1984

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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's from experience. Older people know this world well. Doesn't matter what you vote for, power stays with corporations.

Young people tend to believe you can change things by voting, which is naive and a bit cute.

I used to feel apathy until I realized there is one thing I can control - me. I can choose to do fun things, replace bad friends with new ones, learn new skills, grow as a person. I can put my phone down and read books and stop watching social media and porn. I can change who I am right now. And I will feel good from doing so.

The society will stay the same, but my perception of my life will be enjoyable, which is all I can actually do. You don't have power over anything except yourself. Once you get that through your head, you understand how to not feel apathy anymore.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 4 points 3 days ago

Amazing, we have so much choice now. /s

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 9 points 4 days ago (8 children)

Don't think too much, you get depressed. Do like everyone else, buy shit you don't need and get likes on social media by bored strangers.

And watch Fight Club.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 4 points 4 days ago

My plasma 6 desktop has absolutely stunning icons, and im like you - I like proper icons that look more interesting.

Try plasma 6, I'm sure those icon sets are also much more complete. :)

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 1 points 4 days ago

It's simply the fact that different people have different experiences on those apps, based on what they look like. It's not a generalization and has nothing to do with incels. It has to do with human nature.

There are in fact many people talking about how they stopped dating because of these apps. It has changed the nature of the game. It's actually very interesting if you care to look into it.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 2 points 4 days ago

Love seeing friendly people like this. I would replace Musk and Trump with you on the planet.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today -1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Those apps are toxic and will kill your confidence unless you are really good looking. Girls have hundreds of matches for showing up. But they are so shallow so they filter out most of the guys and most likely miss a lot of people they would really like. :)

Actually I would go as far as saying that social media has made girls think they are some kind of a super creature, deserving of thousands of guys just admiring them. Lols.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I went full Lemmy for a while but have to admit I'm reading reddit again, but without their dumb app. Just the web browser.

Looking through a few subreddit, see what's new for five minutes. I don't post anymore.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 1 points 5 days ago

Total brain damage on some of the Karens.

I guess they see themselves as strong independent women. :)

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Definently only old thinkpads. I had two new ones break on me so now I'm not buying them anymore. One had mouse pad just go numb, the other one had the left control key stop working. I don't even travel with the laptops. :)

My stationary keyboard has worked for like ten years, and so has my mouse....

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 37 points 6 days ago (5 children)

I wonder how many of those guys are actually trying to put women down, and how many are just trying to be helpful and talk to another human being.

 

Some quotes from the article:

There is something very strange about having this very intimate view into someone's life. It feels odd to see someone's daily drive, but it's also an important part of correcting and refining the program.

We review about five and a half to six hours of footage per day. It can be very hard to focus. You can get in this kind of fog when you're just watching clip after clip and it can be difficult to keep yourself sane.

Anytime you're not clicking around in the software program, it tracks you as if you aren't working and it basically sets off an alarm to your superiors.

These jobs sound very dystopian to me, and a bit psychopathic as well. All the movies I watched growing up about dystopian societies is reflected in what this guy says about his job.

 

Who is surprised?

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by 1984@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world
 

I'm using this all the time myself. There is no login to YouTube required and it supports adding subscriptions and doing everything important you can do on YouTube.

And the best part is no ads whatsoever.

 

I don't expect most iPhone users to ever change their default settings, but it's nice that it will be possible in a year.

Who knows, maybe one day you can run actual Firefox on them too? :p

 

I tried this last night and I actually really like it. The default theme seems to have changed also and looks much cleaner.

And you can have AI models open in the sidebar. Not only chatgpt but also other open source and free models like huggingface. I thought that was very cool.

I don't know if the general public have even tried any other model than chatgpt. It's fun to play around with others.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by 1984@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world
 

Meta had been using facial recognition software on photos uploaded to Facebook without Texans’ consent.

 

Netflix execs needs a new jet.

 

Does this mean we dont get to be tracked, data mined, ad-bombed, and exploited while our teens dont get depressed and sick from "social" media?

Well, if thats the price we pay, thats the price we pay... :)

 

Julian Assange is free.

After living in a cell for more than 5 years, he can soon go home and meet his family again.

I'm wondering if it was worth the sacrifice. The governments and tech companies are spying more than ever on everyone.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by 1984@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world
 

I personally don't trust Snowden. Looking at the difference between how he was treated and how Assange was treated. One guy gets to rot in prison, other guy gets movies made about him from Hollywood. Snowden is very much controlled opposition in my mind.

But that being said, I think he is truthful about OpenAI. Which sucks, because now I and many others love using chat gpt.

It's possible to self host these things though. I read an article about it here:

https://blog.lytix.co/posts/self-hosting-llama-3

But probably not worth the money for most people.

 

I think its not just kids anymore, it's adults too. Everyone is glued to their screens these days. But kids are more vulnerable to influences from "social" media and don't have any defences to the psychological warfare going on. Of course they feel like shit.

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