Dr. Moose @ drmoose @lemmy.world

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I have an electric standing desk (converts in seconds) and imo it's extremely overrated and doesn't actually do anything.

The science behind this is extremely unconvincing other than "standing is fun sometimes" which is great but you shouldnt force yourself if it doesn't work for you.

What actually works - raise your monitor, lower your keyboard, get a vertical mouse, get a ergonomic keyboard with a track point, get compression socks if you're older and do some yin yoga / stretching. These things actually work. Just listen to your body as you can feel the exact strain and discomfort if you actually pay attention to it.

Also posture is not harmed through idle poses, you don't want to keep your back straight at all times - that's stupid. Main enemy of posture and all muscles is strain and this is fixed by stretching and exercise not standing with a straight back.

Yeah it's a safe in my office and I often go back to it for small projects so the stuff mostly works and in good contion just instead of a plastic box its a big ol' iron safe as a lazy precaution and decoration.

One note on safe as a Faraday though is that it has to be a full metal without any rubber seals as any gaps will leak so an old safe is often perfect for this. It also needs to be closed so you want to disable the lock as it's pita to use otherwise and you'll never touch the devices there.

As you pointed out key to sustainable tech is that it has to be used from time to time as if you just put it away in a basement or something it might as well be as good as dead.

Again you're just showing your ignorance how actually available this is to people outside of your immediate circle, maybe you should travel a bit and open up your mind.

You're showing your ignorance if you think the whole world has access to fit education. And I say fit because there's a huge difference learning from books made for Americans and AI tailored experiences just for you. The difference is insane and anyone who doesn't understand that should really go out more and I'll leave it at that.

Just the amount of frictionless that AI removes makes learning so much more accessible for huge percentage of population. I'm not even kidding, as an educator, LLM is the best invention since the internet and this will be very apparent in 10 years, you can quote me on this.

I generally pro AI but agree with the argument that having big tech hoard this technology is the real problem.

The solution is easy and right there in front of everyone's eyes. Force open source on everything. All datasets, models, model weights and so on have to be fully transparent. Maybe as far as hardware firmware should be open source.

This will literally solve every single problem people have other than energy use which is a fake problem to begin with.

Nobody talks how it highlights the success of capitalism either.

I live in SEA and AI is incredibly powerful here giving opportunity for anyone to learn. The net positive of this is incredible even if you think that copyright is good and intellectual property needs government protection. It's just that lop sided of an argument.

I think western social media is spoiled and angry and the wrong thing but fighting these people is entirely pointless because you can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into. Big tech == bad, blah blah blah.

I have an old safe where i keep some old tech and power banks - just junk really but the Faraday is enough for any solar flare and i think it looks cool. Not sure what good that would do if all cell towers and satellites are fried though. Even fiber is unlikely to operate as I imagine most switches are not secured.

Last time I did research on this I came out entirely unconvinced of value of prepping here. Just the usual water, gas stove and bags of rice is really best bet and invest everything else back to local communities because economies of scale kicks ass.

He probably will and we'll have a big ol' party!

Its pretty easy but takes time just like any machine operation.

They say that they'll upload the system prompt to github but that's just deception. The Twitter algorithm is "open source on github" and hasn't been updated for over 2 years. The issues are a fun read tho https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/issues

There's just no way to trust that anything is running on the server unless it's audited by 3rd party.

So now all of these idiots going to believe "but its on github open source" when the code is never actually being run by anyone ever.

100% didn't happen

Yeah I don't remember the last time I pirated a game but Denuvo just gives me an ick and I'd rather not.

Nah the points are laughably easy to game even in centralized reddit since this moderation aspect never made any sense. As if bad actors can't upvote themselves, buy upvotes or just repost any random garbage to /r/funny.

Its a terrible system that turned Reddit into a content desert. Once you decline some new person because "they dint have enough karma" they're never trying to contribute again and you end up with power users who have a moat around content production.

Shared moderation lists already do all of this in an actually functional way. You can subscribe to Bob's list of douchebags and have the client block them. This is something bluesky added quite recently but it already exists on fediverse to instance admins tho afaik not individual users yet.

Of course getting real data here is very difficult but I really do feel its becoming very easy to be a pirate.

I can only share my anecdotes that I see right now - if I type in "iptv" to the main e-commerce websites here in Thailand (Lazada, Shopee, tiktok) all have hundreds of listings and thousands of monthly sales. Iptv piracy tech UX is very similar to Plex or Jellyfin tho the latter is more expensive to run and more legally challenging but the UX from the customers pov is identical. Buy a subscription, get account details and app install instructions, connect and watch. So UX is not the barrier here imo.

There are also tools inspired by popcorn time like Stremio + Torrentio which is basically pirate netflix with no UX overhead at all - click and play - but the quality still isn't great there due to lack of p2p supply and the install process is not accessible to grannies.

As an ancient pirate myself, this does worry me a bit as it's becoming too easy and corporate services are really pushing the consumers which brings way too much attention to piracy and might result in more DRM shit being added everywhere.

Got banned for saying that "Israelis should have Netanyahus head on a pike"

If you ever wondered whether Israel has influence over reddit there's that. I really dont see how this could be "advocating for violence" level of ban worthy offense.

I've then tried the same message with other world leaders and no bans yet tho I've only tried a few so far. Maybe someone wants to donate some reddit accounts for this experiment.

But with Jellyfin you don't necessarily need to do that yourself. You can have a friend with a server or pay some shady dude 5$/mo to use his server.

Yes, to effectively use AI you actually have to understand the medium you're in to describe the problem you're trying to solve. You can get there with prompting but it'll take you much longer if you just don't understand code yourself.

Thats why most senior software devs are not afraid of LLMs cause they need strong oversight and thats exactly what years of software dev experience trained you to do.

I recently setup my own Jellyfin server with qbittorent search plug-ins and its so easy. Netflix is really playing with fire here cause people will leave when pushed enough as it's becoming so easy to switch. You can just hop on your friends server too

Sounds like a skill issue my dude. While you struggle to get a js script people are putting out entire programs with AI assistants so sure - you're right and they're wrong

Sure but that's not how free markets work. If there's only 3 million consumers you can't afford 3 million voice actors but you can afford 3 million AI renders.