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wjp3 commented on Japan Goes All In: Copyright Doesn't Apply to AI Training   biia.com/japan-goes-all-i... · Posted by u/ashvardanian
wjp3 · 2 years ago
What's the counter to this argument? "If you put something on the web, it's in the public domain. Free game."
wjp3 commented on What are your most used self-hosted applications?   noted.lol/what-are-your-m... · Posted by u/geeked
brimble · 3 years ago
Pihole. DNS-level ad-blocking for my network.

Jellyfin. Movies/TV/Music server with a variety of clients, including a built-in web client, but also AndroidTV/Shield, Roku, Kodi, and more. It's like having a personal Netflix.

Minecraft. The old Java kind. May be leaving for something open-source soon because MS has fucked up the account transitions so badly, and also make buying new copies bizarrely painful, error-prone, and time-consuming—like, I don't know how someone who's not a computer nerd can actually manage to buy and use it, now. It's really bad.

All in Docker on a used workstation, running... IDK, Debian, I think? It hardly matters, because Docker. I don't even mess with Systemd or whatever, I just let Docker figure out what should be started when based on what I set each container to do (restart-unless-stopped, I think? It seems to start them at boot and if they crash, which is all I need).

I hosted PHPNuke and PHPBB on Apache2 out of my basement for years so they'd be contenders for some kind of lifetime total-hours-running-the-service, but that was a long time ago.

wjp3 · 3 years ago
Chiming in here to concur with your points about MS screwing up how to buy Minecraft. It's an absolute mess.
wjp3 commented on Twitter is adding an edit button   theverge.com/2022/4/5/230... · Posted by u/ushakov
binarymax · 3 years ago
Infuriatingly they “announced” it on April 1st. Everyone thought it was a prank. And then even a product manager started another thread asking what people wanted and referenced the April 1st tweet so nobody could take him seriously.

Just an absolute clown show.

wjp3 · 3 years ago
Similar to the Amazon Dash buttons announcement. I still couldn't believe it was a real thing...
wjp3 commented on A 13-year-old used my artificial nose to diagnose pneumonia   blog.benjamin-cabe.com/20... · Posted by u/kartben_
bb123 · 4 years ago
Does anyone else approach these "teen invents x" or "wiz kid middle schooler discovers y" articles with extreme skepticism? About half the time the invention turns out to be bogus or trivial, and in the other half it comes to light the parents were behind it.
wjp3 · 4 years ago
I'm immediately reminded of the science fair projects in elementary school where it was clearly obvious that the parent did all of the work.
wjp3 commented on Saving the shuttle simulator–“It was an artifact that needed to be preserved”   arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/rbanffy
wjp3 · 4 years ago
Years ago I worked as a software tester in the Mission Control Center. This was in simpler times, before 9-11. On lunch breaks I would wander the campus and poke my head in areas to see what was up. Many times employees would give me an impromptu tour of the area. One of these times was this full-motion shuttle simulator. They were about to take it on a test run, and asked me if I wanted to go along for the ride. It was an amazing experience, and one of many fond memories of working there.
wjp3 commented on Tabletop Chocolate Factory   spectrum.ieee.org/tech-en... · Posted by u/mhb
wjp3 · 4 years ago
I don't understand the appeal of this. Chocolate profiles are mostly made in the roasting stage, which this doesn't do.

I briefly got into home roasting coffee, and quickly learned that commercially available coffee from boutique roasters was way better than I could do. I suspect this will be similar.

wjp3 commented on 20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes off at airports?   ocregister.com/2021/09/07... · Posted by u/lxm
wjp3 · 4 years ago
I always refer to it as "security Kabuki theatre"...
wjp3 commented on An Open Letter to Airbnb The pitchforks are coming   survivingtomorrow.org/an-... · Posted by u/paulpauper
wjp3 · 4 years ago
I stopped using Airbnb in 2015 after my account and card was used to rent a place in Guangzhou, China for a month. I live in America, and have never been (or planned) to travel to China.

Airbnb's response was okay, and implied this was a "common scam". After that, I bailed. Not staying on a platform that can't implement basic security (at the time) like 2FA.

Hearing about all of the other problems people are experiencing on Airbnb now makes me glad I stopped using Airbnb. I guess I got lucky with the customer support on my issue.

These companies that disrupt industries seem to all have a common arc to them. At some point, the benefit they provided stops, and they start causing more harm than good.

wjp3 commented on Nirvana sued by the man who appeared on Nevermind’s album cover as a baby   bbc.com/news/entertainmen... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
wjp3 · 4 years ago
Waiting for the Apple CSAM detection for the album art in 3...2...1...
wjp3 commented on Tesla is planning a “super long range” Model Y   thedriven.io/2021/08/19/t... · Posted by u/lxm
mdasen · 4 years ago
Maybe I'm weird, but I feel like range anxiety is overblown. Most people don't go that far in a day and while recharging isn't instant, it's getting quite fast. Back in the day, it was easy to be bored. That was so little to distract you while waiting. Now, I have a smartphone with me all the time. Even when I'm home, half the time I'm on my smartphone by choice. Ok, that's an exaggeration, but it's so much easier to wait half an hour. Get a drink and a snack, derp around on my phone, etc.

If I'm doing Boston -> DC via Tesla Model 3 Long Range, it'll add two stops for 20 minutes and 25 minutes. However, I'm going to have to stop for gas along the way at least once so the 45 minute penalty should maybe be a 30 minute penalty. Realistically, it isn't a bad thing to stop a couple times, get drinks/snacks, stretch my legs, etc. It feels like it's a 5% penalty which just doesn't seem significant for something people rarely do.

I think some of it is the psychology that a 20 minute stop feels like a real stop while a 5 minute stop doesn't feel like a real stop. Even if you spend 10 minutes in the convenience shop or get lunch, that's your "choice" rather than the car's need. A lot of gas stops are longer than 5 minutes on road trips.

I think people buy cars for things they almost never do - and have a weird hate of themselves if their car can't accommodate something. I had a friend whose car couldn't fit a piece of furniture and he had to pay $100 to have it delivered. He said that he hated himself for not buying the larger (and $5,000 more expensive) vehicle he was also considering the three times this had happened. In my mind, that's not something to regret. You've come out $4,700 ahead! Yes, sometimes your car won't accommodate everything and that's ok. Maybe your car will need 5% more time to do Boston to DC, but that's not a big deal in your life.

wjp3 · 4 years ago
I bought a Model Y last year, in spite of my range anxiety. My first road trip alleviated that concern for me. Range anxiety is real, though. While I think the need for a "super long range" model isn't necessarily needed, it can go a long way to solving the short-term dilemma in consumer mindsets.

u/wjp3

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