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arisotura.bsky.social
"I don't care about cookies" is what I use for the stupid banners

I also use DarkReader but that's unrelated
arisotura.bsky.social
thinking back on µblock and the other extension I have that gets rid of cookie banners/popovers

I want an extension that recognizes "subscribe to my newsletter" popovers and feeds the webmaster's email address into them in the background

or whatever garbage as long as it pollutes their database
arisotura.bsky.social
zapper mode is able to un-disable scroll, but you need to manually zap the shitty widgets every time

we'd need a "best of both worlds" thing
arisotura.bsky.social
this this this this

it's priceless to be able to adblock every stupid widget. I wish it could also un-disable scroll (for stuff like SUBSCRIBE!!!! popovers that inevitably disable scroll).
aki.lethalbit.net
I think more people should use ad blockers, not just for anti-tracking, but using the "block element" feature on websites to remove annoying garbage is a must.

Like, just shoot the AI overview in google, send it to the shadow realm, you never have to see it again.

Also DNS sinkholing, do that too,
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pookleblinky.bsky.social
The question that'll really bake the noodle is: would these miserable assholes be able to perceive how shitty their genAI stuff if they weren't using it?
edzitron.com
You're so close
r/ChatGPTPro 
u/vurto • 28d
If ChatGPT is not consistently dependable, how are we suppose to use it for actual work?
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It's behavior and results can randomly change due to some OpenAl tweaking that's opaque.
On some days it can't even keep track of a fresh chat, it can't do calculations, it can't sort through a chat to extract relevant information, and when it's suppose to refer to source material in a PDF, it doesn't.
All because OpenAl trained it for fluency and basically to simulate whatever it can for user satisfaction.
I can use it for general chats, philosophical stuff, therapy, but nothing serious. I'm pro Al, but I approach it with skepticism knowing it's undependable (as I do with anything I read).
And prompts can be interpreted/executed differently across users' own interaction with their Als so it's not truly scalable.
How does the business world / leaders expect staff to adopt Al if it's not consistently dependable? It doesn't even calculate like a calculator. If the internet start claiming 2+2=5, that's what it'll answer with.
I'd use it for hobbies and pet projects but I can't imagine using it for anything "mission critical".
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robotwig.com
Every photo I take is done practically with very little digital work, using household items to create special effects like cotton wool for fire & foil for water. Each set is meticulously set up for just the one scene then dismantled so I can set up another scene.

Thanks for helping me keep going.
arisotura.bsky.social
l'épouse de François Hommeril devrait s'appeler Femmeril
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ninimacbright.bsky.social
J'ai étudié le nombre de jours passés à Matignon par tous les Premiers Ministres de Macron, et je peux vous affirmer que le prochain gouvernement durera très exactement 2 jours, 11 heures et 27 minutes
Graphique représentant le nombre de jours passés à Matignon par les Premiers Ministres de Macron
arisotura.bsky.social
France is very good at not having a government these days
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mariobrothblog.bsky.social
In the Super Mario Galaxy games, the staff credits text is always loaded into RAM despite not being needed until the ending. While horribly inefficient, this is inadvertently heartwarming as the games appear to honor their creators by keeping them in memory at all times.
arisotura.bsky.social
my perception of time is: "now" and "not now"

this morning was aeons ago, but also just yesterday I was in school
arisotura.bsky.social
hot take: the stock market is a gigantic scheme of financial self-masturbation that doesn't represent anything meaningful
internethippo.bsky.social
The more you learn about how things work in the world the more you feel like you must be missing something because it can't possibly be that stupid. Oh so all we need to avoid an economic crash is for the stock market to go up forever? And a third of the market is magic beans? I see,
arisotura.bsky.social
I realize the recording doesn't do it justice. the radio's sound was better irl
arisotura.bsky.social
that's purely the electrical stuff, doesn't count stuff like redoing the tuning strings, cleaning and repairing the case, ...
arisotura.bsky.social
and it works really well, too

all this with
* WD-40/contact cleaner
* new capacitors (paper and electrolytic)
* replaced a burnt resistor
* the right tubes (2 of them were the wrong type, 1 not quite right)

not bad for something that was a wreck. shows it was built to last.
arisotura.bsky.social
vintage radio update: it lives!

and I mean, it's actually receiving radio stations

guess having the right tubes helps
arisotura.bsky.social
received my order today, and everything is fine

my suspicion was confirmed: the seller sent this as part of a batch of orders and gave me the wrong tracking number. the right one was only two letters off.
arisotura.bsky.social
sent Wed, tracking says it arrived Sat 8:48, nothing in mailbox

I think the seller provided the wrong tracking number (mail man doesn't come this early here)

but this is concerning
arisotura.bsky.social
hopefully gonna receive proper replacements soon. I'm excited
arisotura.bsky.social
it's even more fun when two CPUs are involved

that's what happens with the DSi sound app for example - race condition during init, and it involves the order in which the ARM7 handles IPC requests
arisotura.bsky.social
I don't know the specifics (whether this RAM has two ports or not) but that'd make sense
arisotura.bsky.social
that's also why we run into all those timing issues

shoddy code with race conditions would get caught and fixed on PC, but on those platforms, if it runs, it runs... and so they ship code that works "by chance"

but it can be a headache to perfectly replicate the original timings that lead to this
arisotura.bsky.social
it'd be fun, but I don't think it's possible, they got their own bus

the only part that gets shared between the two is main RAM (and even then, they can't access it at the same time, there's an arbiter for this)
arisotura.bsky.social
the downside is that trying to write to the GX FIFO while it's full will stall the bus until the FIFO is no longer full.
arisotura.bsky.social
fun related fact: some games replicate GX FIFO DMA in software, with a different block size, and their own FIFO IRQ wait.

SM64DS does that too, but it omits the IRQ wait entirely! and never checks the FIFO status either. so in practice it's just blindly blasting shit at the FIFO.
arisotura.bsky.social
also of course there's the execution time for GX commands. the GPU is able to parallelize some commands, so some orders are faster than others...

there's a 'GX FIFO' mode for DMA, that operates as to avoid filling the FIFO too much.