juli

Earlier today, I posted an ai generated image. I thought it's a very good image. I wanted to share it because it was something special I hadn't seen before. The post was removed in c/memes after a while. The removal made me think. I removed it from c/lotrmemes myself.

What happened?

An "ai" generated a series of images of which a human selected one and shared it in a forum. It is coincidence that it was the first image that yielded the best result.

The ai could've posted the image itself. It wouldn't have needed a human. And even if it needs a human today to select the image, it might not need a human tomorrow to judge if a picture is of higher quality.

If we allow ai generated content in a forum where humans interact with each other, we risk our conversations and interactions. If we let a computer post what we read and see we lose our community life. We end up interacting only with machines and not humans.

I remembered a news story that facebook started artificial profiles on facebook/instagram. It would post only artificially generated content. 10 years ago it was important to facebook that we proof that we are human and no bot or alt account. Today facebook is only profit driven. It does not care if humans or robots interact with each other. It's cool that there are machines now.

I do not want to see posts of a computer, I do not want other people to see this content and interact with it. It is an incredible technology. It's astonishing what we achieved so far and what we will achieve in the future.

I do not want to live in a world where we interact with machines and can not distinguish between human reality and fiction. I am deeply sorry. I have thought about it and I am greatful that I have a better understanding of it.

Fractal calls them Historical rooms and they are rooms that I left on other apps.

I thought that when you leave a room on e.g. Element it'll send a deletion request to the server and then to other servers if applicable. But I can see all historical rooms and the data is still there. It even shows when I left the room.

How scary is that?

I can't reach tilvids.com anymore. What are you supposed to do in such a case?

GNOME search can't calculate stuff. krunner on KDE is increadibly powerful. Is there anything I can do to make GNOME's search a bit more like krunner? at least do basic math ...

My biggest wish is that there's an easy way to contribute images to wikimedia and to link them easily with osm. As soon as that's possible, we'll map the world much quicker and more reliable. Someone might take pictures of benches and another one will add the info if there's a backrest from home.

I've never seen it being shown here, so I thought I'd make a post.

I've never got into tiling window managers, there's a hurdle to get into them because I have to decide first which one I'll look into. I have to spend time without knowing if I even want it. And the first impressions weren't that awesome to jump over the hurdle. I was "satisfied with basic tiling" or super user friendly, minimal workload, tiling things. Usually, I played with awesome tiles or forge and they are great.

I stumbled upon PaperWM which extends the view to the side. It automatically appends windows to the side and you can scroll through them. You can do a lot and I still need to figure out how everything works but it's at least fun to explore it. I'm on GNOME 45 and so far I haven't seen any bug.

Usually, I'd run the app from the terminal.

I'm trying to refresh the online calendars in gnome's calendar gnome-calendar or org.gnome.Calendar but nothing happens. It shows a check mark as if it was successful.

edit: I just reinstalled the calendar via software from flathub and cleared the cache. The app is now unresponsive. I can't uninstall it anymore. reboot.

edit2: after a reinstall, calendar still has the outdated information. Even though I deleted everything. Evolution has the latest data which means that sync is working.

yt-dlp is capable of downloading a title but it's tedious to download all of them. is there an easy way? and for ard and zdf?

This is the link to the image. It has 3.8mb. In my opinion that is way too much.