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Landa

@Landa@graz.social

Grazer.
Member of the Council of Marios.

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futurebird, (edited ) to random
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Tulip, the ant says hi!

Landa,
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@futurebird seems like she shares some experiences with the guy in this engraving:

😁
@llewelly

futurebird, to random
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So night terrors, sleep paralysis etc. seem to be a real thing. I've had "bad dreams" but never anything that sounds like these experiences. It sounds like it's scary. Scary like when you are home alone and hear a sound and don't know what it is.

I'm curious if people who can have this are can be aware that it's not real when it's happening.

When I get anxious I can also know "this is just that thing" and I'm sort of detached about it?

Can that happen with fear?

Landa,
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@futurebird I experienced episodes of sleep paralysis all my life. As a kid I was terrified but I never told anyone.

One day I asked our family doctor and he gave me a simplified (though longwinded :D) explanation of sleep paralysis.

It didn't stop after that (though they became rarer with age).

Usually I recognise what's happening which dissipates any fear that might have started and I found that even the episodes where I don't realise what's happening are much more benign than before.

badlogic, to random
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Every day I wait for the tram to get back home and have to look at this campaign poster by Austria's extrem right party FPÖ. It's AI generated.

Let's learn how to identify AI images using two recent posters by FPÖ.

1st image: Campaign poster for FPÖ's "Blue-Harry", supposedly a metal worker
2nd image: What Blue-Harry really looks like. He's a credit risk manager
3rd image: Poster for "Heimat Games", a Hitler-Youth inspired sujet for "homeland games"

Let's start with the 3rd image

image/png
image/png

Landa,
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@badlogic taking a step back, in AI-Bro-Art-land, there are no strong people who don’t have muscular definition like a bodybuilder.

With most strong people (e.g. actual workers) there’s fat that smooths out the muscle ridges between the muscles and even fairly thin strong humans don’t necessary show bulging muscles when they’re not flexing.

Misrepresentation in training data would be my guess.

codepo8, to random
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Did you know that HTML has a translate attribute? You can prevent browsers from automatically translating labels and other text elements by setting it to "no".
https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-translate-flag

Landa,
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@lewiscowles1986
There’s a number of pretty good examples in the link.
Like preventing translation of the text on a remote control button.
The hardware won’t be translated so users will have to look for “VOLUME” even if their language calls it Lautstärke.

Or source code:

WÄHLE Land VON Benutzern
is not the same as
SELECT country FROM users

@codepo8

Landa,
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@lewiscowles1986 I would, but the W3C hasn't given me write permissions on their server 🙃

Though you got me to think where this would be useful, so thank you :)

Got a number of ideas, but most are individually a bit niche.

Seems like a very specific tool that can easily be used to make text more user-friendly instead of user-hostile

@codepo8

foone, to random
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I wonder how well my smartphone would work if I was at the bottom of a lake.

Landa,
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@foone I have a horrible idea:
Every Cybertruck gets a wifi hotspot and a cellular antenna and when the car detects submersion in water those two hijack all tcp connections and reply with an html page explaining how to open the doors on that exact model.

The luxury package includes hijacking all VOIP connections and a voice that almost sounds like Lawrence Fishburn calmly telling you how to open the doors. 😈
@cstross

publicvoit, to random
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Somewhat counter-intuitive: when evacuating an on water, jump into water from forward side of the wing.

I would have guessed that this still might have some risk associated with hot or (in water less likely) rotating engines that are much more exposed on the front side of the wing than on the back.

✈️

Landa,
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@publicvoit aren’t the hot parts of the engine towards the aft?
The front is basically just a giant fan to suck air in.

publicvoit, to apple German
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Warum man einen Notruf lieber mit einem Android-Handy absetzen sollte
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000209389/warum-man-einen-notruf-lieber-mit-einem-android-handy-absetzen-sollte

In sterben Unfallopfer, die mittels ​s die Rettungskette in Gang bringen durch Zeitverlust eher als bei , weil Apple wieder mal Apple ist und die österreichischen Notrufnummern nicht anerkennt. 🤷

Quote: "Von Apple bekommen wir aktuell gar nichts", bestätigt Stefan Spielbichler, Sprecher von Notruf 144, auf Nachfrage des STANDARD.

Landa,
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@publicvoit leider keine Stellungnname von Apple, die Begründung würde mich interessieren 😂

publicvoit, to Facebook German
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#Falter 6/24 zum 20jährigen Jubiläum von #facebook.

#AnnaGoldenberg (vermutlich immer noch nicht im Fediverse und offensichtlich lieber bei Meta) beschreibt, wie #Meta der #Demokratie schadet, wie Menschen manipuliert werden, wie sich #Zuckerberg mit Geld von Vorwürfen freikauft, wie der Service süchtig macht und schließt mit den Worten: "Es dauert nur immer ein paar Minuten, bis ich Meta dankbar bin. Immer noch und immer wieder."

🤦‍♂️🤷

Was soll man davon halten? Geständnis einer Suchtkranken?

Landa,
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@publicvoit dankbar wofür? Dopaminschübe?

Landa,
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@publicvoit Danke! Man könnte es großzügig als Ironie auslegen, aber es klingt wirklich mehr wie eine Kapitulation :-(

bijram, to Hydrogen German
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Why?? Warum sollte eine Straßenbahn in der Stadt die ineffizienteste Speicherung von Energie benötigen?
Stromlieferung über Oberleitung ist wohl nicht "modern" oder buzzwordy enough.

https://www.elektroauto-news.net/news/goerlitz-erste-wasserstoff-strassenbahn

Landa,
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@Hypx how is „saying batteries“ an admission of failure?
@bijram

Landa,
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@Hypx so, using batteries for the whole line or to bridge parts that would be expensive to put overhead lines on is failing but switching to H2 which adds h2 storage, refueling facilities, and conversion losses isn’t? @bijram

Landa,
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@Hypx
We partially agree.
Traction wires are usually the most efficient way to power trains.

But sometimes traction wire is impractical or expensive (e.g. low, old tunnels, mountain ranges).
BETs can recharge through traction wires, so plan sufficient capacity to easily cross those sections and recharge on the rest.
No additional 'recharge capabilities' needed.

Would you suggest full H2 replacement in that case?

Also, I think you underestimate the complexity of H2 refuelling.

@bijram

publicvoit, to random German
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Unser RJ Zugführer von Graz Richtung Wien hupt bereits seit ca. Ternitz fast durchgehend.

Und wir sind schon längst Wr. Neustadt durch ... 🤷

Immerhin wurde vor Kurzem auf freier Strecke verhältnismäßig stark runtergebremst und nach einer Minute ging's weiter.

Ist schon etwas seltsam.

Landa,
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@publicvoit Problem mit den Signalen für Bahnübergänge? Oder vielleicht sind Arbeiter auf den Gleisen.

Wohne an der GKB Trasse und da war beides schon Grund für Hupkonzerte durch S-Bahnen.

Landa,
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@publicvoit Stimmt, das wäre eine lange Baustelle, geh ich zu :)

foone, to random
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I've never used one, so can someone tell me how the Sinclair
ZX81 keyboard works?

Because I'm seeing like 5 options per key, and only one shift key.

Like the "S" key: It's Save, ARCCOS,. "S", LPRINT, and that graphical symbol. How do you select between those?

Landa,
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@foone I‘m surprised this is not in Unicode given that one of their stated goals was to allow round trip conversion between it and legacy character sets. :-(

ml, to academicchatter
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Really not liking the new trend of non-visual arts academics using AI to create graphics for their blogs, slide presentations, videos, etc.

VALUE HUMAN LABOR & CREATIVITY

We already know that this AI was created by ripping off visual artists without consent or compensation. When you use AI to goose up your work instead of using public domain, the right CC license, legit stock licensing or work you've commissioned. you are engaging in academic misconduct, in my opinion.

@academicchatter

Landa,
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@LouisIngenthron Why even have it then if neither author nor audience care one jot for it?

This is as puzzling to me as the „it can turn bullet points into walls of text“ and „it can turn walls of text into bullet points“ feature pair that’s commonly touted as wonderful capabilities of LLMs.

How would that make the world better/safer/more beautiful?
@ml @academicchatter

cstross, (edited ) to random
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I mean, with climate change we're going to NEED big-ass container ships that can go really fast, just to move food around between regions hit by drought/crop failure. And nuclear is obviously a smart bet (because it's carbon-neutral), and for a half-million-ton ship it's even reasonable. But why pick a fuel cycle that lends itself to weapons proliferation?

Landa,
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@hittitezombie for the last decades sizes for container freighters were constrained by the sizes of harbors and the larger international canals. As far as I know that’s still the bottleneck, especially as running one humongous ship is probably cheaper than several smaller ones. @cstross

CTD, to random
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Circular Slide Rule of the Day

Landa,
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@michaelgemar brainstorming:

  • less distraction
  • no camera
  • no network
  • fixed cost instead of subscription service
  • doesn’t need constant software updates
  • no ads
  • price (might not be true, haven’t checked yet)
  • vendor can’t add LLM “features” on an already bought system
  • support for muscle memory because UI design can’t be changed with minor software releases
    @cstross @nyrath @CTD @FredKiesche @anmwinter
Landa,
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@MichaelPhillips that’s a very good one. There’s also all kinds of less dangerous clean rooms in industry. In the early noughts I worked on a project revolving around chip manufacture clean rooms. Getting a laptop computer in and out was time consuming. @michaelgemar @cstross @nyrath @CTD @FredKiesche @anmwinter

badlogic, to random
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Help needed. Can you all open this link, play around a little, then reply with your device/operating system/browser info an how kany "fps" you got?

https://marioslab.io/uploads/webgl-demos/example/physics2.html

You'd really help me out!

Landa,
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@badlogic iPhone 11 Pro, iOS 17.1.2 (21B101)

Safari, full screen 29.97 fps

cstross, to random
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Introducing the New Management revised National Curriculum Introduction to Human Sacrifice Lego playset!

Landa,
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@SpeakerToManagers looks like an AI phantasm to me.

  • the almost-digits on the instructions
  • the strangely vague faces
  • the weird giant skulls instead of actual Lego skulls
  • the studs change size between different layers of the pedestal
    @cstross
ZachWeinersmith, to random
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If one more person critiques A City on Mars for not accounting for something that is in fact accounted for one the book, I am going to... feel moderately annoyed but take no action.

Landa,
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@cstross I’m a complete layman in basically any part of biology but it seems to me that many of the individual steps toward a self-sustaining biosphere should be quite useful and profitable by themselves.

How did we end up in a situation where most of earth’s resources are controlled by people worse than Pierson puppeteers? @maxthefox @ZachWeinersmith

Landa,
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@cstross going bottom up and limiting scope might yield reachable steps.
No doubt that it’s difficult, but we know of at least one system where that worked.

@maxthefox @ZachWeinersmith

cstross, to random
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So, you know that microgenre of cozy fantasy in which a D&D adventurer retires ands opens a coffee shop or library?

I had an idea for one in which a Turkish character from an exotic species decides to open a dumpling shop, and sets out to make it a centre of excellence.

They name it the Manti-core.

PS: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manti_(food)

Landa,
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@stevejwright There's a series about an uplifted bearded owl, the first to successfully defends their Thesis. It's called Dr. Hoo
@cstross

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