Do you have the brightness on your monitor set really high or something?
I frequently use macOS on a projector, it doesn't quite fill my wall floor to ceiling but it comes close. I don't use full screen often, but I do it occasionally as a focusing strategy, and it's fine.
Doesn't bouncing off the wall just effectively make the "backlight" dimmer? The light reflected off the wall is hitting your face versus the light from the screen hitting your face. It's still light regardless.
If you're using a monitor in the dark the way you use a projector, you should turn the backlight down. If you're using it in a well lit room, the brighter backlight should have less of an effect.
> The light reflected off the wall is hitting your face versus the light from the screen hitting your face. It's still light regardless.
It sounds to me you've never actually looked at a monitor display large swaths of white before, it's brighter than light hitting a wall for sure, even with the brightness down, extra so when the ambient lightning is dark too.
I've definitely seen large monitors that are unpleasantly bright in the dark, but I've also seen an overly bright projector that was similarly unpleasant. I genuinely don't understand why changing the backlight wouldn't fix everything. A projector's image isn't diffuse like a lightbulb, if it was you wouldn't see an image.
Look, if this was a project on using DNS to replace Dropbox or something, I'd agree with you.
But the demo version of Doom just isn't that large; Cloudflare will host much larger files than that for free via Cloudflare Pages/Workers. This project is clearly meant as a fun proof of concept, not some novel way to host 3 MB for free.
I’ve heard rumors that DNS records are also sometimes used in some steganography-type communications. Great way of passing small messages in a ubiquitous and innocuous system, unlikely to be blocked or raise eyebrows by accessing.
If you consider information theory, when something has states, you can store data in any system that has multiple states, which means you can store data in any system.
The placement of coffee cups on a table can be used to encode data.
At that point, only your audience needs to know that data is there.
gemini -> gemini://gemi.dev, it has geminipedia, a web to gemini converter reading sites over gemini at great speeds.
irc -> servers from https://bitlbee.org will allow upon connecting to a registered IRC account to several protocols in the server. For instance, XMPP users will appear as IRC users and groupchat can be created as IRC channels. Ditto with Mastodon, Discord...
mail/usenet -> well, except for big attachments and news binaries (free NNTP servers will just serve text) once you used something like mbsync/msmtp to store your IMAP mail locally and send email ondemand (and ditto with Usenet with slrnpull doing the same exact same task for pushing your writtings and pulling down new articles) everything would just work slower, but usable enough as it can be just batch-uploaded/downloaded overnight.
Iodine it's really great for open but paid wifi services behind portals, such as some hotels, airports...
It won't give you broadband speeds but you can at least chat with people, read some blogs or news at https://lite.cnn.com or https://text.npr.org or get some classic from Gutenberg. That's better than nothing.
I've never had great luck getting iodine running anywhere. The one and only success I've had was on an aircraft where, after numerous attempts at different things, the best I could do is connect to an SMTP server and send an email manually.
Airplanes and many other captive portals will allow DNS traffic, but restrict everything else. Such things can be used to get free internet in such environments. It is indeed an abuse of protocol, and future protocols are going to make life difficult for everyone to prevent such abuse.
> They would have been better off building a war chest and pulling a Valve (though I'm sure they'd hate hearing it that way)
Isn't that exactly what they were trying to do with the Epic Game Store?
Steam is the thing that has made Valve successful. They were great as a game company, but as you said, the games don't last. Steam does, and I don't think Valve would be that successful in a business sense without it.
> Also, why is this the only scenario where they block the mic and camera? Locker rooms are apparently fine.
How would the phone detect that you're in a locker room? Even if it is possible, it seems very hard and likely error prone. Disabling call recording is easy.
...you can't redistribute code without a license, but surely you can legally run it, can't you?
Like, if I write a blog post and put it on my blog, you're allowed to read it, right?
Heck, if my blog contains some Javascript code I wrote, I would imagine your web browser is allowed to run that code without opening you up to copyright infringement, even if I didn't provide an explicit license.
Eh. I mean, 4 tokens a second works fine if you're patient. Go do something else while you wait.
I feel like whenever I'm trying to find information on which local models will work on my hardware, I have to overestimate because people don't know how to wait for things.
Why is it better to have a nopassword admin account when using a machine remotely? The point of SSH is to resist mitm attacks, right? If someone could watch my keystrokes, I think I'd have bigger problems!
This resists scenarios where the machine you are running SSH from is compromised, and has a keylogger or something similar installed. SSH can't protect you from a local attacker (in fact, the SSH client binary itself could be the compromised part).
Yes, but if the server you’re logging into only accepts keys then leaking its password isn’t nearly as bad. Though I guess if your local ssh client is compromised then your local private keys are also compromised so you’d be screwed anyway (unless you are using a yubikey type of thing—I should get me one of those).
If you wrote a blog post about this, I would be very interested in reading it.
I'm certainly aware of fun things I can do with local models, which takes setup, and if you're into e.g. ComfyUI those workflows can get very complicated. But, that's more a hobby—I don't actually think I get better results this way vs naively prompting a SoTA model.
There are some more advanced workflows for e.g. Claude Code, but I feel like all of that is likely to go away once the underlying models get better (for example, longer context windows mean less need to manage context).
I find it so incredibly freaking cool that the machine sitting next to me can generate code, images, and prose based on natural language prompts. It's cool that any computer can do that, of course, but it hits different when it's the one right here in my apartment versus a server off in the ether somewhere. It's the sort of thing I think about it in utter amazement as I fall asleep at night.
I don't know if that's why other people are interested. I'm probably weird. But that's what drives my interest.
1. Am I allowed to ask an AI to proofread a draft for grammatical errors?
2. Am I allowed to ask an AI to proofread a draft for technical errors?
3. In both #1 and #2, am I allowed to ask the AI to suggest revisions, or is it only allowed to point out what's wrong and why?
4. If I write a sentence like "Lucy's laughter ___ her underlying anxiety" and I'm having trouble coming up with the right word to fill in the blank, can I give the sentence to an AI and ask it for a list of possible options?
5. While brainstorming, can I use an AI as a souped up rubber duck before I begin writing?
But... AI generated content is a slippery slope. Someone earlier today asked me to "review" a 50 page document they had completely generated with AI yet obviously not reviewed themselves. It is embarrassing.
...then I guess my next question would be, why? How do you feel about spellcheck? Should mobile users turn off autocorrect unless they disclose that it's turned on?
I don't really understand your philosophy if you're opposed to an LLM pointing out when someone got the tense wrong.
GP said they weren't okay with someone using an AI to check for grammatical errors. If they would be okay with using software to check for spelling errors, I'd be interested to know why they're making that distinction. And I'd like to know what they think of autocorrect, which at least on the iPhone uses an on-device LLM nowadays.
"AI" can mean anything with machine learning. Spellchecker can use some sort of machine learning too. But what people mean when they say "AI" is LLM chatbot. But a spellchecker highlights mistakes, it doesn't suggest to rewrite the text arbitrarily like an LLM chatbot. So I totally understand how you can be for one and not other
By the way autocorrect on the iphone got worse recently, bunch of times it "corrected" the word to a wrong one for me
I frequently use macOS on a projector, it doesn't quite fill my wall floor to ceiling but it comes close. I don't use full screen often, but I do it occasionally as a focusing strategy, and it's fine.
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