I have no problem admitting that, it is indeed a repost from Reddit. But it’s also the only April fools that I found genuinly funny, and since I didn’t see it here I wanted to spread the joy :D
I thought about creditting it, but that’d kind of ruin the joke, plus I don’t really care about creditting Reddit anyway.
Mindustry is also FOSS, right?
For me, the best proof that magic does indeed work in a sense, is the Pulitzer prize photo of the burning monk from Tibet, and in general the self-immolating budhists.
It’s a proof that once you get your subconsious under reins, you can affect your life to an extreme degree. Budhists learn to do it through sheer training and willpower, western magic does it through rituals, belief and symbols, but I think the goal (and the mechanism that makes it work) is the same.
Of course, it means that it’s limited just to things you can reasonably affect, so no i.e cursing people.
But, if a ritual nudges your subconscious to i.e. make you study more instead of procrastrinating and you thus pass the test, it did work after all. It’s just not as flashy as people expect.
This is my theory about how it works, and at least for me it makes sense. Plus, it’s fun!
My experience is that it can work reasonabky well, but you have to waste absurd amount of tokens and have the 1m token context window.
I only do gamedev, which means a little bit more simple scriots, but it could handle even more involved systems.
If i force it to first document and explain the wholw architecture and data flow.
Did it help? Yes, but it still did take only a slightly faster. I could do it in a day more, probably.
It also cost like 50$ in tokens, in today’s prices - where every AI company is loosing trillions of money, so the costs will get a lot worse. And if I tried to conserve tokens, it’s shit. You have to feed it 10$ of data to be useful.
Add to that the fact that it also causes skill attrition, so once the expensive-cost future arrives, you probsbly won’t be able to afford it, and good luck getting your skills back after that.
Our company wants us to use it, and the average token consumption is like 100$ per day in consumer prices. How is that even considered for such a minor gain?
So, I’ll pass.
I don’t want people from Reddit here.
The fact that half of Twatter moved to Bluesky instead of Mastodon is a blessing.
ActivityPub is by design a data harvesting goldmine, the fact that it flies under the radar is the only saving grace.
I don’t think that"s the reason for the absird lobbying, which is why it’s getting through.
Governments aren’t that competent to get this through at scale, but corporations can and have a very good reasob to do so.
I believe that it’s a lot more probable that the reason is profit - social networks have a problem with bots. Advertisers don’t want to pay if 90% of impressions are bots, and you can’t really solve that problem easily.
Age verification by ID solves this, and if they even can lobby hard enough to outsource the costs to mandatory OS level veryfication, so they just call one OS api, it’s even better.
I mean, it does spread awareness about it harmful effects and how to recognize them.
I’d say thats a good to tshirt to have.
You should probably add /s to that, hah.
It’s a for profit ad company making a “privacy first browser”.
Thinking for literaly a second about that sentence should tell you all you need to know.
I remember seeing an amazingly visualised website that was showing a result of an experiment that made people talk with strangers, and it had mostly positive result for most participants, even if they felt uncomfortable or scared at the beginning, and it had gopd results even if people with differenting opinions about i.e politics talked. Unfortunately I can’t seem to find it again.
I don’t know if it was part of the same research, but there was also a part where they had people talk to strangers on a bus ride, and it also went well in most cases.
Sp, talking to strangers is mostly recommended and should be mostly positive, at least statiatically speaking.
The chorus of XIII. Stoleti’s Elizabeth.
So this is the thing I’ll eventually end up in jail for bypassing. I coul’ve sworn it would be drugs.
Oh well.
This is how you get mexican joker.
When I was looking through the official marriage papers you submit when oficially requesting marriage, to see what I need to do if we would want to get married, that option simply wasn’t there in the checkboxes. And I asked for clarification, and apparently our laws don’t allow that combination, at least not as a part of the marriage process.
I haven’t really looked into it more, and a friend told me it’s very probable that we could just choose one of the available options and then submit a separate request to change my surename to add the missing one. It was also more than a year ago, and someone also told me that our marriage laws did go through a revision recently and it might be actually possible to choose both for both now. I’ll have to re-check again, but I’m certain that at least last year, it wasn’t possible.
Oh, one option I found a funny loophole was that we could marry, she’d take both, then divorce while keeping our new surenames (so she still has both), then marry again and I’d take both. I would end up with three surenames, mine twice (since she already has both, and I’m keeping mine and taking her current at the point of second marriage), but while that would be pretty funny, realistically it’s easier to just file for a surename change after wedding :D
As for the reason, who knows? But an ancient patriarchic custom is probably the reason, I’d guess that especially historically it’s not really common for a man to take his wife surename in general, and usually it’s just the bride either taking the man’s or keeping both.
She lived in an entirely different city across the country (Europe, so like two hours of train ride).
She saw me on Facebook, based on photos from a goth festival in our city, so I got a message on Messanger from a profile without a profile picture and no mutual friends. We talked for a bit, I was single at the time, and we eventually decided to meet. I had no idea how she looks like, and I kind of found this idea of a blind date funny - either it works, or I’ll get a good story out of it.
We decided to meet and go to a local goth scene hangout, and not only she was really pretty, she also brought two bottles of mead. We managed to drink both of them before even getting to the hangout, where it turned out that she was actually not only a classmate of my best friend (a long time ago), but also used to be part of the scene around 5 years ago (before I joined it), before she went no-contact and changed her nickname due to a relationship (that eventually turned out really terrible). So, she knew most of my friends.
That was 7 years ago. At the time she was living in a small flat, after just getting out of a 7 y.o terrible relationship that she couldn’t leave due to having a mortgage, but she managed to save enough on a minimal wage to leave when she found out he was cheating. Her grandma was living with her in her small flat, and she was really a terrible person, even had her aunt with the most entitled child move in, and they were even worse. Always arguing, screaming, being rude, and just acting like dicks. She let them live with her, just because they had nowhere to go, even though she was earning a minimal wage. Them saying that “If we don’t like it, we should move out”, or that “I shouldn’t argue, because I don’t live here”, while I was actually helping her with rent they weren’t doing anything for was insane.
I kept visiting her almost daily, spending time in the one small 5x5m room she had for herself, even though it was two hour train ride. During covid, I was mostly staying at her place, and since she loved animals (her mother worked at a zoo, before cancer got her), we discussed what we want to get, and pet racoon was high on the list. And when she said that we will get a racoon once we live together, I immediately found a flat in my city, and we moved in together around 5 years ago. We stole the ashes of her mother and went no-contact with the people living at her old flat. They can burn in hell.
Unfortunately, racoons are not easily legal to own, but we got a lot of different animals instead. She also helped me with starting to make our own goth events, DJ, and help local promoters, and now we’re responsible for more than half of goth events that happen in our city. She’s now earning more that I do (and I work in IT), and I’m really happy how did everything turned out. We have no idea how did the rest of her familly end up, but we don’t really care.
We are kind of planning a wedding, with only witnesses, but so far what’s stopping is that I can’t find my birth certificate, and that it looks like it’s not possible for both of us to have both surnames (the options are one of us keeps theirs, and the other get’s both, or we choose one only, and we both want to have both), so we kind of didn’t want to bother with it for a while.
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Any recommendations? My only experience with defcon is through recordings of the talks from there, and they’ve always been phenomenal, and some videos from the events like various CTFs. Never really looked into it more. I think I also saw a documentary a few years ago that was pretty sick.
The algorithm is probably made to maximize the time you spend on the platform, and is really good at it. (I mean, just look how good are ML algorithms on text -> picture, and add to it that the algorithm that does your info -> engagement has decades of data and training on billions of people).
My theory is that it has misaligned, because it turned out that radicalizing people into right-wing bullshit will glue them to the social network very effectively, so it just started to do that. It makes sense - once you start spewing right-wing bullshit, it will probably isolate you from your IRL friends, you will have an echo chamber on the social network, and it is made to sound like some kind of deep truth no one else knows.
You getting left-wing content might be simply because it would not be efficient to try to convert you, so the algorithm is trying something else that’s more effective on the (minority?) of people like you.
Good that it’s decentralized and people can just move on to another provider, since this one is doing this, haha, right?