thfi

@thfi@discuss.tchncs.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would you study anything with literature if you had never read a book before? This sound like a colossal waste of time and money. My theory is that if you were good at anything or had an interest in a particular topic, you would study something else like engineering, medicine, or law (I exclude the case that you may be genuinely interested in literature). Thus, many of those who study literature have no idea what they should study else and probably think that they can always get through a course which is about book. Why? Probably rich family pressured them into studying instead of posting stuff on Instagram or TikTok.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Edge gets "unfair advantage", browser makers claim⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Please submit a second copy of that letter, but replace Windows with Android, PC with Mobile, Microsoft with Google, and Edge with Chrome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Those would be harvested to train LLMs even without asking first. 😐

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a universal basic income started today with the stipulation that you had to put 40 hrs/wk towards making the world a better place or solving societal problems, how would you spend your time?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What comes to mind:

  • Collect trash in nature
  • Demonstrate in front of parliaments if politicians are about to make stupid laws
  • Demonstrate outside of billionaires’ properties demand that they pay their fair share to society
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self hosting video streaming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  #Peertube got already mentioned, but just serving video files may already suffice. Modern webbrowsers are capable of playing videos. Some tweaking of parameters may be necessary when encoding them. Also, no frills such as dynamic adoption of bitrate/quality or high-level stuff like commenting, likes, or subtitles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DNS providers for privacy & adblocking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For some reason, OpenNIC is missing in this comparison:

  Looking for an open and democratic alternative DNS root? Concerned about censorship? OpenNIC might be the solution for you!