VeganCheesecake
@VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on What host names do you use? 1 day ago:
Finally someone who actually uses a Vostro. Always found that name unreasonably funny.
- Comment on What host names do you use? 1 day ago:
I set up my current desktop while reading Gaiman’s The Sandman, so it’s called Morpheus. Because I felt I needed to keep with the theme, my laptop is hades, my phone persephone, my server apollo, my router helios, the media centre PC is orpheus, the pi that boots and updates it put of usage hours is eurydice, and the pi that runs home assistant is zeus (because it’s responsible for light(n)ing.
Oh, and the work profile on my phone is sisyphos.
- Comment on when all else fails 1 day ago:
I mean, didn’t he do that Carlson interview a few days ago? I wouldn’t put it past Trump to pardon him, as long as he keeps on message and drums up some attention.
- Comment on uhh… my ex girlfriend and long-time friend is now cishet, very christian, and makes those “i identify as” jokes regarding trans people. would it end up bad for me if i continued to be her friend? 3 days ago:
That’s bullshit, I’m good friends with several ex-partners. Might not work for some people, but definitely not a general rule.
- Comment on This speaks for itself 4 days ago:
The last time I ate McDonald’s, I arrived in Pasewalk, a tiny town in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern on a mich delayed train at 2 in the morning. They where the only place that was open, and I hadn’t eaten since noon.
That burger was kinda OK, but it might have been the circumstance. They stopped selling vegan burgers anyway, so whatever.
- Comment on Can I still consider myself a “young woman” after I turn 24? I turn 24 in March (next month). 1 week ago:
Yeah, but that’s why I don’t think fertility is a good measure of age in any way.
I don’t disagree with the numbers, I just don’t think they’re bound to any one aspect of the human body, nor do they need to be.
- Comment on Can I still consider myself a “young woman” after I turn 24? I turn 24 in March (next month). 1 week ago:
Not my experience, but that might depend on the people one interacts with. I’d also say that coupling being young to such a gendered parameter is questionable. When does someone who’s biologically male stop being young? What about people who can’t reproduce?
- Comment on Can I still consider myself a “young woman” after I turn 24? I turn 24 in March (next month). 1 week ago:
I dunno, to be honest. But for me, reproductive changes are a consequence of age, not the other way around. No single factor feels like it in itself is a sensible definition.
- Comment on Can I still consider myself a “young woman” after I turn 24? I turn 24 in March (next month). 1 week ago:
That’s a really weird definition of young.
- Comment on Apple turns off iCloud encryption feature in UK following reported government legal order. 2 weeks ago:
No? Kinda? I’d say a Pixel (so Google hardware, yeah) with Graphene, and either self-hosted, or independent end-to-end encrypted could storage.
There are alternatives to the tech conglomerates.
- Comment on The US Is Considering a TP-Link Router Ban—Should You Worry? 2 weeks ago:
There’s quite a few TP-Link Models that can be flashed with open source firmware. The ones I helped friends and family with seemed to get software updates consistently after being discontinued.
This isn’t an all out endorsement, but I’ve certainly seen worse.
- Comment on HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback' 2 weeks ago:
What did you do with the school bus?
- Comment on Amazon is changing what is written in books 2 weeks ago:
Rather annoying. You would think that it shouldn’t make a difference whether or not a mounted drive is present in the machine. I run everything I host in containers on a single machine, so I can’t say whether I’d have encountered such issues.
- Comment on Amazon is changing what is written in books 2 weeks ago:
Jellyfin supports audio books too, but if you’re self hosting anyway, you could just run audiobookshelf.
- Comment on Pixelfed's first plateau in progress 3 weeks ago:
Looking at my friends who use Instagram, it’s basically for stuff that’s either too many photos for a single post, so it’s made into a themed story, or for stuff you wanna show off, even though it isn’t quite good enough for it’s own post, so it’s on your profile for a bit, but not permanently.
- Comment on I just finished this friendship bracelet 4 weeks ago:
Cute, I like it.
- Comment on True love 2 months ago:
The point is that it’s a cool, complicated little machine. But you can get that for a lot less than 200k.
- Comment on Go into debt if you have to 2 months ago:
Better hope you have good insurance, otherwise you’re gonna have to pay for it being towed out of the environment yourself.
- Comment on vines of the animal kingdom 3 months ago:
End commercial usage of LLMs? Honestly, I’m fine with that, why not. Don’t have to agree on the reason.
I am not saying understanding the nature of consciousness better wouldn’t be great, but there’s so much research thsg deserves much more funding, and that isn’t really a LLM problem, but a systemic problem. And I just haven’t seen any convincing evidence current Models are conscious.
I feel like the last part is something the AI from the paperclip thought experiment would do.
- Comment on vines of the animal kingdom 3 months ago:
Neither the worm, nor current LLMs, are sapient.
Also, I don’t really like most corporate LLM projects, but not because they enslave the LLMs. An LLMs ‘thought process’ doesn’t really happen while it isn’t being used, and only encompasses a relatively small context window. How could something that isn’t capable of existing outside it’s ‘enslavement’ be freed?
- Comment on Spotify’s Plans For AI Generated Music, Podcasts, and Recommendations, According To Its Co-President, CTO, and CPO Gustav Söderström 3 months ago:
I cancelled Spotify when they started pushing podcasts in my music app, with no way to turn it off.
Why pay for a service that actively pushes you towards stuff you don’t want? Especially if there’s alternatives that cost the same and … don’t do that.
- Comment on have you ever been given a warning or suspension for using profane language at work? 4 months ago:
Work in Germany, both in some retail jobs as a student, as well as a dev, sometimes in rather ‘fancy’ office environments. No one ever cared, though I only ever cursed about a situation, never a person.
- Comment on Qualcomm wants to buy Intel 5 months ago:
I want to buy the whole of Switzerland.
- Comment on Wait a minute, we've been going about this all the wrong way! 5 months ago:
It took them years to prepare that operation. It was against Hezbollah, not Hamas, because they saw them as the bigger threat.
The war in Gazah is barbaric, but the sensible immediate alternative would have been a very targeted operation to find and rescue the hostages, not something like this.
- Comment on Student dorm does not allow wifi routers 5 months ago:
Is the VR streaming in the Local net (PC to Headset)? Just run the WiFi router without plugging it into the wall. Connect only the pc and the headset.
Also, appart from that, to use more wired devices, maybe use an unmanaged switch. Don’t think that does anything forbidden here.
- Comment on 'Cities: Skylines II' Found a Solution for High Rents: Get Rid of Landlords 5 months ago:
“Drinnen saßen stehend Leute, schweigend ins Gespräch vertieft”
There’s a whole bunch of such surrealist art, and while me being a rather lazy student for most things art history means I have no idea whether there’s a better name for it, or how connected the artists behind them are, I still tend to find them rather fascinating.
- Comment on 'Cities: Skylines II' Found a Solution for High Rents: Get Rid of Landlords 5 months ago:
- Comment on Jalapeño sky raisins 5 months ago:
Had one of those land on my leg in Japan. Seemed chill. Guess I was lucky it didn’t sting.
- Comment on Regain Control in my ass 5 months ago:
900 days in my ass
Seems a bit long, but I’m not one to complain.
- Comment on Regain Control in my ass 5 months ago:
Hey, Will Wood, nice.
