A_norny_mousse
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- Comment on If suffering is good because it gives life meaning, wouldn't it follow that hurting people is good? 22 hours ago:
I reject the premise, and I doubly reject the conclusion.
- Comment on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation 1 day ago:
tl;dr:
Radworks, the organization that has been financing Radicle is organized around the RAD token which is a governance token on Ethereum.
Thanks anyhow.
- Comment on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation 1 day ago:
What’s “crypto”?
And did you mean “funded by” or “founded on”?
- Comment on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation 1 day ago:
There’s plenty alternatives.
- Sourcehut sr.ht (possibly other instances)
- Various gitlab instances, e.g. framagit.org
- not to mention git’s own web ui which runs under so many domains; some of them might even be open to signups.
- Comment on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation 1 day ago:
Even sadder: people who don’t know that git is not the same as github.
- Comment on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation 1 day ago:
As someone who moved out of there before they got taken over by MS: Told you so. I mean it’s been gradual but constant enshittification since then.
BTW, is it just me or is the “at” in the headline wrong?
- Comment on Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations 2 days ago:
Oh I missed that bit. JFC she’s 13, right? How can police be so clueless about their own job… rhetorical question, I know the answer.
- Comment on Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations 2 days ago:
Agreed on the condescension, that was uncalled for. Your whataboutism sucks though.
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 2 days ago:
Let’s say it together: Enshittification
It’s been long underway for Spotify; raising prices is just the lastest step.
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 2 days ago:
Usename checks out
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 2 days ago:
And Trump!
- Comment on Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy 2 days ago:
Most importantly, recognize that it does take time to adjust to the reality that no one cares about the fake internet points here.
Oh but they do.
It also informs how comments are sorted under each post (unless you choose New or Old by default).
IMHO the voting system is the best part of both reddit and lemmy: it gives certain powers to the majority. It gives a rough picture of how other people - even those that do not comment - feel about opinions.
- Comment on Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy 2 days ago:
It was something I had to learn, coming from Reddit.
But I made my peace with it. Let the mods* see my up/downvotes. If that becomes a problem then, well, the Lemmyverse isn’t right for me.
* I was told that anyone can see this, with a little effort.
But I have not heard about this applying to IPs.
Obviously someone running an instance (an admin) can see who visits that instance; that’s just how servers work. If you can’t live with that you must use Tor or VPN.So while I agree that everyone should be aware that up/downvotes + username are visible to anyone, I’m not sure about the IP argument.
- Comment on How the Beef Industry Is Quietly Rewriting Climate Science for Kids 2 days ago:
In the USA? yeah. Also Big Oil. Almost for a hundred years, and they’re still doing it. And it’s easy when teachers are underpaid and overworked: just hand them “material” they can use free of charge. The system is working as designed.
- Comment on ChatGPT Is Still a Bullshit Machine 3 days ago:
Sam Altman Is Still a Bullshit Machine
- Comment on How Wikipedia is fighting AI slop content 3 days ago:
Nothing miraculous:
One way Wikipedians are sloshing through the muck is with the “speedy deletion” of poorly written articles, as reported earlier by 404 Media. A Wikipedia reviewer who expressed support for the rule said they are “flooded non-stop with horrendous drafts.” They add that the speedy removal “would greatly help efforts to combat it and save countless hours picking up the junk AI leaves behind.” Another says the “lies and fake references” inside AI outputs take “an incredible amount of experienced editor time to clean up.”
Typically, articles flagged for removal on Wikipedia enter a seven-day discussion period during which community members determine whether the site should delete the article. The newly adopted rule will allow Wikipedia administrators to circumvent these discussions if an article is clearly AI-generated and wasn’t reviewed by the person submitting it.
The Wikimedia Foundation is also actively developing a non-AI-powered tool called Edit Check that’s geared toward helping new contributors fall in line with its policies and writing guidelines. Eventually, it might help ease the burden of unreviewed AI-generated submissions, too. Right now, Edit Check can remind writers to add citations if they’ve written a large amount of text without one, as well as check their tone to ensure that writers stay neutral.
Remember that a spell checker also works completely without AI. Computers can do advanced stuff without LLMs.
- Comment on Expanding storage on simple home server 3 days ago:
HP EliteDesk 705 G3 Mini
Probably has a pretty standard motherboard which most probably has SATA ports (looks like this on mine, the cables look like this and the PSU should have some spare power connectors). Once you have those, just plug in and you should be good to go. Not sure if SATA is hot-pluggable though; better to power off first.
- Comment on Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations 3 days ago:
With the help of artificial intelligence, technology can dip into online conversations and immediately notify both school officials and law enforcement.
Not sure what’s worse here: how the police overreacted or that the software immediately contacts law enforcement, without letting teachers (n.b.: they are the professionals here, not the police) go through the positives first.
But oh, that would mean having to pay somebody, at least some extra hours, in addition to the no doubt expensive software. JFC.
- Comment on Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations 3 days ago:
And strip-searched!
- Comment on 3 days ago:
They’re using the same blocklists everybody else uses. If your current IP address (as seen by lemmy.world) has been known to send a lot of bad stuff, it goes on the list. Same as with Tor exit nodes.
- Comment on Sony says it’s not done making Xperia phones just yet 4 days ago:
The one I started with 5 years ago, the already venerable XA2, is still fully supported - since 2018.
- Comment on Sony says it’s not done making Xperia phones just yet 4 days ago:
Taking the opportunity to shill for Sailfish OS, which supports various Xperias.
My daily driver since 2020.
- Comment on Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way. 4 days ago:
OK let me play devil’s advocate for a moment: it’s the only language he speaks. There’s no discreet negotiations. You must stroke his ego.
Of course that’s still corporate cronyism.
- Comment on Asking for suggestions on managing media 1 week ago:
Not exactly what you asked:
Is your plan to also reduce resolution and bitrate? If not:
- It’s going to reduce visual quality anyhow.
- Are you sure “changing codecs” would save you as much space as you think it would?
It depends where your material comes from. If it’s ripped from streaming services it’s (generally) already as compressed at as it can be regardless of codec. E.g. Amazon mostly still provides their streams in h264 (a 20 yo codec) that’s very high quality at very small filesize.
If you still want to do that: I don’t believe there is one automated solution that will save quality and space across the board. (If there is, I’d like to hear about it)
A scenario I’d envision for myself:
- tinkering with ffmpeg for test results
- grouping material according to these results
- set up a separate ffmpeg-script for each group
- wrap the whole thing into a systemd service and make sure it survives reboots, i.e. picks up where it left.
- Comment on The Terrifying Theory of Stupidity – Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1 week ago:
TBF, it presents a very important lesson in a way that might even be digestible for christofascist MAGA voters. Since Bonhoeffer was a pastor and his words have that particular, churchy aroma. [Still enough truth for atheists in it though]
The Fediverse just doesn’t seem to be the target group here.
- Comment on The Terrifying Theory of Stupidity – Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1 week ago:
I like to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.
Ultimately it’s semantics because neither word is so precisely defined but this is what I mean:
Ignorance - a state of not knowing - can be fixed. The only thing you really need is an acknowledgement that you are ignorant on some matter, which should automatically lead to learning, because I believe it’s inherent in our nature.
Stupidity - a state of refusing knowledge, incl. the knowledge of your ignorance, and resisting learning opportunities.
According to that definition an alarmingly large number of people seem to be stupid these days. They even win elections.
- Comment on A new database on police use of force and misconduct in California makes public 1.5 million pages of once-secret police records 1 week ago:
☝️
- Comment on A new database on police use of force and misconduct in California makes public 1.5 million pages of once-secret police records 1 week ago:
Why wouldn’t they just be their own country?
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 1 week ago:
That is of course even better. Just wish any band I’m interested in would ever come to play this quiet corner *sigh*
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 1 week ago:
abcdefor Linux. It’s in your repositories. Set it up once the way you want, then it’s just: insert CD, enterabcde, repeat ad nauseam.
