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@ DFX4509B @lemmy.wtf

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So, this is the place where I'm going to be generally hanging out and trolling around, while my Pixelfed, Mastodon, and Blacksky accounts are going to be primarily art posting accounts, and I also have a Nooki account.

I'm also going to start to be active more on here than on lemmy.org, so I'm making this my primary Lemmy account now.

I'll link the other socials I'm varying levels of active on below, plus my lemmy.org account which I'm demoting to my secondary account if that instance is going to be more unstable from now on.

  • Simple Good crafts to try? What do you enjoy?

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  • Drawing or painting would be a good place to start, as well as being really fun on its own.

    Sculpture too, although some of the messier sculptural media like plaster or paper mache, or even pottery/ceramics, might set off sensory issues for some people, so that's something to be aware of.

    Collage/scrapbooking would be really simple to get into as well as you're just playing with cut or ripped paper at that point.

  • Which PeerTube instance would y'all recommend signing up to?

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  • I'm on peertube.wtf, but some other good instances include MakerTube if you're art or craft-focused, for example.

  • What are some fun hobbies to do as someone with autism?

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  • Any kind of art or crafts, although if you have sensory issues, you may not like some of the messier media, eg. like any sort of paints, or chalk or charcoal.

    I for the longest time as a kid had issues with getting anything goopy on me, for example, although I have since learned to manage that and now any water-based paints are really fun for me to play with and are one of my fave art media, my other faves being crayons, chalk, and oil pastels, but sensory issues with certain materials are something to be aware of, whether they're managed or not.

    Some people may have sensory issues with fumes from solvents used with oil paints as well, for example.

  • People online say old computers are prime candidates for repurposing into routers, is that actually a good idea security wise?

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  • Wouldn't that efficiency thing largely depend on what silicon you're using though? Like, for example, if you have an old AM1 board sitting around, those are 25W APUs and shouldn't use anywhere near that if used as the base for a router.

    Meanwhile if you're using, say, an AM3+ board and an FX-4300 for your router, the FX-4300 is a 95W part and more likely to cost more to run by contrast to, say, the Athlon 5350's 25W on AM1.

  • YouTube Bans Two Popular Channels That Created Fake AI Movie Trailers

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  • Less competition for Google's own slop, though, which is bad.

  • First highway segment in U.S. wirelessly charges electric heavy-duty truck while driving

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  • Great if it works, but I seriously doubt it's going to work.

  • X updates its terms, files countersuit to lay claim to the 'Twitter' trademark after newcomer's challenge

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    Librewolf, Waterfox or something else?

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  • Removed

    Librewolf, Waterfox or something else?

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  • The LibreWolf Browser has made it clear that they will never support generative AI

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  • Did you go to college, why or why not?

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  • I didn't because I just wasn't interested at the time, and now with how far universities in my country have fallen in the last 14 years, I feel pretty vindicated in that decision.

  • Did we learn nothing from Terminator? Skynet? Hello?

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  • Or even Mad Max for that matter, which is the more likely scenario to happen IRL the way things are going currently; Mad Max's apocalypse is caused by societal collapse due to people fighting over resources, guess what could happen IRL with AI datacenters using up most of the resources right now?

  • at what point in life it's too late to go back to school?

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  • You do not need fancy schools to learn new things.

    The one exception to that as I pointed out in my comment, are fields which are subject to regulations and actually do need formal training and licensing, like, as I also pointed out, you're not getting a CDL through a free course if you want to get into driving semis, for example.

  • at what point in life it's too late to go back to school?

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  • I'm siding with a lot of the other commenters on here, there's more ways to learn stuff than going back to school; even cheap or in some cases free classes both online and in person are a thing for instance.

    The one exception to that claim is anything that's regulated in some way/needs a license, eg. driving a semi (need a CDL for that), going into the HVAC business (need a license to handle refrigerants), etc, those you need to go to school for, but things which aren't subject to government regulations on some level can be learned with a free or cheap course.

  • What companies/projects are anti AI, so we can support them?

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  • Code generated by a large language model or similar technology, such as GitHub/Microsoft's Copilot, OpenAI's ChatGPT, or Facebook/Meta's Code Llama, is presumed to be tainted code, and must not be committed without prior written approval by core.

    While it is not prohibited to use AI as a learning aid or a development tool (i.e. code completions), extension developers should be able to justify and explain the code they submit, within reason.

    Submissions with large amounts of unnecessary code, inconsistent code style, imaginary API usage, comments serving as LLM prompts, or other indications of AI-generated output will be rejected.

    Although I prefer NetBSD's stricter ban on AI code over GNOME's, it's better than nothing on GNOME's side.

    Also, I hand-drew my pfp unlike one other commenter in here, and the original is pinned on my IRL wall right now, so that should hint at how I personally feel about AI.

    Update:

    As there seems to have been recent confusion about [AI integration into Firefox], just a quick "official" toot to then pin: we haven't and won't support "generative AI" related stuff in LibreWolf. If you see some features like that (like Perplexity search recently, or the link preview feature now) it is solely because it "slipped through". As soon as we become aware of something like this / it gets reported to us, we will remove/disable it ASAP.

    Waterfox also made an official stand against AI a bit after LibreWolf did.

  • Fascist At The Garden | Donald Trump spoke at Madison Square Garden — 85 years after a pro-Nazi rally at the arena had similar messages and themes.

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  • Trump Orders States Not to Protect Children From Predatory AI

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  • And also basically the entire Bill of Rights.

  • What is your choice for a dedicated Linux audio player?

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  • I came over to Fooyin from Foobar2k, so the UI translated right over.

  • Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox

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  • Just like I said in another post related to this, I hope this doesn't kill LibreWolf, IceCat, and Waterfox.

  • What is your choice for a dedicated Linux audio player?

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  • Fooyin's great so far.