wewbull

joined 10 months ago
[–] wewbull@iusearchlinux.fyi 4 points 7 months ago

There a lot of people who aren't scientifically minded that treat scientific knowledge just like scripture. It comes from wize people and they just trust and accept it unquestioningly.

Those who practise science know that all knowledge is to be questioned, and everything needs evidence. They also know that everything we "know" is most likely wrong. It's just the best explanation we have so far and that's a good thing.

[–] wewbull@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Is it impossible to like things outside the mainstream?

[–] wewbull@iusearchlinux.fyi 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I think it's more that people confuse the Israeli government with "the Jewish people", when the truth is that they are very separate. The Israeli people are somewhere in the middle. There seems to be a bunch of them who are quite supportive of their government's actions.

[–] wewbull@iusearchlinux.fyi 10 points 7 months ago

No, it's a melted down speed camera.

[–] wewbull@iusearchlinux.fyi 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Enjoying messing around doesn't mean people aren't good. Shit posts in particular show a level of awareness, otherwise it's just a post.

[–] wewbull@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Only works if you can start a cycle on power on. My machine will just sit there waiting for someone to press the go button.

[–] wewbull@iusearchlinux.fyi 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I do use the timer delay to run the wash cycle when the power is cheap. I'd really like it if I could set it as "ready to go" and something else give it the "go" when the power is cheap.

Once I have that, it's also useful to have something to tell me there's wet washing that needs to be unloaded.

If my washing machine was older I could do all of this with a remote power switch and sensor, but because my washing machine has touch buttons instead of click/clacks, I can't. Turning the power on just makes it wait for a button press.

[–] wewbull@iusearchlinux.fyi 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It would be far better if somebody sold a single VPN device for the mass public to be able to access home devices. Something wireguard based could be so simple for people to use. Even better if your ISP had this as a standard feature which they made easy to setup Then none of these devices would have an excuse to go out to the company's servers. Any that did would be obviously spying and they could be shamed.

[–] wewbull@iusearchlinux.fyi 3 points 7 months ago

Also libretube (android client to piped.video so you don't connect to YouTube at all) and clipious (android client to invidious) are worth looking at too. You'll need to tweak the servers you connect to to get good performance, but both work quite nicely.

[–] wewbull@iusearchlinux.fyi 26 points 7 months ago (3 children)

There's certainly a bubble bursting. You only have to look at all the layoffs.fyi since COVID. I'm just hoping it's happening in a slow enough way that it's not going to take more legitimate companies with it.

AI is the next bubble. It will hit a brick wall either legally or just on functionality (maybe both). I can see uses for targeted models, bespoke to a use case, but training those is too expensive right now. General models are just toys IMHO. Unfortunately it's going to get a few years for everyone to realise.

[–] wewbull@iusearchlinux.fyi 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Facebook opening up to non-students was the turning point IMHO. Myspace was big, but everybody knew it was trash so not being on it was fine. If you wanted "a profile" otherwise, you needed your own page. That took effort, so only people with something to say bothered with it. Even Twitter was still SMS based and so only for hardcore addicts.

Facebook gave everyone an effortless voice and lordy, do people talk crap.

[–] wewbull@iusearchlinux.fyi 3 points 7 months ago

Would have been a better joke without the "all". Then the meaning is ambiguous.

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