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snowram··on What happens in the brain while daydreaming?
Same thing happens to me. I swear that I have been in the same imaginary train station at least a dozen of times and in various scenarios. I wish it would have been a cooler place but I often take the train in my life, so there am I. It got even sillier when I got a short phase of lucid dreaming just because I learned over time that this place is in my dreams.
snowram··on Windows users report appearance of unwanted HP app
It is more insidious than that, as those programs are bundled alongside the driver in Windows Update.
snowram··on YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox
The UBo team commented on the Reddit thread that they were looking into it. So it may have already been fixed.
snowram··on DSLinux – Linux for the Nintendo DS
Actually, someone made a working DSi mode WiFi driver some months ago. It is even used in a DSi compatible fork of ftpd. Very handy when transferring files on the SD card of a hacked DSi since it has WPA2 support unlike DS mode which is stuck with WEP.

https://github.com/devkitPro/dswifi/issues/4#issuecomment-89...

https://github.com/shinyquagsire23/dsiwifi

https://github.com/mtheall/ftpd/compare/master...shinyquagsi...

snowram··on Mistral 7B
7B models are small enough to be usable on a smartphone, so a local handheld assistant sounds like a use case.
snowram··on The Cutting Room Floor
Nintendo is actually thinking about the future by teaching children how to remember an IPv6 address, how considerate of them!
snowram··on Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
Funny that you mention this game. bg3.wiki, the community wiki had a lot of troubles with SEO. It got ignored or pushed down in the search results for a very long time, while the awful Fextralife wiki that includes a Twitch view botting iframe on every pages was always first.
snowram··on AWS IPv4 Estate Now Worth $4.5B
I don't know a single gamer who rented a domain for private use. In fact, I would argue than the hassle of setting one up is the reason why Hamachi got popular back then. You don't have to bother with knowing any technical stuff, just download a software, share a code and play.
snowram··on Quiet – Encrypted P2P team chat with no servers, just Tor
A chat platform with only textual chat and file sharing isn't an alternative to Discord nor Slack. It is barely a slightly better version of IRC. Unfortunately many messaging softwares seem to not understand what feature parity is.
snowram··on LibreWolf – Custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom
A custom user.js will do the job
snowram··on Linux 6.5 Last Minute Fixes a Performance Regression, 34% Drop in a Benchmark
I have been running Manjaro for years and it has been a smooth experience. If I remember correctly, they mistakenly let some certificate expire and DDOS the AUR once, can't say this had impacted me. Unfortunately, distro tribalism is a real thing. Some people are very eager to trash other distros, I would say this hurts Linux and how the general public percieve it in the end.
snowram··on Chiptune.app
May I recommand to you the High Voltage Sid Collection? It is a collection of curated SID songs in a neat package, and it is updated regularly! https://www.hvsc.c64.org/
snowram··on Keygen Library Player (4504 tracks)
Chiptune does have its subgenres. Keygen chiptune usually have a very distinct style with a lot of fast arpeggios and mainly pulse waves instruments with no attack or delay.
snowram··on Manjaro is a free and open source Linux operating system that emphasizes privacy
I am tired of seeing this website linked everywhere. People are posting it like a Pavlovian reflex any time Manjaro is mentioned in order to cancel the distribution, even if the criticism is very mild in my eyes. It is merely fuel for the distro war, which is a big deterrent for newcomers.
snowram··on Notes on rarely-seen game mechanics
Pointless rambling but I am tired of Kojima being titled as the sole creator every time he is involved in a game. This cult of personality is silly.
snowram··on How to Entertain with Your Pocket Calculator (1975)
351483773 was also fairly popular for reasons I wont disclose here...
snowram··on Mathematicians discover shape that can tile a wall and never repeat
Sounds like the start of BLIT by David Langford.
snowram··on ‘It took over my life ’ How one man made his dream 90s video game on his own
As much as I don't want to admit it : flappy bird
snowram··on MusicLM: Generating music from text
Sorry for the late reply, I would recommand Famitracker for begginers as it is the most user friendly out there. For a modern tracker try Renoise, it is basically your every day DAW in tracker form.
snowram··on MusicLM: Generating music from text
Knowing Google, they will somehow never released it by invoking a "think of the children", like every single one of their ML papers.
snowram··on MusicLM: Generating music from text
You can absolutely "overpaint" sound, as sound can indeed be represented as an image and be extended in frequency of in time. In fact this is exactly what Riffusion is doing.
snowram··on MusicLM: Generating music from text
May I recommend to learn how to use a tracker software? It is very fun to play with!
snowram··on Bunny AI
Machine learning has been used for cancer imaging and geospatial detection for some years now. You can't blame the internet to hype the funs and lucratives parts of IAs first.
snowram··on Amazon Ring cameras used in nationwide ‘swatting’ spree, US Justice Dept. says
Yes they are, and they are mostly in the USA with 1.2 civilian firearms per civilian.
snowram··on Dwarf Fortress’ graphical upgrade provides a new way into a wildly wonky game
A fortress with a drawbridge in a peaceful biome guarantees you an easier time. With time, you'll learn that DF isn't meant to be a balanced game and that you can use that at your advantage.
snowram··on Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT
Machines have been able to pass the Turing test for decades, it isn't a high bar to pass nowadays.
snowram··on Stable Diffusion 2.0
12GiB VRAM cards are common places nowadays. A RTX3060 is around ~450$ and available to everyone.
snowram··on 'It's so liberating': The people quitting social media
It would make a nice Onion article : "I freed myself from social networks" says man on Twitter.
snowram··on Cairo: Alternative Windows Desktop
Like the distributed block storage solution for Kubernetes?
snowram··on Life is not short
I played a lot of Rocksmith and it helped me a lot to play the guitar. I know personally some people who went from couch potatoes to mildly active thanks to Ring Fit. I met dozens of now long time friends online because we share this common interest in video games. I think you may have a bias against this media.
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