I don’t think it’s my favourite, but a bit ago Tidal played “Mein Gott hat den Längsten” from Alligatoah for me. A rap song basically how his God has the biggest … He reads between the lines of scripture and signals for his God with a pile of dead people. And all the plundering and murdering shows salvation to people and makes them blessed.
Not exactly atheism, more anti-religion. Songs has a lot of text and proceeds from Islam over Christianity to death cults.

I still wonder if this will awaken some people because they’re adding way to much bad stuff all at once. Or if it’s like with social media, society, dating, freedom… Where people will just accept how it’s all become worse and they’re miserable now.

Good question. maybe I was wrong, I’ve used Debian for so long, I’ll either just update it or use the advanced installer… It’s certainly on the installation media now. Not sure if it copies it over to the system. Would make sense, though if it did…

Goes well with all the ads and annoyances in their TVs… But seriously, can’t wait for Gemini in the fridge, Cortana in the next LG TV update… 😑 Still need Siri in the trash bin and a loo enhanced with Alexa.

Good luck! And don’t forget to add the non-free-firmware repo and maybe the other additional ones if you need them. A standard Debian comes without. And if you’re following an old tutorial, that might not cover the split between non-free and non-free-firmware which happened somewhat recently in Debian terms. Their own documentation is good and up to date, though.

Sure. Working on manifesting the robot apocalypse, total surveillance states with dystopian predictive policing etc …probably a risky bet. Don’t need a PhD to arrive at that conclusion.

I don’t think we need conditional sentences when talking about this. These platforms exist. Just go there and have a look. I’ve scrolled a bit through farcaster.xyz and maybe one or two others. And there are a lot of them which got passed around and failed.

The far-right sure loves their identity politics. Shitting on “wokeness” for years but they’re big time into the same game. Just that they’re not concerned with repressed people or minorities and their recognition. They like white males.

Not really a ‘not the onion’ article though, for people who know how fascism operates.

Not a scientist or geologist. But I can recommend the Wikipedia article about Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Or one of the TV documentaries about the ice core drillings in the Antarctic.

Trump diversified. He’s in the crypto bubble as well and big time in to corruption. He mainly wastes taxpayer money on AI. I don’t think it’ll affect his private money too much. Musk won’t like it, though 😆

Huh, okay. Glad they’re not mainstream where I live. All the megachurches, pastors with private jets and golden bathtubs, fanatics swinging God hates … signs and trying to expedite doom… look like lunatics to me. And I happen to know they also look like maniacs to the vast majority of Christians who live here.
I think longing for doom -however- has always been a thing. Afaik early Christians also thought Christ would return any day now and they’ll see doomsday within their lifetime. Didn’t happen in the almost 2000 years since. And I believe Islam has basically the same story Christianity is supposed to have, where everyone else doesn’t stay around, but gets sent to eternal fire.

Thanks. Today I learned what the rapture is… Doesn’t that contradict with how the apocalypse is portrayed in the Bible? With all the the signs of the end times. Antichrist coming out, raining blood, earthquakes. An angel in each of the four courners of the world playing trumpet. And on the eighth day every human gets to die? Probably in a very painful way? Wasn’t that good enough for evangelical Christians, so they came up with their own story of end times? Or do they read different scripture than what I was taught in a Catholic upbringing?

I mean people like Peter Thiel are already working on manifesting a mechanized version of doomsday. Preferably soon. And he’s talking about the Antichrist all day…

Nice thing is, as a hypocrite you can mix and match. It’s literal if you need it this way, and an allegory and your interpretation once you need to hate on transgender people. Also the politician who looks like the Bible’s literal description of the Anti-Christ can be your messiah.

I mean it’s made up in the first place, so why bring in logic? Just be loud and proud and advocate for your perspective. The supposed teachings of Jesus in that old book are just an annoyance, aren’t they? I mean that’s all about being nice to people and do the right thing. God replacing all the hate and tribalism with a New Covenant… Who tf wants that?

It’s ethanol. The same denatured alcohol my grandma used to do the final step of window-cleaning with. I have Isopropyl as well, but I use that sparingly since I can’t just grab another bottle of that at the supermarket. So for me it’s simple ethanol for the cleaning and I’ll dump it in the windscreen wiper tank of the car (mixed with water). And the Isopropyl is for cleaning electronics and PCBs. And I’d have to look it up, but I think it’s way more pure than 70%… It evaporates from the PCBs after a few seconds with no residue… The ethanol from the supermarket doesn’t do that. And I wouldn’t expect 30% of water to evaporate that quickly either.

Isopropyl really is a godsend, though. Someone will dump a glass of apple juice or Coca Cola into my TV remote control… And after 15 minutes of ranting about how no engineer uses screws anymore, I’ll somehow get the thing open, and thanks to the alcohol it’s good as new a few minutes later.

Interestingly enough, even the simpler things like removing the censoring of certain countries’ videos still look super wonky. I mean removing that mosaic is something I figure quite some people would be interested in. Yet technology doesn’t seem advanced enough to do it properly. And I’ve had a look at what people do with the video generators, and they’ve made quite some advancements. Pulling off clothes kinda works now. But it’s still fairly limited in all other aspects. They do a short clip of one specific thing. And seems they’re limited to one movement type and you’d need the next customized model for the next thing that happens. And then also make sure the people in the video look alike… Do 20 tries until those 5sec look somewhat realistic… And those clips don’t line up well. Fluids don’t seem to work, I have no clue whether they have some control over facial expressions or whatever is important when “acting” like realistic humans… I bet we’re still a bit away from it generating a video of “the act” from start to finish… I’d also predict this is a good use-case for generative AI, though. I mean why not? And it’ll lead to all kinds of issues, like the ability to generate videos of celebrities, other not-okay things… But all the human-made 30s clips aren’t really high quality to begin with either. So it shouldn’t be too hard for AI to get a foot in the door of the porn market.

But if there’s really 2-3 min videos out there like you said, I’d like to see them. Just for research purposes… Because all I’ve seen is longer videos with one thing repeating but nothing really happens. Or people stitching together clips, but they’ll be doing a million cuts to entirely different camera angles or narration to hide how all the clips aren’t really consistent.

Yeah, the stuff I clean with or defrost the car with, has 96% written on it. (Edit: And “Everclear” sounds like something to be used on a car windshield…)

Today I learned there’s weird 16th century units for alcohol as well 😆 For reference, it’s supposed to have 70 to 80. And a hundred means a beverage can be set on fire at a defined temperature.

Sorry, seems I’m a bit of a nitpicker in this thread… I think that’s somewhat of a misconception how AI isn’t deterministic. As far as I know the randomness is introduced in a later step. The AI models itself will give the exact same words as output for the same input words. They’re deterministic and that’s useful for some use-cases and how parallel-processing is done. Pretty much all nowdays AI works like that. It just switches it up with an added random number generator (temperature)… And well, floating point numbers sometimes do weird things. So different hardware might yield different results. At least that’s what I took from computer science. It’s more complicated, though. I think Deterministic AI is a phrase to distinguish some forms of AI from rule-based AI, which is a thing as well. That encompasses expert systems and -I think- that’s what scientists mean with deterministic AI… The calculations for probablistic AI however can be deterministic, too. And a computer processor will usually yield the same results for the same numbers anyway, unless it’s broken. But with that said, it’ll lead to issues with floating point numbers if we’re talking multiplayer games. I think we’ve had several instances when the gaming industry had to take care of such things to make multiplayer work, or replays be repeatable.

Me too. I guess the internet is going to change soon anyway. AI Slop is going to displace a lot of things. And these cooking recipes don’t really work. So there will be a demand for genuine, human content. And the only way to tell is if you have some connection to the creator. So we might see a revival of human connection online. At least that’s what I hope will happen… And seems lots of people are fed up with social media as well.

Nah. She doesn’t. And I think the days of Blogs and personal websites are mostly a thing of the past. These days people doomscroll on Instagram. But I have some fond memories of the good old times as well. I used to have friends (of different genders) who would write publicly about technology, sugar-free recipes, I knew someone who did styling videos on Youtube. But that toned down as we all grew older and got other things to do, and the internet changed as well.