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Topgamer7··on Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents
Whenever someone brings up "AI", I tell them AI is not real AI. Machine learning is a more apt buzzword.

And real AI is probably like fusion. Its always 10 years away.

Topgamer7··on Why the end of support for Windows 10 is uniquely troubling
I haven't run windows in half a decade at this point.

I had Win11 running in a vm, and just the amount of ads it would show in the task bar or notifications at idle leaves me flabbergasted.

Topgamer7··on Ton Roosendaal to step down as Blender chairman and CEO
I remember when the domain started redirecting to blenderartists.org.

I used to enjoy doing the speed modelling challenges :)

Topgamer7··on Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5B
Y'all are crazy. What is even the possible value in this?
Topgamer7··on Critical Program Reading (1975) [video]
I'm pretty sure you could go back to scrolls from Pompeii and find someone complaining about a memo or invoice being incomprehensible.
Topgamer7··on Lynx Browser: The Land That Time Revived (2022)
Back when I was 12 (2005 or so), I was learning blender 2.38 or so. And all learning back then was webpages with screenshots.

I was at a cabin with dial up, just being able to disable images and selectively right click and click load image was a life saver back in the day.

It's a shame modern browsers don't really support low bandwidth needs at all.

Topgamer7··on Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers
Don't hijack the back button...
Topgamer7··on Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead
I understand the challenges he's facing. But I think he put a bit too much of himself into the project. So everything is personal. When someone asks for functionality "why no thund3rb01t OmG" you should be able to say without taking it personally "driver will take time or a volunteer".

> I miss having free time where I can relax and not worry about the features we haven’t shipped yet. I miss making music. I miss attending jam sessions. I miss going out for dinner with my friends and family and not having to worry about how much we haven’t upstreamed. I miss being able to sit down and play a game or watch a movie without feeling guilty.

Honestly I think working like 10+ hour days and not doing other things that are less stressful and enjoyable (people being their biggest stressor in this regard).

They likely have PTSD at this point.

Whatever you need Marcan. I hope you find it. I'm rooting for your health and happiness.

Topgamer7··on Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel
I always enjoyed watching Marcan's streams. But I couldn't do Lina's, only because the high pitched voice changing was grating.
Topgamer7··on Kids can't use computers and this is why it should worry you (2013)
Without evidence, this argument just measures population growth.
Topgamer7··on BlackSheep: Fast ASGI web framework for Python
Well yeah, and there is no support. I've had this issue open for months:

https://github.com/Neoteroi/essentials-openapi/issues/47

Topgamer7··on NYC wants you to stop taking traffic cam selfies, but here's how to do it anyway
How the PCMag has fallen.
Topgamer7··on My second year without a job
For the author, you probably have IBS.

I have similar symptoms, and basically I can't eat anything with Peppers or Chilies. The whole fruiting family. So no paprika. You would be absolutely floored to find out how many things paprika is in. Basically every flavour of chip you like. Curries often have them too.

Topgamer7··on Ask HN: What's the one feature you'd want in a GitHub productivity tool?
I wish gitlens was in the GitHub.dev environment. I use it's like blame all the time!
Topgamer7··on Create block devices on your computer backed by Redstone Memory
I watched that video a few days ago. It was wild. The ping backed memory storage is great .

That man baffles me.

He spent 16 years running every street in Philadelphia, starting and ending from home.

Topgamer7··on Developing with Docker
At least for python, I typically just add another RUN statement instead of changing a file used in a layer up the layer stack. That way the change is fast.

Then when I need to commit, I'll update the requirements file or whatever would cause all the layers to rebuild. And CI can rebuild the whole thing while I move to something else.

It is a bit of a pain, but the other benefits of containers are probably worth the trade off.

Topgamer7··on Kagi Update: AI Image Filter for Search Results
I'm a subscriber. But I don't feel like creating a signup for kagifeedback.

https://kagi.com/images?q=https%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Fp...

Lets use this as an example. I would personally like to have a list of exact results. Separately - a list of similar images would maybe be nice. But tbh, 99.99% of the time with reverse image search, I am trying to play detective, not find similar images. I am usually looking to see the first, original source of something. Or maybe other places I can find this image.

I will point out that detective stuff like this is crucial to try to prevent being catfished, or phished. I am not ignorant that it is also a concern for those who don't want to be found, for privacy or safety reasons; however some threat actor could just find a less public reverse image search I'm sure.

Topgamer7··on Some Automattic employees accept severance package offer
I think these days, the average WordPress site runner is trying to find a cheap/free. Non-technical solution.

I help out with a sports league who run a couple wordpress sites.

- One, its totally the wrong CMS for how they use it.

- Two, they have almost no ability to diagnose and debug issues themselves. Honestly 80% of the issues that get raised to me are even just solved by clicking "keep plugin automatically updated"

They really just want a CMS that allows them to share announcements, post schedules and where to show up to play.

But it gets the job done, for cheap, and there is a decent community on plugins and themes.

Wordpress was originally popular because of its openness and community right? I wonder if that's still the platform it is.

Topgamer7··on Fixing an Elgato HD60 S HDMI capture device with the help of Ghidra
What a well written reverse engineering project :)
Topgamer7··on Open Source security camera on Raspberry Pi
Is not all tech basically rube goldbergy XD
Topgamer7··on "Firefox added [ad tracking] and has already turned it on without asking you"
Unfortunately about config no longer exists for mobile devices
Topgamer7··on Tech CEOs are hot now, so workers are hiring $500-an-hour fashion consultants
And the "fashion glow up" of zuck pictures are just a shitty picture pointing at his chin from below, vs a side profile picture.
Topgamer7··on New branding, same scanning: Upload moderation undermines end-to-end encryption [pdf]
How is this relevant?
Topgamer7··on FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations
I don't want to pay for a subscription for software I use thrice a year. I was looking forward to having Affinity's suite be the replacement, where I could buy it, and use it.

However I don't want to support another company that is inevitably going to go subscription. Since they've been bought by canva, it's just a matter of time.

I even went so far as to get Affinity Photo being able to start on Wine. But lost interest since their acquisition.

(I'm sure people will question why I don't just use inkscape, krita, or gimp. And its because all of them have a subpar vector experience IMO)

Topgamer7··on Fixing a knockoff Altera USB Blaster that never worked
> Not bad for a nights work

Jeez, it took me like a week just to program a usb hwmon temperature device for Linux

Topgamer7··on PCsensor USB Thermometer hwmon driver
I wrote my first linux kernel module! This is a fairly popular, cheap linux usb thermometer.

But it didn't have a kernel driver to support reading temp from hwmon on linux.

Which I wanted to use fancontrol with it.

Topgamer7··on The Time I Lied to the CTO and Saved the Day
Honestly if you added just a tad bit of noise. You probably wouldn't notice.
Topgamer7··on How the Food Industry Pays Influencers to Shill Blueberries, Butter, and More
Not even just big berry is shilling. Look at this guy shill his little bush
Topgamer7··on Hacked Nvidia 4090 GPU driver to enable P2P
He stepped down from it. https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2022/10/29/the-...
Topgamer7··on Show HN: CompressX, my FFmpeg wrapper for macOS
He's commenting on the spirit of software released under permissive licenses like GPL.

By selling software built on the backs of free developers, you're effectively profiting off of a significant amount of their work.

I hope you donate a nice chunk of money to ffmpeg. https://ffmpeg.org/donations.html

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