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Cake day: August 6th, 2023

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  • If your setup allows you to be a productive member of society, you’re golden mental health wise. /s

    You may want to get your eyes checked if watching HD video on a tiny screen seems preferable unless all your content fits your displays native resolution; I am fairly certain my eyes are terrible. Maybe that’s why I love that dark themes are becoming more popular.

    Transparency is nice, but Windows Vista is partially what converted me to Linux. I dislike rounded corners too, since content is always rectangular.

    I don’t know why no mainstream desktop OS really has a good mouse driven tiling setup out of the box. I have a dual screen setup, so I mostly just full screen apps and alt tab if needed which reduces distraction. If I’m trying to focus on a single thing, the second screen gets turned off.

    I find myself becoming more minimalist over time as well. Society seems to be more distraction driven by the day, so having an OS that stays out of the way is a boon.




  • Solving the fragmented community problem is something I’ve been pondering too, and the meta-community idea you described seems interesting.

    Obviously, a proper technical solution will be difficult. Federation comes with a host of challenges, as well as benefits.

    Giving communities the opportunity to be open to other like minded people on different instances would be beneficial to the network, for a number of reasons.

    If two communities on different instances have the same name, it doesn’t seem crazy to ask each of them if they’d like to federate with each other.

    That way, apart from instances defederating, discussions could continue even if individual servers go down.

    Of course, people love to hold on to their little fiefdoms, so the issue is as much social as technical.










  • I agree with his points, but until such a time when we figure out how consciousness arises in biological systems it seems difficult to be sure that creating an artificial consciousness is actually impossible.

    Of course such a thing would likely be orders of magnitude more difficult than an AGi and we’re much further away from that than people want to believe. Building an artificial consciousness seems like far future sci-fi to be sure.

    That being said, I think it very unlikely such a thing would simply be an algorithm, but there’s more to science and engineering than CS.


  • Depending on who you ask OC is basically a myth, and everything is just fanfic expanding on base archetypes and themes anyway.

    The Romans literally copied Greek statuary, and nobody questions the virtuosity of neo-classicists even if their work is “just” Greco-Roman fanart.

    Most art is memetic in some way, making it accessible and engaging to a large audience and reducing the amount of exposition and context needing be communicated. Ironically, art that doesn’t do so is often criticized for being inaccessible, elitist, or “something my baby could have done”.

    Telling artists what art they should make is silly outside of commissions to begjn with.