hperrin

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Nintendo Switch Console & Accessory Prices Are Going Up In The US in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 0 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Refurbished.

Nintendo Switch Console & Accessory Prices Are Going Up In The US in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 0 points 18 hours ago

Ah, ok. Well then this is probably moot anyway. There’s a huge second hand market for the Switch 1.

Nintendo Switch Console & Accessory Prices Are Going Up In The US in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca -1 points 18 hours ago (7 children)

We’re talking about the Switch 2.

Nintendo Switch Console & Accessory Prices Are Going Up In The US in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 points 20 hours ago (9 children)

Sure, the deck can go up in price, but it would have to go up a lot to even reach the Switch’s current price. The Switch was already way more than I’d be willing to pay to get locked into Nintendo’s ecosystem.

Nintendo Switch Console & Accessory Prices Are Going Up In The US in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 41 points 22 hours ago (15 children)

Oh no. I’ll have to continue to use my Steam Deck even harder now.

Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 37 points 23 hours ago

That’s because it’s absolute shit.

*Permanently Deleted* in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago

My sister never wanted kids until she was about 35. So, it can happen.

But vasectomies are often reversible, so if you really want it, I don’t think you should let that idea stop you.

You can (probably should) remove personal information from a photo before uploading it to social media in c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world
[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Sure, but let’s say you don’t allow Facebook to track your location. Well, as soon as you upload a photo with location exif data, they know it anyway.

Can any scientists confirm this important fact? in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 49 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I’m pretty sure my cat understands that people are not cats. She hisses at any other cat she sees, but has no problem with people.

Naah JS is fine, just use TypeScript! in c/programming@beehaw.org
[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

It’s refreshing to have a nice reply online! Thank you, too. :)

Stop promising "unlimited", when you mean "until we change our minds" in c/hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

Simple solution: write your own damn code.

Naah JS is fine, just use TypeScript! in c/programming@beehaw.org
[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

To add to my own comment, I want to remind you that JavaScript was designed to power websites, and having an entire website break because an array didn’t have anything in it yet is probably worse than the alternative.

A lot of JS’ decisions actually make sense when you understand its history. That doesn’t mean it’s a great language, but it’s undeniably good at fulfilling its original purpose, making websites interactive in myriad different browser implementations.

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Stream Overlay on Flathub (flathub.org)
 

My first app on Flathub: Stream Overlay!

If you stream games on Linux, this can help you by showing your chat and alerts on your screen on top of your game.

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Stream Overlay for streaming games on Linux (flathub.org)
 

This is my first application on Flathub! If you’re a game streamer, this can help by having your Twitch chat and alerts appear on your screen, above your game.

It’s a FOSS application, available here on GitHub:

https://github.com/hperrin/stream-overlay

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Lies, Damned Lies, and LLMs: AI is a Con (sciactive.com)
 

A fully automated, on demand, personalized con man, ready to lie to you about any topic you want doesn’t really seem like an ideal product. I don’t think that’s what the developers of these LLMs set out to make when they created them either. However, I’ve seen this behavior to a certain extent in every LLM I’ve interacted with. One of my favorite examples was a particularly small-parameter version of Llama (I believe it was Llama-3.1-8B) confidently insisting to me that Walt Disney invented the Matterhorn (like, the actual mountain) for Disneyland. Now, this is something along the lines of what people have been calling “hallucinations” in LLMs, but the fact that it would not admit that it was wrong when confronted and used confident language to try to convince me that it was right, is what pushes that particular case across the boundary to what I would call “con-behavior”. Assertiveness is not always a property of this behavior, though. Lately, OpenAI (and I’m sure other developers) have been training their LLMs to be more “agreeable” and to acquiesce to the user more often. This doesn’t eliminate this con-behavior, though. I’d like to show you another example of this con-behavior that is much more problematic.

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Lies, Damned Lies, and LLMs: AI is a Con (sciactive.com)
 

A fully automated, on demand, personalized con man, ready to lie to you about any topic you want doesn’t really seem like an ideal product. I don’t think that’s what the developers of these LLMs set out to make when they created them either. However, I’ve seen this behavior to a certain extent in every LLM I’ve interacted with. One of my favorite examples was a particularly small-parameter version of Llama (I believe it was Llama-3.1-8B) confidently insisting to me that Walt Disney invented the Matterhorn (like, the actual mountain) for Disneyland. Now, this is something along the lines of what people have been calling “hallucinations” in LLMs, but the fact that it would not admit that it was wrong when confronted and used confident language to try to convince me that it was right, is what pushes that particular case across the boundary to what I would call “con-behavior”. Assertiveness is not always a property of this behavior, though. Lately, OpenAI (and I’m sure other developers) have been training their LLMs to be more “agreeable” and to acquiesce to the user more often. This doesn’t eliminate this con-behavior, though. I’d like to show you another example of this con-behavior that is much more problematic.

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Request for desired features on a self hosted ereader app. (lemmy.ca)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/43297441

I just started working on a self hosted Android & iOS ereader app. I’d like to know what features you would like to see if you use this kind of app.

Current Planned Features

  • Support for EPUB, TXT, and HTML ebooks.
  • Syncing over WebDAV. (Bring your own server. I’m not hosting people’s pirated libraries.)
  • Multiple libraries (a WebDAV server is a library), and multiple users per library.
  • Current progress from offline reading will get synced when back online.
  • Dark mode.
  • Custom fonts and themes.
  • Text to speech.
  • Keep awake.
  • Orientation lock.
  • Open source. (GPL license)
  • Native apps using React Native.
  • Animations can be turned completely off.
  • Really good e-ink screen support.
  • Tablet and phone sized device support.

Background

I use a Boox Palma, but sometimes I don’t have it with me, and I’d like to read on my iPhone.

With the current ereaders I know of, there’s always some downside. Syncing costs money, rendering is janky, page turn animations can’t be disabled, themes cost money (really???), no cross platform support, etc.

I want to learn how to build native apps with React Native, so I’m using this as a learning project. I’m not trying to make money on it, so it’ll be open source, and you have to have your own WebDAV server with all your ebooks on it to sync.

Non-Planned Features

Some things I just can’t do or won’t help me learn, so I’m not going to do them.

  • PDF support. (Maybe in the future, but not the initial version.)
  • Web app. (I don’t want to host it.)
  • Kindle app. (React Native doesn’t support them.)
  • Syncing over anything but WebDAV. (I’ll be using WebDAV properties, and I’m not interested in doing any other providers.)

So I’d like to know, what are some features you would like to see, and what are the pain points you’ve experienced with your current ereader apps?

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Request for desired features on a self hosted ereader app. (lemmy.ca)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/43297441

I just started working on a self hosted Android & iOS ereader app. I’d like to know what features you would like to see if you use this kind of app.

Current Planned Features

  • Support for EPUB, TXT, and HTML ebooks.
  • Syncing over WebDAV. (Bring your own server. I’m not hosting people’s pirated libraries.)
  • Multiple libraries (a WebDAV server is a library), and multiple users per library.
  • Current progress from offline reading will get synced when back online.
  • Dark mode.
  • Custom fonts and themes.
  • Text to speech.
  • Keep awake.
  • Orientation lock.
  • Open source. (GPL license)
  • Native apps using React Native.
  • Animations can be turned completely off.
  • Really good e-ink screen support.
  • Tablet and phone sized device support.

Background

I use a Boox Palma, but sometimes I don’t have it with me, and I’d like to read on my iPhone.

With the current ereaders I know of, there’s always some downside. Syncing costs money, rendering is janky, page turn animations can’t be disabled, themes cost money (really???), no cross platform support, etc.

I want to learn how to build native apps with React Native, so I’m using this as a learning project. I’m not trying to make money on it, so it’ll be open source, and you have to have your own WebDAV server with all your ebooks on it to sync.

Non-Planned Features

Some things I just can’t do or won’t help me learn, so I’m not going to do them.

  • PDF support. (Maybe in the future, but not the initial version.)
  • Web app. (I don’t want to host it.)
  • Kindle app. (React Native doesn’t support them.)
  • Syncing over anything but WebDAV. (I’ll be using WebDAV properties, and I’m not interested in doing any other providers.)

So I’d like to know, what are some features you would like to see, and what are the pain points you’ve experienced with your current ereader apps?

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