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Wxnzxn , 1 day ago to Ask Lemmy in Do you feel that you are operating in a different reality than most of humanity?

That does indeed look right up my alley, thank you very much <3.

I'd also recommend "The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth" to anyone interested, for probably a bit more polemic piece that, from what I see from “Climate Leviathan”'s description, probably roughly argues around similar dynamics.

Wxnzxn , 1 day ago to Ask Lemmy in Do you feel that you are operating in a different reality than most of humanity?

I only recenlty learned I have had undiagnosed autism my whole life (in my thirties now), and being able to recontextualise that I literally did have an - on average - different way of experiencing reality, with some filters missing, some intuitive normalities just not developing, and my brain focusing in a different way, that's helping me a whole lot. Finally I don't have to gaslight myself into thinking I am just lacking will and strength of character to fit into this world, as that's what my socialisation had been instilling into me.

With having been obsessed with history and philosophy from a young age, I am also often not able to understand that the vast majority of people actually lives in a world where those things are at best superficially engaged with. Personally, at least at this moment of time, I think that is genuinely dangerous, because, oh boy, looking at the current material situation of the world and taking historical situations to estimate the possible consequences, things are not looking good. I firmly believe we need a globalised, socialist/communist mode of production and more short term, an international political infrastructure to organise the challenges ahead, but I fear it will only come about after things will be getting worse for quite some time, still.

Wxnzxn , 3 days ago to Digital Art in Caroline Murray, "Sisters".

Nice, this one has an optical illusion movement effect for me when scrolling or moving my eyes!

Wxnzxn , 3 days ago to Antique Memes Roadshow in doot doot

Danke, Herr Skellet

Wxnzxn , 5 days ago to Technology in Music industry giants allege mass copyright violation by AI firms

"If the RIAA sued hell, I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons."

Wxnzxn , 7 days ago to Technology in Microsoft insiders worry the company has become just 'IT for OpenAI'

You've got a great point there, actually

Wxnzxn , 7 days ago to Technology in Microsoft insiders worry the company has become just 'IT for OpenAI'

That's what I suspect, too, but I'm not entirely sure in my research so far. The question I am still unsure about: Is it as costly in running, or is the real costly part "just" the "training our model" part? I wondered that, because when I was messing around, things like generative text models could run on my potato PC with a bit of python scripting without too much issue, even if not ideally - as long as I had the already trained dataset downloaded.

Wxnzxn , 8 days ago to Technology in Microsoft insiders worry the company has become just 'IT for OpenAI'

I think it will hinge on one thing: Will AI provide an experience that is maybe worse, but still sufficient to keep the market share, at lower cost than putting in the proper effort? If so, it might still become a tragic "success"-story.

Wxnzxn , 8 days ago to Ask Lemmy in What is the best movie to watch without sound?

So, here's a weird anecdote: Me and my ex were watching The Lighthouse together online (long distance relationship). Neither of us had watched it before. Turns out for some reason, VLC was not able to decode the audio codec properly on my end - I only had some athmospheric parts of ambience and music, but most interestingly no voice at all. Up until the very end, I thought they just went extra-avant-guarde and emulated a silent film in addition to the monochrome aesthetics. Only after we talked about it and she told me something about some dialogue scenes I realised that there was actually supposed to be audible dialogue.

Funnily enough, turns out it was still super enjoyable for me because I love artsy movies and surreal experiences, and I was able to piece together the plot and character interactions pretty accurately.

Wxnzxn , 9 days ago to memes in I was blind, but now I see

Very similar story here, when I finally had glasses it was so weird to realise that stars aren't blurry, and it's in fact normal to be able to see individual leaves on trees, but I never noticed I needed them for many years, because everyday life wasn't affected for me.

Wxnzxn , 21 days ago to memes in It'll end up as "Vote stupid parties, win stupid prices"

Denmark as well, I guess I know which direction I am fleeing towards, when fascism resurges here in Germany.

Wxnzxn , 1 month ago (edited 25 days ago) to internet funeral in Google ad on a magazine from 1999

Every source on the history of Google seems to implicate imply that their growth and development went:

Using their university resources -> surviving off of investor money -> starting monetization with targeted ads and raking in money

So it seems they had a phase of cornering their market with both public resources and off risky investments, then capitalised on having that exclusive appeal. Seems all too familiar, considering every damn tech startup under the sun now seems to go "trick investors or public funds" -> "corner market" -> "enshittifcation"

If someone else has some better info - go ahead and correct me, but there seems to be no mention of monetisation of Google before their targeted ad rollout.

Wxnzxn , 1 month ago to Ukraine in Gunman Who Shot Slovak PM Linked to Pro-Russian Extremist Group

Yeah, I think at this point it's all speculation central. Where did you hear the guy who shot him cited "because he stopped sending arms to Ukraine" as a motive, though? I only heard talk of him citing general discontent with the government, and a quote claiming he brought up the upcoming public broadcast reforms in Slovakia so far. Genuinely interested.

One way or the other, at this point, everything still seems possible: from a useful idiot for Putin, a false flag coordinated - maybe with blackmail or something - by Russia, a mental illness, the gunman genuinely wanting to support Ukraine in a misguided way (even though it's rare, yes, 180° turns in a few years are possible, especially in unstable people), or no direct relation to the war at all in his motives - it's still impossible to tell.

I also haven't heard of the journalist that brought the connection up or VS Square before myself, so, hard to say how trustworthy they are. But it sounds to be well-cited and founded at least.

Wxnzxn , 11 months ago to Technology in DeArrow extension for YouTube that makes thumbnails bearable

It's pretty telling a platform like YouTube really only gets fully enjoyable with an adblocker, sponsorblock and this. I wish PeerTube had a lot of good creators, but last time I checked (years ago, admittedly) it was mostly conspiracy theorists and cryptobros.