hendrik
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- Comment on How to Setup Camera Live Stream to my Server 10 hours ago:
Maybe something like https://owncast.online/ or https://github.com/bluenviron/mediamtx
You could set it upp to record and maybe even use a hook and some cli signal client to send a message with the stream url to one of your friends?
- Comment on Inside McDonald’s push to have AI price your Big Mac 1 week ago:
Guess it just makes it easier for them. Back in the day they needed to task some employee per franchisee. Now it’s done by one central AI. And it enables more innovation. An AI can be quicker and more dynamic. Recalculate prices multiple times a day… In theory and now that they got those electronic checkouts plus AI they could customize the upselling to individual customers.
- Comment on These "warnings" that some people think mean anything 1 week ago:
Wow. Thanks for sharing. I don’t know what to say… Guess memories like that stick. Luckily I just had very few near death experiences on the road and the accidents I’ve been involved in or helped were within city limits, so at lower speed and people were about okay. But yeah, cars are potentially dangerous machines. Killing someone, or nearly killing someone is some kind of wake-up call to pay attention. But we should all really try to make an effort to get it right before this happens.
I think it’s the same with the uptake in cars here. I’ve been driving for roughly 20 years now. If I remember correctly, rush hour is way longer today as it used to be back then.
- Comment on These "warnings" that some people think mean anything 1 week ago:
Fascinating. I think what we have here is a 2 second rule. You’d fix on some object, count two seconds and you shouldn’t be passing it before that. Disregarding speed if you’re both moving at the same speed. Easier rule (and what I went with) is half the number on the speedometer. So 50m at 100km/h and that happens to be an easy number in Germany because that’s exactly the distance of the reflector posts next to roral roads and motorways.
- Comment on These "warnings" that some people think mean anything 1 week ago:
As far as I know, passenger vehicles outperform trucks at breaking distance.
- Comment on You have to ENABLE the DISABLE of AI features in Firefox. 1 week ago:
Hehe. 47 people think “enabling the disable-ation of ads” is clear language?! I like me the Linux distributions which include uBlock per default so there’s less spying. And if you want to enable that, you’d go to the top right and press uBlock’s power button (to turn uBlock off - and ads on). I think that’s a clear and straightforward UX.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
If you want an answer to your question, consider asking in the correct community: !perchance@lemmy.world
- Comment on How would you integrate AGI into society? 2 weeks ago:
Well, a webserver does not choose what it’s going to serve. I as the intelligent entity made that decision and put it in. The webserver executes it, but there’s no intelligence there. That’s all mine.
I think we’re pretty much at the distinction between classic computing and AI (minus things like expert systems). With traditional algorithms, the programmer puts in all the smarts. Decides what to do, how to tackle a problem, down to the mathematical operation. With AI, we do not want that. We just put in the goal, and let -for example- reinforcement learning figure out what to do, and how to do it.
- Comment on How would you integrate AGI into society? 2 weeks ago:
I bet there is no way to construct pure intelligence. Once you embed something into the real world, it will result in comlex interactions. It won’t necessarily be biological wants and needs. But I mean it needs power. And it better have some desire to “think”. Or it might as well just sit there ad do nothing all day?!
- Comment on How would you integrate AGI into society? 2 weeks ago:
I think it -unfortunately- goes that direction. It reproduces all kinds if bias and stereotypes. And due to the nature of it, the cost of training, the copyrighted data needed, it’s done by the powerful companies, not us, the people. So it’s massively undemocratic. And that’s hard to remove from it. And unless we find good ways to change that very thing, it’s also particularly good at making stuff up. I mean we need a strong AI very different from today’s chatbots / LLMs to change any of this. At least in my opinion. But that seems far away and I struggle extrapolating from todays ChatGPTs which mainly flood the internet with fake stuff to someone’s benefit, to something useful to society. It may be possible, though in theory to come up with a system like that.
- Comment on How would you integrate AGI into society? 2 weeks ago:
Sounds a bit like the question “How do I drive in this screw with my hammer?” I mean the best way to “integrate” it, is probably to leverage what it’s good at. Mass surveillance, fabricate “truth” and roll it out large scale. We got enough sci-fi movies from the 80s and 90s.
- Comment on bank want CCTV, but I didn't steal my own card so... 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, you definitely need the police. They’re law enforcement and get access to surveillance footage. Some random person (like you) doesn’t get the same privileges to investigate other people.
- Comment on If I sign up for a torrenting site like torrent galaxy or something, and leave my computer running then will other people get seeded? Or do I have to upload a file or can I just have it finished? 5 weeks ago:
The account doesn’t matter. What you need to do is leave the torrent program on your computer running. And the files you want to seed need to be in the list of that program.
Also make sure you know what you’re doing. You might be pirating and that might come with legal consequences. So read about the law and use protection.
- Comment on Olive Branch MS mayor refusing to lower flag for Dolly 1 month ago:
I think you forgot conspiracy nut, antisemite, mysognist, homophobe… and probably a bunch more
- Comment on You must have an internet connected smartphone to eat 1 month ago:
Dunno if it’s necessarily worse tech… I don’t really care if it’s physical tokens which get exchanged or virtual ones… Point is, it has to work and cover a wide array of use-cases. Has to work in edge-cases, for both residents and tourists, has to work when there’s surprise maintenance at the bank, when there’s an internet outage… We gotta easily pay $1000 for a hotel for 10 days and the rental car, or 73ct at the local flea market. I might need to pay for a bus ticket or gasoline in the middle if some forest where there isn’t any 5G coverage…
I think exchanging physical tokens is just absurdly good at that. I’m just not sure if it can’t be done any other way? I mean we obviously don’t have that hypothetical tech in the real world, because banks want to control the process and they always come up with some central way of doing it, with them in the middle. That’s kinda their business model. And the alternative concept is some convoluted approach which needs an internet connection and a decent amount of resources to do the transactions…
There’s some better approaches at digital cash like GNU Taler I think that one is pretty much like cash. And we only need one of the transaction parties to be online to prevent double-spending of the virtual tokens.
- Comment on You must have an internet connected smartphone to eat 1 month ago:
Welcome to the future.
- Comment on My Local Public Tennis Court Requires Online Registration 2 months ago:
Huh. What country does that?
But yeah, it’s the same here. Back in the day, I’d just go to a museum, theme park, zoo, adventure forest… In modern times you’d book online, have to arrive within some designated time slot, maybe create an account, pay online… You can try to just go there, but it might be packed or whatever and they don’t let you in. And nobody wants to waste half an hour driving there, so everybody does the online reservation ordeal.
- Comment on This Apple Lie at the grocery store 3 months ago:
Apple crumble with vanilla ice is very nice as well.
- Comment on This Apple Lie at the grocery store 3 months ago:
German here and I can say I’m turning around half the cartons in the supermarket and check for palm oil. I’ll try to buy alternatives. Though it’s really hard. It’s either price increase, shrinkflation or cheaper ingredients. Oftentimes a combination of those.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
It depends on what you’re trying to do on your computer. No command line is needed for web surfing, checking emails, writing office documents, playing games… It’s not too dissimilar to Windows in that regard. Windows also has the command line and the power shell. You can use it if you like, but you don’t have to. There’s other tasks for which you need it, though. For example fixing your computer might involve the command line. Or software development.
- Comment on I was the only one who thought this of Erica Ortega was non-binary or trans? 4 months ago:
For some reason, La’an Noonien-Singh and Erica Ortegas always remind me of the Belters from The Expanse. No idea if it’s the make-up or hairstyle. Wonder if that’s just me…
- Comment on Cubieboard users abandoned? Trying to find support docs. 4 months ago:
Yeah, use Armbian. And Debian mainline and Arch Linux (ARM variant) runs on the Cubietruck as well. (More effort involved.) There’s info on their Wikis. And https://linux-sunxi.org has some information as well. Most of the times general instructions for A20 boards apply.
- Comment on Dumb critique 5 months ago:
Lmao. Just add a big RELEVANCE? I mean why do they cite 3 random people’s opinion on random aspects of the entire concept? It’s supposed to be an encyclopedia, not a blog post…
- Comment on Does traning AI/ML-models on AI-generated content causes collapse on the quality of the output? 5 months ago:
No. The tools are completely ineffective. And there was a paper once about how feeding AI it’s own output makes it deteriorate. But that’s not the entire story. Many/most modern large language models are actually trained or fine-tuned on synthetic text.
- Comment on Sent this to my friends flexing a "top 65%" score. The site didn't make it clear that's not a good thing. 5 months ago:
Good point. Thanks. I’m gonna self-delete this and take it as an invitiation to think about ableism.
- Comment on Writer denies it, but publisher pulls horror novel after multiple allegations of AI use 6 months ago:
Ba dum tss…
By the way, the 3h YouTube video answers my question. It is poorly written. Already the cover art was stolen. And apparently there’s not a single thing right about this book.
- Comment on Writer denies it, but publisher pulls horror novel after multiple allegations of AI use 6 months ago:
Hmmh. I mean there’s several questions here. Maybe I’d read it if ChatGPT were able to write really good smut 😆 So it remains one of my questions.
But yeah. Not only NYT, the Reddit person who wrote a long post about it, also seems to know what they’re doing.
- Comment on Writer denies it, but publisher pulls horror novel after multiple allegations of AI use 6 months ago:
Gee. God beware anyone answer the one interesting question. And that’s whether the book is any good.
I mean it’s not surprising to me how random internet people disagree. They always do… But we could just ask a professional?! Book critic is a real job. They could tell us within a few hours if the book is any good. Or full of common story tropes. And “sudden plot twists” like when I tried writing a story with AI 😅 And whether it’s going anywhere, or compares to other books which have some artistic quality or meaning to them.
- Comment on Android: sideloading blocked and open source updates withheld to twice a year 6 months ago:
Yes. My question is just, how do you participate in modern life with that? For example if you commute by train, you need a ticket. And the Deutsche Bahn tries to get rid of paper tickets. Their monthly subscription is an App now, available for Android and Apple. Do you install Waydroid and whip out your laptop once the conductor asks for your ticket? Do you also pull it out of your backpack 3 times on the platform to look up all the delays, changed platforms, trains you have to transfer to? What’s with the pkpass file for the concert, cinema, exhibition? I mean we can still print the QR codes. I do that, I have a printer at home and sometimes do the extra effort. I can’t take my laptops and tablets to a concerts. And some other things will get more complicated as well. For example Shop & Go is almost impossible without a phone. You’re guaranteed to wait in line at the few cash registers left and waste an extra 10min…
- Comment on Android: sideloading blocked and open source updates withheld to twice a year 6 months ago:
Yeah, probably jump ship to a life without a mobile phone, online banking and train tickets. 🙁