@ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world

ElectroVagrant

@ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world

Another traveler of the wireways.

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ElectroVagrant,

When other’s, be it corporations or people start to decide which information a person can and cannot access, is a damn slippery slope we better level out before AI starts to roll out en masse.

You highlight the bigger issue here than AI alone tbh. This is why another critical element is becoming literate and teaching each other methods of independent research, using multiple sources to develop an understanding, and not relying on any singular source, especially without careful review.

All the technology in the world can’t help a person learn and understand, who hasn’t yet learned how to learn, much less understand.

ElectroVagrant,

love to be null

ElectroVagrant,

Commenting to indicate my shared interest in this (despite the other comments suggesting the unlikelihood of such an option emerging).

ElectroVagrant,

It honestly remains astounding this machine is still operational at all after all this time.

Koala lover here with posts that has been removed and was not notified as to the reason of it.

Hi, I don’t understand what is going on and I’m not if I’m going to have to create my own community. I had made posts which are related to koalas in communities where they are on-topic and were removed with no reason given to me. I’m now more frustrated that another one got removed from an Australian with no reason...

ElectroVagrant,

For posts in this vein, I think maybe !green or !environment may be to your interests around Lemmy. Particularly the second as it’s specifically focused on Australian environmentalism.

Although it may be better to ask about ways one might get involved in helping environmentalist groups there in their existing efforts than proposing new ones that may be kind of a tossup in whether they help. Also in future, if you’re discussing activity on Reddit, I’d advise posting to !reddit instead, and for any moderation issues here on Lemmy, either reach out to the community moderators or perhaps post to !support.

ElectroVagrant,

I agree with others saying copse, as being my first thought as well, but I’m really commenting to say I love the imagery the description, “a gathering of trees” produces.

ElectroVagrant,

For the moment, a lot of the fun on some of the federated platforms is behind several steps of effort that many of the corporate platforms have streamlined people out of being accustomed to taking, which is part of why they’ve kept their larger audiences. If a single click/tap is too much, that’s enough to keep some people away from here.

It’s not a matter of laziness either, it’s more of, how much effort do I want to put into something that I’m using for casual entertainment? For many people it’s minimal, but many federated platforms currently don’t really work like that. They’ve arguably thrown the baby out with the bathwater in an overcorrection away from commercial algorithmic feeds since existing platforms have conditioned people to not have to put effort into finding silly/fun content.

The types of people to post won’t be as inclined to post if they find their posts aren’t reaching people because people mostly have to actively seek them out to engage with them at all. The types of people to more passively engage won’t be able to as easily as those posts they might engage with may never reach them because they mostly have to actively seek them out. The end result of a lack of feedback and content for both types of people, despite there being a possibility and existence of both for them, results in this recurring sense of dissatisfaction.

Note that this is written largely with Mastodon in mind, and to a lesser degree Lemmy. In Lemmy/Kbin/Mbin/PieFed/Sublinks’s cases I think they’re potentially better off in terms of structure and offering different ways to sort one’s feeds, but it’s a matter of more people joining to round out communities and discussion more.

ElectroVagrant,

A Damp Murder!

ElectroVagrant,

Finally, Nozick supposed that “plugging into an experience machine limits us to a man-made reality, to a world no deeper or more important than that which people can construct”.

I find myself agreeing with this, particularly after a lot of time spent in such man-made realities whether in the form of books, movies, or games. At some point, some element of these I think will speak to people and inspire them to pursue on their own in some way, whether a hobby of a character, or creation of their own media or sub-field. An action that cannot be anticipated and generated by any such experience machine or simulation in a way that adequately satisfies someone.

Their AI partner, they explain, “has been treating me like no other person has ever treated me”.

This is an aside, but this jumps out at me as an interesting tell…Given that these AI partners aren’t necessarily sophisticated enough to fully emulate people and there’s historical precedent for people seeing in them some traits they want to see, I wonder if this could be viewed as an angle to developing AI-intermediary therapy whereby one may learn that it isn’t the AI treating them well, but the patient themselves.

The AI may be serving as a method to direct their inner monologue into patterns of thought that are kinder and more uplifting compared to however they may otherwise be.

“As we get more familiar with technology and especially virtual technology, we are going to care less and less that something is virtual rather than non-virtual,” Weijers notes.

Frankly, I think we’ve already been here for some time. The technological element undeniably alters matters, but society itself has arguably been in this situation for as long as people have been capable of abstract thought. People have always existed between knowledge and ignorance, amidst facts and fabrications, and indulged themselves as much and often more in fabrications as facts.

What has consistently been of more concern is how much they draw from their indulgence rather than lose, rather than the ontology of it.

ElectroVagrant,

I kind of agree about this not entirely fitting science, but I think the survey part is what gives it that little edge to fit here.

Without reading it in the full context, I’m also not sure what Nozick may have meant with the “want to be a certain way, to be a certain sort of person” idea. I suspect the idea may be that given a fully constructed context, you may be limited to however that context permits you to be instead of an independently actualized/realized person.

Although if that may be what Nozick was getting at, it’s not without its own problems, much as you highlight with their position supposing existence harboring deeper meaning and significance apart from conscious creations.

ElectroVagrant,

Sometimes it’s writing or trying to make things or taking a step back and simply taking stock of things for me. Putting my stuff into more perspective sometimes help make it less overwhelming and scattered about.

ElectroVagrant,

listening to interrogations for whatever reason

I keep wanting to think this is a typo, but the very end tells me it really isn’t. I suppose they may have a similar cadence to some styles of podcast or the like, so makes a sort of sense.

ElectroVagrant, (edited )

A literhythm, I follow

ElectroVagrant,

Btw, if you go to the site linked in the article and click buy tickets for the upcoming movie showing, you can enter in your zip code to see which theatres around you may be showing them!

ElectroVagrant,

Personally, although the terms have become increasingly blurred over the years, I refer to changing to a new version of software (including an OS, and both ideally with some improvements) as updating it rather than upgrading.

I reserve upgrade more for changes of hardware with some form of improvement over its predecessor. I’d suspect I may not be alone in this, but I dunno how common it may be. When switching to a mix of both, I simply say I’m getting a new [insert specific device depending on which].

Although I’d hesitate to call many new phones an all-around upgrade when they’re either removing features (headphone jack/expandable storage) or getting more cumbersome to hold (can you even call some modern phones a handset anymore?).

ElectroVagrant,

Thanks for pointing this out! It’s interesting seeing another view of the discussion with some different responses.

looking for a threading system in journals/commonplace books

i realize that the decline of my journal usage (or commonplace book) is due to my recent discovery of a threading system that lets me iterate on ideas frictionlessly. telegram might not be the best tool for this but it’s been good to me from the start because of its direct reply functionality....

ElectroVagrant, (edited )

If it’s a complex idea, I’d think perhaps sectioning off a portion of the journal so that all the ideas in said section are clearly related might be one simple way to approach it. Maybe even simply dedicate the entire journal to the idea if it’s especially elaborate.

When it comes to more clearly linking ideas, probably classic methods like either using certain highlighter colors, drawing distinct symbols, or maybe even putting some stickers beside each idea to indicate the connections of the ideas might be something to try. I think a combination of this and dedicated journals may be a better approach than trying to thread/relate the ideas in a mixed content journal that may make it more difficult.

ElectroVagrant, (edited )

You might look into either the OnePlus Nord N20 or N30. N20 had an AMOLED display like the S10+, whereas the N30 has a LCD display but high refresh rate. I’m not entirely sure but I think the processor specs are comparable, storage and RAM definitely are.

I know someone with a N30 and they’ve had good experience with the battery life on it so far, albeit they also aren’t heavily using it either. Here’s a little comparison chart.

ElectroVagrant,

yo, you may not believe it but…

!opossums

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@asklemmy How could users Monitise themselves on the Fediverse?

As people possibly move across to the Fediverse to find alternatives, we have to question how people are going to make a living on this amazing platform.

Can it be fully run by donations or is there a better way for people to be paid across the Fediverse?

ElectroVagrant,

Ah yeah, my bad, I also see this on another part of the site regarding “zaps”:

From the beginning of the Nostr protocol, it was common to see Lightning invoices in notes.

I think I remembered it otherwise by coming at it from the decentralized comms angle instead of the cryptobro angle.

ElectroVagrant,

From what I understand, you’ll still be owning your game on GOG the way you currently do, it’s mostly a new way to “consume” them. It does not feel like a regression to me, seems mostly to be opening to new possibilities.

I think you’re correct with the first sentence, but on the second, I somewhat disagree. Strictly speaking, it’s correct, yet it’s not so new insofar as other platforms have done similar sorts of things, and with GOG I’d have hoped they might look into partnering with some software developers working on enabling local/self-hosted game streaming solutions more in the spirit of the DRM free approach.

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ElectroVagrant, (edited )

Kind of hard to say given the structure of it. Going off the approximate data from FediDB’s charts, we may be looking at around 2 to 3 million more user accounts (around 8 million to 7.25 million), as compared with data from Stats for Bluesky of 5.24 million.

Although I’m not sure how each is measuring this, a better point of comparison may be active users and daily posters. FediDB uses the former, and shows about 940,000 to 920,000 active users, compared to Bluesky’s about 220,000215,000 to 190195,000 daily posters. The latter is honestly being kind of generous, as going off the data there posting has been declining. Interestingly liking has stayed somewhat higher, hovering between 240,000 to occasional peaks of 260,000 recently.

According to their CEO just before they opened registrations they had 1.6 million monthly users, so maybe if you run the numbers differently it looks better…But the raw stats don’t paint a great picture, at least as I read them.

Going off Join Mastodon’s servers page (under network health), we see a figure of 942,000 monthly active users, which would suggest Bluesky should arguably have slightly more activity going off the monthly active users figure, but… 🤷‍♀️

ElectroVagrant,

It’s been a few months (and days), but I’m still thinking carnival. It’s a good cross between a circus and a mall, with the bonus of activities to goof around with.

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