MarioMan
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Comment · 1 month ago
Maybe I’m missing something. I can’t imagine that paying a chauffeur can be cheaper than umbrella insurance.
Comment · 1 month ago
Several years ago, Paramount was handing out free monthly trial codes for Paramount Plus every month.
Then, some time in 2020, they just ”forgot” to cut off my access after the trial ended.
I had free Paramount Plus from then until 2025, when they merged with Skydance.
The free subscription expired almost immediately after the merger was announced.
It’s evident to me now that they did this to boost their active subscriber numbers. I’m sure a lot of people didn’t even realize this had happened to their accounts. And those that had weren’t about to complain about it too loudly.
Comment · 2 months ago
I really enjoy this engine. I’ve used it for personal projects, but it hasn’t been updated since Gemma 2. I suggest using Transformers.js instead these days.
Comment · 2 months ago
This is great. Having the option to choose whether or not to see AI content was the first thing I hoped they'd add a filter for when it was first introduced.
Just for kicks, I inverted the filter in a TamperMoneky script that only keeps the AI-generated content: https://gist.github.com/SMarioMan/32c959d79035cb421df1c69c06...
Comment · 2 months ago
In the same vein, last year I took on a good old fashioned optimization problem for Worlde. Given a guess list and answer list, find all of the “perfectly bad” Worlde games in the shortest time. This means never reusing letters or finding any of the letters in the word. I got it from over 35 hours down to a mere 20 seconds.
Results and code here: https://github.com/SMarioMan/worst-wordle
Comment · 3 months ago
I did the same thing with my netbook 4 years ago, but I went with Debian instead to make my life a bit easier. It was, at the time, one of a small number of distros that still officially supported x86 32-bit binaries.
The challenges came from tracking down working Wi-Fi drivers for the proprietary hardware and updating the BIOS, since the stock version has a bug where it emits lid close events that Windows XP ignores but Linux dutifully handles.
Comment · 3 months ago
Google Illuminate does this. I believe it was actually a precursor to Gemini Notebook. It uses a similar podcast generating model but tuned to keep things more technical and detailed.
Comment · 3 months ago
Cloudflare offers this for free as well.
Comment · 4 months ago
Reminds me of this monstrosity: https://youtube.com/shorts/YQ-6JTmF-Z4
Comment · 4 months ago
And that was only half the planned game until you bought Sonic & Knuckles with Lock-On Technology.
Comment · 4 months ago
There are lightweight YouTube embeds like https://github.com/paulirish/lite-youtube-embed.
It’s lauded for faster page loads, but it likely has good privacy implications too since it basically just loads a thumbnail unless you click on it.
Comment · 5 months ago
At least for now, YouTube honors the uploader’s label of whether or not the content was AI generated. Only when it’s left unset do they do any automatic labeling. And those labels can be overridden manually by the uploader if they get it wrong.
Comment · 6 months ago
This blog post is a great starting point: https://blog.chrislewis.au/the-unexpected-effectiveness-of-o...
Comment · 6 months ago
It looks like copying from EFB to XFB can do an RBG to YUV conversion automatically.
Comment · 6 months ago
> I don't want five different fibre lines going to every apartment building
It’s funny that you’d mention this. My apartment fiber has four lines going into my unit, all under AT&T service, apparently for redundancy. I only use one.