Rhaedas
@Rhaedas@fedia.io
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 4 hours ago:
Yeah, that's terrible. We're already at Minority Reports levels, only still without a great AR device, only the phone itself.
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 5 hours ago:
One more step closer to the old Twilight Zone episodes where the machines come alive.
- Comment on 'TISM ALERT!! 13 hours ago:
Then the country's population will get better at math again.
- Comment on He's on a mission 1 day ago:
You're right about it being different. That's why the argument of driving in snow doesn't hold up. Driving in snow that stays crunchy snow *IS easy. Northerners who have that as well as plowing equipment think it's easy because it is for them.
The temperatures are another thing. They can keep them. Not a fan of negative numbers, regardless of which scale is used. Definitely not F, nope.
- Comment on He's on a mission 1 day ago:
Or it just stays in the conditions where it's more likely to sleet, which builds up and freezes into a sheet. Doesn't matter what tires you have, what 4-wheel drive, where you're from, or how much experience you have driving in snow... if there's a lot of ice on the road, you will hit some slick spots, and how sure of your being immune to physics will demonstrate itself.
- Comment on He's on a mission 1 day ago:
I understood that reference.
- Comment on Become unrecognizable 3 days ago:
There's only one on there that I simply can't do.
I can't stand the sun for long.
- Comment on pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned" 3 days ago:
Correct, which is why it should be pronounced just like the word that was meant to be typed, only replacing the "o" with a "p" sound. It wasn't that hard to figure out when it became a thing, people just like word drama.
- Comment on You have to be married to have a mother-in-law or father-in-law but you don't have to be married to have a brother-in-law or sister-in-law 4 days ago:
If anything the rest of our family has taken the lesson to heart to put into place things to protect their loved ones. And like you said, they could have done even a little to help themselves before it got too far, but for some reason they procrastinate, avoid or refuse help, and even lie and say they have everything worked out.
I hope your mom's situation changes for the better to protect her, and you. If their relationship with each other is still good (some get toxic) I would push it hard and use some guilt and hypotheticals to get him to do something official if he cares for her at all. And if not... now might be a better time to cut loose than it being forced on her.
- Comment on You have to be married to have a mother-in-law or father-in-law but you don't have to be married to have a brother-in-law or sister-in-law 4 days ago:
Some places are like that, and it makes sense. Others do not, and if there isn't some formal paper connecting the two then they don't get the benefits or penalties of making such commitment. I have a relative that lost their home of 35+ years because when the partner passed there was no mention in a will or any document of them contributing. Suddenly it wasn't their place to live.
- Comment on Everything Is Great! 6 days ago:
"This is fine."
- Comment on Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027 1 week ago:
No better testing than in production.
- Comment on Death of beloved neighborhood cat sparks outrage against robotaxis in San Francisco 1 week ago:
Some of us are old enough to remember how cats and other creatures would get killed by old car engine designs with the large open fan driven by a belt. They would sleep on that fan housing and not realize the danger when the car was started. So there have been improvements that have helped, maybe not necessarily for that reason. For what it's worth, I'm on the side of minimizing cars for so many reasons, but it has been worse for animals in the past.
- Comment on A hypothesis 1 week ago:
C-64 -> DOS (at school) -> Unix (at uni) -> Every Windows from 3.1 to Win10 including some NT -> Linux/Win10
That pretty much dates me, with that huge stretch of time.
Messed around with Linux a few times on and off (Mandrake was first), never took the plunge until recently where it's now my primary. And it's not Arch.
- Comment on With how shitty some Christians are, you really have to wonder if Lucifer or Satan is truly "evil" 1 week ago:
Heinlein wrote about this very topic in "Job: A Comedy of Justice".
- Comment on Check your candy 1 week ago:
Mmm, that iridium goodness!
- Comment on Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline 1 week ago:
Conversely, instead of blocking the data transfer, have it send false data. Maybe a few drop table inserts.
- Comment on Ernest is alive 2 weeks ago:
As a Mbin user, appreciate him being in the right place at the right time, even if his coding wasn't fully "ready" for the sudden task and he couldn't continue the work himself. That he made it open source for others to take and run with made a huge difference. Glad he's doing okay.
- Comment on Stay Golden 2 weeks ago:
That last scene with the dying torch... he deserved it, but that was disturbing.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 2 weeks ago:
Didn't anyone tell him he already missed it?
- Comment on Sad 2 weeks ago:
Federation and how things are pushed out is complicated. World is pretty big (it was one of the initial places during the first growth spurt from Reddit) but I don't know the current state of them allowing material from other instances. I think it's okay, I see a lot of world users in my feed, but I don't know what THEY see.
The caveat of making other accounts is that they are different accounts, so your posting and history are only there (although there was research on ways to transfer or share, but I don't know where that is atm). But if another instance is open to new signups, nothing wrong with trying them out, see if you see things differently, end up using that one if it feels more open.
Go visit https://lemmyverse.net/ and see what's out there. There's three big "types" now, Lemmy, Mbin, and Piefed. I can't tell you which is better, as everyone has their own take on things.
- Comment on Sad 2 weeks ago:
Since there's many different sources (federated) instead of a single one like Reddit, maybe how you're connected and being fed things is limited, giving you an impression it's less. It was much worse in the beginnings obviously, until moderators and instances grew and learned how to better pump things out. It still has its issues, depending on where you are.
It's also not equal to compare a still new network of Lemmy and others to a long established Reddit structure of niche subs for everything. At some point there were none of the subs we now see. Maybe some of them aren't needed at this time, as setting up a new community is not hard to do (moderating it and growing it is work though).
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Proper remake was the Cursed Halo variants.
- Comment on Why did Thanos, with the power of all the infinity stones, never think to try doubling the amount of resources in the world? 2 weeks ago:
They probably could if that was the command. However Tony wanted to keep what had happened in the five years since the snap so he didn't lose his daughter, so the second snap couldn't be to put things back like it never happened.
- Comment on Hundreds of public figures, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Virgin’s Richard Branson urge AI ‘superintelligence’ ban 3 weeks ago:
That's a reasonable definition. It also pushes things closer to what we think we can do now, since the same logic makes a slower AGI equal to a person, and a cluster of them on a single issue better than one. The G (general) is the key part that changes things, no matter the speed, and we're not there. LLMs are general in many ways, but lack the I to spark anything from it, they just simulate it by doing exactly what your point is, being much faster at finding the best matches in a response in data training and appearing sometimes to have reasoned it out.
ASI is a definition only in scale. We as humans can't have any idea what an ASI would be like other than far superior than a human for whatever reasons. If it's only speed, that's enough. It certain could become more than just faster though, and that added with speed... naysayers better hope they are right about the impossibilities, but how can they know for sure on something we wouldn't be able to grasp if it existed?
- Comment on Hundreds of public figures, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Virgin’s Richard Branson urge AI ‘superintelligence’ ban 3 weeks ago:
I doubt the few that are calling for a slowing or all out ban on further work on AI are trying to profit from any success they have. The funny thing is, we won't know if we ever hit that point of even just AGI until we're past it, and in theory AGI will quickly go to ASI simply because it's the next step once the point is reached. So anyone saying AGI is here or almost here is just speculating, just as anyone who says it's not near or won't ever happen.
The only thing possibly worse than getting to the AGI/ASI point unprepared might be not getting there, but creating tools that simulate a lot of its features and all of its dangers and ignorantly using them without any caution. Oh look , we're there already, and doing a terrible job at being cautious, as we usually are with new tech.
- Comment on The fact that users are encouraged to include text descriptions with media content makes it perfect training data for AI. 3 weeks ago:
Web content should always strive to be more accessible. Things like AI should be better regulated instead. I think we've missed the boat on a big part of that though, should have legally clamped down on activities a long time ago.
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 4 weeks ago:
I've seen it in both forms online and in chat, but I'm also old so it might be a depreciated form. I'm a walking internet archive.
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 4 weeks ago:
Places would change up and down in tone and attitude since the days of Usenet, BBSes, and FidoNet. It's not the platform, it's the people. How the world is in RL affects how people talk online, and the world changes over time.
The simpler answer may be that your feed has changed some since you started and you're pulling in discussions that have a different vibe than when you started. Just as you can grow your feed by browsing around, you can cull certain places that tend to be darker by blocking people or instances.
- Comment on Windows 10 support has ended, but here's how to get an extra year for free 4 weeks ago:
If serious, whichever one works best for you. Lots of info out there to help steer you to a good match. There are some that will have a harder time than others thanks to Microsoft domination all these years.
If not serious. Arch, of course.