Osan

@Osan@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you use other federated software besides Lemmy (e.g. Mastodon/Pixelfed/etc.), if so which?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  DNS is also super cool can’t imagine my life without it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how do I avoid becoming conformist, lazy and completely incapable of learning something new?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s that some older people tend to be overconfident and think they’ve figured out everything in life (not that this behaviour is exclusive to old people but the older you’re the more likely you’re to think that you know shit). Another factor might be that over time you’re more likely to confirm to your surrounding, being too tired and old to “rebel”.

  Just stay curious, open minded and always willing to learn and do new things.

  I’ve noticed that most of the professors I liked in college were the ones to admit when they’re wrong, understand that not everyone learn the same and willing to accept nonconventional answers in exams, not use the same material from a decade ago, etc. it might be trivial facts but it shows that on the larger scale this person is still evolving and adapting to their surrounding not being stuck in some old mentality.

  I also believe that while age has a role in this it’s not actually about age but rather the mentality the person has and whether they can see the big picture or not. I think the fact that OP has noticed it and didn’t want to become like this is an indication that their mentality is moving in the right direction.

  PS: English isn’t my first language and I’m kinda tired while writing this so please forgive me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You want it displayed as “yyyy/mm/dd” so it’s actually “[RTL]dd/mm/yyyy”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  RTL invert characters are just for rendering purposes it doesn’t help with sorting also in older systems sometimes it was not supported.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In Arabic we use DD/MM/YYYY but it actually gets written as YYYY/MM/DD since Arabic is written and read from right to left. When the year is dropped the confusing part is not what format is used here but rather does this website/software support RTL or is it just regular unformatted ASCII.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At the request of the Turkish government, X blocks access to student and opposition accounts amid nationwide protests.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah some time ago I used to respect these companies I remember when Google condemned the Egyptian government’s actions in 2011 and one of the very popular activists in the revolution was the head of marketing in Google MENA. But now the truth has never been more obvious to me. Individuals may or may not care but corporations will never care.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do news articles and such call the governments of countries/groups of countries after the capital?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We do that in Arabic too. It’s called “badal”, a figure of speech where you replace “the whole” with “the part” to emphasize that part’s importance in the context; in this case that would be either where the government is located in the country or where the report originated from.

  For example when Arabic news agencies want to refer to the USA’s government they say Washington or the white house. Since that’s usually where the news come from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DuckDuckGo is amping up its AI search tool but will still let you leave it behind⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  LLMs are also feeding into the current state of unwillingness to think of a lot of people. People seem to just want an answer to their questions instead of an explanation. People just want a short version of “the truth” handed to them instead of making the effort to learn, research, and think critically.

  While I do believe in the usefulness of AI and the advantages it possesses, but I also think it’s very dangerous in the modern age of “information consumerism”. We should teach kids about AI but also encourage critical thinking and problem solving instead of depending on LLMs to solve our problems for us. At the end LLMs are just machines that guesses what the next word would be according to its training dataset and some sophisticated algorithms for logical “reasoning” and mathematical computions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Melbourne start-up launches 'biological computer' made of human brain cells⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How long before AI runs on this?

  Biological artificial intelligence would be very very creepy we are basically playing God here. It feels like creation another species so we don’t feel lonely in the universe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky and Mastodon users can now talk to each other with Bridgy Fed | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As a computer engineer who has just got into this whole fediverse thing recently I find the concept of decentralised social media to be pretty mesmerizing. I didn’t think people would actually seek the ability to cross-communicate too.