njordomir

@njordomir@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone have experience with Mumble?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My Minecraft pals used mumble at various points. It’s less polished than some options. I like the FOSS and the simplicity but the certificates confused me as a noob. Would still recommend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Kagy web browser worth it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, the intensified focus on duckAI and the worsening of search results are concerning for DDG. With that in mind, I trust them over Google/MS/etc. It’s important to me that a search engine follows my instructions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Kagy web browser worth it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Kagi gave me weird hype vibes like Private Internet Access. Very cult-sounding/ hard to tell what’s a paid advert when everyone is so rabidly opinionated and it’s a bit of a niche to begin with.

  I’ve tried it since then and it’s actually very good. I’ve used DuckDuckGo for years and 30% of my searches go to google for a second opinion. With Kagi, that number is more like 10-20%. It’s designed with users in mind and actually helps you find things not by actively subverting your will, but my giving you tools to build better queries and better results.

  I’m still trying to reconcile my thoughts about FOSS and such but the results are the closest I’ve found to early Google. I don’t care much for AI, but I used it to accurately identify an unknown wire connector on a cable I found and the model of a keyboard someone was selling in classifieds and didn’t actually list in the description (this one took a few tries).

  I’ve decided for now I’m going to put them in the same category as some of the stuff Louis Rossman is involved in which also isn’t the perfect FOSS licence though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought for a second they were AIing their potential customers into the ad image like “picture yourself at the game”, I’m sure that’s next… unconsentually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of those good fan subs got captured by industry insiders in the meantime too and are as bad as the flyers and search results. Companies excel at making the online as shit as the IRL.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t be shocked if it was only 15% that isn’t corporate swill. Even the reasonable sounding comments can just be a bot karma farming by reposting previously popular stuff. At it’s peak, Reddit was a chaotic bazaar of experts and wannabees building actual good communities. You could find the kind of researched, in-depth info no Google search would ever unearth again. Now Reddit is clearly riding in the same boat as MySpace and others, just in it’s own stupid extra-Spezy way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do you update software on your servers?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I do sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

  Is there any reason to not combine the commands since the output always prompts prior to changes anyway?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps they’ll be talking via a giant mesh of your neighbors doorbells, fridges, and televisions. Wouldn’t that be fucked up? Maybe they’ll stream to the police drones patrolling your neighborhood.

  I always wondered how an “ad-supported” Kindle would show new ads on the home screen if you only transfer books via USB and never connect via WiFi or wireless? Does it just reuse the old ads? How will the fridge do it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jesus hates American "Christians"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It sounds like we were similarly inquisitive children, perhaps to the point of making adults uncomfortable.

  My European mother is the reason religion didn’t fuck me up worse than it did. I was also forced to go to church as a kid, but even within our own family there were differences in thought and opinion that still managed to exist in civil dinner table discourse. My mother seems to have gone through her own questioning process, it just didn’t take her to extreme atheism but rather she arrived at more of a mystical Abrahammic monotheism. When I was older, I fell into the trap of religion on my own (Evangelical Christianity) and it’s changed the course of my life significantly in both good and bad ways.

  A decade to a decade and a half later I’m mostly over it. I’m comfortable with my current belief system and I live life openly and honestly with 95% of people I meet. If I had to describe myself I’d call myself a self-rolled Buddhist-Atheist.

  I’m not envious of those Christians with enough of a conscience to realize what’s going, but who are reliant on “American Christians™” for their community, support, spirituality/philosophy/introspection. They have difficult and painful decisions ahead of them. You can only ignore your conscience for so long, but the first to defect will be shunned and hated and will likely lose their entire social circles. That happened to me. They will also be susceptible, as we all are, to similar tactics and abuses as those doled out by their former religion. You don’t leave and suddenly become a mastermind at spotting abuse of power and become immediately immune. If anyone reading this falls into that category, I would recommend finding a nice, non-religious hobby where you see people from different walks of life on a regular basis. Bicycling groups, social dances, gardening collectives, etc. People are pretty nice outside of the bubble. You’ll be okay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jesus hates American "Christians"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a Buddatheist who grew up with both cultural Catholicism and later Christian Evangelicism.

  I like how this hints at the nature of the self. If I leave someone behind am I not also leaving myself behind?

  For me, ethical acts are those that increase the freedom of the self and others. We all suffer. That’s a fact of life. If we dissolve our concept of the self and acknowledge our link to others and the world itself we can see ourselves more as threads going through human experience. If we are kind to ourselves and “others”, we have a better chance at reducing that suffering.

  Imagine the time a stranger forgot their wallet and you paid for their coffee. A version of that experience could still exist in that person’s mind long after you die. It could get blended with other experiences and reinterpreted. It could be told as a story to a friend who was inspired by the act. The cascading effects of that person being properly caffeinated on that day could have world changing effects. In a similar way, I carry the shared experiences of my own ancestors and even strangers who have shared their stories with me. They are still alive as a small part of me because my true self is humanity or even some animating life force of the universe or something like that and the name that people call me just refers to the limited perspective and incomplete view I have of existence. Essentially I see existence as blinders limiting my perspective like a race horse, but the true self is a satellite view of the track. When I act, I do so based not only on my experience, but the collective experience of every perspective and experience that has been conveyed to me in every way, but I am still one human body, in physical space, subject to time. I hope that when I die, those blinders will be lifted and I’ll exist as pure conscious perception of everything that ever was is and will be. Able to see through anyone’s eyes, in any time. To feel any and every feeling felt my an animal or human. To view the entirety of existence as a completed masterpiece from outside time itself.

  You can probably see why I like the Buddhists.

  I find that when you acknowledge the interconnection of things compassion becomes easier.

  I hope that people rediscover that within themselves and others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Valve could easily enter the OS space. They have hardware and a dedicated user-base. They’ve built some good will with the Linux community. They’re already doing the work to make other stuff work well with Linux. I’m not always a fan of walking too close to the corporate edge with paid software and DRM and proprietary blobs and whatever, but at this point we have to figure out how to get everyone out of Windows, even 100 year old Grandma Geraldine who plays bejeweled on Facebook all day. I probably won’t run SteamOS as a primary OS, but if I could dual boot it instead of Win10 on my gaming PC that would lesson the pain of MS’s betrayal and the loss of some Windows-only games a little bit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jesus hates American "Christians"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Last night’s Southpark kind of hinted at this topic a little bit. I’m curious to see where they take it, but I won’t post any spoilers here because I don’t know who has seen it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hear you. I used to teach classes in a particular field and most people followed our updates and events on Facebook. I tried for years to change that and pry people loose from the Zuck. Mostly unsuccessfully. I agree with the other user who suggested bridging protocols. Bridge them then incentivise use of the good one and/or disincentivise use of the evil one to naturally encourage people to migrate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been seeing exactly that. Reading through these job descriptions is a bit depressing. I can’t virtue signal my lack of morality and unthinking subservience to my potential employer hard enough to make cutoff to become “Director of AI Shilling” or a “Dark Pattern Consent Violation Engineer”.

  I know the kind of environments that won’t work for me. This will always limit the jobs I can and can’t work and I’m generally okay with that. I would love some of that bountiful defence contractor money, but I can’t ethically justify doing work that harms others or limits their freedom. Advertising tech would have been a good fit for me… if I had no sense of ethics.

  It’s a tough realization that my gaming consoles, GPS Smart Watch, and fancy modern over-engineered car only became possible because tons of money was poured into building out related tech for defence and surveillance.

  I imagine the cognitive dissonance must be really strong in someone working for some of these companies that have monetized governmentally sanctioned or corporately opportunistic civil rights abuses. Then again, we’re often kept apart, working in our own little areas where we’re safe from having to see the whole horrifying machine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russian fake-news network back in action with 200+ new sites⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  " the pro-Putin posters known as CopyCop, aka Storm-1516, use self-hosted, uncensored LLMs based on Meta’s Llama 3 open-source models to generate at least some of these fictional news stories" - the Article

  So what? This quote is written in a way that makes it seem like that is the problem and the solution is that we need censored LLM’s hosted by massive corps (who definitely have our best interest at heart) using closed-source models and that’s how we end up with Real News™

  The issue is that we’d surrounded by morons who never learned critical thinking. To be fair, we all have our own blind spots. How about instead of trying to top-down legislate truth, we focus on teaching research skills, vetting processes, and learn to better identify and label misinformation and common misinformation sources.

  Maybe in 2025 all news articles should be voluntarily citing public and detailed source material so that people can better substantiate what is real?

  The enemy of my enemy is not my friend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Got my MILs ancient range/washer/dryer,all obviously from the 80s. Never gonna sell them; never gonna toss them. Parts are cheap and a YouTube video can show you how to install them. They’re old enough that all the anti right-to-repair garbage hadn’t really reached it’s peak yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, the more money/power/influence you have the more you deserve to be scrutinized and the more public your life should be. Once you hit $1B you shouldn’t be allowed to scratch your ass or pick at a nail without it being noted on your public record.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU Chat Control: Germany's position has been reverted to UNDECIDED⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The wildest part of this to me is the politicians exempting themselves. It may be different in Europe, but in the US, the politicians are often the child predators this legislation claims to protect against.

  The politicians claim “professional secrecy”, but shouldn’t you be increasingly auditable the more power you are given. Private individuals should have an expectation of privacy. Politicians, and those with power and influence should live in the open to protect from abuses of that power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought Diaspora was a decent sounding name. If it had more traction and actually pulled a sizeable diaspora away from Facebook it would have fit better than Facebook, Twitter/X, or Instagram’s names.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a base model around that time frame. Good safety ratings for its time but the car isn’t integrated with the touchscreen so while it’s already a dumb-car, I could make our even more simple by tearing out the radio and installing one without a screen. Makes me happy to know I’m not obligated to fix it if the radio breaks because I drive maybe 30-40 miles a week and would rather keep my money than shell out for all the gimmicks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Talking to Technology Executives Like They Have Anything to Say⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Toothpaste is for brushing your teeth, not filling the nail holes in the patchy drywall that is our economy! :-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Michigan GOP Lawmakers Propose Total Ban on Porn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re just making a market for someone to compile a 1TB “Best of the Best Cumpilation”, copy it to a handful of cheap terrabyte drives and resell them (to legal adults) in a verification state.

  • This comment should not be read as condoning copyright infringement, but rather as a commentary pointing out that prohibition instantly creates very easy to serve and lucrative black markets that will be filled by someone.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Justice Department Sues Uber for Denying Rides to Passengers with Service Dogs, Wheelchairs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To me this sounds like a fundamental problem with their business model. Private vehicles used for public transportation by people who aren’t well-trained commercial drivers.

  I have always thought it was sketchy that we let random people in the US be commercial drivers for Uber without forcing them to get a new type of license or earn some kind of state certificate because most people are absolutely shit drivers and beyond that, there are rules for dealing with people (in this case disability stuff) that you should know if you drive the public.

  Would you get in a car with that dude “Chad” who hangs out behind the bowling ally, or that chick “Tammy” who learned to drive from her highschool boyfriend who was a year or two older than her and basically got a rubber-stamped license because the US doesn’t actually take driver safety seriously?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After intensive lobbying by tech companies, Colorado has delayed implementation of its landmark artificial intelligence law⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lame, Colorado is usually one of the most reasonable states. Polis is a decent Governor too. I never saw any of the bad stuff that was allegedly supposed to happen after we forced employers to post pay ranges with jobs, so I don’t really expect anything bad to come from regulating AI.

  If we put strict guardrails and penalties with teeth around AI companies, they may go elsewhere, where they can act more unethically. That’s fine with me because Colorado already has water issues and I feel like we manage to be progressive without trampling all over personal liberties. I also feel like a good portion of people in this state are real people who haven’t had the idealism trampled out if them completely and still give/get good intentions.

  Shit, I’m getting the itch to submit a citizens initiative to make the whole state an AI free zone right now. As for the AI decision-making, how about real, concrete, enumerable criteria. Vibes are not a suitable way to make big decisions. Fuck-off with your AI datacenters and opaque algorithms. Coloradans deserve to know how they’re being treated. Anything that complicates that or makes it harder to understand is a tool of tyranny.

  Yes, that’s going a bit overboard, but so is hammering me with AI propaganda from the moment I wake up until after I go to sleep every day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instagram Caught Hiding Posts That Say "Immigrants Make the Country Great"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Signalled you post “stories”. Not sure exactly how it works because I’m not into that sort of thing, but it might be something to check out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best Practice Ideas⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The cables seem to increase exponentially don’t they? First, you have a few computers and a half dozen cables powering things and linking everything together, then you add a couple servers, maybe a second nic on your NAS, and another switch or two since things are now further from the router. Suddenly your office looks like a giant bowl of spaghetti covered in prop 65 stickers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AOL will stop offering dial-up internet service after more than 30 years in business⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was sorting through a box of CDs recently and found a handful of shrinkwrapped AOL disks. Looks like they go for a few bucks each on eBay now, probably for the novelty factor or as frisbees. I should have stashed a few more. :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I could probably learn a lot from the thread. If I don’t clean it while it’s still warm, I tend to resort to coarse salt, a bit of oil, and a scrubby sponge. Either way, it’s not easy for me to clean, especially after eggs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there gospel music minus the gospel?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You might find some of those influences in PJ Morton’s music. Sample: youtu.be/2F9pL06IC8k

  C2C has a really cool electro-gospel song that doesn’t have overly religious lyrics, though it captures the vibes excellently: youtube.com/watch?v=tvY7Nw1i6Kw

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the difference between a platonic and a romantic relationship?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed, and friends are great. To expand even further: The fact that romance/friendship exists as a dichotomy rather than a spectrum or a pick-and-choose DIY relationship grab bag is testament to the way many people expect their partner to be their person, their one and only, when in reality we should be in the supportive community of friends and want the same for our partners. I want my partner to have friends because I can’t put up with their shit 24/7 … and vice versa!

  There’s also a stereotype about the friend zone, but even as a straight dude I’ve dated a few friends. The key is to date people you like as your friends, not to pick your “friends” so you can get close enough to date them. It’s friendship+, not friendshipOR.