TheFogan
@TheFogan@programming.dev
- Comment on It always seems like its time to move to linux 7 hours ago:
I mean pretty sure winrar runs just fine on WINE.
Though perhaps it’s about seeing how many years into the 40 day trial you can go.
- Comment on It always seems like its time to move to linux 7 hours ago:
The actual history of the meme… it started as an MS paint sketch where they were looking to a flat earth. With just the first saying “WTF it’s flat” one behind saying “sorry fam”. The more popular follow up was one where they were looking, except the only land mass on earth was a giant state of ohio, and second astronaut responded with “always has been”.
Oh as far as the idea that they didn’t look at it in transit, no idea… though I suppose it’s more reasonable that this is the first spacewalk or whatever. Would imagine most the trip up, you’d be looking ahead rather than back at earth. Also I suppose depends on the subtletly or lack there of of what earth is “all”.
- Comment on What are the odds of a person getting poisoned by food delivery driver? How would the odds change if the person is a public figure (such as Twitch Streamers)? 8 hours ago:
More importantly even then… IE there’s absolutely been cases of streamers attracting crazy stalkers etc…
But proportionally they are extremely few. Would be insanely unlikely for the kind of person that’s obsessed with them, also being a door dash driver, happening to have come across the streamers address. (from my recolection of my very brief time helping my GF door dash, when deciding which jobs to take, you only get the restraunt and the distance, only learn where the delivery is going after.
So hypothetically even if I knew Logan Pauls address. I’d have to camp out near restaurants near him… time my working when he might be ordering, guess which restaurant he’s ordering from… Honestly it seems like a plan that would take years to hit all the boxes to go with… probably more efficiant to camp out on streets I think he’d walk down or break in to his house the old fashioned way if I already had that level of information.
- Comment on Why do European Leftist call their government's right wing despite having free healthcare? 18 hours ago:
Easy because the standards… in short the democratic party would be considered far right of acceptable in their country… our republicans would just be laughed out as so fringe it’s ridiculous.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
I think that is a current weakness that’s being worked on, I’m seeing requests of more or less that github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4485
to make it federate or block, but unless I’m missing much newer updates, that is kind of the problem. My guess is on the whole it mostly resolves itself as… he probably will piss off the mods of cafe eventually as well, and the limited audience of only being visible to cafe would result in a near shadow ban effect to mostly starve them out.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
That’s my understanding of it, I’m not an expert so… I’m only giving 70% confidence in my answer.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Put simply, Lets say hypothetically he’s like you on lemmy.cafe.
and we’ll say he’s posting to to lemmy.world/c/memes which he was banned from.
His post will show up to lemmy.cafe users connected to memes… but his posts will only show up on the lemmy.cafe version of memes. When cafe federates back to world, world will just ignore the posts and not share them.
In addition they won’t be seen by, lets say programming.dev here, while it hasn’t banned this person, it’s looking to world for it’s copy of the community, which will not have your friends posts.
- Comment on “It Wouldn’t Be Surprising If, in Two Years’ Time, There Was a Film Made Completely Through AI”: Says Hayao Miyazaki’s Own Son 6 days ago:
I mean the concept seems pretty obvious. Obviously it won’t be supprising when a film is made completely through AI… What will be suprising will be if it doesn’t suck.
I find it weird that this is being viewed as a difference between the 2, when to me the quotes seem pretty much the same. IE the father
father: “I see you did this, it’s terrible and I want nothing to do with it, it’s an insult to life”.
Son: “I don’t think it’s unlikely people will make a movie entirely through AI, whether anyone will want to see it is anyone’s guess”.
I don’t see any quotes from the son on his opinion of quality, and if anything I see skepticism towards quality. I don’t think anyone can deny, a lot of people are going to try really hard to make full movies entirely from AI. That’s as obvious of a statement as “people will try to make cars that drive themselves”.
- Comment on An AI avatar tried to argue a case before a New York court. The judges weren't having it. 6 days ago:
Again I think our problem is the concept of what we are calling “AI”. IE I’m only talking of basically AI Generated art/avitars. If done in a consistant way I don’t think it even quite qualifies as AI. Really just glorified puppetry. There’s no “trustworhtyness”, because it doesn’t deal in facts. It’s job is literally just to take a consistant 3D model, and make it move like the defendent moves. It’s old tech used in movies etc… for years, and since it’s literally dealing in only appearence any “hacks” etc… would be plainly visible to any observers
- Comment on An AI avatar tried to argue a case before a New York court. The judges weren't having it. 1 week ago:
The point is the idea, that in general a system could be applied where… say universally the same avitar is applied to everyone while on trial. The fact is “looking trustworthy”, is inherently an unfair advantage, that has no real bearing on actual innocence or guilt of which we know these bias’s have helped people that better evidence have resulted in innocent people getting convicted, and guilty people walking.
Theoretically a system in the future in which everyone must use an avitar to prevent these bias’s would almost certainly lead to more accurate court trials. Of course the one hurdle in my mind that would render it difficult is how to accurately deal with evidence that requires appearence to asses (IE most importantly eye witness descriptions and video footage). When it comes to DNA, Fingerprints, forensics, and hell the lawyers arguements themselves, there’s no question in my mind that perception with no factual use, has serious consiquences that harm any attempt to make an appropriately fair system.
- Comment on An AI avatar tried to argue a case before a New York court. The judges weren't having it. 1 week ago:
true, though at that point an avatar itself is unnecessary. Maybe that should be the standard, just change procedure to not ever bring the defendant into the court room.
Admitted I do suppose the biggest problem with the hypothetical goal of hide the defendant in the court room, is that some of the evidence is going to obviously require what the defendant looks like (Eye witness testimony, video surveillance clips etc…).
I do agree with the general gist though, if we could run courts without ever showing the appearance or even names of the people involved, it would be the ideal system to eliminate bias’s
- Comment on An AI avatar tried to argue a case before a New York court. The judges weren't having it. 1 week ago:
I mean honestly without the theoretical misdirection, I’d find this one of the better examples of a reasonable use of AI within a courtroom. IE it sounds like he asked to represent himself. He presented a video which, to my knowledge all the arguements were written by the person himself. Second the judge asked who it was he said the avitar is AI, presenting his arguements.
So in short, the only thing that’s attempted to be bypassed, are biases related to his appearence and speech.
IMO this concept could be the real future of trials if done right. Imagine say if we used say extreme facial tracking AI, hid the defendent’s actual appearence, but allowed the defendants to use avitars, that still map out any facial expressions and body language they make during the trial… but actually conceal the defendent’s actual race and appearance. We could literally be looking at the one solution to the racial bias… the reality that with the same evidence, race plays a huge part in conviction rate and harshness of sentences.
- Comment on Trump extends TikTok deal deadline by 75 days, touts 'tremendous progress' 1 week ago:
They hate my tarrifs… that proves they work!!!
- Comment on What actually came first? The chicken or the egg? 1 week ago:
ah yeah quite true, if the question is egg’s in general, then yeah, eggs existed before the first land walking creatures. I always assumed the question is meaning a chicken egg specifically. Of which the answer is still the same as, as assuming we as humans pick an arbitrary line to draw for being a chicken. Obviously before the first chicken exists, a creature just short of meeting the qualifications for a chicken, would have layed an egg of what we define as a chicken, to create the first “chicken”.
- Comment on What actually came first? The chicken or the egg? 1 week ago:
Accurate, but of course the real thing to note is in evolution, our lines and definitions of what a chicken is… is especially undefined. we just draw the line and call a particular creature a chicken… which is significantly more similar to the proto-chicken than a modern chicken is.
- Comment on Elon Musk and Taylor Swift can now hide details of their private jets/// Private aircraft owners can now ask the FAA to keep their registration information out of the public eye. 1 week ago:
can you explain where I’m missing here? unless I’m majorly missing something, is there a benefit for people who don’t own, or regularly travel in private planes?
- Comment on Elon Musk and Taylor Swift can now hide details of their private jets/// Private aircraft owners can now ask the FAA to keep their registration information out of the public eye. 1 week ago:
This is a good thing for us normal humans. More privacy is always a good thing. Let it spread further…
I mean do we have any reason to expect it to travel further? The system made a few billionares feel uncomfortable, now they don’t feel uncomfortable, the law isn’t going to expand.
If a face tracking or car tracking system were to go live. Billionares would find a way to exempt themselves from it, but make sure it was live for everyone else. The reason there aren’t exceptions made for this rule, are because there’s not a whole lot of poor private plane owners.
- Comment on 4-day work-week pilot due in tech land by early summer 1 week ago:
Great concept, now to find out how they sabatoge it, or ignore the results or just squash it. Just like all the work from home results from work from home after covid, with report after report of productivity going up, only for then every major tech company to decide to roll it all back.
- Comment on Age Estimation Requires Verification for Many Users. 2 weeks ago:
So… to keep you from having to give personally identifiable information, we just need a selfie, to put into our facial recognition program… that sounds soo respectful of privacy. No way AI has any means of, identifying a person from just a face. /s
- Comment on how is it to work everyday but Wednesdays and Thursdays? 2 weeks ago:
I also second that having 2 days off in a row, is better to recharge.
Now as far as making them not the weekend…
Pros:
Great for all the millions of takes forever tasks that can only be done durring business hours… need to update your drivers license, have any taxes, negotiate with the bank on things, or anything else that can only be done mon-friday in business hours… fricking awesome ease of options.
As also mentioned, socializing is the drawback… want to meet with a friend, date etc… well that’s a bit less fun, best bet is to do it on a worknight but still be ready to come home early enough to not be dead on your ass at work.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Piracy isn’t exactly enforced in the “break down your door, slap cuffs on you” behavior. 99% of piracy crackdowns in the US, are more or less your internet service provider detects you are running torrents of something copyrighted, and tells you that if they catch you again they are cutting your connection.
- Comment on A digital desktop toy shredder/incinerator for writing out and promptly destroying one's thoughts would be nice some days 3 weeks ago:
Reminds me back of in 2008, when thinkgeek was good. On april fools they released the “shrinter”, that prints and shreds at the same time.
- Comment on Why are Maries Sues hated while Gary Stus are loved? 3 weeks ago:
Isekai genre is kind of getting stupid bloated, and sadly an overwhelming portion of it is what’s come to be known as “power fantasy”, in which the main character, is intentionally made with as little personality as possible, because the writers believe that allows people to mentally “self insert” themselves as the MC.
Which I have to say, most people are considering the genre pretty tired, to the point where many of them are starting with paordies of the genre.
- Comment on Why I recommend against Bluesky. 3 weeks ago:
Hell I wouldn’t even say that… they don’t understand it, they don’t care to understand it, they don’t know or care what federated means. They went there because, it’s not currently nazified twitter.
I get that it’s “technically” federated… but practically it’s for all practical purposes just a proprietary program, run by a group that isn’t currently horrific. Unfortunately everything I see in it says, it’s every bit as vulnerable, and it can be good for as long as the owners care about not becoming a nazi propoganda machine. Actual recourse from it going evil… is non existant.
- Comment on Is anyone else getting failures to generate reports when reporting the constant spam from "Nicole, the Fediverse Girl" which originates from a different, new instance every time? 3 weeks ago:
Well yeah it’s still at best a cat and mouse game. Really I suppose the biggest red flag a system could detect is most likely sending out multiple DMs on an account with little other activity.
can’t really ballpark but I’m guessing the bot must hit several hundred if not thousands of us in rapid succession on creation (otherwise it would be a lot slower and only a few of us would have seen it).
That being said, auto detecting the links, contact information etc… would be pretty direct as well, as that would require every banned iteration to also remake whatever methods it tries to phish etc… as well.
- Comment on Is anyone else getting failures to generate reports when reporting the constant spam from "Nicole, the Fediverse Girl" which originates from a different, new instance every time? 3 weeks ago:
I’m assuming the issue is the new nicole has already been banned by the time you are responding to it, thus there’s nothing new to report.
Far as solutions, only ones I can imagine are I guess to allow instance owners to auto block and ban messages featuring certain words/sentences, and maybe auto delete messages from already banned users, in terms of technical solutions to getting ahead of the whack a mole game.
- Comment on X is having an up and down Monday 4 weeks ago:
Amen to that. I mean right now there’s also more reason than ever to convince people to leave reddit. (IE people being banned, not just for mentioning luigi, but upvoting comments mentioning luigi).
- Comment on Multiple Lemmy Accounts? 5 weeks ago:
I mean if you don’t want others to get to it.
Or if say you want to participate on 2 seperate servers that don’t federate eachother.
But in general a small hobby lemmy instance, can join all the communities on the large general purpose one. Hence, you are talking from a server I’m not familiar with, and we’re talking in a discussion on the largest most general purpose instance.
Only reason I can think of is if you are really worried of people confusing you for say a Deranged_Kermit@lemmy.world, or something.
- Comment on Is it a pattern for right-wing people to attack films, series and animations with protagonists from minority groups? Or is this an exaggeration? 5 weeks ago:
The only “grain of truth” I would say to the “woke movies” claims etc… Is that sometimes, studios will use minority casting, as a substitute for coming up with a good story or doing anything actually original in the plot. IE a shit movie with a diverse cast is still a shit movie.
I would suppose it also ties down to the fact that, actually trying to represent more people as a push, also started around the time that, movie costs scaled up so much that investors aren’t willing to go in on a movie that isn’t a sequel or remake of something that everyone has already seen. Movies now are more diverse, and 90% of them are crap, but the correlation isn’t causation, and that’s demonstrable by the fact that movies that have all straight white characters, are as bland and unoriginal as the ones that the right blames DEI for why they suck.
But yes… in short DEI, affirmative action, and whatever they called it before has always been the scapegoat for why everything gets worse.
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 5 weeks ago:
Best I can find links a sweedish page on the topic
fedia.io/m/privacy@lemmy.ml/t/1334785
It’s kind of odd I can’t find more sources which does make me a bit skeptical
