to find out they like it just as much as me. i think ive had a few posture worries but honestly i think i get more lumbar support from a combo of cushions, and its so easy to just slink to the side and lay down during videos so im never really in any position for more than 30minutes.
a great bonus of this is that my bedroom is simply my bedroom. i've never had this before. it was always having a desk in my room, or a laptop, or i was only "sitting up" away from getting back on the pc if something fun started happening on skype/discord. now theres a whole ritual around going to bed and feeling ready for it, if that makes any sense.
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Comment on How many of you play Old School RuneScape (OSRS)? in ~games
ruspaceni Link Parenti had a similar experience with my ultimate ironman actually. i had a casual ironman before, but i thought it was neat to be limited to juststuff you could carry in ur pockets and started playing...i had a similar experience with my ultimate ironman actually. i had a casual ironman before, but i thought it was neat to be limited to juststuff you could carry in ur pockets and started playing as a hobo just for fun. sharing chicken and bones with the dog at that farm south of falador. fast forward to being about 1600 total level and constantly getting told i should be using a looting bag, or its a waste to train how i was training, or why havent i got this acheivement diary done, or this quest, or this or that.
took me a while to find a group to talk to about things that weren't in a lovehate relationship with fun itself, and then because clanchats arent always the most stable of social structures, i took a 2-3 week break and it was gone, and then i just kinda realised i fell out of love with the game - even if i just continued to play my own way because part of "my own way" was just talking to people in the world and having a good time. and like you said, that incredibly niche minmax knowledge is now just part of the meta
i do always mean to go back and finish off a few milestones, but im in such a wierd fork in the road on which huge time investment to make first and then i remember why i keep going on extended breaks lmao
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Comment on Valve adds "Powered By SteamOS" branding for third party hardware in ~games
ruspaceni Link Parenti noticed that typo on another page so i had a check and looks like that typo is repeated a whopping 9 times. so i assume someone got a little too efficient with copy and pasting loli noticed that typo on another page so i had a check and looks like that typo is repeated a whopping 9 times. so i assume someone got a little too efficient with copy and pasting lol
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Comment on Touch typing learning software in ~tech
ruspaceni Linkseconding the suggestion for a more gamified option: https://zty.pe/ there was a version of this game on a flash game website back in the day, and it was one of the only game websites that wasnt...seconding the suggestion for a more gamified option: https://zty.pe/
there was a version of this game on a flash game website back in the day, and it was one of the only game websites that wasnt filtered. a couple of friends and i would hop from game to game trying to beat eachothers highscores and i was ATROCIOUS at this one because you had to type and look at the screen at the same time.
i could get something like 30-40wpm if i was typing what someone was saying, or copying it from a page that i had underneath the keyboard. but i every time i looked up from the keyboard i would have to reorient myself and it would just kill my speed.
the main thing about touch typing is just constantly having a go. i still mess up a surprising amount when my fingers were one key off, or i was holding the laptop at a funny angle, or im typing on a new keyboard - but i never look down. i just hit backspace and try again, and it might feel silly to do it several times in a row (i can never remember which symbol is %,$, or £) but you'll be blazing through common words before you realise, and then you can practice in your day to day life as well
also, i do touchtype now, but one of my friends still doesnt and she's 24 now and works as a programmer. i'll admit that i just kinda assume everyone can touch type unless theyre not a particularly internet-y type of person. so it really surprised me that she was fiddling around with writing a gameboy emulator but couldnt really care less about learning to touch type beacuse its never been a negative impact. and the only reason i learnt was because i was losing in a video game.
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Comment on Img_0416 in ~tech
ruspaceni LinkSo this has been a little hobby of mine ever since the pandemic. there's a few tools to help find untitled videos like that, although a few of them have waxed and waned beacuse of api changes or...So this has been a little hobby of mine ever since the pandemic. there's a few tools to help find untitled videos like that, although a few of them have waxed and waned beacuse of api changes or hosting costs, i assume?
it really does hit you different. sometimes it's a bit meh when you get shakey concert video after shakey concert video. and sometimes it does feel wierd that you've got this peek into someones life like that, and wondering what theyre up to now because the video is 14 years old.
During covid, even though im introverted and dont like being outside, in crowds, public transportation etc, i kinda under estimated how much joy i got from the little moments. overhearing silly arguments, or someone singing along to that one song you havent heard in a while, or godknows what else - and these untitled videos were honestly such a godsend for that sort of vibe
i think i would have been much worse off mentalhealth wise if i just dove into regular youtube or tiktok or shorts or something, instead of going for the home videos equivalent
https://default-filename-tv.neocities.org/ - this is my goto, but currently doesnt seem to work ;c
http://astronaut.io/ - this has a bit of a funky style but its the same core idea. its synced across all viewers and you can click the button to pause on a video, and unclick to resync. i think there's a different pool of videos each day because there'll be duplicates if you spent ~an hour, but ive never had duplicates across different days
https://youhole.tv/ - not used this one much because there isnt an easy way to grab a link to the video for posterity, also has a large delay between videos so i cant be as skiphappy
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Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
ruspaceni Link Parentthats really cool! ive had simlar thoughts but its a surprisngly hard thing to design around. the closest i came also involved obscuring information so you could have two identical ingots and make...thats really cool! ive had simlar thoughts but its a surprisngly hard thing to design around. the closest i came also involved obscuring information so you could have two identical ingots and make two identical blades, but they might have different durabilities and weights bc they were actually from different ores.
or my personal favourite rabbithole to go down was trying to make a potionmaking system that was coupled with a 'simulated' plant ecosystem. eventually people might realise a certain plant from a certain area has the best buff to side-effect ratio, but thatd cause it to get over-harvested and show up less in the next season tick (i wanted to have migrating populations kinda like conways game of life too but never got that far)
but its actually quite hard to keep the entire problem in your head while ur considering design elements, and balancing what feels cool from a nerdy 'oh this would be a cool system' perspective and what is actually good/fun game design lmao
I'd be curious to hear more about your system and how youve approached it
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Comment on Your chatbot transcripts may be a gold mine for AI companies in ~tech
ruspaceni (edited )Link Parenti think it might just be more about how its rare for you to make a post spilling your secrets and it not be on a private account or filled with slang or referencing things "out of the...i think it might just be more about how its rare for you to make a post spilling your secrets and it not be on a private account or filled with slang or referencing things "out of the conversation" that might be hard to infer, or generally just run through a "social filter". but with an LLM if youre trying to have that sort of intimate conversation, you will be explaining it in detail or rewording things it responded incorrectly to. not to mention how theyre already probably extracting keywords and subjects from the messages just for content moderation/safety conceners.
it realls makes me think of this bit of an adam curtis documentary where he's talking about some really early "ai" program called Eliza as a sorta jokey "computer psychotherapist" and showed it to the people in the office, only to get asked to leave because a private conversation was happening
https://youtu.be/yS_c2qqA-6Y?t=4924
so its almost no wonder that a more convincing and open-ended chatbot is becoming such a goldmine for them. we just love yammering away to robots and apparently have been doing it since the 70s. but yeah i dont think it would be that hard for them to keep track of things as theyre happening (alongside the moderation thing) or just spending the GPU to go over chatlogs when an advertiser asks you a question about your userbase
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Comment on AI accuses journalist of escaping psych ward, abusing children and widows in ~tech
ruspaceni Link Parentnot sure how relevant it is but something struck me in this comment and its the concept of "still maturing" when it comes to content moderation. idk, im still very conflicted on this since i dont...not sure how relevant it is but something struck me in this comment and its the concept of "still maturing" when it comes to content moderation. idk, im still very conflicted on this since i dont think theres a good "one size fits all" rule for it but i think its actually disgusting how companies are allowed to grow too fast for their own good.
it feels like every tech company has this philosophy that moderation should come after scaling? like, you can spend millions on expanding the userbase and then just because youve got a huge amount of users, you get to be like "we can only do so much"
i know in the case of telegram its different because its encrypted, peer to peer, or whatever the thing is. but its actually kinda getting to me how immune these huge companies are to what should be reasonable practices. i'll try my hardest not to get on a soapbox because i feel like its worth talking about in a non vitriolic way but yeah, something about that kinda rubs me the wrong way in a deep and unarticulatable way.
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Comment on Godot 4.3 release - A shared effort in ~games
ruspaceni Linkloving the new style of patchnotes first off, but also love that new navmesh chunking thing! suspiciously well timed as i was wrestling with lining up meshes earlier this week the paralax2d stuff...loving the new style of patchnotes first off, but also love that new navmesh chunking thing! suspiciously well timed as i was wrestling with lining up meshes earlier this week
the paralax2d stuff is also really neat. i didnt know the previous implementation was limited as i only used it for a static asteroid/stars background. but that pixel alignment one had actually driven me crazy before so im gonna have to go back to see if the sprites in an old project are fixed.
or this cursed version that holds all of discworld in a single donut