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@ lung @lemmy.world

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Expert developer, Buddhist

  • Retro Messenger (Is there anything else a messenger could need?)

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  • I don't really see a market need for this, just use signal. C++ is also a weird language to use in the modern era, pretty much totally eclipsed by Go or Rust, not that you need performance anyway. Or just use webrtc for p2p connections with a standard TURN/STUN relay for network layouts that prevent direct p2p, this can be done pure web or via apps. Already has audio/video and encryption. XMPP and Matrix are also fine. But as a learning exercise, great project

  • The White House ballroom will never be built

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  • Uhh idk about this article, it meanders randomly around various failings of the president (sure) but building a big room in 3 years with a ton of money available seems totally doable

  • Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog

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  • It's interesting that signal was partially funded by the American govt international propaganda wing (radio free Asia parent) early on. So I mean, not totally wrong. Though of course I'm a big fan of signal and it's developers

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    how did you choose your career?

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  • Do a philosophy minor if you have any affinity for it. Do a major in something that pays. Use that set of big picture critical thinking + a decent fallback plan to secure yourself. Then decide later in life what you love to do

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  • I think it's pretty worthwhile being paranoid about Tor. Not because of hackers, but because of the government, they are clearly watching all the forums and markets there very closely, setting up agents and honeypots. Tor itself may or may not be secure, you never really know for sure. For pretty much all legal privacy usecases, a VPN is enough, and much more performant

  • Good advice

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  • Install this sign into your home to automate gaslighting your partner

  • IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending trillions on AI data centers will pay off at today's infrastructure costs

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  • I really don't understand why lemmy hates ai so much. I get massive productivity gains every day from AI. I agree with this exec that we probably won't hit AGI using current tech or maybe ever, but we still have:

    • incredibly useful image generation that dramatically speeds up the work of designers
    • coding agents that, when used skillfully, generate usable code, and review code pretty well in PRs
    • suno, which can generate stems that my musician friends are regularly using instead of having to hunt through the Internet for days for the right trumpet melody

    How this translates to profit is unclear since there is a race to the bottom, companies are choosing to give away the tech to gain market share rn, but the technology is undeniably useful, and already rolled out inside of every major tech company

  • It just came to my mind..... An open ended question..... Can computers really think ???

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  • There's a whole school of philosophy that has argued about this for ... Well forever, but especially the last 100 years, the philosophy of mind. The problem is definition: what does it mean to think. Some may argue that it requires consciousness, but then the problem of definition is what the hell is consciousness?

    So on the trivial side, yes, of course computers can think, if thoughts are nothing special. Computers have states, they can react to and inspect their own states. Is that thinking? LLMs use something like neural networks modeled after the mind to generate streams of words, and encode knowledge and concepts using statistics. Is that thinking?

    On the other side, well no, computers don't think because they don't have souls. Are souls real? Or maybe there's more to human thinking than just neural networks, like quantum effects? Or more complexity due to chemical biology? Is the ability to answer a question the same thing as understanding a concept (see Chinese room experiment)?

    These are the questions that philosophers love to masturbate with, publish many papers on, and make no real progress towards. Definitions are funny like that

  • Rybbit - Open source Google Analytics replacement

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  • Wow holy crap, great work - the world badly needs this. Im assuming the mechanism is the same, you inject a js script into your site. I'm also very interested in pure server side solutions for analytics, but they can't hit all the features you did in a generic way afaik

  • Is Android really the next big desktop operating system?

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  • Might as well just run Linux at that point and if you want android apps, waydroid. The value prop of Chromebooks was supposed to be that you can just factory reset it at any point and log back in

  • What do you think is the best course of action to address cult movements, either as a whole or on an individual level?

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  • Yeah sure you can do that but people won't listen. What I mean by thought police is actually doing policing, like "no you can't say that or we will arrest you" which goes against the idea of freedom of speech. It's reminiscent of when ussr was jailing karate teachers

  • What do you think is the best course of action to address cult movements, either as a whole or on an individual level?

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  • Yeah you can't do a thought police

  • What do you think is the best course of action to address cult movements, either as a whole or on an individual level?

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  • Yeah, the situation got resolved when harm came in. You gotta commit an actual crime to be punished right? I'm familiar with the documentary and actually have friends who continue to be followers of Osho's teachings. It's not all bad, there was a lot of very good outcomes for some people's health and wellness there too, the documentary frames it as a situation where the second in command basically drugged him and became an egomaniac. Shit happens. When evaluating cults, which are basically just small religions, the best criteria is about how much they help their constituents and community vs how much do they demand from them. It's worth noting that many of the cults of America's past were more Christian branded and became gigantic, with some mix of outcomes. But the alternative of not allowing people to express the freedoms of religion and speech would be much worse in my opinion

  • What do you think is the best course of action to address cult movements, either as a whole or on an individual level?

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  • We don't, that's what freedom of religion means. If it gets overly militant or political, then there are already mechanisms that come and raid and disband them, which we have seen many times in the history of America

  • Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation

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  • The mind while lucid dreaming is creating a whole environment, which for some people has incredible level of detail. Your "consciousness" is experiencing a whole video game or whatever, which must be simulated to be percieved. Imagine you had some kind of really advanced VR setup and body suit that could touch your senses very richly - something must be feeding that perception, a simulation

  • Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation

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  • People who are lucid dreaming simulate a full reality that's nearly indistinguishable from the one they find themselves in during waking time. If your brain can't tell the difference during this time, how can you be sure you're not dreaming right now reading this?

    The scope of what a simulation is has always been limited by the technology we know. It is only a failing of imagination and knowledge to assume that algorithmic computation is the only valid form of simulation in the future, these have existed for barely 100 years, but even Plato's cave was talking about the larger philosophical problem

  • Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation

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  • This is such a boring take, I wonder how anyone gets funding or publication making a statement as useless as "see godels incompleteness theorem that proves that there's more truth than what mathematics can prove, therefore reality is not a simulation". Yes, we know, you don't need a PhD to know the major theorem that took down the entire school of logical positivism. The fundamental philosophical error here is assuming that all forms of simulation are computational or mathematical. Counterexample: your dreams are a form of simulation (probably). So I can literally disprove this take in my sleep

  • Why can't we (states) ignore clock changes without the federal government? The federal government doesn't seem to care about standing laws.

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  • Hawaii already doesn't do DST ... Since 1967

  • Bosses really want AI to work, because they really, really want to fire you.

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  • I think people need to chill the fuck out with this narrative. When the industrial revolution came, I'm sure everyone said "now the rich factory workers don't need craftsmen anymore!!". The world was fine, people still have jobs today. The jobs change. The market for software, for example, is nearly unlimited - you COULD fire some staff and do the same amount of stuff that you were doing, or you could DO MORE and expand the business

  • Linux @lemmy.world
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    Linux: the only OS that uses less disk space after an update?

  • Neovim @programming.dev
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    Showing off my new alien spaceship themed tabby.nvim setup :D (feat. neovide, fzf, airline, markview)

    streamable.com /vwxo2i
  • Neovim @programming.dev
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    compiler.nvim: language aware compile menu

  • Neovim @programming.dev
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    hypersonic.nvim: overlay window helps you write regexes

  • Neovim @programming.dev
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    Applying to be a mod

    reddit.com /u/hugelung