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  • What technologies are constant failures but we can't stop trying to make work?

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  • Beat Saber and VRChat are genuinely cool at least. I think what it comes down to is that the illusion of physically being somewhere is cool and can be useful for some stuff but not as cool as everyone used to assume. More abstract entertainment and art works basically just as good or better most of the time because it doesn't require specialized hardware, acclimating to nausea, and learning novel control schemes.

  • I made a way to remotely control my homelab without any internet access required

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  • Is MeshCore a separate network?

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  • The scariest aspects of SOMA apply to everyone regardless of scifi brain transfer/copy technology if you think about it. In the years immediately following the release of the game I followed discussions about it which largely converged on the comforting explanation that the idea of a transfer is a delusion, and continuity of consciousness must be always tied to the original body. But unless you somehow rule out the idea that it is an emergent property of the information being processed in our heads, there isn't a lot of reason to think that would be the case. A copy of you with all your memories and brain patterns has equal claim as an original. But we don't even have quite the same pattern as a moment ago, so maybe our own claims to continuity or self aren't as strong as we rely on them being.

    It calls into question basic intuitions about the nature of our existence that people have a very difficult time bringing themselves to question, something the game pretty brilliantly depicts with its robots that are deeply offended, hostile and defensive about the suggestion that they are robots.

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    No wonder Reddit has turned to shit

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  • Will they though, search engine results lately seem very much like a decisive victory for the SEO slop

  • How do you argue against "I have nothing to hide" in relation to privacy and security?

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  • Google sucks, but one thing I think they did right was giving you a way to print out a list of one-time passwords that can be used to recover an account if you forget your password.

  • Kash Patel says FBI is investigating Signal chats of Minnesotans tracking ICE

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  • Is Signal secure? How do they get the info?

  • Why can people see who upvotes and who downvoted post on Lemmy?

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  • Should be pretty simple to make a client display things like that without voting UI stuff

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    evil ai company

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  • What's a better way to word it? I can't think of another way to say it that's as concise and clearly communicates the idea. It seems like it would be harder in general to describe machines meant to emulate human thought without anthropomorphic analogies.

  • there is always another corner

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  • If you were invited to such a party you're probably already ahead of the curve

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  • I recommend https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-possibilities

    Violence is in fact unique among forms of human action in that it holds out the possibility of affecting the actions of others about whom one understands nothing. Any other way one might wish to affect another’s actions, one must at least have some idea who they think they are, what they want, what they think is going on. Interpretation is required, and that requires a certain degree of imaginative identification. Hit someone over the head hard enough, all this becomes irrelevant. Obviously, two parties locked in an equal contest of violence would usually do well to get inside each other’s heads, but when access to violence becomes extremely unequal, the need vanishes. This is typically the case in situations of structural violence: of systemic inequality that is ultimately backed up by the threat of force. Structural violence always seems to create extremely lopsided structures of imagination.

    As I understand anarchism, the idea is a society where human culture becomes powerful enough to overcome and replace this sort of violently imposed top-down structure.

    My current understanding is, destruction of current system of government (violently or otherwise) followed by abolition of all law. Following this, small communities of like minded individuals form and cooperate to solve food, safety, water and shelter concerns.

    I think your main mistake is to get this backwards; the mere destruction of government and law doesn't by itself effect the formation of anarchism. You need a culture with enough utility and resilience to replace it and endure without falling back on the crutch of structural violence.

    The book I linked goes into some detail considering what that might take, focusing on the example of the nearly-anarchist society of 1990 Madagascar, where technically they were under the rule of a formal government, but in practice almost all governance was independent from it and driven by their unique culture. To summarize a little from memory, ambitious people basically aspired to be liches, with living supporters conducting regular rituals involving their tombs and bodies to avoid getting cursed, because having a prominent place in a reputable tomb after death was the only path to be considered an important person. But the main way to get such a position was to provide for people enough that they would become able and socially obligated to maintain your place in the tomb. There's clear social utility there; achievement materially depends on positive contribution.

    If it is the case that the concepts and relationships that define society and how we behave are essentially feats of imagination, then it should be possible for this force of imagination to itself be the basis for holding things together, rather than forcing it into artificial molds defined by violent hierarchies. What's needed for that to happen is to sufficiently develop cultural imagination as a technology that it can build systems that stand up to the pressures they need to bear, that currently get handled through destructive shortcuts that treat people as things.

  • Why are programmers so rude to beginners?

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  • I assume the motivation for a lot of people to go online and answer people's technical questions is to puff up their ego

  • Why are programmers so rude to beginners?

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  • This is one reason it could have been better for OP to not have deleted their question, as there are likely many people who would think to word their question the way OP did but don't know the more technically correct way to word it.

  • Ninja Cat [Poorly Drawn Lines]

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  • Cats are supposed to have pretty good directional hearing right

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    Turnstiles are wide open at JFK Airport, while the MTA keeps fighting fare evasion

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  • JFK is in the midst of a $19 billion construction project that is expected to create heavy traffic for people arriving at the airport by car. Port Authority leaders have said they’re considering waiving the AirTrain fee to get people to take public transit to the airport, but for now the $8.50 fee — on top of the $2.90 subway fare — remains in place.

    So there's a subway that goes to the airport, and they want people to use it, but because of some payment system compatibility fuckup they can't pay? Or it's harder to pay? It's kind of unclear exactly what is happening here other than people getting public transportation for free, which sounds like a good thing.

  • What should we be doing, individually, to increase Lemmy's userbase?

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  • Mention and link to it on Reddit when it is especially relevant

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  • It's possible to cut a groove in a board so you can drive a screw outwards from it, but that's pretty difficult and also the wrong approach for shelves which should be attached to the wall by supports underneath instead to distribute forces better.

  • Furious Protestor Tears AI-Generated Art Off Wall of Exhibit, Chews It Up Into Tiny Shreds Using His Teeth

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  • The article doesn't have pictures but one it links to does: https://www.uafsunstar.com/news/student-eats-ai-art-in-uaf-gallery-protest-arrested

    The artist's reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/aiwars/comments/1qcektc/my_art_in_a_gallery_show_was_destroyed_over_ai/, which includes real pictures alongside some photorealistic AI generated depictions of the art being chewed up. He disclosed in the post text which of the pictures those are and which are real, but of course some people in the comments didn't read that and took discrepancies in the images to mean that the whole event was faked. Which is pretty brilliant if intentional, fits well with the "ChatGPT psychosis" topic of the original piece. Might have gotten slightly out of hand though since these images are now featured in screenshot of screenshot style posts that lack the context that it's not a real picture.

    I also like the memes people are making about it, overall a very entertaining event.

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  • Good movie though

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  • If it is, at least they bothered to put a different font on the text than the usual for ChatGPT comics. The woman being drawn identically in the second panel except for the eyes is also a point against it being AI.