So, one lens on the weird direction of the modern Internet is that entities created to route you to cool stuff, e.g. search, social media, have especially in the last 5-10 years been taking an ever larger part of the pie via having giant networks. Google can now control whether a news site lives or dies. Meta can take 99.5% of all ad revenue displayed next to an artist's work and they have no power.
@i_understand@AlexanderKingsbury Right, but they don't. Not usually, which is why even really well-known sites also have Instagram, Facebook, etc. Additionally, if I post anything but naked content on Facebook (e.g. asking people to see a product launch or come to a signing) their algorithm crushes it.
@gsuberland Yep this is something I've started to design into my architecture, prototyping on the trigger crossbar and then scaling to a next-generation system with more capabilities on my next project.
Luckily there's not a whole lot to worry about in terms of data integrity because MicroKVS is a) seldom written and b) designed to not corrupt data if interrupted at any point.
At some point I need to build a board where I can test that assumption: have one MCU that controls power to another and the target is just constantly booting up, doing KVS reads and writes, and being randomly reset/power cycled.
@AlexanderKingsbury@shiri@mmby@Daojoan “Could” is not a substitute for “Will.” NFT could have revolutionized a lot of things but the most common use case for them became to scam people and launder money. Given the implementations I see now, I have no reason to be even slightly optimistic about what we call Ai.
Also, no artist has ever asked for this, and most have had their livelihoods jepardized by how it. But sure, let’s keep pretending we’re doing them a favor.
@ELS@davidho This is a sore point with me, all the people who don't seem to realize that not everyone can bike, and that even for those who can, it's often totally impractical and too dangerous in the city.
I have a soft spot for Libertarians even though I shouldn't and they don't deserve it. When I was a kid I had a weird neighbor who was always giving me Libertarian books... I wish I still had some of them they were WILD. He was a thorn in the side of the local, school board as well insisting that if they had an event at the school that involved politics Libertarians had to be included.
And in defense of the guy, he was about as likable and earnest as a Libertarian could be.
I mean also, I'm not going to point and yell at someone who has a real connection to these events & "just can't vote for him" but the people I know who have said that have also said "don't know if I'd feel the same if I weren't in NYC, where it's unlikely to matter" & they have even said "I feel like I'm being selfish."(!)
Someone who has LOST people. How do they have more willingness to think about the consequences than those with no direct connections?
@richpuchalsky@futurebird@jonquass@ehproque@moira yes sure whatever, but the voting itself is not a piece of performance art that expresses your abstract endorsement of “the state” as a concept. It’s a mechanism you use to exercise control over the state. It’s not direct, perfect control to align it with your values, but it is the control we have got. By not voting, you are sacrificing collective praxis for personal aesthetic preference.
Not enough people realize that the "Turing Test" as originally presented was "can a gay English man in 1945 tell the difference between a chatbot and a femme-coded woman" over a teletype connection.
(Turing was very gay and had a sex-segregated education and then work life: he basically didn't know women and his alienation is palpable. But today's techbros don't have any such excuse, and the emphasis on femme-coded AI is ... telling.) https://mastodon.xyz/@pmorinerie/112506480363973206
Oh, it's absolutely a religious belief masquerading as science. The notion of AGI eventually becoming a certainty is unprovable in many ways, and it even has its own devil in the form of Roko's Basilisk.
And like all religions (including some varieties of capital-A Atheism!), it gathers its share of hucksters and mountebanks intent on siphoning as much money as possible out of the True Believers.
A heartbreaking moment that was saved by an SS photographer at Auschwitz II-Birkenau during the deportations of Hungarian Jews. It was taken 80 years ago, most likely in late May 1944. A little child finds a dandelion in the grass and is handing it or showing it to an older boy.
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#Jellyfin ist ne coole Sache und ich mag das Projekt.
Trotzdem hat es so seine Macken. Und die sind nicht ohne: Beispielsweise fängt die offizielle App beim Musikplayback an, zu stottern. Nämlich dann, wenn sie nicht mehr im Hintergrund läuft.
Das Problem ist bekannt und liegt wohl daran, dass die App in Grunde nur ein Webbrowser ist, der dann von Android schlafen gelegt wird.
Aber trotzdem. Das ist doch eine absolut grundlegende Funktion. Dass das so schlecht funktioniert, frustriert.
You can try to distract me with a woman wearing a shirt with a boob cutout and not one but TWO bucket hats, but your shoes will always be ugly, skechers.
@MarSolRivas Ben évidemment ! Tout le monde sait que c'est la boulangerie de Paloma à Narnia qui méritait de gagner l'année précédente 😑 @Superspindoctor@Natouille
@scobiform Drum schrieb ich "um" = ungefähr (Datum als Symbol). Der Terror damals auf den Straßen wurde sehr gefördert durch all diejenigen, die wegschauten, passiv waren, aus dem Weg gingen. Wir vergessen gern, dass die genauso ermöglichen wie die Anhänger*innen.
Natürlich haben Herumstehende auch schon in den 1920ern mitgeprügelt.
Im obigen Fall stand die Politikerin an einem Wahlkampfstand. Sie war da nicht allein. Und es gibt viele Passant*innen an Wahlkampfständen.
@scobiform Du hast natürlich völlig recht, dieses Datum als Geschichtssymbol war unglücklich gewählt. Mir fällt kein passenderes, ähnlich bekanntes ein. Das Parteiprogramm der Nazis war ja schon 1920 bekannt ... @patrislav