“This social media app is no more! It has ceased to be! It’s expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late-stage social media app. It’s a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If you hadn’t nailed it to the perch, it would be pushin’ up the daisies! It’s run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible! This is an X-Twitter!”
I remember reading an article just a few weeks ago about a company that made a combination prosthetic/implant for blind people to be able to see in the…early 2000s, I think? It was an early technology, low-rez, but somewhat miraculous for some.
And then the company went out of business.
As the implants began to wear out, or the software developed bugs, or the patients’ needs changed, things fell apart. They lost their vision and nobody could help them because the hardware and software were proprietary.
Now Elon Musk—with his reputation for quality control and following through with ideas and open source—wants to put things in our brains. Backed by the full faith and credit of Elon Musk.
One day he’s going to push down an update that makes everybody with a Neuralink stop and say “hehe butts” in a funny voice, and the tech bros will say “lol great meme Elon” even though a dozen of them got hit by a car because they were forced to stop while they walked across the street, and thirty of them lost their jobs because they said “hehe butts” to their managers, and one of them was a soldier who said “hehe butts” in an active warzone and blew the whole squad’s cover.
I can’t believe anyone is honestly entertaining this.
They’re moving pretty quickly relative to you. By the time they realize you’ve shot at them, they’ll be hundreds of meters away. If they then decide to turn around (since they have to be facing you to shoot you) and come for another run at you…honestly they were probably going to do it anyway.
People always bring up this objection, but it’s extremely solvable: just pay employees for their travel respective to the median commute time for that area. Sure, people who live close get a little bonus and people who live far away get slightly less; but it removes all impetus to game the system and helps people who need it.
Economists like to pretend that currency is entirely rational, real, finite, and concrete, but it’s really not. That fiction only holds together as long as the bulk of people are willing to believe it.
Besides, these laws would never be two lines long like are written here. They would have addenda and provisions and such, preventing businesses from discriminating against employees based upon commute length, giving an upper limit, preventing a decrease in compensation to accommodate the commute benefit, and so forth.
And in the end would it turn out to be less than worthwhile? Maybe. But current remuneration in Western culture emphatically isn’t working. We need either one big change or lots of little changes, and this would fall in the latter category.
World was already the biggest by far when I first started lurking back in July, and it’s just getting more dominant. Before, there was quite some diversity in the distribution of generic communities, but nowadays the vast majority of posts that reach the top are from over there....
The one I wanted to join literally had a notice on the sign up page saying that they didn’t accept email addresses from my host. The one I joined before .world collapsed under the weight of the Reddit migration a couple of days into Spez’s meltdown and still hasn’t come back. .world turned out to be stable and well-built enough for me to actually stick around.
Lemmy needs something like the Mastodon server covenant, I think.
Android user here. I have five different classes of notifications:
Completely off, notifications blocked. Any category that doesn’t give me actionable notifications or notifications based on something I’ve explicitly asked for is here. All streaming apps and games are here. Any app that tries to send me an ad in a notification gets this treatment. Almost every social media category also gets this setting, though there are a couple notable exceptions I’ll get to later. All notifications that are not important and not urgent go here.
On, but delivered silently and minimized. “Silently” might be a bit of a misnomer here since I rarely have sound on, but this also means no vibration. The notifications are also minimized in the notification shade and go to the bottom of the list. This is where my new email notifications go, because I’ve got my inbox pretty well filtered down and only things that are actionable are allowed to stay unread in the inbox. Basically this is for anything that’s important but not urgent.
Silent. See above for “silent” disclaimer. This section is for notifications that are urgent but may or may not be important; notifications from my cameras, for instance, or headlines from a news org. I also allow selected categories of Mastodon and Lemmy notifications through: only messages typed out by another human, though. Not likes or reposts.
Vibrate/sounds. For notifications that are both important and usually urgent. Text messages, Discord messages (from friends only), Slack messages while working. 2FA checkins. Most notifications from my library. Delivery notifications. The notification that my garage door has been left open (it happens a lot). Also, unfortunately, I have to have Instagram DMs in this category, because my wife sends me memes and they’re always really good.
Vibrate/sounds and override Do Not Disturb. This category is for VERY urgent and VERY important notifications. Messages from family members (though not group messages). Notifications from my alarm system. The doorbell.
I do also use BuzzKill to finesse messages that I think are delivered in the wrong Android categories; like the stupid notifications my cameras always send about cold weather. I know it’s cold, and I know that’ll affect your battery life. I don’t need to be told every time the temperature dips below 40°F, but I do still want to know when somebody is trying to get into my garage.
I’m sorry, was my answer to the question that was directly asked too long for you?
I was just thinking while writing that message how I usually have such good, productive discussions on the Fediverse as compared to Reddit or Twitter or whatever.
On my personal Firefox, five pinned and usually 3-4 more. On my work Firefox, six pinned and 4-6 more in one window, and probably another 6-10 on a window in the other monitor.
If I can’t see at least part of the page title on each tab, I start feeling anxious. I do a lot of bookmarking, sending to Pocket, etc.
Something that I’ve noticed across most of the microwave ovens that I’ve used is that when they hum while cooking food, I can pick out 2 distinct tones. One of them is pretty clearly 60 120 hz, the 2nd harmonic of the AC power frequency. The other is consistently a minor 7th above that (which would be somewhere around...
It does passable baked potatoes too, but if you microwave it for about half the time and then toss it in some oil, kosher salt, and pepper and put it in a hot oven, you get great baked potatoes in far less time than in the oven alone. You’re basically boiling the middle and baking the outside. Great combo.
Nah, that’s boomer humor. Since it’s not really expected that we have to get married, and divorce isn’t as frowned upon, generally speaking most people who are married nowadays want to be.
Congratulations on the new kiddo, and good luck! The learning curve on that one is steep, and the return policy is draconic, but it’s still one of the most worthwhile things I’ve ever done.
This is kinda true and kinda not. Even on 110, an electric kettle is faster than a kettle on a gas stove. The real answer is that Americans just don’t drink much tea. My family is unusual in that regard.
Did you miss the part about how it’s still the fastest way to boil water? Yes yes, it’s slower than yours, we’re all jealous. Even still, we would all have electric kettles if we needed to boil water all that often because it’s faster than anything else we have. But:
People don’t make pasta or rice every day, and even when you do you usually have plenty of time for it to come to a boil while you’re chopping or stirring or whatever. People who do make rice that often typically use a rice cooker.
You can’t really boil enough water in a kettle to cook potatoes or vegetables or anything else.
Coffee makers of most types typically boil their own water (yes there are pourovers and chemexes, but they aren’t that common and people who use them do buy kettles).
Nobody would buy a kettle for just cooking even if we did have more power delivery, simply because you don’t cook anything by boiling all that often. Case in point: my family drinks tea, and so we own a kettle, but tea is really the only time we boil water (in the kettle or otherwise) for anything on a daily basis.
I’m very doubtful that an AGI is possible with our current understanding of technology.
Current models have the appearance of intelligence because they’ve been trained on the entire Internet (which also has the appearance of intelligence), but it’s still at its core a predictive pattern matcher; a pile of linear algebra that can be stirred around to get an output. Useful. But if eight billion people all wrote down their answer to a question and we averaged them all out, we’d get a pretty good answer that appeared to be intelligent as well; and the human race as a whole isn’t a distinct intelligence.
Data manipulated on a large scale, especially when it’s bounded with rules and perturbed with random noise, yields surprising and often even poignant results. That’s all AI is right now; a more-or-less average of the internet. Your prompt just points it toward a particular corner of the internet.
Well the big thing is that, right now, the “intelligence” doesn’t exist without a prompt. It has no agency or continuity outside of our requests. It also has no reasoning or thought process that we can distinguish, just an algorithm. It’s fundamentally not distinct from basic computers, which means that if it is intelligence, so are our servers and smartwatches and satellite phones and Switch OLEDs.
Yeah. I mean, quantum computing might upend some of my assumptions, but in the long run we’re probably going to have nailed down a decent definition of sentience before we have to wonder if computers have it.
2020 was… truly unique. It was so hard to stay away from doom scrolling, and I (and many others) were pretty disillusioned by the sad fact that so much of our country legitimately supported the Orange Man. I didn’t get a wink of sleep the night of the election because I genuinely considered it to be a make or break decision...
If we used just about anything but FPTP, absolutely. But as I see it, if I want to have any hope of being able to vote to make things better next time, I have to vote to just make things slightly less worse this time.
Perfect is the enemy of the good, and the GOP is the enemy of both.
But hey, if you see it differently, I don’t see any reason we can’t be friends. I just disagree.
We built in 2018, and refinanced twice in twelve months over the course of the pandemic. We’re on a 15-year now with payments only slightly higher than our original 30-yr payments were, which makes me feel like everything is completely arbitrary.
But in any case, I’m glad we like the house. There’s no way we could ever move, in this economy.
Windows PC gamers and Xbox gamers are more or less the only ones who game on non-*Nix kernels; PlayStation is BSD-derived, Switch is BSD+Android, Steam Deck is of course Linux, a lot of arcade cabinets run on Debian. Gaming on non-Windows platforms is absolutely viable, it’s just being hidden from players by a thin layer of customization.
I mean, the electrical stuff makes some bit of sense; you can seriously cause damage if you don’t at least know somewhat what you’re doing. I don’t get the plumbing thing, though.
Mine are all on wifi outlets and switches. I currently have them connected to Google Assistant, but I could easily connect them to some other smart home hub.
Ditto the stainless water bottle, though I have an Owala. I like the spout that you can drink/pour out of like a cup or sip out of like a straw, and it has fewer moving parts so I don’t think it’s going to develop leaks as quickly as the ones with squishy straws that have to fold up every time it closes.
I haven’t had this problem, but I have a different use case (mine are three years old, but stay in my office all the time). They don’t strike me as great wear-and-tear headphones, though, for what it’s worth.
Incidentally, I prefer isolating in-ear earbuds without ANC for commuting; I like to be at least somewhat aware of ambient sounds.
Swapping switches and outlets is more trivial than changing the oil on your car if you turn off the breaker first.
And to be clear, I’m not saying that the US should adopt laws like Australia. I’m saying that I understand why Australia adopted those laws.
I do know how to do the basics. I’ve installed smart switches and outlets, doorbell cameras, ceiling lights…I haven’t had cause to do an overhead fan, but I’m pretty confident I could manage it.
I’m glad I have the ability and legal right to do so. But electrical fires destroy 51,000 homes a year, and most of those are caused by faulty or poorly-installed components or wiring; and that in particular can affect not only you, but people who live with you and even neighbors as well. And the U.S. CPSC estimates 400 non-professionals die of electrocution every year.
Add to that that, as you say,
Most people won’t do it because they do have enough fear not to play around with it
…but those who don’t are split among the people who know what they’re doing and the people who are too stupid to see the risk. Is the danger caused by the idiots worth banning it for everyone? I don’t think so, but I understand and respect that decision for Australia.
vanity plate 1III1I1 (sh.itjust.works)
The ESA Has Announced That E3 Is Officially Dead (www.gameinformer.com)
It’s over: There is no E3 anymore.
Don't know what happened Rule (slrpnk.net)
Not such a conspiracy theory now (lemmy.world)
most super-based non-credible air-to-air combat of all time (sh.itjust.works)
The Clock (feddit.de)
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How did Lemmy World become the default instance?
World was already the biggest by far when I first started lurking back in July, and it’s just getting more dominant. Before, there was quite some diversity in the distribution of generic communities, but nowadays the vast majority of posts that reach the top are from over there....
What super power would be impractical in real life?
Do you disable notifications for all your apps?
let them all in or only allow for some specific apps (if so which ones)?
How many tabs do you have open? (lemmy.sdf.org)
And remember… it’s not a race!
Why do many microwave ovens hum in an interval of a minor 7th?
Something that I’ve noticed across most of the microwave ovens that I’ve used is that when they hum while cooking food, I can pick out 2 distinct tones. One of them is pretty clearly 60 120 hz, the 2nd harmonic of the AC power frequency. The other is consistently a minor 7th above that (which would be somewhere around...
What nice vibes (startrek.website)
What is a fun gadget you have purchased that has added value to your life?
Honey, are you okay? You've barely touched your breakfast flour... (lemmy.today)
Me when someone asks why I use lube (lemmy.world)
onegai, accept my pull request senpai (lemmy.world)
Gabe Newell on why game delays are okay: 'Late is just for a little while. Suck is forever.' (www.pcgamer.com)
Was Sam Altman fired because OpenAI was moving too fast or too slow?
I know there’s other plausible reasons, but thought I’d use this juicy title....
Americans of Lemmy, what is your approach to next year's election?
2020 was… truly unique. It was so hard to stay away from doom scrolling, and I (and many others) were pretty disillusioned by the sad fact that so much of our country legitimately supported the Orange Man. I didn’t get a wink of sleep the night of the election because I genuinely considered it to be a make or break decision...
Homeowners of lemmy who bought in 2020-21, how are you feeling today about your purchase?
Every goddamn time I'm trying to make something for my DnD game (lemmy.world)
CloudConvert.com might as well be my fucking home page.
Internet providers say the FCC should not investigate broadband prices (arstechnica.com)
Epic Games Admits In Court That Its PC Store Still Isn't Profitable (kotaku.com)
What are your favourite things under 50$ that make your life a bit easier or more pleasant?
I need some holiday gift ideas (that I will probably gift to myself as well)!