I've noticed an issue with the search functionality on Lemmy. When using the search filters for "top" posts, it doesn't seem to matter whether you select "day," "week," "month," or "year" – the results always show the top posts of all time. This makes it difficult to find recent discussions or trending topics within a specific timeframe.

Has anyone else encountered this problem? Is there already an issue for it on Github?

Imagine having access to an AI system like the "What-If Machine" from Futurama that could instantly generate any type of media content. What would you create with such power at your fingertips?

Personally, I'd be tempted to remake the Star Wars sequel trilogy. With AI, we could explore some of the unused ideas from George Lucas' original vision, like Darth Maul returning as a crime lord or Luke rebuilding the Jedi Order.

What about you? Would you recreate existing franchises, generate entirely new content, or use it for more practical applications? Share your ideas below!

Some potential uses to consider:

• Reimagining your favorite books as TV series or movies
• Creating personalized music in any genre
• Generating realistic virtual worlds for gaming or VR experiences
• Producing educational content on complex topics

Have you ever wondered why so many religions share themes of death, resurrection, and renewal? One fascinating connection lies in the Sun and its behavior during the winter solstice.

Around December 21, the Sun reaches its lowest point in the sky (in the Northern Hemisphere) and appears to "stand still" for three days. Then, on December 25, it begins to rise higher again, marking its "rebirth." Ancient cultures noticed this phenomenon and interpreted it as the death and resurrection of the Sun—a powerful symbol of hope and renewal.

This solar cycle influenced many religious traditions. For example:

• Pagan Religions: Sun worship was central to many pre-Christian belief systems. Festivals like Saturnalia celebrated the return of light after the darkest days of winter.
• Mithraism: Followers of Mithras, a god associated with the Sun, celebrated his birth on December 25, symbolizing light's triumph over darkness.
• Christianity: Early Christians adopted similar th

Hey, I've been pondering the Dead Internet Theory (DIT) lately and how it might impact society. For those unfamiliar, the DIT suggests that the internet has been mostly abandoned and that the content we see today is generated by AI and curated by large corporations. While this theory might sound far-fetched, I've noticed a significant portion of the content in my feeds appears to be AI-generated, making it difficult to distinguish between human-generated and AI-generated content.

As someone who was initially excited about the prospect of having an AI assistant, I'm now concerned about the potential for AI to be used to brainwash people and extract money from them. I can't help but wonder if most people will even notice or care, as they continue to use social media and other online platforms, oblivious to the fact that they're being gaslighted into believing what the companies that own the AI want them to believe.

With this in mind, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the DIT and how it

I remember using an app that blocked spam calls using a collaborative database. The one I use now is Truecaller, but it's always trying to get me to subscribe. I liked the one I used before better. What is the best caller ID app that can block spam that you know about?

The ones I buy contain lemon for preservation, but I don't like the acidic taste of lemon in tomato sauce.

When you get your ballot and there's 10 choices but all year the media pretends there's only two, that should tell you something's seriously broken

I've been reading about recent research on how the human brain processes and stores memories, and it's fascinating! It seems that our brains compress and store memories in a simplified, low-resolution format rather than as detailed, high-resolution recordings. When we recall these memories, we reconstruct them based on these compressed representations. This process has several advantages, such as efficiency, flexibility, and prioritization of important information.

Given this understanding of human cognition, I can't help but wonder why AI isn't being trained in a similar way. Instead of processing and storing vast amounts of data in high detail, why not develop AI systems that can compress and decompress input like the human brain? This could potentially lead to more efficient learning and memory management in AI, similar to how our brains handle information.

Are there any ongoing efforts in the AI community to explore this approach? What are the challenges and benefits of training

Hey fellow Lemmings,

I've been thinking about how we measure the liveliness of our communities, and I believe we're missing the mark with Monthly Active Users (MAU). Here's why I think Posts + Comments per Month (PCM) would be a superior metric:

Why PCM is Better Than MAU

1. Quality over Quantity: MAU counts lurkers equally with active participants. PCM focuses on actual engagement.
2. Spam Resistance: Creating multiple accounts to inflate MAU is easy. Generating meaningful posts and comments is harder.
3. True Reflection of Activity: A community with 1000 MAU but only 10 posts/comments is less vibrant than one with 100 MAU and 500 posts/comments.
4. Encourages Participation: Displaying PCM could motivate users to contribute more actively.
5. Easier to Track: No need for complex user tracking. Just count posts and comments.

Implementation Ideas

• Show PCM in the community list alongside subscriber count
• Display PCM in each community's sidebar

Yeah because first of all, content had to be spread out across 562826 different communities for no reason other than that reddit had lots of communities, after growing for many many years. It started with just a few.

Then 99% of those were created on Lemmy.world, and every new user was directed to sign up at Lemmy.world.

I guess a lot of people here are younger than me and didn’t experience forums, but we had like 30 forum channels. That was enough to talk about anything at all. And I believe it’s the same here, it would have been enough. And then all channels would have easy to find content.

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Hey everyone! I'm curious about the number of communities on Lemmy and the activity levels within them. Specifically, is there a reliable source where I can check the total number of communities and the average number of posts per month? It seems like the number of communities might be quite high, but I wonder how low the post acti

I often find myself browsing videos on different invidious instances or posts on various lemmy instances, and I would love to be able to create a "watch later" list or a "favorite" list that works across all of them. I don't want to have to manually import and export these lists between different instances, either, like I have to do on lemmy, invidious, etc.

I'm currently using a single bookmarks folder to keep track of everything, but I don't like this because it's a mess. I'd like to be able to create two or three different lists for different groups of websites, so that I can easily find what I'm looking for. For example, a favorite list for reddit, tumblr, etc, another favorite list and a watch for later list for invidious instances, and other lists for other sites.

Is there any way to achieve this? I'm open to using browser extensions, third-party apps, or any other solutions that might be out there. I would prefer a free solution, but I'm willing to consider paid options as wel

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I want to create a collage of 20 screenshots from a video, arranged in a 5x4 grid, regardless of the video’s length. How can I do this efficiently on a Linux system?

Specifically, I’d like a way to automatically generate this collage of 20 thumbnails from the video, without having to manually select and arrange the screenshots. The number of thumbnails should always be 20, even if the video is longer or shorter.

Can you suggest a command-line tool or script that can handle this task efficiently on Linux? I’m looking for a solution that is automated and doesn’t require a lot of manual work.

Here's what I've tried but I only get 20 black boxes:

 bash

    
#!/bin/bash

# Check if input video exists
if [ ! -f "$1" ]; then
    echo "Error: Input video file not found."
    exit 1
fi

# Get video duration
duration=$(ffprobe -v error -show_entries format=duration -of default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1 "$1")

# Calculate interval between frames
interval=$((duration / 20))

# Extract 20 frames 
  

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CogVLM: Visual Expert for Pretrained Language Models

Presents CogVLM, a powerful open-source visual language foundation model that achieves SotA perf on 10 classic cross-modal benchmarks

repo: https://github.com/THUDM/CogVLM abs: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.03079