PeriodicallyPedantic
@PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I 4 days ago:
Like the fascist LLM example I gave, or a training simulator that is hard-coded to only present fascist ideology.
Right. That’s what we’re talking about.
But I think the bar is a little lower. I think it’s enough to be primarily useful for (eg) fascist goals. If it happens to have minor non-fascist uses, I don’t think that materially changes anything.
I don’t think that Lemmy is primarily useful for furthering tankie goals.I think that privacy invading surveillance systems are primarily useful for furthering authoritarian goals, by intention or not. There are some nice alternative uses, but I think that the use case of primary importance is in service to authoritarianism, which makes it authoritarian software.
- Comment on Sunday update from the Prime Radiant 5 days ago:
The generic dynasty is one of the main reasons I didn’t watch the show
- Comment on Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I 5 days ago:
Just because a product has a plausibly deniable use case doesn’t really mean that it’s not functionally political.
If someone creates a super invasive surveillance system and initially uses it for a seemingly benign purpose, that doesn’t mean the intention all along wasn’t more nefarious, especially if the system was practically irresistible for power structures and it’s use directly lead to authoritarianism. Like giving someone their first hit for free.
In a case like that, I would discount the benign use as a red herring, and say that the software is functionally political.
- Comment on Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I 5 days ago:
The extension of the argument I’m making (and maybe them kinda?) is that it’s functionally the same as if the software were political.
You can make software that nearly exclusively benefits a particular political belief for family of beliefs.
So even if it’s not actually technically political, it can be functionally political, at which point the argument is splitting hairs.
- Comment on Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I 6 days ago:
It does, but it doesn’t handle encryption at rest. Everyone needs to be aware that the immich admin can see their photos on the disk.
- Comment on Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I 6 days ago:
You don’t even need reasonably powerful hardware, I do it on my raspberry Pi 5. It just takes a little longer, which isn’t usually a problem except for the first time you import your library.
- Comment on Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I 6 days ago:
The other person deleted their comment so I can’t really know what the argument was, but I would like to make a distinction:
While tools cannot be political themselves, tools can lend themselves to specific political purposes.
A tank cannot itself be fascist, but it can make fascism more viable. Surveillance software cannot be political, but it is easily abused by fascists to destroy political opposition.
What matters is the harm and benefits. Is the harm caused by the tool justified by it’s benefits? Or are the primary use cases for the tool to prop up fascism?
(I suspect that “authoritarianism” would be a better term to use here, but I’m continuing the theme of the thread) - Comment on Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I 6 days ago:
Nextcloud is like Google drive, immich is like Google photos.
You’d typically prefer to look at your photo albums in Google photos instead of Google drive. - Comment on Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I 6 days ago:
I’m running it on in docker and I’ve connected it to my NAS mounted as a network drive. I set it up a few months ago, do it’s better since then.
Don’t even worry about the hardware, I’ve got move set up on a raspberry Pi 5. It’ll take a while to do all the classification on your existing library, but new photos get classified fast enough. You’re unlikely to need to do a smart search immediately after you’ve taken the pic.
For clarity, I’m not on Windows (obv, raspberry Pi), and I’m not using docker directly; I’m running HAOS on my pi, and I’m using the immich add-on. I know it uses docker, but I can’t tell you the exact command to run.
- Comment on WTF BIT ME? 1 week ago:
I’ve been summoned
- Comment on What's your answer? And in the picture which news story is being reported? 1 week ago:
I don’t think I have a single clear memory of any news story ever. I have vague half-remembered snippets.
The best I can do is 9/11 but I was well into my teens at that point, and even then my memory of the news itself isn’t clear.
I remember what my local news anchor looked like. That’s absolute it.
- Comment on chat is this real 1 week ago:
It absolutely has 6 floors, and counting as the Americans do with ground floor being floor 1, then the top floor would be floor 6.
I can’t find good photos so I’m using Google Earth, but I kinda agree with OP, I find 16 quai de bondy bears more resemblance than 6 rue burdeau, even accounting for foreground. Rue burdeau is way too close to those points of interest.
But as you said, it’s all inspiration anyways. Interesting that there’d still be some identifiable landmarks in the background if the foreground is all just kinda made up.
- Comment on What are you ladies doing tonight 1 week ago:
It’s not unholy, it’s just less holy. There is still one hole.
- Comment on What are you ladies doing tonight 1 week ago:
Wrong.
It’s called swamp water, and as kids we loved it. Mixem all up! - Comment on Internal domain and reverse proxy 1 week ago:
They’re looking for local access network access only
- Comment on It's a sad state of affairs... 1 week ago:
I’m not sure how you measure if bait was successful, but it is indeed a sad state of affairs
- Comment on Looking for opinions on Trilium Notes 1 week ago:
I was just testing it out lol.
There is also a graph plugin for an obsidian-like view, but it’s kinda janky.There is a beta AI plugin too, which (as much as I hate AI) is something I may try. The power of NotebookML is just too much, I wanna be able to ask it shit about my D&D campaign notes.
- Comment on Looking for opinions on Trilium Notes 1 week ago:
I was going to switch to trillium next, but in the end I decided not because it relies on a database even more than Joplin does.
I’m in the process of giving Silver Bullet a try. It seems to be pretty well designed. I don’t really like that folders are just cosmetic and not useful for navigation, but I like that it is open source, that the documents are saved in the file system, and that it’s hosted instead of synced.
- Comment on What if reincarnation is real, but you were probably plankton in your last life, so you don’t remember anything anyway? 1 week ago:
That’s the whole point of this post.
What if you do retain your memories, but your past lives were creatures that didn’t have the ability to form memories?
- Comment on Gotta get those tickets! 1 week ago:
That was a bit of hyperbole on my part.
The baby has hands, the hands are on the floor, the hands are soon to be in the baby’s mouth. That’s what I was getting at. When a baby is on the floor, floor dirt will be getting in the baby’s mouth.
- Comment on What if reincarnation is real, but you were probably plankton in your last life, so you don’t remember anything anyway? 1 week ago:
I would call all of those “something like a soul”; an embodiment of your essence external to your physical body.
If it’s not an embodiment of your essence external to your physical body, then it’s difficult to really call it reincarnation, since it’s not you
- Comment on Autograding tool 1 week ago:
This is basically what CI/CD pipelines do.
Compile the code, run tests, run static analysis. If results pass, submit the code. If results fail, reject it with an explanation.
Idk the details of how you’d implement this for a class, without letting everyone see eachother’s completed work, but I’m sure it could be done.
- Comment on What if reincarnation is real, but you were probably plankton in your last life, so you don’t remember anything anyway? 1 week ago:
I feel like there’d be a lot of ants and insects in there too.
- Comment on What if reincarnation is real, but you were probably plankton in your last life, so you don’t remember anything anyway? 1 week ago:
The way they die in old age does not appeal to me.
Growing forever, but eventually when they get too large, their shell becomes so difficult to molt that they die of exhaustion before they can complete their molt.
- Comment on What if reincarnation is real, but you were probably plankton in your last life, so you don’t remember anything anyway? 1 week ago:
I assume that belief in reincarnation requires belief in something like a soul to be reincarnated
- Comment on Gotta get those tickets! 1 week ago:
As in go play outside, and be with friends.
Not as in put your face on the arcade floor. - Comment on Gotta get those tickets! 1 week ago:
Right?
My concern is the cleanliness of that patch of floor though.
- Comment on "A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore computers are a valuable tool for law enforcement and the ruling class." 2 weeks ago:
When a human dies because a tool was designed with needless danger, the manufacturer is often prosecuted.
But again, I think you’re missing the point.
- Comment on "A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore computers are a valuable tool for law enforcement and the ruling class." 2 weeks ago:
I feel like you’re missing the point.
They’re not saying to jail computers, they’re saying be ware of political leaders using computers to abdicate responsibility. - Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 2 weeks ago:
The only complaint I have with this is that you can’t control which vents are open when you turn on front defrost. I prefer a button for each vent.
