Btw, since we’re having a lot of very specific AI news in the technology community lately, I’d like to point to !localllama@sh.itjust.works

That’s a very nice community with people interested in all the minor details of AI. Unfortunately it’s not very active, because people keep posting everything to the larger tech communities, and some other people don’t like it there because it’s “too much AI news”.

I think an article like this fits better in one of the communities dedicated to the topic. Just, please don’t dump any random news there. It has to be a good paper, influential article. You should have read it and like it yourself. If it’s just noise and the usual AI hype, it doesn’t belong in a low volume community either.

I think that’s how puberty works, and not the teachers’ fault. I’m also kinda old and I don’t know exactly how it is today. We had both, some bad ones, some that were unnapproachable and stuck to their role as a authority figure. But we also had some excellent ones. Also some you could approach with your small struggles as a teen and who’d respect and help you, instead of yelling at you. There is both. And always has been.

You’re free to give away your freedom. Let corporations and algorithms decide what kind of content you’ll see and shape the filter bubble you live in. You can watch advertisements all day and let them nudge you to do what they like. Collect information about you so they can control you. I don’t.

And there is a necessity. How would you do online banking without encryption? Talk about sensitive matters? Help someone in a delicate situation? Ask for help? Maintain services and userdata? Keep track of the members in your sports club and talk to their parents? Discuss politics without inevitably getting doxxed? Be a Youtube creator without getting doxxed and unwelcome visitors?

Take the advice offered by journalists on how to contact them privately and avoid getting caught. I.e. secure and protect evidence without raising suspicion. Contact a reputable journalist via some secure means of communication. Let them take over and keep silent. Don’t brag or something.

Most good newspapers offer something like PGP encrypted mail, SecureDrop over TOR and more to talk to them.

I’ve seen a picture of a kid sitting on a lillypad in some botanical garden. So yes. I fogot the numbers, I believe they also tested the maximum load (of the lillypad) with sand.

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I’m not aware of any. lemmyverse.net has one sentence ready per instance. But I doubt that’s enough detail.

If you feel comfortable asking (and revealing what you’re interested in), you might get some recommendations from the people here.

Uh, I’m not super up to date any more. I installed YunoHost a long time ago and it’s been running fine most of the time, I haven’t installed anything new in the last year or so. I like it. I don’t think i have any broad advice, except the usual. Do your backups in case a harddisk fails. And don’t mess with the config manually (too much) or you might run into problems.

I’m mainly using it to self-host my e-mail, Matrix chat, Peertube and Nextcloud. Have stored all the calendars and contacts stored there and sync it to my phone and computer. Have smaller websites running as a custom_webapp. And I use the reverse proxy to make Home Assistant and a few side-projects and experiments accessible from outside.

I think that dynamic predates AI, at least in it’s current form. As far as I know people have become separate and more anonymous and more alone for some time now. That got out of hand with technology in general. Videogames, surfing the web. Looking at phone screens all the time. And spending a lot of time on social media instead of in the real world.

Though we had people complaining even before that. I think I once read some very old text complaining about kids reading too much and spending their times in a fantasy world.

That doesn’t invalidate the current situation. A lot of that has indeed become problematic. And though there are AI therapists and teachers, I strongly suspect they’re going to make everything way worse than it already is.

Theoretically, by analysing the exact needs, and being able to address them individually (in contrast to a teacher, who has limited time, and a whole class of students to attend to), it could do a better job. I mean the whole sales pitch of these systems is that they can attend to individual needs, and not just give you the material made for the average, “regular” student.

We’ll see if it turns out that way. I have my doubts. It needs to have training data about neuro-divergent students, and knowledge how to handle them. And usually AI reproduces bias and stereotypes. Edge-cases are more rare in the training data, and that makes AI less knowledgeable. And that happens a lot. Plus current AI is very limited. I’m not sure if it’s even smart enough to address individual needs. Or feed students with proper facts instead of fiction.

But I don’t think analysing the students behaviour is the issue here. If at all, it’s going to lead to improvements of those AI models, if they collect data about neuro-divergent people and feed them in.

He co-authored a book in 2001. Containing a lot of autobiography and the story of Linux. It’s called “Just for fun”. If you’re interested in the long answer, you might want to read it. It’s nice to read, contains most of the anecdotes and goes quite into detail regarding your question.

Btw, that’s a quote, and not a statement of that article/essay.

I think you should have printed a cowboy hat and glued that on. I’ve seen people do it, and it hides the line very well 😆

I’m not sure if there is an easy fix if you want to continue. My prints often come with a slight warp underneath (from the bed). That leads to the exact same result as in your picture. Maybe that’s fixable on better printers. Or you’d need to print just the hollow outline that gets glued on. Not any middle part that could be warped slightly…

Or some postprocessing. Fill the gap with filler from the hardware store before painting. But that won’t be possible with multicolor prints.

Nice one. Though, I think as one of the Linux nerds here, I should be wearing a hoodie and saying “Lemmy users are normal people”. And I do get good answers here, regarding computer stuff. But it doesn’t feel they’re nearly as loud as in any single computer forum… Maybe the bell curve is closer to me. And the users who complain that it’s too much Linux content are wrong?!

But it’s peaked this March, and we’re in constant decline since then. We’re losing a few hundred users each month, not growing.

Most Lemmy users and the developers say they prefer slow growth… I mean you’re right. My point is just, it does look more like active decline. And I’m not sure if that’s healthy.

You’re right. That’s a good thing. At the same time it has a lot more “normal people” than other places on the internet, I frequent.

We will grow organically, or not, and it will be fine.

I think that’s pretty much settled by now. Judging by the stats, the graph has homed in on a steady line of 45k monthly active users. And there hasn’t been any movement for some time now. It’s going to be the “or not” part.

That’s exactly what I’ve been telling for some time now, as well.

I think we should be nice and welcoming and provide a good atmosphere. Maybe a unique (in a good way) community that can’t be found anywhere else. I mean we need something that sets us apart. If we’re just another low-key social media platform that is bad as well, just in a different way, we won’t attract any users.

And we need to offer something useful(?) to (new) users.

Plus we need to solve a few technical issues. The onboarding process needs to be a lot easier. It has to be clicking “Next” a few times and maybe choosing a password. Not learning about instances etc and then you also get to sort through the communities and put in a lot of effort to make it useful.
And I’ve heard admins complain, so there might be a few other issues with performance, reliability and other details.
I also think the UI has to be shiny to attract normal people. And there needs to be constant and visible improvement, maybe useful new features every now and then. So it looks active, and provides some novelty and innovation.

Maybe even some “Wow”-factor.

Furthermore, maybe a bit less drama. And it has to be obvious that Lemmy is a nice place. I mean it is. But most people I’ve showed it to, didn’t notice this at first glance.

Well, sometimes people just don’t ever get it and they need to be told to fuck off in very blunt words. I think that usually poisons the well and dries up further conversation, permanently. But I’m not sure if this is the case here. And that strategy possibly comes with other severe consequences. So I won’t recommend it. The mild version of it is to just be direct and honest, skipping any overly kind phrasing.

Another strategy would be to have someone else talk to him… You yourself seem to be getting nowhere. But maybe he listens to other people, or they’re somehow more gifted to get through to people like him.

What also sometimes works (depending on circumstances) are large headphones. They might be part of your work anyways, if you’re doing online-meetings in the office, or you are allowed to listen to music… Either do that and you can’t hear him anyways, or just put them on all day and say “Huh?” 200 times a day and see if he picks up on it. Though, this might not work if he’s stupid, as well. Or he might start tapping you on the shoulder and invade your privacy even more… Idk. But headphones have worked for me in various situations. Especially if they’re big and noticeable.