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New comment by circuit10 in "I'm So Tired of "Is This AI?""

circuit10 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:34:07 +0000

Generally, people have to make an active decision to spread false information, or be misinformed themselves in the first place, and that's not actually particularly common, whereas for LLMs it's just the default due to how they work and it's difficult to filter out due to how they present everything with such confidence and authority

New comment by circuit10 in "I'm So Tired of "Is This AI?""

circuit10 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:31:04 +0000

I think it matters because AI can hallucinate so it makes me doubt the truthfulness

It's also somewhat dishonest to present unedited AI-written content as your own work

New comment by circuit10 in "Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt"

circuit10 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:18:36 +0000

Not by the definition on Wikipedia at least: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing)#Source_code_...

New comment by circuit10 in "Camera with transparent display launches for the equivalent of $29"

circuit10 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 23:16:15 +0000

Could you not develop the same sense by just looking in front of you without the viewfinder? I don’t see how a frame that doesn’t actually have any relation to what the camera is capturing helps you at all

New comment by circuit10 in "Camera with transparent display launches for the equivalent of $29"

circuit10 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:37:01 +0000

But if it’s giving you no information about what will actually be in frame you might as well just look in front of you and guess

New comment by circuit10 in "StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time"

circuit10 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:26:04 +0000

It would be nice if they made a web app, that would make it work on iOS but also desktop and every other platform with a web browser at the same time

New comment by circuit10 in "StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time"

circuit10 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:23:41 +0000

A web app would also make it work on iOS (and other non-Android platforms) at the same time

New comment by circuit10 in "Printing Gaussian Splats"

circuit10 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:56:08 +0000

Trying a bunch of sizes in their studio tool (all cubes to make it easier):

5mm x 5mm x 5mm (smallest I can select): $32.58

10mm x 10mm x 10mm: $36.58

20mm x 20mm x 20mm: $82.86

30mm x 30mm x 30mm: $143.60

50mm x 50mm x 50mm: $509.14

100mm x 100mm x 100mm: $3,028.58

150mm x 150mm x 150mm: $9,618.86

195mm x 195mm x 195mm: $20,641.32

(it says it's an estimate excluding tax and shipping)

New comment by circuit10 in "Google Flight Simulator"

circuit10 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:57:03 +0000

It’s only new for the web version (but this seems way worse than the one in the desktop version, sadly)

New comment by circuit10 in "Google Flight Simulator"

circuit10 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:30:38 +0000

This is new for the web version

New comment by circuit10 in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

circuit10 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:52:23 +0000

I think they should just have to properly explain how AI tends to make things up when it doesn’t know, and that it’s good for coming up with ideas or suggesting directions for research but that you shouldn’t rely on it, because currently their advertising makes you think you can rely on it

The “AI can make mistakes” kind of disclaimers they hide in the corner don’t really cut it

New comment by circuit10 in "As EV batteries improve, ChargePoint debuts 600 kW fast charger"

circuit10 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:48:01 +0000

If there are charge points in the street or there’s a way to run a cable there then I don’t see why that has to be an issue

New comment by circuit10 in "The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)"

circuit10 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:08:32 +0000

Do you not ever want to show someone something on your screen? For a bug report or to demonstrate a project you’re working on? Or do a screen share to ask for help with setting something up (which is admittedly a bit different from a recording but only in that it’s live)?

I can see a lot of non-techy people not knowing how to do this but among people who know how to do it I bet it’s above 50% who use it

New comment by circuit10 in "The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)"

circuit10 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:05:47 +0000

I think virtually everyone who works an office job uses Teams/Zoom very often nowadays, I can’t think of anyone I know who wouldn’t

New comment by circuit10 in "The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)"

circuit10 — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:46:20 +0000

Screen recording is not niche, anyone who works remotely probably does video calls daily and the others are somewhat more niche but I'd guess that at least 50-70% of people do at least one of these things

New comment by circuit10 in "The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)"

circuit10 — Sun, 31 May 2026 11:10:29 +0000

Use cases for hardware encoders in PCs:

- Video calls

- Screen/webcam recording

- Live streaming

- Real-time transcoding for media servers (don’t know much about this but I’ve heard it’s a thing)

- Game streaming

- Video editing (making exporting less frustrating)

New comment by circuit10 in "Print with dozens of colors: Our new open-source ColorMix for PrusaSlicer"

circuit10 — Sat, 30 May 2026 12:36:04 +0000

This is a software solution designed to work with existing multi colour printers, so you can’t “just mix” them as this would need additional hardware

New comment by circuit10 in "The California state assembly has passed the 'Protect Our Games Act'"

circuit10 — Sat, 30 May 2026 00:21:09 +0000

For new games, they would know from the beginning that they’ll need to release the server software eventually, so they wouldn’t be able to agree with those terms

New comment by circuit10 in "The California state assembly has passed the 'Protect Our Games Act'"

circuit10 — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:54:12 +0000

It is of course reasonable to restrict what you can do with a product you’re selling for money. There are plenty of laws and regulations that already do this. Without these kinds of laws intellectual property wouldn’t even exist - copyright was only created to benefit society by providing an incentive for people to create and invent things

It’s no different from mandating that the software can’t be malware that puts a ransom on your data, contain other people’s copyrighted content without permission, or just not work despite you claiming that it does when you sold it

And it’s not mandating that anything is structured in a particular way, just that the game works as the buyer would expect and how they achieve that is up to them

New comment by circuit10 in "The California state assembly has passed the 'Protect Our Games Act'"

circuit10 — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:32:59 +0000

It would at least be reasonable to expect this for future games, just treat the server binary the same way as the client in terms of what code you include (there way be some more involved if they have to migrate off a reusable codebase but I think it’s worth it)