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New comment by unfitted2545 in "Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone"

unfitted2545 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:31:46 +0000

I think I've got this from growing up with a narcissist. Thoughts are constructed and seemingly endlessly whittled to try and create a sentence that can avoid getting belittled.

It's hard to talk in groups, because you have to have a sentence mentally critiqued by 3/4 people in turn, so the topic has usually changed before you can say your piece.

New comment by unfitted2545 in "GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS"

unfitted2545 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 09:46:23 +0000

How many chief constables aren't white? Cognitive dissonance isn't a fact

New comment by unfitted2545 in "DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms"

unfitted2545 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:05:16 +0000

Mark Fisher in Capitalist Realism touches on this concept, where there's a constantly shifting opposition to the market that itself becomes engulfed in its own market, to be advertised.

So for example all the productivity/digital detox channels and videos are themselves a consumer demand to be watched on YouTube, on phones. And now we have anti-AI products marking themselves higher for a feature that didn't previously exist. It's like the tree of capital gets split at every turn.

New comment by unfitted2545 in "Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens"

unfitted2545 — Sun, 24 May 2026 13:49:54 +0000

Eggs are IaC.

New comment by unfitted2545 in "A scoping review of bicycling interventions’ impacts on well-being"

unfitted2545 — Sun, 24 May 2026 12:39:15 +0000

It's also crazy how slow countries have been to build solar panel roofs on car parks, this should have been done so long ago with the budget that car infrastructure gets.

New comment by unfitted2545 in "Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers"

unfitted2545 — Sun, 24 May 2026 12:19:09 +0000

The reason it's trending right now is because it's a convenient price, simple to use and making people read more because of its size. If it helps people cut down on phone use then it's a good product.

The build quality could be better, but there doesn't exist a similar product with better build quality.

Can you build a DIY version that's significantly cheaper?

Well, this was my thinking for getting one, we shall see when it arrives :P

Edit: Also you can choose to install a nice open source community firmware

New comment by unfitted2545 in "Sleep research led to a new sleep apnea drug"

unfitted2545 — Sat, 23 May 2026 07:15:58 +0000

There's also the fact that using digital devices negatively affects our breathing a lot: https://www.npr.org/2024/06/10/1247296780/screen-apnea-why-s...

Considering how much we use them now it could change the default state significantly, and maybe we do have to consciously relearn the best way to breath.

New comment by unfitted2545 in "'Capitalism has to become more humane': a Stanford economist on big tech"

unfitted2545 — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:45:03 +0000

Wow. Tell that to the cobalt miners in the DRC.

New comment by unfitted2545 in "SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video"

unfitted2545 — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:58:23 +0000

If we use world models to train AI systems, are we not essentially forcing something to live so it can gather data for us?

Yes, we haven't gone that far with creating consciousness yet, but there is gonna be a lot of money around neural computing devices for consumers in the coming decades, so that will speed up knowing what sense data you need for consciousness.

New comment by unfitted2545 in "Steve Jobs in Exile – New book on his years at NeXT Computer"

unfitted2545 — Fri, 15 May 2026 19:30:18 +0000

and gave a gold trophy to the current US president

New comment by unfitted2545 in "Life During Class Wartime"

unfitted2545 — Sun, 10 May 2026 07:40:24 +0000

Being poor in a capitalist country is still slavery - you don't work, you don't eat (as well as have access to accomodation, healthcare, public transport).

New comment by unfitted2545 in "NSA Warned Everyone to Reboot Their Routers"

unfitted2545 — Sat, 02 May 2026 14:51:47 +0000

OpenWRT One? Not sure about AP's though.

New comment by unfitted2545 in "Craig Venter has died"

unfitted2545 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:36:58 +0000

A complete human experience is to have relatively little time, no point in doing anything if you have 500 years to do it IMO.

Edit: Maybe there wouldn't be nilihism, but I don't think you could get more fulfilled with the extra time. I feel like an insect that lives 24 hours and a shark that lives several hundred have an equal feeling of accomplishment.

New comment by unfitted2545 in "Plants can sense the sound of rain, a new study finds"

unfitted2545 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:06:09 +0000

Could this not be the sublingual absorbtion of sugar rather than seemingly random "brain signals" the article suggests?

New comment by unfitted2545 in "Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0"

unfitted2545 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:15:59 +0000

From an end user perspective, I think the best thing the Asahi team could have done was solely focus on getting the M1 Air/Pro working 100% before moving onto other devices.

But that would probably result in burn out from the crazily talented dev team :P

New comment by unfitted2545 in "Education must go beyond the mere production of words"

unfitted2545 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:25:50 +0000

Relating to music - it's actually so easy to remember a ton of words (information) if they're put into rhymes

New comment by unfitted2545 in "GPT-5.5"

unfitted2545 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:40:52 +0000

This is such a good comment. You're essentially removing their ego - which is what humans do as opoque posturing to each other, to present a certain image. This is most prevelent in successful elites, which in 2026 happen to be silicon valley ai share holders. They control the technology and manipulate it to their image. By making models open source and transparent it cuts out this psychopathy of ego which has plagued all our previous technologies.

New comment by unfitted2545 in "Austerity Creates Fascism"

unfitted2545 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:13:33 +0000

Yes but economic stimulus where? Wealth inequality has risen so much because of huge government spending in the wrong areas that transfers wealth to the wealthy, it happened in 2008 and in COVID.

New comment by unfitted2545 in "Why AI Sucks at Front End"

unfitted2545 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:05:57 +0000

I mean I go to gigs of people I like, it's not hard to work out if someone is real if they're on stage/meeting up with fans afterwards

New comment by unfitted2545 in "Why AI Sucks at Front End"

unfitted2545 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:28:25 +0000

Rather than an existential threat, I could see it becoming it's own genre rather than infecting every other genre - when in the future people collectively realise it's kinda bad but has it's place as an almost retro aesthetic.

Our idea of nostalgia was not that long ago. Also it could be generated on open weight local copyright free models that are super efficient in the future :P