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Cake day: July 21st, 2023

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  • Maybe if they make a watch with a camera cover and a laser that draws a little box around what it can see and it all runs locally, then I might be interested.

    Mainly to identify plants and mushrooms.

    Not a fan of the idea of everyone pointing AI powered cameras at me all the time, like with this weird pin or smart glasses.

    Such products should have a legally mandated camera cover, microphone shutoff and a REALLY OBVIOUS tell to everyone around you if you are using the camera or mic.

    Bonus points if it screams a really loud “PERVERT” alarm if you’re doing something creepy.

    If only that was true for smartphones too…


  • It is kind of interesting how open machine learning already is without much explicit advocacy for it.

    It’s the only field I can think of where the open version is just a few months behind SOTA in all of IT.

    Open training pipelines and open data are the only aspects that could still use improvements in ML, but there are plenty of projects that are near-SOTA and fully open.

    ML is extremely open compared to consumer mobile or desktop apps that are always ~10 years behind SOTA





  • I think you are looking at work horse distros, like Ubuntu, Fedora, etc… That by now are heavily used for productive work, not personal use. So they favor stability and minor quality of life improvements over shiny new updates.

    There’s plenty shiny new cutting edge distros out there that are innovating, e.g. Nix, Silverblue, VanillaOS, all the container focused ones CoreOS, Container OS, Flatcar Container Linux and probably dozens more newer ones I am not aware of .








  • I know the video isn’t about that kind of conspiracy, but I find these similarities to esoteric lore fascinating:

    Mercator said there is a Black Rock (rupes nigra) at the North Pole that is responsible for compasses pointing north, surrounded by 4 islands and with the water draining into the Earth like a funnel.

    Also in the alchemical process of Magnum Opus or Great Work to create the Philosopher’s Stone, black rock could be the end product of nigredo. Many alchemists believed that as a first step in the pathway to the philosopher’s stone, all alchemical ingredients had to be cleansed and cooked extensively to a uniform black matter. This is also commonly represented by sol niger, the black sun.

    That is commonly translated into political thought by homogenizing the whole world. There’s the Nazi, Skull&Bones interpetation, burn the whole world until one Volk is left and then there’s the peaceful panhumanist interpretation.

    I wouldn’t be surprised if the name was actually chosen to represent the Nazi black sun, you know how elitists be.








  • people need to take a step back and realize we have the capability to trap quasi-omnipotent quasi-demons in our personal computers

    yeah they lie a lot and rarely do what you want them to, but that’s just what demons do

    And it’s all powered by some dark crystals created with light magic that slowly poison the planet

    that’s some arcane bullshit