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Comments on Trump lawyer Alina Habba's use of "gaming laptop"
  • I once worked for a company who had an accountant who used a gaming laptop. They didn't play games, but it was the only decent one they could get with a number pad.

  • John Cleese explains why he joined GB News
  • Given the cluster of sacked misogynists at GB News, perhaps they should also have Committee A and Committee B reviewing their shows and presenters.

  • Humble Choice October 2023 Review - A spooky month
  • I really enjoyed The Quarry. Although I killed pretty much everyone.

  • Doctor Who confirms spin-off show return
  • Ooo. I haven't listened to most of those, might to give them a go. I did enjoy The Doctors Daughter though. Jago & Litefoot probably still my favourite BF spinoff.

  • The EU says X is the worst platform for disinformation | Just as it removes a way to report election misinformation
  • I haven't used Twitter much in years really. But after switching to Lemmy during the reddit API debacle I thought I'd give it a go and am really enjoying it. I've set up a ton of filters to block out stuff I don't want to see, and joined a couple of instances for two different personas. I'm not using the official mobile client. On Android I use Tusky and Megalodon. Tusky is my daily driver and feels like how I remember the Twitter app from 7 or 8 years ago. Megalodon is nice for cross instance discovery, but has a couple of UI quirks that prevent me from using fully. My SO uses Ice Cubes on iOS and that looks pretty sweet. Personally I found the switch comparable to Lemmy. It took me a month or two to build up a good number of active people to follow to get to the stage of having an interesting feed. It also seems to have got a lot more active in the last week. When I have dropped into Twitter it's a dumpster fire on top of a cesspit. I don't think I could go back. I'd absolutely recommend giving Mastodon a go.

  • LLMs are surprisingly great at compressing images and audio, DeepMind researchers find
  • I imagine that the compression is linked to the dataset, so if you update or retrain then you maybe lose access to the compressed data.

  • LLMs are surprisingly great at compressing images and audio, DeepMind researchers find
  • The research specifically looked at lossless algorithms, so gzip

    "For example, the 70-billion parameter Chinchilla model impressively compressed data to 8.3% of its original size, significantly outperforming gzip and LZMA2, which managed 32.3% and 23% respectively."

    However they do say that it's not especially practical at the moment, given that gzip is a tiny executable compared to the many gigabytes of the LLM's dataset.

  • TV Tuesday
  • I felt the same at first but I think it works because Nicola Walker is brilliant, and it got to the point where those parts were some of my favourite parts of the show.

  • guthib.com
  • And not even monetizing it!

    ... although maybe my adblocker is working

  • Wrote a Python script to sync your accounts across instances.
  • Came here to say this! But still - thank you! I have a feeling it will be invaluable, at least in the short term.

  • TV Tuesday
  • Thanks. Yes the startrek.website instance is a good shout. Lots of good stuff on there and "official" communities migrated from the bad place.

    Not all of S1 is great, I thought. A few wonky episodes, and some wonky parts to good episodes. But then, that's just classic Trek for you. Like the good old days of Those Old Scientists and TNG.

  • TV Tuesday
  • I know I've been banging on about slogging my way through the Star Treks before cancelling my Paramount+ subscription, but the most recent episode of Strange New Worlds where La'an and Kirk travel back to 21st century Toronto was great.

  • can i replace this old swtich with a dimmer?
  • 100 years old... is the wiring underneath also that old? if so I'd recommend a rewire! Also this will have a non standard back box behind it that may not have sufficient space for an LED dimmer. If it's a cast iron back box, that might need to be chiselled out and replaced, so you'll need to replaster around it. Honestly, if this is part of the circuitry in your house I'd get an electrician out to look at it.

  • Recommendations for PAL Gamecube Adapters
  • Rabbit hole is absolutely right. An expensive one at that. With my PAL GC I use an OSSC which I've had for 4 or 5 years. It's a bit long in the tooth now, as well as being expensive. If you can find a one, a RetroTink 2x is probably the best bang for buck. There is also the GBS Control - very much another rabbit hole. AFAIK anything else is going to be no better than the analogue input of your TV.