It made a difference to me. I was planned. Talking about it indirectly felt like it might help, but I was wrong. This is the second such question in this place where the response had a negative overall feeling and impact. It will be my last.
There is no right or wrong answer. The question does not attempt to encompass the scope of potential issues. It simply frames a scope in isolation. A broader encompassing question would be interesting to me as well, although not likely in this place.
Everyone makes mistakes. I know what my mistakes look like in general, and have the self awareness for plausible deniability. I’m not all that bright, so I assume someone in this position is more skilled and capable than I.
It has deeper meaning to me, and I’m curious about outside perspectives to the point of playing devil’s advocate if I must.
The next real conversational question is, what is the difference between a parent that is well intentioned but not smart enough to take a deeper interest in their child beyond just the child’s fundamental needs, and one that is smart enough to have neglected to take an interest?
Edit: I’m getting the hint, I guess. People don’t want the messy therapeutic hard conversations or deeper subjects.
Growing up, I went to a magnet high school. Every Wednesday, we would spend half a day in home room having discussions about topics like this. That was my favorite school experience; sitting in a circle of a mixed group and having an open minded discussion. The school was on the edge of some rough neighborhoods and was 90% black, k-12, admission by application only, uni prep, and on the campus of a state college. It was intended to uplift the best and brightest in the local community while drawing in students from a wider pool as well. This type of question is only negative if you choose to view it in that light. It is very healthy to be open to the potential perspectives and experiences of others even on hard subjects.
There is a lot of nuance in what can be neglect in this kind of question. The majority of neglect is likely ignorance and the result of continuing the mistakes of their parents. By discussing these things casually and openly, it increases community awareness and helps to potentially break the cycle by getting someone to think about how they spend their time and what it means to be a good parent.
Would it be more effective to sabotage your own work in such a place?
Would it effect you the same?
I think in the one instance, the neglect potentially has more impact. If a parent that was irresponsible initially, then continues a pattern, it carries a different meaning than one that shows more intent and includes an implied rejection from the neglect that follows.
I shut down, but Fedora boots for me in like 15-20 seconds. My drive encryption is a tiny bit annoying to double log in, but I have longer mental loading pauses all the time, so who am I to complain as if those few seconds are somehow a chore or inconvenience to the calories crusher sponge. Fully cycling RAM off regularly is by-far a best-practice until we live in a Rust-y world.
The whole reason why everyone is pushed to install our app is not all that complicated. It boils down to how mobile devices are configured for ignorant users (like myself and most of us) that do not have a clue about how to securely setup, config, and maintain an operating system that is connected to the internet and send/receive connections from anyone (calls/messages/data). The way this is achieved is by removing all packages in the operating system that can modify or add packages to the operating system itself. This also involves removing the administrative (root) account. All of these packages are removed by the device manufacturer when the device is first configured. The remaining locked down OS is effectively in a Read-Only Memory state or “ROM.” Inside any mobile device, there is only one program effectively running on the host system OS. This is the user space application that almost all apps you interact with or download run from. These apps are sandboxed mostly from the base OS system. In Android, the sandbox is the SELinux system from the host OS. This is the application that limits where any app or user can save data and protects the execution path variable in the underlying OS.
So, the way you can install anything or use a device without understanding these systems and a whole lot more is because, in Android or others, the app developer is a user just like you. There is no effective difference between your access and theirs. You are not some system administrator. They have all the access you do so that they can configure all the things that you do not understand. A side effect is that they are FULL USERS ON YOUR DEVICE 24/7. They can do everything you can do. All the sandboxing, all the configuration is not to serve you or your interests. It is only attempting to prevent ANYONE from screwing up the device including you. Almost all of the sandboxing is only to protect the base OS configuration. Most of the privacy settings are only there to make you feel a little better. The app dev is still a full user exactly like you and with the ability to ignore most of it.
So what, it only happens when you open the app right? No! In Android the init configured package is called zygote. The device preloads all apps into RAM all the time. All apps are always running. Zygote is supposedly there to improve load times for apps, but the difference is on the order of microseconds and well below human persistence of vision reaction times.
Apps on mobile are like your most intimate life partners that are far more invasive and persistent than any human mate or sexual partner could ever be.
So you give up on apps and are smart enough to only use a browser. In steps why google pushes chrome and doesn’t really care if you use one of the chromium derivatives like edge, brave, or anything else. Apple does the exact same things in Safari. Anything about security or privacy in these browsers means from third party competitors to Google/Apple. ‘But I use degoogled chromium!’ It’s the mechanisms for fingerprinting and access to the base OS using JavaScript that is the primary tool being leveraged. A browser has extremely invasive administrate like connectivity to the operating system.
Security researchers have shown that it only takes 3-4 unique identifiers to correlate any anonymous data to a known individual. On mobile, every device model has a unique orphaned kernel. Most devices have nearly unique screen resolutions and configurations. This is a primary way to identify people as this info is in even the simplest of fingerprints. All the hardware paths present or not like codecs available for video are data points that can infer who you are. Your typing style and keyboard reveal a ton of information, as does your gyroscopic screen rotation sensor. Apps have full access to all of this information. Browsers may limit some sensor access. This is why everyone wants you to use their app, but also how most browsers are scantily better. If you run a whitelist firewall on a third party device, you will see how much junk you’re connecting to constantly by default.
This is why many of us here left reddit with the move against 3rd party scrapping apps. I know everything I say in this place is data mined for exploitation just like elsewhere else on the public internet. This is neo digital slavery for price fixing scams and echo chamber manipulation through nondeterministic search queries and suggested content. It is not just commercial; it is also political. This is why the best and brightest psych majors are getting high paying jobs in advertising. This is why scrolling media is pushed so heavily and why you find yourself making frivolous purchases if you consume such media. All of it is connected. It was never about annoying pop ups and banner ads no one clicked on. I even went as far as giving away stuff on Facebook when I was the Buyer for a retail store, just to prove that these platforms have no monetary value in advertising directly. If I can’t give away a thousand dollars to a person when I have 10k followers, how the hell am I going to do so by paying to show actual ads to the same people. There is so much more happening, but it is on a deeper and more invasive level.
This is the real world reason you were likely banned and it was easy to correlate your activity. Even with a VPN, most of us are unlikely to limit ourselves to the kind of opsec that can make us anonymous. If you are not practicing this opsec everywhere, at all times, you can still be tracked easily based on the few unique identifiers present and correlation.
Negativity has that effect. I treat this place no different than IRL. I don’t care for rudeness. I’m never trying to be rude or an ass. Being partially physically disabled in a way that creates involuntary social isolation makes this my only place for external human contact. Negativeness has a real effect on me long term. I have no buffer to shrug off constant negativity as well that is just the internet. I don’t accept that as normal or healthy. So I just delete stuff that gets a negative response and block anyone that feels entitled to be negative to random strangers or communities that collectively seem to be negative. I’m perfectly happy with a small pool of cool people to engage with. I want to treat you as I need to be treated as well.
Anonymity is like a truth serum. It allows people to take off the mask of peer pressure accountability and act like their true selves. In this place, and others like it, you show your true colors and ethics or lack thereof. I’m well aware of what people are like statistically. Around half have no real core ethics or independent thought. They are who I try to block and the reason I delete anything that seems to draw the attention of such persons.
My abstract thoughts are often difficult for many to follow and I often do a poor job of describing my intended context, so I just delete and move on. Sorry friend.
lemnux kernel programming. It’s a German/Japanese translation with mixed quality
No. I used an abstraction to expand the explanation of an abstraction.
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The context of an entire prompt is absolutely required to understand what any LLM is saying and why. I can make a LLM say absolutely anything.
Sounds like some stupid people to work for, or maybe she wasn’t doing much of anything in the first place. Training on hundreds of articles is only going to create a style of prose. Tuning a model for depth of scope and analysis is much more challenging. An AI can’t get into anything politically adjacent, and cannot abstract across subjects at all in the present. It can understand these aspects to a limited degree when the user prompts include them, but it cannot generate like this. It cannot write anything like I can. I suggest getting to know these limitations well. It will make training on your text useless and help you see how to differentiate. The way alignment bias works is the key aspect to understand. If you can see the patterns of how alignment filters and creates guttered responses, you can begin to intuit the limitations due to alignment and the inability to abstract effectively. The scope off focus in a model is very limited. It can be broad and shallow or focused and narrow, but it cannot do both at the same time. If it can effectively replace you, the same limitations must apply to the person.
An intelligent company would use the extra resources for better research and sources, or expanding their value in other ways instead of throwing it away or extracting it.
No it does not. This is the cultural bias failure I was talking about. It assumes the present is some idiot’s end game. We are still primitive and nowhere near even a remotely significant chunk of the age of scientific discovery. All of the hype about completeness and what is known is quite dubious. If you dig just below the surface of headlines you’ll see how little humans actually know. One day, a very long time from now, all of your technology will be biological. We have only barely scratched the surface of an understand of the subject. This is where all future technological developments will expand. We will be a footnote in the stone age of silicon with our massively irresponsible energy use and waste. That is the distant civilization that will look back on us now as we look back at the early history of civilization in Mesopotamia. The present cultural stupidity is how we are totally blind to our place in the timeline and the enormous potential ahead long after we are gone. The assumption that AI and automation means reduction is a complete fallacy of fools. It is just as stupid as saying efficient farming techniques will make all humans lazy and stop working leading to extinction. Technology allows for further specialization. It always has had this effect. Imbeciles fail to further specialize and add value. These fools lead to decline and decay because they extract wealth instead of investing it. This extraction culture is the only problem. It has been growing like a cancer for decades now. AI is just the latest excuse for a culture of reductionist imbeciles.
The main dev of Lemmy is a communist. That doesn’t make everyone here communist. This is an edge community where oversimplified political ideological labels are not applicable. This is a pro community place with a focus on the community without exploitation. That is a community-ist thing. If you’d like to be exploited through stalkerware and data mining to manipulate you for profit, there are plenty of proprietary social platforms out there without any community-ist focus.
Actually read Marx writings before making labels or judgements. You will find that his arguments in the past were much the same as the problems of today. Marx was very much an advocate for democracy. Communism does not mean backwards Russian Bolshevism, and certainly has nothing to do with Putin.
Personally, I’m not for any state involvement in the market. I’m also not a fool. Capitalism is hated by anyone with a tenth of a working brain. The reason for capitalism is that is is the least worst evil. The theoretical separation of governance from the open market enables a mechanism to oust bad actors. The USA is absolutely failing at capitalism. You can not participate in your local market economy, and the market’s consolidated pool of bad actors are directly influencing and manipulating governance. The USA is failing at democracy and capitalism, so maybe have a deep think about idealist principals like Marxism to better understand and reflect upon your own ideals.
I don’t think the issue is AI at all. The issue is a culture of wealth extraction instead of investment in growth. When companies are given free funds to reinvest in their skilled labor through increased efficiency, their actions are to reduce the workforce and throw away skilled labor instead of adding and expanding value. It is a culture of decay and irrelevance through decline. Things are already good enough and there is no room to grow or do better. Efficiency does not have to mean reduction. It is a value multiplier, but what people do with that value is the important factor. I think AI is a potential value multiplier, but any negative outlook has nothing to do with the tool and everything to do with a culture of incompetent decay through consolidation and parasitic manipulation.
It is just a casual thing. It is not a big deal. I’m just aware of the issue and unaware of how normal such an experience is. I may not be all that bright but I come from people that are a whole different tier of illogical. I figure that many people with a disparity between themselves and their parents likely feel the same way.
It is funny to me how binary this place can be some times. One can have minor issues, or just expanding self awareness of the full spectrum of their life. Every comment is not an attack or divisive or loaded. People need to be able to talk and grow. That is the real point of casual conversations; an opportunity to expand perspective, come together, and grow.
I’m mulling over a dozen things all the time. Maybe that is a rather unique trait of my personality. I ask myself questions like this all the time. I can easily keep this aspect of myself internalized. I have no issues asking myself such challenging or messy questions.
The primary reason for asking here is to expand my understanding of normative behavior. I’m also probing the depth of Lemmy as a whole and the community present on Lemmy.ee out of curiosity, and even looking at how well federation seems to be working between Lemmy.ee and .world. My abstract perspective is always layered and multifaceted. I mostly want to be positive and engage my curiosity in unexpected ways. A lot can be inferred by how people perceive and respond to a question like this. Negativity is not a requirement. The tone of responses and the collective momentum through reinforcement reveals a lot about depth, open mindedness, curiosity, and even the mental health of the community as a whole.