maybewhenthesun

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by maybewhenthesun 19d ago
st iGNUtius called it, amen. :-P
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by maybewhenthesun 20d ago
I used to think that. But I now realize there will always be people having a job in said datacenter who will try to prevent that. As long as the AI pays it's minions well , people, will do their job. But AIs need such ridiculously c
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by maybewhenthesun 20d ago
It will be a death by a 1000 papercuts. It started with the 'filter bubble' (imho the most dangerous invention/discovery for humanity ever ), then it leveled up to 'propaganda leveraging the filter bubble' and now w
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by maybewhenthesun 22d ago
govts should be forbidden from using X. Or any other commercial for-profit message service. It's not like one-way communication is a hard problem. Just post that stuff on a website ffs!
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by maybewhenthesun 27d ago
Google has always been like this. I used to have a Youtube account with timelapse movies from my holidays. Nothing special, just stuff to show the family, but it was a lot of work to edit and upload them all. One day I got a message that my
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by maybewhenthesun 28d ago
That's what I meant when stating 'the exact frequencies are culturally defined'. There are lots of tuning systems. Equal temperament is just 12 (logarithmic) equal steps. But other tuning systems use different priorities. The
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by maybewhenthesun 28d ago
I agree that this is often the situation in practice. I feel it's kind of bleak to just accept that status quo. Democracy lost? Back to the medieval system of nobles and serfs? Where having money means having rights? We don't live
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by maybewhenthesun 28d ago
I'd like my e-reader to show up as a printer, and when I print something on it it actually gets saved as a pdf on the reader. Like in the article, but multi-page pdf. I often do 'print to A5 pdf => copy pdf to e-reader'.
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by maybewhenthesun 28d ago
printing has never really been a thing from text editors I think. Used to be that printing a text file was just `cat myfile.txt > /dev/lp0` . It has been a while since I printed a plain text file, but I guess there's still
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by maybewhenthesun 28d ago
Copyright is good. It's the justice system letting money buy it's way out of enforcement that is bad. If you create something you should have some protection of other people just blatantly ripping you off. Copyright terms are in
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by maybewhenthesun 29d ago
True. And it's going to bite us in the ass pretty soon. Already does, actually.
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by maybewhenthesun 29d ago
sssst
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by maybewhenthesun 29d ago
ok, fair enough.
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by maybewhenthesun 29d ago
You can re-train your ear of course. But on average a lot of people used to western music feel that classical arabic/indian music with half/quarter tones in it sounds 'out of tune'/wrong. I really like classica
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by maybewhenthesun 1mo ago
> Which is a strange way to teach a system that essentially comes out of physics and arithmetic. There are twelve notes for a reason. There is of course a lot of physics involved. But there is at least as much convention at play. So im
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by maybewhenthesun 1mo ago
There are ways to passively cool a house without airco. People have been building cool houses in hot climates for centuries. It doesn't always work, true. Once it is hot 24/7 and you don't have a source of cold anywhere you
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by maybewhenthesun 1mo ago
You're not wrong. I'm not hung up on the terminology, but it is better to not use their language.
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by maybewhenthesun 1mo ago
Make that 'since forever'. But there used to be a lot of insightful discussion inbetween the facebook-like parts. (Maybe it was the same on facebook, I wouldn't know because I never had a facebook account and you can't
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by maybewhenthesun 1mo ago
The main reason for me to use GrapheneOS would be to sever the umbilical cord to google. I don't really see the point of using GrapheneOS instead of Stock Android if I then have to use the play store.
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by maybewhenthesun 1mo ago
Not anymore :-( But it's a good thing, actually because: - when reddit is good it's way to addictive - reddit has become nearly as bad as most other social media sites So if they force me to use an account, I'll finally be ab
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by maybewhenthesun 1mo ago
But not for long. Sideloading is being frowned upon by the mighty G
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by maybewhenthesun 1mo ago
Meh. Luanti is nearly as old as minecraft itself. You could say just as well that they copied the style of infiniminer. If your whole shtick is creating blocky games with retro-easy-to-recreate 8x8 or 16x16 textures it's not really wei
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by maybewhenthesun 1mo ago
Nothing ironic about that. Using an airco to cool a house is often (not always) a luxury that humans did without for centuries. So people are used to seeing cooling as luxury. Without heating you die. A heatpump is more energy efficient th
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by maybewhenthesun 1mo ago
> youtube seems to now more aggressively block yt-dlp. Another thing to thank AI for! /s
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by maybewhenthesun 2mo ago
> Everything else is essentially all the work of Google Well,large parts of the linux kernel are emphatically not the work of google, of course. And I don't doubt there's tons of other software in android that originates outs
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by maybewhenthesun 2mo ago
Anecdote time, back when gimp was still version 0.8 or somesuch , my wheelchair-bound college professor more or less forced gimp on us students because (his words) " You can tell by the name it's software for people like me."
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by maybewhenthesun 2mo ago
Yes, you can increase accuracy. However, I always turn it off and still get an accuracy of a few meters, which is plenty accurate nearly all practical purposes. Even in cities. The difference used to be larger, but with the multitude of s
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by maybewhenthesun 2mo ago
Good. Still, I see that page and I think 'Logitech Corporate driver software'. Maybe that's the intention? But it makes me start slightly suspicious.
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by maybewhenthesun 2mo ago
I don't think google will explicitly 'deintificate' the data and sell it 'deidentified'. It's more that that kinda data can't really be anonymized. And while I trust google to pay lipservice to the &#x27
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by maybewhenthesun 2mo ago
It's a sad state of affairs that a mouse settings program isn't 'offline' by default. Except maybe an update check it has zero needs to be online.

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