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Software developer by day, insomniac by night. Send me pictures of baby bats to make my day.

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  • Linux for gaming is easy. For the most part it’s plug and play. I’m on an AMD CPU and an NVidia GPU, and I even do VR in Linux.

    As someone who does a decent amount of stuff with DAWs; VSTs are tricky. You might be able to create a similar workflow to what your used to, and many plugins might work decently well, but for me at least it was a lot of fiddling about and it isn’t as smooth as I’d like. My comfort compressor works, but the UI doesn’t render.

    I’ve gotten my music workflow to work alright, but it’s wonky enough that I don’t do it as much anymore. Thinking about trying to start over with a new DAW and whatnot.

    If privacy is a concern there’s a decent amount of stuff you can do to strip down Windows 11.












  • I bumped into copyparty the other month when looking for a software that could let me transfer files to a friend with the ability to pause/resume. Didn’t bother with it, tried another software instead. Never really got it to work so I gave up on it.

    Bumped into the YouTube video today, decided to give copyparty a shot, damn sir you’ve written a fine piece of software. It’s so easy to get up and configure. The UI is a bit janky, but charming at the same time. Thanks for all the hard work!



  • Don’t assume evil when stupidity

    I didn’t, though? I think that perhaps you missed the “I don’t think necessarily that people who perpetuate this problem are doing so out of malice” part.

    Scream racism all you want but you’re cheapening the meaning of the word and you’re not doing anyone a favor.

    I didn’t invent this term.

    Darker patches on darker skin are harder to detect, just as facial features in the dark, on dark skin are garder to detect because there is literally less light to work with

    Computers don’t see things the way we do. That’s why steganography can be imperceptible to the human eye, and why adversarial examples work when the differences cannot be seen by humans.

    If a model is struggling at doing its job it’s because the data is bad, be it the input data, or the training data. Historically one significant contributor has been that the datasets aren’t particularly diverse, and white men end up as the default. It’s why all the “AI” companies popped in “ethnically ambiguous” and other words into their prompts to coax their image generators into generating people that weren’t white, and subsequently why these image generators gave us ethnically ambigaus memes and German nazi soldiers that were black.



  • I think it’s a compounding issue, primarily of Google products just kind of being the “default.”

    Google pays to be the primary search engine in Firefox, on iOS, and sets themselves as the default on their operating systems. They, wherever possible also set their browser as default. Yes, Chromium is open source, but they have the ultimate final say, and no one seems to have the interest in forking it. This puts Google in a similar position that Microsoft was in in the 90s and early 00s, where they can essentially hijack the web and force their ideas through whether others want to or not.

    We saw this with Google forcing Manifest v3, all Chromium-based browsers essentially just had to follow suit. That was just Manifest v3 however, who’s to say what else they’ll do?

    Then there’s my tinfoil hat worry that Google essentially being the window to the web for so many people, on an OS, browser, and discoverability level is just overall a cause for worry. That’s not even considering their communications and media platforms.