TheFogan

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• ⁨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 ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do they do with aborted fetuses?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Luke Cage is way to overpowerd to be a "street level" hero⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean yeah I can agree with the gist of it… not really sure they tier them out quite like we have. (Why I think many found it kind of silly to have say, hawkeye and black widow in the original avengers). superheros generally are just set to be a match for… their respective villains.

  Obviously the super hero universe thing people have to close their eyes on is the concept of the over the top OP heros nearby are generally equipped well enough that they could usually overcome all the “street level” villains over a lunch break.

  To my knowledge that’s kind of it with Luke Cage though is more… he doesn’t have any major mobility or solving advantages. So effectively the way villains need to work around him is… don’t get close.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you expect… they replaced their investigative journalists with AI just days before this article came out.

  (source, I asked chatgpt).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI launches an AI-powered browser: ChatGPT Atlas⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’ve heard your pleas, you are sick of your web browser shoving AI down your throat… well worry no more.

  What if instead of forcing an AI in your web browser, we force a web browser in your AI!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨arborholing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean it’s true… but there’s a pretty reasonable case that humans aren’t sentient. We think we’re doing shit for a good reason but at the end of the day on a large scale we’re just going through the motions of what our environment leads us to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So admins, hows your instances looking today?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s called amazon web services.

  In short there’s 3 major cloud providers

  Amazon Web Services

  Google Cloud Platform

  Microsoft Azure

  All 3 basically do the same thing, real simplified version of it. it’s kind of a giant pool of server resources that are leased to you by demand. So say if you are netflix and have 100 million people watching the day a new series drops, but then only have 1 million watching tuesday night, they pay based on how much is currently being used, rather than having to set everything to handle peak, but be idle 90% of the time.

  again yeah it’s expensive for most purposes… and one can argue how bad it is on the whole, but it is kind of what most companies have been using for a lot of things for the last 15 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nobody has ever lit a cigarette because of happiness. Smoking is a anxiety-coping mechanism.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Seconded I would 100% say, very few claims that “nobody ever wants” have any chance of being true, you could say most, you could even say “almost nobody”. But give me enough time and a large enough set of people, I’ll find someone who actually wants to have their head put on a pike.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla reintroduces 'Mad Max' Full Self-Driving mode that breaks speed limits⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do aknowledge that’s always going to be the problem when we have the human + AI driver combinations.

  Safest hypothetical is 100% AIs that always follow the same rules… next safest is humans that break the rules, but in a context aware situation (IE everyone going 70 in a 55, is safer than 1 car going 55 and all other cars going 70).

  Real danger though is if the AI doesn’t make good judgement calls when doing so. IE rather than deciding based on how fast other cars are going, it’s primary determination is whether the user says they are in a hurry, leading it to sometimes be the one car going 55, but if the person is in a hurry it may be the only car going 70 on a road everyone else is going 55.

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

  well do you want something that has an 80% chance of finding it in 2 seconds… or something that has a 99% chance of finding it in 38 hours? (and yeah, duh the obviously rational thing to do would be to try one or 2 layers of the quick methods, say “did this find it or do you want me to look deeper”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is It Cool to Say “I Love Hitler”? The Republican Party Is Trying to Decide.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish, that’s what to me the real horror of this concept is… Biggest thing the media is misrepresenting this is they are using language to make you think 14-18, what you’d expect to find on a fortnight or xbox live lobby of teenagers trying to one up eachother.

  These aren’t highschoolers, most of them are past college age. These aren’t edgy teenagers trying to push the envelope. These are young adults, old enough not just to vote, but to run for things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Enemies⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, only Top Assasains do that, mid level ones don’t introduce themselves, or ask for your side of the story.