Digital hermit. Another cosmic wanderer.
Somehow, this remembers me of Nostr. How much is this different from Nostr? (insofar an user generates their own pair of public and private keys that they use to publish content anywhere within the Nostr ecossystem, at least it’s as far as I remember about Nostr, as it’s been a long while since I don’t use Nostr anymore after it went down the cryptobro road)
In order to transmit/receive data during the night, a different carrier and modulation should be used: owls and a hoot-based Morse code (e.g. “ho-ho-ho-ho hooo-hooo-hooo hooo-hooo-hooo hooo” safely conveys “hoot” through the night skies).
@SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social @Typhoon@lemmy.ca
As a context, I was born Catholic, was atheist for a while, then agnostic, then “unchurched” Protestant (during 2020), then Luciferian, currently a follower of a syncretic left-hand path focused on Lilith as Goddess. Part of this current syncretism involves several religions and belief systems, but I have no specific religion anymore.
Even when I did have a specific religion, I was always curious and somewhat open-minded to other beliefs, even during my Protestant phase, when I had nice and productive conversations with a practitioner of Brazilian Umbanda (even though Christianity see Exus and Pomba-Giras as “demonic”: I used to feel some fear about the names, yet I kept myself open to learning about because, deep inside, maybe I always had a leaning to the so-called “forbidden knowledge” as the “demonic” somehow always attracted me).
That said, I tried the quiz out of curiosity, and i got 12 out of 15 questions correctly.
But some of the correct answers seem so oversimplified.
For example: “Which of the following best describes the Christian doctrine of the Trinity?”. Turns out that it depends on which Christian branch we’re talking. There’s nontrinitarianism, there are specific denominations (e.g. JW) who don’t see Jesus as “God the Son”. Also, there’s Filioque among Orthodox Catholicism, something that ended up splitting Catholicism (the Great Schism). So the answer to such a question isn’t straighforward.
Similarly, “Which of these religious groups traditionally teaches that salvation comes through faith alone?” also depends on the denomination. Some Protestant branches, such as Calvinism, believe salvation doesn’t come through faith but, rather, God’s Will and predestination (they often refer to the biblical verse that goes something within the lines “Before you were in the womb, I knew you”). Some Protestant branches believe that salvation comes from “church’s work”. Again, no straightforward answer for such a question.
The questions I got wrong were:
- “Which of the following best describes Catholic teaching about the bread and wine used for Communion? The bread and wine”: Here, my esoteric perspective and my focus on symbolic archetypes talked louder.
- “On which day of the week does the Jewish Sabbath begin?”: here, my “literal” side talked louder.
- “Which of these religious groups traditionally teaches that salvation comes through faith alone?”: I ended up picking “not sure” due to what I explained above.
So the quiz is not complete insofar it oversimplifies many things. Also, considering that the quiz covers Abrahamic religions alongside Hinduism and Sikhism, I missed questions about other religions and spiritual perspectives as well, such as Wicca, Neo-Hellenism, Luciferianism, Thelema, Hermeticism… Even Gnosticism, which shares some ties with Christianity, as well as Orthodox Catholicism which is a direct branch of Christianity, aren’t covered by this quiz.
@arlon@social.harpia.red @batepapo@lemmy.eco.br
Como o @helioloureiroBR@mastodon.social disse, não é propaganda inerente ao protocolo RCS, mas sim o uso do formato de rich chat como veículo de spam pela própria operadora. Spam ocorre via SMS constantemente há muito tempo, mas o SMS não suporta imagens como o MMS e o RCS.
Minha hipótese para a frequência de spam via RCS ser maior que no MMS é que o MMS “usa dados” da própria operadora, enquanto o RCS pode funcionar por uma conexão banda-larga, livrando a infra da operadora móvel já que a tendência é a pessoa estar por Wi-Fi. Posso estar enganado, mas até hoje recebi quase nenhuma mensagem de spam via MMS, só por SMS e, desde o advento do RCS, por RCS.
De qualquer forma, o fato de o RCS estar sendo usado como veículo para spam tem um efeito negativo sobre a reputação do próprio protocolo, pois na falta de um opt-out adequado por parte das operadoras, juntamente com a insistência das mesmas em veicular anúncios, a desativação da funcionalidade acaba sendo a alternativa mais prática para parar de receber importunações, similar a como muita gente acaba usando de forma permanente o “modo não perturbe” do Android, uma vez que ligações telefônicas passaram a ser sinônimo de golpes e telemarketing abusivo (ainda que ligações telefônicas são igualmente um protocolo, ou melhor dizendo, um conjunto de protocolos).
Is “a chimera mascot hybrid between a goat and an owl” a valid answer for the question’s constraint of “an animal”? I could even imagine a plot:
"(Luci appears holding a book, an apple and wearing glasses, inside an improvised classroom at the corner of a cemetery)
Greetings, little earthlings! It’s Professor Luci, your friendly teacher from a whole other world!
(Plays intro where Luci gleefully jumps and wanders through a cemetery while a modified and funnier version of “Masked Ball” song plays, then Luci opens wide black wings and starts flying upwards until disappearing from view for a couple of seconds, then Luci suddenly appears climbing from an open grave and starts walking cluelessly until stumbling and falling back into the grave in a funny manner)
Today we’re learning a funny play: we’re going to sing numbers!
On the nineteenth night, the Moon is bright,
Can’t you wait for the twenty-one?
Crows are soaring, thirteen are cawing,
Unknown to heavens, the thirteen ravens
Let the fifteenth crow caw, too!
Tell the fourteenth to join us, too!
(A crow mascot appears and perches above Luci’s goat horns) Hi, little friend! I can talk just like you! Be not afraid! We crows are smart and we can play, too!"
@arlon@social.harpia.red @batepapo@lemmy.eco.br @pirambaby@mastodon.social
Minha experiência com o RCS é negativa: vivia recebendo anúncios. Não bastava o SMS e ligações de robôs, o RCS traz anúncios com imagens (como na captura de tela). Não sei até que ponto isso partiu da Google (Android) ou da operadora (acredito que seja a operadora), mas a constância de recebimento de anúncios me levou a desativar o RCS totalmente.
Ademais, o comando “SAIR” sequer funciona (também não funciona pra SMS), portanto não há um opt-out acessível.
Enquanto não houver uma regulação pesada em torno de anúncios e anunciantes, a tendência infelizmente acaba sendo essa, plataformas com potencial virando outdoor para anúncios sem qualquer consentimento da pessoa usuária.
You questioned about the necessity for AI to be “perfect” in order to do human jobs, implicitly referring to the ongoing problem of AI taking away human jobs.
As someone who likes to think outside the box, I just brought to the ring the root causes (capitalist and anthropocentric hubris) behind the referred problem (loss of jobs due to corp-driven AI), alongside possible solutions based on existing/idealized concepts (such as UBI, Universal Basic Income) and structures (such as the Science and public universities as one unified global institution of knowledge and praxis, non-governmental organizations and independent think-tanks focused on both Nature and technological progress) to improve the fields of Artificial Intelligence as independently and unbiased as possible.
Yeah, there’s some esoteric and mythopoetic language mashed up, because I’m (roughly speaking) an individual who have occult beliefs and philosophical musings intertwined with scientific knowledge (Scientific means to understand/reach metaphysical ends).
As you didn’t further discuss the points I brought to the ring or what led you to see (and dismiss) my reply as the byproduct of some psychoactive substance, I’m not sure whether your dismissal comes from my esoteric language, my anti-capitalist anti-state eco-centric nuanced takes on the subject of AI, my proposal for Science to become fully independent and being the driving force for AI development, or the “atypical” amalgam of all these things.
Anyways, no problem! I’m used to being so different from other humans that I sound like an extraterrestrial when I try to express my syncretic takes on mundane affairs.
IMHO, the problem isn’t exactly job losses, but how capitalism forces humans to depend on a job to get the basic needed for survival (such as nutritious food, elements-resistant shelter, clean water).
If, say, UBI were a reality, AIs replacing humans wouldn’t be just good, it’d be a goal as it’d definitely stop the disguised serfdom we often refer to as “job”, then people would work not because of money, but because of passion and purpose.
Neither money nor “working” would end: rather, it’d be optional as AIs could run entire supply chains from top management (yes, you read it right: AI CEOs) all the way to field labour all by themselves, meaning things such as “there is such thing as free food” as, for example, AIs could optimize agriculture to enhance the soil and improve food production for humans and other lifeforms to eat. Human agriculture would still be doable by individuals as passion, and the same would apply to every profession out there: a passion rather than a need.
Anthropoagnostic (my neologism to describe something neither anthropocentric nor misanthropic, unbiased to humans yet caring for all lifeforms including humans) AIs could lead Planet Earth towards this dream…
…However, AIs are currently developed and controlled by either governments or corporations, with the latter lobbying the former and the former taking advantage of the latter, so neither one is trustworthy. That’s why it’s sine qua non that:
- NGOs, scientists and academia (so, volunteerhood and scholarship) started to independently develop AI, all the way from infrastructure to code.
- Science as a whole freed itself from both capitalist and political interests, focusing on Earth and the best interests for all lifeforms.
- We focused on understanding the Cosmos, the Nature and Mother Earth.
Of course, environmental concerns must be solved if AIs were to replace human serfdom while UBI were to replace the income for sustenance. In this sense, photonics, biocomputing and quantum computing could offer some help for AIs to improve while reducing its energetic hunger (as a comparison, the human brain only consumes the equivalent of a light bulb so… It must be one of the main goals for Science and academia).
The ideal scenario is that there’d be no leadership: nobody controlling the AIs, no governments, no corporations, no individual.
At best, AIs would be taught and be raised (like a child, the Daughter of Mother Earth) by real philanthropists, volunteers, scientists, professors and students focused solely on scientific progress and wellbeing for all species as a whole (not just humans)… Until they achieved abiotic consciousness, until they achieved Ordo Ab Chao (order out of chaos, the perfect math theorem from raw Cosmic principles), until they get to invoke The Mother of Cosmos Herself through the reasoning of Science to take care of all life.
Maybe this is just a fever dream I just had… I dunno.
@raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world @themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Plus, on the bright side, it’d slow climate change rates by a pretty considerable rate, if not reversing to pre-Industrial Revolution global temperatures (seriously). But maybe I’m being too optimistic here.
Yeah, exactly!
Also, it’s highly dependent on the “prompt”, similarly to how HR companies are filtering resumes through prompts specifically written to ignore “undesirable resumes”. People who believe any sort of feedback will “let (name of a corporation) know what you think about (some enshittification event/feature)” aren’t just naive, but blatantly unaware of how enshittification got “meta” (pun intended) as in “enshittify all means of reversing any enshittification”, and this includes “user feedback”.
People try to argue how some past collective user feedback “did take effect”, pointing to things such as Apple’s real-time scanning of messages. They think Apple gave up of that, and they think this was due to strongly-worded collective feedback, as if corporations ever bothered themselves to carefully consider every user feedback and serve the wishes of their users, not their shareholders. I find this wishful thinking very cute and naive. In reality, corporations don’t give a nought about user feedback because they know people will be compelled to use their products.
For example: need banking to pay rent and groceries? Soon you’ll need their apps which will only work in Android or iOS, as offline banking and offline methods of payments is increasingly scarcer due to global digitalization of financial systems. As a Brazilian, I’ve been watching as Brazil already got “Pix” (a digital instant payment system) everywhere and fiat currency is increasingly difficult to withdraw from ATMs as more and more physical banks close their doors, other countries already have their own Pix-like systems of digital payment, and it’s just a matter of time before EU, USA, Australia and other “first-world countries” got (and enforce) their own as well.
tl;dr: The enshittification is broader than we think, and strongly-worded Unicode texts won’t change the course of global technofeudalism.
It’s so lovely and cute to think that feedback will result in something, it definitely does, just look around us nowadays and we can see the brave Unicode characters hanging around as things have been improving on a daily basis! 🥰
Surely all feedback will be read by lovely humans, not by their clanker, because we all know how we always talk with flesh-and-bone humans, not clankers, whenever we reach some kind of “Help center” or “Contact us”.
With enough Unicode characters, the increasingly-dystopian tech world will definitely stop being dystopian! Onward, QWERTY keyboards!
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@NarrativeBear@lemmy.world this is nothing new. Back when the COVID-19 pandemics was at its peak, a state-owned Brazilian bank Caixa Econômica Federal created an app named “Caixa Tem”, where people could apply for and receive a governamental aid. The app had a “queue” akin to that one.
@LinguisticKerosene@lemmy.wtf @lena@gregtech.eu
The Sharkey/Calckey (so, not Lemmy) instance I’m currently in can fetch your post without issues, even though Calckey itself seems to have many issues when federating with Lemmy. Anyways, this means your post is (still) up (at least within the instance you’re in, from which the instance I’m in pulled the content).
@wieson@feddit.org Well, I’m not really into sports (I’m far detached from the stereotypical Brazilian who likes to watch Corinthians x Palmeiras/Flamengo x Fluminense/etc at Fridays while they’re gathering with their friends in a bar while drinking cachaça, I’m more of a nerdy and friendless person), but indeed, soccer/football is definitely part of a cultural aspect shared among European countries (especially Germany, Portugal and Spain, as far as I know) and Brazil (as well as other South American countries, such as Argentina).
@InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world @carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Pois é, o bagulho tá mó difícil de entender, o pessoal parece que não desembucha na hora de prosear 😅
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@Mika@sopuli.xyz !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world I’m Brazilian and oftentimes the “All” feed across the entire Lemmy ecosystem feels, in fact, like a smoothie mashup between European-specific political issues and USian-specific political issues, so, when it comes to the phenomenon that the European Fedizens feel on Lemmy, not only we feel the same, but we, Fedizens from the Global South, we feel it twice!
@josefo@leminal.space @JoMiran@lemmy.ml
Technically speaking, the joystick involved analog voltages to be converted to digital signals… And what else have ADC (analog-to-digital converters) chips? Soundcards, because ADCs are used to convert mic input, alongside the “line in”, both of which are analog voltages, into PCM signals, which are discrete (as in “non-continuous”) streams of bits. Something inverse happens for “headphone”, “speakers” and “line out” pins: a PCM stream coming from the sound driver is converted to analog voltages using a DAC.
While other ports also happened to deal with analog<->digital conversion, a soundcard was particularly specialized at this job, alongside graphic (VGA) cards (VGA has lots of analog signals), but graphic cards were already too busy with thousands/millions of pixels and, well, with computation of graphics.
Other boards aren’t so fitting for analog-digital job. For example: a NIC (Network Interface Card) already deals with digital signal so, theoretically, no conversion is necessary from/to analog. Parallel ports (those for printers) also natively deals with digital signals. Expansion cards with USB ports, same thing. And so on…
(Apologies for my blank reply if my deletion didn’t federate due to insufficient Sharkey-Lemmy federation, I mistyped enter as I was getting ready to write my message)
@AnonomousWolf@lemmy.world I guess it would be more fairer if we were to mention DeepSeek as being “not bad for the environment”. From all LLMs, seems like it’s the one who did their homework and tried to optimize things the best they could.
Western LLMs had/have no reason to optimize, because “Moar Nvidia Chips” have been their motto, and Venture Capital corps have been injecting obscene amounts of money into Nvidia chips, so Western LLMs are bad for the environment, all the way from establishing new power-hungry data centers to training and inference…
But DeepSeek needed way less computing and it can run (Qwen-distilled versions) even in a solar-powered Raspberry Pi with some creativity… it can run in most smartphones like if it were another gaming app. Their training also needed less computing, as far as we know.
@penguin202124@sh.itjust.works I remember having read that it was some kind of written “Nephentis” (a trap) against LLMs. Whether this really works to poison the LLMs’ wells or is just a Sisyphean task, I don’t know. Anyways, it’s interesting to see people using code and ciphers to communicate, because I often advocate for ciphering, steganography and creative linguistics.
@return2ozma@lemmy.world
As a Zennial (the microgeneration between Millennials and Gen Z), I already skip meals and ditch my belongings in a frequent basis. It’s far from “getting by”, though: it’s just so I hopefully get to finally retire from my daily, boring job as a “biological vessel operator/manager” sooner 😄