TheLeadenSea

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YouTube Plans to Use AI to Detect If US Viewers Are Under 18 in c/pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub
[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 hours ago

'Online safety for children' is such a euphemism for 'a direct violation of freedom of speech and access'. Don't let it go unchallenged or it'll be double plus ungood.

What is currently worth living for? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 10 points 9 hours ago (7 children)

Lol, everyone's thought their generation is the end times.

functional in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 hours ago

I think Lemmy is beyond the eyes of the law. At least, hopefully.

AI finds speech patterns in Reddit hate groups mirror those in some psychiatric forums in c/science@lemmy.world
[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Correlation does nor imply causation in either direction. Perhaps they're both caused by a third factor, or it's a coincidence. We can't know without doing an experiment.

The feature I want most from my next phone is to screen voicemails that mention improving my Google search results (or other keywords that indicate spam) in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 hours ago

Sounds like you could use an app that integrates AI STT to do this, it doesn't need to be hardware specific or even baked into the OS

EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Ah, my apologies. It was unclear

EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

Excuse me, censorship is not good in any way. The people should have the power to decide what they want to see, and what they want to say. Not government officials nor private platform owners.

US education in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 20 hours ago

I totally agree that the rest of it is nonsense, I was just commenting on the what it is/what it does bit

US education in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 25 points 23 hours ago (22 children)

When was this written? Also, it's not entirely untrue to say that we know what electromagnetic force does, but not what causes it. They say it's a 'fundamental force', which is basically way of saying we can't further reduce it to explain in terms of other stuff. We don't know what any of the fundamental forces (electromagnetism, gravity, and the strong and weak nuclear forces) really are - we can only describe their effects on the world with maths ('what they do')

This is why brexit happened in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 58 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

American defaultism at its finest

vibe coders discover "coding" in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 day ago (5 children)

The reason is that humans are expensive, and they don't want to spend their time programming simply if they can get an AI to give them a functioning project with much less time and effort - at least, commercially.

Avatar: Fire and Ash Official Trailer in c/movies@lemmy.ml
[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Is this a joke, lol? First they had Avatar: The way of water, now the third season is Fire and Ash, is the next one going to be Book 2: Earth?

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I'm looking for a book about philosophy and I can't find it by searching (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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I remember reading a book about philosophy a few years ago, but I don't remember what it's called, despite remembering several things about it. However searching the web or asking LLMs with what I remember has proved to not find it.

Can any of you help?

What I remember

  • It's ordered into chapters by topic
  • It's lighthearted in tone, despite being mostly nonfiction, reminiscent of the style of What If or We Have No Idea
  • They like telling stories to illustrate their points
  • One topic was about identity and there was a story about two people's brains getting swapped
  • There was a mention of the simulation hypothesis with aliens that put a boy inside a video game for his birthday gift because they saw he liked the game - brain in a vat
  • Various time travel paradoxes and how they could be solved - diverging universes, multiple universes, closed timelike curves
  • The cover was fun and bold, and it mentioned on it things that it contained inside
  • One chapter was about the ethics of eating animals and there was a story about giants eating people (because people eat animals)
  • There was a chapter about God
  • I didn't finish it, I want to read the rest of it

Please help me find it

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Why do we humans love music? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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It's just rhythms and pitches really, in a sequence. But we don't love patterns, a scale sounds boring. It's the breaking of the patterns that sound good in music, but only in specific ways. Other ways sound discordant. What the duck is going on?

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Why do we love stories so? (sh.itjust.works)
 

Whether it be movies, books, oral tradition. What is it we humans love so much about fictional tales?

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If you have an inner voice, does it sound like you or someone else? (sh.itjust.works)
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[SOLVED] How come I've got my NVIDIA GPU to work for every game except Hogwarts Legacy? (More details in post body) (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml
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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/41923801

So, I have this new laptop I got which has an NVIDIA RTX 4090M GPU, and also an integrated Intel GPU. Obviously, I only want to use the Intel GPU for less intensive apps, and to use the NVIDIA GPU for games or other intensive applications, such as AI.

Through trial, error, and lucky searches on the internet, I figured out some things that do and don't work.

  • Plugging in the laptop makes the NVIDIA GPU run much faster
  • The default Fedora NVIDIA drivers work fine, I don't need to install any alternatives
  • To make a normal app use the GPU, all I have to do is right click the icon and click 'Launch with discrete GPU' (on GNOME), or to make it open with discrete GPU by default (and launching with the integrated GPU would be an option in the context menu), I have to copy the desktop file to ~/.local/share/applications, and edit the .desktop file so it contains the line PrefersNonDefaultGPU=true
  • For Steam apps, the previous method doesn't work (for some reason - maybe it uses a custom launch process?), but after trying many different ways, I was able to get most Steam apps to use the correct GPU (GPU 0) by adding the custom launch option PROTON_USE_WINED3D=0 %command%
  • For some reason, this doesn't work for Hogwarts Legacy. It, of all games, really wants to use the Intel graphics - even with the custom launch command, PrefersNonDefaultGPU=true, and in game setting the preferred GPU to my NVIDIA one - yes, it is listed and recognised in game - I can tell both from the Resources app and the abysmal performance that my NVIDIA GPU is not being used and my Intel GPU is
  • Other apps like Portal RTX, The Witcher 3, ComfyUI (running through Krita AI Diffusion), Blender, and Civilisation 6 are running great with the NVIDIA GPU
  • I do not have prime-run installed and do not need it

My laptop model is MEDION Beast X40.

I'm honestly at my wits end.

Any suggestions?

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[SOLVED] How come I've got my NVIDIA GPU to work for every game except Hogwarts Legacy? (More details in post body) (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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[SOLVED] The custom launch command below works to force it to use the correct GPU!

DXVK_FILTER_DEVICE_NAME="NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU" %command%

[ORIGINAL] So, I have this new laptop I got which has an NVIDIA RTX 4090M GPU, and also an integrated Intel GPU. Obviously, I only want to use the Intel GPU for less intensive apps, and to use the NVIDIA GPU for games or other intensive applications, such as AI.

Through trial, error, and lucky searches on the internet, I figured out some things that do and don't work.

  • Plugging in the laptop makes the NVIDIA GPU run much faster
  • The default Fedora NVIDIA drivers work fine, I don't need to install any alternatives
  • To make a normal app use the GPU, all I have to do is right click the icon and click 'Launch with discrete GPU' (on GNOME), or to make it open with discrete GPU by default (and launching with the integrated GPU would be an option in the context menu), I have to copy the desktop file to ~/.local/share/applications, and edit the .desktop file so it contains the line PrefersNonDefaultGPU=true
  • For Steam apps, the previous method doesn't work (for some reason - maybe it uses a custom launch process?), but after trying many different ways, I was able to get most Steam apps to use the correct GPU (GPU 0) by adding the custom launch option PROTON_USE_WINED3D=0 %command%
  • For some reason, this doesn't work for Hogwarts Legacy. It, of all games, really wants to use the Intel graphics - even with the custom launch command, PrefersNonDefaultGPU=true, and in game setting the preferred GPU to my NVIDIA one - yes, it is listed and recognised in game - I can tell both from the Resources app and the abysmal performance that my NVIDIA GPU is not being used and my Intel GPU is
  • Other apps like Portal RTX, The Witcher 3, ComfyUI (running through Krita AI Diffusion), Blender, and Civilisation 6 are running great with the NVIDIA GPU
  • I do not have prime-run installed and do not need it

My laptop model is MEDION Beast X40.

I'm honestly at my wits end.

Any suggestions?

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Did you attend your parents' wedding? (sh.itjust.works)
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I'm getting 'operation not permitted' errors with Syncthing Fork and a few other issues, can anyone help? (sh.itjust.works)
 

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/40624933

Several different, random seeming files across various different Syncthing folders keep failing to sync even after restart, rescan, and reconfiguration, with the below error

syncing: finishing: opening temp file: open /storage/emulated/0/Pictures/Webcam/.syncthing.2024-07-1621:42:30.jpg.tmp: operation not permitted

I don't how how to fix it, the desktop app has the required permissions, and the Android app has as many storage permissions as I can give it under Android's horrible SAF limitations.

It seemed to used to be happening only to some specific old files, but now it's happening to all the new files I add onto my laptop under Videos or Music.

In addition, when trying to sync files with a specific server, it shows as disconnected, even when both are online and connected to the LAN (my phone via WiFi, the server via Ethernet), and there is some error about encryption expectations

2025-06-20 23:33:38: Failure checking encryption consistency with device server for folder "Music" (8ipwu-ehye4): remote expects to exchange encrypted data, but is configured for plain data

The server is running Syncthing GUI on Fedora GNOME, same as the laptop (which does work besides for the first issue), so I don't know what the difference is that would be causing this, not a single file has been synced to the server.

This is honestly making me want to get a Fairphone 5 with Ubuntu touch to get rid of these issues, but I can't do that now.

If anyone could advise, I would really appreciate it!

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