1TB favicons dumped in the root is an interesting problem for crawlers. Did they make the effort of dropping the connection in a timeout or proceed to gobble up the entire thing?
I really wish fullscreen windows weren't so easy to open. On latest Firefox desktop, I click a button, and a fullscreen windows gets opened. No confirmation dialog, it just puts the browser in kiosk mode without my permission. This could be used to phish people since you could create a plausible looking browser interface with fake address bars etc The savvy among us probably won't fall for it, but the non-savvy could get duped easily.
You could argue some of these learnings are why it has become popular?
Millenials and the generations after them have grown up living in a perpetual state of crisis. Economically they are doomed, living from one recession to another, losing more hope of ever having a life as good as their previous generations while working twice as hard.
Climate change is inevitable and unstoppable now. Things are only going to be worse from here on.
Societal cohesion is eroding all across the world.
No wonder people want to focus on what they control and live like every day is their last, because otherwise, it is pretty miserable out there.
If you really wanted to reduce Stoicism to "a few takeaways", it's more proper to start from Stoic cosmology, since its ethics directly relates to it. According to Stoics, the universe as we know it is nothing but a manifestation of pure Spirit or Reason, out of which Matter and Force first separated, then the various forces and kinds of matter also became distinct. But everything in the universe is nonetheless ordained according to Reason, and thus is ultimately why we are also told to pursue reason in all of our actions and not let ourselves be affected by damaging 'passions'. It's a rather anti-materialistic philosophy, quite opposed to modern scientism.
The original stoics counted "nature" as something close to a proper God. I think not a lot is lost transmuting "nature" to be something more appropriate for modern interpretation of the philosophy though. Nature in a modern interpretation can be thought of the natural order of the universe and the way it is. Although there was also an implied fatalism (e.g. the future is predetermined) to their concept of "nature" which would not sit well with many modern stoics. Just adding some context for what "natural law" is and how modern philosophers have taken to viewing it.
I think many people lack a cohesive life philosophy and stoicism is a keen observation of the human condition that rings true today. Not a lot has truly changed and the ancient Greeks and other philosophers had as much of a valid viewpoint of the human condition as we do today. In many areas science has now filled in blanks that were given more mystical properties in ancient times. I could go on, but Stoics were not dour and fatalistic about the future, their philosophy strongly encouraged them to live in the moment.
My understanding about logos (nature / god), it is the governing reason of the universe. Because of logos being driven by reason, that which happens in nature or is natural is grounded in reason and serves a purpose. In this way, it is not much different than "God works in mysterious ways." It is a crutch upon which you can place acceptance.
I think that is about right.It does not change a lot about living with Stoicism to abandon or update their "nature" to something modern and sensible to the practitioner. For a agnostic/atheist it more or less does not matter in my opinion.
> He thinks it is just like making a wird document
Frontend used to be just HTML, CSS, and a sprinkling of JS. Then the engineers took over and JS is no longer a sprinkling. It means build steps, web components, React, integrating best practices, learning new frameworks every month, performance, and a panoply of other things.
I signed up for OpenAI's ChatGPT tool, and entered a query, like 'What does the notation 1e100 mean?' (just to try it out). And then when displaying the output it would start outputting the reply in a slow way, like, it was dripfeeded to me, and I was like: 'what? surely this could be faster?'
Maybe I'm missing something crucial here, but why does it dripfeed answers like this? Does it have to think really hard about the meaning of 1e100? Why can't it just spit it out instantly without such a delay/drip, like with the near-instant Wolfram Alpha?
Under the hood, GPT works by predicting the next token when provided with an input sequence of words. At each step a single word is generated taking into consideration all the previous words.
You can but it’ll take longer. So one way to get faster answers is to stream the response as it is generated. And in GPT-based apps the response is generated token by token (~4chars), hence what you’re seeing.
Its a result of how these transformer models work. It's pretty quick for the amount of work it does, but it's not looking up anything, it's generating it a token a time.
What are people's thoughts on wireless keyboards? For me they're potentially leaky and it's trivial to intercept the keystrokes via EMF capture. My threat model is such that any bad actor can do an EMF capture and glean master passphrases and other sensitive data. So I avoid them. No radios, wired only.
> However, the worst case situation is that they lie about not tracking users and then they get hit with a LEO request they bow down to.
That's within reason though. A VPN is another ISP afterall, so they have to 'bow down' to law enforcement requests. What LEAs can get depends on how zero knowledge the VPN setup is. OVPN[0] for example has been 'court tested' and Mullvad had nothing to give to authorities[1] since they don't collect it in the first place (apart from payment metadata).
I'm not affiliated with OVPN or Mullvad, just a happy paying customer.
A VPN is not an ISP, at least as Canadian law (currently) is concerned. ISPs are required to store IP assignment logs, VPNs are not. Additionally, VPNs (in Canada) cannot be compelled to log users.
Source: Our law firm (I'm from Windscribe), and first hand experience with RCMP.
It's only "reasonable" if the subpoena comes from a court in the country the VPN is headquartered in. And just like you said, what LE can get depends on how the VPN is setup. If it's no-logs, anonymous payment, randomly generated user ID's, and servers not allowing dumping of the connections, there isn't much to give to the law at all.
> After a time, habitual or frequent users become desensitized to positive feedback, such as likes and comments, from other users.
I've noticed this personally. In my early social media days circa 2012, going viral with a post of mine evoked genuine gratefulness for the post and appreciation for how much reach it got. Now, going viral is just a habit. 10,000 likes, 1000 shares on Facebook is my new normal. It's not 'special' like it used to be. I still appreciate my viral posts, just not to the extent of my early social media days (this is probably because fewer people were on it in 2012).
I feel like bots (or human analogues thereof) have "devalued" these numbers a lot. Loads of people will just like or share things on autopilot, on any social network, and then you get bots adding up the rest - since I'm sure interactions like liking and sharing increase their trust rating, and thus their value, without that kind of activity being easy to detect as being from a bot since it's just a click on a button.
We've got a youth that wants to do youtube, he gets really excited when he gets a subscriber or a share or something. But I'm like... it doesn't count until it's in the thousands or tens of thousands. That's me gatekeeping though, I'm probably being a dick about it.
But isn't there more value in a reward leading you to run marathons than a reward leading you to waste your time (literally a net negative mental health wise) scrolling on a social site?
I genuinely believe that setting goals for yourself and achieving them is intrinsically more valuable than... not doing that, i.e. scrolling.
I think people want different things in life and I don’t think different leisure pastimes are inherently better.
Like in the previous example, I don’t see how a marathon isn’t also a colossal waste of time. You spend half a day running the and nothing has changed other than you feel good. Fair enough, but same thing with video games or music or social media.
Perhaps a useful hobby could be carpentry or something, but that’s a slim percentage of all hobbies, and even then, there’s probably a machine or a guy who can do it better than you and you can simply pay them.
My point was based around the idea that setting goals for yourself and pursuing them is better for you than not doing that. Disagreement on the point would surprise me. I’m not saying we all have to run marathons or hike the AT, but, really, well anything you can set your mind to is good. It could be being a great father or husband, or carpentry, or marathons. Anything is better than doing nothing and scrolling.
I don’t see scrolling as a “leisure pastime”, maybe that’s the crux of our disagreement. But if all of one’s leisure time is spent scrolling I cannot see how that is good for the individual compared to just about anything else.
I think social media really peaked around that time.
Social media was on the computer. You would interact with it every now and then, then leave. It was useful for making or keeping in touch with friends.
You had the good parts without too much of the bad parts.
But once smartphones took over, you were plugged in 24/7. It brings it out at its worst.
The dopamine hit from the like/share notification no longer hits like it did in 2012.
Reminds me of drug addicts building tolerance and upping usage to get same “high”.
Probably get the same feeling again if you hit 100K or 1M interactions
Personally, haven’t cared since 2015. FB — stopped using for socials but use its marketplace for selling/buying. IG - keep an account but otherwise have stopped using it.
Still use anonymous social media like HN or reddit. Although lately stick to the fediverse — mastodon, lemmy, and matrix.
Is that a problem though? You'll filter the people you want to interact with, effectively. I'd personally probably talk more to someone who goes to /pol/ than someone who goes on IG and TikTok. If you say "I use mastodon" that also creates an in-group effect, anyone else who does the same or similar are more likely to hit you up with a conversation due to that fact :)
Isn't this natural?
If you are not sharing 'viral' stuff to conform with expectations to be hip and desire huge audience without providing value, then it is good.
Healthy reaction to this small fandom is to take it as an indicator you are doing something good and should not focus on reception, but on the product.
I don't know where I read it, but apparently older people use emojis to feel 'with it' and cool, whereas the younger crowd barely use them. (I could be wrong, and I have no source, so don't quote me on this).
Also emojis are yet another data point to do things like sentiment analysis, and have been weaponized by social media companies to target more relevant ADs at you. Tweeted/X'd the beer emoji? Get ready for Heineken ADs.
As far as I can tell the emojis thing is (has been) mostly a millenials thing, the zoomers are mostly on the side of AAVE-speak and such related jargon (the famous fr fr, for example, even actively avoiding capitalisation is now seen as a thing).
So, yeah, I'd say that the emojis have passed the peak of cool relevancy, hence why they're discussed on this quite boring forum by definitely not cool men in their late 20s and 30s (I'm a definitely not cool man in my early 40s myself).
I've turned my phone into a pull medium instead of a push medium (they're called 'push notifications' for a reason). Notifications jolt you out of whatever you're doing. I'm not in Vegas playing slot machines either. Those little red dot 'badges' are what gamblers enjoy, and I'm not some addict. I've turned them all off in iOS. Look for 'badges' in settings and turn them all off, including push notifications, for your own sanity.
