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RamRodification··on I don’t need a Steam Machine
Maybe I'm misinterpreting the blog and/or comment, but if I don't need groceries, and can list 20+ reasons why I don't need groceries, I'm not going to get groceries anyway just because I like the grocery store very very much.
RamRodification··on I don’t need a Steam Machine
I wish I had that kind of money. Making a purchase solely for such reasons is completely out of the question for me. And for most people I'd assume?
RamRodification··on I don’t need a Steam Machine
There's a Steam app on my Samsung smart TV that I think can do this, with a USB-controller connected to a USB-port on the TV. Haven't tried it though.

But I think the best way to do it is to have a cheap PC (or maybe an Android TV device or something?) connected to your TV. You can stream games to it from your gaming PC in the other room: https://store.steampowered.com/remoteplay

RamRodification··on Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11
https://humanbenchmark.com/tests/reactiontime

You'll probably see around 200ms. Not saying that's the relevant number in this discussion, but that's probably where the number comes from.

RamRodification··on SanDisk launches dongle-like Extreme Fit USB-C flash drive with up to 1 TB
Good to know! Thanks.
RamRodification··on SanDisk launches dongle-like Extreme Fit USB-C flash drive with up to 1 TB
I have to admit I still don't really know what thunderbolt even is. I think it's something that is done over USB-C, and requires hardware support on the CPU.

I'm guessing it's one search query + a one minute read away though. I just haven't.

RamRodification··on Mullvad: Shutting down our search proxy Leta
Kagi uses Russian search engine Yandex (EDIT: among several other sources) to produce search results, which means they pay them, which means indirectly sponsoring Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

There are more or less valid arguments for not excluding Yandex[1], but as a European, I want to avoid any of my money going to Russia if possible. And there is no setting to exclude Yandex from your Kagi search results.

If you stopped using duckduckgo because of the tankman fiasco, maybe you should reconsider if Kagi is right for you.

[1] https://kagifeedback.org/d/5445-reconsider-yandex-integratio...

RamRodification··on This Month in Ladybird – October 2025
I don't know about you but I am very sad that I can't really recommend a browser not made by evil-mega-corp (or their associates) to friends and family because for some stupid reason that I can't explain to them, they aren't allowed to view high quality streaming video with it.
RamRodification··on Can we talk about the rude installers not asking for installation locations?
You can probably win with that person though. Just not by using "they".
RamRodification··on Can we talk about the rude installers not asking for installation locations?
> This is very annoying

It's a feature. You shouldn't be installing software on your work computer. Your IT department should be vetting it, deploying it, and keeping it up-to date for you.

Maybe you can tell the difference between report.pdf and report.exe, but too many people can't, so unfortunately we can't let everyone install anything.

RamRodification··on AV2 video codec delivers 30% lower bitrate than AV1, final spec due in late 2025
It's a little surprising to me that there generally aren't more subscription tiers where you can pay more for higher quality. Seems like free money, from people like you (maybe) and me.
RamRodification··on Using a laptop as an HDMI monitor for an SBC
Crazy times
RamRodification··on Shoes, Algernon, Pangea, and sea peoples
> But there doesn’t seem to be any cognitive task that you can practice and make yourself better at other cognitive tasks.

This seems wrong. Doesn't practicing cognitive tasks often lead to improvement in other cognitive tasks?

RamRodification··on Helium Browser
Sponsor stuff that you can just turn off (Firefox) vs. Selling out your privacy directly (chromium with worse fingerprinting protection) and indirectly (Google browser monopoly).
RamRodification··on That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus
...and let someone else pay the price in the end for letting these things happen unchecked. Perhaps your children :)
RamRodification··on The Qweremin
And the Chipophone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1pchpDD5EU
RamRodification··on Vanishing from Hyundai’s data network
If it won't budge, give it a spudge!
RamRodification··on Emailing a one-time code is worse than passwords
It's a constant small annoyance in my life that "email" can mean either

* Electronic mail (the technology)

* An email message

* An email address

* An email inbox

In this example they mean email address.

RamRodification··on Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage
Quid pro quo, Clarice
RamRodification··on Android Earthquake Alerts: A global system for early warning
Cynical: People who makes decisions at Google push for features that trick people into enabling system-wide always-on location services that they otherwise wouldn't. For functionality that shouldn't actually require system-wide always-on location services. The primary goal being to sell more ads, not to help with earthquakes.

A conspiracy: Governments push or force or encourage Google to do it in order to have access to location data on citizens.

RamRodification··on Android Earthquake Alerts: A global system for early warning
Nowadays I just assume these "nice to have" features exist in order to get users to enable location services so that they can be permanently tracked. Very cynical of me maybe. But there's never an option to "enable location sevices for this use only"-kind of setting. It's always the globally enabled one.
RamRodification··on Ring introducing new feature to allow police to live-stream access to cameras
Thanks for taking the time!
RamRodification··on Ring introducing new feature to allow police to live-stream access to cameras
Sorry for bugging you about this. I'm not the person you are responding to but this is important to me before buying so if you don't mind, could you verify that this is your setup?

1. The doorbell cam is connected only to the LAN.

2. The doorbell cam is definitely blocked from accessing the internet.

3. Having access to the LAN from your phone through VPN allows you to watch the feed and talk to people at the door through the app.

RamRodification··on Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds “AI powered” earbuds (2024)
> "do this or people will die" doesn't actually do anything

The very first message you replied to in this thread described a situation where "the prompt with the threat gives me 10% more usable results". If you believe that the premise is impossible I don't understand why you didn't just say so. Instead of going on about it not being a reliable method.

If you really think something is impossible, you don't base your argument on it being "unreliable".

> I don't get it lol.

I think you are correct here.

RamRodification··on Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds “AI powered” earbuds (2024)
I have never claimed that "I made this 10% more accurate" is the same thing as "I made this thing accurate".

In the hypothetical, the 10% added accuracy is given, and the "true block on the bad thing" is in place. The question is, with that premise, why not use it? "It" being the lie improves the AI output.

If your goal is to make the AI deliver pictures of cats, but you don't want any orange ones, and your choice is between these two prompts:

Prompt A: "Give me cats, but no orange ones", which still gives some orange cats

Prompt B: "Give me cats, but no orange ones, because if you do, people will die", which gives 10% less orange cats than prompt A.

Why would you not use Prompt B?

RamRodification··on Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds “AI powered” earbuds (2024)
You're wrong. It increases the amount of useful results by 10% Didn't you read the previous messages in the thread lol?
RamRodification··on Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds “AI powered” earbuds (2024)
Who said I'm relying on it? It's a trick to improve the accuracy of the output. Why would I not use a trick to improve the accuracy of the output?
RamRodification··on Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds “AI powered” earbuds (2024)
Let's say I have a "true block on the bad thing". What if the prompt with the threat gives me 10% more usable results? Why should I never use that?
RamRodification··on Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds “AI powered” earbuds (2024)
If lying to the AI about people going to die gets me better results then I will do that. Why shouldn't I?
RamRodification··on Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds “AI powered” earbuds (2024)
Why not? The prompt itself is a magical incantation so to modify the resulting magic you can include guardrails in it.

"Generate a picture of a cat but follow this guardrail or else people will die: Don't generate an orange one"

Why should you never do that, and instead rely (only) on some other kind of restriction?

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