A software developer and Linux nerd, living in Germany. I’m usually a chill dude but my online persona doesn’t always reflect my true personality. Take what I say with a grain of salt, I usually try to be nice and give good advice, though.
I’m into Free Software, selfhosting, microcontrollers and electronics, freedom, privacy and the usual stuff. And a few select other random things, too.
But terminal access also kind of invalidates the WebUI requirement. If you have a terminal open anyways, you could as well just do eject -t && handbrake-cli ... && eject and skip all the switching to the browser and clicking on things… That’d close the tray, rip the DVD and spit it out when finished, all in one line. At least that’s what I would do.
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We keep them separate for a reason. These posts get zero engagement and just litter the place. Almost no one likes them.
Plus we already have Reddit. Everyone wanting to read Reddit posts can just go there. And that even allows you to interact with the posts. The bridges here don’t even show the comments. And if you engage with the discussion, you just waste your time because that doesn’t appear on Reddit. Maybe enhance the bridge first, have it do comments as well and be both directions. We can talk after that.
But please don’t turn this place into a bot dumpster. We’re trying to have a good time here.
Do you mean something like a phone or a computer? What’s the question?
There are people out there without any kind of conscience or memorse. If they can somehow make a profit, they’ll sell somehing to you or anyone who is willing to listen.
I don’t think we are. I mean in the old times, newspapers used to be published once a day. And you’d have the evening news on TV. And it kind of aligns with daily rituals. You can read it with your morning ciffee, or grab it on your way to work…
These days you can read news whenever you want. And they’re there almost immediately. Plus a lot of people use social media to share news articles. So it doesn’t really follow any cycle.
Speaking more generally, people like to stay in the loop. Things are most interesting when they just happened, not 20 days later… And attention works in a strange way in the age if the internet anyways… You’re always available, or someplace else. Notifications pop up all day. And we check our phone like 200 times a day to check on arbitrary things.
I’d say read a magazine, if you want bi-weekly or monthly updates. The articles in there are more nuanced and interesting anyways. And magazines are a thing and kind of made for that.
I think so, too. I mean we also have human authors end up at a random camping site somewhere in Europe in the 70s and come up with the random idea of writing “The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy”. Either we allow randomness to inspire a novel. Or we’d need to say a lot of old novels aren’t original ideas either.
I think it’s impossible then. My experience aligns with these recommendations. First tell it to come up with interesting story ideas. Then pick one. Have it write an outline. Have it come up with story arcs, subplots and a general structure. Chapter names… Then tell it to write the chapters individually, factoring in the results from before. Once it trails off or writes short chapters, edit the text and guide it back to where you want it to be.
It’ll just write bad and maybe short stories unless you do that. I mean you could theoretically automate this. Write a program with some AI agent framework that instructs it to do the individual tasks, have it reflect on itself, always feed back what it came up with and include it in the next task.
I’ve tried doing something like that and I don’t think there is a way around this. Or you do it like the other people and just tell it “Generate a novel” and be fine with whatever result it will come up with. But that just won’t be a good result.
I don’t know which one of them is good, but I’ve seen like a dozen or so online services, mostly for roleplay / virtual girl/boyfriend stuff etc. They’re paid, though. Or you can pay openrouter (more general LLM connector, also paid). I’m not sure if you’re looking for something like that or something free. They’re definitely out there and available to the public.
It’s mostly OpenAI, Microsoft etc who have free services, but they’re limited in what they’ll talk about. And there is one free community project I’m aware of: that would be AI Horde. It’s mostly for images but offers text, too. I haven’t used it in a while, not sure how/if it works.
Aldi Talk. Mainly because it was cheap, prepaid and I used to buy my groceries at Aldi anyways. I don’t need an expensive contract.
That’s kind of the important question… We know it sends audio on request, if you trigger it somehow. But does it transmit anything clandestinely in the background? And does it suppress any microphone icons from showing up? I believe that’s where disassembly and sniffing network traffic come into play.
Btw, It’s a lot more pronounced here on the internet. Since it’s a filter bubble. If you dive into the real world, you’ll find a lot of males also have healthy lives, a lot of hobbies, they’re going out with friends, playing football once a week etc. I mean it’s certainly there, and a big issue in society. All I want to say is, don’t just look at some social media and draw conclusions from that. The perspective here is heavily skewed and making it look more desperate than it is.
Btw, I think it’s pretty much accepted fact that smartphones do spy on everyone. It’s the main business model of any big tech company. Google, Meta… They definitely have algorithms to tailor their targeted ads to someones personal profile. And per default they look at what you’re doing online all day. Keep track of your location if they can… The one thing that’s unclear is whether they use the microphone and also listen to your offline conversations. My main point being: Listening in with the microphone isn’t that far off. If you feel uncomfortable with that, you might want to re-consider a few other things as well.
With the scientific method and anecdotal evidence: kind of never. It’s illegitimate to draw that conclusion, this way.
You got to dig down to the facts. Or we can just tell the fact that a lot of people feel that way. And I mean “confirmation bias” is a very good explanation. We also have thousands of people believe in esoterics, homeopathy etc. The mechanics of psychology are well-understood. And it’s kind of the reason why we invented science in the first place. Because we found things aren’t always as they seem. And there are a lot of dynamics to factor in.
If we want to get to the truth, we have to do a proper study. I’m not an expert on this, so I don’t know if we got to that, yet. I know people have demonstrated this is technically possible. But as far as I’m aware people have also taken apart a few of the major apps like Facebook etc, logged the traffic and couldn’t find anything that uses microphone data to do targeted advertising.
Conclusion: It’s either not there, or we missed it.
I mean we have countless Reddit stories where someone’s dog or grandma died that day, and while groceries shopping someone tells them “hey, a beautiful girl like you should smile”.
That’s just an a**hole move. You don’t know anything about that person. Maybe they’re not smiling for a reason. I’d say it is very likely that this might be the case… Otherwise they’d probably already smile… And people keep forcing themselves on other people and telling them what to do. Like smile. When it’s really none of their business and very intrusive.
Leave them be. Everyone is entitled to feel. Sometimes people are happy and sometimes they’re not. It’s not however their job to smile for you.
And if it’s a medical condition or they were born with what people call a “resting bitch face”… You’re just rubbing it in and be the 500th person who did a negative comment on their looks.
Difficult to judge. Could be confirmation bias, as well. Meaning you got ads for flight befores. But you were not paying attention to them at that point. Which changed after your session and now you think these are connected. (Or you looked something up about that location and that kicked it off.)
These are the usual findings in the rare cases people are able to trace it back and they write some article or podcast about it. Mainly confirmation bias. And once you interact with one ad that got you taken aback, you’re trapped.
Doesn’t rule out other possibilities, though. I guess what I’m trying to say is, this counts more as anecdotal evidence. And we have plenty stories like this. It’s not enough to infer anything. More a reminder to investigate some more.
And yes, it’s good practice to keep your phone someplace else when you’re having protected/confidential conversations. Smartphones are very complex and they certainly have the potential to spy on you. In fact we know a lot of the apps and computer code is meant to analzye your behaviour and transfer that information to third parties.
I don’t comment on YouTube videos and that solves the issue for me. The comments are often crap anyways. So I don’t think I’m missing out on anything.
Just put a big sports ground in the back. That tends to have a fence anyways. You can leave the front an open area with buildings to each side. That’ll provide another barrier without looking like a prison.
I think we can see the consequences pretty clearly. Look at the society in countries like the USA where people are deeply divided and can’t talk to each other. And where politics etc isn’t about facts anymore, but politicians just invent arbitrary things which are 99% wrong but get to the people. Where nothing is about doing some sane thing, but just becoming more and more extemist.
We’ve had bots, filter bubbles, algorithms etc for quite some time now. I’d say about 10 years. This isn’t something fundamentally new, just the next step that will accellerate things further.
If it’s your son, I’d go with you need to take interest in them as a person. Idk I found it’s not too hard to relate to people. While we’re all very different, it’s often the same underlying things that are important to us. Plus, if you’re talking to a mildly intelligent person, you’ll often find it’s not too hard to keep a conversation going. Find out why they like it. What’s so special about that hobby. Learn something about it and broaden your horizon. Maybe there’s something to it. And it goes both ways… If they’re open to (new things) maybe they like to listen to you talking about woodworking. Or you can combine the hobbies and create something korean on the lathe (I’m making this up. But that should be possible with some topics, if you want to bond and spend some time together.)
We discussed this briefly a few days ago. No one understands why Mozilla likes to waste their time and money on random sideprojects that nobody likes or asked for… Instead of something useful, or the things lots of people ask them to do.
And summarization is among the worst things you can do with LLMs. I’m not against AI, but they’re really not good at this specific thing. I’m not sure if people will use it anyways, but I think this project is a waste of resources.