techjamie

9 ms·

61.
by techjamie 9mo ago
I watched a video[1] recently that posited the idea of AI slop farms making large, auto-moderated spaces impossible to find meaningful human content in. With the idea that it'll lead to a renaissance for smaller, more personal websites
62.
by techjamie 9mo ago
My girlfriend used to be hooked on TikTok for political stuff until I started pointing out how much of it is comprised of half-truths if not straight up lies. For example, one day she came over and showed me a short where this lady was warn
63.
by techjamie 9mo ago
I did LFS on hardware for advanced operating systems in college. After messing up an early step and having to torch it midway and start over, I made the entire LFS build directory into a local git repo. It was not the best use of git and th
64.
by techjamie 9mo ago
What's the alternative? Building a competing search index as a relative nobody on the web is very difficult, from the outset, and is made more difficult from sites taking extra measures to stop bots in general now. Google's crawle
65.
by techjamie 9mo ago
There's a YouTuber who makes AI Plays Mafia videos with various models going against each other. They also seemingly let past games stay in context to some extent. What people have noted is that often times chatgpt 4o ends up surviving
66.
by techjamie 9mo ago
We're too busy taking car companies' lines that it's reasonable they don't want people going to a local mechanic because "The data your car collected on you might get hacked and sent to China!" rather than aski
67.
by techjamie 9mo ago
This is really cool, and I could see myself using this. Sometimes I need functionality like this, but can't be bothered to build up the infrastructure around it. This is perfect for that use case.
68.
by techjamie 9mo ago
I imagine that would be one positive effect of endless entertainment being ubiquitous- since people can zone out in front of a screen with any entertainment medium of their choosing, they are less likely to opt for alcohol. Though interesti
69.
by techjamie 9mo ago
Sounds like a ripe opportunity for someone to reverse engineer their USB protocol and create a free/open alternative.
70.
by techjamie 9mo ago
Based on another comment parent made, the Xbox was there before the kid, so presumably they don't want to handicap their own experience using it, just limit their kid's. Which should, by all respects, be a reasonable thing to want
71.
by techjamie 9mo ago
Personally, I have no issue watching things that are shot at 60fps (like YouTube videos, even live action) but the motion smoothing on TV shows makes it look off to me. I dunno if it's just a me thing, but I wonder if a subconscious pa
72.
by techjamie 9mo ago
Secure Anycast IP Over Tidal Transport
73.
by techjamie 9mo ago
If you publish to GitHub, also mind that you grant them a separate license to your code[1] which grants them the ability to do things, including "[...] the right to do things like copy it to our database and make backups; show it to yo
74.
by techjamie 9mo ago
Another thing to add to the uBlock filters alongside the cookie banners. Can't wait to wade through a dozen regulatory warnings to visit a website if you don't block it all.
75.
by techjamie 10mo ago
I was taught in school, though my parents did show me prior to that.
76.
by techjamie 10mo ago
I'm a millennial and would struggle to write anything past my own name in cursive anymore. I can confirm this.
77.
by techjamie 10mo ago
Basing off Yahoo historical price data, Bitcoin prices first started being tracked in late 2014. So my guess would be the increase from then to 2022 could have largely been attributed to crypto mining.
78.
by techjamie 10mo ago
I'd say Mullvad is on the more accessible side, since a Mullvad subscription can be obtained through a relatively small amount of cash. All you need is a few dollars and the ability to mail a letter with a few bucks to Europe. Wisconsi
79.
by techjamie 10mo ago
I wonder if it's a matter of the relative usage of those tools being very small compared to what already exists, and the few artists that want to muddy their work fir it. But even if it was significant, I'm sure the next thing to
80.
by techjamie 10mo ago
> it really is superior to the Carplay experience (a square in the middle of the round screen, vs a map that takes up nearly the entirety of the screen I haven't used CarPlay since I'm an Android user, but this reeks to me of a
81.
by techjamie 10mo ago
> access to social media increases populism, extremism, and social unrest. I don't think this is necessarily a byproduct of social media, itself. But rather, the byproduct of algorithmic engagement farming social media that capitali
82.
by techjamie 10mo ago
Not sure how much you checked in detail, but to add on, I downloaded it and unpacked the app to check out the source. Would say it definitely looks like AI written code. I partially wonder if Gemini generated it, because it seemingly impor
83.
by techjamie 10mo ago
Probably has to do with the method for teaching reading being terrible for several years, depending on if the school dropped phonics. I saw some stuff about literacy dropping because they went from teaching to sound out words, to, as I unde
84.
by techjamie 10mo ago
My parents did exactly that, but not in a large quantity. Gave me a sip of a really crappy beer when I was young and basically told me it all tasted like that. Did a pretty good job of not tempting me to try it very much.
85.
by techjamie 10mo ago
Reminds me of a Reddit story that made the rounds about a professor asking ChatGPT if it wrote papers, to which it frequently responded afirmatively. He sent an angry email about it, and a student responded by showing a response from ChatGP
86.
by techjamie 10mo ago
> You'd have to stop people owning general purpose computing devices for that to be fully effective. That's been the corporate and probably governmental wet dream since the iPhone released. I think the only thing keeping the x8
87.
by techjamie 10mo ago
I saw an excellent video[1] a few weeks ago that outlined this issue perfectly in the context of Tor's anti-censorship methodologies by hiding its traffic as other kinds of traffic. The endgame is basically to cut the cables and have a
88.
by techjamie 10mo ago
Serve it over FTP under the user imover18 with no password. Don't know if that counts as age verification, but it's not a website!
89.
by techjamie 11mo ago
"Don't worry, the scans won't invade your privacy or expose your information." "Oh, so the politicians' communications are being scanned too, then?" "Oh, heavens no. That might risk the privacy of our
90.
by techjamie 11mo ago
It probably makes a difference that the internet of ~15 years ago was healthier to use than the half-dozen websites that encompass the entire internet for most people today. Attention-optimizing algorithms and infinite scrolling are some of

More ›