Dave

Dave , 3 months ago

“Reddit, except it’s mostly leftist trans Linux users.”

Dave , 3 months ago

The thing that comes to mind is “Format painter”. It should be on the Home tab near the normal Paste.

Select the test that already has the format you want, then double click the format painter button.

Select each section you want to have that formatting. Because you double clicked the Format Painter, you can just do one after the other without having to click Format Painter each time. Click the format painter button again once you are done, or just hit escape.

This is the easiest to explain way that I can think of, but someone else might have another way too.

Edit: if you think you might want to change them all again later, it might be worth learning more about creating a style, applying that to each of your sections, then editing the format of the style.

Dave , 4 months ago

I’ve asked ChatGPT to explain maths to me before. I can’t remember what it was but it was something when I knew the answer and was trying to calculate the starting value.

It told me the answer and I asked for the explanation. It went something like this (not actual, just a tribute):

• Step 1: 1 + 1 = 2
• Step 2: 2 * 2 = 4
• Step 3: 4 / 8 = 0.5

Me: Uh, the answer is supposed to be 9,000,000.

ChatGPT: Sorry, it seems you are right. Here’s the corrected version:

• Step 1: 1 + 1 = 2
• Step 2: 2 * 2 = 4
• Step 3: 4 / 8 = 9,000,000

Dave , 4 months ago

It was a question like where I knew the answer and needed the correct value to put in the equation to get that end result. I wish there was a better way to search previous chats because it would help if I could remember the context. But anyway, the first time it got the maths right from the starting value to the ending value, but it didn’t actually answer the question because the ending value was not the one I asked for. It was as good as if it gave me a random answer.

I pointed out that it hadn’t answered the question, and that’s when it just changed the last step to make it the answer I was looking for. It was supposed to adjust the starting value to make it have the correct outcome.

Dave , 4 months ago

I can’t remember! It was probably a year ago, but knowing me I probably tried random starting numbers until I got the answer I wanted.

Dave , 4 months ago

I also think it would be many years if at all that Google could get a site going that is popular enough people filter their search results by it like I do with Reddit.

Dave , 4 months ago

I think Don’t Starve has no in app purchases. Also see open source games like Endless Sky, Shattered Pixel Dungeon, and Mindustry.

Dave , 4 months ago

Ah, it seems the only place to get it is on F-droid, the open source app “store”.

The Endless Sky game is made for PC, but there’s a fork that maintains compatibility with android. If you have F-droid, search for it there. If not, you can download the APK file from the F-droid page for Endless Sky.

If this is your first time installing something that isn’t on Google Play, then your phone is going to fight back. But it generally should tell you what you need to do before you can install apps from outside the Play app store.

Dave , 4 months ago

I’m gonna take this opportunity to mention LemmyAutomod, for Lemmy instance admins.

This massive spam attack was unrelenting, but it came in the form of a large number of spam posts that had a small amount of variation. Using the above tool, it really helped to catch most of the spam within seconds or minutes of being posted.

The dev is really helpful, which is good because I needed some hand-holding, but it has been a fantastic tool with this latest spam wave being the first true test of it. When the spammers started posting images of URLs instead of links, the dev added functionality to detect images that were the same or similar to a reference image.

In addition, there’s also a Lemmy spam defense Matrix chat set up by Lemmy.world where instance admins post spam accounts so others can ban them on their own instances (and add them to their automod).

Dave , 4 months ago

Lemmy doesn’t have a lot of things. It’s not a finished product, but more like something that was in the process of being built when suddenly tens of thousands of people started using it. They didn’t even finish the planned roadmap as they had to pivot to rewrite stuff to handle the influx of users.

Dave , 4 months ago

How about Jellyfin server, synced with Kodi for playing on the TV?

Dave , 4 months ago

I head the Jellyfin apps aren’t great. However I admit to never testing them.

Dave , 4 months ago

I don’t have Android TV :(

Dave , 4 months ago

I use the Android app, and yeah, I wish you could download and play like on commercial streaming apps. It’s not just the hunting down of the file, but also the remembering how much of the episode you’ve watched when part way through, and having Jellyfin know that you’ve watched the episode so the play next is right.

Dave , 4 months ago

Oh no I have an old laptop literally strapped to the back on my TV. It’s running the Jellyfin server (among many other things) and I installed Kodi on it along with a PC connected remote to control it.

It works well so I haven’t looked any further.

Dave , 4 months ago

Nice, thanks! I’ll check it out.

Dave , 4 months ago

I’m running it on a Linux laptop, so I don’t see any reason why I couldn’t have both. I’ll check it out.

I have Kodi connected to broadcast TV streams and Disney+, can I do this with Jellyfin?

Dave , 4 months ago

I have Kodi set up, and it seems to work well. There are different ways to do it, I did the database merge option which prevents you having non-jellyfin files in your library but it works nicely.

I also have broadcast TV streams and Disney+ through there too, which gives it a smart-TV feeling which is nice for others using it.

Dave , 4 months ago

My instance’s image cache is like 230GB. Plus a bunch more for the db. Can confirm storage is needed.

(unrelated question 😶 - anyone running pictrs 0.5 on local storage happily?)

Dave , 4 months ago

Yeah no house would stay on the market for over a year with the reason being something a buyer could fix with a few grand.

Dave , 4 months ago

The magic part is that you launch the nuke through the satellite, then it falls back to earth on top of your enemy.

Or perhaps the debris is the point?

Dave , 4 months ago

I was surprised to see that I could see other users’ documents.

TBH this is how I expected it to work. A shared family document repository. I’m not against having more granular permissions, though!

Dave , 4 months ago

But treats a random half of your numbers as text

Dave , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

The vast majority of mobile ads are served from google or apple, which likely is not where the rest if the app data is served from. It makes it particularly easy to block mobile ads from adMob or whatever the apple equivalent is called.

You don’t even need pihole, there are VPN-based apps that screen and block ad domains.

Dave , 4 months ago

Didn’t lose anything of worth on it cuz it was only like 128MB

What year was the event, 2005?

Dave , 4 months ago

I use Kavita. I have some minor complaints but in general it works.

I haven’t tried others though, so can’t say if it’s the best or not.

Dave , 4 months ago

It’s nice to imagine but it was probably a copyright bot that logs automated DCMA complaints. In fact I think this might be functionality YouTube provides to large content providers.

Dave , 4 months ago

I’m not an architect, but I’ve sat in on architecture presentations and the most rewarding feedback I’ve seen is “Any objections? Ok, approved”.

Dave , 4 months ago

Good to hear it happens, even if the praise is all behind closed doors.

Dave , 4 months ago

Tailscale requires each person be granted access, I.e. it’s private. (Edit:I didn’t know about Tailscale Funnel, which is more like Cloudflare tunnel)

Cloudflare Tunnel gives anyone on the internet access, but to my knowledge only covers HTTP traffic. If what you’re trying to do requires port numbers then I don’t think that will work.

In regards to media traffic, Cloudflare silently removed that section of their Ts & Cs, so hosting Jellyfin, etc should now be OK.

You might be able to use Tailscale on a cheap VPN to forward traffic to your setup, but it might be cheaper and easier to pay your ISP.

It’s worth pointing out that port forwarding happens on your router, but if you don’t have a public IP then it won’t work. Sometimes ISPs will give you a public IP if you just ask, sometimes they tie it to a static IP add-on and charge for it. It sounds like you might be in the latter case. It can vary by ISP, so if you live somewhere where you get a choice, you may find another ISP is a better deal (e.g. where I live some charge $15 a month for a static IP, some charge a one off $40 fee, and some you can just ask and they will give you a public dynamic IP for free. Others will give everyone public dynamic IPs).

Dave , 4 months ago

Dynamic IPs don’t change very often. Sometimes you can get a new one by restarting your router, which most people don’t do very often. But in my experience they stay the same if you don’t restart it.

If you do end up with a new IP occasionally, it’s typically not too hard to change things to the new one.

Dave , 4 months ago

Does your ISP sell static IPs? Maybe they are all static?

For an ISP using all public IPs, in the days of dial up they could rent less IPs than customers because people were online at different times. These days the routers are all online 24/7, so it seems odd to me that some ISPs have everyone on public IPs but they aren’t static. Probably some technical reason why things don’t work how I think they do, but it just feels like a way to sell static IPs as an add-on when it wouldn’t cost them anymore to allocate an IP to a customer for the life of the connection.

Dave , 4 months ago

I love how Outlook opens your links in Edge and gives you a little message about how it knows it’s not your default browser but it thought you’d like to open in Edge anyway.

Dave , 4 months ago

Google have digitised a lot of books using some more advanced tech, though they started out with something a little like this.

Dave , 4 months ago

My understanding is the project led into Google Books. Google fought many legal cases and ultimately won but their enthusiasm to scan more books seems to have waned. Google basically convinced judges that by only letting people see a few pages, it fell under fair use, but then that meant you didn’t get a giant library because you couldn’t read the whole book.

There’s an article about it here: edsurge.com/…/2017-08-10-what-happened-to-google-…

Also see www.hathitrust.org/about/ which is mentioned in the article.

Dave , 5 months ago

For the record, you can use justwatch.com and it will tell you exactly where you can watch it, and which seasons. But I’m still not paying for multiple subscriptions.

Dave , 5 months ago

I mean, the humans think it’s cool to take perfectly good pants, tear holes in them until there are hardly any pants, and wear them like that. Maybe pants are even cooler?

Dave , 5 months ago

Damn right, long live Google Wave!

Dave , 5 months ago

I was joking, but I’m curious what product you think could replace email? It’s popular because it’s instant (as opposed to phone, fax, email), and most importantly because it’s decentralised. There is no one company in control, anyone can run a server on any software so long as it speaks the open standards.

I’m sure there is something that could replace it, but what’s your suggestion?

Dave , 5 months ago

Email have very much not been replaced. Messengers fit a specific niche. I personally send dozens of emails a day, and receive even more. These aren’t chat messages, but more elaborate emails that chat messages just don’t suit.

Dave , 5 months ago

Reddit must share IP addresses of piracy-discussing users

Uh oh, some sort of court ruling?

film studios say

Oh right, nothing to see here.

Dave , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

0.8 watts? Honestly, I think it gets closer than I was expecting. (edit: millli/micro, messed it up. This is a tiny amount of power. Needs to get near that 1W they are aiming for to be useful). Searching around, I see estimates of 5-20 watts when fast charging, and 1-2W in standby mode. The article says they are aiming for 1W in the next couple of years, which can probably do it. However, it’s not clear what peak output it. You would probably use half the space for a normal battery and half for this power source, so that the phone can charge itself but also have a higher output when it’s needed.

It probably doesn’t even need to provide all the power. Imagine if your phone would trickle charge wherever you were. If you’re watching netflix you might run out of battery and have to charge. If you aren’t using it much, even if the output of these things can’t keep up, the battery could last days or a week on a charge before eventually running out.

Dave , 5 months ago

Oh shit, I mixed up milli and micro. Will edit.

Dave , 5 months ago

I mean, there was all that drama where the board formed to prevent this from happening kicked out the CEO trying to do this stuff, then the board got booted out and replaced with a new board and brought back that CEO guy. So this was pretty much going to happen.

Dave , 5 months ago

This summary article says the board stated:

“Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities,” OpenAI’s post said. “The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.”

The article also says:

Rumors and speculation swirled on social media, with tech industry heads, reporters, and onlookers trying to make sense of the situation based on what little information was provided in the board’s announcement. Tech journalist Kara Swisher quickly reported that based on what information she had from sources, there was a “misalignment” between OpenAI’s for-profit side, represented by Altman, and the nonprofit side, which is controlled by the board.

As far as I know the exact issue was not made public, but basically the board is there to make sure the company puts ethics over profits. Altman was hiding stuff from the board (presumably because they would consider it in conflict with their goal), and so the board fired him. But then there was an uproar from the investors, Microsoft almost ended up hiring half the company as they threatened to resign in droves, and in the end the board resigned and was replaced.

Does that answer the question?

Dave , 5 months ago

If you sold a lot of alcohol, you’ve almost certainly contributed to a death. Between drunk driving, stupid alcohol decisions, and cancer, alcohol is pretty much the most dangerous drug we have in terms of societal damage (because its usage is so widespread).

I probably shouldn’t have used the word “responsible”, though. If person A miles up the road was driving slightly over the speed limit they might make it through an orange light that they otherwise would have missed. This might place a new car at the front of the queue with person B, and this person may then get hit by a driver that missed a red light, leading to their death. While the chain of events ultimately led to their death, and if Person A had driven the speed limit then person B would probably still be alive, I don’t think you can say person A is responsible.

Dave , 5 months ago

Is that saying aging, stress, etc somehow create alcohol in our bodies? If true, maybe we should be worried about futurama-like robots creating a matrix-like situation!

Dave , 5 months ago

Haha oh boy, I had no idea, and it took almost a day before anyone mentioned it. Now I know.