I never knew who I was. I still don't know who I am. It doesn't matter anyway.
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@therivierakid@lemmy.world @throwslemy@lemmy.nz
Just like there are virtually no more brand-new non-smart TVs to be purchased (exceptions are getting increasingly rare), I can foresee a (not so distant) future where there are no more brand-new non-smart fridges, so consumers would need to purchase either the brand-new smart fridges, or trying to find increasingly-scarce used appliances (while they still work and can be fixed when they eventually get broken, because, you know, it relies on spare parts).
Also, I can see governments allied to corporation interests (it's called "lobbying") using the flag of "protecting the environment" (it's called greenwashing and it got nothing to do with actually protecting the environment) to push laws requiring people to ditch their old appliances, similarly on how governments have been using the flag of "protecting the children" in order to push laws requiring people to disclose their faces/IDs to access anything they deem "adult" (not just adult entertainment).
For example: governments around the globe start decreeing "it's now illegal to power on old refrigerators as they don't meet the new environmental requirements"... we see how those laws spread across multiple countries, see this ID/face law: UK, then Australia, France, among other countries and some USian states.
And the same moral fallacy will happen if people started to complain about the ads on fridges: they'll face something in the lines "Don't you think of the environment? Are you pro-pollution?". Again, it would have little (if anything) to do with environment (just like multi-national laws requiring ID for accessing internet content has little (if anything) to do with children), it's just the frog used by scorpions.
Yeah. Future is made of big corporations (General Electric, Samsung, Google, Microsoft, etc) and governments (no matter their political leanings, for it's just their current circensis to gaslight people), long married, seeing 1984 and Cyberpunk as handbooks.
Yet people attack other people (e.g. your statement that "dumb people buy a fridge with a screen in it" is an attack on other consumers as if they were the ones to blame for this problem in the first place) instead of pointing to the actual common threat.
@MotoAsh@lemmy.world Where in centuries of human history were there any wrongdoings stemming from Luciferianism and other leaderless occult belief systems? Where in centuries of human history did Luciferianism and other occult belief systems interfered or tried to hinger with scientific progress?
@MotoAsh@lemmy.world @TomMasz@lemmy.world
Firstly, it's obvious "believing" means "zero evidence". If a belief had any solid evidences, it wouldn't be a belief, it would be a peer-reviewed scientific paper instead.
That said, you're conflating "belief" with "religious hierarchy" when, in reality, belief isn't necessarily dependent on hierarchy. I believe in Lilith and Lucifer, and I have no one "above me" except for Her and Him. In fact, the belief I follow on my own isn't even compatible with any kind of hierarchy, because these entities represent independence and rebelliousness, so it'd be quite paradoxical for me to have a leader/master/priestess/whatever.
Finally, I challenge you to point out any kind of "humanity's ill" inflicted by Luciferianism and other left-hand path beliefs, even those who actually have hierarchies (e.g. Quimbanda).
So, I sincerely remind you, don't generalize and attack every single religion and belief system on Earth because of a half dozen big ones who actually are to blame for many historical wars ("Holy wars") and their interference on scientific progress. Don't demonize the demons and demonesses, we're friends of scientific inquiry. Beware not to do friendly fire.
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there are communes and mutual aid communities
Yes, there are. Yes, they might be nice places for a while. But no, they're likely to not hold as permanent havens.
Because if you zoom out, you might notice how this world is getting increasingly ominous as the days pass.
First: climate change. There's nowhere safe in this world from the environmental consequences of Industrial Revolution. Temps have been rising, wet-bulb hot, hurricanes have been getting stronger, sea level rising is risking entire countries, many are trying to flee from coastal places and islands that'll inevitably get underwater. It's already happening.
Then, tech. Things are getting more and more reliant on digital walled gardens, and the old ways of doing things (e.g. cash, barter) are getting more and more forgotten and even criminalized.
There's no way a commune can keep "sovereign" for long under lobbied jurisdictions, except if we're talking about something akin to a Sealand Principality (good luck trying to keep sovereignty on international waters).
do you really think it helps to spread this shit to people who might otherwise be happily ignorant to it?
Oh, thanks for en-grandeur-ing me, but I'm just nobody, a ghost wandering through this cyberspace. Believe me: my voice is a drop in the ocean. I'm not that important as your phrasing suggest. I'm simply too weird, and my language often feels highly extraterrestrial to anybody. If you see my comment history, you'll notice this.
Also... on "being happily ignorant to [reality]". Sometimes I wish I was, I'm quite envious of this ability. It must be nice seeing the world without knowing how our senses deceive us (René Descartes), how people around us uses psychology tricks to pull us into a sticky and hidden spiderweb of social compliance (Derren Brown), how humans are their own wolves (Hobbes), and so on.
But here's the catch: "Not seeing" and/or "not knowing" doesn't imply "not happening". You don't see your own bodily cells, yet there are countless cells of yours undergoing apoptosis right now as part of natural biology. Reality doesn't give a nought if we're unaware of it, it happens nonetheless!
An ostrich can bury its head under the sand the deepest it can, maybe deeper than Mariana Trench, but the rain still falls over it as soon as it starts raining just because "physics" (force of gravity).
And I can't help but see the storm approaching at the horizon, and it doesn't look good: from climate change to ever-increasing power grip of Big Techs (to the extent that they now got thousands of those funny chunks of metal flying above our heads everywhere around this globe), all the way to a blatant repetition of the same errors, rehearsing history over and over again, partly due to this exact mentality of "happily ignoring" the surrounding obvieties, so the only thing that we end up learning from history books is that we can't learn from history books. Yep, ignorance is a bliss!
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@princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone @nyctre@lemmy.world
The second a human is brought to this world, they got "duties" imposed unto them. Duties to solve problems they never asked, such as their own survival.
While they're still a kid, if lucky enough, they'll be sustained by those who are parenting them. As soon as they inevitably get to their adulthood, they'll begin to be on their own.
So, supposing they want to eat (after all, we all know how "optional" is for living beings to eat, a comfort luxury of sorts), they'll be required to "purchase" the food, and to achieve this endeavour, they'll be required to get what humans call as "money". To get this "money", they'll be required to serve someone else, but they'll need to "apply" for serving. They'll be required to lie while they apply (if asked "Why do you want to work here?", answering the obvious "so I can buy food and eat so I don't die of starvation" is a no-no). If they get "blessed" with a job, they'll need to continue lying, and if they lie as expected, they'll afford to get some of the said "money".
So now they can finally eat food, right? Not so fast: they'll need to pay the rent, they'll need to pay the government, they'll need to pay the corporations (utility bills, internet, etc, because they need those things in order to continue having a job as electricity runs their internet which allows them to use the "money" they were "blessed" with), and only then they can go to a store and hopefully find food to buy with the remaining money (not before paying for getting to the store and paying to pay).
No, they can't simply hunt-gather like all the other gazillion species in the surface of this Pale Blue Dot: hominids are godlike, we're not animals, we sent rockets to the space and we invented subscription-based food! So they must "buy" food and "pay" for shelter, they must "belong to" and "serve", and they must do whatever the society, government and corporations requires them to do.
And they'll be shrugged off whenever they dare to complain about serfdom: "everyone does this".
They can't leave, they can't opt-out. They'll be stuck here until Lady Scythebearer inevitably comes, which is often a moment of agony that could've been avoided but it wasn't by those who decided to pull them into existence. They'll also have similar agony (mourning) as they watch people around them being reaped as well, fearing Her while the society around them exploits their fear, preprogrammed as the deepest of instincts, to keep them serving society, or else... 💀
All this to achieve what, exactly? Human legacy, which will evaporate as soon as the Earth gets engulfed by its own star? Well, maybe humans can prevent Red Giant Sol someday, and with enough human serfdom, Big Freeze can also be prevented so humans can perpetuate their Kafkaesque system.
So yeah, you're right: it's really gross to keep someone from having to endure the suffering from a non-consented existence. More cogs to the machine!
@brachypelmide@lemmy.zip @OneSpectra@lemmy.world
You already see chunks of the world disappearing, it's called "fog" or "haze". 😆
Somehow, this remembers me of Nostr. How much is this different from Nostr? (insofar an user generates their own pair of public and private keys that they use to publish content anywhere within the Nostr ecossystem, at least it's as far as I remember about Nostr, as it's been a long while since I don't use Nostr anymore after it went down the cryptobro road)
In order to transmit/receive data during the night, a different carrier and modulation should be used: owls and a hoot-based Morse code (e.g. "ho-ho-ho-ho hooo-hooo-hooo hooo-hooo-hooo hooo" safely conveys "hoot" through the night skies).
Is "a chimera mascot hybrid between a goat and an owl" a valid answer for the question's constraint of "an animal"? I could even imagine a plot:
"(Luci appears holding a book, an apple and wearing glasses, inside an improvised classroom at the corner of a cemetery)Greetings, little earthlings! It's Professor Luci, your friendly teacher from a whole other world!
(Plays intro where Luci gleefully jumps and wanders through a cemetery while a modified and funnier version of "Masked Ball" song plays, then Luci opens wide black wings and starts flying upwards until disappearing from view for a couple of seconds, then Luci suddenly appears climbing from an open grave and starts walking cluelessly until stumbling and falling back into the grave in a funny manner)
Today we're learning a funny play: we're going to sing numbers!
On the nineteenth night, the Moon is bright,Can't you wait for the twenty-one?Crows are soaring, thirteen are cawing,Unknown to heavens, the thirteen ravensLet the fifteenth crow caw, too!Tell the fourteenth to join us, too!
(A crow mascot appears and perches above Luci's goat horns) Hi, little friend! I can talk just like you! Be not afraid! We crows are smart and we can play, too!"
@TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works @balderdash9@lemmy.zip
There's a difference between working in a primitive environment (hunter-gather, especially before hominid started to establish settlements) and what we call as "working" nowadays.
The former didn't involve exploiting others. The latter does.
The former did involve direct involvement to one's own survival, just like any lifeform still does out there. The "work" involved no one's "means of production" because they could get their sustenance from Mother Nature. Even when hominids started to settle in tribes, their work yielded the direct thing that would sustain them: food and water and shelters, as the tribe cared about the tribe.
Meanwhile, "working" in modernity involves solving other's "problems" while one's own problems are promptly dismissed by those whose "problems" are being solved.
Working in modernity involves having no direct part on the means of production, and the yield is exclusivity advantage for the employer.
Working in modernity involves receiving a piece of paper (or digits on a computer screen) that isn't guaranteed to be exchangeable for sustenance (not enough "digits" or "paper" pieces, the core of the meme).
You mentioned how we wouldn't have medicine, but medicine comes from Mother Nature (except for petroleum or other very artificial sources, practically every drug from pharmacy was built from a plant that Mother Nature originally offered for free).
Interestingly, humans existed for millions of years while modern medicine only appeared "recently" (a few centuries ago), so if medicine was sine qua non for surviving, humans would be long extinct.
And, YouTube as part of "human survival", are you serious?! You should've included Onlyfans, Tinder and LinkedIn to "survival essentials" as well (guess I'm dying as I use neither of those)! /s
Back on the ancestral work vs modern work, the ancestral environment didn't have climate change as a byproduct of human greedy. Species weren't endangered by our activities. There was no hole in the Ozone layer, no PM2.5, no metallic wreckage orbiting Earth without means to be deorbited, no microplastics, no pandemics that could risk other species as well (bc there was no globalization yet).
So I'm quite radical: I advocate that humans should pave a way to return to hunter-gathering systems among wildlife, where we used to belong, even with the use of technology (AI) that could allow us to reintegrate with Nature as seamlessly as possible.
After all, fire was the beginning of civilization, so "fire" (as in electricity) must bring civilization to its end as we know it, before humanity goes extinct through its own fire (e.g. nuclear exchanges due to MAD or chunks of metal hitting our heads due to a Kessler Syndrome provoked by the recklessness of billionaires wet-dreaming to colonize a red planet) together with all the amazing species on this Pale Blue Dot that have nothing to do with humans' artificially-invented problems.
@raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world @themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.comPlus, on the bright side, it'd slow climate change rates by a pretty considerable rate, if not reversing to pre-Industrial Revolution global temperatures (seriously). But maybe I'm being too optimistic here.
Yeah, exactly!
Also, it's highly dependent on the "prompt", similarly to how HR companies are filtering resumes through prompts specifically written to ignore "undesirable resumes". People who believe any sort of feedback will "let (name of a corporation) know what you think about (some enshittification event/feature)" aren't just naive, but blatantly unaware of how enshittification got "meta" (pun intended) as in "enshittify all means of reversing any enshittification", and this includes "user feedback".
People try to argue how some past collective user feedback "did take effect", pointing to things such as Apple's real-time scanning of messages. They think Apple gave up of that, and they think this was due to strongly-worded collective feedback, as if corporations ever bothered themselves to carefully consider every user feedback and serve the wishes of their users, not their shareholders. I find this wishful thinking very cute and naive. In reality, corporations don't give a nought about user feedback because they know people will be compelled to use their products.
For example: need banking to pay rent and groceries? Soon you'll need their apps which will only work in Android or iOS, as offline banking and offline methods of payments is increasingly scarcer due to global digitalization of financial systems. As a Brazilian, I've been watching as Brazil already got "Pix" (a digital instant payment system) everywhere and fiat currency is increasingly difficult to withdraw from ATMs as more and more physical banks close their doors, other countries already have their own Pix-like systems of digital payment, and it's just a matter of time before EU, USA, Australia and other "first-world countries" got (and enforce) their own as well.
tl;dr: The enshittification is broader than we think, and strongly-worded Unicode texts won't change the course of global technofeudalism.
It's so lovely and cute to think that feedback will result in something, it definitely does, just look around us nowadays and we can see the brave Unicode characters hanging around as things have been improving on a daily basis! 🥰
Surely all feedback will be read by lovely humans, not by their clanker, because we all know how we always talk with flesh-and-bone humans, not clankers, whenever we reach some kind of "Help center" or "Contact us".
With enough Unicode characters, the increasingly-dystopian tech world will definitely stop being dystopian! Onward, QWERTY keyboards!
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@josefo@leminal.space @JoMiran@lemmy.ml
Technically speaking, the joystick involved analog voltages to be converted to digital signals... And what else have ADC (analog-to-digital converters) chips? Soundcards, because ADCs are used to convert mic input, alongside the "line in", both of which are analog voltages, into PCM signals, which are discrete (as in "non-continuous") streams of bits. Something inverse happens for "headphone", "speakers" and "line out" pins: a PCM stream coming from the sound driver is converted to analog voltages using a DAC.
While other ports also happened to deal with analog-digital conversion, a soundcard was particularly specialized at this job, alongside graphic (VGA) cards (VGA has lots of analog signals), but graphic cards were already too busy with thousands/millions of pixels and, well, with computation of graphics.
Other boards aren't so fitting for analog-digital job. For example: a NIC (Network Interface Card) already deals with digital signal so, theoretically, no conversion is necessary from/to analog. Parallel ports (those for printers) also natively deals with digital signals. Expansion cards with USB ports, same thing. And so on...
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@AnonomousWolf@lemmy.world I guess it would be more fairer if we were to mention DeepSeek as being "not bad for the environment". From all LLMs, seems like it's the one who did their homework and tried to optimize things the best they could.
Western LLMs had/have no reason to optimize, because "Moar Nvidia Chips" have been their motto, and Venture Capital corps have been injecting obscene amounts of money into Nvidia chips, so Western LLMs are bad for the environment, all the way from establishing new power-hungry data centers to training and inference...
But DeepSeek needed way less computing and it can run (Qwen-distilled versions) even in a solar-powered Raspberry Pi with some creativity... it can run in most smartphones like if it were another gaming app. Their training also needed less computing, as far as we know.
@moe90@feddit.nl I've found a better workaround, which is to tell YouTube to go pound sand. I definitely don't miss YouTube since I stopped accessing it more than a year ago (actually, I don't even remember when I stopped, it's really been a long while). Okay, maybe I miss one or other content (Technology Connections, Electroboom and Numberphille to mention a few I used to watch), but this didn't stop me from stopping using YouTube altogether. Sad thing Alec, Mehdi as well as the people behind Numberphille either don't know or aren't willing to use alternatives (e.g. PeerTube) to share their knowledge with the Internet.
There's a Portuguese maxim "Falem bem ou falem mal, mas falem de mim" (roughly translatable to "Talk goodly or badly, but talk about me") and this is perfectly fit for YouTube vs Premium vs AdBlockers: people (both content creators and their consumers) are understandably enraged with YouTube and its enshitification, yet they continue to access it instead of boycotting it to, hopefully, reduce the power and monopoly that Google have with YouTube.
@deathbird@mander.xyz @florencia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Grok is not that free of guardrails.
I say as a person who sometimes have the (bad) idea of feeding every LLMs I could possibly try, with things I create (drawings, poetry, code golfing). I don't use LLMs to "create" things (they're not really that capable of real creativity, despite their pseudo-stochastic nature), I use them to parse things I created, which is a very different approach. Not Grok anymore, because I have long deleted my account there, but I used to use it.
Why do I feed my creations to LLMs, one might ask? I have my reasons: LLMs are able to connect words to other words thus giving me some unexpectedness and connections I couldn't see on my own creation, and I'm highly aware of how it's being used for training... but humans don't really value my creations given the lack of real feedback across all my works, so I don't care it's used for training. Even though I sometimes use it, I'm still a critique of LLMs, and I'm aware of both their pros and cons (more cons than pros if we consider corp LLMs).
So, back to the initial point: one day I did this disturbing and gory drawing (as usual for my occult-horror-gothic art), a man standing in formal attire with some details I'll refrain from specifying here.
ChatGPT accepted to parse it. Qwen's QVQ accepted it as well. DeepSeek's Janus also accepted to parse it.
Google's Gemini didn't, as usual: not because of the explicit horror, but because of the presence of human face, even if drawn. It refrains from parsing anything that closely resemble faces.
Anthropic's Claude wasn't involved, because I'm already aware of how "boringly puritan" it's programmed to be, it doesn't even accept conversations about demonolatry, it's more niched for programming.
But what surprised me on that day was how Grok refused to accept my drawing, and it was a middle-layer between the user and the LLM complaining about "inappropriate content".
Again, it was just a drawing, a fairly well-performed digital drawing with explicit horror, but a drawing nonetheless, and Grok's API (not Grok per se) complained about that. Other disturbing drawings of mine weren't refused at that time, just that one, I still wonder why.
Maybe these specific guardrails (against highly-explicit horror art, deep occult themes, etc) aren't there in paid tiers, but I doubt it. Even Grok (as in the "public-facing endpoint") has some puritanness on it, especially against very niche themes such as mine (occult and demonolatry, explicit Lovecraftian horror, etc).
@sundray@lemmus.org !nottheonion@lemmy.world
Well, that's some anomalous phenomenon that even Charles Hoy Fort couldn't imagine of.
@PaintedSnail@lemmy.world Yeah, I'm aware, my reply was an attempt to "Monty-Pythonize" the degree of absurdity from the questions 😆
@ToxicWaste@lemmy.cafe
If you're using a browser (either desktop or some fork of Firefox on mobile) to use Lemmy, you can use uBlock Origin to hide certain content. On the plus side, this would work even when logged off from Lemmy or (in my case) without having a Lemmy account.
In "my filters", you can add rules such as:
/.*lemmy.*.*/##.post-listing:has(.community-link:has-text("/^ich_iel/"))Explanation:
/.*lemmy.*.*/is a regexp to match any domain containing the word "lemmy" (e.g. lemmy.cafe, lemmy.world).##denotes a CSS rule..post-listing:has(.community-link:has-text("/^ich_iel/"))is a set of nested CSS rules: it filters for every.post-listingelement... having any.community-linkelement... whose text content, in turn, would match the given regexp.In my case,
/^ich_iel/, a text which starts by "ichiel", which is the name for a Lemmy community I'm not interested in, due to me not speaking German.You can use whatever regexp you need. You can also use multiple rules using this pattern to filter out multiple things. You can replace the
.community-linkwith other CSS classes to filter out post titles, usernames, instances, anything goes.