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New comment by sleepybrett in "Direct retinal projection display for smart glasses using a meta-optic mirror"

sleepybrett — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 21:05:03 +0000

Yeah at the hitlab. I had some friends working on a few things during school there (their school, i was in art school).

I heard tell of a guy with massive cornea damage in one eye, some low-level university employee (facilities or something). They invited him to try it out, could see the image clear as day.

Lots of cool stuff being worked on at the HITlab those days. Seemed to kinda peter out.. or at least get less press.. in the years since.

New comment by sleepybrett in "Docker Agent"

sleepybrett — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:06:48 +0000

that's all docker has been doing for years.

New comment by sleepybrett in "GitHub Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions"

sleepybrett — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:47:10 +0000

i see they started letting the github engineers ship code again after that shitshow last month.

New comment by sleepybrett in "Direct retinal projection display for smart glasses using a meta-optic mirror"

sleepybrett — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:20:24 +0000

I saw a demo retinal dispaly at the university of washington in the late 90s.

New comment by sleepybrett in "Direct retinal projection display for smart glasses using a meta-optic mirror"

sleepybrett — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:19:50 +0000

played with one of these 'retinal displays' back in the late 90s at the university of washington. Pretty crazy stuff, apparently some guy with massive cornea damage was able to see the retinal projection clearly. At the time it was just monochrome and fairly low resolution (by todays standards) but very exciting.

New comment by sleepybrett in "Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge"

sleepybrett — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 01:52:34 +0000

I've seen something like it once, but it was really just the FBI coming in a seizing a rack.

New comment by sleepybrett in "Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge"

sleepybrett — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 01:51:03 +0000

We need actual privacy laws in the united states. Between this, other cloud providers, the advertising tracking infrastructure, phones that constantly ping your location, flock and it's ilk, etc. It's over, no longer can you live semi regularly and still maintain your privacy by maybe living out in the sticks a bit. This is the panopticon.

New comment by sleepybrett in "PS5 Relapse Exploit"

sleepybrett — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 19:08:05 +0000

It's my primary tv interface and while expensive it beats all the built in primary interfaces shipping in tvs today.

I don't think apple is interested in making it a gaming console, gaming has never been apples focus except when the iphone was new and they wanted to drive adoption.

New comment by sleepybrett in "PS5 Relapse Exploit"

sleepybrett — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:41:49 +0000

Whatever anticheat company can come up with a decent enough anticheat for linux (stay out of my fucking kernel) and pair it with some kind of server side anti cheat heuristic may win the day. I know a lot of people who are steamdeck kids and are experimenting with steamos or other linuxes on the desktop because they are sick of windows in general.

I'm about ready to pull the trigger on my windows gaming pc to move it to linux because I honestly don't really play anything that requires anticheat anymore. Too old to bother with multiplayer that isn't co-op anymore. I think the last game I have with anticheat in it is elden ring and I don't pvp there either so I can just disable the online stuff and ignore the anti-cheat all together.

New comment by sleepybrett in "PS5 Relapse Exploit"

sleepybrett — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:36:59 +0000

It's got an A15 in it currently, so 5 years old, but it still runs pretty great a lot of games that you would play are made for ipad and developers tend to assume a lag of at least three years on processors for that market (no one is buying a new ipad every year). I use my appletv with moonlight to stream off my pc and use an 8bitdo controller with it and my switch2 (8bit-do ultimate 2 wireless).

New comment by sleepybrett in "DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers"

sleepybrett — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 15:47:53 +0000

i mean if you base jump and your chute fails you end up as a smear at the bottom of a cliff somewhere. They will probably attempt an air rescue and some poor park ranger will have to come out with some buckets of water and wash whats left of you off their monument. However as someone who knows someone who had to be airlifted out of a national park, he survived and paid for that helicopter ride and his medical bills (gust of wind blew him off an exposed high trail and down into a very steep ravine where he broke a leg).

A heroin/fent/meth addict doesn't die right away, and usually doesn't die until after years of crime/homelessness/welfare. They cost every day until they finally overdose, now with narcan (if they are on an opiate) they can be saved from that overdose (and hopefully rehabilitated) but often that doesn't even stop them.

We have to draw lines somewhere and sports betting, in my opinion is somewhere a line should be re-drawn.

New comment by sleepybrett in "macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess"

sleepybrett — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:54:28 +0000

what if there is nothing to catch, an icon not centered in a button might be an intentional decision by the designers. Maybe it was caught and was signed off on by the responsible party as 'correct'.

New comment by sleepybrett in "DraftKings Is Using AI to Behaviorally Target Chronic Gamblers"

sleepybrett — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:49:43 +0000

> That's a matter of opinion. There are those of us that believe that it is a gross violation of one's human rights to dictate how they're allowed to spend the money that they earned.

Hi, we live in a society. People who bankrupt themselves out of whatever money they have earned and become a burden to the society at large via homelessness/welfare/crime. Which is also the same case for hard drugs (traditionally this was originally a problem with opiates). I personally do not care if you decide you want to kill yourself with heroin, but I do care as soon as our taxes are used to deal with you as a side-effect.

So making reasonable laws that curtail some of the worst things you can piss your money away on to curb crime/homelessness/welfare/er-bill-delenquency expenditures seems like a wise decision.

Libertarian thinking tries to ignore these side effects but they are real.

New comment by sleepybrett in "DraftKings Is Using AI to Behaviorally Target Chronic Gamblers"

sleepybrett — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:39:25 +0000

they are making a moral decision but a selfish one. If I take this job I can eat and support my family, if I don't I need to hope that I find another one.

Very few actually want to work for corporations that are unethical and prey on people and their weaknesses, but a large portion of the population does.

New comment by sleepybrett in "macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess"

sleepybrett — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:46:35 +0000

it absolutely is.

New comment by sleepybrett in "macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess"

sleepybrett — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:45:35 +0000

Generally speaking, same. I haven't noticed any major bugs at all.

New comment by sleepybrett in "macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess"

sleepybrett — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:37:20 +0000

some of the 'not centered' complaints are probably a little on the pedantic side. Often to visually 'center' something it's not actually centered.

New comment by sleepybrett in "Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream"

sleepybrett — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:18:03 +0000

nah i got a 5070 at $675, but they are north of a grand now, and 5090s are 7k+

New comment by sleepybrett in "Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream"

sleepybrett — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:05:32 +0000

I haven't had a driver issue other than 'you didn't upgrade your drivers lately' on a gaming PC in years and years. The problem now with pc gaming is the cost to enter the market with the GPU, RAM and storage prices.

New comment by sleepybrett in "Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream"

sleepybrett — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:04:12 +0000

you'll be voting with a lot of dollars, look at the 4090 pricing these days? hell even the 4070 is north of a grand, JUST FOR THE GPU, now check the DDR5 prices...