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- Comment on If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop? 9 hours ago:
Unpopular opinion: I have a second phone logged into my kid’s YT account. I train the algorithm while he’s sleeping.
It takes a significant time, and YouTube doesn’t have good options for blocking content, but it helps keep out the worst of the brainrot.
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- Comment on Looking for PDF collaboration 4 days ago:
I can’t attest to any as I don’t use PDFs this way, but here are a few links:
All of these are self-hostable and FOSS. I’m not sure about NextCloud integration.
- Comment on Looking for PDF collaboration 4 days ago:
I think you may be thinking of LibreOffice
- Comment on Is self-hosting on personal computer practical? 6 days ago:
Yeah, it’s better if you can have the computer on all the time, but it only needs to be running when you access it.
I’m not that familiar with FreshRSS, but in general apps will only update at opening (not in the background) for most syncing operations. You may have to do more manual syncing than you would like.
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- Comment on 6 days ago:
It definitely works. Mastodon doesn’t have threaded conversations, so if it is complex, then it can become hard to follow.
If it’s a simple post/reply then it is not confusing at all.
- Comment on Is ice heavier than water? 1 week ago:
Water is weirdly one of the only materials that is lighter (less dense) in its solid form. That’s why ice cubes float.
When a mass expands, it ALWAYS becomes less dense.
Water does not “trap” air molecules as is freezes, although water may contain dissolved gasses.
- Comment on [REDACTED] 1 week ago:
One of the weirdest facts I know is that “pter” means wing and “helico” means spiral, so a wing that moves in a helix is a helico-pter. That’s the root, not heli-copter.
- Comment on [Serious] If a human is trained by AI slop and then they make something with their own hands, is it still art? 1 week ago:
I think it’s fair to say not all AI is AI slop.
- Comment on Check mate, atheists. 1 week ago:
I’ve shared several peer reviewed papers that show the opposite.
- Comment on Check mate, atheists. 1 week ago:
Science doesn’t take anecdotes.
Most food pantries and beds for the homeless in the USA are faith based. Here are the scientific papers that show it.
Assessing the Faith-Based Response to Homelessness in America: Findings from Eleven Cities
- Comment on Check mate, atheists. 1 week ago:
People claim money actually exists, too. It’s not an inherent property of human existence. It’s just an organizing principle that helps us coordinate resources.
It would be stupid if the main argument we had about money was whether on not it “exists.” By “stupid” I mean that it is counterproductive to the goals of bettering humanity. We don’t get anywhere with that discussion. Instead, we talk about how we should use use money as a tool to better organize our society. We talk about equity and advancement and poverty.
It’s the same with religion. It’s been well studied that religion offers social benefits:
Association between spirituality/religiousness and quality of life 2021
Assessing the Faith-Based Response to Homelessness in America Image
63.2% food pantries are identified as being faith-based food pantries
With this being Lemmy, I don’t have to highlight the negative consequences of religion.
The point is that we should be advancing beyond the kindergarten level discussion about what’s real and what’s make-believe. Intelligent people should instead be engaging on how we can ensure religious beliefs are fostering social trust, or how to recognize and combat religious extremism.
- Comment on Check mate, atheists. 1 week ago:
Why make an ideological argument against ideologies?
Science also led to eugenics and atom bombs. Religion also builds food pantries, wells, and hospitals. It is not about the tool but how we choose to use it.
- Comment on Pizza is a tomato pie. 1 week ago:
Now that’s a shower thought! I love it.
- Comment on Check mate, atheists. 1 week ago:
What a stupid premise to begin with. God is at least as real as money, love, or America.
All of these are useful ideas to describe things that cannot be “proven” with objective evidence, but still have a meaningful impact on the reality of our lives.
Arguing about the objective existence of God is a red herring. I wish we spent as much time talking about the very well studied social benefits and harms of religion. Then we could start talking about meaningful reforms.
- Comment on Pizza is a tomato pie. 1 week ago:
True, I’m just looking at it linguistically. We’ve had a thing called “pizza” in continuous use since 997 according to Wikipedia (I was unable to locate the source cited, but I don’t think it’s a contentious issue, so Wikipedia is probably correct).
- Comment on Pizza is a tomato pie. 1 week ago:
Weird thought - pizza dates to 997 CE, that’s over 500 years before tomatoes were introduced in Italy. Most of the existence of pizza has been without tomato.
- Comment on who was the aggressor in cold war? 1 week ago:
Two powers wanted to build a politically favorable buffer zone, but it was the same buffer zone.
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- Comment on The ‘doorman fallacy’: why careless adoption of AI backfires so easily 2 weeks ago:
It turns out that people are better at most things than non-people.
- Comment on Can someone ELI5 RSS/Atom feeds? 2 weeks ago:
It can absolutely be local.
For podcasts I use AntennaPod, for news I use Feeder. Whatever your use case, there is probably a local, well-made FOSS option.
Nonlocal uses have additional capabilities, such as syncing across multiple devices. I also use gpodder.net for podcast syncing, although there are self-hosted options for this as well.
- Comment on AI Electric Bills 2 weeks ago:
Yep. It’s the same reason everyone has to pay more for RAM now, even though consumers didn’t cause the shortage.
- Comment on AI Electric Bills 2 weeks ago:
Naw, they’ll just declare bankruptcy and the municipalities will foot the bills for the infrastructure debt.
Basically, have you even seen the Simpsons monorail episode? It’s that.
- Comment on Do rich people in landlocked countries have yachts? 2 weeks ago:
The yacht crowd isn’t really concerned with national borders.
- Comment on Peak technology 2 weeks ago:
Actual photo of my mind.
- Comment on Tthe happiest meal! 3 weeks ago:
I hate these old pictures that show the prize but never the meal.
- Comment on How come hypothetically if I make meth in my home. Knowing full well it could explode and take out my neighbors houses, why am I not charged with attempted murder? 3 weeks ago:
If someone were killed, you could be charged with murder because you’re taking actions that could reasonably result in death.
IANAL
- Comment on How come hypothetically if I make meth in my home. Knowing full well it could explode and take out my neighbors houses, why am I not charged with attempted murder? 3 weeks ago:
There are all sorts of additional charges that might be piled on, like reckless endangerment or child endangerment if there are any children in the immediate vicinity.
- Comment on Anish Kapoor 3 weeks ago:
Vanta sushi
