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Comment on Img_0416 in ~tech
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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.
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Comment on Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled in ~tech
ruspaceni Link Parentnah yeah i get that the average will be historic. i was talking about the live updates part which uses opted in data. your gps data is still gonna be spotty even with location history on. they...nah yeah i get that the average will be historic. i was talking about the live updates part which uses opted in data.
your gps data is still gonna be spotty even with location history on. they wont wanna use noisy gps data to update stuff if theyre not actually sure - so you run it through kalman filters and try to get more confidence in it before you trust it. idk if youve ever seen the data straight out of a cheap gps smartwatch but standing still out in the open will still have you jittering 1-3+ meters randomly around your actual point.
this gets more exacerbated when youre in a semi obscured area (trees, buildings, glass, cars, etc) and it becomes quite hard to tell WHICH shop someone is visiting, or if they just stopped in the parking lot. the longer you jitter around a certain area, the more we can assume you're somewhere in the middle of it but by definition you cannot know how much noise there is without already knowing for certain where someone is. they could be stood still in a noisy environment or they could be walking around in a quiet one.
with the carnival thing i mentioned for example. my town isnt huge to begin with but even small corner shops would have enough traffic to push it into 'live updates' territory, except during carnival. it was just the stuff on the main road until about 8pm when it finished, and then all the corner shops were slammed as they were they only thing open past 8pm on a sunday.
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Comment on Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled in ~tech
ruspaceni Link Parentyeah closed places for me always show the averages, but i think its also got something to do with how much gps data they can fetch at the time. when we had a big carnival in my town i noticed that...yeah closed places for me always show the averages, but i think its also got something to do with how much gps data they can fetch at the time. when we had a big carnival in my town i noticed that places along the route had 'live' traffic but things more than a few streets away just showed the historical average despite being open
my theory is that its set up so that it needs to hit a certain threshold of gps updates for it to become live? like they can only peek at people with googles 'location services' enabled with wont be everyone. so if theres 0 updates in an area - that could just mean no google devices were nearby, not that its empty.
but if theres loads of activity on the street and in other stores, but not this one. you can assume that its a more accurate reading and update the widget/rolling averages. it could also do with the reliability of gps data indoors and around metal boxes like cars (it gets VERY noisy when unfiltered) and if its constantly jiggling around then you cant really trust it
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Comment on Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled in ~tech
ruspaceni Link Parentis that not just opening a "place" on google maps? im assuming you mean the "less busy than usual" thing with a bar graph of the expected footfall traffic at different times of day? bc if so then...is that not just opening a "place" on google maps? im assuming you mean the "less busy than usual" thing with a bar graph of the expected footfall traffic at different times of day? bc if so then yeah thats just a google maps thing.
i sometimes see it if i search for a place and google decides to embed a widget on the search page, no clue if its something entirely different as ive not used chrome for quite some time.
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Comment on Where is the programmer inspo? in ~comp
ruspaceni Link Parentyeah, codegolf, 4kb or other size challenges, demo scenes, quines, its actually kind of mind boggling how many things ive come across and im only a hobbyist. but i suppose if my job was to...yeah, codegolf, 4kb or other size challenges, demo scenes, quines, its actually kind of mind boggling how many things ive come across and im only a hobbyist. but i suppose if my job was to collaborate on archaic x++ projects or some enterprise thing, i wouldnt have had fun dabbling half of that stuff.
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Comment on Nintendo is telling game publishers Switch 2 will be delayed [until early 2025] in ~games
ruspaceni Link Parentsince you seem to be more invested, have you heard much about the newer flashcart stuff? im not huge into console stuff so i didnt understand the nuance but the impression i got was that this...since you seem to be more invested, have you heard much about the newer flashcart stuff? im not huge into console stuff so i didnt understand the nuance but the impression i got was that this newer flashcart thing is kinda scary given how nintendo dont typically handle edgecases gracefully.
apparently i can buy a legit copy of the game, clone it, keep the clone and sell you the legitimate version. now you own a legit copy of a game and have no idea it was pirated, but all of the IDs and whatnot have been copied over to the clone so if you both go online at the same time, its instantly detectable as some piracy is occuring and both accounts could be banned?
that wouldnt be just a regular "day 1 exploit" situation or even a regular piracy situation, this is a situation where youve completely voided any sort of 2nd hand market trust because genuine copies are just as radioactive as pirated ones if you're unlucky. idk how accurate any of that is, and so far im torn on if nintendo would hate or love it (something something cloud saves). also they seem like the company to 100% instaban both people and worry about the concequences if it makes enough of a PR splash
i agree its also likely that some games need to be delayed but also, i dont really see how its more likely for them to delay a holiday console release for a few games vs changing a security thing last minute before the hardware gets locked in for a few production runs.
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Comment on Nintendo is telling game publishers Switch 2 will be delayed [until early 2025] in ~games
ruspaceni Linkwild speculation but i wonder if they pushed it back bc they had to make some piracy related last minute changes i heard some noise the other week about how there are now flash carts for sale that...wild speculation but i wonder if they pushed it back bc they had to make some piracy related last minute changes
i heard some noise the other week about how there are now flash carts for sale that get around the drm stuff by being a more effective clone. (and also a lot of concern about people selling original carts after cloning them and both accounts getting banned bc the IDs are the same)
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Comment on What did you do this week (and weekend)? in ~talk
ruspaceni Linkbeen reading an abridged version of wizard of oz, in this constructed language ive been learning (toki pona) and having a blast. there's a load of stories that i "know" but never actually...been reading an abridged version of wizard of oz, in this constructed language ive been learning (toki pona) and having a blast. there's a load of stories that i "know" but never actually experienced all the way through. its been quite fun to take in the wizard of oz story and connect all those random bits of popculture references from over the years.
plus its put out by the creator of the language creator so its been a good learning experience on how certain concepts are conveyed or the semantic space of some words being broader or narrower than i thought. even though its not a huge book, ive been pleased with how fast ive been getting through it - at some points even reading at similar speeds to english until i have trouble parsing something and then i stop to give it some scrutiny.
since i kinda surprised myself with that, i went back and tried re-reading some of the books i struggled with before and had a much easier time. interestingly though, im still sorta slow at parsing latin alphabet version of the language. i wonder if its a dyslexia thing and the sitelen pona is just far less visual noise when faced with a wall of text? either way its nice that my lazy learning has paid off enough that i can get caught up in the story instead of parsing or translating
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Comment on How social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit in ~tech
ruspaceni Link Parentim torn beacuse i know for a fact there is good content out there. i found some cosy and silly internet radio stations that have a nice little community around them, tildes, and a bunch of niche...im torn beacuse i know for a fact there is good content out there. i found some cosy and silly internet radio stations that have a nice little community around them, tildes, and a bunch of niche projects like that one to reverse engineer the old MSN mesenger servers.
the problem i have is with discoverability. it absolutely sucks that youtube has all these billions of hours of content, but the search is godaweful. i cannot search for categories, even im p sure they label everything on the backend for algo purposes. i cannot easily find videos within certain timeframes (so good luck trying to find that old video with a common word in the title). i cannot easily even correct the algo when it decides that i totally want 400 jerma stream highlights beacuse i clicked on a link a friend sent me.
the best strat for finding new channels on youtube is to make a new account/ingocnito or something - make your way to the channel you wanna find relateds for, watch a few videos in the background, and then wait for the suggestions to go from populating with trending things, to populating with trending lego experiments channels, or niche essays about what the best counting system is
i probably do blame SEO more than i should, but i think thats just what me and a lot of other people have just glommed onto as the reason - instead of just discoverability/availaibility. it has become basically impossible to "browse the web" and instead you just browse the curated website of your choosing. the internet might not be dying but its definitely not healthy. sometimes it feels like living somewhere with bad public transport outside of the cities. if you're into whats trending, great, but if not then it really does feel like its kinda dead sometimes.
i used to love going on youtube and seeing what was getting uploaded in 'gaming' or whatever, but now the only categories you can actively browse are the auto generated suggestions at the top of your home page. and yeah, they do have cool ones sometimes but its infinitely frustrating to return to the page tomorrow and find that the good tags have gone from "godot (game engine)" "esp32" "defcon" to "live" "mixes" "stragegy-videogames". it is so close to being a workable system if not for the obfuscation
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Comment on Via: Solving the 100 GB problem in ~games
ruspaceni Linkhas anyone kept up with this project/ could let us know how its been? i was considering using it but it felt a little too sketchy putting my password into a 100kb program. from the looks of the...has anyone kept up with this project/ could let us know how its been?
i was considering using it but it felt a little too sketchy putting my password into a 100kb program. from the looks of the guys twitter, he's kept up with working on it but the website is still not too trust inspiring being so bare.
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Comment on Bluesky says it will allow users to opt out of the public web interface after backlash in ~tech
ruspaceni Link Parenti think people signed up for a closed beta, and then assumed theyd have account privacy options before it went public (like facebook, insta, and twitter). currently i dont think you can make a...i think people signed up for a closed beta, and then assumed theyd have account privacy options before it went public (like facebook, insta, and twitter). currently i dont think you can make a private profile and restrict it to friends.
thats a vastly different situation to just not understanding that your posts are gonna be public
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Comment on Nothing’s iMessage app was a security catastrophe, taken down in twenty-four hours in ~tech
ruspaceni (edited )Link Parentre: the invite list - i signed up for it on 30/6/2021 and only got an actual invite on 02/05/2023. now, that could be because they werent interested in my usecase (since you have to say what...re: the invite list - i signed up for it on 30/6/2021 and only got an actual invite on 02/05/2023. now, that could be because they werent interested in my usecase (since you have to say what services you'll be using when you ask for an invite) or the invite list is that slow but i'd be prepared to wait a bit
i used beeper for a short while but wound up stopping recently since they now only support google messages instead of the old sms system. since i just wanted to be able to read/send texts from my desktop - i switched to using something local called kde connect
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Comment on Getting back into running and looking for a simple tracker app (android) in ~tech
ruspaceni Link Parentthat's not built-in for every phone? at least not the fairphone or anyone of my friends phones (except one with a google pixel). also i tend to stay away from google services if i can help it...that's not built-in for every phone? at least not the fairphone or anyone of my friends phones (except one with a google pixel).
also i tend to stay away from google services if i can help it because of their tendancy to kill things that i get used to using. I've been bitten a bit too many times by being a creature of habit. not to mention updates changing the entire ergonomics of the app between updates, even with things like the clock app. call me particular/petty but i just cant handle uncommunicated change like that
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Comment on Getting back into running and looking for a simple tracker app (android) in ~tech
ruspaceni (edited )Link Parentah this seems pretty solid, thanks for letting me know about these (kinda forgot about f-droid as a whole). this does everything i would want and it has sensible integrations with gadgetbridge if...ah this seems pretty solid, thanks for letting me know about these (kinda forgot about f-droid as a whole). this does everything i would want and it has sensible integrations with gadgetbridge if i ever got another budget smartwatch, although gadget bridge is quite unergonomic imo.
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Getting back into running and looking for a simple tracker app (android)
my old regular app has been dead since it got underwent featurecreep and got bought out by underarmour. lots of apps now have way too many features.. social this, calorie burning that. i know its...
my old regular app has been dead since it got underwent featurecreep and got bought out by underarmour.
lots of apps now have way too many features.. social this, calorie burning that. i know its probably a good thing for them to branch out but i'm one of those luddites that prefer simple and to-the-point apps with no social features, no account needed, etc.
all i really need from the app is gps distance tracking and a clean interface with some basic readouts for pace and whatnot. having audio readouts for pace every kilometer was a nice feature but ideally the app would be simpler than that.
if all else fails i know i can just fallback on one of those 'full featured' apps like strava but i figured i'd ask here before i got too tied into any particular app (creature of habit)
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Comment on UK government looks to rollback sickness benefits in ~life
ruspaceni (edited )Link Parentthere's also a lot of predatory charities, at least in my neck of the woods, offering supported accomodation. I was in a 'temporary shorthold accomodation' for 6 years (lol) where the rent was...there's also a lot of predatory charities, at least in my neck of the woods, offering supported accomodation. I was in a 'temporary shorthold accomodation' for 6 years (lol) where the rent was being picked up by the government under housing benefit @855/mo with an extra 87/mo in service charges. this was for a single cramped room in a house of 8 rooms. but because each room was its own "property" they were claiming that from every single tennant. it also meant that if you were to get into work, you would have to foot the entire bill yourself unless you limit yourself to 17 hours a week. as apposed to where i am currently where it is roughly 375/mo + counciltax and bills for a 1 bed, my own kitchen, living room, bathroom, AND A GARDEN all to my self. this last year has mostly been spent jumping between callcenters and retail jobs while i try to get onto an apprenticeship, but most importantly - unlearning all the ptsd behaviours i picked up living in a vertiable crackhouse
the charity was supposedly providing social services but that ammounted to essentially fortnightly visits to the property to check that nothing was destroyed, and monthly room checks (mostly to check for contraband) and even though the house was filled with CCTV in the common areas - they refused to use it to settle 'civil' disputes such as getting pushed down the stairs, having your food stolen from the kitchens, getting harrased by 'banned' guests that were smoking whatever smells like burning plastic in the laundry room.
they actively withheld doing my application to this 'homefinders scheme' and after years of making it seem like they had to be the ones to intiate the application, i finally managed to be an advocate for myself and talked to someone from the council who ACTUALLY helped me navigate and work on a path to leave the accomodation. im not sure what the status of the investigation is but i know that there were several GDPR violations, health and safety violations (for 3 years there wasnt a single fire safety test and we didnt have heat for 2 winters) as well as harmful advice (when i had finally secured a tennancy in a council house - they wanted to kick me out the day i signed the tennancy agreement even though it wouldnt come into effect until 3 weeks later, so i had to lie and say that i hadn't signed it yet, and even have a text message of them suggesting i rent a moving van and live in that for the timebeing as i would need to be out of the property the second i sign the new agreement)
I was essentially stuck in an adverse position where i would risk getting sanctioned if i wasnt looking for work, but i would be homeless within a month if i actually landed a job over 17 hours/week. and all because i was a troublefree tennant that they didnt want to let go (i would also take the bins out and clean the kitchen even though i took to using a toaster oven and microwave in my room to avoid getting assualted in the kitchen)
this is a bit of a venty ramble but it just pains me to think that this was a CHARITY acting like slumlords. but because it was supported accomodation - they were granted more than the max rent for housing benefit and would actively refuse to carry out their duties because and i quote "its not my job to spend the entire day going through cctv". and because the turnover for support workers was insanely high and they were spread thin managing an absurd amount of properties - i can only imagine the scale of it is much worse than this one property.
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