TheFogan

@TheFogan@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there an actual picture of Mohamed or painting that we can view? Without pissing off all of Islam?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s something I find kind of amusing about Catholicism.

  Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

  I mean to me the whole concept of the catholic religion believing this is one of the 10 commandments. Then simultaneously praying in front of crucifixes or Virgin Mary statues etc…

  I mean Jesus you could half way go with assuming trinity and considering him god… but it explicitly says “in heaven” and doesn’t give any kind of “except of me”.

  Actually something kind of funny to me, it says “in heaven”, “on earth” or “in the waters below earth”. Assuming christian theology… the biggest exception that comes to my mind… is things that are in hell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the future, there will be a sad scene of widow watching AI porn of their dead spouse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Only problem is when dealing with things like, what happens when a cop demands to bury all videos of his police brutality scandal etc… Bottom line 90% of time when the pressure hits enough, the words don’t do it justice. Especially when the cops release the report using past exonorative tense etc… to describe things in way that downplay and obfuscate what happened.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VTT Virtual Tabletop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve long since switched to foundry, but I used to use

  www.rptools.net/toolbox/maptool/

  It’s not web based, but the clients are available for linux mac and windows,

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stupid sexy raft⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So… did this scientists great grandchildren invent reality TV?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  that’s true, but I think it’s in the phrasing, they describe it as a shortage of human made content. the bigger issue to note is the lack of ability to identify human made content. IE you give it reddit and our e-mails, there’s plenty of human made content on there… but nobody knows what percentage of it is actually bots or AIs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly I don’t get how AI isn’t rolling backwards already. Image sites are burried in AI slop. Social media posts are burried in AI slop, and now e-mails, that were probably written by AIs. How is AI even remotely improving right now, when obviously 90% of any new training data it’s getting, was generated by the last generation of AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s Sundar Pichai says the job of CEO is one of the ‘easier things’ AI could soon replace⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe he’s just Pichai is just really smart and trying to get the breaks slammed on the AI bubble before it pops.

  Listen if this works the way you think it does, half the country is going to be out of work. CEO: but our company will make a lot of money right, someone else is going to do it eventually anyway.

  OK, look if this works the way it is supposed to, we won’t need you anymore!

  Oh shit, hit the breaks, no more AI, it’s all a bubble anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In light of recent events, I'm really starting to wonder about Reddit, /u/MaxwellHill, and Aaron...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We should give a fuck about reddit, twitter, facebook etc… as controlling mechanisms that are poisoning the overwhelming majority of the population. Keeping an eye on their impact to society kind of matters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starlink rival ‘Project Kuiper’ rebrands to Amazon Leo⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My thoughts exactly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the US we have Breast Cancer Awarnes month and a bunch of others. All we do is throw money at a problem and hope it goes away How come the Gov don't take care of people from starving?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But then what leverage would horrible jobs have to prevent you from quitting if you weren’t worried of starving? and where is the money to start more wars and fund failing nations like argentina going to come from if we spend all our taxes helping the american people

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How hard would it be to trap gated communities by crashing dozens of cars into the front of their gates blocking them from leaving ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean… depends on how long you are looking to keep them in. Assuming the community is half way wealthy (which, kind of is normal), then cops and tow trucks would be pretty quick to respond, and well, blocking it with cars etc… would seem prohibitively expensive and legally troublesome (as there’s no way in hell it’s not getting traced to you).

  I’d agree with the concept, sabatoging the gate mechanism with a chain, or vandalizing the electronics would likely accomplish a similar goal, without abandoning an expensive vehicle that is easy to trace back to you. (which again, even in the best of scenarios is likely only inconveniencing the residents for a few hours).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm unsure what to self-host⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure that really works for git though… at least with regards to it’s primary usage.

  git isn’t just a backup… it’s about version control.

  IE the point is if you know what you are doing, you realize this function isn’t working in this edge case, you can search through and find out, when did this part of this file change… and what was it before, and it will basically find exactly that.

  If you encrypted it so that git couldn’t actually read the contents, then you basically reduced a crazy powerful tool, into a glorified dropbox. (IE yeah you could revert back to previous versions… but you’d basically be counting on your memory for what you changed when, if the git server can’t read the files).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm unsure what to self-host⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess for me it kind of depends on your definition of “self host” as 90% of what I host is a hetzner server running out of finland. because well that’s off site backups lol.

  my setup is.

  Local: Frigate (CCTV manager), Homeassistant (home automation), Matrix (chat).

  Remote: Mealie (recipe collection), Vaultwarden (works with bitwarden clients), Nextcloud (files and documents), Freshrss, gitea (github alternative)

  Now in terms of wanting an offsite backup, you are probably right, assuming you don’t have something offsite that you can syncronize with, and assuming you don’t have any major privacy fears of what is hosted, those things are probably best to use cloud for, assuming you are more worried of losing everything in a house fire, than you are of say the stuff being spied on by a 3rd party or caught by hackers.

  So yeah I’d say, personally in things I like to have self hosted… on site, probably I’d say a local messanger is good if you’d like a reasonably private communication for friends/family etc… Niche things like RSS readers, or recipe books, really anything strange niche you can probably search for some program to self host it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do air purifiers really reduce dust much?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the point being made is, dust doesn’t stay in one place. Dust on hardwood floor or carpet gets kicked up when you walk on it, leading it to eventually land on tables/shelves etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In franchises that establish a multiverse (ie the MCU or Star Trek) almost all fan fiction is technically canon compliant⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah there’s a lot of benefits to multiverse with regards to sci-fi and fantasy. Most obvious is allowing multiple writers to work on the same series yet take it in multiple directions and not need to be perfectly synced or needing to care about contradictions.

  Also allowing a 3rd author to basically do a best of taking elements from both incompatible universes (either via universal travel, or just make a different universe where things happened in a way to allow the events/characters they wanted from both other plots), and lastly a “what if things went wrong”. IE the common plot point of the characters getting to see a universe where, they did things differently or didn’t exist, and allow them to compare their world with that world. Which admitted is a fantasy we all have in our own rights, both on small level (What if I didn’t break up with my first crush) or global level (“what if japan didn’t bomb the US in WW2”).

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

  Just imagining future ads once data collection gets to more insane points. Just imagining AI scanning your facebook page, then pushing clothing ads with pictures of you in the outfits, or the new TV with pictures of it in your house etc…

  Honestly maybe we should get ahead of it… like intentionally make our facebook accounts showing some cave man living in a cave, and in 2 years when the advertisers start going stupid crazy… watch ads show up on it depicting a flat screen TV in a cave.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With how shitty some Christians are, you really have to wonder if Lucifer or Satan is truly "evil"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  lol yeah one of those things that is attempted to be fanfic to make him seem stronger… but in the end it does the exact opposite. If most the people on your side rebel, you either made or recruited very evil people that thought you looked weak. Or you were doing things that they found horendous enough they’d rather make a futile attempt and accept the cost of failure then take part in whatever you are doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With how shitty some Christians are, you really have to wonder if Lucifer or Satan is truly "evil"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly to me the whole concept of Lucifer as written in the bible to me, makes me question the whole thing.

  like 5 year old me was like “OK wait so how is this guy so stupid that he thinks that he went to battle against god, is he really stupid, everyone knows god is 100% perfectly all powerful”, then you think further and realize literally lucifer was supposedly like the closest angel to god, if anyone has a solid view on gods power, it’s him. Which honestly points to the idea that god… isn’t immortal, isn’t all powerful etc… he just uses that lie as a crux to prevent people from threatening him.

  Honestly the story of the tower of babel cements that even more. Now first of all if you’ve heard this story from christians… get rid of the pre-conception because usually preachers etc remove a lot of what is actually in the text, and add things that aren’t there. The story is not about stupid men trying to build a stairway to heaven.

  The story as written, in short, man was amazingly unified, world peace was achieved. They were building the tower as an enormous landmark so basically people could see their city from wherever they were, as well as just a testament to what they could accomplish when they worked together.

  God looks down at it and says "wow, look at these humans, when they work together, they can accomplish anything they set their mind to. They keep this up and they would be as powerful as gods. To which, god saw that as a credible threat, and so he smashed the tower, spread them all out, and made them speak different languages. Ensuring that they would be too busy fighting eachother rather then becoming a potential threat to him later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While I’m far from an expert on it… at best the dream simulations are still, extremely rudimentary. To the point that’s usually how you can tell it isn’t real by doing something like reading a book. IE it’s largely believable, but only because you are put in a gullible state. Like watching 2 year old AI videos, while stoned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean there’s that… but there’s also the fact that nobody has been stupid enough to break the seal on the Mutually Assured Destruction nuclear issue. Report after report shows trump is really really anxious to find a reason to use a nuke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I replace NPM?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  IMO the learning curve for caddy is almost non existent, and just about anything you might want to selfhost almost certainly has a quick simple caddy configuration you can copy paste with just updating the relevant domain. Personally learning curve for caddy was probably way lower than figuring out the edge cases of apache that I was using before

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did we go from being against fake pictures of the moon to accepting things like changing out the entire sky?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  was claiming to be able to take superzoom photos of the moon, but were actually just replacing the very fuzzy moon with a clear image

  theverge.com/…/samsung-fake-moon-photos-ai-galaxy…

  is indeed samsung that did this.

  Now you see, that’s the problem there… they were claiming to do X, but were actually doing Y.

  Just as lets say if we did have AI person removal… but you said "actually lets you see what’s behind the person that would obviously be a problem, as obviously that’s actually impossible.

  Likewise you hear space zoom… you have to point the camera at the moon… you assume that the camera is capturing the moon, and the image you are looking at is the moon in real time. Obviously not likely to happen but imagine for a second while you were looking at the moon through your camera, and say a meteor hit the moon leading to an enormous explosion and crater that would be visible through a telescope, or hell maybe something extreme enough that it’s at least partially visible even to the naked eye. The feature as described would let you see it enhanced in more detail than you could with the naked eye, while in reality it would replace the abnormalities and give you a picture of how the moon looks in it’s training data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are bots on lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This sounds like a post a bot would make!!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do they do with aborted fetuses?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m far from an expert on the topic, I believe things like unused tissue (IE also things like amputated limbs, bad organs etc…) is more or less cremated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do they do with aborted fetuses?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  from my understanding it’s usually donated to medical research, but due to some anti-abortion rhetoric falsely producing fake stories of them being sold, it’s otherwise discarded as medical waste.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This mom’s son was asking Tesla’s Grok AI chatbot about soccer. It told him to send nude pics, she says⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t have a tesla, not sure if there’s any way to test, but looks to me like the user at least claims she ensured NSFW was not turned on. and that gork was listed a just “lazy male”.

  I don’t dabble with it so I can’t say if there’s a way that could be turned on by mistake on grok’s settings elsewhere and it carries over to the car or similar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sora might have a 'pervert' problem on its hands⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean that’s basically the setup we have here as well. Problem isn’t that… well duh if you consent to your picture being on the internet this happens… The problem is, this genie is out of the bottle. For now Sora is, kinda half assed attempting to follow a “only use real people that have consented”. We already know, if it isn’t codified into law… these things will be adapted by companies that don’t care about the rules… and existing companies will also be more generous of what they can consent to etc…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fictional⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Degrees Celsius is based on freezing and boiling point of water, so if they came up with a base 10 numbering system and water is key to their biology, then they’d probably come up with that.

  Waters boiling point isn’t a constant though… it’s dependent on the atmosphere.

  Hell there’s also no telling if our preference to base 10 is relative to our number of fingers so neither of those are givens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's a part of my soul that needs 'cat lady' culture to be adopted by the mainstream like 'gamer' culture was.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You know what, he actually wouldn’t be horrificly wrong if he were actually pushing for something there. Lets say hypothetically our jobs, aren’t real work, and it’s no big deal that they are replaced… the actual intents of progression of technology… was originally that when the ratio of work needed to be done and people shifts… we’d work less for more pay etc… but no we just capitalism it and say “labor is in high supply, so we need to cut it’s price until people can find use for it”.