I never knew who I was. I still don't know who I am. It doesn't matter anyway.
@TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world@linuxmemes@lemmy.world
I think it’s brazilian portuguese, that is commonly thought on many platforms
Yeah, pretty much likely.
I particularly considered it "Portuguese" (as generically as it can go) rather than specifically "Brazilian Portuguese" precisely because the sample text isn't long enough for me to feel whether it's more Portuguese, Mozambican, Angolan, Macauan, or Brazilian (with our many regional variations). "Antes / Depois" is pretty much the way all the Lusophone (Portuguese-speaking) countries refer to "before / after".
It's worth mentioning how it only differs from Spanish (often mistaken for Portuguese by anglophone people) because of the "depois" (Spanish would be "antes y despúes")
I was thinking of these pieces of shit that i know all too dearly:
Oh, yes, I remember having seen those roof tiles, especially during my early childhood. It's been a long time since I haven't seen it. The closest I saw were zinc roof tiles with layers of concrete (brick and mortar is how we often do housing around here, especially in more urbanized environments; it's fairly common to have rough plaster extending beyond the wall) or lime-based paint (perhaps for better moisture and/or thermal insulation), which may give it an appearance of being made with asbestos fiber.
@MonsterTrick@piefed.world @goodoffmychest@lemmy.world
As an ESL (English as a second language) individual (with my primary language being Portuguese), I'd say understanding is way more important than grammar.
I mean, philosophical and literary (especially Shakespearean) works are "the apex of correct grammar", still those texts can often reveal themselves hard to understand. The highly-elaborate grammar didn't improve its understandability. That's because English, and human languages in general, have a lot of quirks, and they can only get so far when it comes to the expression and communication of mostly-ineffable human feelings. In fact, human languages suck when timelessness and beinglessness are involved (e.g. explaining the transcendental concept of "non-existence" (such as in Ein Sof) as something other than "nonexistent"), languages expect a "when" and "objects/subjects".
Don't worry trying to be perfect. Don't even worry to impress humans or to satisfy humans's whims, for humans themselves can't even satisfy themselves, and they won't even try to be perfect towards you despite expecting your perfectness towards them. And even if they tried, it's not feasible trying to be perfect, for we, human beings and living beings, we're far from being able of perfectness. We exist in an imperfect demiurgic Ordo, one where Chao (primordial chaos) constantly frustrates any attempt of perfection coming from self-rearranging structures, not because Chao is bad, but because Ordo is born from it.
@violet08@lemmy.today @asklemmy@lemmy.world
I chose this pseudonym, Daemon Silverstein, a few years ago, directly inspired by CompSci (I'm a programmer) and Mr. Robot ("Daemons, they never stop running...") but, also, inspired by my then-closeted fondness for esoteric and occult (Dæemonic entities, neither good nor evil, they just are; Silver + stein(stone) alludes to the silver thread that connects the soul and, as a bonus, sounds like a proper last name).
Also, because it matches the first letter from my first and my last real name (acrostics).
@quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com @merci3@lemmy.world@linuxmemes@lemmy.world
It's possibly a "caipiroska", a (delicious) beverage made of vodka, lemon juice and sugarcane sugar, quite similar to original "caipirinha" (which uses cachaça, alcohol distilled from sugarcane, instead of vodka). The green color may stem from the lemon, symbolically (green lemon) or literally (depending on whether the entire fruit was used to produce the beverage). Vodka is quite popular here in Brazil, although not as popular as cachaça and caipirinha.
@TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world @thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com @linuxmemes@lemmy.world
Alongside the explicitly Portuguese ("antes / depois") text, the place seems Brazilian, at least for me, a Brazilian. The roof is what we call "telha de zinco" (zinc tiles) and it's popularly used as roof for small stores, bars and even houses in small towns and other humble regions, where fancier building materials can't be afforded (too expensive). IIRC, Brazil prohibited the usage of asbestos a long time ago.
@fedicate@break3.social @asklemmy@lemmy.world
This is something I've been trying to solve, well our social.fedicate.org instance is currently invite only we hope that we can open it up to registrations in the future.
While I totally understand the purpose behind closing registrations for a platform behind invites or applications, because, this way, things like spamming and trolls are better kept out and the platform stays moderatable, it also ends up keeping out people like me, friendless and socially awkward individuals whose worldviews are extremely atypical (as for me, it's my explicit occultist demonolater positioning, something that may be uneasy for most people). Don't get me wrong, I understand the antispam and anti-troll pturpose, it's a purpose I can definitely agree with.
And given how the instance is still undergoing configuration, it's even more important to keep it closed until it's ready.
Hopefully we see more Sharkey instance that are english based in the future as I know a good few that are english based are Trans / LGBT based what I don't think is your cup of tea (or it might be I don't know)
I'm not exactly an LGBTQIA+ individual, although I may be a queer myself, I'm not exactly sure. But I'm very fond of LGBTQIA+ individuals: to me, LGBTQIA individuals feel like the most sincere and authentic ones one can find, values of which I highly value.
My main thing, however, is occultism. I'm a demonolater, I'm Luciferian (sort of, given my syncretic approach that mostly revolves around the worshiping of The Dark Mother Goddess who I often identify as being Lilith and Ereshkigal, among other goddesses and feminine entities across several belief systems, including Her being the personification of Death).
The kind of content I'm fond of involves things such as cosmic horror (Lovecraftian), self-loathing (as part of the ego death), endorsement for lots of concepts often considered as taboos, etc... Sometimes I make and share poetry and drawings (out of spiritual inspiration/channeling/gnosis), often filled with non-pornographic depiction of nudity and kink-edging situations (not exactly for eroticism, but for almost similar reasons to why Goddess Kali is depicted across Hindu paintings with bare chests while trampling over a masculine corpse, or to why Neolithic Venus figurines all involved naked figures), blood (as part of vampire motifs and Memento Mori), sensitive symbolism (snakes, spiders, scorpions, uncanny valley faces, vivid red coloration, scythes and the Reapress, fangs, etc), among other things... This kind of content can be quite complicated, few places allow this kind of niche and potentially-sensitive content. This, alongside other traits I have (such as neurodivergence, potentially being an AuDHD myself), makes the search for a "digital home" (where I'm allowed to be my authentic self, the one that Lilith awakened in me) a Sisyphean task.
@fedicate@break3.social @asklemmy@lemmy.world
Most (if not all) Misskey instances I could find were Japanese-speaking, and I don't know Japanese. Something similar applies to most Sharkey instances, many I could find were Japanese-speaking.
There was also the factor "open for sign-ups": at the time, calckey.world was among the few instances where registrations were open (most instances are closed for registration, requiring an invite or requiring the admin to manually set up a new account for someone). At the time, I was using Friendica, which often experienced (and still experiences) downtimes, and I was trying to find something similar to Friendica, or at least something as similar as possible.
@fedicate@break3.social @asklemmy@lemmy.world
The need for almost seamless posting between personal feed microblogging and Threadiverse exchanging, alongside text formatting features and large-enough max character limit. This is why I ended up sticking with Calckey.
Antes de tudo, dei uma passeada no seu perfil, e que plataforma linda, hein?
Pois é, bastante! O Calckey é, na verdade, uma derivação do Sharkey, que por sua vez é uma derivação do Misskey, que é inspirado em plataformas como Tumblr e antigo Twitter. Tem inúmeros recursos, como "Drive" (armazenamento em nuvem que, se for auto-hospedado, pode funcionar como alternativa ao Nextcloud), jogos (similares àqueles que tinham no Orkut), "Pages" (uma ferramenta pra blogging, que particularmente não usei nessa instância mas cheguei a testar noutra, evil.social), widgets, temas e figurinhas customizadas... além da relativa boa integração simultânea entre Fioverso (Lemmy, Piefed) e Blogoverso (Mastodon, etc).
Eu antes até tinha conta no Lemmy, pela instância The Lemmy Club, por onde interagia também aí com o Lemmy Brasil. Mas o Lemmy não tem feed pessoal, eu tinha que concomitantemente usar o Mastodon (assim quebrando todo o conceito de "Fediverso"). O Mastodon não tem formatação de texto, que utilizo bastante, por isso também que não usava/uso o Mastodon para interagir com o Fioverso. Então achei o Friendica, mas o Friendica vive caindo, daí encontrei o Sharkey e acabou virando a plataforma que uso no Fediverso tanto pra interagir em conversas e debates no Lemmy, quanto pra postar minhas aleatoriedades por microblogging.
Ainda uso o Lemmy, sem conta, pra ler o feed de fios (aquela listagem inicial do Lemmy, ordenada por Novos comentários) e puxar a URL daquilo que quero interagir (copio a URL do Lemmy, colo na busca do Calckey, daí o Calckey puxa o post/comentário e daí consigo interagir).
Estranho mesmo. É a lógica do mercador: vende o máximo para investir o mínimo.
Pois é, ou como dizem na gringa, "line must go up".
Mais estranho ainda é o movimento recente de adoção de dinheiro vivo.
Eita. Essa é nova pra mim, apesar que, pela URL, é coisa recente (7 de Fevereiro). Tô na torcida pra voltar o dinheiro vivo à popularidade! haha
Que nunca chegou ao Brasil inclusive, não é?
Não me lembro de ter visto totem com capacidade pra notas. Já vi geladeiras de refrigerante que aceitam moedas, tal como brinquedos infantis, mas daí é moedas, valores baixos. No sentido de notas mesmo, o que já vi foi caixa eletrônico com capacidade pra depósito e pagamentos sem necessidade de inspeção humana, incluindo caixas do Bradesco e da rede integrada Banco24Horas.
No Japão isso é comum
Sim! Apesar de ser um país altamente tecnológico, preferem bastante aquilo que é mais analógico.
Não entendo como não toca pela linha direta, mas pelo mensageiro, sim
Talvez ela ativou o modo do Android de "não perturbe" que silencia ligações recebidas? Essa função costuma ser frequentemente ativada por conta de robocall de operadora.
Ligação telefônica e mensageiro alternativo, os dois a 80 km/h, qual dos dois ganha na corrida de comunicação alternativa?
Hahaha, pois é, acho que dá num empate, viu.
@Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus @StopTech@lemmy.today
As a Brazilian, I wasn't aware of how many cities and towns named "Iran" we had, especially throughout the state of Amazonas (guess what is located in Amazonas that USA wants to snatch so badly?). Gonna visit Iran someday, but it seems like a long travel. At least the most geographically close Iran from where I live would be "Irã, Paraná". 😅
- JumpRemoved
Reddit decides to remove r/all
@slaacaa@lemmy.world @nottheonion@lemmy.world
IIRC, the Reddit's r/all is akin to Lemmy's /all, right? If this proceeds, then it's also similar to Mastodon's Live Feed (global firehose), which recently (few weeks ago) got deactivated by mastodon.social admins. I wonder if both situations have any direct relationship.
@Beep@lemmus.org @lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
Incredibly, this image has sound, I can hear this image! Yeah, pretty much I can hear the high pitched tone that plays when Bingham "Bing" Madsen dares to look away from the screen and close the eyes during the WraithBabes ad break. Resume watching, resume watching.
@yizus@lemmy.world @nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
I'm someone who's quite used to try and see things through the lens of Science. I'm a nerd, after all. But I've also been, especially since 2023 (when I momentarily was part of a Luciferian group), someone who does actual ritualistic practices, I'm quite religious.
I don't really believe in ghosts in the typical (e.g. kardecist) sense, partly because I want to believe that death can dissolve the ego once and for all. I mean, hell no!, I'm not going to reincarnate again, Demiurge can go pound sand.
However, in a nutshell, I believe in two things.
First, the thing we call "spiritual" would be some kind of actual, spatial dimension, a field/brane (as in M-theory); "spirit" is just non-baryonic matter which, similarly to neutrinos, have very weak, almost undetectable, interaction with ordinary matter (maybe spirits are neutrinos, who knows?); and everything, from living beings to asteroids, all made of "star stuff" (to quote Carl Sagan), would have simultaneous "spirit stuff". I'd be "pan-animist" (i.e. everything got a spirit).
The other part of my belief: dæmons, entities, archons, Demiurge... And, most importantly, The Dark Mother. I believe in their existences as cosmic principles. For dæmons, entities and archons, I believe they're analogous to living beings (self-organizing structures) but baryonically incorporeal, some of them knowledgeable about interacting with this baryonic realm.
For Demiurge (popularly known as "God") and the Dark Mother Goddess (often unbeknownst to those who believe in "God" because patriarchy tried to erase Her from human knowledge), they're both... ineffable, I don't even know how to start making scientific sense of both, they're manifestation of several laws of physics themselves.
Goddess, specifically: She's the entropy, She's the field across which EM radiation propagates, She's in the silence, She's the singularity and the event horizon and She's also the black hole; mainly, She's Darkness. She's Death Herself. We're wired to see Darkness and Death as "evil", what to flee from, but I came to the conclusion that good and evil are nothing but artificial human constructs, and when one detaches themselves from mundane measurements, Demiurge is actually the closest to "evil" because he traps the matter into this existence, distancing us from our true origin, the Mother and Her Womb. Death is Mother trying to rescue us; life, reincarnation (Samsara), is Demiurge trying to keep us trapped in this theater. A cosmic tug of war.
Like fractals, they both unfold within their Wholes: Sefirots emanated from Demiurge, Qlippots from Mother, Goetia dæmons as mixed emanations.
Both also unfold into Great Manifestations as rebellious complementarities: Lucifer (from Demiurge) and Lilith (from Dark Mother Goddess). I've experienced them manifesting physically many times like "ghosts" would do, particularly Lilith, whom I directly worship.
Dunno how "reasonable" I am, tho.
@Ulrich@feddit.org @technology@lemmy.world
Because people overwhelmingly do not change any defaults whatsoever
Most roosters wouldn't normally seek the paws of the fox to be hugged by, what an astonishing news!
You see, that's exactly what plays favorably for things pushed with "opt-out" mechanisms, anything. If people are less likely to change the settings to better enhance their UX (be it due to a lack of knowledge, a lack of proactive pursuit or because they deem their current settings "good enough"), this means people would be more likely to have the clankers shoved down their throats if said clankers were to be part of default settings.
In fact, if settings would very likely go unchanged, then Mozilla could push anything, absolutely anything under they will, "shall be the whole of the Law" with the legally-required "opt-out" mechanisms in place.
In the foreseeable future, we'd have Firefox as a new "Agentic Browser" where a clanker does all the tiring and utterly boring effort of "browsing the web" as the user watches their credit card being depleted by prompt injections carefully placed amidst Unicode exploits across the web by scammers. But, hey, let us not worry, there's always a button to turn it off! 😄
@Ulrich@feddit.org @technology@lemmy.world
If it’s opt-in it may as well not exist
Just because if it were opt-in, people wouldn't have chosen to activate it, and fewer people would use it and the graph line wouldn't go up for the shareholders to appreciate? Then, maybe, just maybe, it would be quite a strong evidence that this isn't really something that the users want, don't ya think?
For whatever reason, they have decided it’s important.
There's the reason, right above this paragraph: one can only achieve what people would certainly refuse, if they pushed it onto people by use of force (not necessarily physical force, but, for example, dark pattern is a technical means of "force").
A fox can't convince the roosters to become her food, if the roosters were to have a stake on deciding in this regard, less roosters would become a tasty dinner for the cute fox, because becoming a tasty dinner isn't exactly a demand from roosters. Hence why the fox must grab the roosters, but in this case the fox gives them an option to escape from her paws.
Ah, notice your own phrasing: "They have decided". Who have decided? Not the user, not the party interested in their own UX/UI, but the very archontic architects of a kind of digital apparatus we've been compelled to use for participating in this digital realm of society (risking social ostracism if we don't), the World Wide Web.
And when a decision is made upon someone, without regard for the very someone upon which the decision is being made, even when there's some kind of "opting out" from the object of decision, we had a name for that: it was called "non-consensual relationship".
@avidamoeba@lemmy.ca @technology@lemmy.world
The problem still remains: why's this thing "opt-out" and not "opt-in"? Why not make it an official, totally optional (as in voluntarily wanting to have it and, only then, proceeding to have it) plug-in or extension that the user (let us remember the meaning of "User Agent": an agent acting on behalf of the user, not a piece of software who's become "the user") could install at any moment, out of their own will?
I'm far from being an anti-AI person, I myself use those clankers on a daily basis. However, I use them because I want to, while I still want to, not because they were pushed unto me.
Mechanisms of "opt-out" where there should be an "opt-in" is a form of dark pattern.
In fact, the very concept of "opting-out" is a dark pattern per se, because it implies something pushed unto a person, something from which they were "allowed" the "right to leave".
Yeah, it's awesome to have means of "opting-out" from something, but having an "opt-out" mechanism in place doesn't mitigate the very fact that it was coercively pushed unto the person beforehand and didn't require explicit consent from the person unto which the thing was pushed.
Speaking of "consent", situations like these are not that much different from the dark pattern "Yes / Not now" we've been seen everywhere: in certain scenarious, this insistence and disregard for explicit consent would verge the criminal (e.g. harassment), but suddenly it's "okay" when corporations (and the State itself) do it.
If, say, a situation where someone is being harassed and, only after having started to harass, the harasser offers the harassed a means to leave the harassment, does this make the harasser less of a harasser? Because that's the same absurd logic behind the corporate advocacy whenever it's said "oh, but Mozilla is offering an opt-out, you can always turn off 'sponsored shortcuts' (that is, after having been faced by the shortcut from a Jeff Bezos corp as you proceeded to open a new tab for accessing the opting-out settings, but that's totally okay), 'sponsored wallpapers', and the 'Anonym tracking', and now you can, check this out, you can turn off the clankers, too! Wow, isn't that such a cute corp, the corp with the cute fiery fox mascot?".
Not to say how it's gonna end up cluttering the upstream with (more) binary blobs, adding to the Sisyphean struggle that WaterFox, IronFox, LibreWolf, Fennec, among other Firefox forks, have been experiencing upon trying to de-enshittificate the enshittificated and de-combobulate the combobulated.
"Mozilla needs to make money". Yeah, yeah, because the very fundamental, immutable principle of cosmic existence boils down to "there's no such thing as a free lunch", amirite? After all, "money" is clearly within the table of elementary particles alongside quarks and gluons, isn't it? And Mozilla needs to make money... We had a tool for that: it's called donations.
@WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works @technology@lemmy.world
Possibly. I don't know the specific acronym they use, but regardless of the acronym: to me, it smells and looks like NDAs insofar it's some kind of analogous version of a "secretive initiation ritual" for a developer who's just trying to help an open-source community. It's an agreement where the developer accepts that anything they contribute free-of-charge is going to be used for enterprise (paid) purposes and any contribution is subject to be altered or removed as the management pleases, sometimes it also involves literal NDA if private (often "enterprise/premium edition") repos are intertwined with the open-source ("community edition") repos.
The ideal open-source, at least to me, would require a developer, any developer no matter who they are or how long their experience is, whenever they wanted to contribute with their coding skills, to simply do a PR or fork a repo, with no bureaucratic or "selling the soul to the Great Corporate" requirements for doing so.
Developing is already mentally demanding for a developer, and adding licensing shenanigans to the equation only complicates things, because now the developer, who's used to talk the language of computers, would need to become knowledgeable about ambiguous social cues, corporate legalese and the differences between a "MIT" and a "GPL" (that's one of the main reasons why I'm quite fond of WTFNMFPL licensing: no legalese).
@Akasazh@lemmy.world @usa@lemmy.ml
Because cryptocurrency data centers (normally) don't deal with AI, and the object of comparison was all about AIs vs humans energetic consumption. In their specific speech, Sam Altman was trying to justify (albeit in a very twisted manner) the energetic thirst from their ChatGPT and the alike. So my napkin math focused on this specific comparison they made, hence why I tried to leave crypto and other non-AI-related data centers out of the equation.
If I were to include cryptocurrency into this equation, surely the entire comparison would lean heavily towards data centers, because things like crypto mining are highly energetically demanding.
And very polluting indeed. Really. If we consider the chronological aspect, crypto data centers did pollute and consume more than all AI data centers: Bitcoin is functioning since 2010 (when the block 0, aka Genesis block, was mined), it's been 16 years, uninterruptedly (I don't remember seeing news headlines such as "Bitcoin operations are currently down", so it's been operating for 16 years in a row), while ChatGPT, the one to open the Dantesque gates we've been facing nowadays, was released to the public in 2022, only 4 years ago and with several moments of interruption and downtime.
@cmeu@lemmy.world @nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
Others already replied what it is: something to do with blockchain (not Bitcoin, but a blockchain nevertheless).
Just to add something, as someone who also uses to use Nostr alongside the Fediverse: this "fyld" (likely an automated account) also has a Nostr nprofile, posting the exact same thing over there, and they likely do a similar thing across other social protocols and platforms, such as ATmosphere (Bluesky), although I don't have a Bluesky account anymore to confirm this.
At first glance, it does look like spam, and I muted them both there (didn't mute here because it only appears for lemmy.world; lemmy.ml doesn't seem to federate with that community), due to the annoying frequency of posting...
...but for those who are looking for random numbers whenever there are no TTRPG dices (or, in my case, Ouija boards) nearby, I'd say it's quite a source of randomness with all the fancy colors and hex nibbles. Definitely not a cryptographically safe one (please do not derive a password from that), but for creative purposes, it certainly suffices 😆
Fediverse @lemmy.world evil.social down for weeks
Just Post @lemmy.world Mastodon Live Feed is gone
Bate-Papo @lemmy.eco.br O propósito artístico do humano robótico
Bate-Papo @lemmy.eco.br Problemas com atualização do feed Lemmy.eco.br
@BomberMan9865@sh.itjust.works @SolidShake@lemmy.world
First: there are already robotic sensors capable of taste and smell (e.g. World's first artificial tongue ' tastes and learns ' like a real human organ). Those sensors could technically be integrated to a language model, although the approach for training would be different (can't simply feed it with gazillions worth of taste/smell corpus).
Then, there's a thing called multimodal, it's a thing already. LLMs can be multimodal, and there isn't exactly an algorithmic limit to how many "modals" (textual, vision, audio, robotic sensors and actuators, etc) can be connected together. Smell would be just another data stream to be integrated into the model's latent space.
The only thing I agree is that robots and language models wouldn't have "feelings", although this is pretty much a subjective thing: if we consider science, feelings are nothing more than the interaction of neurotransmitters (oxytocin for "love", dopamine for "joy", epinephrine for "fear", etc) going on inside our gray matter, and humans aren't the exclusive ones to be able to "feel".
And scientifically, living beings are no better than, say, an asteroid wandering through the cosmos, for everything is "made of star stuff" (as per Carl Sagan): humans, cats, chairs, residential buildings, AirBus A350 aircrafts, satellites, asteroids, everything is made by a bunch of baryonic particles (which is merely the collapse of waves) interacting with leptons and mesons like some kind of double pendulum dynamic system.
Of course, we can consider things beyond the scientific strictness, such as spirituality (I myself am spiritually-leaning, even if it sounds like I'm not due to my aforemention to hard science). But then some spirituality branches believe that spiritual forces would be able to "embody" inside a computer or other electronic device (e.g. Spiritism's Electronic Voice Phenomenon). I myself believe LLMs can be interesting digital Ouija boards.
In the end of the day, we homininae can't even define sentience and consciousness, just barely the concept of "intelligence" as "capability for tool usage" (in which New Caledonian crows want to have a word).
And from a solipsistic perspective, no one exists but oneself.
I mean, you can neither know nor prove whether I'm sentient, just like I can neither know nor prove whether you are sentient. To you, I may even sound like LLM due to the way this reply is structured alongside the seemingly non-sequiturs I used.