CoyoteFacts

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[–] CoyoteFacts@piefed.ca 10 points 3 weeks ago

I did skim through some similar discussion on the HN link, which you can read here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45999024

I honestly don't know or care enough to figure out how much exaggeration is taking place, but it seems like there's at least a possibility that this is a nothingburger from a powerless journalist that's being extrapolated like crazy. There might be a definite answer in that thread but I don't have the time to evaluate all angles of this incident right now.

[–] CoyoteFacts@piefed.ca 56 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Graphene (more specifically its founder) is always in a vicious cycle of claiming that everyone asking for proof of Graphene being "under attack" is in itself making an "attack". You can consider yourself Graphene's enemy for life for your transgression.

Watching these youtube links makes you an attacker also, so be careful: https://youtu.be/Dx7CZ-2Bajg https://youtu.be/4To-F6W1NT0

[–] CoyoteFacts@piefed.ca 21 points 3 weeks ago

I don't want to write up a whole paper at the moment but I'll note that you really shouldn't be trusting any cloud providers with your data, because you should always be fully encrypting your data before they get their hands on it. Plasma Vaults (if you use KDE) are one way to do this, or you can use something like Cryptomator, gocryptfs, etc. Basically how it works is that you store files encrypted in one directory (/home/me/Encrypted), then transparently unencrypt that data to another mountpoint for your regular usage (/home/me/Unencrypted). Modifications in the Unencrypted directory will automatically affect the Encrypted directory through the use of magic. The cloud provider will only sync the Encrypted directory, and without the key they know nearly nothing about what your data is.

Given this sort of workflow, you can store your data anywhere, as long as you have a nice (open-source) way of syncing to that provider that can't introduce any further vulnerability.

[–] CoyoteFacts@piefed.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

I'm not like a sponge connoisseur, but I've been using "O-Cedar Scrunge" sponges for about a year and they're pretty rugged. I have two sponges in rotation, and every time I do a dishwasher load I alternate them through it. They've never really fallen apart on me, but I think the green scratchy side gets a little less scratchy over time, and I just replace both of them every 2-3 months for good measure. I'm assuming that there's a scientific paper somewhere that says using sponges for that long will kill me or something, but I'm still alive so far so fingers crossed.

[–] CoyoteFacts@piefed.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

I'm curious to see how the price will be affected as consumer PCs get stronger every year. Will they update the Steam Machine every couple of years, or will they decrease the price? I have to assume they are targeting a neutral price because their primary goal is to assemble a linux box with as little margin as possible and put it in front of you for an actual fair price, but "fair price" is a moving target.

Personally, I'm all for getting what I pay for. People who sell to you at a loss are up to something.

[–] CoyoteFacts@piefed.ca 64 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I don't entirely mean to throw rocks, but there's something funny about them dragging their feet so long on supporting a linux version (8+ years) that by the time their personal breaking point with windows came, they discovered themselves on the other side of the issue with no one to blame but themselves. Maybe a parable.

[–] CoyoteFacts@piefed.ca 47 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Absolutely not trusting this. Uninstalling until we know more, and ideally just getting a different solution entirely. A new account tried to impersonate Catfriend1 directly at first, and then they switched to researchxxl when someone called it out (both are new accounts). Meanwhile the original Catfriend1 has provided no information about this, and we only have the new person's word as to what's going on. There's way too many red flags here.

[–] CoyoteFacts@piefed.ca 16 points 1 month ago

It's not only that 10% is wrong, it's knowing which 10% is wrong, which is more important than it seems at first glance. I feel strongly that AI is contributing to people's inability to really perceive reality. If you direct all your learning through a machine that lies 10% of the time, soon enough your entire world-view will be on shaky ground. How are you going to have a debate with someone when you don't know which parts of your knowledge are true? Will you automatically concede your knowledge to others, who may be more convincing and less careful about repeating what they've learned through AI?

I think all that AI really needs to do is translate natural language requests ("What factors led to WW2?") into normal destinations for further learning. Letting AI try to summarize those destinations seems like a bad idea (at least with where the technology is right now)

[–] CoyoteFacts@piefed.ca 5 points 1 month ago

Semi-related for people whose distros don't package deno, I installed deno in a distrobox and exported it with distrobox-export and yt-dlp picked it up just fine from my $PATH. Before I did so, running yt-dlp gave the following error:

WARNING: [youtube] No supported JavaScript runtime could be found. YouTube extraction without a JS runtime has been deprecated, and some formats may be missing. See  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/EJS  for details on installing one. To silence this warning, you can use  --extractor-args "youtube:player_client=default"  
[–] CoyoteFacts@piefed.ca 23 points 1 month ago

I just want to note that Jellyfin MPV Shim exists and can do most of this MPV stuff while still getting the benefits of Jellyfin. You're putting a lot of emphasis on Plex-specific limitations (which Jellyfin doesn't have obviously) and transcoding (which is a FEATURE to stopgap an improper media player setup, not a limitation of Jellyfin).

Pretty much every single "Pro" is not exclusive to pure MPV vs. Jellyfin MPV Shim, which mainly leaves you with the cons. Also as another commenter said, I set my Jellyfin up so that my friends and family can use it, and that's its primary value to me. I feel like a lot of this post should be re-oriented towards MPV as a great media player, not against Jellyfin as a media platform.

[–] CoyoteFacts@piefed.ca 39 points 1 month ago (8 children)

The price of the eco-friendly detergent they're advertising is way too high to justify (17x the cost of my store brand). It's cool to know that a more powerful powder is possible, though.

[–] CoyoteFacts@piefed.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can launch it fine:
GE-Proton10-21
WINEDLLOVERRIDES="wsock32=n,b" %command% -skip_intro -steamMM -NewCPU

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