AstralPath
@AstralPath@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps 4 days ago:
Make your next phone a Pixel and load GrapheneOS onto it. Problem solved.
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 1 week ago:
Personally, I’m not feeling that same vibe. I think the solidarity against the US is a very good thing, but the sheer amount of ways Canada is just “America Light” is very depressing. Its to the point that our flag has been so sullied by absolutely shit tier movements in the last 5 years that I can’t stand to see it anymore.
Every time I see a private flag pole, bumper stickers or anything kind of patriotic merch my knee jerk reaction is “I bet this dude’s a fuckwad.” I know that I’m painting with a huge and shitty brush but I just can’t even fight against it anymore. I know it’s wrong. I just don’t care, and that makes me sad.
I live comfortably here, but given even a minutely convenient reason to emigrate I think I’d take it.
Canada is a car infested, anti-human shit hole just like America. To paraphrase Steve Harris of Iron Maiden a bit "We oil the jaws of the
warcapitalist machine and feed it with ourbabiesimmigrants. - Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 1 week ago:
Wine is a translation layer, not an emulator so you’ll likely appear in the Linux users list.
- Comment on AI willing to let humans die, blackmail to avoid shutdown, report finds 2 weeks ago:
There’s plenty of fiction written on this premise. It only makes sense that an LLM will write something similar to what it’s already ingested.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I totally understand where you’re coming from but I also understand why people like the curated experience. When I went to Mexico for the first time, I went to a resort because in that moment all I cared about was not having to care about anything, if you know what I mean.
There’s a time and a place for both styles of travel.
- Comment on I just saw that Mick Jagger is attending Jeff Bezos's wedding when did he sell out? 2 weeks ago:
That’s a pretty insane threshold. I say that as a die hard underground metal fan.
- Comment on ! Mastodon new ToS from July 1has a binding abbreviation wave !!r 3 weeks ago:
That doesn’t negate the value of having them participate in the conversation though.
- Comment on For All That Is Good About Humankind, Ban Smartphones 4 weeks ago:
The stone age = any time before 2005 apparently 🙄
- Comment on What would happen if the Earth was sucked into a black hole? 4 weeks ago:
Black holes don’t just roam around looking for planets to snack on.
Don’t be so sure. There’s plenty of cases of black holes devouring entire star systems. There’s so many black holes just drifting around that you could make a case that they are just roaming around looking for their next snack.
- Comment on Is it wrong or uncommon to judge people primarily on their worst moments/acts? 4 weeks ago:
If I saw anyone harm any animal intentionally outside of self-defence, that’s an instant and permanent write off. I’d literally take any opportunity to talk shit about said person beating animals and would take pride in beating their ass if the moment was right.
Anyone hurting animals gets a big ol’ irrevocable “fuck you” from me.
There’s like 8 billion people on this planet you can be friends with. Don’t roll with or enable abusers.
- Comment on Caption this. 4 weeks ago:
Phobophile rules.
- Comment on I made a terminal-based hacker simulation game for CLI nerds. It's free. Feedback? 5 weeks ago:
Bitburner is pretty cool too.
- Comment on Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads 5 weeks ago:
You can use the Aurora store for apps. You can also use Google Play for apps if you’re not super privacy minded. The beauty of GrapheneOS is that it doesn’t have to be a locked down security privacy-minded OS if you don’t want it to be. It can be just as functional as anything else with very few exceptions.
It just gives you the option to pursue security and privacy if you want.
- Comment on Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads 5 weeks ago:
I haven’t had issues with my banking app either but I don’t use the NFC wallet functionality and never have. I prefer to just tap my physical card.
- Comment on 007 First Light - Announcement Trailer | PS5 Games 5 weeks ago:
Yeah man, all of this except for the balls part. Shit’s a bit too much for me bro and I was there in the 90’s. You do you though, I guess. 🤷
- Comment on Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads 5 weeks ago:
Running GrapheneOS on a Pixel is incredibly easy. You don’t need to be technical at all to get it set up. The instructions and the process are simple. Get on it!
- Comment on My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts 5 weeks ago:
Developers all love to preen about code. They worry LLMs lower the “ceiling” for quality. Maybe. But they also raise the “floor”.
And this is how the human element of this industry dies. This dev is the last of a dying breed, the senior dev. He’s also loading more bullets into the gun that’s pointed at the heart of the role that got him to where he is in the first place.
You don’t get to become a junior dev if that role is occupied by AI and you don’t get to ever ascend to senior dev unless you start as a junior dev.
For as analytical this person seems to be, he has a massive blindspot related to the path he himself treaded to get where he is. He’s pulling the ladder up behind him and condemning the people on the path behind to finding another way or giving up entirely.
AI is brain rot. It’s actively and aggressively atrophying humanity’s ability to reason and problem solve.
- Comment on Meta plans to use AI to automate up to 90% of its privacy and integrity risk assessments, including in sensitive areas like violent content 1 month ago:
Honestly, I’ve always thought the best use case for AI is moderating NSFL content online. No one should have to see that horrific shit.
- Comment on Does noise from different nearby sources 'add up'? Or do the different sources cancel each other out? In any case, please provide a formula and an example 1 month ago:
Yeah, they were all stepping in phase with each other. Pretty cool physics going on there.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow on how we lost the internet 1 month ago:
Radicalized is a really good collection of shorter works. en.m.wikipedia.org/…/Radicalized_(Doctorow_book)
- Comment on Does noise from different nearby sources 'add up'? Or do the different sources cancel each other out? In any case, please provide a formula and an example 1 month ago:
Two people will be about 3 dB higher, four people would be 6, eight people would increase the level by 9 dB, sixteen would be 12 dB higher and so on.
This is only the case if they’re making identical sounds in phase with each other. The real life scenario of people walking would not scale in this way as there are too many variables. No two footsteps are the same no matter how hard you try.
- Comment on AI cheating surge pushes schools into chaos 1 month ago:
I doubt a kid with tremors would be unable to get an exception made for them. I have tremors and in the mid 2000s my teachers were offering me test taking options like computers and other methods.
I always refused because I was stubborn.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' 1 month ago:
I think you’re misunderstanding the concept of priority.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' 1 month ago:
Sounds to me like you’re not considering that they likely have a massive list of priorities to address and a flashlight attachment is simply not even close to the top of the list.
Nothing exists in a vacuum.
- Comment on noyb sends Meta 'cease and desist' letter over AI training. European Class Action as potential next step 1 month ago:
Does anyone onow if there is a NOYB equivalent in North America?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
In Peru (and some islands in the Pacific as well IIRC), some regions have nine digit numbering plans. This may have been a call from one of those areas. More likely its spam.
- Comment on Blizzard's Overwatch Team Just Unionized: 'What I Want To Protect Most Here Is The People' 2 months ago:
You’re self-filtering yourself from the community. Based on these interactions, I think you’re doing the lord’s work. Keep it up!👍
- Comment on The Enshitification of Youtube’s Full Album Playlists 2 months ago:
You can click “Do not recommend channel” or “Not interested” on these recommendations to filter them out.
- Comment on Is it weird to juggle in the park? 2 months ago:
C’mon man. Social anxiety isn’t some niche mystery. Cut OP some slack.
- Comment on Could wastewater plant simply heat up water past 500C to decompose all chemicals and output clean water? 2 months ago:
I’m not a scientist but wouldn’t the atmospheric pressure need to be insane to bring the boiling point of water to 500°C? Is that even possible?