Semperverus

When you and your wife send pics over KDE Connect instead is a powerful moment. Still requires one phone to connect to the other over hotspot or be on the same network at home, but its slick otherwise.

Wow thats an old meme

I dunno if you know this but SMS support got removed from Signal a few years ago

Its still better than any new chat protocol thats been made in the last decade. You’ll have to pry my family XMPP server out of my cold dead hands.

Great! Now I can listen to my PinePods on my PineBuds which I store in my PinePod that they came with.

Meshcore also has a paid license to use the full feature set and if Plex has taught us anything, it’s to stay away from garbage like that. I’ll stick to Meshtastic, thank you.

Slavery’s gonna be back on the menu (explicitly, and I don’t mean wage slavery or prison slavery)

Ivermectin suddenly seems like a viable cure

Everything is artificially inflated by 1.7x to 2.4x ever since covid. The inflation you are seeing is not real inflation but rather manufactured by those in high-up positions at most fortune-500 companies.

The fossify apps are legit, I use them daily.

This is the same or similar situation as OpenOffice → LibreOffice or OwnCloud → NextCloud (and to a lesser extent but more similar scenario, Audacity → Tenacity or various other forks).

This is what true open source looks like in action.

People are always angry and confused when i call MIT a grifter license

“All I want for Christmas, is youUuuu!”

I wish we would all start switching over to JSON for configuration files. It’s so much easier to parse, and you can’t screw it up with too many spaces or not enough.

My argument is incredibly simple:

YOU exist. In this universe. Your brain exists. The mechanisms for sentience exist. They are extremely complicated, and complex. Magic and mystic Unknowables do not exist. Therefore, at some point in time, it is a physical possibility for a person (or team of people) to replicate these exact mechanisms.

We currently do not understand enough about them yet to do this. YOU are so laser-focused on how a Large Language Model behaves that you cannot take a step back and look at the bigger picture. Stop thinking about LLMs specifically. Neural-network artificial intelligence comes in many forms. Many are domain-specific such as molecular analysis for scientific research. The AI of tomorrow will likely behave very different from those of today, and may require hardware breakthroughs to accomplish (I don’t know that x86_64 or ARM instruction sets are sufficient or efficient enough for this process). But regardless of how it happens, you need to understand that because YOU exist, you are the prime reason it is not impossible or even unfeasible to accomplish.

This argument feels extremely hand-wavey and falls prey to the classic problem of “we only know about X and Y that exist today, therefore nothing on this topic will ever change!”

You also limit yourself when sticking strictly to narrow thought experiments like the Chinese room.

If you consider the human brain, which is made up of nigh-innumerable smaller domain-specific neural nets combined together with the frontal lobe, has consciousness, this absolutely means that it is physically possible to replicate this process by other means.

We noticed how birds fly and made airplanes. It took many, MANY Iterations that seem excessively flawed by today’s standards, but were stepping stones to achieve a world-changing new technology.

LLMs today are like DaVinci’s corkscrew flight machine. They’re clunky, they technically perform something resembling the end goal but ultimately in the end fail the task they were built for in part or in whole.

But then the Wright brothers happened.

Whether sentient AI will be a good thing or not is something we will have to wait and see. I strongly suspect it won’t be.

EDIT: A few other points I wanted to dive into (will add more as they come to mind):

AI derangement or psychosis is a term meant to refer to people forming incredibly unhealthy relationships with AI to the point where they stop seeing its shortcomings, but I am noticing more and more that people are starting to throw it around like the “Trump Derangement Syndrome” term, and that’s not okay.

PirateSoftware vs a pack of rabid carebears would make for excellent entertainment.

Your very first Wayland link proves you wrong

Third Sanctuary from Deltarune by Toby Fox.

There’s a lot of emotional investment in that song at the moment. And the ringtone is just the very first riff on repeat, as that part sounds like an actual ringtone (wondering if that’s on purpose)

This song is famous for having an absolutely insane time signature that somehow works, as shown in this visualizer: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=De0FDShxgrs

I heard this in HabitualLinecrosser’s voice

Two thumbs