rufus @ rufus @discuss.tchncs.de

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Yes. At the same time some aren't that sure or scared of death. And the rules are that detailed that lots of people have committed some kind of offense and can't expect to go to heaven for sure.

Also the bible has implemented some additional rules so you can't take a shortcut to heaven... Suicide won't do it because (surprise) it's a sin... And generally speaking god is just testing you with this life. That's kinda the only thing why it matters and why you would want to behave and live it like he intended.

Also there is martyrs, suicide cults etc taking that shortcut straight to heaven.

Hmm. I'd say if they want that feeling so much... Just give it to them. You can still pay taxes and do the accounting correctly and not tell them. This isn't how it's supposed to work, but there are lots of other relationships or families where someone keeps being childish and the other people need to do things behind their back to make things work.

(And the thing that really matters is you doing it right and being able to produce the invoice if being asked. Not that your relatives have that piece of paper.)

I think it's a combination of several factors. First of all there is the network effect. A social media platform gets interesting once there are enough people and we're just about 50.000 active users. Which isn't much compared to other forums, discord servers and fanbases of single individuals (streamers, ...)

Next there needs to be some motivation to join or some attention. We had that for a moment when the Reddit API thing happened. But I don't see that as of now. We need interesting content. And a nice and welcoming community. Or something that motivates people to come here.

And there is the technical issues. We've had lots of them. Federation broke for some time. There are still some bugs and user interface issues. Moderation tools still are an issue. Onboarding (choosing an instance, finding a good app) is a bit complicated. And I don't see big leaps in software development, things that are visible/obvious to the user.

It's the same as long as you watch your subscribed communities. Lemmy is federated and that means generally you have the same access to content regardless of which unstance you chose. I mean we also have individual moderation and "local" and "all" feeds. But I don't use them. It's just too random and uninteresting to scroll through everything.

I'd agree. Also Lemmy is too much just dropping news articles and discussing world politics for my taste. Maybe being just another comment feed underneath a news article isn't that engaging and interesting. I'd like to see more about hobbies and meaningful, sustainable talk about specific topics.

You can also do it like in Germany where we don't have "freedom of speech" but a freedom to express our opinions. Which doesn't include false factual statements about other people...

Nice article. Right on point.

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Agree. I've tried some of the use-cases that other people mentioned here. Like summarization, "online" search, tech troubleshooting, recipes, ... And all I've had were sub-par results and things that needed extensive fact-checking and reworking. So I can't really relate to those experiences. I wouldn't use AI as of now for tasks like that.

And this is how I ended up with fiction and roleplay. Seems to be better suited for that. And somehow AI can do small coding tasks. Like writing boiler-plate code and help with some of the more tedious tasks. At some point I need to feed another of my real-life problems to the current version of ChatGPT but I don't think it'll do it for me. And it can come up with nice ideas for stories. Unguided storywriting will get dull in my experience. I guess the roleplaying is nice, though.

Edit: And I forgot about translation. That also works great with AI.

I don't use it for daily tasks. I've been tinkering around with local LLMs for recreation. Roleplay, being my dungeon master in a text adventure. Telling it to be my "waifu". Or generating amateur short stories. At some time I'd like to practice my foreign language skills with it.

I haven't had good success with tasks that rely on "correctness" or factual information. However sometimes I have it draft an email for me or come up with an argumentation for a text that I'm writing. That happens every other week, not daily. And I generously edit and restructure it afterwards or just incorporate some of the paragraphs into my final result.

Sure. To prepare someone to become a responsible adult, they need information. Learn things good and bad. Understand especially WHY people do things and consequences of actions.

I mean if you exclude half the truth, your kids will not learn how to judge things and make decisions.

And things not being etically 100% correct is not a reason to hide them altogether. I mean my mom also reads murder mystery stories and murder is not okay... I think beginning with a certain age it is important to learn also about ambiguous stuff. It's part of life.

I suppose the license only counts after you aquired the program. Not before.

Free software means that the software's users have freedom. (The issue is not about price.)

Specifically, free software means users have the four essential freedoms: (0) to run the program, (1) to study and change the program in source code form, (2) to redistribute exact copies, and (3) to distribute modified versions.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html#selling

( https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html )

Hmm, regarding food... I'm not sure if there's anything. Some things I don't like, but we have multiple supermarkets with different store brands and usually there's at least one store brand somewhere that I don't exclude.

But laptops would be an example for me. I really like enterprise hardware more than a generic and slow Wallmart laptop made from cheap components. And it'll probably last me longer and be cheaper in the long run.

Hmm. Hobbies? Something that isn't part of the daily grind? Maybe take part in the capitalism for a while, save some money to move somewhere else? I heard there isn't much at least in the USA in between ultra capitalism and a cabin in the woods. But there might be somewhere else... Maybe a nice hacienda in Andalusia?

It depends on how "far from perfect" the bill is. I think most of the times it is wise to revise a bill before it gets passed because it becomes more complicated after that. You'd need a whole new bill for that, start at zero with that, and convince everyone that it's necessary to tackle the same issue yet again. Of course the role of the EFF also is to advocate for privacy and pick on them if they don't do it right, not agree. So they're bound to be negative about smaller issues with any proposed solution.

I see some valid concerns. There are several loopholes. Some things won't get protected. I think it's a bit strange that contractors can do whatever they want. And "pay-for-privacy" isn't what we should strive for. Sure, it aligns well with American ideology, but it only helps the rich and people with time at hand to care about such things, while exploiting the average Joe and 98% of the population.

And immediately introducing a mandatory ceiling is more caring for the big tech companies, than for the citizen.

(Edit: Related to the "pay-for-privacy: https://lemmy.world/post/14442251 )

I don't think I get it entirely. I googled "seedbox provider" and it seems it's just a VPS with a good amount of storage. I guess they do promise not to cooperate with law enforcement? Or are in other jurisdictions? Does that mean people can do other nefarious stuff on their machines? I mean it says "Dedicated IP"... If the IP doesn't change, they don't need to keep logs anyways, it'll be the same IP today as it was yesterday. And they don't even need to access any logs. They can just see what I torrented with that IP a few weeks ago and it'll still be the same and still tied to the VPS I rented...

I'm based in the EU. So my ISP is also not allowed to spy on my connections. However they will comply with law enforcement as will any normal hosting provider within the EU.

Ah, I get it. You operate it behind a VPN and the seedbox is just a means to get a 24/7 running Linux machine. I think I could do the same on my NAS at home. I mean it takes the same court order to reveal my identity whether it's my internet service provider or my hosting provider... And the VPN is the only thing protecting me if I were to torrent pirated stuff... Or am I missing something?

Thanks, that's a good idea to try.

Regarding the seedbox... I have a VPS and also a NAS at home. I can use any of that. But both are tied to my name and bank account. How do you people operate seedboxes? Are there providers that do that anonymously? Do you pay in crypto currency? Or how does that provide any benefit over using something that has my name and address on the contract?