mitch
@mitch@piefed.mitch.science
I like coffee, Philly, Pittsburgh, Arabic language, anything on two wheels, music, linux, theology, cats, computers, pacifism, art, unity, equity, etymology, the power of words, and getting high off airplane glue. Will use Adobe Illustrator for food.
- Comment on XDA Forum User response to Google 1 week ago:
It's a real dumb idea but I'll be honest, I think all of us should have expected that when Chrome switched to an engine that doesn't allow for ad blockers.
I'm with the rest of the commenters on other threads — I'll just switch to PostmarketOS and make Linux work for me. Very little of what I do on a phone really requires "apps."
- Comment on Ditto 1 week ago:
My problem is that I only want striped tree squirrels to munch on my junk. Any suggestions?
- Comment on Ditto 1 week ago:
In the way humanity can study the structure of the brain despite being inside one, consciousness is just the means by which the Universe discovers itself. Or something, I don’t know, I’m high.
- Comment on Ditto 1 week ago:
if you ask me, mushrooms are a bullshit double standard. THEY get to show their genitals to passing hikers in the state park, but when I do it, suddenly everyone gets real prudish? What’s THAT about?
- Comment on And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away 2 weeks ago:
Driving is honestly very stimulating for me. I have AuDHD and it is one of the few times I feel calm because I can actively engage all of my senses. Something about keeping an awareness in your head of what's around you and your car really keeps me occupied.
- Comment on And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away 2 weeks ago:
Makes sense when even adults use phones as a means to escape even a moment of boredom. How many adults use their phones while driving? That's one of the most mentally stimulating things I can think of, and people get BORED.
- Comment on 🏹🏹🏹 3 weeks ago:
AI photography is so stupid. That target's got legs. Handsome ones, too.
- Comment on Please bro 3 weeks ago:
Might not be what it was designed for, but OpenAI claims their newest model is "PHd-levels" of intelligent. I feel like if that were true, it would do that reliably. Instead, sometimes it ignores the tool it's programmed to know how to use and just, y'know, wings it.
Which, fair, but that's my job and it's taken!
- Comment on Please bro 3 weeks ago:
i think that these tools will probably be foundational to discovering more about the human mind and how words or images are received, stored, and assembled in the brain, but people like sam altman and elon musk are convinced that there is nothing else to a ‘person’ beyond that.
‘humanity’ is an emergent phenomenon. you don’t need a god or any kind of religion to understand this. as far as we know, we might be one of the least likely things to ever happen in the universe, ever.
- Comment on Please bro 3 weeks ago:
Congressperson: “Okay, so, let me get this straight. Your company has spent over 20 billion dollars in pursuit of a fully autonomous digital intelligence, and so far, your peak accuracy rate for basic addition and subtraction is... what was it, again?”
Sam Altman: leans into microphone “About 60%, sir.”
[Congress erupts in a sea of ‘oohs’ and ‘aahs’, as Sam Altman is carried away on top of the cheering crowd of Congresspeople wearing a crown of roses and a sash reading, “BEST INVESTMENT”]
- Comment on this is exactly what copper would say 4 weeks ago:
Fiber optic cable is just glass or nylon, sealed with a thermoplastic. It really is one of the cheapest kinds of cables to make, maybe ever. It's really not worth anything when anyone who needs to run fiber can just buy a brand new spool for the same price as a spool from four guys in a shitty pickup truck who can't describe why they even had it to begin with.
- Comment on this is exactly what copper would say 4 weeks ago:
I dunno who is even still stealing copper considering that a lot of yards are asking for proof of ownership before they accept it. Copper-nabbers are opportunistic, and won't take the time to forge an original invoice.
- Comment on So Long to Tech's Dream Job: It’s the shut up and grind era, tech workers said, as Apple, Google, Meta and other giants age into large bureaucracies. 4 weeks ago:
All those fun little cultural benefits were only meant to keep people at the office for longer spans of time, away from their families, and always ready for work. These bureaucratic structures are just the natural state of any public company that has to answer to feduciary duty.
Tech isn't dead, nor is it done. It is just going to not be very profitable for a while, which will likely mean that a lot of us won't be working on it for a while.
- Comment on Help. 4 weeks ago:
That, and, y'know, actually showing up for each other instead of relentlessly torturing other men for having the gall to express any emotions beyond the two approved ones, laughter and rage.
- Comment on Help. 4 weeks ago:
FWIW, this is why AI researchers have been screeching for decades not to create an AI that is anthropomorphized. It is already an issue we have with animals, now we are going to add a confabulation engine to the ass-end?
- Comment on [OC] Hank Hill Catches Up on Pokémon 4 weeks ago:
in that case, mewtwo is basically just a ripoff of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.” what other public domain classics did Pokémon manage to repackage and resell to us?!
- Comment on [OC] Hank Hill Catches Up on Pokémon 4 weeks ago:
Hank: “Bobby, when I was little, we had 151 Pokémon, and that was plenty! We didn’t even have confirmation that Mew existed until maybe a decade later, and we were all so happy that we threw a party! Remember, Boomhauer?”
Boomhauer: “Well I tell ya what man igottagetyaonthepokemonromhacksbecausebackthentheydidntknowgaddumnallaboutjapaneseso (chuckling) theyjustchangedthejapanesecharacterstoenglishones man andnobodycaredtheydjustsitthereonno$gbandmakeuppokemonnameslike ‘turt’ or ‘hors’ andwe’dalljustlikestumblethroughthebarelytranslatedgames tryingtofigureoutwhattodoman it was a joy to be included”
Hank: “Yeah.”
- Comment on [OC] Hank Hill Catches Up on Pokémon 4 weeks ago:
POV: you are the first Zubat that a player using gameshark sees
- Comment on [OC] Hank Hill Catches Up on Pokémon 4 weeks ago:
Hank Hill recognizes 152 Pokémon total. The first 151, and then Stunfisk.
- Comment on [OC] Hank Hill Catches Up on Pokémon 4 weeks ago:
Hank, suddenly intrigued: "Wait, there's a 'grass type' Pokemon?"
- Comment on [OC] Hank Hill Catches Up on Pokémon 5 weeks ago:
Bobby: "Dad, everybody knows they can't catch Rayquazza... it entices ."
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- Comment on Cuteness 5 weeks ago:
BAND: "WHO'S READY TO FUCK SHIT UP!!!!!!!"
me: "haha me!"
- Comment on Trump Is Launching an AI Search Engine Powered by Perplexity 5 weeks ago:
If you say so. I'm just trying to be helpful instead of offering scare quotes.
- Comment on Trump Is Launching an AI Search Engine Powered by Perplexity 5 weeks ago:
There is a cool self-hosted version of Perplexity out there now, called
Perplexica. It can be configured to use Ollama (local inferencing) and your own, self-hosted SearXNG instance to do the actual search and collation.I have been using it for a week and it really works.
- Comment on claw 5 weeks ago:
That was the only real answer.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
officer, promote that person
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I thought that Ukulele was a pretty nice way to learn the foundations of string instruments
- Comment on Day 380 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
it's a random event that happens sometime in the beginning of any new game — in story, it's a military black hawk helicopter flying over the Knox County area looking for survivors.
The effect in-game is that the zombies in the world all gather around to follow the noise source, which controls and drives a gigantic crowd of zombies around where you're at. It can be very overwhelming, especially when you're just starting out and don't have much by way of structures built.
- Comment on Day 380 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
my friends and I utilize a mod that records your skills in a notebook that stays on your zombie after you die. so you actually have a motivation to go back into somewhere dangerous and clean it up.
