I imagine this is how it’ll work for stage 2 of Ai enshittifation. They’ll just add a bunch of garbage upstream about a brand or product marketers are paying to push and it’ll infect a bunch of outputs downstream.

https://ente.com/blog/self-hosting-quickstart/

After several failed hotfixes, Blizzard ended the pandemic by performing a hard reset, and a later patch prevented companions from contracting Corrupted Blood entirely.

Note to the future: next pandemic, try a hard reset.

Seriously though, it’s wild they couldn’t hotfix it.

Looking like recursion with organs: all organs placed inside a large-intestine-like animal. And if it swallowed a mouse, another set of organs, and if that mouse swallowed … etc

I couldn’t wait for the answer

In the 1960s, scientists discovered that the sky blue blood inside horseshoe crabs would clot when it detected bacterial toxins. Vaccines, drugs and medical devices have to be sterile before they’re put inside people. A better toxin-detection system meant less contamination risk for patients

source (Trigger Warning: Begins with a photo of the blood collection many could find disturbing)

Wow, that was a wild read. I kept going to see if the man responsible for Radithor would get his after finding out it made him rich.

I’ve been tinkering with many of these lately, but I’ve been surprised by the lack of interoperability. I’ve yet to work with a bookmark manager that can import and export a netscape html file, without dramatically changing its structure. Of the top 2 for my needs, Linkwarden doesn’t export to html and linkding does, but loses the hierarchy.

It’s also a great learning opportunity to see how core tools like cat, ls, etc are written in rust. Relevant repo dir: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/tree/main/src/uu

Not criticizing or endorsing (in 4 paragraphs) the main point (of 2 sentences) is by definition overlooking it.

At least one of us is misunderstanding the original comment. It seems to be missing some punctuation, so here’s my understanding with punctuation added and superfluous bits removed:

AI doesn’t […] make art[.] [W]ithout human art to train on and remix[,] it[']s […] nonsense.

which I understand to mean it can output quality only by training on human made art. Which is backed up by the 2nd sentence about legalizing plagiarism.

So your characterization “AI sucks because it’s shitty art” at best strikes me as a misunderstanding, fixated on “horrific,” which is why I commented without downvoting. At worse it seems like a straw man that misdirects the conversation. “AI sucks because it has to take from artists to output anything but nonsense” strikes me as a more accurate summary.

But your arguments against multiple things that were never said and how you use “hostility” lead me to believe you’re not commenting in good faith, or here to steel man the original comment.

Of course there’s hostility. It was hard to make a living as an artist before AI. It can take decades to develop your style and name. If a company takes your work, gives you no credit or compensation, repackages it and sells it- undermines your entire industry and livelihood- that is a hostile act, and hostility is a completely reasonable reaction.

From the first comment:

AI doesn’t even make art … without human art to train on

context matters

Capitalists just found a way to legalize plagarizing for themselves while keeping it illegal to redistribute their hoarded IPs.

Is the main point you’re overlooking.

And the big fleas themselves, in turn, have bigger fleas to go on; While these again have bigger still, and bigger still, and so on.

Every capitalist wants to invest as little and profit as much as possible.

• A history of the world in seven cheap things (p.21)

“Your stroke signature does not match our records”

I like easy tidying as a wind down activity. Mostly putting things back in their place. For bed, I have an ereader with warm lighting that’s been great. If I’m without it, something that calms my mental zoomies is practicing the alphabet backwards. I start forward with chunks, “abc - cba,” “abc, def - fed, cba,” etc. It keeps my mind active till I get bored and want to fall asleep.

In my experience, and from speaking with others, taking a break from cannabis can mean remembering dreams more vividly. It might be worth leaning into that: write dreams down when you wake and think about them when you go to bed. I find if I try to think through a dream and build on it, it puts me in that dream-state and I drift off.

Oh, and one last tip. Lights work better than alarms for some. So if you put a lamp on a timer, it may help normalize your wake-up time, if that’s an issue.

Good luck!

Nice work and congrats on your progress! Being new and uncomfortable with dependencies, this project might be a good opportunity to read and apply chapter 7 of the rust book if you haven’t already. Specifically 7.2 defining modules … and the sections that follow.

As your projects increase complexity it’s really useful to shift chunks around (within main.rs and into other files/directories). Doing it now will make it easier to see the individual parts (vs waiting till a project has a lot going on). It might make dependencies feel less unfamiliar.

Liked “EU regulation has led to Apple being forced to…”

I think about this often-- followed by Homer Simpson’s voice saying, “Better say something or they’ll think you’re stupid.”

Dang, that’s rough. I’m glad things turned around. Speaking to my own psychology: It’s easy to internalize a string of bad luck. Then when other people go through it-- whether in group therapy, a global pandemic, or a massive recession-- it shows how random or circumstantial life and luck can be. It helped me internalize it less and get out of my own way.

I was unemployed, isolated, and anosmic-- then covid hit and I was like, “hey everyone, welcome to the club! Yes, it does suck but at least now there’s people to empathize with.”