BehindTheBarrier

joined 2 years ago
[–] BehindTheBarrier 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is google play required for the app to function, or would sideloading the apk from a mirror site work?

[–] BehindTheBarrier 8 points 1 year ago

Tachiyomi for manga reading

[–] BehindTheBarrier 5 points 1 year ago

I use sync, but I think they still should be FOSS, or at least open source. Just because when anything gets left behind or never fixed, you can take it and patch it up yourself. That includes clients too, lots of good clients that get left behind because Dev stopped and whatever they were interfacing with changed.

[–] BehindTheBarrier 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sync has a lifetime ad free option. That removes the Google tracking as well, since it's tied to ads. Subscription it for extra features you probably dont need. Based on comments about reddit sync, it also doesn't track usage statistics. But that is mostly a guess from my side.

The price is a steep 20 USD, but the app is new and the Dev is well known. You also know what you are getting if you have used Sync before.

[–] BehindTheBarrier 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's just how many of us are used to things. Particularly the collapsed comments along with rainbow colors depending on the nested comments. I'm sure one of those has it, but Sync has all my patterns. And it was as simple as importing my sync for reddit config to get all my options as they were. Worthwhile wait, and I don't mind supporting a Dev. Especially when there is a one time ad-free payment option, which is all I need.

[–] BehindTheBarrier 5 points 1 year ago

Using web, going back always put the feed active, despite me changing the sort. So yeah, having the app back is good. And I got all my use patterns back!

[–] BehindTheBarrier 3 points 1 year ago

Love it.

Some replies to a reply are showing up in the wrong place. Might be a bug, might be because I imported settings from old sync to save myself the trouble of configuring the application anew. Worked like a charm though.

I have a question, can I pin a instance in the feeds? Eg I have a lemmy.world account. Right now it shows me Everything, Local, and Subscribed. But I do want to see everything in programming.devs main page. It's like an everything for programming, so I see that as a valid use case.

[–] BehindTheBarrier 3 points 1 year ago

Also not a researcher, but I also believe hallucinations are simply the artifact of being able generate responses that aren't pure reproduction of training data. Aka, the generalization we want. The problem is we have something that generalize without the ability to judge what it thinks of.

It will in my opinion never go away, but I'm sure it can be improved significantly.

[–] BehindTheBarrier 8 points 1 year ago

Granted I only see the cherry picked statements in the post, but these things do not speak from a place of neutrality or at the very least openness. When all those things being bad is stated as close to fact, and them being against western propaganda,. They seem, to me, much less like a place that wants no propaganda and discussion of world organizations, and instead it sounds like a place that wants all of it gone and no place for western/left supportive discussion (which can be labeled propaganda, which may be a negative outlook on my side but any other site saying they do not want propaganda of one side usually isn't very happy about arguments in favor of said side even when said thing is a fact or at least relevant to the discussion)

There were also comments very much critical of federation here because of some political joke posts. If shit post tier jokes on political figures aren't ok things will work out. because it's a Chinese communist it's about, I'm also extremely sceptical of ho well.

With that said, I'm not completely against the federation, but it would require the mods to be vigilant and see if the federation doesn't harm the general community over time. That might be a lot to ask for, since I do not know how much time and effort they already put into this already.

[–] BehindTheBarrier 7 points 1 year ago

Doesn't seem completely impossible with the estimated storage capacity, but like with all of these things, drastically changing the build up of concrete means changing the properties of the very thing used to hold your home together.

It might be cheap materials, but the effort involved also seem very high having to cut up after the hardening to create the super capacitors. Which again may affect structural integrity.

[–] BehindTheBarrier 4 points 1 year ago

Imagine having set up keybind for our mouse, ND then the game updates and creates a new executable or two somewhere else, and no matter what you do, it never recognizes the game ever again. So no more keybind, and the only way to fix would be to set up a profile and disabled the auto switch running all other games and profiles you have...

That's my experience with ghub, otherwise apart from clunky unintuitive ui, it at least worked.

(the game is rainbow six siege by the way, haven't been able to use a profile in that game all year. Part of the blame is naturally that siege does things very shitty when you can include like 5 different executables that are run)

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