2024-01-04

Activity Log

hackers.town: 2024-01-04 Thu 00:36

@genehack AYEE AYEE AH

hackers.town: 2024-01-04 Thu 06:58

@tek mhm

hackers.town: 2024-01-04 Thu 07:16

@tek cheers

carefully

hand-eye coordination not a thing yet

hackers.town: 2024-01-04 Thu 07:19

@minego @deafferret@octodon.social I gradually scaled up. Tried the trial a few days. Yep. Tried the $5 monthly for a month. Yep.

I use search engines a lot as part of my processing, so I bumped up to the $100 annual so I wouldn’t worry about an upper limit.

Billing gives you a count of how often you used it, so EOY I may scale back if I didn’t use as much as I thought I would.

hackers.town: 2024-01-04 Thu 07:36

Haven’t booted into Windows for a bit. winget upgrade --all yields 57 results. Good. Got time to finish my coffee.

hackers.town: 2024-01-04 Thu 07:38

@minego @deafferret@octodon.social Basically the highest praise I can offer for Kagi is that it feels like a working search engine.

hackers.town: 2024-01-04 Thu 07:40

@minego @deafferret@octodon.social like — you get results. They may not always be the results you want, so you refine. But at no point are you besieged by ads and promoted results. If there’s a summary definition up top, you can scroll past it and see the actual hits.

hackers.town: 2024-01-04 Thu 07:41

@minego @deafferret@octodon.social oh and way less SEO spam. That’s why Kagi instead of DDG for me.

hackers.town: 2024-01-04 Thu 08:05

@minego @deafferret@octodon.social a reflex I’ve adapted after the decade or whatever of “showing y instead of x” is to reexamine x. General purpose search engines were only good for direct technical searches when a higher ratio of pages were technical in nature.

So I bounce to “using tridactyl with kagi” or similar.

hackers.town: 2024-01-04 Thu 09:58

@genehack @IamMrsGeek It is not outside the realm of possibility.

hackers.town: 2024-01-04 Thu 10:01

Ordered a new SSD for some weekend PC puttering.

Fifteen seconds later, canceled that and ordered the new SSD I meant to order for some weekend PC puttering.

hackers.town: 2024-01-04 Thu 10:16

Not feeling too great so I laid on the couch for a minute. Dogs immediately ran over and started licking my head.

So yeah that worked – GAH NOT THE EYEBALL

hackers.town: 2024-01-04 Thu 10:55

@IamMrsGeek @genehack This one is particularly accurate:

https://www.tumblr.com/foxes-in-love/736232757737504768

hackers.town: 2024-01-04 Thu 12:01

Taking a sick (half) day because even though I only feel a little under the weather, the cognitive cost on any task is way out of proportion today. Gonna let my body fight and my brain cool off by not worrying about assigned work.

hackers.town: 2024-01-04 Thu 12:02

https://hackers.town/users/lori/statuses/111699225810133019

hackers.town: 2024-01-04 Thu 12:09

@bitprophet It’s been part of the pitch for a while now. What I’m confused by is why they tried it with a general purpose LLM like ChatGPT. That’s like — like —

That’s like asking me to fine-tune your global enterprise Kubernetes orchestration.

I’m just gonna make some shit up.

hackers.town: 2024-01-04 Thu 12:57

look i just want to know the copilot key code so i can map it to hyper

hackers.town: 2024-01-04 Thu 13:57

wait they put a new callback on the right Super key, slap a new logo on it, and for this they want to be congratulated?

From all the fuss from my feed I thought Microsoft was talking a new key. Shipping 105-key keyboards with every PC, stuff like that.

hackers.town: 2024-01-04 Thu 14:07

@noracodes I can absolutely believe this, considering how much they base off public code and how much public code leaves security as an exercise for the reader.

hackers.town: 2024-01-04 Thu 14:08

@IamMrsGeek so I guess we’re taking the felony options off the table?

hackers.town: 2024-01-04 Thu 17:31

So apparently feeding a 4032x3024 photo to Stable Diffusion then using completely unrelated positive and negative prompts and doubling the default number of sampling steps on a desktop PC with an Nvidia 3060 Ti is not ideal.

Should find out within the next 20 minutes.

hackers.town: 2024-01-04 Thu 18:14

Is it cool? You betcha. Was it worth an unexpected half hour wait? Ehhh I dunno. But I enjoyed my game of “find the cloud city in this photo”