RandoCalrandian

RandoCalrandian, 2 months ago

and any that code their way out of it using publicly audited and verified technologies will get sued out of business, at best.

Individuals who implement their own encryption will be targeted next, if they aren't already.

RandoCalrandian, 2 months ago

Yeah I get that occasionally, swapping to another endpoint fixes it right up

RandoCalrandian, 3 months ago

And even if it is your key, if you can’t see how they made the lock then you can’t prove other keys won’t unlock it.
OSS FTW

RandoCalrandian, 3 months ago

Its also about monitoring what people are saying privately about your shows

RandoCalrandian, 3 months ago

In my experience it's because it's finicky as fuck and requires very specific (and often more expensive) router models, and even then it still crashes just as much as a proprietary os router.

RandoCalrandian, 3 months ago

sure, and then you have to make sure you get the correct radio accessories, as the built in pi wifi isn't going to do so hot acting as the hotspot for multiple video streaming devices.

Radios which you also have to vet against the approved hardware list for OpenWRT, and having multiple channels is even more of an issue with the lack of USB ports (depending on model)

RandoCalrandian, 3 months ago

Linksys luckily still sells OpenWRT specific routers.

RandoCalrandian, 3 months ago

This.

If there’s a notification for an encrypted group chat, you can use that metadata to identify the devices of all parties involved in that chat, because the push system has to queue all that up and send it at the same time.

That’s just one valuable use of this data.

RandoCalrandian, 3 months ago

Using weak examples and how they are better served in a different way doesn’t mean much

With push data like this you can identify something like every other member of an encrypted group chat by correlating the push notification metadata

They are demanding this for a reason

RandoCalrandian, 3 months ago

And oh darn, didn’t you know the only solution is permanent extension of and expansions to all the patriot act bullshit that has been violating our civil liberties constantly for 20+ years?

Shucks. Welp, if it’s “for the children” or whatever excuse they use this time, I guess we have no choice!

RandoCalrandian, 3 months ago

Not to mention Epstein was able to operate freely for decades while flying out high priority definitely-surveilled-at-all-times targets out to rape kids

Make no mistake, intelligence agencies are every bit as complicit as Epstein himself, and they don’t give a flying fuck about “protecting” kids

RandoCalrandian, 4 months ago

That isn’t what you’re getting with any cell phone?

RandoCalrandian, 4 months ago

I know this isn't the answer you want, but consider switching away from compose entirely
A local kubernetes instance handles all the routing for me, and since i was using that anyway podman was legitimately a drop in replacement for docker.

Podman is just the tool that creates the container for me, running it gets handled by something else entirely.

Also, i can run podman compose up just fine, no hyphen needed. https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-compose.1.html

RandoCalrandian, 4 months ago

1. you need a gpu or gpu resources to run a GPT level model
2. stop thinking of it as “make me a story” and start thinking of it as “let’s make a story together”

First talk back and forth over the basic idea.
Then get a short outline.
Then work on each chapter of the outline.
Then repeat and refine.

Try to keep overall queries under a certain character limit. Google what some good ranges are.

Make sure to save each conversation, and use the outline and previous chapter as the start of your conversation for making the next chapter.

The AI won’t write it for you, but it can be an amazing accelerator if you’re willing to put in the work.

RandoCalrandian, 4 months ago

Git gud scrub

RandoCalrandian, 7 months ago

I’m totally adding that back into my vocab now 😂

Wish it could sound more like Farquaad, but maybe that on its own is a good enough one. Kinda rolls off the tongue

RandoCalrandian, 7 months ago

Worse is how he actually thinks he’s that

RandoCalrandian, 7 months ago

I game on a linux mint desktop using proton all the time. The work they’ve done for the steam deck translates almost perfectly to every other Linux distro I’ve tried it on

RandoCalrandian, 7 months ago

I switched my gaming pc to Linux over a year ago, never looked back and haven’t needed to

And I’ve never used a VM to game, either

RandoCalrandian, 7 months ago

DNA is highly likely to be unique, not guaranteed to be so.

This is a terrible idea. No one owns DNA or genes, and we already have problems with shitty company’s trying to patent or copyright genes we all already have. It’s bullshit that only benefits those at the top, and prevents others from getting there by restricting their rights.

Voices are the same. You can’t complain about an impressionist imitating you because you don’t like it, that childish nonsense. Everything we do is in some way a copy and recreation of what other people have done. AI just automated that process and people are upset it’s harder to rent seek and gate keep things that never belonged to them in the first place.

Seriously, the future you’re imagining has twins sueing each other for rights to their unique “identity”. It’s dumb as hell.

RandoCalrandian, 7 months ago

South Park has some crazy lawsuits coming, if that person has their way.

I legitimately couldn’t tell they didn’t use the real Megan Markel!

RandoCalrandian, 7 months ago

Is there a specific dollar amount where a creator isn’t allowed to create the way they want anymore?

RandoCalrandian, 7 months ago

Because it looks like blind ranting

You’ve completely ignored all the people who have been replaced by automation and had to adapt as “oh that’s not important enough in my eyes to force companies to use humans”

The future you want is far worse than the one you’re ranting about. Yours has only the wealthy and powerful enjoying protections from automation, while everyone else doesn’t matter (to you, based on your own arguments)

RandoCalrandian, 7 months ago

why should giant corporations be allowed to replicate and use it to make money without your consent

Because it wasn’t yours to begin with

Biometrics belong more to humanity than any individual person

Your argument would make it so even facial recognition would be illegal, because they scan and use your facial info without consent

Same with drivers license databases

You can’t say “this particular use of this existing practice bothers me, everyone else needs to change now so I feel better”

Rules on these things need to be consistent, and if they shouldn’t be allowed to use unique information that you consider yours without your consent you’ve just eliminated advertising, security checkpoints, drivers license pictures, filming cops, and a million other things both good and bad that all rely on using your likeness without your consent.

RandoCalrandian, 7 months ago

So police can’t keep images of criminals faces (recreated and distributed to every cops computer in the nation through computer automation and often ai) without their consent?

And a private company can’t set that up and sell it to cops for profit?

Because I have some terribly bad news for you…

RandoCalrandian, 7 months ago

You’re complaining about scale, and pretending it’s a fundamental difference. It’s not

You have a severe misunderstanding of how your own brain works and why we call them neural nets in the first place if you think otherwise.

RandoCalrandian, 7 months ago

I do think it’s the jealousy, the fear of being replaced, but also the pride of thinking of ourselves as somehow special and important.

We’re not.

We’re dumb fucking monkeys who learned to sometimes not be so dumb, and then a bunch of us forgot we were pretending.

The real lesson in ai is not that they’re getting super complex or sophisticated, but more us realizing the limitations of our own cognition, and hopefully finding ways to extend it.

You’re spot on about calculators. It’s really just that our schools and schoolteachers are unable to evolve, just like with the insistence that cursive is still a needed skill. Hopefully it won’t take a generation or more to update the educators mindset to taking advantage of the tools available, instead of shunning them.

RandoCalrandian, 7 months ago

And now the result of that trial could be a verdict with punitive damages

umm, why not jail time? This seems jail time worthy

RandoCalrandian, 7 months ago

And what they're saying is that those elements are fun to the people who play these games.
Weighing different priorities to choose the best or preferred option for the future is flexing some very serious psychological muscles. Developing strategies to do it well is these types of people's version of practicing 3 point shots.

Reading you complain about it (which is fine, it doesn't have to be your sort of game!) is like listening to someone complain about how many times they have to throw the ball in basketball. "I just wanted to dribble and dunk, what are all of these other silly elements for? They're just getting in the way!"

If you want a really good comparison between these types of gamers and others, look at Path of Exile versus Diablo 4. Diablo took the mass-market appeal route, and de-prioritized many of the elements that more serious gamers enjoyed.

Now Path of Exile is a free to play money printing machine, and Diablo gets headlines for how poorly it's doing. There are many detailed analysis' online about why, and most of the reasons come down to removing the 'complicated' parts you're talking about.

RandoCalrandian, 7 months ago

That’s all well and good but the game often doesn’t give you the knowledge required to make those choices thoughtfully

This is a complaint. One that other commenters have addressed.

It’s often an intentional and critical part of the vision of the game and why people play

Elden Ring, specifically, hides information from the player on purpose, intending for them to discover things through experience.

It doesn’t hold your hand at all and is arguably one of the better games in the last decade, in no small part due to features you are referencing.

RandoCalrandian, 7 months ago

Perhaps this conversation would be more constructive if you told us some of the games you do like, instead of the ones you don’t.

Because I’ll tell you right now, unless you prefer interactive novels which are only arguably games, every game is based on repetitive gameplay.

Specifically, building repetitive gameplay on top of repetitive gameplay is what makes games, games.

Like with chess. You have a repetitive “chess game” loop which has many “your turn” loops inside.

What I’m asking is how you sort it out

To address this specifically, this is what the community of the game is about. It’s why wikis are created and maintained. And so the answer would change based on which game you’re talking about and your goals in that game

For borderlands specifically, a few quick heuristics you can use is to ignore all weapons of not legendary color while in lower level areas, or to stop picking up lower tier items when you don’t need the cash, or to skip everything that isn’t a shotgun because that’s the only piece you need to update

RandoCalrandian, 7 months ago

Aren’t most gamers technically mobile gamers? Pokémon Go has a user base most PC games only dream of

RandoCalrandian, 7 months ago

Ok, then don’t play them. No one is forcing you.

You said BG3 was a gift, so it’s not costing you anything to not play something you don’t like.

Given what you’ve said, I would suggest avoiding anything with an RPG label anywhere.

For BG3, if you want to keep playing, you can skip the character creator. They have a dozen prebuilt options you can play without doing the detail work.

For inventory, you can ask your brother to handle it and send everything to camp.

But even with those, you’ll likely not enjoy BG3 because even the fighting mechanics are based around that type of complex decision making, making you pause all the time so that you can make those decisions.

It’s ok to tell your brother you don’t enjoy the gameplay. You don’t have to like it just because other people do.

RandoCalrandian, 7 months ago

That particular decision was to keep them immersed in the game, and exploring.

But back to your warning label topic, what do you expect that to look like?

“E for e=mc^2”? Or “S for Seseme Street approved”?

We already have shenanigans in the rating system, this would be monumentally worse.

I am really curious what a metric for game complexity would even look like

RandoCalrandian, 7 months ago

Pulled up a self hosted option last week to try it out. It’s not gpt4 level, but it’s damn close and I don’t worry giving access to my local documents

PrivateGPT for anyone interested

RandoCalrandian, 7 months ago

In my tests, the self hosted options that have access to a 30xx or 40xx graphics card return results far faster than gpt4

RandoCalrandian, 7 months ago

Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.1 is the default, i'm downloading the Llama2 model to test it with now, but many models on HuggingFace should still work

RandoCalrandian, 7 months ago

Mistral for chatgpt, and i'm not saying it gives better answers, just that it's much faster than my web portal to gpt4

RandoCalrandian, 7 months ago

I didn’t say better, I said comparable
And faster, without handing over my data and conversations for monetization

Given the locally hosted benefits, and the ability to go to chatgpt for any answer minstrel gives that doesn’t satisfy you, makes it strong competition to chatgpt as the default tool

Hosting it yourself also means you can swap llm’s out based on context and what they’re trained on. Highly tuned models perform better than chatgpt at the things they are meant to excel in.

RandoCalrandian, 7 months ago

It means a bunch of work to undo all the things Google is about to do

RandoCalrandian, 7 months ago

He means this builds all the backend and proof of concepts necessary to force it on every other environment, and websites will be prepared for the switch, giving the public that much less time to react when they push it to desktop again

It’s basically “OK, we can’t stop the pushback, so we’ll tell the public it will only work on android web view, but all teams keep working full steam, we’ll wait to merge into the bigger systems until all this dies down, and we won’t have lost any dev time!”

RandoCalrandian, 7 months ago

You don’t think having to go through all this to stop it again next time, but it’s even harder because it can now be implemented orders of magnitude faster than before, counts as a “huge loss”?

RandoCalrandian, 7 months ago

The author is right: there is no legitimate justification for WEI

This entire project is to ensure people cant have control of their own systems, because they may act in a way contrary to googles interests (or the governments, or any other party)

RandoCalrandian, 7 months ago

It’s probably only a matter of time before popular forums lock down even view access to everything except Google, forcing people to use and work with monopolies and shutting out smaller player permanently

RandoCalrandian, 7 months ago

An individuals data is only valuable to someone looking to harm that person

The aggregate data is what is valuable, and for that they need to be stealing it from everyone at once

RandoCalrandian, 8 months ago

Due to the low amount, I’d say this is more about combating botting atm

RandoCalrandian, 9 months ago

which is why you clarify your opinions as such, removing the subjectivity from the objective parts.

ffs, it's called journalism

RandoCalrandian, 9 months ago

it really is as simple as being able to distinguish opinions from facts, and clarifying each in the revew.

Facts: This game has X combat, Y selectable characters, the crafting looks like Z, etc.

Opinons: This game is amazing! 10/10! Best story of all time! GOTY!, etc

You absolutely can have an objective game review, it's just that no writer wants to do that. They'd rather make it more about their opinions of the game than of the game.