mister_monster

@mister_monster@monero.town

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta is tagging real photos as 'Made with AI,' say photographers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Using AI to detect AI made content, what did they expect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come there aren't any moral geniuses?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are, its just usually people don’t like to hear what they have to say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah archive then

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is very therapeutic to garden, though.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely you can compete my dude. Just not if you’re doing it commercially. If you have the space you can grow everything you need and save a ton of money.

  The problem is everyone can’t do that. It doesn’t scale. To feed 8 billion you need the big ag machine. But you, yourself, if you want to focus your time and effort on digging in the soil instead of being a corporate cog, can absolutely support your needs for very cheap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My library almost got wiped out when my backup HDD started to fail. Managed to duplicate it onto a new SSD, now I’m fine.

  Don’t trust services, trust yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is testing Game Pass ads on the Windows 11 Settings homepage⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re going to. Why not face reality right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to manage contact information between Android and Linux without any Big Tech software?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use fossify contacts, which allows you to read and write your contacts to/from a VCF file (as opposed to import/export which must be manually done, this keeps them in the file so as you add/remove contacts the file is updated) and synching to keep the VCF file synced between my devices. No servers of any of that maintenance overhead needed.

  You can use synching for all kinds of stuff too. I sync calendar (with fossify calendar) and a keepass PW database and 2fa keys this way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey there gamers⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The sum of all natural numbers smaller than and including x is equal to

  (X+1)(x/2)

  The sum of all even numbers up to and including x is that minus (n/2)² so

  [(X+1)(x/2)]-(x/2)²

  That would mean the sum of all odd numbers under x is equal to

  (x/2)²

  or sum of all odd including x (if x is odd of course) is

  [(x+1)/2]²

  Since the sum of all even numbers up to x is the sum of all numbers minus the sum of all odd numbers.

  [-(X/2)² +2x +1]/2 (another way of writing the sum of all evens under and including a number) looks suspiciously polynomial. I want to go further.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does it let you remove words from the dictionary or from your words that were added for you? I know you can do the latter, but the former I was under the impression was not possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No,that’s not why. 6 years ago these apps collected less data and worked better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s because the developers are self absorbed narcissists who think you’re staring at the prediction bar while typing and so if you are still typing after it shows you that word, even one character, that must not be the one you’re trying to type. What if you’re using a keyboard how it’s supposed to be used, as a utility to interact with something else, and so looking at what you’re typing as you’re typing it, like a normal person? Guess they didn’t think of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, I’m using heliboard and it has the same problems openboard had and the same problems gboard has with regard to autocorrect. And it’s missing a lot of special characters, but I assume that’s a work in progress.

  You know what would really help the situation? You know how the spell checker underlines (or at least used to) incorrect words in red? It should underline corrected words in yellow or green or something. That way, when you’re going over what you’ve typed, the autocorrected gibberish won’t slip past you and will stand out. That would go a long way, but what would really improve it is if you could remove words from the dictionary that you don’t use, and go back to however the system worked 6 years ago because it was pretty light on the frustration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I don’t know what happened. This stuff is supposed to reduce typos right? Instead, I type “the” and it replaces it with “Tue” randomly for no reason. Who even writes tuesday like that? It’s shorthand from before your keyboard could complete it for you.

  You know what’s funny? You can’t remove words. You can’t add words directly, you have to let it learn them the hard way. Why?

  At this point, I’m convinced that the steady degradation of technology over the past 6 or 7 years is deliberate, if not, and this stuff can just rot, it’s evidence that we shouldn’t be relying on it at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know what he would do, I doubt veryuch different, and way less apologetic about it. But it doesn’t matter what he would do, what matters is the optics. One has a track record of funding genocide, the other doesn’t. This will sway a lot of people to at the very least stay home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This, but mirrored, some might say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thatsthejoke.jpg

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You go into the Trump circles. Pinch your nose and go see. Their pitch isn’t “he isn’t biden” or “vote for Trump or you’re picking Biden.” They actively like him and want him to be president, whether we disagree with that or not thems the facts. People aren’t bringing up Trump because he’s Biden’s opposition, people are bringing up Trump because that’s what the election is about. Biden’s whole reason for viability is that he is running against Trump, that’s it, that’s all, that’s his campaign slogan and platform. “I’m not Trump”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s because Biden’s entire pitch is “I’m not Trump”. Nobody actually likes him or wants him to be president, they’re just stuck with bad choices in front of them. So you talk about the merits of Biden, that’s the only one you’re going to get, because that’s all he’s got. And in the face of a genocide, people can’t stomach it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t scare people into supporting something they find abhorrent this time. This rhetoric is not going to work. We are talking about a fucking genocide my dude. You’re delusional if you think “but pussygrabber” is going to motivate principled people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the point these people are making here is that they’d like to not support evil at all and “but the other guy is worse” is the entirety of the fucking problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Don’t mind what we do because the other guy is scarier”

  That sham will work up to a point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It must confuse English learners to hear phrases like, "I'm home", instead of "I am at home." We don't say I'm school, or I'm post office.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also “going to 'ospitol”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what's your fav recipe manager?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A notebook and a pen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NSA ’just days from taking over the internet’ warns Edward Snowden⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Aah, modern day reporting, where they just talk about tweets and X, formerly twitter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Feds Are Coming for “Extremist” Gamers⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Humorless people telling you to joke within the confines of their neurotic sensibilities. Best ignore them and carry on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For us Linux users it’s just a fire sale. Diet cheap PCs incoming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Radical Equality⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought we already did authorship in alphabetical order so as to avoid any implied hierarchy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should we deactivate downvotes?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah we get down voted by the rest of the federation and downvotes are mostly meaningless. Is there a way to turn off remote votes, not federate votes? Good feedback from our community is good, spam manipulation from outside is just noise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨monero.town over ipv6⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The only thing ipv6 has going for it is virtually unlimited addresses. It is much more difficult to set up securely. We use NAT in ipv4 to assign local network addresses and have one public IP because of scarcity of addresses, but a good side effect of this is that your machines are not raw dogging the internet. I don’t want every single device I have to have it’s own IP on the internet. I like having a local network. And you can do that with ipv6, but it is just assumed and the default not to work this way and to get everything set up like that is a pain in the ass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That your local feed is one community, that users can’t create any communities, that the landing page for the server is like HN or some other single community link aggregator site.