Be worried about why he had to hide it, and be genuinely curious about how he became rich. I dunno if I’d be confident enough to ask about it though, I’d probably just tell him that I’m sorry he had to hide it and I hope he knows it doesn’t change how I see him.

Literally have a few friends who are rich, but it doesn’t change anything. I’m still a little brokey and we still alternate between me and them paying for dinner.

If the VPN is for phoning home, of course there’s free client and server software.

But if it’s for spoofing a different location, you either get found out, or you have to pay.

I wanna live in a world where I do not pay for anything but there is stuff that you can only really get if you pay.

I mean it’s a metric. Not a perfect one, but it helps to get an overview of the state of a repository.

Maybe not the right discussion for the shit post community

Yeah if you think life is simple just because you fit into that category, boy have I got some news for you. Never assume people’s struggles, the world is big and generalizing groups of people is dumb.

Guess it takes a shit post to learn biology

Sponge? Bacteria? Viruses?

That’s unrealistic. In the grant scheme of things Lemmy is small. There’s not enough activity for bigger criminal activity to occur here yet. Generally, there’s a bunch of three letter agencies who could probably get search warrants or permission to go after instance owners, but they’d need to be aware of Lemmy and they’d need a good enough reason to convince a judge. It’ll be a while until then. Maybe on mastodon first, we’ll see but that’s all speculation.

And should we be concerned? Maybe about those 3 letter agencies, but not about platforms like these, and most definitely not about Lemmy instances.

As long as we keep defederating from actually scary ones with csam on there, we’re more than good.

Also if this is a rhetoric question with a strong insinuation to get angry at lemmy.world then get bent, I like my Lemmy instances drama-free, thank you.

“back”

After looking up the Wikipedia definition I kind of disagree; my definition is more narrow but I also think it’s more akin to what we currently understand AI to be.

That said, even with the very loose Wikipedia definition of AI I don’t know how the hell you conclude that the internet / the web is AI. Yes, specific parts of it are AI, but the Internet in my understanding does not fit the definition.

A statistical model built on neural networks solving black box problems.

I don’t hate AI but 99% of applications currently are just vanity, there are big energy problems with it, monopoly consolidation is getting exacerbated by it, identity theft is becoming easier than ever and then stolen training data and information clusters will be the next big issues.

What I’m saying is, a lot of experts (those who survived from the older field of machine learning and its various applications like genetic algorithms and classifiers) are critical of AI, and most people should be. It’s a big opportunity but we could destroy our society with it if we don’t come up with ethical constraints codified in law.

I second syncthing as a solution.

I personally use an smb server and tail scale client + Headscale and then those smb files are locally backed up to a different drive / different PCs that remain in the network, but that doesn’t automatically sync and instead works by connecting to the server directly.

What you’re describing sounds like a solution that automatically resynchronizes on connection, and that means you’re looking for versioning / sync, thus probably syncthing is the easiest.

Looks like not only the type of sabotage is genuinely smart, but also dropping those papers means the government is now entrenched in distrust and that’s an uncomfortable position to be in.

First of all, not a shit post.

People only hate the pedos they dislike.

Disagree. You mentioned MJ and Epstein. There is a huge amount of victims, witnesses, monetary transactions and evidence (e.g. pictures) about Epstein being a pedophile. For MJ being a pedophile there’s only a fraction of that.

I personally do not care for MJ. People like his music but I don’t really. It’s easier for me to see Epstein as a pedophile because there is just so much more corroborating evidence, and way harder to see MJ that way. Do I believe he’s not? Not really, I haven’t looked that deep into it and I heard this before a few times. But I’m not say someone is a pedophile without evidence. If they’re wrongly accused, that’s fucked up. And ultimately, he’s dead and there’s no real evidence and no suggestions he was part of a wider circle of other perpetrators.

On the other hand Epstein is dead, but there’s other people who helped him or committed crimes themselves. So we should concentrate on those, so that the victims get justice and the perpetrators which do still live get tried and convicted. And especially make sure ghislaine Maxwell, who is convicted and got an insane deal has to face more consequences and finally gives up names so we can start demanding trials for all of the others involved.

Basically, it’s never a “I hate Epstein but not MJ” thing, it’s just that we can address whatever Epstein did, and that is important and there’s lots to go on, but we kinda can’t do it with MJ unless there’s more evidence, there’s likely more perpetrators or there’s more victims coming forward, and I haven’t heard any of that.

I think that’s awesome that you’re trying to learn.

Linux only indirectly has to do with programming. Linux is an operating system, like MacOS or Windows. An operating system is basically everything on your PC that’s not the apps, so the desktop, task bar, start menu, settings menu, … are all part of it. And of course a lot of stuff you cannot see because apps need a lot of ground work to function properly.

First let me say, you should bother. No matter if it clicks for you or it doesn’t, trying something new is always a good idea.

If you want to get into Linux, you can install it instead of windows / MacOS on one of your devices. Make sure to backup all your files beforehand of course. Then you download an ISO from a Linux distribution (the flavour of Linux you want). if you just want something that works, Linux mint is one of the most straightforward ones. You download a “.iso” for that. Then you use a tool like “Rufus” and a USB stick, and put your iso file on that USB stick. After that, you plug that into the PC you wanna put Linux on, reboot, and look for the USB stick in the boot menu (different on every PC). And then you will be guided through the installation of Linux mint. After that you should be done and when the PC shows your new Linux mint desktop, you are done and you can unplug your USB stick. So much for Linux.

Getting into programming is a little bit less of a process, and more logic puzzles to understand how code works. I would recommend you look at an easier language, for example python, learn the basics of that and then set your sails on an intermediate project. For example a Webserver can be a cool one.

I know Lemmy hates AIs but I also gotta mention every time you wanna learn something, ask AI all the small questions. I personally like the free Claude AI; especially when you start out with a new hobby an AI will be helpful 99% of the time.

But most of all, do it for fun, stop when it’s too frustrating, just keep going and stick to it for a while, everything else comes with time. You’ll quickly see if this is interesting to you or not, and I hope it is :)

Nuzlocke tourism

I kinda want one now

13 drive-by quick-access points

I wish your opinion was shared more.

I do music production. I’ve seen what AI can do, and for making a simple master of one of my demos AI is great. But everyone who has been there knows that the fun of making music comes from uniqueness. AI can’t do that, it can only riff on things known in its dataset.

I’m not worried at all, because this means the boring commercial music becomes less impressive, and unique and elaborate music becomes even more valuable. I’m cool with that; nothing of value is lost.

I get why people are freaked out, but most of the tangible issues come from greedy managers with a pinch of dunning-kruger, trying to replace workers. And that’s got almost nothing to do with AI and everything to do with assholes. There will be consequences, but people have to stick out this short-term chaos. And that’s the only thing I have empathy for in this.

Well that and unlicensed training because governments can’t get their shit together to enforce ethical guidelines for AI training & data collection practices.

I love that one can identify you by how unhinged your posts are. Delightful - welcome back.