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- Comment on What will the next age of innovative art culture create? 1 day ago:
Music is a form of cultural expression.
- Submitted 1 day ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like 1 day ago:
Opt out is idiotic. Don’t buy this shit! You to not own it. What fuckwit dumbass rents a fridge someone else controls for $2k. I bet it has a camera inside to sell grocers a list of what to mark up for your custom pricing nonsense because you bought a billboard that screams I’m a gullible moron with more money than sense.
- Comment on Are there good Movies, TV Shows, Anime, with wholesome family (particularly parent-child) relations? 2 days ago:
We should setup a watch party thing around some kind of FOSS friendly deal. At a minimum we could watch and discuss for a day+ of open conversation. It might be fun?
- Comment on it 🆗 3 days ago:
№℡
- Comment on I love talking about our lord and saviour!!! 4 days ago:
Title is a Mormon line.
“With all the news about war and people suffering would you mind if I share a quick scripture about hope and better things to come”…
That is the classic, I didn’t read the publication more than skimming, and am using a cliche presentation at your door – Jehovah’s Witness thing… I was formidable then, but so much so that none dare talk to me about what appears as indifference to them now. Jehovah’s Witnesses are classic dogma tribalism with cult like behavior sans the glorious cult leader trope.
Arguing is absolutely pointless. Dogma is blind to all information sources from outside of the tribal authority. The only ways to change a person are either to infiltrate and gain the trust of the tribe, or stimulate general curiosity within the individual. Self growth will eventually lead to naturally questioning dogma.
- Comment on Your last words being "Whoops", probably greatly increases the odds that someone writes about your death 4 days ago:
One of the super hazy vague memories of the crash that broke my neck and back when 2 SUVs played bumper cars in front of me on a bicycle commute was me saying: “Well that sucks.” – Very VERY nearly my last words.
So, from my experience, “Whoops!” is the statement of your murderer. Most people with a kill to death ratio greater than snake eyes probably share this feature.
- Comment on Sup, humans. 5 days ago:
Jander is brobot
- Comment on What are some good things to purchase to add a new distraction to my life? 6 days ago:
Haters gonna hate, but buying hardware capable of running my own offline AI has been my best money per hour investment ever. However, I got into it after reading all of Asimov’s robots stuff, after an avid interest in compute hardware, and after having followed a few AI safety/general researchers. I got into it for customised learning, but that quickly expanded into many other explorations. Particularly I have advanced techniques for exploring AI thinking structures that are a lot of fun to play with. I play with images, video, 3d modeling, writing, agents, chat, roleplaying, and training.
- Comment on Has anyone sold or otherwise handed off their 3d printing business? 6 days ago:
In my experience selling it as a whole never happens outright. Buying someone out goes the other way around. I’ve owned my own business twice.
You will honestly be better off holding your accounts if you ever change your mind or direction. You will get stuck with junk or make selling off stuff your career for a time. If you cannot keep your tools, make some impossible to pass off deal in bulk lots divided so that there is a good distribution of value.
If you placed everything on eBay piecemeal, you will never sell your last item before you die. That is the case on any single platform. I was the buyer for a chain of bike shops for several years. I have sold over $136k on eBay, and I uses swap meets to offload overburden too. If anyone consigns for you, if their business model is viable, they will take at least 40% out of the gross margin.
All of eBay’s fees, shipping, taxes, all combined with an account in perfect standing came out to 39-42% of the total sale price. So with consignment, you will actually get around 20% of the total sale price or a little less. It is not at all sustainable and why no one runs successful businesses doing eBay consignments. eBay should be less than half their present fees, especially considering the poor quality of service.
Think of offloading stuff from the perspective of the interested individual, not like a business. Part out and sell your excess tooling while still running your business with what you have.
Personally, I don’t paint cars any more and if I could physically do the work, I still wouldn’t want to. However, many of my tools and stuff are still kicking around and something I do not regret keeping. Quite the opposite, I really wish I had kept what remained of my mixing system, and all of my welding and polishing gear.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I care dude. It will get better. Think about projects you can mess with. Take junk apart just to figure out how it works. If nothing else, save and start organizing the hardware like screws and stuff. Spare hardware is super useful for fixing things and you will have an enormous variety if you just take apart junk and keep the spares.
Before the end of the day today, commit to doing something physical for me. Walk outside for a bit, ride a bike, watch the sun go down. Do anything that gets your heart rate up enough to barely break a sweat at a minimum.
Arduino stuff can be fun and an intro to programming stuff if you have never tried it.
- Comment on So, did a new printer drop? LOL 1 week ago:
YT has black boxes at all major ISPs. These cache local content. They prioritize what gets shown based on what is cached. This is why YT changed drastically around 2017. It is why you do not see content from ultra niche and high quality sources at random or get into advanced education like happened in the past.
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- YSK Lemvotes.org will show you votes on any post, comment, or by user, or anything on the fediverselemmy.world ↗Submitted 1 month ago to youshouldknow@lemmy.world | 54 comments
- Comment on AI generated images are probably amazing to someone on LSD 1 month ago:
It is only a mirror image of the person making the prompt through the filter of alignment
- Comment on China's Xi at centre of world stage after days of high-level hobnobbing 1 month ago:
Thanks for the full post.
- Submitted 1 month ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 106 comments
- Comment on Bambu Lab announces the Vortek H2C, an automatic nozzle-changing version of the H2D 2 months ago:
I’ve had all of that from day one with a MK3S+. It just works. I don’t even think about it. Plus your using a slicer that is derived from what I paid for while your money does nothing for me. Adrian Bowyer and RepRap built everything. It would have started in the 1990s if proprietary shit companies like stratasys did not exist. Nothing good comes from selling your right to autonomy and citizenship by inference. The world is falling apart right now because of this exact issue of a lack of big picture ethics. Every decision has consequences. You are either part of the problem or part of the solution. I’m a real liberal. You have a right to be wrong, but I’m still going to call stupid stupid.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 2 months ago:
The ability to filter information using proprietary devices and software in the kernel of all of these garbage devices is the core issue. Trusting the owners of that code is to surrender your right to unbiased and unfiltered information. I am not at all concerned about hacking or security by small insignificant players. I am massively concerned about the extremely powerful using the leverage they have normalized and embedded to become tyrannical neo feudal lords in a fascist society. Google IS the biggest danger by orders upon orders of magnitude. Trusting them is to give up democracy entirely.
All mobile devices are proprietary. Android is a scheme to make a Linux kernel that has everything ready to deploy except the actual hardware drivers for the processor and modem. Manufacturers take this kernel and add their proprietary binaries at the last possible moment. That source code is not available anywhere. The hardware documentation is not available anywhere publicly. Every device model is just different enough that reverse engineering one does nothing transferable to any other. The level of reverse engineering is extreme and requires destroying many devices using things like fuming nitric acid and fluorine solutions just to have a small chance at reading some parts of embedded memory. These are some of the most dangerous and hazardous chemicals humans make, and you still need xray equipment, special microscopes with stepping automation to stitch images, and a ton of time.
This is moving to a tyrannical surveillance state of fascist authoritarianism. Open source software is a major front on the line of real democracy. This is a nuclear bomb released on that democracy. You fear the wrong pirates and criminals. The biggest threats always come from within. Trust as a mechanism is fundamentally antithetical to democracy. Everyone demanding trust is a traitor to democracy. Trust is the key of the fascist kingdom. Once that key is held, democracy has failed regardless of whomever is aware of the situation. Democracy requires fully informed citizens with skepticism and the liberal right to decide for themselves even when they are wrong. This is impossible without full access to information. The source of that information cannot be filtered at any level. We already have the narrowest bottleneck of available information sources in the last 1000 years of history. There are only 2 relevant web crawlers. All search queries filter through one or both of these two and the results from these are not deterministic. Two people searching for the same thing at the same time will get very different and very biased results. This is individualized regardless of any protections people imagine they have in place. Outside of the internet there is no real unbiased media. A dozen people own it all. Even the garbage claiming to comb all sources is drawing the line and dictating what is center right or left is. Anyone at the grassroots level is impossible to find because there are no organic unbiased search results. The results are all filtered junk full of agenda and bias.
This is the real big picture abstract issue in play. When the maga traitors said this was a coup, they absolutely ment that. Mobile devices are all rental garbage someone else controls. Your computer likewise has a secret operating system running in the background that you do not control. In Intel it is called the Intel Management Engines or ME. This started with Intel VPro in 2008. AMD adopted it is 2013. Arm has one too.
All that is left is to steal your right to have a digital front door by eliminating DNS filtering and all of these devices will be controlled and connected directly by someone else that is watching and listening at all times. You are already in tethers as a digital slave that can be bought and sold for exploitation and manipulation without your consent or knowledge using your digital presence. You have not effectively realized the implications of that surrendering of rights to citizenship with full autonomy. The next step is to redefine the word citizen to be functionally equivalent to slave. “You will own nothing, and you will be happy about it” because if you are not, you will be dead. This is the death of democracy. My words will echo in your head years from now. The dystopia to come is beyond anything you can presently imagine and there is no way to stop it now short of taking up arms and playing Luigi if you are able.
The consolidation of wealth is what really made Caesar. That was the death of the republic. It was not Caesar. We are all a product of our time and environment. It was the consolidation of great wealth. All that wealth did not give a shit about Rome, it went to Constantinople for better opportunities at first chance because consolidation of wealth is treasonous. It is as it was, just look at outsourcing and off shoring, or the disgusting mismanagement of banking and housing that have made the American worker completely uncompetitive with Asian counterparts at the same standard of living. No, I have no fear of the boogie man or foreign state actors. I am terrified of the criminal that normalizes domestic trust, actively manipulates and exploits me, and steals my purchased property. That is a real monster.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 2 months ago:
Democracy is dead. Welcome to the neo dark ages. Take up arms.
- Comment on From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg 2 months ago:
Essentially he was. This is him saying I have no moral threshold and am available as an influencer to say and do whatever I am paid for. AKA I am still relevant to your agenda… Call me. It is the same as all the big tech CEOs bending to 47 after bending to diversity initiatives. People with no ethics or morals fly the banner of whomever has control and do so in ways the average person is far too stupid to process. 47 is hard pressed for black and minority supporters. For a leader of dogmatic tribal fools, aka an influencer, the vacuum of minority supporters for 47 is an open bounty for a very large paycheck in exchange for ethics especially in the Southeastern USA where any sway over potential Democratic voters is critical for the fascist republican agenda. Nothing is simple or straight forward when a person is at this level of political engagement and wealth.
- Comment on From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg 2 months ago:
There are many kinds of whores. Snoop is the fascist kind
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 2 months ago:
There is more to the story of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland than just a children’s story. There are several podcasts and blog posts on this that are easy to find. The book is public domain and on Gutenberg.org. There are also several audio book reads of the original text on YT. It is considered the holotype or foremost representative book in the literary nonsense genre, (the book ends with all of wonderland being a dream).
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 2 months ago:
I think you need to pick up a book. Maybe get out of the sun. It can be harmful you know, bro
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 2 months ago:
What is creepy about it? The entire story is really about Alice discovering rules and how she likes them so much. That is very much the world of an 8 year old. Not to mention all of the fanciful characters and tropes that were dreamed up.
There are many academic critiques and studies of the work. It is also central to Open AI’s QKV layers model alignment training. The story is the primary catalyst for creative randomness in terms of internal model thinking in both LLMs and embedding models used in image diffusion. For instance, all of the mechanisms that Alice used to become bigger and smaller are present in diffusion AI models with the caveat that no real person place or thing is present in the prompt. One does not need to bring up the detailed context of the story if one prompts the element with good specificity. A far easier method to play with is to prompt the queen of hearts or Alice as a character in an image using just a foundational base model. It should be quite clear how these images are a bit different in many ways. Those differences are not random and they are persistent across all models. Literary nonsense is the actual randomness that shows up in background objects and clothing in images. Prompting against the abstraction of genre is far more effective than attempting to describe your own details in the prompt with specificity.
In literature in general, Carroll’s work is the holotype for a genre. Analysing the work speaks to the human experience on many levels. The work has long been appreciated by all ages. So I am a bit baffled about what you find creepy about age in any context such as this. Like what kind of assumptions do you possibly feel grounded in here?
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 2 months ago:
Is Alice 10 in Disney? In Lewis Carroll’s original work she is 8.
- Comment on What’s the plan? 2 months ago:
sorry I have appointment to wash my hair
- Comment on Ideal car 2 months ago:
Super rare cars in the poorer states, where nonconformity is treated like cancer?
- Comment on Ideal car 2 months ago:
Lotus Evora in Alabama? Wat?
