Watched two videos debunking "free energy" devices today and so now the YouTube algorithm is trying to show me videos advertising "free energy" devices
Yelling "CONTEXT COLLAPSE!" at the end of the post in the same tone as "THE ARISTOCRATS!"
@mcc there's a person at my school using chatGPT to do sentiment analysis. I want to ask them 'say have you heard about Google's AI returning all those satirical blog posts as serious advice?'
(Not that conventional sentiment analysis tools were ever that good. I've always considered it a very suspect metric but ad campaigns can live or die on it.)
I like the wording of this question because it seems to imply a scenario where I joined the army sometime last July and got kicked out after three days
I wish there was a variant of sftp that used ssh for authentication and then dropped the encryption for transfer. I am transferring files over the local network and I do not care that our smart TV¹ is sniffing the packets. But what I do care about is that when I'm logging in my password not be sent in the clear²
¹ DEFINITELY compromised by at least three nation-state actors
² Where it will be captured by the nation-state actors which have compromised our smart TV
So my cell provider has no good plan for roaming to Europe. So the last time I was in France, I got a local phone number and a SIM card so I could use Internet while I was there. It was a bit of a pain to get the SIM so I put it somewhere I'd be able to find it* when I next needed it.
Now I can't find it.
Can anyone think of a way to get a French cell phone SIM either without leaving Toronto, or without leaving Charles De Gaulle?
Probably in that one purse I threw away a few years ago.
@mcc If you have any other European SIMs (or SIMs from anywhere else for that matter) it might be worth checking if they support roaming to France? Some countries seem to offer great roaming as a standard thing, I was using a Singaporean eSIM in Japan earlier this year.
@mcc others have mentioned e-SIMs already so I'll just give you a specific reference: I've used Airalo to purchase and install e-SIMs for several countries over the past few years and it has worked well. (Belize, Germany, Iceland, Colombia).
I am thinking about installing Dropbox on my Linux machine. Is the official .deb package the best way to do this? Does anyone want to convince me that I am making a mistake doing this?
A really minor problem I have with Mastodon is that you can't block someone you're not federated with. This is a problem because you don't know if the non-federated server was intentionally defederated (meaning it's probably redundant to block a single person on it) or simply hasn't been federated yet (meaning it would be worthwhile to queue up a block if they federate in future). Not sure if this is worth making a feature request for.
@mcc i don't consider this a minor problem tbh. FFXIV had this issues years ago, where you get matched to everyone in your database cluster, but you can't block anyone who are not in your specific server. The assholes seems to be camped on the game so they always get matched in.
Idk if it's fixed, ever since moving to oceania it's not an issue with player behaviour anymore.
@distinct I have definitely had the thought that reading one or more of the classical Chinese novels would make a LOT of Japanese/Sinophone media suddenly make a lot more sense to me. Christine read Dream of the Red Chamber at some point and she pretty frequently spots characters from it interpolated into other stories.
The new episode of Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night has a can of offbrand/WcDonalds Dr. Pepper with the logo saying "Dr. Sugar" and I was distracted from the very serious things happening by how cute this can of fake soda was
There was this one modular synthesizer module that I saw on YouTube, and I daydreamed about getting one for a long time, and I got so focused on it that I implemented my own version of it in C++ running on a SAMD, and then after awhile I actually got a chance to buy one, and I set it up, and I realized the version of it I had built myself from scratch actually sounded a little more interesting than the real one