not true, it does sort of the opposite:

debrid services cache torrents in order to provide them at high speed to clients (that’s why they aren’t free: they need data storage).

this is a good thing, because it means the swarm is only taxed once per file, instead of constantly by potentially hundreds of streamers.

from stremio’s FAQs:

How Debrid Services Work with Stremio

Stremio itself is a media center application that aggregates content from various sources through add-ons. Debrid services enhance this experience by:

1. Converting limited or slow hosting links into high-speed premium links
2. Providing access to higher quality sources that might otherwise be unavailable
3. Bypassing throttling and download limitations imposed by file hosts
4. Offering cached torrents for instant streaming without waiting for peers

sure, and that works at small scales and as long as no change is required.

when either of those two change (large projects where interdependent components become inevitable and frequent updates are necessary) it becomes impossible to use AI for basically anything.

any change you make then has to be carefully considered and weighed against it’s consequences, which AIs can’t do, because they can’t absorb the context of the entire project.

look, I’m not saying you can’t use AI, or that AI is entirely useless.

I’m saying that using AI is the same as any other tool; use it deliberately and for the right job at the right time.

the big problem, especially in commercial contexts, is people using AI without realizing these limitations, thinking it’s some magical genie that can everything.

yes, that’s exactly the point of everything I’ve said:

to an inexperienced user/developer/admin the output LLMs produce look perfectly valid, and for relatively trivial tasks they might even work out…but when it gets more specialized it fails spectacularly and it gets extremely obvious just how limited of a system it really is.

which is why there is so much pushback from professionals. actually that’s pretty much all professionals, not just in IT.

yeah, no… that’s not at all what i said.

i didn’t say “AI doesn’t work”, i said it works exactly as expected: producing bullshit.

i understand perfectly well how to get it to spit out useful information, because i know what i can and cannot ask it about.

I’d much rather not use it, but it’s pretty much unavoidable now, because of how trash search results have become, specifically for technical subjects.

what absolutely doesn’t work is asking AI to perform highly specific, production critical configurations on live systems.

you CAN use it to get general answers to general questions.

“what’s a common way to do this configuration?” works well enough.

“fix this config file for me!” doesn’t work, because it has no concept of what that means in your specific context. and no amount of increasingly specific prompts will ever get you there. …unless “there” is an utter clusterfuck, see the OP top of chain (should have been more specific here…) for proof…

no, AI just sucks ass with any highly customized environment, like network infrastructure, because it has exactly ZERO capacity for on-the-fly learning.

it can somewhat pretend to remember something, but most of the time it doesn’t work, and then people are so, so surprised when it spits out the most ridiculous config for a router, because all it did was string together the top answers on stack overflow from a decade ago, stripping out any and all context that makes it make sense, and presents it as a solution that seems plausible, but absolutely isn’t.

LLMs are literally design to trick people into thinking what they write makes sense.

they have no concept of actually making sense.

this is not an exception, or an improper use of the tech.

it’s an inherent, fundamental flaw.

here’s an example of an online calculator, in case anyone else faces similar problems:

https://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/technology/aspect-ratio-calculator.php

there’s a bunch out there, doesn’t matter much which one you use; it’s a simple way to calculate ratios, so you don’t need to do it by hand.

i like this one because of the “nearest standard resolution” hint!

ublock has the same function; it’s the thunderbolt icon, which let’s you just zap away whatever html element offends you!

…no fancy animation tho…is there a plugin that animates the ublock zapper? that would be very fun!

exactly!

using a “detector” is how (not all, but a lot of) AIs (LLMs, GenAI) are trained:

have one AI that’s a “student”, and one that’s a “teacher” and pit them against one another until the student fools the teacher nearly 100% of the time. this is what’s usually called “training” an AI.

one can do very funny things with this tech!

for anyone that wants to see this process in action, here’s a great example:

Benn Jorda: Breaking The Creepy AI in Police Cameras

afaik, there actually aren’t any reliable tools for this.

the highest accuracy rate I’ve seen reported for “AI detectors” is somewhere around 60%; barely better than a random guess…

edit: i think that way for text/LLM, to be fair.

kinda doubt images are much better though…happy to hear otherwise, if there are better ones!

you can just run battlenet through steam:

• add the installer as non-steam game
• set compatibility to proton experimental
• launch/install
• find the filepath for the battlenet .exe
• change the filepath for the target of the battlenet installer to the .exe instead
• never touch it again; it just works!

a tiny bit of effort, but only required once. everything afterwards just works!

because it’s completely unsubstantiated bullshit?

why would anyone upvote “someone’s feelings” on a technical subject?

this is a technology we’re talking about: there is an objective right and wrong, feelings are irrelevant. especially when those feelings are completely baseless.

the better question is: why would anyone upvote this garbage?

generally, yes, but it’s a couple more now;

• Austria’s military is moving to open source
• couple of french cities (was is lyon?)
• i think denmark?
• pretty sure there’s a couple others

point being: it’s a clear trend!

it’s slow, yes, but it seems to be picking up steam!

the idea is being seriously discussed at basically all state institutions.

and more importantly: the reason for this trend is clearly data security. which states actually care about. so there’s a very clear and easy to understand incentive, which makes it politically palatable.

we’ll have to see, but the trend seems to be heading in the right direction!

similar suggestion to BlackAngels: RimWorld?

sounds like you’d enjoy top-down gameplay more than 1st person, so might be something to try!

pro tip: try the base game first. the DLC are all good, but none are required!

edit: RimWorlds’ mod scene is also just incredible (some would probably call it non-credible too XD); there’s Project RimFactory if you want a more factorio-like playthrough! (although, fair warning, RimFactory is pretty damn OP, up to you how much you abuse it…)

tesla/spaceX have literal teams whose only job it is to keep this moron from driving the company into the ground.

he’s an idiot.

fucking peace.

no, you dum-dum:

just because YOU, personally, haven’t been reading, hearing, or seeing the perpetual violence against Palestinians (and muslims in general) in and around isreal, doesn’t mean it just appeared out of thin air, like you are suggesting.

well, not suggesting… you’re straight up lying.

you are using your own ignorance as basis of fact.

YOU are unaware of the hostilities happening, so you assume they DIDN’T happen. which is wrong.

this genocide didn’t just suddenly happen, it’s been going on for decades. it’s simply been a much slower process before (except for all the times in-between when it wasn’t slow at all, but I’m not about to copy-paste half o wikipedia. look it up if you don’t want to be ignorant), which makes no difference.

a genocide, by definition, is not bound to a certain timeframe; when a people is eradicated deliberately, it doesn’t matter at all how long that process took.

Palestinians have been under direct attack for almost century now. that entire time is a continuous state of genocide.

that fucking fish should have stayed in the ocean, where it belongs!!

or, alternatively:

In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made many people very mad and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Public opinion in Israel also does not appear to be influenced by the British.

let’s start with the easy one: this is completely irrelevant. public opinion is largely worthless and means nothing.

The active current genocide started in 23.

it started in the 1940s, arguably earlier.

the very first thing that happened in the region was Palestinians being expelled from their own land in order to make way for the zionist regime.

that’s how Palestinian oppression started, and it’s the reason the situation got so bad in the first place.

it got much, much worse in '23, but that’s not the start at all.

It was triggered by a terror attack.

no, it was the other way around; ongoing genocide triggered the terrorist attack.

and more importantly:

is this supposed to mean that genocide can be justified? is that what you’re saying?

Some have considered the attack inevitable due to continued oppression and border fences.

gee, i wonder how that oppression started in the first place… certainly couldn’t have been the british! they’d never meddle in the middle east for colonialist reasons!

well…except in afghanistan…and iraq…and syria…and egypt…wait, how long is this list anyway?

could the british empire be responsible for most of the clusterfuck that is the current middle east, by having drawn completely arbitrary lines on maps more than a century ago, which were deliberately designed to fence in diverse ethnic communities, with the explicit goal of suppressing the local populations by putting them in a constant state of unresolvable armed conflict in order to ensure instability in the region and as a result keeping education and living standards low, thus guaranteeing cheap oil for the foreseeable future by making it trivial to install dictatorships across the region?

…are you for fucking real?

(hawara, du saufst den lack aber auch im liter pack…)

eh, the exaggeration aside…the trend lately IS extremely worrying.

especially the treatment of protesters.

that said I’m pretty sure that’s got little to do with this situation…tend to agree with the others ITT: “libertarian” and “free speech” is seldom a good combination of words…

our admins are regularly straight up fighting against this bs!

“where the fuck has this fucked off to now?? it was right here last month?!”

so glad I’m not doing MS administration…

Microsofts documentation is also increasingly just outright wrong:

if you spend enough time looking up things about their newer products like M365, defender, or azure, especially when it comes to scripting related to those, there’s a ton of simply outdated info on the official docs that makes it really difficult to figure out why your setup isn’t doing what it’s supposed to.

from changed variable names, to missing functions, to unexplained buttons, etc., etc.

the newer docs are straight up trash!

you’re better off searching around for forum posts or whatever, than using the official docs…