196TootSweet 16 hours ago • 100%
I don't think it would be lethal except in the rarest of circumstances.
I'm pretty sure I've heard of at least two deaths from exploding smartphone batteries. Here's a source for one of them. I'm fairly sure I remember hearing of another where the victim had the phone in their breast pocket, but I'm not finding sources for that one now.
And those were just from faulty devices, not from specifically sabotaged/rigged devices.
Augmented Reality (AR)
Snap Unveils Upgraded AR Spectacles For Developers, Priced $100/Month
TootSweet 1 day ago • 100%
Enshittification at its worst.
LinuxTootSweet 1 day ago • 100%
I like IceWM pretty well... for a non-tiling WM, that is. 😉
It's very lightweight.
TootSweet 1 day ago • 100%
Maybe Trump's toupe controls him like Majora's Mask controlled the Skull Kid.
The Truth About Tim Walz
I am taking that this an agenda pushing community that the Trump campaign is doing.
TootSweet 1 day ago • 80%
!aneurysmposting@sopuli.xyz ?
TootSweet 2 days ago • 100%
Not really saying otherwise. What I am saying is that for your electronic devices to have "explosives" in them would require that a supplychain attack of a similar sort.
It's almost definitely not the case that any electronics manufacturers are systematically putting explosives in every smartphone or whatever that they manufacture and supplychain attacks are much more likely to be a targeted thing rather than "all Samsung phones" or whatever. If they weren't targeted, it's pretty certain that the presence of explosives in devices would be noticed even just by regular end-users with a bit of a tinkering proclivity within weeks. So if your devices are more than a couple of months old have been in reasonably normal use for most of that time and you haven't been specifically targeted by any particular government or anyone who might have the ability to tamper with the supplychain, you're almost certainly safe specifically from explosive-laced consumer electronics devices.
Also, it seems unlikely that a state police agency (like the "sheriffs" you're talking about) could leverage enough power to compel an electronics company to allow such a thing without the FBI or DHS involved. I'd imagine state police folks would more likely resort to more low-tech approaches like the Tulsa race massacre air firebombing.
Again, I'm not saying it's impossible that your phone contains explosives. And as I said in another comment, it might be possible to remotely get a device to cause its battery to catch fire. Maybe.
Also, I am in the U.S., but what made you think that was the case?
TootSweet 2 days ago • 33%
Wow. Jeez. I'm sorry this is so close to you.
can they do that to phones, without the phones being rigged?
I'm not any kind of expert. But as others in this post have said, theoretically... possibly technically yes. If the firmware can be modified remotely to cause the phone to allow, for instance, overcharging the battery, then it's possible the phone could be made to explode without physical access to the phone.
How likely it is that you or your family specifically would be targeted, I couldn't say. It seems unlikely...? And we don't have specific knowledge that Isreal has tried any such attacks that didn't involve direct physical access to the devices which later exploded. (And also no indication they've targeted any Samsung devices.)
Again, I'm no expert, but if you wanted to take precautions, I'm thinking the precautions to take would be to put any mobile devices that contain rechargeable batteries and have wireless connectivity far away from your house and your family and stick to devices with no batteries (and preferably ones you've had for a "long time") for a while.
I'm sorry you're in a situation where you're having to weigh these risks. Again, it seems unlikely that you and your family could be in danger regarding ostensibly-stock Samsung phones that you've had for a while.
Also, no condemnation is strong enough for this indiscriminate attack by Isreal on the people of Lebanon. Netanyahu must really be heartless to have authorized this. I hope this results in real pressure on Isreal to stop its indiscriminate terrorist acts.
Good luck and stay safe.
Edit: Hmm. Not sure why I'm getting downvoted so much. Maybe the downvoters think I'm making it sound more likely than is realistic that there's a threat to Peepo specifically?
TootSweet 2 days ago • 100%
You should understand that what happened in Lebanon involved the government of Isreal physically modifying the pagers (and walkies) in question by adding explosives to them, turning them into remote-triggerable bombs.
(The term "supplychain attack" has been used a lot to describe this attack. Isreal intercepted the order of pagers between when the order was placed and when the pagers were delivered. And either physically altered the pagers ordered or replaced them with altered/tampered-with pagers.)
Math Memes
if this post gets 2187 upvotes i will post again with 3 times as many triangles
TootSweet 2 days ago • 96%
Please, Lemmy. I need this.
Technology
Thankfully, Trump Is Still Alive. Unfortunately, So Is His Misguided Crypto Project
TootSweet 2 days ago • 70%
I kindof hate the slogan "they go low, we go high" (from Hillary's campaign.)
But this is an example of the "good" side of that slogan. The political left(-of-what-passes-for-center-in-the-U.S.-now-a-days) isn't given to publicly calling for assassinations of the opposition party. It's not even given (and, yes, there are exceptions) to calling privately for assassinations of the opposition. And that's a good thing.
It means the left(-of-U.S.-center) hasn't turned into the fascist-dictatorship-trying-to-happen that the right has. It's not the left(-of-U.S.-center) calling for civil war and pandering to creeps who chant "blood and soil" while carrying tiki torches around the capital.
The day left(-of-U.S.-center) news sources delight in assassinations even of opposition as dangerously unhinged and power hungry as Trump because that sentiment started with snide remarks like yours is the day we have to worry that maybe the Democrats are sliding into their own brand of fascism.
Don't get me wrong. I'm for radical support of LGBT rights, womens' autonomy in matters of personal health, universal free healthcare, and most other "liberal" causes. (I also identify as well left and libertarian-ward of the Democratic party and would love to see "to each according to need" be our modus operandi. I'm also for direct action.) I don't fault the Democrats for being "too radical" by a long shot. (More likely, the Democrats will continue to be far too willing to let the Republicans control the narrative and cheat their way to political power. And that's the bad side of "they go low, we go high") And I don't believe it's very likely that the Democrats will slide into widespread advocacy for political violence like the Republicans have much more so already.
But taking delight in assassination attempts and wishing they'd been successful -- even those directed at Cheeto-flavored Hitler himself -- isn't helpful.
All that said, I get it. I'm pissed at the U.S.'s descent toward fascism, too. But wishing him assassinated isn't going to change anything for the better.
TootSweet 2 days ago • 100%
Why does it bother me so much that he lacks nipples?
Open Source
Bigfive Personality Test
TootSweet 2 days ago • 90%
The README in the repo indicates it's based on the NEO-PI, which is kindof the gold standard in personality tests at least right now from what I understand.
Book recommendation for folks who might want to know more about the topic of personality psychology. Me, Myself, and Us: The Science of Personality and the Art of Well-Being by Dr. Brian Little.
TootSweet 2 days ago • 100%
So, I accept the premise that something that started as an abbreviation can take on a different meaning than just what it stands for.
And I do feel it's most reasonable to consider the term "incel" to include an attitude of entitlement to sex without consideration for the bodily autonomy of whoever they feel should be providing it.
But I think that attitude is already baked into the un-abbreviated form. The term "involuntarily celibate" implies bigoted entitlement. It implies a worldview in which someone (typically women) owe the person who identifies as "involuntarily celibate" sex.
If someone wants to murder people and nobody will let themselves be murdered to satisfy the wannabe murderer's impulse, well, the wannabe murderer clearly has some issues to work through anyway, but calling themselves "involuntarily murderless" or whatever is highly fucked. The wannabe murderer has to already be thinking in terms of entitlement to kill people to adopt or identify with that term.
If someone is "celibate" and would prefer to be in a relationship, don't call them "incel" or "involuntarily celibate" unless they're entitled bigoted assholes about it, in which case just call them "incels".
If they're "celibate" and would prefer to be in a relationship but isn't bigoted about it... probably prefer whatever term they would prefer you use, but maybe something like "single and looking" would be a reasonable term.
If they're "celibate" and don't want to be in a relationship and are bigoted, "volcel" or "MGTOW" (with a derisive dip in tone) is probably a reasonably good term.
If they're "celibate" and don't want to be in a relationship and aren't bigoted, again, whatever they prefer, but "asexual" and/or "aromantic" might be reasonable.
Heathcliff
Heathcliff without Heathcliff 9/17/2024
TootSweet 3 days ago • 91%
Wha- This... What is this? I don't even...
The version with Heathcliff present makes no more sense.
Did George Gately go through a Dada phase?
Technology
"participants who had access to an AI assistant wrote significantly less secure code" and "were also more likely to believe they wrote secure code" - 2023 Stanford University study published at CCS23
TootSweet 3 days ago • 100%
if you want to take OpenAI’s own research into account
No thank you.
OlympicArena validation set (text-only)
"Our extensive evaluations reveal that even advanced models like GPT-4o only achieve a 39.97% overall accuracy (28.67% for mathematics and 29.71% for physics)"
- The OlympicArena analysis that you cited.
Technology
"participants who had access to an AI assistant wrote significantly less secure code" and "were also more likely to believe they wrote secure code" - 2023 Stanford University study published at CCS23
TootSweet 3 days ago • 100%
Source?
TootSweet 4 days ago • 91%
Probably defacing PBS?
Though I think that may have kindof been the FBI's idea rather than Anonymous'. (It took place after Sabu was compromised by the FBI and I think it was kindof Sabu that started... was it LulzSec that that PBS hack was done under?)
Fuckin' FBI.
(Also, don't know why you're getting downvotes.)
Technology
"participants who had access to an AI assistant wrote significantly less secure code" and "were also more likely to believe they wrote secure code" - 2023 Stanford University study published at CCS23
TootSweet 4 days ago • 87%
Unlike this year when LLMs are more of a huge scam.
TootSweet 4 days ago • 100%
I was going to end my boycott once they did that.
But like... a week later? (I don't remember the exact amount of time, but I remember it being surprisingly soon on the heels of the OGL 1.1 debacle.) They pulled the whole Pinkertons/MTG bullshit. Had they not done that, I'd have bought more 5e materials, watched the D&D movie, and likely caught up on some Transformers movies by now.
At this point, I don't think much could end my boycott of WotC short of Hasbro selling off WotC and better people being put at the helm of WotC. I don't think much could end my boycott of Hasbro short of a huge shift in upper-level management at Hasbro.
TootSweet 4 days ago • 80%
I mean, borrowing the DVD from the library will make it unavailable for someone else who might want to watch it, which might incentivize them to buy a copy. Also, if it's always checked out and unavailable when people go to try to check it out, it may increase hype/enthusiasm about it. Buying it second-hand would have similar consequences.
I might pirate it if I can get a chance. Doing so a) wouldn't reduce supply of copies of it in ways that might incentivize others to purchase a copy or stream it on Paramount+ or whatever and b) kindof feels like a slap in the face of Hasbro of the sort I don't mind delivering.
I'm fully aware of how petty this all comes across, but, man, thoroughly fuck Hasbro. What a shitty company. Don't underestimate just how much I hate them. Lol.
TootSweet 5 days ago • 100%
fan anger over the licensing changes likely contributed
I know that is the specific reason why I haven't seen it and still intend specifically never to.
(Ok, to be fair I was going to end my Hasbro boycott and see it when they backpedaled and did the dual OGL/Creative Commons thing, but then they pulled the MTG Pinkerton bullshit and that made it clear Hasbro had learned less than nothing from the OGL 1.1 blowback.)
TootSweet 5 days ago • 100%
Yeah, I've been boycotting Hasbro since the whole OGL 1.1 fiasco. Fuck 'em.
Political Weirdos
I don't know if Scott truly understands his own arguments.
TootSweet 5 days ago • 100%
On the one hand, I want to believe Scott Adams succumbed to some diagnosable degenerative mental illness or something. I used to enjoy Dilbert comics/media. (Anybody remember the animated series?)
On the other hand, even reading old Dilbert, a bit of me is always like "ok, yeah, in retrospect there's a disturbing undercurrent of xenophobic right-wing BS going on here". Maybe he was always like this at least to some degree before the Qanon brainworm devoured what was left of his connection to reality.
LinuxTootSweet 5 days ago • 100%
You can't really and make a profit. You pay more in electricity than you get in crypto.
...unless someone else is (unknowingly) paying for the electricity.
(Of course, when the price of crypto takes an upturn, sometimes it might get profitable again. And I'd imagine there are people mining it even when the price is low banking on the idea that it'll spike again and they can sell it.)
TootSweet 5 days ago • 100%
No joke. I'm ashamed to say I have had to endure Weblogic in the past. God was that time a massive clusterfuck.
The company I worked for decided to use two particular separate products (frameworks, specifically; ATG and Endeca, even more specifically) to use in tandem in a rewrite of the company's main e-commerce application. Between when we signed on the dotted line and when we actually started implementing things, Oracle acquired the companies behind both products in question.
The company should have cut their losses, run away screaming, and started evaluating other options. That's not what happened. Instead, they doubed-down and also adopted several other Oracle products (Weblogic and Oracle Linux on (shudder) Exalogic servers) because that's, of course, what Oracle recommended to use with the two products in question. The company also contracted with Oracle-licensed "service integration" companies that made everything somehow even worse.
And the e-commerce site rewrite absolutely crashed and burned in the most gloriously painful way possible. They ended up throwing away tens of millions of dollars and multiple years on it.
When the e-commerce site rewrite did happen, it was many years later and used basically only FOSS technologies. I guess at least they learned their lesson. Until the upper management turns over again.
TootSweet 5 days ago • 82%
The sooner the crypto bubble bursts, the fewer victims there will be of fraud like this.
memesTootSweet 6 days ago • 80%
You think the OP image is AI? How do you figure? (Or maybe my brain just put too much emphasas on the word "without" and you aren't saying the OP image is AI.)
TootSweet 6 days ago • 96%
Is the human traffic cone someone I should recognize?
politics TootSweet 6 days ago • 90%
Did he really post this? Where? TruthSocial?
Cardano Developers
Blockchain technology, the last 10 years
TootSweet 6 days ago • 66%
Goblincore
It is not fair.
TootSweet 6 days ago • 95%
And was born 370 million years too late to sit under the shade of prototaxites.
TootSweet 6 days ago • 87%
It does depend what you consider "the whole series."
Does Tingle RPG count? Does Link's Crossbow Training?
Other questions that probably wouldn't matter for best or worst game in the series, but would for a complete ranking might be whether remakes/remasters count as separate games or not and if not, do we judge on the basis of the remaster or the original? (Either way, all the remasters are inferior to the originals. Maybe that's my most radical, non-left-right position. That and Breath of the Wild was better than Tears of the Kingdom.)
TootSweet 6 days ago • 83%
Shhh. We don't talk about that one.
TootSweet 6 days ago • 90%
It's like eating fingernails. 🤮
moviesTootSweet 6 days ago • 88%
The worst thing about the 2011 Green Lantern movie is how it killed any chance of more Green Lantern movies for so long.
(Ok, to be fair, it wasn't just the 2011 movie. Also the pandemic. And DC's complete ineptitude at movies.)
Political Weirdos
Ewww brother ewww
TootSweet 1 week ago • 83%
Don't tell me what "wrinky" means. I'm certain I don't want to know.
Lemmy Be Wholesome
About 5, apparently
TootSweet 1 week ago • 50%
The big U-haul loves his baby U-hauls so much he carries them everywhere with him.
Technology
Litecoin Wallet Funds Go Missing
TootSweet 1 week ago • 66%
In this thread: Cryptobros downvoting every realistic take on cryptocurrency for being "bearish" and "FUD".
So, there's this guy at work, right? And I've been working with him for probably a year or so by the time this story takes place. Same team and everything. Kindof elbow-to-elbow. Good guy. The company would take us all out to lunch occasionally. And this one time, 15 or so of us are all sat down at the chain restaurant and shooting the shit about whatever. And the music playing at the restaurant plays a song by Imagine Dragons. And then some other random song. And then another one by Imagine Dragons. I don't remember specifically how many Imagine Dragons songs they played before we even got our food, but it was enough in a short enough period that someone commented "huh, they're playing a lot of Imagine Dragons today." And this was in the period when it was in vogue to dunk on Imagine Dragons, right? And so I'm like "yeah, at least they're playing Imagine Dragons songs from back when Imagine Dragons was good." And I expect folks to banter back at me and maybe some folks would defend Imagine Dragons, but probably more would agree, or even take the position that Imagine Dragons was never good. (Again, that was in vogue at the time.) But everyone just kind of looks at me awkwardly. And I have no idea what's going on until the guy next to me leans over and lets me in on it. Apparently the guy directly across from me *grew up with* the Imagine Dragons band members and nearly ended up in the band at one point in his life. And I worked with the guy for a year and never knew that. And I kindof looked like an asshole over it. What are the chances! I don't live anywhere near Las Vegas where Imagine Dragons came from or anything. I appologised, of course. He kindof laughed it off, but I still felt bad about it. In retrospect, a piece of me wonders if the boss hadn't called ahead and asked the restaurant to play a lot of Imagine Dragons just to make the guy across from me feel special or something. But then again, the vibe this chain restaurant gave off was that probably the restaurant didn't really control the playlist at all. Probably it was just some XM station or something. (It didn't have a DJ or any speaking between songs or anything. Just music. So *maybe* that gives some credence to the boss-called-ahead theory? Dunno. Dunno.) Maybe some day I should call the restaurant and ask if they're able to take music requests or whatever just to get some closure. Lol.
Yesterday, I started watching [a video on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFhn3IO23lE&t=273s&pp=ygUJZ251IHRhbGVy) but closed out of my browser (Firefox) only a few minutes into the video. I've got my Firefox set to delete all cookies, history, form data, etc on every close. (Pretty much everything but bookmarks.) The image on this post is a screenshot of my relevant settings. Today, after having exited my browser and fully shut down my computer for a while, I remembered the video and decided to continue watching it. In Firefox, I searched for the video (I used the search term "gnu taler" -- something worth looking into especially for folks interested in this particular Lemmy community by the way). In the search results, [the video I was searching for showed the red bar at the bottom indicating I'd watched only the first few minutes of it](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/63e07f0e-4a01-4cd6-b282-baf8acd0556d.png). Which seems weird given that I'd cleared all my browser data since I watched the first few minutes. So I did some experimentation. I closed my browser completely again and opened it back up, searched in YouTube, and it still had the indicator. I updated to the latest version of Firefox in the Arch package repository. Same indicator. I tried the same in Chromium (which I've also got set to delete all browser data on close). Still the indicator. I installed Tor Browser Bundle (specifically torbrowser-launcher on Arch Linux), changed none of the default settings at all, and searched in YouTube. The indicator is present. In Tor Browser Bundle. W T F ? Anybody have any idea how that's possible? My only guesses are: * That search is so niche as to be literally unique (which if true makes me sad -- I really hope GNU Taler takes off and becomes widespread) and YouTube is using that to identify me. * YouTube doesn't know where I left off at all. Not even my browser knows (because if it was my browser keeping track, it wouldn't persist between browsers). It's something else on my system that my browsers depend on or tap into. The only other pieces of relevant info I can think to share: * There's another video (also about GNU Taler) that I watched all the way through the same day that I *started* the video this post is about. It doesn't show any indicator. * I tried searching on my phone's browser. No indicator. But then I'm not sure my phone ever shows indicators. I haven't tried this on any other devices on my network or anything. * I still haven't watched the video in question. Heh. Thanks in advance for any insight you might have. Edit: Sorry for neglecting to mention previously that at no point during any of the above did I log in to YouTube. And the "Sign in" button was visible at the top of the page indicating I wasn't logged in. Since multiple people asked, I figured I should edit my OP with that info. Edit2: Two more things to mention. I think some folks are thinking I copied the link and pasted it between browsers during the above test or something? The only reason the timestamp is included in the link I posted above is because when I copied it into this post, I didn't think to remove the timestamp. But I didn't do anything like copying the link from the search results in one browser and then paste the link into TBB or anything. In each separate browser, immediately after opening the browser, I went to YouTube (by typing "youtube.com<enter>" into the address bar) and put "gnu taler" into the search bar and hit enter. And in each browser, YouTube somehow remembered where I'd left off in a whole different browser -- with a different IP address in the case of the switch from Chromium to TBB. And no urls were copied between browsers in any of the above. The other thing to mention. Changing my search term to the full title of the video ("Building an Open Source Payment System - Sebastian Javier Marchano, Taler System" sans quotes) gives the relevant video as the top search result, but no "left off" indicator. And I'm in the Firefox in which I first noticed it had remembered. Oh, actually, one *more* thing to mention. After posting this, I continued watching. I'm probably about 3/4 done with it now. But I closed my browser again before completing it, reopened my browser, and searched "gnu taler". It gives the indicator, but the position of the indicator is roughly (possibly exactly) where it was when I first noticed it had remembered. Not where I left off after watching to roughly the 3/4 mark. Edit3: Wow! Ok. I'm 99% sure folks smarter than me have hit upon what's going on here. Thanks in particular to Tony N and Chozo for the right answer. It looks like YouTube has a feature where, depending on your search terms, it may automatically skip you a certain ways into the video. (Like "oh, you searched for 'gnu taler'? Well, in *this* video result, this bit in the middle is the part that's relevant to your search terms, so we'll just start you such-and-such-many seconds into the video.") The red bar doesn't mean "you've watched this" at all. And YouTube isn't "remembering me" between browsers. It's just consistently (as long as I use the specific search terms "gnu taler") suggesting that I start that video 273 seconds in rather than from the beginning. And anyone who searches that exact search term should get similar results... unless they're on mobile for some weird reason? That paired with the coincidence that I'm pretty sure I just happened to have stopped the video yesterday right about at the same place where YouTube recommends you start had me very confused. Whatever the case, I'm satisfied this must be the right answer. Thanks again, ya'll!
This post really isn't the usual faire of this community. Sorry about that. If there's a better place for me to put this, definitely feel free to point me there. But, to the point of my post, before Bitcoin became a *widespread* cult, back when all Bitcoin was was a couple of posts on Slashdot, back when mining it was comparatively extremely easy/quick/"profitable", I mined some Bitcoin. About 1/20 of a Bitcoin. Just by, like, leaving my computer on for a month or so. And I still have access to it. And Bitcoin ~~is worth~~ can be sold for $62,000 USD per bitcoin right now which makes my little 1/20 of a Bitcoin tradeable for about $3,100 of real money. *Now* I know that blockchain is just straight up a scam. But I've still got this Bitcoin in a wallet on a hard drive in my posession. (I know, the wallet doesn't actually "contain" the Bitcoin. Leave me alone.) The obvious thing to do with it would be to sell it now, but that would leave some poor chap(s) holding a $3,100 bag in a way that I wouldn't feel great about. I could just sit on it forever. I suppose I could sell it and donate the proceeds to some cause I thought to be worthy or anti-crypto. If there were enough crypto-skeptics had cryptocurrencies and wanted cryptocurrency to die in a fire, they(/we?) could coordinate to use our collective cryptocurrency in a way that most damages the market and hopefully hastens a crash-to-zero. (But the likelihood that there'd be enough cryptocurrency in the hands of crypto-skeptics to pull that off seems low.) Or I could print out my private keys, delete them from my hard drive, and ceremonially burn the papers while chanting "web3 is going great". And maybe this post is just me asking like-minded folks to give me permission to just sell it and leave someone holding a bag so I can buy myself a new OLED TV. Heh. Whatever the case, I wanted to hear you folks' takes. Edit: Thanks for the input, everyone. I'm gonna sell it.
I linked to MSN because (at least for me) it wasn't paywalled. The original source for the article can be found on the Washington Post's website [here](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/06/15/amazon-one-medical-patient-safety/) but *is* paywalled.
If I had a nickel for every one I've seen, I'd have two nickels, which isn't much, but it's strange it happened twice. And I have no idea what it means. A couple of examples: [One](https://lemmy.world/post/16185922?scrollToComments=true) and [two](https://lemmy.world/post/16183003?scrollToComments=true).
This was on the Netflix login page until pretty recently. I can't be the only one who thought it was unintentionally... suggestive, right?
www.youtube.com
Please tell me I'm not the only one still obsessed with these things. Edit: Woah. I *am* the only one still obsessed with Animutations, aren't I? They're mine! All mine!
It bugs me when people say "the thing is is that" (if you listen for it, you'll start hearing it... or maybe that's something that people only do in my area.) ("What the thing is is that..." is fine. But "the thing is is that..." bugs me.) Also, "just because <blank> doesn't mean <blank>." That sentence structure invites one to take "just because <blank>" as a noun phrase which my brain really doesn't want to do. Just doesn't seem right. But that sentence structure is very common. And I'm not saying there's anything objectively wrong with either of these. Language is weird and complex and beautiful. It's just fascinating that some commonly-used linguistic constructions just hit some people wrong sometimes. Edit: I thought of another one. "As best as I can." "The best I can" is fine, "as well as I can" is good, and "as best I can" is even fine. But "as best as" hurts.
And if you disagree with any of my answers, you're just wrong.
youtu.be
"Vindaloo" is a running joke in the series Red Dwarf to which this song is the theme song.
Apparently I'm banned from !imageai@sh.itjust.works now. That's a community for posting AI-generated images. My feed is set to "all"/"new". So I see every post that comes into the Lemmy servers that lemmy.world federates with. Or at least those that come in while I'm on and browsing. I downvote what I don't like. And I don't like AI-generated images. I downvote any that come across my feed. I don't seek out AI-generated images to downvite. (That feels too much like brigading.) So, I wouldn't, say, go to !imageai@sh.itjust.works and downvote every post there. Just the ones that "organically" come across my feed. Today, I clicked "downvote" on a post from !imageai@sh.itjust.works and the down-arrow wouldn't change color to register my downvote. Lemmy's error messaging is lacking, so I had to go to my developer tools to find out for sure, but the server clearly indicated the reason why it wouldn't accept my downvote was because I was banned from !imageai@sh.itjust.works . (I *can* downvote posts on other sh.itjust.works communities.) So, apparently one of the mods of !imageai@sh.itjust.works noticed I downvoted some posts from !imageai@sh.itjust.works and had never upvoted any posts in that community and decided to ban me. I'm honestly not really sure whether I or they (or both or neither) am/are in the wrong here. But I was interested to see that just downvoting could get me banned from a community. Anyone else been banned from any communities for similar behavior?
Over-the-counter diphenhydramine, for instance, at least in my country, says adults can take "1 to 2 tablets every 4 to 6 hours." If you decide "my symptoms aren't so bad; I'll just take one" and then two hours later your symptoms are still bad (or worse), is it safe to take a second tab then? And if you do, should you wait until "4 to 6 hours" after taking the *first* tablet or the second to take an additional tablet? Does it depend on the drug? (Maybe it's fine for diphenhydramine but not for ibuprophen?) I'd imagine blood levels of any particular drug tend to quickly spike and then exponentially decay back to undetectable levels. If you take two tabs, I'd imagine that graph is just twice as tall. If you wait a couple of hours between tabs, it's got two spikes and the second is a little higher than the first (but not as high as the two-tabs-at-the-same-time spike.) If the concern is total concentration of drug in the bloodstream at any one point, a second tab a couple hours later is less of a concern than two tabs at the same time. If the concern is total area under the curve, then probably there's no difference between two tabs at the same time and a couple of hours between. If the concern is total time spent with a blood concentration of such-and-such, I could see there being more concern with taking a second tab just a couple of hours after the first. And maybe there are other effects that I'm not aware of. Maybe if the blood concentration kicks up to two-tabs-at-once levels, the liver kicks into high gear, clearing the drug out quicker, but if you go a couple of hours between tabs, the liver neve kicks into high gear or some such. And maybe this question hasn't even been well studied and maybe there's not really any good answer. But if there is, I'm curious.
locusmag.com
This guy's one of the few and the brave actually saying publicly that AI is a bubble. I think most other public figures are scared to be proven wrong and made to look foolish. Doctorow's not committing to the idea that AI will never have any use, but at least he's countering a lot of the ridiculous claims the "AI Industry" is making lately.
I've got a pretty severe sensitivity to -- of all things -- sugar. (I know, "sugar" isn't very precise, but I'm pretty sure it's either glucose, fructose, or sucrose.) I virtually never eat anything with added sugar or anything with any significant amount of natural sugar. And I've eaten that way for like 20 years now. I'm practically blind to half the produce department (any "sweet" fruits like apples, pears, cherries, grapes, oranges, etc) at the grocery store, let alone the candy isle.
I've been thinking about this for a while now. Richard Stallman has been practically synonymous with Free Software since its inception. And there are good reasons why. It was his idea, and it was his passion that made the movement what it is today. I deeply believe in the mission of the Free Software movement. But more and more, it seems that in order to survive, the Free Software movement may need to distance itself from him. Richard Stallman has said some really disturbingly reprehensible things on multiple occasions ([one](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/09/richard-stallman-leaves-mit-after-controversial-remarks-on-rape/) and [two](https://www.stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#23_September_2018_(Cody_Wilson))). (He has said he's changed these opinions, but it seems to me the damage is done.) He's [asked](https://www.fsf.org/news/rms-addresses-the-free-software-community) that people blame him and not the FSF for these statements, but it seems naive to me to expect that to be enough not to tarnish the FSF's reputation in the eyes of most people. And Richard Stallman isn't the only problematic figure associated with the Free Software movement.. Eben Moglen (founder, Direct-Council, and Chairman of Software Freedom Law Center which is closely associated with the FSF) has been accused of much abusive and anti-LGBTQIA+ behavior over which the Free Software Foundation Europe and Software Freedom Concervancy have cut ties with the SFLC and Moglen ([one](https://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2023/10/11/moglen-sflc.html) and [two](https://sfconservancy.org/news/2023/oct/11/joint-statement-fsfe/)). Even aside from the public image problems, it seems like the FSF and SFLC have been holding back the Free Software movement strategically. Eben Moglan has long been adamant that the GPL shouldn't be interpreted as a contract -- only as a copyright license. What the SFC is doing now with the Visio lawsuit is only possible because the SFC had the courage to abandon that theory. I sense there's a rift in the Free Software movement. Especially given that the SFC and FSF Europe explicitly cutting ties with the SFLC and Moglen. And individual supporters of Free Software are going to have to decide which parties in this split are going to speak for and champion the cause of the community as a whole. I imagine it's pretty clear by this point that I favor the SFC in this split. I like what I've seen from the SFC in general. Not just the Visio lawsuit. But also [the things I've heard said by SFC folks](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUEeuNvX2UyTTyTYXR9dm_A). If the Free Software movement needs a single personality to be its face moving forward, I'd love for that face to be [Bradley M. Kuhn](https://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/), executive director of the SFC. He seems to have all of Stallman's and Moglen's assets (passion, dedication, an unwillingness to bend, and experience and knowledge of the legal aspects of Free Software enforcement) perhaps even more so than Stallman and Moglen do. And Kuhn excels in all the areas where Stallman and Moglen perhaps don't so much (social consciousness, likeability, strategy.) I can't say enough good things about Kuhn, really. (And [his Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_M._Kuhn) doesn't even *have* a "controversies" section.) (Also, please tell me there aren't any skeletons in his closet.) Even if the community does come to a consensus that the movement should distance itself from Stallman and Moglen, it'll be difficult to achieve such a change in public perception and if it's achieved, it may come at a cost. After all, Stallman is the first person everybody pictures when the FSF is mentioned. And acknowledging the problems with the Free Software movement's "old brass" may damage the reputation of Free Software as a whole among those who might not differentiate between the parties in this split. But I feel it may be necessary for the future of the Free Software movement. That's my take, anyway. I'll hop down off of my soap box, now. But I wanted to bring this up, hopefully let some folks whose ideals align with those of the Free Software movement about all this if they weren't already aware, and maybe see what folks in general think about the future of the Free Software movement.
Often times, when looking at the comments on a post, some comments are hidden and replaced by a button that (in Lemmy-UI) says "1 more reply ➔" or "2 more replies ➔" (or in Lemuroid says "1 more replies") or some such. I assume the intent of this button is to cause the hidden comment to be shown, but the button never works for me. I have similar issues in both Lemmy-UI and in Lemuroid. In Lemmy-UI on Firefox (on a Raspberry Pi 4 running Arch Linux Arm, but I doubt that matters), if I click the button, it turns into a loading graphic which spins forever. If I tap the button in Lemuroid, a loading bar appears at the top of the screen for a little under a second and then disappears, but the "1 more replies" button remains and the hidden comments do not appear. Given that this is an issue in both interfaces I use, maybe that means it's a Lemmy issue and not specific to Lemmy-UI or Lemuroid? Not sure. Looking in Firefox's Developer Tools, it appears that when I click that button, it does send a request to the server and the response is a 200. There's no output in the "console" tab when I click the button. I did go look at the issue trackers for both Lemmy and Lemmy-UI, but haven't found any relevant bugs. Actually, I'm not really sure what criteria are used to decide whether a post should be hidden by default. But I do moderate one community and if the hidden posts are the ones that are most downvoted or some such, it's probably important for mods to be able to see those hidden posts. Thanks in advance! Edit: Well, today it's working in Lemmy-UI but only in some threads. In Lemuroid, the one that *did* work in Lemmy-UI just shows as expanded without me having to expand it, so I'm not sure about Lemuroid. Weird.
Never thought I'd see the day.
I've got a bit of a conundrum. I've got a 10 pound chihuahua whose entire world is a very specific 1.75 inch diameter rubber ball. (And when I say "entire world", I'm understating.) She's gone through a handful of this specific brand and model of rubber ball as old ones have gotten to the point of being too damaged to be safe. But now the manufacturer has discontinued that line of ball and we're on our last one. The few other models of rubber balls the same size that I've been able to find have been summarily rejected by the dog. I'm not sure quite what her criteria are for rejecting a ball, even. But I know she'd be a very sad dog indeed if we didn't manage to procure a suitable substitute. So, at this point, I (and the dog too) am desperate enough to start thinking in terms of maybe crafting a ball as much like the one this dog currently loves to play with. Of course my primary concern is safety. I wouldn't want pieces of rubber coming off of the final product to be ingested and cause blockages or anything. Nor any danger of blocking an airway. The ball I'd be apeing is composed of natural rubber. I know you can get liquid latex like [this](https://www.amazon.com/Viscosity-Natural-Liquid-Latex-Making/dp/B071DDQHM6/ref=sr_1_4?crid=Z3ARUK2VXC0Q&keywords=natural+latex+rubber&qid=1703976671&sprefix=natural+latex+rubb%2Caps%2C211&sr=8-4) stuff that air dries. Anyone have any idea if that would be suitable for this application? (Or would it be insufficiently durable after drying?) I've got at my disposal a 3d printer and the skill to design 3d-printable molds. Hopefully the process of molding a ball could avoid heating the mold enough to deform it. I don't have any experience with printing anything but PLA and TPU. But I might be convinced to branch out into ABS or some such if necessary. I'm just hoping to get some pointers and suggestions. I and my chihuahua thank you all in advance!
This is a weird one. I'm running [Arch Linux ARM](https://archlinuxarm.org/) on a Raspberry Pi 4 with Sway if any of that matters. (I've also got fcitx enabled if that helps any.) The issue I'm running into is that randomly Firefox will freeze while I'm typing. Like, while I've got the address bar or some text area in the page focused and I'm typing something into it. This frequently happens multiple times a day even *with* the coping strategy I use. (See below.) It never freezes that I've noticed when I'm doing something other than typing into a text input or textbox or address bar. (I don't recall ever seeing it freeze while I was typing into a password input, but I wouldn't say that's reason to think the issue is limited to not password boxes.) It will usually freeze in the middle of a word somewhere. I type pretty fast. But it'll freeze for instance 3 letters into a 7 letter word which is the third word I've typed into the box or some such. (Or sometimes it'll freeze on the first letter. Or sometimes it'll freeze two paragraphs in.) When it freezes, I usually open a shell and `ps aux | grep firefox` to get the PID of the parent Firefox process and then `kill $pid` to kill Firefox. I don't usually have to use -9 or anything. But just closing the window (with a super+shift+q) doesn't do the trick. Mostly how I deal with this is to `vi /tmp/t`, type a post, and then `wl-copy < /tmp/t` so I can paste the post into Lemmy or whatever. When typing a url, I usually just risk a freeze since it usually doesn't take a lot of keystrokes to load the url I'm going for. ("lemmy.wo", and then enter to accept the type-ahead suggestion, for instance.) I think basically every keystroke has a small-ish chance of causing a freeze, so something that only takes 10 keystrokes is low-enough risk to go for it. But a post like what I'm posting here would be almost guaranteed to freeze before I finished composing it. I'm posting here in the Firefox community because I haven't seen this happen with any application other than Firefox. (Though to be fair, I rarely use any graphical applications on this Raspberry Pi other than Firefox, [st](https://st.suckless.org/), and [OpenSCAD](https://openscad.org/) on this Raspberry Pi 4. I used to use [Cura](https://ultimaker.com/software/ultimaker-cura/) occasionally on this machine occasionally as well. Chromium is way too resource hungry to try to use as a daily driver on a Raspberry Pi 4. I'm not sure I even have it installed right now.) I suppose this could be more of a GTK issue or Sway issue than a Firefox issue, but again it seems like it only happens with Firefox. And I realize this is a weird enough issue that it might be pretty difficult to diagnose. I've tried running Firefox from a terminal emulator and reproducing the issue to see if there's any outut to STDOUT/STDERR when it reproduces the issue, but ther'es no useful output. I thought to try strace-ing Firefox, but strac-ing Firefox gives a veritable Niagara Falls of output when nothing's happening, so it seems pretty untenable to try to comb through that to get anything useful. Any ideas a) what the issue might possibly be or b) how I might go about trying to get a diagnosis? This has been an issue on this particular machine (and only this particular machine, though I haven't tried Firefox on other Raspberry Pis) for probably over a year now. I've been alternately trying to debug it and just ignoring it. I figured maybe it's finally time to see if anyone else has any ideas. Thanks in advance!
Is it just me or is passing off things that aren't FOSS as FOSS a much bigger thing lately than it was previously. Don't get me wrong. I remember Microsoft's "shared source" thing from back in the day. So I know it's not a new thing per se. But it still seems like it's suddenly a bigger problem than it was previously. LLaMa, the large language model, is billed by Meta as "Open Source", [but isn't](https://blog.opensource.org/metas-llama-2-license-is-not-open-source/). I just learned today about "Grayjay," a video streaming service client app created by Louis Rossmann. [Various aticles out there are billing it as "Open Source" or "FOSS"](https://appuals.com/rossman-gray-jay/). It's not. [Grayjay's license](https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay/-/raw/master/LICENSE?ref_type=heads) doesn't allow commercial redistribution or derivative works. [Its source code is available](https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay/-/tree/master?ref_type=heads) to the general public, but that's far from sufficient to qualify as "Open Source." (That article even claims "GrayJay is an open-source app, which means that users are free to alter it to meet their specific needs," but [Grayjay's license](https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay/-/raw/master/LICENSE?ref_type=heads) grants no license to create modified versions at all.) FUTO, the parent project of Grayjay [pledges on its site](https://futo.org/what-is-futo/) that "All FUTO-funded projects are expected to be open-source or develop a plan to eventually become so." I *hope* that means that they'll be making Grayjay properly Open Source at some point. (Maybe once it's sufficiently mature/tested?) But I worry that they're just conflating "source available" and "Open Source." I've also seen some sentiment around that "whatever, doesn't matter if it doesn't match the OSI's definition of Open Source. Source available is just as good and OSI doesn't get a monopoly on the term 'Open Source' anyway and you're being pedantic for refusing to use the term 'Open Source' for this program that won't let you use it commercially or make modifications." It just makes me nervous. I don't want to see these terms muddied. If that ultimately happens and these terms end up not really being meaningful/helpful, maybe the next best thing is to only speak in terms of concrete license names. We all know the GPL, MIT, BSD, Apache, Mozilla, etc kind of licenses are unambiguously FOSS licenses in the strictest sense of the term. If a piece of software is under something that doesn't have a specific name, then the best we'd be able to do is just read it and see if it matches the OSI definition or Free Software definition. Until then, I guess I'll keep doing my best to tell folks when something's called FOSS that isn't FOSS. I'm not sure what else to do about this issue, really.
People remember the Didney Worl meme template, right?
I love the *idea* of a privacy-focused fronend for YouTube, but every time I visit a piped link, it just spins forever. Both on my Linux desktop and my Android phone. Maybe I'm doing something wrong? [Here](https://piped.video/watch?v=Q2xGniafR68) is the latest one I tried and failed to load.
I hate that I always compare Lemmy to Reddit, but Reddit used to have (not sure if they still do) guidelines called "Reddiquette" that included guidelines about upvoting and downvoting. I don't remember the specifics (and sending too much of my browser traffic to Reddit makes me feel dirty) but one of the guidelines was not to upvote/downvote on the basis of agreement/disagreement with the content. On Lemmy, I'm honestly a bit lax about upvoting and downvoting at all. (I'm trying to be better about it.) Buy when I do upvote/downvote, I try to do so on the basis of whether the comment/post "adds to" or "subtracts from" the community or conversation. I can disagree with one comment's take on some subject but still upvote them if they've given me a more nuanced perspective on the issue. If they're just parrotting well-known talking points and not being thoughtful with their posts, I may downvote them evren if I agree with their ultimate stance. I'm just mostly wondering how folks on Lemmy think about upvotes/downvotes and what implications that has for the content here.
ocw.mit.edu
A little dated, unfortunately, but I love this course. I've watched it through at least four times over the years. Maybe I'm weird, but the subject matter is just fascinating to me.
This post is somewhat inspired by a recent post in this same community called "Is anyone else having trouble giving up Reddit due to content?" I imagine "Reddit" will be a common answer. (And it's one of my answers.) Another of my answers is "Hasbro." First Wizards of the Coast (a Hasbro subsidiary) tried to revoke an irrevokable license and screw over basically all 3rd-party publishers of D&D content, then they sent literal mercinaries to threaten one of their customers over an order mixup that wasn't even the customer's fault. D&D: Honor Among Thieves and the latest Transformers look really good, but those are within the scope of my boycott, so I won't be seeing those any time soon. Third, Microsoft. (Apple too, but then I've never bought any Apple devices in my life, so it hardly qualifies as a boycott.) Just because of their penchant for using devices I own against me in every way they can imagine. And for really predatory business practices. One boycott that I've ended was a boycott of Nintendo. I was pissed that they started marketing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (though it didn't have a name at the time) before the WiiU came out, prompting me to be an early adopter of the WiiU, and then when they actually released BotW, they dual-released it on WiiU and Switch. I slightly eased my boycott when the unpatchable Fusee Gilee vulnerability for the first batch of Switches was discovered. I wanted to get one of the ones I could hack and run homebrew on before they came out with a model that lacked the vulnerability.
I guess I'm mostly just hoping I'm not the only one this happens to. I'll see it fall to ~~earth~~Hyrule, follow the beacon, and when I get close and it switches from "no physics" mode to "collectable item" mode, it's just not there. I'm pretty sure what's actually happened is that it's under the ground. I think it may be more likely to happen if the "meteorite" hits a steep surface. Is this an issue for anybody else? Two of the last three I've gone to collect were uncollectable because of this.