to all the elders one , i want t ask what experiences one should not miss out . it could be anything u want to share like travel or something else . how to enjoy your 20 s ?

"Craziest" could mean pretty much whatever you want it to. Good, bad, intricate, simple or whatever. As long as the moment you saw it you knew you wouldn't forget it. I knew a guy at my old job who holds this place for me. Giant white dude and his white wife dressed as Puerto Ricans. It was crazy racist/stereotypical. Added context, this was 2 years ago.

Does anyone know of any attempts out there of building more ethical AI models for things like text LLM, image or audio processing?

To clarify, I am talking about an AI model which is trained on a dataset of public domain, creative commons, licensed, or more intentionally fair use sampling methods.

Personally, I believe that the way the modern AI industry has built their giant models is incredibly exploitative, unethical, toxic to society and culture, and arguably not even consistent with the letter or spirit of the existing rules by which we have all been asked to play.

As a tool, machine learning may not be fundamentally bad, but who, if anyone, is out there trying to do it in better, more legitimate way?

So far what we got in a CD:

• Bobby (Boris) Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers – Monster Mash
• Jumpin’ Gene Simmons – Haunted House
• The Five Blobs – The Blob
• Ray Parker Jr. – Ghostbusters
• Neil Norman and His Cosmic Orchestra – Twilight Zone
• Sheb Wooley – The Purple People Eater
• Vic Mizzy – The Addams Family
• Screamin’ Jay Hawkins – I Put a Spell on You
• Lewis Lee – Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
• The Ran-Dells – Martian_Hop
• Dracula Theme
• Bram Stoker's Dracula Theme
• Francis Haines – Trioxin Theme (from The Return of the Living Dead)
• Unknown Artist – I Put a Spell on You
• John Carpenter – Halloween (1978) Theme
• Danny Elfman – Main Titles (from Beetlejuice)
• Michael Jackson – Thriller
• Santana – Black Magic Woman
• Andrew Gold – Spooky Scary Skeletons
• Goosebumps Theme Song
• Andrew Lloyd Webber – The Phantom of the Opera Theme Song

Any other songs you all recommend?

It’s $545 for 36 cans on Amazon.

I need to insulate and air seal my basement ceiling and rim joist bays.

I fucking hate instagram. So I have a friend who always sends me instagram posts. I don't have an insta so I view them in browser but anyways. I have this feeling when watching insta content and it's just kinda making me agressive. It just feels fake. It feels like there's always this hard to describe layer over every. Single. Post. This air of cliché normativity. Everything's unbearably clean, Almost sterile. Everything's unbearably performative, always feels like it's hiding something, I cannot quite grasp, but that's too important to just retouch away, like insta does. Everything has this unbearable rich-american-kids-from-a-bad-teenage-tv-show-vibe. Everything I receive from there is just kinda hard to watch. Like, the content, the message can even be good and well intended takes on politicial subjects. But the way it's presented always screams "vanity" to me.

So my question:

Is it just me or is everything on insta intentionally or unconsciously vain and superficial?

Am I just massively prejudiced?

Is it just the bubble i get insights to or do you see this phenomenon spanning across different bubbles on the platform? Ppl with insta account s please tell about your experiences. Idk just frustrated about insta ig.

i don't defend targeted ads since they are bad (i use uBlock)

but what monetization system is a bit more ethical than targeted ads but can last unlike donations

how would you solve that issue

i dont think so but what do you think

Does anyone here use anything other than Discord for chatting? What exactly and how much?

"use" is the key word here, I'm interested in actual usage, not just the names of alternatives that I already know

Boosts are welcome. Thanks for answering

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I never finish projects, so I'd like to set a hard deadline, in this case 2027-08-20 (Voyager 2 launch)

I'm thinking that it could be a (local splitscreen? Or maybe like one of those hand-off/relay style story games where you pass the controller when it's your turn) co-op game where one player acts as Voyager 1 and the other as Voyager 2. It has to be a co-op game, we need more of those I think, and I would love to learn how to make one of those. Maybe you could solve puzzles or unlock secrets by working together, I dunno. The story will be a mix of real life events (emergencies / crisises that occurred during the mission, real images and recordings, etc.) and fictional bits too (nothing too outlandish though, probably not aliens I think?)

Both Voyager 1 and 2 explored Jupiter and Saturn, and while 2 went out to Uranus and Neptune, 1 did a flyby of Titan (the largest moon of Saturn). I'd like to include those five as "worlds" that each player has to explore. Voyager 1 has also passed the heliopause, and in a few weeks will have reached one light day from Earth, so I'd like to include that too. Perhaps there could be interesting things that happen as the Voyager probes travel the cosmos?

What are your thoughts? Are there any noteworthy events or challenges that the Voyager missions went through that I should include in the game?

The project is still in very early planning stages, but I think it's a really cool way to celebrate the Voyager missions!

The older the internet gets, the more it's like a city that keeps building on top of its own ruins. What's is your favorite bit of internet archeology if memes are like artifacts and relics?

For example: Jaws crashed the shark population and Sideways changed the popularity of 2 different Wines.

Recently I finished my switch from memorized and re-used passwords to KeePassXC and KeePassDX based on recommendation of other Lemmy users, and I like the workflow.

In a similar fashion, I also recently purchased a domain name, and set-up paid e-mail account(s) at Purelymail with that domain.
I use Thunderbird on desktop and phone for now.

It's OK-ish on desktop, but the phone experience is poor.
On desktop, during set-up it requires filling fields such as "Full name" to continue, which can even be deleted later. Thankfully, there is some advanced option to skip guided setup after this.

On a phone, the name field is equally mandatory, only to then be flagged as "Optional" in settings after setup.
It also requires BOTH IMAP and SMTP. Not only that, it verifies that the SMTP server is valid and the user can be authenticated (I didn't try without IMAP).
Trying to load that account via export from desktop shows an "invalid data" error.
Furhtemore, I can't receive e-mail notifications.
I have them enabled, I allowed necessary permissions, there is a permanent notification stating it works, RethinkDNS shows active connection to the IMAP server, when I open the app, the e-mail is immediately there.

One one hand, if I lose the database or manage to forget that password, I am fucked.
On the other hand, that's also the case with 2FA.

The latter has already happened to me, but I have since switched to different software that lets me properly manage backups rather than doing only cloud bullshit.
Cisco Duo. That piece of shit doesn't even do version control.
I just turned on an old phone, and there goes my backup, overwritten by old data.

Like an italian hoagie but a round bun, pizza cut into squares rather than traditional slice, meatballs in cube form

Fully based this on me accidentally reading an earlier post incorrectly

I have no real interest in anime. As far as I can remember, I've never clicked on any anime related links on Lemmy, but it seems like every other post I see is about anime, a lot of them have to do with someone or something called Moe. I keep blocking them, but more show up. How do I stop it?

-I'm tired of Zoom's obnoxious yelling about its AI features and general bloatedness.

-I'm trying to reduce how much I use Google/Microsoft stuff, which includes Google Meet and Teams.

-I don't think I've heard about anyone using Skype since approximately 2010, and it's owned by Microsoft now anyway.

-Fuck Meta and all its products.

-I like Facetime the best of everything I've used, but that only works if an Apple user starts the call, and I don't love Apple as a company anymore either.

I'm guessing there are some nice non-bloated apps out there that aren't run by giant tech corporations. So what's your favorite app for video calls?

Just wanted those out there like me to here these words

I love you.

(sorry if the post is confusing my english is bad)

well it works like this:

it is a social network (its not really that since it is kinda harder to use) that operates on usb flash drives instead of the internet

it works like this:

there are instances (they are invite only and nobody can see their content unless authorized and they arent public and mostly friend groups like 3 to 7 people)

every member of a instance has their own usb flash drive

and there are Transfer And Upgrade Days:

transfer: is where everyone gives their usb drive to the admin and the drives get merged

upgrade: is where after transfer everyone gets their flash drives from the admin

and it uses standard files in directory structures instead of databases or whatever

but how do i fix those:

how do i not lose drives

how do i not get viruses on my computer

how do i not get burnt out when there are too many video projects to make

(this post does not use any ai of any sort of way)

Not necessarily a neuralink specifically, just any genre or type of cybernetic implants, if they were or will become available. I'm super hesitant on anything interfacing with my brain so I'd probably stay organic, except like if I lost my eyesight or hearing.