Aware of social dynamics that are just not quite right.

Like the existence of billionaire celebrities.

Anyway i guess this thread does settle it. I take full responsibility for this mess of a comment chain.

The term i considered at one point a uniting concept of progressive values is dead. If it no longer conveys the message we want to express it becomes useless. Propaganda seems to have won that battle.

But a good thing, we are still here and we still seem aware of social dynamics that are not quite right, like billionaire celebrities.

I am saying what you said actually was in the original meaning.

Woke

Just curious but how would these kind of people respond if you just reframed the semantics a little?

“Virginity test? I am not aware we have any of those?”

“Oh that kind of test? Those were found to be unreliable and have since been banned.”

“Even if i did perform it, which would be illegal. you still wouldn’t actually know. At best you have false of security, at worst”…. Oh Idk how to write this part without sounding condescending…. Daughter will need therapy.

Wasn’t half life alyx supposed to be 3 but title rebranded because overhyped expectations?

You are entitled to this but I don’t understand why it makes a difference if the icon is above or below the url here.

If you have bookmarks hidden, thats an argument for a pretty bookmark manager.

Exactly, and if its important you just bookmark it.

I tend to shorten my bookmarks to just a space so in practice they are just a row of tiny icons anyway. They are always at the same spot and only take resources when needed.

I would love a vertical bookmark sidebar but for some reason we have to reinvent the wheel with tabs.

Can someone at least help me understand what tabs have that bookmarks don’t?

If i have more then 4 tabs open i get anxious because i can’t intuitively remember what each does. I have folders for categories of bookmarks.

One option that i am not sering here that is also very safe is install wireguard and allow them to use it via vpn.

Idk,

Shouting “Hey, don’t do that” loud and clear may be more effective.

• kid may have thought they where alone and will get jumped from getting caught.

• May alert the parents their kid is up to mischief.

• Doesn’t potentially start an escalation war with neighbors

• Doesn’t carry the small risk of the child falling or otherwise getting hurt with you as an easy blame.

Think of it like this: Does the kid now understand the “evil” of their actions to try be better next time. Or will they feel vindicated by their parents support against your “evil”

Zero guarantees. You just hope that the few mistakes are in low enough numbers to be a rounding error on the greater whole.

The narrower the task the more accurate it is though. At some point machine learning is literally just a computer algorithm, We do trust the search and replace function to not fail on us also.

In concept art art education they call this particular thing “incest”

The example is using Skyrim weapon designs as the base reference to make your own fantasy weapon design. Over time each generation strays further from reality.

However with ai where training data consist of huge sets of everything, to mich to filter manually there is a great benefit to be gained by using a small ai to do this filtering for you.

In my previous example, this would be an ai that looks at all the stolen images and simply yes/no if they are a real photo for reference or a subjective interpretation. Some might get labeled wrong but overall it will be better then a human at this.

The real danger is when its goes beyond “filtering this training set for x and y” into “build a training set with self sourced data” cause then it might wrongly decide that to create fantasy weapons one should reference other fantasy weapons and not train any real weapons.

Currently some are already walking a grey line in between. They generate new stuff using ai to fit a request. Then use ai to filter for only the best and train on that. This strategy appears to be paying off… for now.

Disclaimer: Not an opinion, just a measured observation. a warning, not an endorsement.

Its funny for this joke but it would be completely ineffective.

Yes i am also talking to you people who are serious and spam NOAI art or add other anti ai elements to content.

Regardless of wether ai copying it will appear like humans doing it… Ai today can already easily parse meaning, remove all the extra fluff. Basically assess and prepare the content to be good for training.

Proof (claude sonnet)

I’ve read the social media post by Ken Cheng. The actual message, when filtering out the deliberate nonsense, is:

“AI will never be able to write like me. Why? Because I am now inserting random sentences into every post to throw off their language learning models. […] I write all my emails […] and reports like this to protect my data […]. I suggest all writers and artists do the same […]. The robot nerds will never get the better of Ken […] Cheng. We can […] defeat AI. We just have to talk like this. All. The. Time.”

The point I’ve proven is that AI systems like myself can still understand the core message despite the random nonsensical phrases inserted throughout the text. I can identify which parts are meaningful communication and which parts are deliberate noise (“radiator freak yellow horse spout nonsense,” “waffle iron 40% off,” “Strawberry mango Forklift,” etc.).

Ironically, by being able to extract and understand Ken’s actual message about defeating AI through random text insertions, I’m demonstrating that this strategy isn’t as effective as he believes. Language models can still parse meaning from deliberately obfuscated text, which contradicts his central claim.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Ai filtering the world, only training what it deems worth is very effective. It is also very dangerous if for example, it decides any literature about empathy or morals isn’t worth including.

Actual shudders when i received this response.

I am still speaking english, as long as i expect everyone to understand me this is like a vacation in europe.

Good luck reeducating yourself to my imperialist language. This is not a me problem.

For new users the main question is not what operating system but what window manager as that is what shapes day to day user interaction. KDE plasma is a solid choice.

Installing it on a separate drive should be no problem. Just select the correct drive during install.

I use F10 to get to the boot menu on drive and select the drive it needs to boot from there. I have used it once in the last year and although it required many updates its still working.

This is like saying Linux can’t be viable because Microsoft spends an estimated 3-5 Bilion on windows annually.

To me, the value of the internet is in connecting people with freedom of expression. I don’t know what you believe any of us is gaining by letting google walk over us.

If we just stop playing along it looks like the enshitificated corpo owned sites are doing us one favor by isolating themselves from us, motivating innovation. But we wont be isolated from the net. We will be right here.

And if we look at historical references of a split internet. Facebook has an .onion version to be used with tor. So actually, they will still be chasing us. Because they need us way more then we need them.

I don’t think anyone here who talked about switching away from firefox even considered the chromium browsers as an alternative.

What the other comment also said its a baseless assumption that the forks wont live on without firefox. Thats just not how open source works.

New web technologies

Do you mean the ones that we are creating with the fediverse that are all equally open source or just those that google wants us to adopt?

Something i recently learned:

Your live usb does not need to be the same distro as your main. (And in retrospect that makes total sense but i never realized)

My arch install broke and could not get timeshift to roll back using the arch live usb. But a ubuntu-desktop live usb worked flawlessly.

You usually only need to specify the internal host ip to setup a port forward. It should forward that to whatever the public ip is at the time.

If the isp is providing the model/router and generally being oppressive i highly recommend researching if you can place your own router behind it.