gashead76

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[–] gashead76@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

“What I can tell, however, is that hating on the tech itself distracts people from blaming those actually responsible, the humans doing the enshittification. The billionaires, dictators...”

^– SattaRIP^

That's something I've been trying to convince people of that I converse with about LLMs and similar generative technology. I've met so many people that just throw a big blanket of hate right over the entire concept of the technology and I just find it so bizarre. Criticize the people and corporations using the tech irresponsibly! It's like a mass redirection of what and who is really to blame. Which I think is partially because "AI" is something that sort of anthropomorphizes itself to a large portion of society and most people think the "personality within" the technology is responsible for the perceived misdeeds.

I figure when all is said and done and historians and researchers look back on this time, there will be a lot to learn about human behavior that we likely have little grasp of at the moment.

[–] gashead76@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My neurologist has been throwing every test at me and so far all they've come up with is vestibular migraine, which I've had complicated migraine my whole life and never had the symptoms I do now (that started out of nowhere about a year ago). Which include ataxia, nystagmus, tremors, and a whole host of other neurological symptoms...

So not diagnosed with MSA, but empathic to your situation. I would have never guessed how much more debilitating neurological conditions could get after having spent 40 years with migraines that would sometimes keep me in bed and in agony for days at a time every month of every year.

The muscle weakness, loss of coordination, tremors, and general bodily dysfunction disables me more than those horrible headaches did and I previously couldn't have imagined that would be true. And all this just as I finally got my head pain stuff under control! It's enough to make me wonder if the solution to that may have caused the new problems, but that's another thing.

Anyway, I can't speak to your specific condition, but I know neurological dysfunction all too well and if you ever need to talk about it, my ears (and eyes) still work (sort of), for now... (gallows humor, can't help it).

[–] gashead76@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks for the tip! I haven't heard of that and I've been looking for something to keep track of this stuff as well.

[–] gashead76@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

What's the issue with Autism Speaks? I know I saw something negative about it a while back, but I never read into it. I haven't been keeping up with much negative shit lately because there's too much negative shit to keep up with.

[–] gashead76@lemmy.world 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Is there a specific technological limitation to the hair style lengths?

[–] gashead76@lemmy.world 0 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

Excellent timing for me on finding this post, I am just about to switch back to Linux after a few months being stuck on Windows.

Anyone using this? What kind of "quirks" should I expect to see?

[–] gashead76@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

As long as we keep trying!

[–] gashead76@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think about that one often. It's too easy to dismiss people because their attitudes don't line up with our personal ideals, but even those people have some internal struggle going on. We all do. Not that it ever justifies terrible behavior, but it does warrant consideration.

[–] gashead76@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If more people on this planet would make these considerations we would all be so much better for it.

[–] gashead76@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

His reasoning made perfect sense to me, I don't get the "blackmail / bribe" stuff. Since the very beginning of his project he has been quite vocal about not wanting to cause any sort of harm (financially) to CodeWeavers because they do actually contribute quite a lot to the Wine project whereas Whisky did not.

[–] gashead76@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That does sound crazy. I can't imagine killing someone with my car and receiving what amounts to a traffic citation. Accidents happen of course and there should be accounting for that, but damn, yeah that law should be examined.

Perhaps that's part of the reason so many drivers in Colorado are so fucking terrible? I've lived all over the US and Colorado has the most aggressive and dangerous drivers I've dealt with.

[–] gashead76@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd like to see more posts like this honestly, I know reading these things aren't for everyone, but having the actual document and (hopefully) the discussion of it is exactly how I'd like to be getting my news and information these days. I'm tired of our filtered world.

Some serious judicial indictment of the federal government to be found in there regarding the disregard of the constitution.

“The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order."

Yeah.

 

Hey there! How much work would it be to add the ability to select a font to use for Arctic that’s installed on the device? For instance, I use the Atkinson Hyperlegible Next font for everything that I possibly can (it works wonders for my dyslexia).

 

Is there an app URL scheme that can be used with Arctic? Like if I wanted to open a Lemmy post using the address I could do arctic://openURL/lemmypost.com/postUrlID

I recently started using the newly released Tapestry by The Iconfactory and it allows you to follow rss feeds and all kinds of other things (so Lemmy communities as well). It also lets you define your own custom apps to open for the various feeds and would love to have it open Arctic to the post when I tap the item in Tapestry.

Thanks a bunch for building this fantastic app!

By the way, here is Tapestry’s documentation on how to use the URL schemes, in case you wanna take a look.

https://iconfactory.happyfox.com/kb/article/149-opening-tapestry-timeline-items-in-third-party-apps/

 

Hello folks, I haven’t seen anything new in this community in quite a while, but perhaps someone might see this…

I’ve been taking Nurtec for migraine for the past 4 months now and I’m very curious about other’s experiences with this medication. I’ve had fairly decent results with it (actually, it works better than anything I’ve tried in the past), but I also think I experience some pretty unfortunate side effects as well and I’d like to see if anyone else has noticed anything negative?

Thanks!

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