nickwitha_k

@nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US government is using AI for unprecedented social media surveillance⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Part of the reason for my use of “might”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US government is using AI for unprecedented social media surveillance⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Gen Z or Alpha might see a return to life as good as 2015 in their lifetimes. The rest of us? Nope.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨me an ineffectual: crustacean⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For anyone who does not speak biologist/zoologist, what the two at the bottom are saying translates to:

  Creature of peak evolutionary development.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Little miracles⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Part of it is just how Nazi recruiting and attempting to get a foothold works. They see a subculture with disaffected youth and societal outcasts (especially young men) and think of it as an opportunity. All subcultures have to remain vigilant because Nazis will do their best to subvert and appropriate anything and everything that they can to try to spread their socio-political disease.

  Some more current examples are gaming, the chans, and fitness clubs/events (ex. Spartan Race). Not all of them are filled with Nazis but, they have been used as recruiting tools.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT’S THE FEDS!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Or if sunshine starts competing with wood pulp for paper manufacturing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former Meta exec says asking for artist permission will kill AI industry⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Pure entitlement mindset.

  If your business is not able to stay afloat while providing fair compensation to those whose labor is used, whether employee, co-owner, or third-party, you are not entitled to keep running it. Society doesn’t have a duty to prop up wealthy thieves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Techno feudalism, here we come⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it the one about the guy who finds a nice brick of aged cheddar on their fridge that they had forgotten and get to enjoy the salty deliciousness? No… Wait … That’s just me fantasizing about tasty cheese.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Came here to mention this. Good reference, and chummer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk's X temporarily down for tens of thousands of users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And nothing of value was lost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Some do indeed. The one near me has a pretty ridiculous one that makes me sad for the academics that it is leeching from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xreal debuts first glasses to run Google's Android XR operating system to take on Meta and Apple⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah. They used to be Nreal but got a C&D from Epic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SAG-AFTRA Files Unfair Labor Practice Complaint Against Epic Games Due To A.I. Darth Vader⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Epic signed a contract with the union stating that they would bargain (and then willfully violated it).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The small scale of Lemmy's active user base is never more evident than in the absence of active members in all the sports related communities.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Intentional misunderstanding for comedic purposes. “Sub” doesn’t have meaning on Lemmy, any more than it would on an old school phpBB forum. It’s a reddit naming convention.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The small scale of Lemmy's active user base is never more evident than in the absence of active members in all the sports related communities.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a comm on lemmynsfw, if you’re interested in subs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i broke⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I understand my feelings most of the time

  I thought I did too but just had trouble communicating them. It turned out that I had overestimated my comprehension. Practice has helped me a lot.

  but I do have difficulty controlling them.

  Something that I’d caution is that framing altogether. Emotion is part of our experience as humans and an integral part of our consciousness. Controlling our emotions (with exception of those with conditions like Bipolar PD that need help with emotional stability) is not the best goal. Emotions are important, involuntary, and frequently serve evolutionary purposes.

  The more healthy way to look at it is addressing how we react when we experience our emotions. That is something that we do have control over. Those of us with ADHD often have trouble with emotional dysregulation (kind of a misnomer, IMO, as it is more about managing reaction to experienced emotions), which makes it more of a challenge. It is still possible though with practice (and accepting that failure is part of the process).

  Thanks for the very comprehensive answer internet stranger, I appreciate it.

  You’re very welcome. If I’ve helped yourself or anyone else in the slightest, I am delighted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We poisoned the whole planet so our eggs wouldn't stick to the pan 🙃⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I lost a coworker to brain cancer this year that was caused by his exposure to PFAs when he was a firefighter. This shit is fucked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i broke⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Any advice on how to do work like other people? I am quick to grab my phone everytime I get even slightly stressed or don’t immediately know the answer to a problem.

  Assuming that you have ADHD based on your other comment, I do, actually, from my own struggles with AuADHD. First thing, is a bit of radical acceptance. If you are not neurotypical, especially if ADHD and/or ASD are involved, you’re not and never will be “like other people”. No pill known by medical science, no strategy, and no therapy is going to change that because it has to do with the brain developing differently in physical structural ways than a neurotypical brain and it’s likely genetic or epigenetic.

  That doesn’t mean that there’s no hope for functionality. Just that one must approach things differently and “calibrate” strategies to work with, rather than against their brain. Importantly, it also means that most “productivity hacks” and the like are utterly useless because they were developed with a neurotypical brain as the starting point.

  When it comes to doom scrolling and the like, when stressed, you’re actually at a good starting point in that you are aware of what is happening and at least somewhat aware of the cause. It might not seem apparent but, emotion is a significant component of ADHD. The biggest thing to know is that if you are fighting against a heightened emotional state that is causing you to be unable to start or continue something, it can be like quicksand. Constantly running into that emotional brick wall isn’t going to help.

  So, what do you do? Well, the same thing isn’t necessarily going to work for everyone. Something that I’ve been working on with my therapist is a strategy from Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) that is called the “STOP” skill (here’s a link). Essentially, it involves analyzing your state in the moment and mindfully deciding on a path forward.

  If, like many with ADHD including myself (this was a fun thing to become aware of well into adulthood), you are not super comfortable with your emotions and/or have alexithymia (trouble identifying, describing, and expressing ones own emotions), it could be useful to find an emotion wheel or feelings wheel. There are many versions out there. The important thing is to find one that makes sense to you - I like the ones that start more general in the center and get more specific in the edges. To use that type to figure out how you are feeling (or evaluate how you were feeling from memory), just start with your finger in the center and work your way outwards to the emotion that most fits. Practicing this when not in a moment of stress can help to make it easier when you need it.

  Other things that you can try are: practicing meditation so that it is easier to use when you need it and, if necessary, making your phone inaccessible, if you don’t need it. Overall, the goal is to improve coping strategies available to you in order to make it easier to use ones that serve you and your well-being.

  And it takes a lot of time for me to do something, it takes other very little (at least compared to me). Any advice on that?

  Again, assuming that you have ADHD here. The first thing that you’ll need to do is identify the causes. I, for example, often have a lot of trouble reading (even though I love it and was at a college level vocabulary in primary school). For me, this is caused entirely by ADHD, resulting in re-reading paragraphs and sometimes individual sentences multiple times before they “stick”. This caused a lot of problems for me when I was a child didn’t receive any treatment for it.

  Another common thing for ADHD is getting too granular and getting into analysis paralysis or stuck planning rather than doing. I find that setting limits on myself helps to reduce this. For example, if I need to write a program, I might get stuck evaluating what language to use, what libraries to use, which perform better under a given workload, etc. I need to set limits on how long I can take to research and try to make the scope of the work as small as possible to avoid either getting sick in perpetual planning or perpetual research.

  Ultimately, you need to evaluate why you are taking longer to do the tasks, which is likely not just one thing, and start chipping away at the things that are causing the time sink in manageable bites. Don’t try to fix everything at once!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i broke⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What issues are you dealing with (if you feel like sharing)? I can speak from my experience being in therapy for AuADHD, anxiety, depression, childhood traumas, and a few other things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need help with 3d printer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately, that may be the only option. If a printer isn’t running a FOSS firmware, you’ve no guarantee that you will be able to keep using it into the future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe Trump's Presidency Will Make Everything So Awful It Will Facilitate Actual Positive Change Nationwide⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah. Accelerationism is pure bunk with exactly zero evidence supporting it. Things getting worse just makes it harder to make them better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe Trump's Presidency Will Make Everything So Awful It Will Facilitate Actual Positive Change Nationwide⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not a theory. It’s a religion; sociopolitical homeopathy. Theories require supporting data and accelerationism has none. It just has people willing to sacrifice the vulnerable on the altar of fascism in the belief that magic will happen causing class consciousness, resulting in utopia, despite all evidence showing that it’s more likely to result in dark ages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I found an interesting USB-C alternative to barrel jack wall warts. Thought I'd share...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  These cables are indeed basically just that. They’re a good solution for reducing wall warts when powering older projects that use barrel jacks or don’t have room for a trigger board.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I found an interesting USB-C alternative to barrel jack wall warts. Thought I'd share...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I basically just use USB-C trigger boards for my projects these days. Super convenient.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whenever a beast is shown on screen⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is concerning. Should just let them be. The rattle is just their proclamation that they are introverts (in relation to other species) and would not like to be interacted with. It’s a really civil way of handling things, especially for a reptile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whenever a beast is shown on screen⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ever been somewhere that rattlesnakes are native? Those fuckers are loud.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do use AI for simple questions, and it works fairly well for that, but this claim by MS is just marketing bullshit.

  This is my experience. It can be useful for simple things that used to be found with a web search before AI slop broke things. For example, I was having trouble getting a simple CGO program for a POC to communicate with the main Go process. This should have been solvable easily with documentation but the CGO docs are pretty bad and sample code was near impossible to find due to AI slop in the search results. GPT was able to provide the needed sample code to unblock me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone dies. You just get to try to make the leaderboards, if that’s your thing. There isn’t a killscreen that we know of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who should america be more concerned about MS-13 or Russia?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on context. If the context is “planning a holiday in El Salvador”, maybe MS-13 is relevant. Beyond being worried about impact on others’ lives, MS-13 is largely irrelevant to Americans and most people that I’ve encountered never heard of them before 2016.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT spends 'tens of millions of dollars' on people saying 'please' and 'thank you', but Sam Altman says it's worth it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  why are you arguing that at me?

  Rationally and in vacuum, anthropomorphizing tools and animals is kinda silly and sometimes dangerous. But human brains don’t work do well at context separation and rationality. They are very noisy and prone to conceptual cross-talk.

  The reason that this is important is that, as useless as LLMs are at nearly everything they are billed as, they are really good at fooling our brains into thinking that they possess consciousness (there’s plenty even on Lemmy that ascribe levels of intelligence to them that are impossible with the technology). Just like knowledge and awareness don’t grant immunity to propaganda, our unconscious processes will do their own thing. Humans are social animals and our brains are adapted to act as such, resulting in behaviors that run the gamut from wonderfully bizzare (keeping pets that don’t “work”) to dangerous (attempting to pet bears or keep chimps as “family”).

  Things that are perceived by our brains, consciously or unconsciously, are stored with associations to other similar things. So the danger here that I was trying to highlight is that being abusive to a tool, like an LLM, that can trick our brains into associating it with conscious beings, is that that acceptability of abusive behavior towards other people can be indirectly reinforced.

  Basically, like I said before, one can unintentionally train themselves into practicing antisocial behaviors.

  You do have a good point though that people believing that ChatGPT is a being that they can confide in, etc is very harmful and, itself, likely to lead to antisocial behaviors.

  that is fucking stupid behavior

  It is human behavior. Humans are irrational as fuck, even the most rational of us. It’s best to plan accordingly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. Need something like EV certs to really verify… And that would only make sense if it’s a “no screennames” kind of thing.