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Comment on Suggest a remote desktop program? in ~tech
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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.
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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
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.