E_coli42

@E_coli42@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  99% don’t know what the Fediverse is. I can’t blame them for jumping ship to Upscrolled since it’s what they have heard of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t upscrolled created by a Palestinian? I doubt he’d be okay with censoring a genocide against his people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK what legal rights you have in encounters with ICE⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I said if EVERY protestor was armed with an assault rifle. Search up black panther armed protests for examples of where this worked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK what legal rights you have in encounters with ICE⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Source? I didn’t see gun rights being taken away anywhere in the US. If every protestor was armed with an assault rifle, I doubt ICE would have the balls to kill anyone else in broad daylight

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK what legal rights you have in encounters with ICE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  2nd amendment right 😉

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If is. It’s free (orI guess libre makes more sense since they are French) under Apache-2.0

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've wondered since I was a youngin⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  motherfuck turning the other cheek

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A generation taught not to think: AI in the classroom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t have to replace thinking if used properly. This is what schools should focus on instead of banning AI and pretending that kids are not going to use it behind closed doors.

  For example, I almost exclusively use Gen AI to help me find sources or as a jumping-off point to researching various topics, rather than as a source of truth itself (because it is not one). This is super useful as it automates away the tedious parts of finding the right research papers to start learning something and gives me more time to focus on my actual literature review.

  If we ban AI in schools instead of embrace it with caution, students won’t know how to learn skills in order to use it effectively. They’ll just start offloading their thinking to AI when doing homework.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A generation taught not to think: AI in the classroom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting. The US is definitely not doing a good job at this then and needs to re-vamp their education system. Your example didn’t convince me that calculators are bad for students, but rather than the US schooling system is really bad if they introduce calculators so early that students don’t even have an intuition of 9 * 25 = (10-1) * 25 = 250-25.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, this is called the Nirvana logical fallacy. Just because I do other unethical things in my life, that doesn’t mean buying an ethical ETF instead of a normal ETF is useless.

  For example, using the Nirvana logical fallacy, I could justify not going to the gym today because I already ate unhealthy food for lunch. It is impossible to be live a perfectly healthy life, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t focus on trying to be as healthy as possible within the confines of what we are willing to sacrifice.

  Same thing goes for living an ethical lifestyle.

  Hope this helps!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Autofocusing Smart Glasses With Eye Tracking Tech Could Make Bifocals Obsolete⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That shouldn’t matter. This is a huge gripe I have with FOSS in its current state. Most of the freedom/privacy/security respecting apps are not noob friendly. They are designed for tech bros and you have to download them from a git instance or F-Droid. Freedom is a human right. It should not be gatekept to the technology savy.

  This is why I love the Signal Foundation. They have truly beautifully written software and they have easy to follow UX. Anyone can enjoy the added benefits to their freedoms, security, and privacy without ever having to think about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Autofocusing Smart Glasses With Eye Tracking Tech Could Make Bifocals Obsolete⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah the it for sure will be as slimy as possible. I hope people just wouldn’t buy it then. Not too sure how much people outside tech nerds like you and me even care about this stuff, but I saw when the Oura ring came out, a lot of people were put off because it is subscription-based. I hope the enshitification hits hard enough that people move to more freedom/privacy/security respecting products.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m actually Sikh, but I would assume that Muslims, Christians, and Atheists alike, also share basic human values like don’t give money to companies that use child labor, sell weapons to terrorits, encourage dangerous addictions, etc. I don’t really care if the ETF is targeted towards a specific religion or not. My main gripe would be seeing their stock exclusion list for haram stocks are based on generic human values and not banning companies that sell pork for example.

  I did a bit of research online and think EVIF might be what I’m looking for.

  Maybe using the word Halal and Haram was confusing since those are Arab words so mostly used by Muslims and Christians.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that ETF (SNAW) you linked your default buy? I am relatively young and new to investing. I have some QQQM but wanted to move to something more ethical (ESG) and more diversified. Probably one of the ESG S&P 500 trackers like XVV, EFIV, RSPE.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There should be some sort of halal version of popular ETFs that get rid of certain universally excepted evil companies. I just invest in QQQM, VTI, VOO, etc and forget, but I have a friend who buys stocks weighted by NASDAQ except for Palantir manually. Too much of a headache for me lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries to save the internet in 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It sounds good in theory, but even for someone like me who is very leftist, I allow and encourage private companies to use my strong-copylefted GPLv3 software for commercial purposes.

  If more and more people write strong-copylefted software, the FOSS community will amass libraries that have no parallel available to proprietary software, and companies will be forced to use FOSS to be relevant.

  For more information, read www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html. This is why GPL over LGPL, but you can use the same logic to explain why software with a significant unique capability should be strong-copylefted.

  For something like a keyboard where every private company will just make their own for, I don’t really care whether FUTO discrimates against commercial use or not. For apps like Immich though, I am a little saddened that it is not strong-copylefted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Project to Poison LLM Crawlers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why isn’t there anything in the DMCA for stopping crawlers? They have stuff about requiring crawlers to follow attribution and whatnot, but nothing for not allowing crawlers in the first place. Stupid as shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the point of this when Fediverse is technologically superior?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Love the idea of bandcamp, but sucks that there are no artists there I am interested in. I just download M4A (MP4 audio) files off of YouTube lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries to save the internet in 2026⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I literally just use Claude for UX. It makes my apps so pretty and intuitive and I don’t have to worry about boring UX design.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries to save the internet in 2026⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried it and YouTube videos didn’t work for some reason. Said I needed to sign in. Never had that issue with NewPipe.

  I love FUTO’s products like their keyboard (what I’m typing this reponse on lol) and Immich, but slightly dislike their license for discrimination against commercial use and not copylefting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure. Take it as a privilege that you live in a safe area then. My grandma for example grew up in a monarchy where I find it completely justifiable that she and her family all carried weapons to fend off the government, invaders, etc. If you don’t have a functioning police and democracy in your State, guns are often your best way at protecting your family and the defensless against injustice. Maybe if her husband had a gun, he wouldn’t have been killed by the police. My grandma’s brother still carries a sword that’s hidden in his cane lol.

  I live in the US which is safe for 99+% of people so your average Joe owning a gun would almost always do more harm then good here, so I’ve never considered buying a gun. Well, at least assuming ICE doesn’t raid my city. Then I might buy a gun and open carry to defend my fellow Americans against ICE terrorists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Autofocusing Smart Glasses With Eye Tracking Tech Could Make Bifocals Obsolete⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Subscription based? Why would something like this even have internet connectivity in the first place, let alone a subscription?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A generation taught not to think: AI in the classroom⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Old man yells at cloud.

  I remember the “ban calculators” back in the day. “Kids won’t be able to learn math if the calculator does all the calculations for them!”

  The solution to almost anything disruptive is regulation, not a ban. Use AI in times when it can be a leaning tool, and re-design school to be resilient to AI when it would not enhance learning. Have more open discussions in class for a start instead of handing kids a sheet of homework that can be done by AI when the kid gets home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries to save the internet in 2026⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There needs to be more FOSS that isn’t geared towards nerds. I want to be able to recommend apps to people and it JustWorks™ without having them even know.

  This is why I love the Signal Foundation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why not use codeberg.org?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think guns make sense if you live in the wilderness and need to protect yourself from bears

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pebble maker announces Index 01, a smart-ish ring for under $100⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No IoT is a win for me! I might buy it just for the fact that I can save notes and reminders locally on my phone. Just waiting to see if the app or a compatible one will be on F-droid…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  c/StallmanWasRight

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s Sundar Pichai says the job of CEO is one of the ‘easier things’ AI could soon replace⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s definitely going to be a solved problem very soon with RAG LLMs. I have a friend who works in LLM research and it’s crazy how much progress they make so quickly. Their cutting edge stuff he shows me makes GPT-5 look like a toddler.