ConstipatedWatson

joined 1 year ago
[–] ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world 54 points 1 day ago (6 children)

This is disturbingly accurate

Cameras with stronger security will become more and more important, though on a theoretical level, they could be cracked or forged, but I suppose it's the usual cat and mouse game

[–] ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

True, sooner or later there might be ways to make sure that a picture or video are digitally signed and probably it would be very hard to crack, but theoretically a fake video might still pass for real (though it would require a lot of resources to make that happen)

Right, but anyone would like to not be in a video implying them in a crime, but I was wondering what would happen if fake videos of said person were to appear implicating a crime that actually did not take place

 

If AI and deep fakes can listen to a video or audio of a person and then are able to successfully reproduce such person, what does this entail for trials?

It used to be that recording audio or video would give strong information which often would weigh more than witnesses, but soon enough perfect forgery could enter the courtroom just as it's doing in social media (where you're not sworn to tell the truth, though the consequences are real)

I know fake information is a problem everywhere, but I started wondering what will happen when it creeps in testimonies.

How will we defend ourselves, while still using real videos or audios as proof? Or are we just doomed?

We need to go vote to make it happen!

[–] ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

... And also Eternity is uber cool!

[–] ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

How does the old saying go?

Ah, yes: "This is funny because it is true"

[–] ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I'm always amazed how this gibberish song managed to become popular outside of Italy and, aided by memes and frequent resharing, still being known today!

Question: how do you update extensions?

I'm curious because I normally just update Firefox when it notifies me and normally reboot my machine once a day and I notice I never ever have seen ads with uBlock Origin + Firefox, not even on my phone.

Doesn't uBlock Origin update automatically?

[–] ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Even if they did so, isn't Firefox entirely open source? At least their work could be forked (though I agree if they don't have the resources, hardly anyone else could make it)

An old meme, with a beautiful new spin.

I'm lovin' it!

[–] ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Crap, every day I see signs of how AI is polluting reality, when it could and should only be used to improve humanity.

Also, I'm starting to believe AI is effectively going to destroy or resize several jobs. For example, a friend of mine told me it asked ChatGPT to write several lines of code and it did so, maybe 85% correctly. He went through the whole code and could find mistakes and correct them. Anyhow, long story short, it would have taken his a lot of time to write them himself.

 

Lots of superheroes are "children of the atom" in the sense that they derive powers from some sort of radioactivity (think Spiderman or Hulk or even Daredevil) while others are just born with powers without explanation (X-Men, Thor, Superman, Aquaman, Wonder Woman).

Who is a superhero that is somehow grounded in reality, meaning that they could "potentially" make sense (either their origin story is believable, even if it has some obvious gap to make a super power happen, or their power is somehow limited or constructed in a "reasonable" way).

I guess with these restrictions, Batman would be OK since he's got no superpowers, but he's insanely rich and therefore can both train himself and have access to sophisticated gadgets, but can you think of less obvious ones (even if they're minor characters)?

Thanks for reading this!

Edit: thanks for all the answers and apologies for the slow replies. I've had a couple of complicated days. I'll now go through answering you. Several people made me realize I hadn't been precise in what I meant and helped with their answers. I was looking for superheroes or superpowers that are somehow "believable" in that they're either constructed in an unexpected way or in a way that you could almost accept as plausible

 

Since a few days I've not been able to see my up votes. If I go to my profile, I see the sum total of my comments and of my posts, but next to them I see two zeros.

This seemed to coincide with the Lemmy.World update.

I logged out and back in more than once, but it doesn't change this issue.

Has this happened to anyone else? If so, how did you fix it?

Thanks anyways for reading this

 

I unfortunately live in a very polluted area, one where air quality apps mark in red and recommend that I never get out of my lair.

When it rains enough the air quality becomes more bearable and here comes the question: where does pollution go when it rains hard? Does it get pushed to the ground and stays there? Does it get embedded in the water (so instead of breathing it, I get to drink it later in the tap water)?

I'm curious to know where it gets dispersed or stuck (to possibly avoid it)

 

Yesterday I saw a post about the Reddit IPO and commented on it. The post was on c/World News of Lemmy.World and seemed to just have been posted since it had no comments.

I then kept scrolling as usual and found out that the same exact post with the same title had already appeared on c/Technology of Lemmy.World with lots of comments and votes, so I understood the first one I saw was a repost and this was likely the original post and I decided to write the same comment again.

Now something interesting happened. I use Eternity and see my two identical comments being up or down voted and someone replied to my first comment (and I can see this reply in my inbox), but I cannot access the first post anymore (it says "error refreshing the page")

Thought the first post had been taken down because perhaps the original poster or mods decided it was a repost, but I woke up this morning and both of my comments keep being voted, so someone must be able to see both posts!

How is this possible?

Edit: fixed grammar

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world to c/videos@lemmy.world
 

They post a video every five years and it's simple, but I like their imagination.

Here's Cool Guy 2 and Cool Guy 2.5

 

Are any of these features already existing (and can be activated, but I didn't see how)?

(1) Making the sub-lemmy in the header have a different color so the user can visually spot the topic before reading the title

(2) Moving the header road footer, so see the topic/sub-lemmy after the title of the post

(3) removing the exclamation mark in the sub-lemmy header across the app. Since it's present in all sub-lemmy's it is a bit a nuisance

(4) change the size of the sub-lemmy names in the list of subscribed sub-lemmy's

(5) write in user's points in the about tab

(6) graying out titles of posts already read

(7) search through posts you only upvoted (but not saved). This may be a Lemmy feature request and not just Liftoff though as I've seen this lacking from all other apps I tried

Thanks for making a really awesome app!

 

Sono su Lemmy da circa un mese e mezzo e ho due profili, uno su Lemmy.World ed uno su Lemmy.Zip

Vorrei unirmi ad alcune comunità di Feddit.it, ma non riesco a trovarle su Jerboa o da Connect for Lemmy (le app che uso per accedere a Lemmy).

Ho provato ad andare direttamente su feddit.it e immettere le mie credenziali di Lemmy.World, ma non hanno funzionato. Avevo capito che nel fediverse bastasse avere le credenziali di una istanza e tutte le istanze federate accettassero queste credenziali.

Come faccio a cercare e unirmi alle comunità con i miei profili di Lemmy?

Oppure devo per forza farne uno nuovo apposito per feddit.it?

Grazie mille

 

Since I joined joined Lemmy, I signed up for two instances (Lemmy.World and Lemmy.Zip) because I didn't entirely understand the fediverse and also because it seemed useful to be on multiple instances, since Lemmy.World sometimes has outages.

Anyhow, coming from Reddit I started to look for communities I care about and I tried to join them. It's been two months now and there are some communities where I clicked on "join" and I still appear as "pending". Of course, they need to chose to approve me, but I'm wondering what I must do to prove worthy.

Moreover, I learned about communities I might want to join and I cannot find them from the two instances I signed up for. More precisely, I wanted to join some communities on feddit.it and I cannot find them from the search bar in Jerboa, while I can see them from Connect for Lemmy but I can only browse them as guest. Is that because they're not federated with the two communities I signed up for?

I suppose in that case I need to try to make an account directly in such instances

Thank you for any insight you might have!

UPDATE: regarding the first question, as several people pointed out below, I still appear as pending, but these communities now appear as those I am subscribed to in my apps (this is some sort of standard glitch in Lemmy and it's OK).

Regarding the second question, I've been to feddit.it on my browser and looked for communities I like and then I searched for them in apps with a better search function, such as Liftoff.

While I know everyone is going gangbusters about Sync for Lemmy, I still haven't found an app I like the best, but found each app is doing something slightly better than others, so I need to get more used to the fact that (at least for now), I need to access Lemmy through multiple apps (which is not necessarily a bad thing).

Thank you everyone for your help!

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