significant portion of the content in my feeds appears to be AI-generated

On which platforms? For me it seems to be true on the big ones I still kind of use because of some other reasons like Facebook and Instagram, but the niche ones like Lemmy and Mastodon don’t.

One exception of the big ones is YouTube, there seems to still be enough humans creating content so it still out weights the AI generated one.

1. They are to far away to reach us
2. If they have technology which would make it possible for them to travel faster than light, they have such high intelligence that they don’t recognize us as intelligent beings like we don’t recognize viruses as having any intelligence, so they would never think of visiting us and communicating with us.

Just FYI; Twitter and Reddit had API usage available free of charge for more than a decade too.

Honestly I thought it was a fake story because of how they presented themselves while doing in on a very niche fediverse platform like Lemmy where practically only people end up who are very interested in technology, politics, freedom, etc. All topics which require quite a degree of abstract thinking and knowledge.

So even if this IQ number were correct, which I have a hard time to believe because if how eloquent they use language and how analytic they see their life, it probably has no base in reality but was a test fluke.

That’s an interesting idea, need to check if they offer some kind of a API for that.

But then there is this other thing, what about dns cache?

Democracy is just the tyranny of the majority.

I think that most of the Americans want this, even if people on the outside do not understand. So in that sense they are right now winning back their country, as confusing as it might sound.

Kmac2021, top!

It’s some time ago I dug deeper on what was happening, but openconnect was getting a different response from the server than it expected and it just failed because of that.

I did, doesn’t work with our company setup with 2FA.

I see, nice, but I’m on Linux, so perhaps I need to run power shell there ^^

1. Gimp to batch edit pictures in a script (I know about ImageMagick but still)
2. Excel to change stuff in excel files quickly (I know about python modules but it’s so complicated to use)
3. Proprietary VPN software like Cisco AnyConnect, I want to automate the login when I boot, but they don’t let me

Just from the top of my head.

For me it’s the other way around I wish there would be better CLI support for GUI apps.

I’m running Mastodon and yes it is quite a big software but it is fairly lightweight if you run a one person instance. The biggest advantage is that it’s rock solid. I had zero problems running or upgrading it in the last um 5 years or something.

I use two actively but technically I have a gmail adress but only use it to log in to YouTube with it. If you sent me an email there I will probably never see it.

Hehe, I went through about 120 communities and subscribed to them manually because I didn’t realize there was such a functionality ^^.

It depends when the admin sleeps. He lives in Asia/ New Zealand so he was probably sleeping the last 5 hours.

Eating, pooping, showering, sleeping, cooking, cleaning, drinking coffee.

Vigilantism is illegal for a couple of good reasons.

Back in the day - it was around 2003 - I had a band and I wanted my band to have a website. That is when I installed Frontpage which let you design it with drag and drop. I had a menu which I wanted to show on each page, so I used serverside injection which Frontpage offered to do that. Later I found out that you tan even dynamically change the menu to highlight on which page you are if you do it with PHP and to a '[HTML_REMOVED]`. From there I added more dynamic things until I had some software on my hands.

But this was not the first time I got into coding actually. First time was around 1992 when my dad bought me an Amiga 500 and it came with the AMIGABasic handbook. Back then while most of my friends only used it for games, I somehow got interested in trying to make the computer do what I want. So I wrote some small games, some animations, even a book lending management program. But after some years i stopped being interested in computers until ten years later.

You mean to make a documentation on the design and how to build it from scratch? There is the Open-source hardware community which is doing stuff like that; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_hardware

It’s just a lot of work and much more complicated than open-sourcing software source code. That is - I guess - why so few people do it. On top of it there are not many people who would reuse it because for most people it’s cheaper and good enough to get a modern version from a commercial vendor.