TheOneCurly
@TheOneCurly@lemmy.theonecurly.page
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
I actually think your hypothetical smoker is a great example of the opposite. Someone who lived it, understands the struggle, and ultimately regrets their choices is exactly who you want to hear from. It’s why the really cheesy don’t smoke PSAs don’t ring a chord with most people, they don’t feel genuine.
I don’t think Thoreau is some enormous hypocrite, but I do absolutely understand why some people might feel bitter about it when they learn the greater context.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
IMO the laundry thing is an easy example of the larger issue of extreme privilege. Being able to live on a rich friend’s property in the woods by a pond sounds awesome. I’m sure I would love that and it would do amazing things for my well-being. But that’s just not a relatable thing for most people and it can really sour the message.
- Comment on Any 'creation' of information (pictures, books, code, etc) is just pruning the huge space of possible information to leave just the information you want. 11 months ago:
Except, ideally, a PhD thesis. Which should contain a completely new piece of information for the world.
- Comment on How can open source hardware be a movement if the raw materials still have to be mined and factory produced? 11 months ago:
Open source is about ideas being freely shared and iterated on. Open hardware has benefits, making a lot of things more accessible to people. It’s not the end all of sustainability, but it doesn’t pretend to be either.
- Comment on Actor paid to pose as crypto CEO “deeply sorry” about $1.3 billion scam 11 months ago:
S1m0ne 2: crypto boogaloo
- Comment on Self-host personal instance and Plex server 11 months ago:
I run Lemmy, Plex, and a bunch of other services from a desktop in my basement. It works great. The Lemmy docker setup is a little finicky but works well once you get it.
- Comment on If someone pleads not guilty in court and is then found guilty of the crime anyway, does perjury get added to the list of crimes as well? 1 year ago:
Same process in the United States
- Comment on PeerTube stress tests: resilience lies in your peers! 1 year ago:
There are quite a few creators who are primarily funded off patreon and release content to YouTube. I imagine a group like MCDM (Matt Colville) who has patreon, merch, crowdfunding, and products doesn’t really care about ad revenue.
- Comment on Why didn't SBF flee? 1 year ago:
On top of the many other reasons here, there’s also a pretty distinct difference between countries without a US extradition treaty and countries that won’t extradite to the US. Many countries without formal treaties will still happily hand over a US citizen trying to hide in their country. It might be a different story if he had dual citizenship somewhere but anywhere he tried to flee he’d be immigrating illegally.
- Comment on Generative AI will be a huge boon for the public domain – unless copyright blocks it 1 year ago:
The headline gives a bad first impression but I think the text itself has an interesting point. As it stands right now (in the US) the AI gatekeepers can’t copyright any of their output. So each and every piece of generated media is one more piece added to the public domain pile. Most of it is worthless but if there’s anything worth building on someone or someones can do that.
- Comment on how do I know if I've been banned from an instance other than my own? 1 year ago:
I host this instance just for myself. I use bans locally to curate my all feed. I don’t really need problematic people getting alerts about what I do.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
The concept is that you don’t have to politely sit quietly and listen while someone spouts hate. You are empowered and encouraged to make it stop. That doesn’t necessarily involve physical violence but it should remind you that hate can weaponize the rules of polite society and you don’t have help.
- Comment on My first small flutter project 1 year ago:
I’d highly recommend adding a license file. Right now it’s more source available than open source.
- Comment on This is why we hate you 1 year ago:
And also for the entire Dominion war we forget that half the federation, the Klingons, and the romulans are all in the beta quadrant. But we’re fighting to save the alpha quadrant.
- Comment on How high above my baseboards (electric?) should I hang my curtains to avoid a fire hazard? 1 year ago:
12 inches minimum.
- Comment on ChatGPT users can now browse internet, OpenAI says 1 year ago:
Jokes on them, I could already browse the internet.
- Comment on #1 or #2? 1 year ago:
I believe there’s one directly off the bridge, near the door to the conference room.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
You’re pretty nuts, huh?
- Comment on Star Trek transporters 1 year ago:
If you arm gets cut off, you and your arm go together to the hospital, and they reattach it, are you a different person? If you die in the ambulance and they revive you, are you a different person?
- Comment on Death by a thousand microservices 1 year ago:
If you’ve ever followed the C++ committee discussions you’ll see they put a lot of time and effort into considering legacy code when introducing language changes. For better or worse existing languages are on a trajectory set from their inception that can’t always be easily redirected. New languages are free of this baggage and can wildly experiment.
- Comment on [Weekly thread] What is the best movie you watched last week? 9 September 1 year ago:
Finally saw Dazed and Confused. Other than a couple pretty extreme bullying/abuse scenes it’s a really cozy slice of life.
- Comment on Why don’t we use radiators as heat sinks in the summer and pump cold water through them? 1 year ago:
Energy transfer is proportional to the difference in temperature between the 2 things (delta T), their contact surface area (in this case the length of the radiator and the size of the fins), and time. If you want a room to change temperature quickly and with radiators that don’t take up an entire wall then you need the water temperature to be very different from the room temperature.
- Comment on Why don’t we use radiators as heat sinks in the summer and pump cold water through them? 1 year ago:
Hot water radiators are designed to work with temperature deltas in the 110 degree F range (target 70 room temp, 180 water temp). In the summer your temperature deltas are much tighter, you can only get to at best 32 F before the water freezes and with a target of 70 that’s only 38 degrees of temperature delta trying to cool the room. They simply won’t work efficiently enough for it to be worth it, not to mention being on the floor is very poor positioning for summer.
- Comment on The Living Web: Will there eventually be a protocol on top of (or as a part of) ActivityPub to run distributed LLMs on instances, with the LLMs feeding on the data generated by the Fediverse? 1 year ago:
I don’t believe so. I’m not sure what their long term goals look like.
- Comment on Why shouldn’t firearm manufacturers be held accountable for the use of their weapons in crimes? 1 year ago:
I would support this if there was evidence that manufacturers were knowingly (or purposefully not doing do diligence) selling to distributors who weren’t following the rules or were somehow pressuring distributors to bend the rules to sell more (conspiracy). Otherwise its really on the distributors to be doing background checks, adhering to waiting periods, and using proper discretion. If we want less guns around then there need to be legal limits on sales and ownership, and those limits need to be enforced.
- Comment on The Living Web: Will there eventually be a protocol on top of (or as a part of) ActivityPub to run distributed LLMs on instances, with the LLMs feeding on the data generated by the Fediverse? 1 year ago:
There’s no need to run an LLM on the same system it was trained on. Once the model is built it contains all the information already. If you want a model to live on long term you would just release the file(s) publicly, like hugging face does with theirs, then anyone could use it or host an interface for it.
- Comment on Roy Schestowitz got me pregnant and abandoned us 1 year ago:
His principled stance against conventional contraceptives (condoms)
Lol
- Comment on [What is the best movie you watched last week?] 26 August 1 year ago:
La Haine. Really well shot, very interesting drama about 3 young French men in the poor parts of Paris.
- Comment on Metadata and torrents. ELI5? 1 year ago:
A good example for metadata and privacy that might be applicable to you is photos. Phone cameras attach a ton of useful data to your photos, often including the exact gps coordinates where it was taken. Sharing those files directly with people could potentially leak your home address. Most online photo hosting services (Facebook, imgur, Instagram, Lemmy, etc) strip that data for you but that wouldn’t be the case if you directly emailed it to someone.
Nothing to be super paranoid about but it’s a great example of metadata leaking unintuitive information.
- Comment on Whats stopping someone from creating a instance that host illegal content? 1 year ago:
Lemmy federation only starts when a user on your instance searches for and subscribes to a community on another one. So unless a user on your instance goes searching for cp it’s not really an issue.