gandalf_der_12te @ gandalf_der_12te @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Well, you could argue that computer chips are photolithography and therefore, in some sense, "written in stone", i guess.

"silberzunge" miss brainfart z.b.

bist du nicht eh in mia's gruppenchat? dann kennst du sie ja

o.O du verarscht mich jetzt oder? noch so'n cutie das aus deutschland stammt. Ich wohne in Wien ;-)

woag you speak german (gasp)

where are you from?

actually i think it kinda is nice and easy to do, i'm just too lazy/cheap to rent a server with 8GB of RAM, even though it would only cost $15/month or sth.

well yeah if you look at it like that, then it might seem so. but they're underestimating exponential growth

sources for the pictures: the first two are from ourworldindata.org, the last one is a plot i made my self, based on the extrapolation in the third picture.

i think termux is probably already the best way to go, it ensures linux-like flexibility, i guess. but yeah, properly wiring it up, with a nice Graphical User Interface, would be nice, i guess.

Edit: now that i think about it, i guess running it on some server that you rent, is maybe better, because then you can access that chat log from everywhere, and also, it doesn't drain your battery so much. But then, you need to rent a server, so, idk.

Edit again: Actually, somebody should hook up the DeepSeek chatbot to Matrix chat, so you can message it directly through your favorite messaging protocol/app.

edit again: (one hour later) i tried setting up deepseek 8b model on my rented server, but it doesn't have enough RAM. i tried adding swap space, but it doesn't let me. I figured out that you can't easily add swap space in a container. somehow, there seems to be a reason to that. too tired to explore further. whatever.

trickle down economy or sth

free public toilets

aka bushes

come to our matrix chat room where we discuss how to enable the fediverse for new users:

https://matrix.to/#%2F%21HRTxgrqbAUWGBZTsRX%3Amatrix.org%3Fvia=catgirl.cloud&via=matrix.org&via=tchncs.de

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as GNU/Linux, is in fact, systemd/GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, systemd plus GNU plus Linux. GNU/Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning systemd init system made useful by the systemd daemons, shell utilities and redundant system components comprising a full init system as defined by systemd itself.

Many computer users run a modified version of the systemd init system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of systemd which is widely used today is often called GNU/Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the systemd init system, developed by the Red Hat.

There really is a GNU/Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the init system they use. GNU/Linux is the os: a collection of programs that can be run by the init system. The operating system is an essential part of an init system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete init system. GNU/Linux is normally used in combination with the systemd init system: the whole system is basically systwmd with GNU/Linux added, or systemd/GNU/Linux. All the so-called GNU/Linux distributions are really distributions of systemd/GNU/Linux!

Yes, it is possible. I think it will be something like this:

image source

where proprietary software will eventually be replaced by FOSS software. it just takes a while (Linux was released in 1991).

also, for social media, it's not so much about the software used, more about who controls it, and hosting plays a significant part in this. the question is, how do we put up an organization large enough to actually sustain that many users?

who pays for image/short video upload for a billion people? small instances on the fediverse already cost real money. feddit.org has 1000 users and reportedly already costs $1000/month to host, IIRC (which seems expensive, even to me, anyways), and catbox.moe, which is a donation-funded service also costs around $1000 (says so on their website). that number would obviously increase sharply if there were more users. So: who pays for it?

i, too, have :3 in the .bashrc

step 1: download the iso

step 2: insert the round thing into your drive?

yeah you're right, i've also been thinking about developments in a parallel universe a lot.

i cannot convince myself that the universe is purely deterministic because the universe is huge (it literally includes all things in existence); surely some of all those things must have non-deterministic behavior!

I have started to think of it as deterministic behavior being actually pretty rare, with just a few things which we can actually predict reliably about the future and a huge sea of chance! It fits my intuition nicely. I must and will investigate these things into a lot of detail, for sure. I'm especially intrigued by seeing the world as a network of events, where deterministic connections run like trails through the network. It's interesting to see the structure of it all.

Thank you for taking the patience to put this into words so nicely! I really appreciate your perspective. Maybe I was being too rude calling Republicans "dumb", I apologize. I guess I'm just as angry as many other people at seeing the proposed Republican plans (especially "slashing public spending" a.k.a. reducing social welfare) and seeing people actually vote for that.

Yeah, people in the US want change. I'm not sure what would be a productive and viable proposal that doesn't completely fuck up the country. I'm European and have a non-interference policy for myself when it comes to the internals of the US. In other words, I don't want to meddle too much with what's going on in the US.

Just curious but are we heading towards an "eat the rich" society?

I guess we should be, but that's just my personal opinion.

Realistically, no. The people have clearly expressed how dumb they are and what they desire in the November election. They want dumb Republicans, they get asshole CEOs. I don't see it any other way.

Honestly, I believe voting is the best way to bring change about a society that wants to change. It's just that I have given up the thought that the US wants to change in the direction that I would go. So no, it's not gonna happen.

In real life I think a similar situation holds. First we have to make a distinction between a system having randomness; a completely unpredictable outcome and being chaotic; where the outcome is theoretically predictable but varies significantly with even tiny changes in input.

Yes, thank you for putting it so nicely into words. I was already aware of that distinction.

I'm studying physics right now and trying to organize my thoughts around that. I remember we talked about some mechanical contraption that exhibits non-deterministic (i.e. purely random) behavior due to the equations of motion having non-unique solution. If I remember correctly, it was a kind of "knife standing on its tip right at the edge of a cliff"-edge condition. There's two solutions to that: It stands still or it falls down. There's two distinctly different solutions because the equations of motion are non-continuous, i.e. even for the tiniest change in position, the net force changes from 0 to 1g.

Apart from that, there's some more "pure random" stuff that I'm investigating into right now, like quantum stuff (as you mentioned). But there's at least one more example that I'd like to think about:

A human/robot cannot fully predict their own future. That is because if they could, they could become aware of it and decidedly act against it. For example, if I predict that I will eat an avocado tomorrow, I might stop myself from doing that. So the prediction becomes wrong. In a certain sense, therefore one cannot predict their own actions. This isn't due to a lack in accuracy, but it's fundamentally impossible. I guess. Let me hear your thoughts! Your words are calm and collected; you seem to know stuff.

Btw, off topic; do you believe in true randomness? In other words, do you think that certain physics processes simply have an unpredictable outcome? (I'm asking because your response implies "No", but I believe it is "yes".)

that makes sense, yeah