e0qdk

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[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 10 points 1 day ago

I just picked up Satisfactory on sale and will probably give it a try later this week.

[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

If I can't go on Amazon and buy a copy for sale at any price, I'm of the opinion that I'm justified in pirating it -- and I have put my money where my mouth is on that point.

Edit: to be clear, I'm talking about commercially produced films and tv shows; I'd look elsewhere for e.g. games

[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I think it's ethically justifiable to pirate media that has been abandoned by its creators; without such action, media would become lost.

Legally, it's not ok until it goes out of copyright, but if the company that has the rights to a work isn't even selling it, it'd be rather weird for them to bother wasting money pursuing a claim against you.

I'd rather like to see the laws changed so that what feels ethical and what is legal are in alignment with each other again, but I don't expect sanity on that front to show up during my lifetime...

[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 9 points 3 days ago

Could it have been a mistake and they were supposed to reveal an N for ING but didn't?

Guess assuming -ing in first wordPUTTING ON MY PANTS

[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Antennas on Misskey are a way to filter posts based on certain conditions. (e.g. include/exclude certain keywords, tags, etc.)

As I understand it, users can set up multiple antennas and tune them to select for messages they care about, and you get a timeline for each one.

[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 1 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I think the upvote/downvote system and karma systems popularized by reddit, etc. are largely failed attempts at mitigating the effects of the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.

If I were to set up a new social network today, I'd look towards antenna systems instead for inspiration on how to design it. That said, I haven't spent much time on Misskey and that kind of thing probably has its own issues that I don't know about.

[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 9 points 6 days ago

145F = ~62.78C

[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No. Asimov's laws were created as rules for making interesting fiction about robots -- instead of the crappy "monster goes on a rampage" style stories that were prevalent before that. The whole point of them is to be insufficient so that you have something to write a story about!

[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 2 points 1 week ago

I'm not sure if people burned out from over-saturation or got shouted out by the haters, but yeah, it definitely got quiet.

There's still a bunch of us with nuanced opinions about AI on here though (e.g. over in !localllama@sh.itjust.works) even if the haters are the loudest faction on Lemmy at large at the moment.

[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Oh hey. There's a name I haven't seen in a while. Welcome back!

[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 4 points 1 week ago

Or a strong odour break my sense of smell?

I've accidentally knocked out my sense of smell with a bathroom cleaner before. Not enough ventilation while I was scrubbing things, I guess. Came back later in the day, thankfully, but was quite disturbing. I don't recommend it.

Can a really strong flavour break my taste buds?

Not sure exactly about that, but there are compounds that will mess with your sense of taste significantly. e.g. there's a fruit that makes sour things taste sweet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synsepalum_dulcificum

[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Do you feel like trying to DIY something?

If so, like I said take a look at YOLO and other object detection models, or try using a small VLM like gemma-4-E2B-it-qat-q4_0-gguf -- which ought to be able to fit on your graphics card -- and pass it an image and a simple question like "Is there a person in this image? YES or NO. No extra text." when a simpler process like a motion detector light triggers.

If not, that's probably as far as I can help.

Either way, good luck!

 

I had some free time this weekend and I've spent some of it trying to learn Go since mlmym seems to be unmaintained and I'd like to try to fix some issues in it. I ran into a stumbling block that took a while to solve and which I had trouble finding relevant search results for. I've got it solved now, but felt like writing this up in case it helps anyone else out.

When running most go commands I tried (e.g. go mod init example/hello or go run hello.go or even something as seemingly innocuous as go doc cmd/compile when a go.mod file exists) the command would hang for a rather long time. In most cases, that was about 20~30 seconds, but in one case -- trying to get it to output the docs about the compile tool -- it took 1 minute and 15 seconds! This was on a relatively fresh Linux Mint install on old, but fairly decent hardware using golang-1.23 (installed from apt).

After the long wait, it would print out go: RLock go.mod: no locks available -- and might or might not do anything else depending on the command. (I did get documentation out after the 1min+ wait, for example.)

Now, there's no good reason I could think of why printing out some documentation or running Hello World should take that long, so I tried looking at what was going on with strace --relative-timestamps go run hello.go > trace.txt 2>&1 and found this in the output file:

0.000045 flock(3, LOCK_SH)         = -1 ENOLCK (No locks available)
25.059805 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=3691, tv_nsec=443533733}) = 0

It was hanging on flock for 25 seconds (before calling clock_gettime).

The directory I was running in was from an NFS mount which was using NFSv3 unintentionally. File locking does not work on NFSv3 out of the box. In my case, changing the configuration to allow it to use NFSv4 was the fix I needed. After making the change a clean Hello World build takes ~5 seconds -- and a fraction of a second with cache.

After solving it, I've found out that there are some issues related to this open already (with a different error message -- cmd/go: "RLock …: Function not implemented") and a reply on an old StackOverflow about a similiar issue from one of the developers encouraging people to file a new issue if they can't find a workaround (like I did). For future reference, those links are:

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