I honestly fully believe that proprietary software is bullshit and all software ought to be Free Software. I’m not saying I don’t use proprietary software, but I don’t trust it. If I run proprietary software, I go out of my way to try to run it in prison. I don’t let my Nintendo Switch connect to the internet except when I have a very specific reason and then I disconnect it immediately after I’m done. When I bought a robot vacuum cleaner, I bought specifically the model that I knew I could hack to not phone home. I bought a phone on which I could run LineageOS without the Google apps. (And, yes, I’m running a proprietary EFI BIOS on my main desktop machine and such. But I do take a lot of steps to limit how much influence proprietary software has on me and my devices.)

Mandelbrot sets are only 2-dimensional, though. The author could have used a Mandelbulb.

Like this. (Spoilers for the movie “Annihilation”.)

Theoretically if you rotated the creature 180°, it could again perceive things from its own world, though in a very different way. But you’d think a sufficiently smart 2 dimensional creature could come to recognize that it was indeed the same world just mirrored.

Though it’s possible this creature’s chemistry would have a “handedness” and it could no longer metabolize the nutrients that exist in that world.

Windows, I will always remember it being the best thing for business’s as Microsoft pushes licenses and such business related features.

Most businesses I’m familiar with deserve to have to deal with Microsoft BS.

Well, yeah. It’s OpenSea. That’s like saying “76% of videos on Pornhub are porn.”

How is this getting upvotes?

If anyone’s fooled, the video is edited from the original. In the original, the old man yells the word “mom”.

Here too. Weird.

Where’s the love for SatansMagottyCumFart?

Stop giving Republicans ideas.

AI has already peaked. It’s all downhill from here.

Jesus. Fuck Missouri. And Parsons in particular.

I get the feeling Trumpers would have trouble comprehending this. Trumpers are in a straight up cult and I’m guessing it kindof doesn’t compute that the majority of Biden voters kinda hate him and vote for Biden in spite of that.

Remember when Joe Rogan was near the mouth of the alt-right funnel rather than the butt?

Jordan Peterson. Not even once.

I’ve run across AI content in non-AI subs before and responded with similar things fully expecting to be downvoted to Earth’s core and was pleasantly surprised at how few downvotes and how many upvotes I got. So I’ve made a habit of calling out AI stuff in non-AI communities when I run across it. (Unless it’s actually strongly related to the purpose of the community it’s posted in.)

This is at least the third time I’ve made such a comment, and the first time I’ve seen a negative net score for more than a few minutes after I posted. Still, it’s pretty evenly split even on this one. Maybe most of the down-voters just don’t want anything negative said about “AI”. (Like cryptobros will deem anything “bearish” to be “FUD”.) Who knows.

And there are places for engaging in mouth-foaming AI bubble hype indulgence on Lemmy. I just don’t want the communities I like inundated with tons of AI PR posts.

And they say America has no culture.

Can we keep LLM BS in “AI”-specific subs, please?

I’m curious whether there’s anyone in this thread who is cool with, for instance, Github renaming the default branch name to “main” but thinks GIMP renaming would be woke BS.

For the record, I’m for both changes and and yes I do have a glass case where I keep my downvote collection.

It kindof seems like what you’re looking for is Gentoo. Any reason why you’re reticent to go that direction?

Obligatory “install Linux” post.