Nope. No Crowdsourced Blockchain Web 3.0 VR+AR AI NFTs.

Imagine the jump scare as they decided to look behind themselves… Why? Because the monsters come not from behind that door, the monsters come from behind that people. A haunting, haunted past, whose curse follows the arrow of unstoppable time, as the new year comes with all the consequences from the past years. Creepy new year.

There are many AI development happening in China. Doubao (from Bytedance, the same company behind TikTok), DeepSeek and Qwen are some examples of Chinese LLMs.

In reality, a similar scenario happened a long time ago, at the beginning of the cosmos:

In the Big Bang cosmological models, during the earliest periods, the universe was filled with an opaque fog of dense, hot plasma of sub-atomic particles. As the universe expanded, this plasma cooled to the point where protons and electrons combined to form neutral atoms of mostly hydrogen. Unlike the plasma, these atoms could not scatter thermal radiation by Thomson scattering, and so the universe became transparent. (Source)

Before being transparent, “light” would not travel further. The era of recombination, which happened when the cosmos was “merely” 380,000 years old, allowed “light” to travel further. This “light” was also radio wave and microwave, and it was part of the white noise back when people still used analog receptor devices, such as radio receptors and analog TV sets. One could still hear it through analog ham radio transceivers and receptors that are still used today, such as Baofeng UV-5R and RTL-SDR dongles connected to a PC.

In your scenario, EM at the radio range wouldn’t propagate, while the rest of the EM frequencies would propagate just fine.

Well, many of the technologies we use in a daily basis are microwave radiation. Access point routers (Wi-fi) operates in the “microwave” portion (2.4GHz and 5GHz), same for Bluetooth. Same for mobile network, which now broadly operates as 4G and 5G. Same for US GPS, Galileo, GLONASS and other geolocating satellital services.

People nowadays use internet to do things. Television and radio became embedded within internet streaming. Governments nowadays use internet to do things. Banks use internet to do things. Commerce use internet to do things. So, they’d be mostly unaffected at the beginning of such phenomenon.

What’d be affected on common people’s lives:

• Some types of NFC, so contactless payment would stop working. Non-wireless payments would still work.
• Media broadcasting outside cable and internet. Both FM radio station signals and Digital TV station signals would simply vanish.
• Remotely locking and unlocking cars will become impossible because car alarm sets mostly operates within 433MHz, which is the “radio” part. Cars will probably be “unlockable” physically by turning keys on their door locks, but they will be noisy as they’d be triggered by the lack of signaled unlocking. Everyone’s cars would go weeeweeeweeweeeweeeweeweeee… in unison as their owners/drivers resorted to their keys to open the doors. Infuriating for everyone, but not something that would “stop” altogether (except, maybe, for some kinds of alarms that wouldn’t allow car ignition to function without proper unlocking, but this is more of an indirect consequence rather than a direct consequence of your “sudden radio wave blackout”).

It’s beyond common people that things would be more affected:

• Airplanes would stop communicating with TWR and some of their instruments would stop as well. Their comms happen between 108-137 MHz, which falls into the radio portion. They won’t “fall from the skies”, but accidents would start to happen as the coordination between flights would become impossible and they would need to resort to visual.
• Radars of all kinds.
• Some trains communicate with the railway control using the radio portion. No more switching rails for trains. Possible train wrecking.
• Radio telescopes all around the world (and those in orbit as well) would stop. No more observing the cosmos through radio waves.
• Some of the satellite communications that happen below the microwave range.
• Weather satellites, it would become impossible for them to do their climate-related operations. Weather forecast would become harder to do without this source of info.

It’s a multifaceted and complex thing to try and imagine everything that would stop working. Modern society has lots of complex technologies, so I probably forgot something above.

I didn’t know that site until you mentioned it. Thanks for letting me know about its existence. It’s a cool example of Streisand effect in practice. (Not /s)

Some alternative , nerdy interpretations follow:

• sh: it just works. You don’t need bash, zsh, fish, tcsh or anything else, just running sh will provide a shell environment.
• sh: IT just works. Similar to the previous interpretation, but also stating that IT (Information Technology, which is meant to mean the IT department) just works with sh.

I’ll certainly be out of this world long before I ever stopped to think about my retirement. That’s my retirement plan.

Do the options “Written Sci-fi” and “Written Fantasy” also apply for writers, not consumers?

Because I once wrote both a sci-fi and fantasy story, so I’d check those.

This remembers me of the possibility of him buying TikTok and renaming it to “X Vídeos”. What are the odds of such a tragicomedy to happen?

It resonates a lot with my ongoing feelings. I couldn’t agree more with the majority of your statements.

Initially when I opened your thread among a bunch of other Lemmy tabs (because threads usually vanish whenever I refresh the feed, so I open every thread which called my attention as background tabs so I can access them later), I did read “going rogue” as something as “going away from society”, “leaving from society”. Then I read your thread and realized what you meant by “going rogue”.

Let me first digress on my initial idea: that of leaving society.

You see, back in the past, humans used to be hominids living among the woods, gathering and hunting for survival. Then, there was this groundbreaking discovery: the fire, either through a lightning strike which was witnessed by a hominid, or through a naive rubbing of stones above dry leaves. It was both a gift and a curse to the human kind.

Fire was a slippery slope, and what followed was just downhill. Fire allowed the hominids to look “fearsome” to other species. Fire allowed the hominids to roast their food and to boil water, which allowed cooked meal, which allowed their brains to better develop, which brought another curse: the damn sentience, the capability of better, deeper conceptualization and understanding of surrounding phenomena.

Humans couldn’t be “free” anymore. We became chained, they became captivated by their own minds. Humans became dangerous to themselves and to those who surrounded them. There’s this shadowy dark side of the cosmos within life (the chao ab ordo), it was awakened by the bright light of these flames, just like “the opposites attract each other”. Humans became their own enemies, not just due to a the prey-predator dynamics from the Nature, but the vacuum of predators being abhorred and filled by ourselves.

My comment is already long, for I shall interrupt my retrospective here and return to the present time. Humans aren’t even allowed to leave the cities and live among the woods again, gathering and hunting, we aren’t allowed to do that anymore! I mean, yeah, there are the indigenous people, but the modern society came to them and assimilated them with those “modernities” just like Agent Smith assimilating the whole Matrix. Indigenous people were colonized and forced to become part of society, just like anyone of us were forced as soon as we were born (I mean, we weren’t even aware of this thing, we were babies!!). We were unplugged from the raw Nature, we became artificialized, we became enslaved by both the society and by ourselves, by our pleasures, by our illusory will.

There’s no solution… I guess. No human ideology, no technology, no Jesus Christ, no alien, no Batman, no Joker, no Superman, no one will save us from ourselves. The dark side is an inherent human thing, one could blame the hominid Prometheus, but it’s actually just the chaos returning from the illusory order which emerged from the primordial chaos. It was always there since the beginning, within us. Let’s say hello to the Darkness, our old friend and enemy!

Sorry if I sounded “doomerist”. I’m actually “nihilist”, for each one of us has an abyss inside of us, and, silly me, I once dared to gaze into my own abyss… 🤷

As I like to test things before saying something critical about them, I rushed to my GH account in order to test this “Copilot” from GitHub (it’s a weird name considering that Copilot is also a Bing AI; both Bing and Copilot are Microsoft products, so unsurprisingly there’s zero creativity coming from them).

So far:

• It’s nothing new: it’s just OpenAI ChatGPT 4o under the hood (something I already use through OpenAI’s website, thanks for the nothing burger, Github)
• It’s GPT 4o with supposedly some integration with GH APIs…
• … except that it has no Github Gists integration (I use Gists more than I use repos)
• … and it fails to retrieve the list of all my repos so far (something I managed to manually do through my browser, accessing some endpoint from Github’s API (it requires no token) and using Devtools to map and format the JSON array into a string list)
• The paid version seems to offer the possibility to pick another LLM model: Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, OpenAI ChatGPT o1 (also known as “strawberry”, who can’t count “how many R’s” are there within its own name) and… that’s it. Also nothing new, even if you ever dare to pay for it.

Summary: a “nothing burger”. It perfectly describes this… “tool”?

Someone heard The Beatles (or maybe Rihanna) for their first time and thought “Diamonds in the sky… Huh… What if…”.

Thanks for pointing that out. I’ll try to be better (English is not my native language, I’m Brazilian).

How the hell a SSD can coil whine… Without mobile parts lol…

Do you even know what “coil whine” is? It has nothing to do with moving parts! “Coil whine” is a physical phenomenon which happens when electrical current makes an electronic component, such as an inductor, to slightly vibrate, emitting a high-pitched sound. It’s a well-known phenomenon for graphic cards (whose only moving part is the cooler, not the source of their coil whinings). SSDs aren’t supposed to make coil whines, and that’s why I’m worried about the health of mine.

Finally, cost benefit. The M.2 I was suggesting is $200 buck for 4Tb. Cmon it’s not the end of the world and you multiply speeds… By 700…

I’m not USian so pricing and cost benefits may differ. Also, the thing is that I already have another SSD, a 240G SSD. I don’t need to buy another one, I just need a HDD which is what I said in my first comment. Just it: a personal preference, a personal opinion regarding personal experiences and that’s all. The only statement I said beyond personal opinions was regarding the life span which I meant the write rate thing. But that’s it: personal opinion, no need for ranting about it.

It all boils down to how such games (and softwares, in general) depend on dependencies. Imagine two teachers, both of which lectures to several students. One of these teachers are a mathematician, and the other teacher is an engineer. The first depends on math books, the latter depends on engineering books. Sure, there are mathematical aspects to engineering, as there are engineering aspects to math sometimes, but a math teacher can’t use engineering books to lecture, while the engineering teacher can’t use math books to lecture. They need their own set of books, even though these sets can overlap sometimes.

That’s a similar situation to Windows and Linux softwares: one depends on Windows set of books, while the other depends on the Linux set of books. You can’t just “import” the Windows books into the Linux classroom, because the classroom will also change: back to the analogy, the engineering classroom has engineering instruments and equipment, while the math classroom has scientific calculators and computers running R and Wolfram Mathematica.

As per my previous comment, I had /var, /var/log, /home/me/.cache, among many other frequently written directories on the SSD since 2019. SSDs have fewer write cycles than HDDs, it’s not “fake news”.

“However, SSDs are generally more expensive on a per-gigabyte basis and have a finite number of write cycles, which can lead to data loss over time.”

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive)

I’m not really sure why exactly mine it’s coil whining, it happens occasionally and nothing else happens aside from the high-pitched sound, but it’s coil whining.

Nowadays, there are some efforts to try and bring back the old gold web:

• Neocities: it tries to mimick geocities, so people can host HTML+JS+CSS sites that are meant to be static
• Geminispace capsule hosting services: similar, but without CSS and JS, it goes even further on trying to return the grand old web from Mosaic browser era, as it’s highly content-focused.

I replaced my laptop’s DVD drive with a HDD caddy adapter, so it supports two drives instead of just one. Then, I installed a 120G SSD alongside with a 500G HDD, with the HDD being connected through the caddy adapter. The entire Linux installation on this laptop was done in 2019 and, since then, I never reinstalled nor replaced the drives.

But sometimes I hear what seems to be a “coil whine” (a short high pitched sound) coming from where the SSD is, so I guess that its end is near. I have another SSD (240G) I bought a few years ago, waiting to be installed but I’m waiting to get another HDD (1TB or 2TB) in order to make another installation, because the HDD was reused from another laptop I had (therefore, it’s really old by now, although I had no I/O errors nor “coil whinings” yet).

Back when I installed the current Linux, I mistakenly placed /var and /home (and consequently, /home/me/.cache and /home/me/.config, both folders of which have high write rates because I use KDE Plasma) on the SSD. As the years passed by, I realized it was a mistake but I never had the courage to relocate things, so I did some “creative solutions” (“gambiarra”) such as creating a symlinked folder for .cache and .config, pointing them to another folder within the HDD.

As for backup, while I have three old spare HDDs holding the same old data (so it’s a redundant backup), there are so many (hundreds of GBs) new things I both produced and downloaded that I’d need lots of room to better organize all the files, finding out what is not needed anymore and renewing my backups. That’s why I was looking for either 1TB or 2TB HDDs, as brand-new as possible (also, I’m intending to tinker more with things such as data science after a fresh new installation of Linux). It’s not a thing that I’m really in a hurry to do, though.

Edit: and those old spare HDDs are 3.5" so they wouldn’t fit the laptop.

Given the JSON output from the loops.video side, Dansup configured their profile to manuallyApprovesFollowers, that’s why accounts cannot successfully follow their profile.

That’s good, really good news, to see that HDDs are still being manufactured and being thought of. Because I’m having a serious problem trying to find a new 2.5" HDD for my old laptop here in Brazil. I can quickly find SSDs across the Brazilian online marketplaces, and they’re not much expensive, but I’m intending on purchasing a mechanical one because SSDs won’t hold data for much longer compared to HDDs, but there are so few HDD for sale, and those I could find aren’t brand-new.