The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.

And have made differently in the past.

While we’re all living in the present it’s extra-important to acknowledge the successes (and sometimes catastrophic failures) of different civilizations of the past. The way we’re living now is not the only way we’ve ever lived as a species, but we seem amazingly incapable of learning from past successes and failures sometimes.

If money counts as a freedom unit then yes, probably (maybe)

Yeah, had they asked Grok instead of GPT4 it probably would have been the Book of FAFO.

It’s a pity Herbert never got to writing an official OCB, but given some of the quotes featured in the various Dune books, like:

• Men, finding no answers to the sunnan [the ten thousand religious questions from the Shari-ah] now apply their own reasoning. All men seek to be enlightened. Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make sense out of God’s universe. Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

and

• Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing to the eye of God, that knowledge without action is empty. All men must see that the teaching of religion by rules and rote is largely a hoax. The proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you’ve always known.

and

• Beware the seeds you sow and the crops you reap. Do not curse God for the punishment you inflict upon yourself.

I could see it fitting right in. And of course since GPT4.5 was almost certainly trained on Dune (along with all other English literature) it wouldn’t be surprising if this was some of its “inspiration”

What’s it called if you’ve done all of these?

Ok so you’d literally be making a regular Lenny post to some particular community on some particular instance in that case, right?

I’m a little lost. You mention hosting content on any instance, or on GitHub. How does that work? And if your content is elsewhere what is Lemmy doing? Authx?

Those bat-signal eyes! I love simple creativity like this!

I’d say it’s ironic since vance literally became famous by celebrating American peasants, but for him it’s probably less about them being peasants and more about them being Chinese.

Some of the instances have a community bent to them. Slrpnk and beehaw come to mind most immediately, but there are lots of others that are focused on gathering a specific niche of humanity and getting them to interact with one another.

And here I thought that was a photo of Mike Tyson punching a biblically accurate angel.

I think Maid Marion from Disney’s Robin Hood basically invented furries.

Voyager is mobile-first, but can be run as a webapp frontend that you can host locally (out of a repo or docker container), or set up for web access. If it’s just keyword filtering you’re after you can also use ublock origin rules to do that (in fact there was a lemmy thread today talking about it somewhere) You can set rules like

lemmy.ml##.post-listing:has(.post-title:has-text(/trump|elon|musk|biden|kamala|rfk/i))

and the content will simply not render.

I’m with you 100% from the privacy and cybersecurity perspectives. That said, if they can be solved (e.g. at some point there will simply be no need for any more training data, and computers will be fast enough to do all the fancy stuff locally), I’d vastly prefer having an appliance do my housekeeping chores than a cleaning service.

Is that the one from Costco? I sat in something very similar there last week.

I like it for content discovery, but it feels weird to upvote bot posts. When I see something interesting enough to comment on I do try to see if there’s a similar article in a better community already or make cross-post.

This gives me Old Internet vibes. Glorious.

I’d be into it. But I wouldn’t be devastated if it didn’t happen.

Yes! Slip the sound board guy your discman and $20 and get a perfect recording. I remember a few times where there were a stack of discmans and walkmans (Walkman?) recording.

I knew the punchline before reading it and still chuckled.