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in женщина, я не танцую (woman, i don't dance) by stas kostyushkin, he at first says Женщина, не танцую, женщина, я не танцую (woman, i don't dance, woman i don't dance) but then he says Женщина, я танцую, женщина, а я танцую (woman, i'm dancing, woman i'm dancing!)

I hope this is not off topic. I love using 4k screensavers for my tv, like long forest walks, birds, or fish. Unfortunately almost all of the fish ones are creatures from the oceans. I like those too, but does anyone know of some nice, hours long, videos from freshwater fish or shrimp?

I miss my fishtanks, so i would really enjoy watching them on tv, whether in the wild or in big tanks.

How in terms of "how did you do it" i.e. a guide a wiki etc. How to you maintain it? How do you provide security and how do you maintain it? Do you host on bare metal at home? Do you use a cloud service? If the former, how do you connect to it when you aren't at home?

I realize that's a lot to ask, but I have some down time and want to hear everyone's full viewpoints

And what is a left libertarian? How do the two coalesce into a 'Libertarian Party' in other countries?

Thinking specifically about AI here: if a process does not give a consistent or predictable output (and cannot reliably replace work done by humans) then can it really be considered "automation"?

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You have probably seen my previous post about the fact, that the banner of this community is currently AI genereated. My suggestion in that post was, that it would be pretty cool to replace that banner with a human drawn or photographed one to highlight and celebrate artist and the human spirit of this community. I honestly didn't expect it to blow up in the way it did, but it seems to be an issue, not only I, but many other people seemed to care about. So I think everyone would agree, that it would be a good idea to let the community on here decide what happens with our banner.

My idea would be, that we first have a general vote, if you as a whole community are interested in a banner change. Then, if enough people care about this vote and vote for yes, we can host a general art competition across the whole of Lemmy where artists, who care about this community can propose new banners, which they created themselves. The point in this challange would be to celebrate the creativity of specifically the human Lemmy community, so AI suggestions would be disallowed there. Then, all of you could vote on the banner and we could suggest the banner with the most votes to the mods of this community.

The vote is hosted on Mastodon, because it is not possible to do that on Lemmy. I have no followers on my Mastodon and I am posting the survey as a silent post, so other people probably won't interfere much here.

Guys, soon we will live in a digital concentration camp, where everyone will know about us, and our fate will be decided based on the collected data, when the world will continue to rot alive. Are you ready for this incredible adventure? Well, have you prepared your masks and learned to play the law-abiding citizen so as not to get caught? After all, it will be very easy to get caught, it will be enough to look at someone incorrectly once or criticize someone, for example, the government.

If anything, I'm interested in what ideas you have on how to live in such an empty and rotting hell, since everything has already been decided for us a long time ago and the plan is being implemented. Well, on the other hand, what could you expect in a world where the strongest survives? I think such an outcome was obvious from the very beginning. I think you yourself have already realized that the alternatives are rather a blatant and sweet lie. The only question remains: how to survive and remain human until the very end in a world where even the soul has no value?

I am already gradually recovering from the deep depression that I will never again be able to realize what I have always dreamed of and I want to hear your sincere opinion so that I no longer have false hopes because the road to hell seems pleasant and is similar to heaven, and the road to heaven seems like an unattainable dream and feels like hell.

There is no point in warning anyone anymore, it is useless, people either believe in convenient lies like: "I will cope somehow, it worked before!", or are tired of life and are simply looking for consolation in at least something, and only a very small percentage of people accept the truth and either resist to the last, or leave this life, or simply escape from this concentration camp.

So yes, I would probably prefer to enjoy every free day until the last, soaking up the fresh air and chatting on various topics while I still can.

Dystopias are becoming reality, aren't they?

Why are there several overlapping coats of paint that are peeling off? I thought this was the new and flashy Boeing plane? The airline was Scoot.

I catch a cold yesterday while working, finished my shift and went home. 4 hours later I was so tired I laid down on my bed and woke up at 4am the next day, meaning I slept for 10 hours straight.

I called in sick and went back to sleep. 4 more hours.

I woke up, cooked something, ate, watched netflix and kept falling asleep. I started feeling like a person at 2 pm.

I went walking in a park for 30 minutes and went back home, started reading some epubs started having a headache and feeling tired, called in sick for a second day in a row and if tomorrow I feel like this, it's gonna be the third day in a row I feel tired and very strange, like not completely awake but not tired.

I was hoping to go to the doctor today, but I'm so tired.

I didn't feel so tired while walking those 30 minutes I mentioned. Now I wonder if walking outdoors makes people feel more awake, because the air has more oxygen than inside my bedroom and if I should open the windows to let some fresh air inside.

I had begun reading a short story or a novel on gutenberg.org couple of years ago (Those who don't know, it's a site where you can find all kinds of public domain ebooks.) The story was set in a distant future where people time travel to various time periods of the past and live there and thereby drain resources of the past. There was some kind of structure called time dome or smth like that. It read from the pov of a guy called Ted, Tom or Taylor. I had to uninstall my browser and therefore lose all data. Tried to find it, but couldn't. It was interesting enough for me to remember even today.

Edit: I can't believe this myself, but I somehow found it and it was actually reaalllyy easy. Took me like 30 seconds. I just went to Project Gutenberg, opened the books about time travel section, scrolled down and down and there it was... Tyrants of Time by Milton Lesser. Even though I read it in Gutenberg.org, not once did I look up in Gutenberg itself. I made social media posts, googled it, asked chatgpt and all that. I have no idea why I didn't look it up in Gutenberg itself. And the structure I called 'Time Dome' was actually Eradrome, it's a place that facilitates time travel. And the protagonist is actually Tedor Barwan. Damn, I'm really stupid!!

In my opinion, AI just feels like the logical next step for capitalist exploitation and destruction of culture. Generative AI is (in most cases) just a fancy way for cooperations to steal art on a scale, that hasn't been possible before. And then they use AI to fill the internet with slop and misinformation and actual artists are getting fired from their jobs, because the company replaces them with an AI, that was trained on their original art. Because of these reasons and some others, it just feels wrong to me, to be using AI in such a manner, when this community should be about inclusion and kindness. Wouldn't it be much cooler, if we commissioned an actual artist for the banner or find a nice existing artwork (where the licence fits, of course)? I would love to hear your thoughts!

The premise behind a gravitational sensor is to detect changes to a local space time, in space.

Would it be sorta like how we use sensitive machines to detect vibrations from earthquakes?

Or would it not be possible because the sensor itself would interfere with the readings?

Like, maybe not because of censorship per se, but maybe for abusing their power as an oligopoly or going against the desire of their users?

I know it's been asked a million times already but would I need to create different accounts for different instances? Please feel free to shout at me, call me dumb or whatever if that gets your rocks off, but I just wanna know how it works 😅

My understanding is most of you are anti AI? My only question is....why? It is the coolest invention since the Internet and it is remarkable how close it can resemble actual consciousness. No joke the AI in sci fi movies is worse than what we actually have in many ways!

Don't get me wrong, I am absolutely anti "AI baked into my operating system and cell phone so that it can monitor me and sell me crap". If that's what being Anti AI is.....to that I say Amen.

But simply not liking a privacy conscious experience or utilization of AI at all? I'm not getting it?

Im currently doing my bachelors in Computer Science somewhere in Europe, and im wondering what the best universities to do the masters are? Each ranking seems to say a different thing after the very top (delft, and ETH, but those I can’t go to due to annoying admission requirements)

I've often heard that China is authoritarian, particularly due to events like the suppression of student protests in Hong Kong. However, I'm curious about more recent examples. Conversely, I've been hearing about the UK's Online Safety Act being used to target Wikipedia editors and silence protests, which raises questions about authoritarian tendencies there as well. What specific examples do you have that demonstrate whether these countries are authoritarian or not?

Watching a documentary, there was aremark from the journalist on how, due to how wildly taxation on goods may vary, from area to area, in the US, most retailers do not put the full prices on the shelves and instead just tally it at checkout.

This made no sense to me, a european, as when I go to any regular shop, prices already include all taxes applicable to the product.

There are specialty stores where VAT and other taxes may not be applied on the price on the shelf but those are usually wholesellers, selling for professionals, that already know what additional taxes will be added and at which rates, at checkout.

Not having the full price you'll be paying, on display, seems very underhanded and a bad practice. The client should know how much they are going to pay from the moment they pick an item.

This is a more focused follow up to a question I had the other day about moving to other countries. I'm wondering what the best options are for learning a new language at the moment. I'm vaguely aware of companies like Duo-lingo losing their reputation lately and it's hard to trust the top google results nowadays with all the SEO junk. So does anyone have suggestions for trustworthy/useful sites for learning a new language? If it matters, in particular I'm interested in trying (In roughly this order) Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, or Spanish.

I’ve recently realized (thanks to another Lemmy discussion), that I have no joy, passion, or happiness left 🤣

I want to live vicariously through the collective! What’s bringing you joy, happiness, and/or what are you passionate about.

Let’s keep this safe for work 🙂

As always, thank you all so much for answering my questions! I hope you everyone is having a great day!!

I just made the switch to Lemmy and I'm curious what everyone's using to browse it. Looking for recommendations for both mobile and desktop.

Mobile: Been testing a few apps.

• Voyager's been solid so far - clean interface and works well. Only downside is no push notifications.
• Also tried Boost but it has some display issues - embedded icons don't show up right and GIFs in comments are way too small.

Desktop: Still figuring out what to use here. What do you all prefer?

Any recommendations would be helpful. Thanks.

I just want to be more positive in my life as I see the world growing number of challenges as I like to say. Loving strangers is helping me out and preaching class solidarity.