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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder if sharing movies over BitTorrent is legal as several neural networks are there as well, and they learn from the movies being shared.⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  No.

  AI can steal from you, but not from movie studios or record labels. I don’t want to be too confusing with the legal jargon and case history, but it can be summarized as: you don’t own a senator, and they do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why selfhosted social media protocols are hated ?⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure; I’m saying that there are trigger words that are guaranteed to generate negative comments: blockchain, crypto, crypto currency, and Bitcoin.

  You said that you can’t understand the negative feedback. I’m giving you one reason why you might be seeing it. Lemmy and Mastodon (the AP FediVerse in general) is not cryptocurrency-friendly. If you mention “Bitcoin” in the post, you’re going to get brigaded. If someone sniffs around on the repo documentation and sees the crypto link, they’ll mention it in the comments and you’ll get brigaded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why selfhosted social media protocols are hated ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there’s such a knee-jerk reaction to any mention of crypto currency, even in comparison, that even a whiff of a relationship generates negative reactions. As you say, much of it is based on no actual knowledge about the topic. It doesn’t help that there are some truly deplorable people associated with cryptocurrency, a great many bad actors, and proof-of-work was in retrospect a terrible design decision by Satoshi.

  Blockchain isn’t cryptocurrency, and vice-versa, but most people can’t distinguish between the two. If there’s any mention of blockchain on the site, or especially if you mention bitcoin (as you did) you’re going to get crusaders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Might be a bit of a tangent: use SIP at home via internet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you, I’ll check them out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have an acquaintance that have their own "password system" that involves having a "core" set of characters, plus a few unique characters for each site; Is that system safe?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  … true. You were clearly talking about how the “root” was constructed. If the root were random, a weakness would still be inherent in having the root exposed means all your accounts are potentially compromised, but the social hacking wouldn’t be as much of an issue.

  I skipped over the root generation, as it’s just a useless twist on an older process. “Useless” in that I don’t think it adds any value to construct a root from favorite things. It’s no easier than just memorizing a single 12-character random string and then adding per-site suffixes, which is how I first heard this described a decade ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Might be a bit of a tangent: use SIP at home via internet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I never considered that Alaska might be less serviced than other states, given how removed it is. It’s no Hawaii, but still.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Certain dishes like Curries and fried rice keep getting better with age, until they don't.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no idea what it was called! It was long ago, in a city far, far away. Said friend went off and became a cultist, and we lost touch.

  I think it was originally a Mexican dish; maybe some kind soul will chip in with the answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Might be a bit of a tangent: use SIP at home via internet⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My problem has always been finding a SIP company I wanted to give my money to, for providing a land line #. For a glorious, brief, period, I was able to do this through Google Voice. But then they got rid of that feature, and I haven’t found another provider who I like the looks of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One of the best things about lemmy is being able to make comments and posts with links, and not getting them removed.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  DO NOT SUMMON THE BEANS

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Certain dishes like Curries and fried rice keep getting better with age, until they don't.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A childhood friend of mine’s mother was from New Mexico, and around Christmas she would make this dish that was increasingly smaller tortillas stacked until it looked kind of like a Christmas tree. There was stuff between the layers, but there very top layer was, like, a solid inch of salt. They’d have it every night for a week or so, and as it sat and was reheated, the salt would slowly dissolve down to the bottom layers. As the salt diffused, the dish would get better each day.

  Although he was my best friend for three years (I met him in HS), and practically lived at his house, I was never there for Christmas because we were always traveling to see my extended family, so I never got to experience this. He was absolutely fanatical about it. I always wondered, why not just salt the layers appropriately to begin with? But apparently the process was part of the magic and made the end effect better?

  Anyway, when I think of dishes that get better with age, that’s the first thing I think about. Even decades later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re getting a lot of flak, but this is sort of the plot of Soilent Green, without the twist. With explosive population growth, it’s not an impossible scenario.

  What’s the question, though? Is it possible? Sure, anything is. Why insects, though? There are plenty of other sources of protein, and today vegans (for whom eating even insects is streng verboten) can build healthy diets, even if they have to work a little harder and be more conscious about it. Insects would be yet another level of inefficiency in the system: it’s nearly always most efficient to get nutrients from the most base layer, plants (or fungus, whatever). If all you’re going for is pure efficiency, plants do it all. You may want to kill yourself just to end the culinary misery, but we’re not taking about pleasure or quality of life, only efficiency and base dietary needs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is their any evolutionary benefit to the sneezing reflex when looking at a bright light source, or is it just an evolutionary glitch with no purpose?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, but: you describe what glitches are in detail, which wasn’t the question. OP clearly understands the concept behind evolution, despite using imprecise terminology.

  You seem confident that there’s no benefit to the light/sneeze reflex: why? Is that an authoritative answer, or just your opinion? Do we know the mechanism behind the reflex, and can we trace it to an origin, like the recurrent laryngeal nerve?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have an acquaintance that have their own "password system" that involves having a "core" set of characters, plus a few unique characters for each site; Is that system safe?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t every system vulnerable to social engineering hacks?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Searchable db/Knowledge Management Software⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  LogSeq has other note types; it’s just the default is bullets.

  LogSeq is about as future proof as you can get. Notes are stored in a directory tree as markdown files.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Searchable db/Knowledge Management Software⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Try it, it’s good. There’s a mobile app, for Android, at least. It’s free; it only takes a little time investment, so low barrier for entry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Searchable db/Knowledge Management Software⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  LogSeq is nice.

  For this who don’t know, it’s well designed, in that it doesn’t add bloat and obfuscation like a DB would; it keeps everything in a filesystem structure in markdown files. What’s really nice is that this makes it something you can use with a plain editor, or with the application, or with the app on mobile; the app(s) add a lot of convenience functionality to the basic storage design.

  It’s a well-thought-out system, and I appreciate how clean it is, and how independent of the application the data is. I haven’t looked at the code base, but I have a lot of respect for the developer must based on the design & architecture decisions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ironically, people making fun of the "Gnu/Linux" copypasta is probably one of the main ways people know what Gnu is⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And Chimera Linux (not to be confused with ChimeraOS, the GNUish gaming distro).

  Ironically, Stallman himself is probably a prime motivation for Alpine and Chimera Linux, in a sort of “I’m sick of hearing this crap” way. Although it does say something about GNU that Alpine was also shooting for a distribution with as little bloat as possible, and it largely succeeded. For a long time, it was one of the most lightweight distributions around, leading to its popularity as a container base.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Searchable db/Knowledge Management Software⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a feeling you’re looking for something different, but: mine is a big todo.txt document that I open with fzf. I just add lines to it and tack on @keywords.

  If your needs are more hierarchical and structured, fzf, I’d still try to stick with a plain-text and fuzzy-search based solution, and split stuff up into different files.

  IMHO, you’re starting from a good place (plain text files). Maybe you just need a little tooling for searching and keyword filtering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you actually audit open source projects you download?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fucking Deloitte!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Syncthing alternatives⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, so it has a “watch” mode? Cool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ants evolved to handle "real" natural threats; house ants today die in the most absurd cartoonish ways, often unintentional by the murderer.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ants are the Erlang of the animal kingdom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Syncthing alternatives⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ditto.

  I get angry with SyncThing; don’t get me wrong. I really wish they’d add a per-file-type merge plugin capability, and I get far more sync conflicts than I care for. I get situations where a client on one computer stops (mostly, Android killing it) and it needs to be manually restarted.

  What I’ve never had it data corruption. It’s to the point where I implicitly trust that if SyncThing says it’s synced, I know it’s on the destination. It might be a stored as a sync conflict, but it’s there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Syncthing alternatives⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How is rclone fire and forget? You have you manually run it every sync, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The sun is killing off SpaceX's Starlink satellites⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hee hee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel like modelling is one of þe saddest jobs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I keep forgetting to use þorn. I was looking at þorn the oþer day, and þought, “if I bought more þorn, and þought about þorn, þen þinking þat þought puts þat pat þing þrough þorough boroughs!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And also because if we included Pluto, we’d have to include another half dozen Pluto-sized dwarves we’ve discovered since.

  But, yeah, my understanding is that it’s really about dominance. Pluto is too submissive. Not alpha enough, if you will.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Without the Holocaust, there’d have been no international horror over the atrocities of concentration camps, gas chambers, human experimentation, genocide. Anti-Jewish sentiment was rampant around the world.

  Progressives made a lot of progress off the back of WWII, and the anti-fascist sentiment in the US that survived until the greatest generation died and their grandchildren took over. It’s entirely possible that, without WWII, the fascism we see in the US today would have happened much earlier, and we’d have run our own concentration camps.

  Ironically, the people who probably would have benefited most from preventing “Hitler” would be the modern Palestinians, because without Hitler, Israel would not exist today, and it wouldn’t be carrying out a genocide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh. My cousin is a professor, and my best friend is a high school teacher. They’re both responsible for developing their curriculum. That’s only an n=2, but it’s 100% that if they (the people I know) hate their curriculum, it’s their own damned fault.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What? Teachers hating their subject?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So… you’re saying that a positive learning environment is better than a terrible one? The AI part is ancillary to the scenarios you set up, isn’t it?

  “AI is better than having the student learn in a terrible learning environment.”

  “A homeless alcoholic is a better language teacher than having a student learn in a classroom whilst being beaten about the head with a stick.”

  You’re saying AI is better than a bad teacher. Maybe a bad AI is worse than a bad teacher, and maybe a good teacher is better than the best AI. I just don’t know how setting up such a comparison is constructive.