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- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 16 hours ago:
Yeah, I went over there with ideas that it was grandiose and not peer-reviewed. Turns out it’s just a cherry-picked title.
If you use an AI assistant to write a paper, you don’t learn any more from the process than you do from reading someone else’s paper. You don’t think about it deeply and come up with your own points and principles. It’s pretty straightforward.
But just like calculators, once you understand the underlying math, unless math is your thing, you don’t generally go back and do it all by hand because it’s a waste of time.
At some point, we’ll need to stop using long-form papers to gauge someone’s acumen in a particular subject. I suspect you’ll be given questions in real time and need to respond to them on video with your best guesses to prove you’re not just reading it from a prompt.
- Comment on The duality of man 16 hours ago:
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 19 hours ago:
Then they can stay on YouTube.
Federation can’t solve the price of storing / hosting video the same way that capitalism can.
- Comment on Does anyone use a VPN to subvert the Netflix household device fencing? 21 hours ago:
Tail scale, wire guard, open VPN all work
They see your traffic coming from a residential ISP and don’t give it a second thought.
That said, if their service is that bad, piracy’s not a bad option. If someone’s going to provide me a service that I have to pay for and then tighten down the screws until let’s no longer reasonable, why should I care about following their rules?
- Comment on mkdocs for recipe catalogue 21 hours ago:
I put my public stuff in a tiddilywiki because I can just take the file and save it to a public spot.
I use Obsidian and Syncthing for my personal stuff though. It has a bunch of searching, organizational, and plugin options.
Markdown ftw.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 21 hours ago:
You just install tailscale on a home computer, tell it it’s an exit node. Install tailscale on your phone and your laptop and whatever other computers you have.
Boom, VPN home and use your home IP.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 21 hours ago:
Okay, yeah, that scans.
By suggest the peeeing app, I’m also suggesting a change to the architecture then I’ve talked about previously, probably have not made clear here.
The peering app works more like a torrent client. It’s not just caching things that you’ve seen, but you can also place your content there.
We would separate the content from the indexing. A peer tube provider could offer both roles. People could store their own data locally or pay the provider a small amount to use their storage. Maybe even IPFS style that would just pin it for you for a fee. It would make the model sustainable.
Everyone is responsible for their own seed content that way. Nobody is required to pay millions of dollars to store a bunch of bullshit for nothing that they don’t care about, which would end up making what monetization that can happen more effective.
Advertisers are just pouring billions of dollars into YouTube. They could have direct payments to smaller providers much easier without all that waste. We just need a sustainable storage method in a way for people to get paid.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 21 hours ago:
I’m even more confused now.
You mentioned with the number of dead torrents that videos would die quickly.
I mentioned that unpopular videos probably should die quickly.
You mentioned that the solution won’t work I suspect your definition of not working is probably different than my definition of not working. But I’m not exactly sure at this point.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 22 hours ago:
If a video doesn’t do well, it doesn’t need cached because it’s not being watched.
They pay to store their flops.
- Comment on No brainer 1 day ago:
Drunk as a skunk, Rumba stood in the parking lot, staggering, freshly jilted. Arms raised in the air. Crying, screaming, and laughing maniacally, he urged all the magic showers of stone. They would pay. They would all pay. And he would pay too. But it seemed a small price. The stars begin to twinkle and to procure your passion. The moon, in its full glory tonight, grew by its third in just seconds.
The stars seemed to wink out of existence. First, a couple at a time, then in large swaths. They weren’t gone, but obscured. A few minutes after the last star disappeared from the sky, it was replaced by something wonderful, something magical. Before its impending death, the earth would be subject to it’s last and most amazing light show.
New stars seemed to faintly appear, but they were wrong, beautifully wrong. And they seemed to move, but as they did, they traced magnificent lines in the sky.
He dougian as he also his heels an pulled once more the heavens demanding the sky come. The lines turned into stripes. The stripes turned into an ever-increasing glow. But he didn’t summon just enough gravel to end the earth. He summoned gravel for hundreds of thousands of miles. Soon the moon would just be another layer in the crust, and still the gravel would fall. Long after humanity had breathed its last breath, the gravel would still fall. The inner planets and sun would soon dance an intricate path eventually merged together with the sun itself. But still, the gravel would fall. Not until some centuries later, one of the sun had increased to about 20 times its original mass, with the black hole form that would slowly engulf the rest of the known galaxy.
- Comment on YouTube Is Pausing Premium Family Plans if You Aren't Watching From the Same Address 2 days ago:
I would cancel the plan. And use whatever ad block is at my disposal.
- Comment on No brainer 2 days ago:
Ah, the ancient proverb. “May thine abode be buried so significantly in granite that thy’ll required services of a feline predator to findeth thou stoop.”
To be fair, I think AESOP might have written a few stranger things.
;)
- Comment on No brainer 2 days ago:
Sheer horror. You’ll never be able to eat these again.
I think they’re just going so cold, water please, drowning…kill me…
- Comment on No brainer 2 days ago:
If there are no limits of scale or delivery, i think it’s OP.
cut me off? I’m gonna follow you at a disance and summon 50 tons of gravel around your car.
File an HOA complaint on me? You’re going to need a bobcat to find your front door.
Can i summon it anywhere without going there? You know how hard it is to get rid of gravel?
- Comment on Fall of Western civilization 2 days ago:
Nuggets are’t full of gristle anymore
Hamburgers haven’t changed, maybe the loss of the heat-proof styrofoam packaging.
Fries are cooked in peanut oil instead of beef tallow, but they added beef flavoring to them.
Burger king was better back then, but I don’t think McD was notably different IMO.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 2 days ago:
highly likely that many videos will quickly die as well
Ideally, everyone would just post their own stuff from their own disk. As things got popular, the fans would cache it for others. We’d just need the self-hosting angels to help us with discoverability.
Realistically, a quick death is probably a fortunate way to save resources if a video can’t gain traction from being useful or entertaining.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 2 days ago:
Peertube needs monetization and the ability for people peer without self-hosting. A torrent client of sorts.
The product, in it’s current form cannot replace Youtube. Youtube gives you traffic, a free place to host even your crappiest footage, and money if enough people start watching it regularly.
Peertube isn’t free, it’s just someone else footing the bill, which breaks under load.
- Comment on The Future of Accrescent App store: "in 3 months, we will no longer have enough resources to continue ongoing feature development without additional funding" 2 days ago:
Oi
- Comment on Chatbots can be manipulated through flattery and peer pressure 3 days ago:
50:50 I think Moffat even mentioned that he didn’t think they knew what they were doing yet.
Looking at her IMDB, it doesn’t seem like she’s got a lot going on, then a few episodes of Wednesday.
I think she’d be a fine fit, her schedule doesn’t appear to be too overgrown. But even at that, I don’t think we’re going to see any new episodes other than a Christmas special or two for a bit, at some point they’ll make a decision I seriously don’t have been made yet.
- Comment on Cox Brief Asks Supreme Court to Reverse Draconian Piracy Liability Ruling 3 days ago:
I used usenet since it was the only game in town. They’ll come for that door, too, eventually.
I recently tried it again, and was disappointed to need to pay separately for service and reasonable indexers. It still suffers from the same issues it used to. It’s great for the scene, but older stuff is harder to find. Finding all the catchup episodes for a current show is hit or miss.
I’m kind of hoping i2p bridges the gap for a bit. But if they truely make ISPs watchdog for piracy it’s not that hard to kick us off their network for suspected piracy.
- Comment on Chatbots can be manipulated through flattery and peer pressure 3 days ago:
I was asking it to draw some cartoonish-themed Doctor Who characters. I had been working through the entire cast throughout the years and had gotten 50 or so nice representations done.
I finally got down to the point of asking it to draw Ncuti.
I’m sorry, I can’t call that.
You’ve done 50 of them over the past two months. Why not this one?
I’m sorry I can’t draw things from an intellectual property standpoint. It’s okay for me to draw older things, but current characters are not allowed.
Can you look up and Ncuti’s current status on the show?
He has currently reprised his role and it will likely be taken up by Billy Piper for the next season.
If he’s reprised his role, he’s not currently on the show. You can draw a picture of him right?
Let me create that for you now.
- Comment on Chrome increases its overwhelming market share, now over 70% 3 days ago:
support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/on-device-models
They are definitely heading towards on-device models.
- Comment on Cox Brief Asks Supreme Court to Reverse Draconian Piracy Liability Ruling 3 days ago:
You watch, two years from now, you’re going to need a license to get access to a commercial VPN anywhere, and they’ll start blocking Tor at the ISP level.
They’ll bring back the service caps so small that you won’t be able to effectively torrent anything.
- Comment on The Future of Accrescent App store: "in 3 months, we will no longer have enough resources to continue ongoing feature development without additional funding" 3 days ago:
I have no qualms with them being a small project. We all started somewhere. I also don’t have any qualms with their mission to make a secure app store.
It just doesn’t matter if they’re more secure than Aurora or F-droid, if there’s not more than one app on there, I’d consider running. And getting funding without usage seems to be a long-term fool’s errand.
They need to become the default app store on something, and to do that they’ll likely need to get a lot more apps on there.
They could probably take some of that funding and, by their way into places.
- Comment on How to Build a Powerful Reverse Proxy Firewall for Blocking the Evil Web-Scraping Robot Hordes from Hell 4 days ago:
Blocking tor is pretty bold, that network is too slow to use for anything but straight up privacy.
- Comment on The Future of Accrescent App store: "in 3 months, we will no longer have enough resources to continue ongoing feature development without additional funding" 4 days ago:
It’s a four-year-old app store that’s still beta with best I can tell 33 apps on it.
I’m kind of impressed you’ve managed to get the amount of donations you have.
- Comment on Putting HDDs to sleep 4 days ago:
I saw some guys years ago doing this for a small generator. They took a sheet of insulation foam and made a box around the box. Just a single baffle in the front and a baffle in the back drop the noise by something like 6 dB.
- Comment on Does anybody else feel like Linkwarden is very resource intensive. 4 days ago:
It’s intensive because is trying to archive the links and spends a lot of team doing so.
It’s more like a replacement for pocket.
- Comment on Backup/Server Options - is Syncthing / Nextcloud really the go? 4 days ago:
3 copies of your data (original and 2 backups)
2 different media. (pick 2: Raid, jbod, ssd, tape, managed cloud)
1 off-site
I’m gonna add in: one offline
So
original data on a mirror raid or raid 5
External disc disconnected backup trued up whenever you can
Syncthing/rsync/b2/S3 whatevs to get it off-site.
The nice part about syncthing is it will stop if a certain percentage of you data changes. It has a good chance to stop ransomware as long as it’s not too slow at the encryption.
- Comment on Backup/Server Options - is Syncthing / Nextcloud really the go? 4 days ago:
It was, shareware. 10000 games on this CD!!!
