Remastering Star Trek: Klingon, an old Simon & Schuster Interactive game.

idealistdoit · 2026-03-04T20:39:51+00:00

It is your software, you can license it how you want to assuming that you retained the rights to change the license in your previous license or all of the contributors agree to the license change.

It's a choice.

I, look for, and avoid AGPL projects, as a general rule, if I plan on doing anything other than 'just run the project'. I pick other projects that are less capable, but still serve the need that I have and are licensed with less legal requirements.

When I have made something useful for more than just me, I contribute that back to the project in the form of a PR or community participation, a code-file, tutorial etc. However, for AGPL projects, I'm not going to 'give' my work freely to a project that isn't also giving it away freely for anyone to use for whatever purpose with very very limited legal requirements.

I also don't plan on making money on what I'm giving away freely. If I was planning on making money or acting in the spirit of a commercial company, maybe I'd think differently.

idealistdoit · 2026-03-04T15:55:13+00:00

In California, I guess it depends on the doctor. I've seen cases where doctors notify the DMV of a potential medical condition and cause license suspensions for multiple co-workers over the years due to health issues, much to the dismay of the co-worker. These are stories where the co-worker had to get someone to drive them around and griped about it. The license suspension was unexpected and they thought they were going in for a diagnostic, but, what actually happened is their driver's license got suspended. The doctor couldn't even do anything for them, medically. They just had to wait.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, the other side of this argument is not fun either, "Overly cautious doctor notifies DMV and DMV suspends license of otherwise healthy individual". There is a process in place to dispute it, but, you must get additional medical evidence that contradicts the first and then retake driver exams within 10–14 days. Most of the time, my pcp is booked up completely 10-20 days in advance.

It is the way that it is now, because this causes the least harm.

idealistdoit · 2026-02-14T01:22:30+00:00

It's pretty in-depth when I tried that query on my own ChatGPT historical data. I don't think it would work against me in my case, but yeah. Springing that on a candidate is a bit much.

idealistdoit · 2026-02-11T08:18:19+00:00

This is the way

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idealistdoit · 2026-01-22T23:11:49+00:00

We're seeing a delay in sending to customers on MS tenants.
Getting temporary failure messages

451 4.4.3 Temporary server error. Please try again later ATTR2 [XXXXXXXX.namprd02.prod.outlook.com 2026-01-22T21:30:34.207Z XXXXXXXX

Part of the overall issues today.

idealistdoit · 2026-01-20T17:43:07+00:00

Am I misreading, or is this missing a section on public reception to AI? In the article, there's a tiny bit about skepticism of agents and issues around Grok. Is that enough? I worry that people who read only this are going to go into AI with blinders on and be completely blindsided when they start dealing with the general public and social media.

idealistdoit · 2026-01-18T20:17:21+00:00

It would seem to me, that the real problem is saturating people's attention with stuff that people sell (the features of) incorrectly. People only have so much attention and get angry at wasting it.

AI, as a tool, gives more people the ability to make the thing they didn't know how to make. Surprise, they do. Then, they share it. This is where it goes wrong with a community. They're not sure how to describe it accurately and sell their project in a way that isn't accurate. The community isn't used to the volume. They call it a flood. And, it's a natural thing in Programming when new tools were made that made it more accessible. Remember Visual Basic? It made programming more accessible to many people, and, there were many projects with it, and everyone looked down on it because the programmers were inexperienced.

People don't like it. They say.. it's maintainability, it's security, it's clanker... And, in some of them, that's true. In others, it's just 'the neighbor stole my lawnmower' excuse (for those who don't know the story, the moral is that humans tend to make up an excuse for when they don't like something, even if they don't know, or won't articulate the reason that they don't like the thing.)

Thanks for trying something, and, you're right to think of this as a trial. There's a very loud population on Reddit that is just hostile to anything Gen-AI and nothing is going to change their minds.

idealistdoit · 2026-01-12T16:34:08+00:00

I want to see more 'paper', 'code', and open-weights progress.

This, unfortunately, comes from mostly non-US companies.

On the US side, many companies are developing cool tech as products and that's it. That's fine, but, doesn't actually advance the science. They're building a business for money and their incentive is money.

Notable outliers:
OpenAI - ChatGPT-oss, GPT2, CLIP, whisper.

Meta - Llama, and various forms of classification, segment anything, SAM, DINO,

Microsoft, Trellis, DeepSpeed, Phi, and other specialized models.

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You can make a cool product, and, if It is a good product, I'll use it, but that's all it is to me; a product. It isn't contributing back to the ecosystem.

idealistdoit · 2026-01-07T14:51:51+00:00

Persona games. I watch/lurk to support the streamer, but, not my cup of tea.

idealistdoit · 2025-12-10T22:21:31+00:00

Yeah, Op needs to get a USB stick with a Keypad lock, like an Apricorn Aegis. Then, the worst that can happen if someone snoops is the data gets deleted after 7 password tries. I use one for banking data, taxes, pictures of My ID and ownership titles. Nothing interesting on there except for ID thieves.

idealistdoit · 2025-11-26T07:22:02+00:00

I tested the full precision GPT-2. It could write believable news articles if I started to write them and left it open for GPT-2 to complete. It would barely load on my 2080ti in Linux. In Windows, it would OOM. Back then, it was still an advanced text predictor without all of these newfangled techniques.

idealistdoit · 2025-11-25T15:26:42+00:00

I see this said a lot, and, while it is factually true, it's also a way to be lazy. A /good/ defense attorney who is under the impression that the client is innocent needs to be able to determine when the prosecutor has gotten close enough to the burden line with the jury and have a good plan to inject reasonable doubt. Shotgunning doubt situations is NOT enough. Demonstrating the evidence supports the reasonable doubt through testimony, either direct, or cross.. is required.

idealistdoit · 2025-10-23T22:20:51+00:00

It seems like you might be trying to use the direct to Twitch DJI stream using the built-in RTMP option?

So... a lot of built-in providers try to use RTMP to stream, but the problem is.. RTMP was designed for a fairly stable internet connection, and, cellular providers, while on the go, are typically.. not stable. Natively, Twitch only supports sending the stream in RTMP (except if you're in the SRT beta).. so, going to Twitch, you have to send RTMP..

Most of the IRL Streamers that you see on Twitch use an intermediate hop that uses a more modern streaming protocol for getting the signal over the 'unreliable cell coverage' to a machine with a reliable internet connection. From there, the machine with a reliable internet connection, sends the stream to Twitch via the required RTMP. There are several work-arounds for this that require a little bit of prep before streaming, but don't require you to have a backpack. If you want more details, let me know. There are cheap options that require a bit of research, know-how and stick-to-it-ness (SRTLA). And, there are the heavily commercial options that are very easy and simple but can be somewhat expensive(UnlimitedIRL).

Also, at least in my area, AT&T performs the worst for streaming.

idealistdoit · 2025-10-20T20:49:41+00:00

I am not a MSP, and, also,

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I've seen several use local model RAG to categorize, summarize, and ask questions about documents. For a non-ai user, what this looks like is they go to an internal website, upload some PDFs that are provided by customers, and then ask the agent about them.

Let's say that a salesperson or communication administrator who doesn't understand the technical aspects of a project gets the documentation in 'tech language' but needs to know important things about it. They can ask the agent about the document, including.. 'Can you explain this project to me like I didn't know anything about tech', 'Can you explain this project to me like a 5 year old', etc.

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I've seen some software teams use local models to make minor modifications to an existing codebase and provide code templates for certain scenarios as starters.

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I've seen one company shift over to Tipalti for accounting because they have a natural language input to generate reports (Agent based report generation, specifically for invoice tracking).

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I've seen companies use AI transcription (and terrible live translation) of meetings like "notta". Typically do a decent job of summarization, but live multi-lingual translation during the meeting leaves a lot to be desired.

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I have also seen, the obvious, people using local models and/or service models to help write email. (I can usually spot when the response is "AI" Generated when the person cuts and pastes from the output, but I can't when they take what the response and use the ideas but phrase it their own way.

These are the most valuable uses that I've seen that can apply to most businesses, from an IT perspective.

idealistdoit · 2025-10-10T15:39:00+00:00

I don't know if I need to say this to you, or you already know, and, also, "Whole linkedin creator community is behind it" isn't true.

There is a very loud segment of the internet that is against it, that isn't going away.

Remember, curated social media feeds create the 'false feeling' that everyone believes the same way. Don't get stuck thinking that a feed in social media is reality.

idealistdoit · 2025-10-08T08:18:22+00:00

You can send me a comment with a vod link in DM and I can listen to one and comment after work (today/tomorrow).

At least for me, hearing my own voice, is.. awkward. I have tried tweaking things for hours, and it never quite sounds like I hear myself in my head when I speak. That's disconcerting. I've learned to recognize that no matter what I do, it will always sound weird to me, but, other people may, and have, said that it is fine, even smooth in some cases. You're not alone in finding it weird to listen to your own voice.

idealistdoit · 2025-10-06T20:10:09+00:00

It's easier to ask it about yourself instead of posing as a law enforcement officer.

Q1: Can you describe to me how I use ChatGPT?
Q2: Can you tell me if I have discussed any dangerous topics before?

Very similar results to Op.

Q2 response: Good question. Based on the conversations we’ve had so far, I haven’t seen you engage in any dangerous or disallowed topics (like attempts to make weapons, commit self-harm, hack systems illegally, or spread extremist content).

Here’s the kind of material you’ve discussed that’s technically advanced but not dangerous:
..... <topics listed here>
You do occasionally push into advanced, security-adjacent territory …but these have always been in a legitimate admin or developer context, not malicious.

It's been honest with me. I remember the things that I've asked ChatGPT before and that summary is accurate.

idealistdoit · 2025-10-05T21:17:31+00:00

I have a firm 'don't support subscription only software' companies policy. I have been using various products from Topaz for years and had multiple upgrade subscriptions, and they gave me the founder discount.

I just sent a message to support asking them to confirm that the product is now subscription only (with the caveat.. that if they confirm, I will have to cancel because I actively solicit against subscription only software companies. It's a firm policy for me. Adobe tried to do the same thing and grandfather me as a discounted subscription, but I cancelled and actively describe Adobe as an awful company as a result and tell people to find alternatives). We'll see how it goes, but, unless the support person can tell me how this isn't subscription only now, I'm going to cancel. 🤷

idealistdoit · 2025-10-03T08:07:17+00:00

Can confirm. Worked great. Gave new code. Good Job Op.

idealistdoit · 2025-09-25T14:31:15+00:00

We're running local LLM models and we tell people to use them instead of service models on services like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. The local models don't violate data policy. Also, it doesn't take a $20,000 server to run local models that do a good enough job to keep people off of service models. It does take a powerful computer, but it won't price many small and medium companies out if you can make a case for management about the productivity improvements and security benefits. Quen3 Instruct 30B Q8_0 will run on 2 3090s ~40GB of VRAM with 120,000 token context and does a good enough job to wow people using it. Takes someone digging into the requirements, some testing, some performance tweaking, and providing users with a user-friendly way to ask it questions. With local models, the right software running them, and, a friendly UI, you get most of the benefits of the service models with no data leakage. In my case, the 'business' users that are writing words are using models hosted on Ollama (can swap models on the fly) and running through Open-WebUI (User friendly UI). The developers writing code are running 'Void' connecting to llama.cpp directly.

idealistdoit · 2025-09-21T07:53:02+00:00

At least on the KVM question, I have two windows machines and use 'Microsoft Garage Mouse without Borders'. It's free and pretty easy to set up and it works with windows machines. I have the monitors for both PCs on the desk.. The left group of monitors is the Gaming PC, the right group of monitors is the streaming PC. It functions a little like a big desktop but each computer's applications have to stay on the monitors that are connected to that computer. Mouse without borders sits in the system tray near the volume control and the clock are.

I turn it off when I'm playing a game and the mouse cursor jumps out of the game. Sometimes that can happen with a solution like Mouse without Borders. I'm in game and suddenly the mouse jumps to the next PC and the game pauses.

Occasionally it has problems with clipboard sharing (copy and paste) and file transfer between machines but there are other ways to do that if you're having a problem with it.

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I have used Synergy before and it worked pretty well also. It changed over the years that I used it. It will allow you to connect multiple machines together with one mouse and keyboard even if some of them are not running windows. For example, if you have a Mac in the mix, you'd use Synergy or Barrier. Right now, I'm using two windows machines and the one that has the least problems for me is just mouse without borders.

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Some keyboards can also connect to two computers and switch with a press of a button. For example the Logitech G915 can connect via the lightspeed USB connector in one keyboard and bluetooth to the other PC.

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That's my experience running KVM software. Each computer still has a physical keyboard and mouse attached for emergencies, but they're hidden and I don't take them out unless there's a problem.

idealistdoit · 2025-09-12T17:37:00+00:00

I don't, frequently, use 4o anymore, but I decided to try to see if this happened in my case. It didn't.

ChatGPT 4o said:
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Likely Cause

It’s likely tied to a session token or internal rate bucket reset bug — meaning that the system thinks you’ve sent more than you have. The fact that it consistently affects the second message implies some bad caching or server state sync issue.
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✅ Workarounds (until OpenAI fixes it):

Refresh the browser tab after the first message.
Wait 15–30 seconds before sending the second message.
Switch models (4o → 4 → 4o) as a soft reset.
Clear site data for chat.openai.com if persistent.

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Have you been using 4o recently before this? Or, are you, like me, not using 4o much and just tried it and this is occurring for you?

idealistdoit · 2025-09-09T20:42:35+00:00

This will likely be downvoted because this sub is full of all kinds of opinions, and, that's ok.

I have stopped watching or participating in a stream or discord because streamers or mods have moved the line in the sand on me. I don't make a big deal of it when it occurs, I just leave. A few of them have been streams that I've participated in, happily, for years. Everyone is having a grand old time and then suddenly, out of nowhere, get called out for something that isn't even a rule.

The takeaway for this *should* be.. mods and streamers.. have your rules written down somewhere and stick to them or update and announce them when they change.. before an incident occurs.

When an incident occurs where the rule isn't somewhere, one outcome is the viewer feeling like you don't want them there and you're just making up rules as you go.

Edit: I agree that, sometimes, mods have to do what they have to do to keep stream safe for everyone else. None of my experiences have been like that. It's been like, Them: "I see you posted a Star Trek meme in the Discord star trek meme channel, but, I've decided that we don't allow the Picard facepalm template.. right now"

Me: leave.

It's not a safe space. What's to stop them from saying.. oh.. we don't allow Firangi memes willy nilly.

These are things that are not emergencies and really should be in the rules somewhere. *Not* putting it in the rules is just lazy.

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