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SavvyWolf

@ savvywolf @pawb.social

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  • What are your best tips for falling asleep?

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  • One thing I heard from somewhere is to pick a random word. Then for each letter in it, think of a random animal. Then pick another random word and repeat.

    Supposedly this mimics the brain activity during sleep and dreaming, which tricks your brain into actually sleeping. No idea if it's effective or not though.

  • What was/is the most annoying thing about Windows when you were/are using it?

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  • The lack of primary selection/middle click paste. I select text, try to paste it and then have to sheepishly go back and actually copy it for realsies.

    I used to get annoyed at the lack of multiple workspaces, but since switching to a multi-monitor setup, I don't really use multiple workspaces any more.

  • What's something about the fediverse you know but most people seem not to?

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  • If there's a post or something on another instance but not your one, you can enter the full URL into the search bar and it will fetch it and make it available on your instance (unless defeds get in the way).

    Works on both Lemmy and Mastodon.

  • What smartphone do your use? What's the best phone you had owned?

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  • I have a Fairphone 5. Maybe too expensive for what it is, but hopefully it doesn't have a big evil annoying company behind it and it should hopefully last a while. Still running stock Android on it though, because I don't want to lose Play Attestation or whatever it is called.

  • How are we going to have evidence in trials when deep fakes and AI is getting so perfect at "being real"?

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  • The camera can sign things however it wishes, but that doesn't automatically make the camera trustworthy.

    In the same sense, I can sign any number of documents claiming to have seen a crime take place but that doesn't make it sufficient evidence.

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    What's the biggest room in the world?

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  • I have in my hand a tiny 1cm square hollow cube. I define the inside of the cube the "outside" so my room contains everything else in the universe.

  • How are we going to have evidence in trials when deep fakes and AI is getting so perfect at "being real"?

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  • You still have the same problem though. You can produce a camera in court and reject one of the images, but you still need to prove that the camera wasn't tampered with and it was the one at the scene of the crime.

  • How are we going to have evidence in trials when deep fakes and AI is getting so perfect at "being real"?

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  • How would you prove that the camera itself is real, is the only device with access to the private key and isn't falsifying it's video feed?

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    What do you wish was true about you?

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  • Was talking to someone about appearances and gay stereotypes.

  • Isn't insulting russians against most instances policies?

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  • If you see content that you think breaks the rules, use the report feature rather than making a callout post on a random sublemmy.

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    What do you wish was true about you?

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  • Someone made an offhand comment that I would be an otter if only I were more laid back.

    And honestly, that made me kinda wish I could be more relaxed and chill. Everything just seems to important and stressful and difficult and intense to me... I wish I could just turn that all off and just let things happen to me as they come rather than fearing and planning for the future.

  • Hey Lemmy, what's a movie you think everybody should see at least once?

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  • Honestly, I'm kind of put off watching the movie due to those weird eugenicsy undertones... Feels like one of those "i am very smart" Reddit people looking down on the "lesser masses" and saying they shouldn't reproduce.

  • Hey Lemmy, what's a movie you think everybody should see at least once?

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  • Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. Not really the most profound or insightful, but it's just a good fun film.

  • Politically "neutral" instances?

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  • I mean, lemmy.world is a big enough instance that it has attracted people with all sorts of views. You probably aren't going to find it better on any other instance.

    Probably just block communities which don't moderate people enough to keep on topic.

    Or if this is a dog whistle for rightwing centristism... Uh... Stop it?

  • What subscription services do you actually pay for and get value from?

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  • Some that I use:

    • Proton Unlimited, which gives me access to mail, storage and a VPN.
    • Linode, I have a VPN which I use for selfhosting some things.
    • Various domain names. They're actually cheaper than you think they are.
    • Youtube Premium. I watch a lot of YouTube, and it helps creators.
    • Discord Nitro. Begrudgingly.
    • 1Password. Technically I don't pay for this, as I get it free as part of a plan from work, but I'd probably buy it when that runs out.

    I'm kinda interested in watching streams more (to diversify my video watching habits), so am kinda curious about Twitch's ad-free premium plan thing as well...

    Of course, there's also donations and patreon/subscribestar/ko-fi subscriptions, but I don't really consider those "subscription services".

  • What subscription services do you actually pay for and get value from?

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  • Same here. I'm mostly paying because at least some of the money goes to creators, and I don't want to have to constantly be fighting with the adblocker stuff. I watch a lot of youtube (perhaps more than is healthy) and realistically it does cost Google money to host it.

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  • There's the whole "instances" thing which, while not that confusing, is still a barrier to entry. You could make an account on mastodon.social, but there's a vocal group out there that says you should NEVER do that and pick an instance that is good (without any good tooling for finding out what a "good" instance is). The benefits of Mastodon over Twitter or Bluesky aren't as obvious either to non-technical people, so I can imagine people see it like Arch Linux or something. It's something that's good for the people that understand it, but not useful for those that don't.

    You also need to figure out how to get content from another instance into yours, which is not really that intuitive. If I give you a link to a Mastodon post, you need to know to go back to your own instance and paste it into the search bar. That's not intuitive at all.

    And of course there's experiences people have had with "bad" instances that travel through word of mouth. A lot of furries are reluctant to try Mastodon because a big furry instance exploded a while back, I think.

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  • You have to have technical knowledge and understanding, both to create an account and work around the rough edges.

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  • I used to be a staunch mastodon fanboy, but honestly I'm starting to lean towards Bluesky nowadays.

    Sure there's only one big company controlling all the instances, but their federation system has solved a lot of the pain points that have been plagueing Mastodon. I can actually follow artists on it without having to deal with mastodon.art.

    And hey, it's an easy to use social media to use for the "normies" rather that the techie Mastodon.