pixxelkick

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[–] pixxelkick@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

As a ferret owner who has witnessed many a weasel war dance, my running theory us that it's actually a trick to cloak their smell.

A large amount of war dancing involves them rolling around on the ground, as if to rub as much of their body and fur into the ground as they can.

If they did that out in the wild, it's easy to see how this would potentially temporarily cloak their smell in dust and dirt and, right before they go after their prey. It also would probably kick up a bunch of dust into the wind too, which could further mask their approach.

A lot of weasel small prey targets primarily use smell as an early detection. If the weasel has effectively cloaked themselves, it could get them an extra second or two of closing the gap before their prey notices them, which could be a big part of why they're just so dang good at hunting.

Ferrets are, in fact, such effective hunters, the British government many centuries ago put restrictions on Ferreting (the usage of ferrets to hunt with) cuz it was so efficient it was causing depopulation problems.

[–] pixxelkick@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I use Hugo, it's not super complicated.

You basically just define templates in pseudo html for common content (header, nav panel, footer, etc), and then you write your articles in markdown and Hugo combines the two and outputs actual html files.

You also have a content folder for js, css, and images which get output as is.

That's about all there is to it, it's a pretty minimalist static site generator.

Hosting wise you can just put it on github pages for free.

[–] pixxelkick@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Well yeah, I'd hope so, that's the entire point.

Catcha's data collection always was with the intent for training ai on these skills. That's "the point" of them.

It's reasonable to expect that the older version of captchas can now be beaten by modern ai, because they're often literally trained on that exact data to beat it.

Captcha effectively is free to use on websites as a tool because the data collection is the "payment", they then license that data out to people like OpenAI to train with for stuff like image recognition.

It's why ai is progressing so fast, captchas are one of humanity's long term collected data silos that are very full now.

We are going to have to keep progressing the complexity of catches as it will be the only way to catch modern AIs, and in turn it will collect more data to improve it.

[–] pixxelkick@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Not quite.

It's mostly wisdom of the crowd, as it always has been.

As long as you mostly click the same squares most other people click, you pass.

You often at random get 2-3 images because 2 of them are actual checks, but the third is a new image that you auto pass and they're using it to gather data on what the average clicks are on it.

[–] pixxelkick@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Because having people download static map data for the entire planet just to play a game is untenable.

You shouldn't have to download the entire planet though.

The game 100% should support installing local specific areas you wanna fly around, that anyone could then keep a copy of.

If a user wanted to cache an entire 8 TB of the entire world on a drive, they should be able to just do that (and thus have forever support without worrying about internet services staying online)

At least, as a snapshot of what the world looked like in 2024.

I don't see why users shouldn't have the option to locally HD save the data if they want to, to avoid maxing out their internet bandwidth in one sitting.

[–] pixxelkick@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

"Move Fast and Break Things" is Zuckerberg/Facebook motto, not Musk, just to note.

[–] pixxelkick@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Dunno why ppl are down voting you, this is 100% the way.

Architecture as code is amazing, being able to completely wipe your server, re-install fresh, and turn it on and it goes right back to how it was is awesome.

GitOps version controlled architecture is easy to maintain, easy to rollback, and easy to modify.

I use k8s for my entire homelab, it has some initial learning curve but once you "get it" and have working configs on github, it becomes so trivial to add more stuff to it, scale it up, etc.

[–] pixxelkick@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

They aren't getting rid of chromecast, the title is clickbait.

[–] pixxelkick@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

There are 2 CCwGTV models, only 1 of then is being discontinued.

The other one sounds like it'll keep being sold.

But also you can always just buy a chromecast, just cuz they aren't being actively produced doesn't mean you can't find em online

[–] pixxelkick@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

I have no idea what people are fucking up tbh.

It's 2 button clicks to cast stuff, I just went and sanity checked.

The internet is full of disinformation and idiots though so I usually just assume people are the issue, when I have the same hardware and zero issues.

I don't think chromecasts have even gotten any kind of major change updates in ages so it's bizarre for it to change behavior.

I'm gonna just keep going with "people are dumb" until someone posts some concrete example (IE an actual video) of wtf their issue is.

The chromecast is designed so simply though that I can't imagine wtf people are fucking up.

[–] pixxelkick@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

I'll just have to respectfully disagree in experience.

I have multiple gens of chromecasts and haven't seen any degradation in performance. They work pretty much the same.

I have no idea wtf is going on with your units.

[–] pixxelkick@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I wrote it up elsewhere, but I don't mind the price point.

The built in ethernet port covers a lot of that.

A solid quality ethernet dongle is gonna be $25, so now that's $75 for the 4k CCwGTV + ethernet.

So you're paying $25 extra for the better form factor (2 chained dongles look so bad), the extra ram, better processor, etc

For some folks that might not matter, but I use Steam Link on my CCwGTV and those specs will likely make a tangible boost in gaming performance for quality, frame rate, latency, input lag, etc.

So in my demographic of people gaming with em, I 100% expect it'll be a popular upgrade.

The ethernet part is pretty big, overall. Don't overbook that.

 

Im looking for some form of self hosted application, ideally dockerized(able), that can connect to and manage an existing database (Im not picky on the DB type, Postgres prolly best though).

However Id like if it manages it via a nice well designed ERD. The closest I have found so far is PgAdmin but unfortunately it's ERD leaves a lot to be desired. It's kinda clunky, and it cant "diff" against your existing database to produce a migration script, all it can do is produce a script that expects you to totally drop the existing DB and re-apply the schema from scratch.

Something like Luna/Moon would be cool, but every example I look up seems to be an application you install locally on your machine and interact with directly, as opposed to a web interface.

If you know of such a tool let me know!

 

I just downloaded the app, its loading posts just fine from lemmy.world, but where on earth do I login?

Clicking on Profile and Submit just tell me they wont work unless I am logged in. Ideally these two CTAs should instead redirect to login if you are not logged in.

I am looking all over this interface and I am either totally blind or completely unable to find the login option, is it buried somewhere or am I crazy?

Edit: Nevermind found it, top of the burger menu, I think maybe the UX of that button could be made a bit more visual, it at first glance with the icon looked like just a title.

Perhaps add a big green + symbol on it so it pops more for adding your account? The dull blue and lemmy icon aren't what I normally would associate typically with a login button, so it totally didn't pop out at me. Legit took me a solid 5+ minutes to notice it D:

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