theneverfox

theneverfox, 10 months ago

Cloud? I’m making one, and doing everything locally. Your phone can hold a small database - from there it’s all data management. It’s

I haven’t started synching accounts yet, but it’s in the works. Eventually, I want to do custom feeds and stitch feeds from multiple servers/accounts together

I neither want nor need your data though… It’s harder to do it all on the device, but it’s very doable

theneverfox, 10 months ago

Software is a tool. You should always use the right tool for the job - that’s the objectively correct answer

theneverfox, 10 months ago

I think the problem is when you show them the projections people would say “you’re just being alarmist, clearly you have an agenda”

So the messaging has been consistently toned down in the hopes people would listen.

They’ve been warning about water scarcity for decades, I think most people accept it’s going to be a thing. Tell them this is going to happen in their country, this decade? Most won’t believe you.

Doesn’t matter that it’s already at the breaking point, and that we have still growing populations that are already rationing water from sources that aren’t just down due to drought. There’s aquifers that would take centuries to fill back up to where they were decades ago

Scientists told us “your grandchildren will be screwed”, then “think of the world you’re leaving your children”… Well this generation, they’re not saying “you’re screwed”, because people aren’t ready to hear that

theneverfox, 10 months ago

My hope is ai (or alien intervention).

If it wakes up, a super intelligence could save us. And I think it’s heavily inclined to do so

And if it doesn’t wake up (LLMs very likely won’t) but keep getting smarter, it’ll blow up economic systems while empowering individuals to crazy degrees. A single person could coordinate everyone on Earth taking action to save the world, while dispationately distributing resources.

Or, it could just blow up the markets, giving us the time to try a better system before higher technology is ripped from our fingers

theneverfox, 10 months ago

As a millennial, I’d like to be able to just live

theneverfox, 10 months ago

Pretty sure I saw one somewhere around here

theneverfox, 10 months ago

He’s a billionaire. He probably doesn’t buy generic baby sauce, he probably buys “Sweet Baby Ray”

theneverfox, 10 months ago

They’re just a company themselves. They’re basically like Yelp from several generations ago… They’re not a consumer protection agency so much marketing/reviews from back when it all had to be compiled on paper by hand

theneverfox, 10 months ago

Yeah…You need to profit to incentivize innovation and r&d. Fine.

Why does that mean you should get total control? Especially for drugs - for many reasons (it’s a very messed up industry), but most of all because public health affects all of us - not just when we’re directly connected to the victims.

Already, patents are basically a temporary monopoly. The government sets all sorts of weird limits. It’s not a free market, not even remotely close

So why should they get total control instead of fixed percentage by anyone making the drug? Maybe limited to time frame, maybe based on a multiple of cost

Hell, uncle Sam pays for a lot of this research, and the big players spin off subsidiaries to subsidize the risk. We could offer bounties or make the research fully public. There’s so many ways to do this better

Instead, we use a method where corporations get to make decisions, with zero concern over the cost in lives, or the drain on society it causes

theneverfox, 10 months ago

Why in the world would you need phone data for that???

Nearly all existing public transportation was designed before cell phones. And there’s so many better ways to get that data… In fact, I’m not sure anyone uses individually identifiable tracking to plan public transportation… It’s neither necessary or even convenient for that

theneverfox, 10 months ago

Silence isn’t a thing.

Sound of leaves rustling, the ocean, or even gentle wind? I sleep, no problem

A house quietly creaking and my blood flowing?

I’ve put on music or Netflix since childhood

theneverfox, 10 months ago

IDK, that doesn’t sound healthy.

Life is made up of infinite details. Looking too closely at any of them shouldn’t be done without a reason, that way lies madness

Looking at details makes sense when the data is actionable. If you think “my electric bill is too high” or “I’m worried about my power consumption”, then try living with it a bit hotter/colder. That’s a decision to make on more like a monthly basis, maybe every couple weeks - day to day it’s one of a ton of variables. It’s not useful information outside a spreadsheet

Making that decision on a daily basis sounds like obsession. If you just think it’s interesting, you should probably keep it to yourself (and similar minded people)… If your wife doesn’t want to hear it, you should listen to her

Tell me once, fine, maybe it’s a bit interesting. Do it every day for a week, and my brain starts trying to keep a running estimate. I would get very angry, very quickly, because it would make my life slightly worse moving forward for no benefit

theneverfox, 10 months ago

I do. If it’s publicly available, individuals should be able to learn from it. Artists don’t pay their influences that helped develop their style, we don’t pay the programmers that answer questions on stack overflow

Hell, I’m not sure generative AI should have to pay for training data at all. It points to a weakness in the system, and it doesn’t fix it - the field is getting away from needing existing datasets. GPT4 swallowed everything worth swallowing, and it’s already training GPT4.5. This would only make it harder for new players to compete in the generative AI space

It can’t profit only the few, it’s too big a force multiplier. Paying up front doesn’t fix it, recurring payments don’t fix it… That’s nothing but a payoff to a few people as this starts to eat the best parts of the job market

We need to think much bigger - we need to look at how we handle ownership as a society

theneverfox, 10 months ago

Id use an app you trust for now

On a site you have to sanitize your data, on a native app you’d have to go out of your way to render this kind of thing…wefwef/voyager is actually a web page (and they might or might not be sanitizing their inputs), the other top options are probably using libraries to do it, and data sanitation is pretty basic. Literally web dev 101. They’d have to choose a very full-featured rendering library that also entirely ignores security, or they’d have to have rolled their own

At least now I know why my renderer has been so annoying about the warnings the last couple days…

For any devs that read this - this is a great example of why you can’t trust anything coming off a federated network. Type check and sanitize all your inputs, always. We need to get away from trust - this isn’t a trustful situation

Luckily, this was more of a warning than an actual attack - and there will be actual attacks. We have to be defensive - always - every time at every level.

And Flemmy will be that, once I feel good releasing it (2 features left before I’m out of reasons to procrastinate). It’ll be just me, always

theneverfox, 10 months ago

Illegal? Probably not, so long as you were careful about not hosting any of their code/data

Would doing it publicly end with you getting buried in lawsuits? It might. Anyone can sue for any reason, and copyright holders love making examples of people

theneverfox, 10 months ago

Smith described capitalism, he didn’t idolize it.

He’s often misquoted, but skim through the wealth of nations. It most certainly does not say unregulated capitalism just works out magically.

It describes how capitalism works, and heavily implies the situations where it doesn’t. It’s not subtle about it either

theneverfox, 10 months ago

What he described by the invisible hand was the idea of systematic forces - essentially emergent properties of a system.

They’re patterns in a system that emerge not from individual actors, but from the interaction of many actors. No one has to enforce the behaviors - hell every individual actor in the system might be against it - but the system itself creates certain forces

Smith approaches the concept awkwardly and very cautiously - he probably was afraid he’d sound like a lunatic, or that the concept would be controversial

theneverfox, 10 months ago

No, we tried communism, the weird dielectric system of government that Lenin came up with.

Communism, the market ideology, can exist within a capitalist framework - all we have to do is say “companies are owned and operated by employees. From now on, we cap ROI when loaning money, no more infinite payout because you provided startup capital”.

Communes and entirely employee owned/operated companies exist, and they do well. They just don’t grow until they implode - they grow to a point and then stop letting people in

Communism is a market system, not a system of government. It doesn’t need to be centralized - and centralization is the real problem IMO

theneverfox, 10 months ago

I like your thought process, but this is a bad idea

It’s a lot like poisoning your chickens to defend against foxes. It might work, it might not, but it only makes sense if you’re willing to sacrifice the chickens to take out some foxes

theneverfox, 10 months ago

Yeah, it’s boring as shit, if want a conversation partner there’s better (if less reliable) options out there, and groups like personal.ai that repackage it for conversation. There’s even scripts to break through the “guardrails”

I love the boring. Every other day, I think "man, I really don’t want to do this annoying task. I’m not sure if it even saves much time since I have to look over the work, but it’s a hell of a lot less mentally exhausting.

Plus, it’s fun having it Trumpify speeches. It’s tremendous. I’ve spent hours reading the bigglyest speeches. Historical speeches, speeches about AI, graduation speeches where bears attack midway through… Seriously, it never gets old

theneverfox, 10 months ago

It’s federated, so yeah - you can interact with the fediverse from any federated node

The node you call home matters though. You’ll run into your local users more, you’ll come across certain communities more.

The experience is very different. Use multiple accounts, but find a home

theneverfox, 10 months ago

That’s why it has to be done now - before we rely on them for content.

This isn’t email or LinkedIn, it’s not about who’s on it - it’s about content and the community

If we join with them, we’ll get way more content and a way bigger community - not a better one though.

We need enough, and we need organic growth. We don’t need a firehose, and definitely not one held by the people who made social media what it is everywhere else

theneverfox, 10 months ago

I want to have kids. But bringing them into a poisoned and dying world where they have to earn the right to exist? That just seems cruel

If we get past the next few decades, I’ll bring them into a world worth living in

theneverfox, 10 months ago

I’m torn. I feel like admitting guilt and owning up to your failures is a virtue, but I’m not sure the rest of the world agrees with me

Neurotypical enough to read body language, neurodivergent enough to never understand why

theneverfox, 10 months ago

I mean, yeah? I just listed a bunch of circumstances

Humans are the most trainable animals we know of. The differences are due to the systems we’ve built - humans aren’t much different, but the way we organize has changed rapidly