I’m pretty sad that people have to be perverts and glasses with cameras got such a bad rep.

It is deserved and not surprising, and I’m not trying to defend them, but I was so looking forward to AR glasses with cameras, so I could finally get a working ad-block IRL, which should be easily possible with the tech.

But, that requires a camera. It’s a shame, and I’ll definitely rather continue dealing with ads than support enabling perverts (or Meta, anyway), but it sounded like such a cool use-case.

I hate how there are always groups who have to ruin everything for others :(

Not trying to defend them, and I haven’t looked at the feature set of the new Discord integration, but I can imagine a reason for most of those - assuming, of course, that you can basically chat in through WoW on discord.

Afaik it links channels, but to know if your profile is in the server the channel is on, or join you there, it would need to manage and read servers, no? Of course, there are probably better ways how to do that, that respect your privacy a little bit more.

The friendlist I’m having a hard time justifying, can you send DMs from WoW?

But I do honestly wonder how would a MVP permission set looked like if you tried implementing the same integration they are doing, whatever it is.

But yeah, Microslop hoarding data is probably the reason for most of those.

That is pretty cool!

I had no idea you could get such a long range contacts, that’s cool. It does sound like a nice community.

Also, it sounds pretty impressive to me, even though I’ve never experienced lack of internet/mobile phones. While I had it granted for basically all my life, I have a respect for analog things, and have been a fan of sending letters. I have the luxury that I can romanticize the slower/analog way of living, without actually having to live through it to ruin my experiences, hah!

Thanks, this post has inspired me, while it’s not exactly HAM, I was considering getting Meshcore/Meshtastic relays, which I assume is kind of similar but chat instead of voice, so I might look into it some more. I assume the communities might be similar, and it sounds like a nice hobby.

Thank you, that makes sense. I’ve always been a fan of analog technology (although I never really got the motivation to actually look into it seriously), so I can imagine that being fun.

It does sound pretty interesting, I didn’t know you can get such a long range contacts. I can imagine it is a pretty nice community!

While I don’t ahve emacs experience, I did recently learned VIM, and there is one parallel I’ve been surprised to learn.

For me, it wasn’t Dwarf Fortress, but Starcraft. There’s a pleasurable joy in being able to do complex actions based on just muscle memory, especially if the actions are complex. Learning VIM was fun not because it made me a better or faster programmer, but because it was joy to use and master - learning new “combos”, being able to do them fast and without thinking, and there was always room for adding new moves and combinations into my repertoire.

In a way it has reminded me of Starcraft. When you get to the level where you’ve mastered the controls, the game becomes extremely different and pleasurable to play. Being able to turn your throughs, that require a complex set of actions, into reality just by pure muscle memory feels pretty good, and VIM scratches the same itch as Starcraft did in this sense.

The game looks super complex, seeing the programmers with their 200 APM, but once you actually learn to do the base actions through pure muscle memory, it’s not that difficult - and it has surprised me how satisfying it is. And it’s the same with VIM - I’ve had a rough start, but once I learned a few moves, it has suprised me how quickly have I internalized them and how good it feels.

I can imagine this being the case with any complex control scheme, purely on a physical satisfaction level.

I’ve been wondering, what is amateur radio hobby about? I’m guessing I’m too young to understand it, since when I was growing up we already had a dial-up and then internet and mobile phones became common as I was starting highschool, but it sounds interesting.

I see a lot of notepads next to the radios in the article, is it about just catching and monitoring the traffic for fun, kinda similar to i.e birdwatching but with radio waves? Or do you talk to other radio operators around you and hang out?

I’m honestly curious what do people generally do, when they become amateur radio operators.

Exactly this, especially the last sentence.

I only have pretty basic machine learning knowledge, based on a few Master’s classes at college while I was doing gamedev, and even with that I can tell that the way they are expecting to get AGI by just feeding more data into a language model is simply not happening.

I remember a comparison from one of the AI-pilled tech-bros when AI was starting to get attention, and his metaphor about AGI was something along the lines of “Imagine a difference between a medieval commoner and Albert Einstein, that’s the difference in inteligence AI will soon have to the smartest people we know now”.

But that doesn’t make sense with the current approach. Imagine Einstein writing his cutting-edge theories, and the commoner is watching him behind his shoulder and vetting anything he does. Scratching his ideas, forcing him to redo it, if he doesn’t like it, pointing to a reddit thread about why. There’s no way he would ever finish anything new.

Unless they figure out a completely new way how to do AI reasoning, there is no way we’re getting anywhere near AGI. And that is also becoming more unlikely the longer we go with this approach, because every AI-pilled company is heavily outsourcing all of development to the current models, reducing their employee (and the whole worlds) innovation potential and skill. This is probably the last generation that can do serious academia, unless there are drastic measures done to limit access to AI in education. It’s fucked.

I don’t think that’s technically possible, at least without it being easy to catch.

If they can’t read a license plate, that’s also a reading - and one they probably flag and send a police car after you immediately.

And especially if they are pairing it with car model/make/scratches recognition, and secondary trackers like phone/rfid/bluetooth devices, even if you managed to keep changing the license plate, so it reads a different valid value every scan, since they are mapping the cars across positions, it would probably get flagged as an anomaly pretty quickly.

Speeding cameras were there for decades at this point, and as far as I know every time someone tried something to avoid them, it didn’t last long. And that was just a single camera. All the cops had to do was stand nearby and stop any anomalies.

Ooh, I totally forgot about thw fact that you also have to count the space for the food for the animals, that’s what I was missing. It makes a lot more sense now, thanks!

I’m kind of looking forward to this, in a way? I’ve been struggling with social network addiction, while I was fortunate enough to skip on doomscrolling FB, Instagram, TikTok and all that bullshit, I was always mostly just on Reddit, now Lemmy (but I’ve also been getting back to Reddit more than I should), or watching youtube.

Over the past 15 years I’ve been more or less (usually less) successful in cutting off that habit, but I’ve unfortunately always fallen back into it.

My utmost hate for fingerprinting and any kind of verification will make me finally cold turkey that shit. I’ve already seen it with youtube - every time it forces me to sign in to prove I’m not a bot, I fuck off and go do something else. Same with Reddit.

So, yeah.

Oh, that’s cool! To be honest, I’ve kind of expected some of the values to be a lot higher. I’d expect that with the inhumane conditions the animals are being stacked, at least the land use per kg would be more efficient than i.e carrots.

I learned a new (not so cool) fact, thanks for the data!

I’m not sure I understand what “meters squared (m²) for one year to produce one kilogram of a given food product.” means, though. I’m not doubting the data, World in Data is my favorite newsletter/source, but I’m having a hard time imagining why do you need almost 400m3 per kg of beef. Or rather, I understand that for actually free-range animals, but as far as I know they are not kept in those conditions. It kind of intuitively feels like larger animals should be more space-efficient than vegetables. Again, not trying to argue or doubt it, just trying to understand why.

I would like to see this graph with non-animal agriculture added, especially if scaled to meet the demands of missing animal agriculture.

I’m not defending animal agriculture, I’m honestly curious. Especially about water usage and land use, I can imagine pollution will be a lot lower.

Kind of have an urge now to post an issue that the nstall skill has installed a malware on my machine.

It’s pretty plausible that could happen, and good luck debugging that.

While you’re technically right, I’d say that FOSS in general is more than just a tool, and Linux is The FOSS project.

Deciding to share your work freely and cooperate with strangers as a contributor is, especially in a world driven by profits, a pretty major lifestyle/philosophy and an act of resistance against capitalism.

Of course, you can just exploit the ecosystem and treat it as any other tool, that happens to be free, but I would say that that is the explanation about “people that worship the altar of Linus” that you’re looking for. Spending basically your entire life to help make something, especially as complex as an operating system, for others and for free is something that, at least in my eyes, is worthy of admiration and I have utmost repsect for people who contribute.

I can imagine that works for most cases, but when you try to include some lesser known and obscure library, that is heavily typosquatted, you might run into issues.

I’m pretty sure cards have to have some kind of blocking mechanism for this case, no? It should be really easy to detect.

At this point I’m seriously considering just running something like openclaw with a basic model to just keep clicking on random stuff and browsing the internet, changing personalities each day at random, to flood my IPs data.

I’m glad we have options here in Europe. Not many, but there are at least 3 mobile and internet providers at my location, so whenever one tries to pull something like this, I just call them that I’m switching providers. I’ve netted a permanent 50% discount and even managed to convince them to keep the discount at my old flat (which was a student’s shared flat where my friends still live) and also transfer it to my new home I have with my partner.

As far as I know, they can give you massive discounts, but you have to be willing to go through hell and run into a good call operator.

But also, that was like 10 years ago and I didn’t need to do it again. I can imagine that in the age of clankers, things may be a lot different (also with the transition to late-stage capitalism and enshittification).

Oh, in this case where they have an online form, I’d say you did see them. Everyone did, in fact, you saw it at <random time> on <random day between 29th and 1st>, and they were wearing <random color of hoodie>, were <random gender>, with a <random facial hair> and about <random height>!

In fact, everyone should go and fill out the form right now. Don’t forget to use a VPN.