Skip Navigation

Tehdastehdas

@ Tehdastehdas @piefed.social

Posts
1
Comments
61
Joined
1 yr. ago

  • MPV: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Solution You're Probably Sleeping On

    Jump

  • Thanks. I installed SMPlayer for mouse control.

  • The problem of cross-community posting

    Jump

  • MPV: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Solution You're Probably Sleeping On

    Jump

  • MPV lacks a graphical user interface so I have to keep the hotkey list open to use it. Normally I use VLC but it can't play some files right.

  • Why Does So Much New Technology Feel Inspired by Dystopian Sci-Fi Movies?

    Jump

  • Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation

    Jump

  • About that title...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(mathematics)

    Matrix theory is the branch of mathematics that focuses on the study of matrices.

    In mathematics, a matrix is a rectangular array of numbers or other mathematical objects with elements or entries arranged in rows and columns

  • Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House

    Jump

  • It could overcharge and overheat the battery, leading to explosion or at least fire.

  • Are We Living in a Golden Age of Stupidity? - Slashdot

    Jump

  • Also heavy metals:

    Increased blood lead level in children has been correlated with decreases in intelligence, nonverbal reasoning, short-term memory, attention, reading and arithmetic ability, fine motor skills, emotional regulation, and social engagement. … The effect of lead on children's cognitive abilities takes place at very low levels.

    High blood lead levels in adults are also associated with decreases in cognitive performance and with psychiatric symptoms such as depression and anxiety.

    Lead poisoning # By organ system - Wikipedia

    And microplastics:

    And ragebait:

  • Are We Living in a Golden Age of Stupidity? - Slashdot

    Jump

  • We should, it's a factor:

  • Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber wants an AI agent in every board meeting

    Jump

  • She came in too late for that. The people responsible hire people like her.

  • A.I. Video Generators Are Now So Good You Can No Longer Trust Your Eyes

    Jump

  • A hacker may have replaced the authentic video in the phone. The edit must be unnoticeable to the eyewitness who shot it.

  • Removed Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • Not the light bulbs. They improved light quality and reduced energy consumption per unit of light by increasing filament temperature, which reduced bulb life. Net win for the consumer.

    You can still make an incandescent bulb last long by undervolting it orange, but it'll be bad at illuminating, and it'll consume almost as much electricity as when glowing yellowish white (standard).

  • A fediverse platform that lets you block whole topics, not just communities?

    Jump

  • Quora had heckloads of users before the well-working topic system was destroyed with the excuse of tag spamming (real reason: cost-cutting), which us tedium-loving "Topic Gnomes" had always corrected quickly. So it's not impossible. Now the tagging is done badly by "AI" and my feed content went to shit, even worse than on PieFed with a leaky keyword mute list.

    Missing features were a trust system for topic editors (new user = 0 trust, etc.) and answer topic tagging - only the questions were tagged, which didn't work when the question was general, like "What should you know in 2025?" and the specific answers were all over the place.

    Keywords would never have worked for the infinite questions about perpetual motion machines, because the askers never knew the correct term. Similarly, I have failed to craft a keyword block list to filter out all U.S. politics.

  • The GoLaxy papers: Inside China’s AI persona army

    Jump

  • I'm hoping for EU-run social media that requires secure ID like a bank. I liked Quora before enshittification when it had real name policy and strict moderation.

  • [PDF] PromptPasta: Stirring the Pot of Political Discourse — How Generative AI Is Being Used and Confused by Inauthentic Influence Campaigns

    Jump

  • I'm hoping for EU-run social media that requires secure ID like a bank. I liked Quora before enshittification when it had real name policy and strict moderation.

  • YouTube Is Hiding Videos From You

    Jump

  • Manipulation by unnoticeable omission. Europeans getting a personalised censored feed, not getting recommended and advertised what they need. Social media giant AI detects an illness you have, and silences all content that could lead you to health. Dating sites not showing you the most compatible people. Job sites not showing you the jobs that could strengthen Europe.

  • Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed

    Jump
  • Deleted

    Leaked Logs Show ChatGPT Coaxing Users Into Psychosis About Antichrist, Aliens, and Other Bizarre Delusions

    Jump

  • Soon to be targeted at the chatbot maker's political enemies.

  • The Rise and Fall of the Knowledge Worker

    Jump

  • We're making the same mistake with AI as we did with cars; not planning human future.

    Cars were designed to atrophy muscles, and polluted urban planning and the air.AI is being designed to atrophy brains, and pollutes the air, the internet, public discourse, and more to come.

    We should change course towards AI that makes people smarter, not dumber: AI-aided collaborative thinking.https://www.quora.com/Why-is-it-better-to-work-on-intelligence-augmentation-rather-than-artificial-intelligence/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

    https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

  • Federated Social Media with Topic-Based Following and Blocking?

    Jump

  • Not Fediverse, but an example of what works:

    Quora used to have a fantastic crowd-edited question topic ontology/taxonomy for precise feed shaping with thousands of disambiguated topics interlinked in a graph/tree structure, but they enshittified the system away 2023, and now it's all LLM misunderstandings of what the question topics should be. The bot thinks a question is about apples when the question is a mathematics word puzzle; "How many apples...". The excuse for AI tagging was "tags can be abused" when in reality the crowd corrected the abuses quickly and reported the offenders. With the new AI tagger, my feed turned into viral trash from Quora-celebrities, mostly about current news.

    They never made the obviously needed features of:

    • being able to topic tag answers, not just questions (for when the question is general and the answer is specific, like "What do you think everyone needs to know in 2025?").
    • the ability to follow a topic from a user, because most people write about many topics, so a follow-a-user brings uninteresting topics to my feed, but not all people write well about that topic I want to follow, so I'd need to follow that topic from good writers only.