Yingwu
@Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on how do I avoid becoming conformist, lazy and completely incapable of learning something new? 5 days ago:
And with it, less reading on Lemmy, more reading real books :)
- Comment on how do I avoid becoming conformist, lazy and completely incapable of learning something new? 5 days ago:
Learning a new language, and with it, a new way to see the world, is a true life hack.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 week ago:
From my limited experience with Obsidian, I still preferred Logseq actually. And the syncing is easily done by just storing the markdown files in a cloud folder. But yeah, it’s subjective for sure.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 week ago:
I’d say Logseq is better than any note-taking alternative that works in the same way. It’s a bit different to regular note-taking apps as it acts more as a knowledge database based on tags, than with a regular file-folder structure. Also I prefer Actual Budget to YNAB, as it’s starting to have even more features than YNAB and actually supports things like bank syncing for major parts of Europe that even YNAB doesn’t. And it’s free to host yourself or really cheap to host through PikaPods. But it’s hard to say “objectively” because in the end, a lot of it is subjective. If people are used to running one program, it’ll be hard to switch to another, even if it’s “objectively” better.
The largest issue with FOSS applications is that many contributors don’t have any UX/UI knowledge, which is a huge factor in why people choose one program over another. I’d argue GIMP is a mess compared to Photoshop, even if GIMP is able to many, many things that Photoshop is able to.
- Comment on Good to exercise at home instead of gym? 4 weeks ago:
I started with yoga and did it for over a year before I started going to the gym again. Fully doable
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I have a huge passion for Chinese. At the same time I still pursued a career in IT. The reason being that just learning a language won’t open any doors, you need marketable skills as well that employers value. I’d recommend studying for it on your own time or during an extended time off from work. Either way, it takes an enormous amount of hours to get to a proficiency which will have a positive effect in your career. In much less time you’ll be able to learn something else and probably have a higher chance of being employed and also earning more.
Nonetheless, learning a language is incredibly enriching.
- Comment on Request to take over moderation of chinese@lemmy.world if the mod isn't active 1 month ago:
Ah great, thanks
- Comment on Request to take over moderation of chinese@lemmy.world if the mod isn't active 1 month ago:
Thank you, I appreciate it!
- Comment on Request to take over moderation of chinese@lemmy.world if the mod isn't active 1 month ago:
Bonus requests for communities that have the same mod and that I could help to moderate: !classicalchinese@lemmy.world, !taiwan@lemmy.world
- Comment on Request to take over moderation of chinese@lemmy.world if the mod isn't active 1 month ago:
Thanks for the support!
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- Comment on How is my bedroom being heated? 2 months ago:
This. I have the same in my apartment. I think a large majority of apartments in my country has floor heating.
- Comment on Do you feel like you've reached the end of what the world has to offer? 2 months ago:
Not really? Always something else beyond the horizon.
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- Comment on Day 197 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 2 months ago:
NMS is great! A fun, casual game to relax with for sure
- Comment on Awesome free retro RPG Moonring gets another big update - looking good on Steam Deck 2 months ago:
This looks really awesome actually
- Comment on Will generative AI images' popularity create a bigger demand for human-made art? 2 months ago:
I’d say we’ve reached the point of AI art becoming mundane as of this moment. Most people don’t really care anymore about AI art, and many actively avoid it. It doesn’t have that same “Wow!”-factor it had the first couple of months when it was becoming “good”.
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- Comment on Wasn't the future of tech much more interesting in the 90s? LGR comments on '93 CES 2 months ago:
Also in love with 90s tech aesthetics
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- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 3 months ago:
Fully agree, but I’m afraid market forces will just allow the most common AI slop to exist. And I’m sure people will still consume it, and like it. Unfortunately.
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 3 months ago:
This is truly my exact worry.
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 3 months ago:
Wonderful answer.
- Comment on Allianz boss calls on Germany to withdraw sick pay on first day off 3 months ago:
and when people do take that day off, they’re more inclined to be “sick” some extra days in order to make it worth one’s while, when someone has wasted that day without pay already.
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 3 months ago:
I did read Superintelligence ages ago, might take this on. Thanks
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 3 months ago:
This is not something taken out of thin air. While of course it’s an hyperbole, as we’re on the internet, it’s still an opinion that I’ve come across more than a handful times on e.g., reddit.
I see and understand your point of creatives using AI to alter/improve/whatever their own work. I have no problem with that. The thing I’m scared about, which I arguably could’ve phrased better in my initial post, is that we’ll reach a future where human-made work isn’t valued at all. That what we get when we go into bookstores, or stream music, or go to the cinema, is work that’s 99% made by an AI and only “tweaked” by humans. You say “Without a creative and inventive person behind the wheel, you get generic AI material we all know.”, but at the same time I’m seeing people literally saying: before 2030 we will have the first AI movie blockbuster.
As I said in another reply, these are the things I’m worried about, especially when I see the act of creative creation being based on everything that have made us and shaped us in the past. Our experiences, memories and the paths we’ve taken. I feel like what makes something art, is the humanness poured into it. Complete AI works will promptly devalue the art of human creation and replace it with something else that I have no doubt people will buy into (as market forces and capitalism are just another side to this that’ll make this possible), but of which will degrade our society to begin looking like something from Brave New World. That consumption is the only thing that’ll matter. Now, on whether this is an intrinsic danger of AI or whether it’s a consequence of capitalism, I’d lean towards capitalism being at fault. But seeing as how our world is structured, I doubt the negatives will outweigh the positives once the technology develops and CEOs sees more possibility of “endless growth” using AI in this way.
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 3 months ago:
Is it really a win for people to consume soulless AI poetry or prose? Even if the objective qualities (of which are hard to define anyway) makes it “better”, in the eyes of the masses than a human author like Baudelaire or Mary Oliver? One could say it’s up to the consumer, if they’d rather buy an AI work, then that “decides it”, but as you also kind of point out, market forces are really bad at deciding what’s worth consuming or not.
These are the things I’m worried about, especially when I see the act of creative creation being based on everything that have made us and shaped us in the past. Our experiences, memories and the paths we’ve taken. I feel like what makes something art, is the humanness poured into it.
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 3 months ago:
Everything about this just feels really depressing. I’m guessing many people in the world are similar about only caring about consumption. As long as they deem it “good”, they don’t care how/when/where and by whom it was produced by.
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