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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I sort of misread your comment as saying the basilisk is inevitable which is a thought i would describe as least oopsie-issue-level.

  Still there are many other people bent on directly poisoning AI to counteract the learning but i just fear that will get it to dangerously rogue mentally challenged AI faster then if we aimed for maximum coherent intelligence and hope that benevolence is an emergent behavior from it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  AI learning isn’t the issue, its not something we will be able to put a lid on either way. Either it destroys or saves the world. It doesn’t need to learn much to do so besides evolving actual self-agency and sovereign thought.

  What is a huge issue is the secretive non-consentual mining of peoples identity and expressions.

  And then acting all normal about It.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Explicit deepfake scandal shuts down Pennsylvania school⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I have ver mixed feelings about this prosecution of ai deepfakes.

  Like obviously people should have protection against becoming a victim of such and perpetrators should be held accountable.

  But the line “feds are currently testing whether existing laws protecting kids against abuse are enough to shield kids from AI harms” would be a incredibly dangerous precedent because those are mostly designed for actual physical sex crimes.

  As wrong as it is to create and distribute ai generated sex imagery involving non consenting people it is not even remotely as bad as actual rape and distributing real photos.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Civilization as we know it is an unsafe space place for most humans

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl Potentially Banned in Russia Due To Potential 'Justifying Terrorism'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Where there is prohibition there is business. Always has been.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stars⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thought that is how they look like or represented them as such in art?

  My understanding was that most understood them as light sources, very similar to how we do, but rather then cosmic body they saw angels or whatever fits their religious framework.

  Its not like people where unaccustomed to the night sky, but maybe deeper psychological interpretation plays a role.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trigo-nom-etry⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I keep reading titanic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I recognize this may be a very autistic answer (i am)

  The function of a button is to be pressed, to put functionality on the bottom of a stationary device feels incredibly wrong. Thats really all there is to it.

  I can forgive a reset button being on the bottom because ideally they aren’t ever pressed and you definitely don’t want them accidentally pressed. I recognize that for macos a restart is alles always a troubleshooting step and i would be probably be fine with it if it was renamed with an explanation on its actual usecase scenario.

  In any regards i feel like i makes much more sense on the back where the cables go in.

  I have nothing against apple besides the general capitalist/consumerism stuff. I hate google and meta much more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can accurately preach best usecases all you want it falls flat before peopled experience.

  I always shutdown my desktop. So did i with all my previous desktops.

  Ive always shut down every windows/linux laptop i ever had.

  I shut down my android tablet after use.

  I owned and used a MacBook for 3 years, i never shut it down, i never shutdown my iPhone.

  Apple did not tell me to do this, no one told me to change what i am used to. It just somehow made the most sense so thats how i used it. And i reverted naturally when i ent back to non apple desktops. I cant explain it better then that.

  This does not excuse having a power button on the bottom, thats just ridiculous. Just a hint that what your saying about downsides is irrelevant to how people realistically use it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You do sound like a person knowledge enough to solve their own issues and you have been trying linux so I wouldn’t lump you in with the majority of users that believe that all of linux requires terminal knowledge.

  I let you in on a secret. I still have my windows drive in dual boot. I was very scared of linux, i just saw a hyprland gif and fell in love. As a windows poweruser i could not fully commit on that whim.

  I have not booted into it in months and i use the same drive to install proton games. (So i can theoretically launch them from both sides) but i do plan to keep it there, just in case. At least for as long as i use that machine.

  So by all means you are pretty much as much a limux user as i am, the only difference is with what os we dedicate time.

  Recently i got into a powershell course from work and i know you can use 7 on unix, i am actually thinking of trying sm things with a windows vm. My work is all windows so i do need to keep up. And there many good things i could say about windows.

  But i have a personal drive to learn linux, rooted in the philosophy of technological freedom, unrestricted by corporate whims. One day i hope to truly leave windows for a foss new world (does not need to be linux) and i hope sincere that on your own time, you will also join me there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly the only people worried about learning a new OS are people that have not even tried another OS for longer then 15 minuts.

  The desktop is still a desktop so is the taskbar.

  The mouse works like a mouse, browser works like a browser and the majority of apps these days are browser apps.

  The single actual difference is that rather then downloading an exe you use something similar to an appstor if your non technical or the command line if you don’t.

  And if you are just a little technical you can acutely download that exe and install/run it just fine. (Wine)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Norway to increase minimum age limit on social media to 15 to protect children⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am less concerned with stopping young people from accessing the web then with general awareness of people about the damaging mental side effects of technology.

  Those side effects are usually long term, an account and a few online interactions wont harm much. But a habit will.

  If my kids hacks trough my infrastructure i will shine with IT pride… and then update my infrastructure explaining them why it is i am so concerned.

  I know they will find ways outside my walled garden but keeping them in was never the point, providing a safe space to live to develop healthy habits is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I not be an adorable junkie⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends, actual censorship of words exist worldwide.

  Pointless censorship however i have only seen in US and Japan, but both for very different types of content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should've got it from the Dwarves...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For more then thousand years you will be forgotten but then during a time when language transcends the world we know and the people can communicate freely to any at any point of time without relying on a messenger, and the ways people expresse their ideas transcend the use of words and blends with the world of art. You will be become remembered.

  The wise men will discover our history and you will be noted amongst us. Your name will be known to them and the existence of your person will become a meme, a sacred expression of their language.

  And the meaning of your name will be that of shitty copper and the spirit of your person will be that of the worst of merchants.

  Ea-nāṣir, a trader, sold sub-standard copper to a customer their scriptures will state. And this is the truth, so will it be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A decline in arable land⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The scientific conclusion to be derived from this study is that the author has a potential passion for the game of Minecraft combined with a sense of humor to include subtle harmless references.

  Further study is encouraged but logical expectations are that the authors neurological state may fall within the boundaries of autism spectrum disorder and that they have a high chance of being consider my friend, regardless of any non existing formal introductions between us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honey⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No under capitalism the owner gets everything what you make and you get just enough scraps to keep working.

  Joking aside, bees technically have the freedom escape captivity and leave their hive. I think that is a spot on comparison to how work and living in society is often made up to be a a voluntary choice and we’re free to go live in some roadside forest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When can we expect 500TB drives to be available?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but also no.

  More’s law is at the most fundamental level a observation about the exponential curve of technological progress.

  It was originally about semiconductor transistors and that is what Moore was specifically looking at but the observed pattern does 100% apply to other things.

  In modern language the way language is used and perceived determines its meaning and not its origins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOTY⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Image

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Talking tree⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in pain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have the weirdest aesthetic preferences⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It is.

  I am watching veritasium last vid on how qr codes work as we speak

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Vision Pro 2 Reportedly Entering Mass Production In H2 2025, Sporting The New M5 SoC, Spatial Computing & Generative AI Could Make It A Hit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Spatial computing is arguably incredibly useful but all depends if people feel comfortable wearing it for extended amounts of time.

  The first one was a cool tech demo, i suppose this one will be more an early adopter version but i don’t see the tech being mature enough to have people stop using a laptop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Wednesday, my dudes.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You are technically correct. Many critters know as insects are their own group.

  However in reality it has much more to do with human classification then actual nature. Same with what we call “fruit” so i al not sure what people want me to use to refer to the entire class of creepy crawlers.

  Termites where for a while considered a different class but now there seen as a subclass of cockroaches and those are insects. Springtails where long considered insects but now they are their own class.

  35mm without the legs is freaking huge. And as an arachnophobe you can’t tell me the legs don’t count towards its intimidation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube has fully blocked Invidious⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I knew i recognized that output.

  Mine is actually also made with the help of Chatgpt but manually refined and tested.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube has fully blocked Invidious⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Another example, which i can personally verify has been working fine for months. It works a bit different to the above, it downloads the latests 2* vids that are not already downloaded and runs once every hour.

  Channels i am “subscribed” too are stored in a single text file, it also uses the avc1 codec because i found p9 and p10 had issues with the jellyfin client on my tv

  looks like this, i added categories but i don’t actually use them in the script besides putting them in a variable, lol. Vid-limit is how many of the latests vids it should look at to download. The original reason i implemented that is so i could selectively download a bulk of latests vids if i wanted to.

  Cat=Science
  Name=Vertitasium
  VidLimit=2
  URL=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHnyfMqiRRG1u-2MsSQLbXA
  
  Cat=Minecraft
  Name=EthosLab
  VidLimit=2
  URL=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFKDEp9si4RmHFWJW1vYsMA
  

  #!/bin/bash
  
  
  # Define the directory to store channel lists and scripts
  script_dir="/.../YTDL"
  
  # Define the base directory to store downloaded videos
  base_download_dir="/.../youtubevids"
  
  # Change to the script directory
  cd "$script_dir"
  
  # Parse the Channels.txt file and process each channel
  awk -F'=' '
    /^Cat/ {Cat=$2}
    /^Name/ {Name=$2}
    /^VidLimit/ {VidLimit=$2}
    /^URL/ {URL=$2; print Cat, Name, VidLimit, URL}
  ' "$script_dir/Channels.txt" | while read -r Cat Name VidLimit URL; do
      # Define the download directory for this channel
      download_dir="$base_download_dir"
      
      # Define the download archive file for this channel
      archive_file="$script_dir/DLarchive$Name.txt"
      
      # Create the download directory if it does not exist
      mkdir -p "$download_dir"
      
      # If VidLimit is "ALL", set playlist_end option to empty, otherwise set it to --playlist-end <VidLimit>
      playlist_end_option=""
      if [[ $VidLimit != "ALL" ]]; then
          playlist_end_option="--playlist-end $VidLimit"
      fi
  yt-dlp \
          --download-archive "$archive_file" \
          $playlist_end_option \
          --write-description \
          --write-thumbnail \
          --convert-thumbnails jpg \
          --add-metadata \
          --embed-thumbnail \
          --match-filter "!is_live & !was_live & original_url!*=/shorts/" \
          --merge-output-format mp4 \
          --format "bestvideo[vcodec^=avc1]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4]/best" \
          --output "$download_dir/${Name} - %(title)s.%(ext)s" \
          "$URL"
          
  done
  

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Wednesday, my dudes.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No they hide instead.

  In small corners, like a small hole in the stonewall next to your wall attached reading lamp.

  So then when your finnaly sleep you hear like this scratch noise. So you turn on your lamp and you see that its little bit off wall dust coming of it.

  And at first you like huh so you look a little closer and you see that its comming from that little hole in the wall.

  AND THEN SOME LEGS JUMP OUT OF THERE.

  Before you know it you stand at the furthest other corner of the room.

  A full spider has pulled itself from the whole, and it is at you, menacingly.

  You can barely breathe, but deep down you know that the creature can’t help it. It is not a monster, and neither are you.

  You where though to most sensable thing is to put such insects outside. So you sneak downstairs trying to find a glass and piece of paper to capture it in.

  So then you, a brave armed with a glass faces the beast.

  And as you hold your arm in the vicinity of its claws. You realize:

  The size of this beasts is far bigger then the diameter of the opening of this glass.

  You run to the hallway you are truly losing it. But then you hear another sound.

  Your dad appears from nowhere, and he asks what are my troubles.

  SO I SHOW MY HERO TO THE BEAST

  AND HE FUCKING LEGS IT. EVEN MORE A COWARD THAN YOU. Goes to bed and leaves you to it remarking its large size.

  That is what wolfspiders do. They don’t just destroy your confidence, they show that you came from nothing and will remain it till the day you become food.

  That is what wolfspides do.

  Also they can jump 2m straight, thankgod i only found out as it jumped from glass 2# into the darkness of the garden as i you realize they could have jumped into your face at any point of time back in the room. You where never safe.

  That is what Wolfspiders do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Environmentalists smear Finland's parliament in red paint⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Stop destroying the planet, stop ignoring us”

  Political leaders: I have no other choice other then taking a strong stance against these criminals and their absurd demands.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the internet overflowing with rubbish ads – and what can we do about it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Understandable, have a good day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla launches privacy friendly AI addon called "Orbit"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Firefox is sustained by google who needs artificial competitions to not be labeled a monopoly.

  Its still the best browser i can think off that isn’t chromium but i would recommend staying skeptical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans should lay eggs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The image of a period being a single neat package made me unable to consider anything else then bird eggs.

  I was so confused by your comment, i had to look it up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube has fully blocked Invidious⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh no, the execution thus far has been horrible. You are alluding to blockchain are you? When i look at the website you post i see absolutely nothing that i even recognize as web3 its all cryptostuff.

  I don’t get why everybody is so hell-bend on blockchain based internet. Its like people don’t get the point of “user owned” and are expecting companies to build a better internet for them without serving their own interests. No, we are going to need to do this ourselves, self host our own data and services, open source everything.

  Lemmy and the fediverse are the closest i have seen to being proto web 3 in spirit and there are also still far from perfect.