RaoulDook
@RaoulDook@lemmy.world
- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 12 hours ago:
- Comment on Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated summaries to Wikipedia 14 hours ago:
Novels are also not made to teach people how to read, but reading them does help the reader practice their reading skills. Beside that point, Wikipedia is not hard to understand in the first place.
- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 14 hours ago:
Yes, because here in the capitalist USA I am free to choose what phone and carrier I use, and what OS and software my phone have on them. The free market decided that I should have access to bootloader unlockable phones with open source OS and zero shitty Facebook apps spying on me.
- Comment on Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated summaries to Wikipedia 14 hours ago:
Nope. Reading skills are improved by being challenged by complex language, and the effort required to learn new words to comprehend it. If the reader is interested in the content, they aren’t going to skip it. Dumbing things down only leads to dumbing things down.
For example, look at all the iPad kids who can’t use a computer for shit. Kids who grew up with computers HAD to learn the more complex interface of computers to be able to do the cool things they wanted to do on the computer. Now they don’t because they don’t have to. Therefore if you get everything dumbed down to 5th Grade reading level, that’s where the common denominator will settle. Overcoming that apathy requires a challenge to be a barrier to entry.
- Comment on Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated summaries to Wikipedia 15 hours ago:
If people use AI to summarize passages of written words to be simpler for those with poor reading skills to be able to more easily comprehend the words, then how are those readers going to improve their poor reading skills?
Dumbing things down with AI isn’t going to make people smarter I bet. This seems like accelerating into Idiocracy
- Comment on The solution to many problems 2 days ago:
Good News! Cigarette Juice!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Send a DMCA takedown notice. If you are the copyright holder, it should be legit and they will have to process it quickly.
- Comment on AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid 1 week ago:
Dude we only need a few small nuclear reactors to power this new chatbot though
- Comment on AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid 1 week ago:
IDK that kinda depends on the writer and their style. Concise is usually a safe bet for easy reading, but doesn’t leave room for a lot of fancy details. When I think verbose vs concise I think about Frank Herbert and Kurt Vonnegut for reference.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 1 week ago:
I agree, when the government is inherently immoral (currently being run by fucking Nazis) the moral act is to defy it.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 1 week ago:
No, it’s only more difficult for those without the skills to use the Index or Table of Contents in a book. Which is not really much of a difficult skill to learn. You pretty much need to know about alphabetical order and how one is at the front and the other is at the end of the book.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 1 week ago:
Well, here’s how you figure that out - think about it with your brain. Should children and young adults be given materials and assignments that require them to use thinking and develop their brains, or should they be given machines to do their thinking for them so that it’s easier to complete schoolwork?
One route develops valuable brain skills that can be useful for life, and the other teaches dependency on fancy machines to accomplish the same.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 1 week ago:
AI is bullshit and has no place in a school curriculum outside of computer science. Keep that shit away from children if you want them to have any critical thinking skills.
- Comment on Why Balcony Solar Panels Haven’t Taken Off in the US 2 weeks ago:
Micro solar is doable for anyone with yard space though. Forget the grid and buy some battery storage, put all the electronics into a small shed (like a garbage can box or something, an enclosure to keep out rain). Put up panels anywhere you want. Run the inverter output into your house.
- Comment on Good shit 3 weeks ago:
Apparently it’s a manly man who does note receive negative man points for eating yogurt like a sissy. Non-yogurt males can only eat manly meats and must achieve constipation.
- Comment on Death Stranding 2 preview: how a big dollop of Metal Gear is expanding Kojima's bizarre epic 3 weeks ago:
Norman Reedus and the Funky Feetus 2: Death Gear Boogaloo
More Metal Gear-like sounds awesome. Article mentions equipment customization, more weapons, camo options for stealth etc.
- Comment on Prices are out of control 4 weeks ago:
That stuff would be about $50 or less total in my area, but I wouldn’t buy any of those but the butter.
- Comment on After they kill Wikipedia history will be AI hallucinations. 4 weeks ago:
That’s a good point, that is possible but not absolutely certain. I could probably get a smaller version of the wikipedia dump to fit on a BD-R disc but not 69GB.
USB drive or SD card archival might require a 6-month maintenance routine of inserting into a computer and verifying the files are still present etc.
- Comment on “The masters of the universe are Jews,” former US Senator declares in Israel 4 weeks ago:
Surely that won’t rile up any conspiracy theories
- Comment on After they kill Wikipedia history will be AI hallucinations. 4 weeks ago:
I did already, tried the XOWA client to run a local copy on my PC. Wasn’t as easy as I hoped but it worked.
Planning to get a couple of USBs stashed away with full copies of Wikipedia and the reader app for knowledge security. You can fit the whole thing with a working installation onto a 128GB USB or less. My install dir was about 69GB total.
- Comment on Open source text editor poisoned to target Uyghur users 5 weeks ago:
The difference is that in the USA about 10 million Americans have been out in the streets protesting all of the fascist regime’s abuses. The judicial branch of the US gov’t is also making efforts to block illegal abusive actions with moderate success. The difference is that in the USA we have the rights to fight these things.
- Comment on Future apocalypse movies won't have survivors scavaging abandoned cars. 5 weeks ago:
Correct, I have let gas sit for over a year and it still works fine in carbureted engines like my mower and motorcycle. I just pick up the gas can and swirl it around vigorously to stir up the parts that might have settled. Also this is only non-ethanol gas being stored, probably would be worse with the ~10% ethanol blends that are standard.
- Comment on Applying 'extreme heat' to lithium-ion batteries reportedly restores their capacity, and I think it's the sustainable tech breakthrough of 2025 5 weeks ago:
How did that process work? Did you just connect the +/- ends of the cell to the +/- 12v wires of the PSU and let it feed from the high-amp outputs? Imagine there’s plenty of amps on the GPU and CPU power wires
- Comment on Applying 'extreme heat' to lithium-ion batteries reportedly restores their capacity, and I think it's the sustainable tech breakthrough of 2025 5 weeks ago:
Yeah that’s a good point. Ours uses the same refrigerant system as the AC to cool the battery, and the actual “charger” for the battery is inside the car being controlled by its software etc. The cables that plug in on the outside are technically just power wires, with the charging brains inside the car. That would be amazing if they could update the software to rejuvenate the battery once a year or something.
- Comment on Applying 'extreme heat' to lithium-ion batteries reportedly restores their capacity, and I think it's the sustainable tech breakthrough of 2025 5 weeks ago:
Important note near the end of the article - they aren’t saying we should cook batteries really -
“The team’s hypothesis is that the structural disorder developing inside LIBs may become a “tunable parameter” that, if tweaked using chargers at precise voltages to alter said battery composition, could be used to rejuvenate the batteries in our tech without fires.”
This is a good old idea that goes back to the days of desulfating lead batteries with powerful shocks of high-amperage current. Might just need a special Healing Charger that applies the right voltage/current to dissolve the bad crystals in lithium-ion systems
- Comment on Overclocked Nintendo Switch Modded With 8 GB RAM Is Capable Of Running PlayStation 3 Games via RPCS3 Emulator Surprisingly Well 5 weeks ago:
Speaking of the M-cpu Macs and RPCS3, I got the old PS3 Demon’s Souls to work pretty well on an M1 + 8GB RAM Mac last year. Pretty nice to be able to play a “PS3 exclusive” Souls game on a Mac considering the total lack of Souls titles available for MacOS.
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered - Official Trailer 1 month ago:
How much is the horse armor?
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered - Official Trailer 1 month ago:
There is the Skywind project, but I’m not sure if any progress has been made in the last year
- Comment on US bans government personnel in China from romantic or sexual relations with Chinese citizens 1 month ago:
No sense in trying to dictate what dicks are allowed to do, that’s a job for God and the Church! Haha bazinga.
- Comment on The Duskbloods [Nintendo Direct | Nintendo Switch 2] 2 months ago:
Holy shit it’s Bloodborne 2 with jetpacks!
and vampires and T-rex tranformation
