Any recommendations for an #Android app for keeping track of taking medicines/vitamins? Reminders etc.?
I used MediSafe for years, but they've enshittified it, now wanting 50€/yr to keep track of 3+ medicines/vitamins.🙄
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.medisafe.android.client
I see so many adults and professionals talking about how they are using LLMs to deepen their understanding of things, but I think this ultimately dives headlong into the “Gell-Mann amnesia” effect — these people think they are learning, but it only feels that way because there are ignorant enough about the topic they're interested in to not detect that they are being fed utter bullshit.
How shall we answer this? I think it speaks most urgently for people who actually know things, those with "intellectual power", to democratise our knowledge, throw aside the totems that make our fields inaccessible and obscure, and open the gates to the multitudes who wish to learn.
At first it seems like it would be easy to compete with LLMs (because they say only bullshit), but to actually compete with LLMs we need to produce educational materials that actually explain things properly. Any 'proof by intimidation' will immediately send our student to the LLM. The moment you rely on something that you haven't explained, same deal. So it may be that this era has a silver lining: we must finally teach mathematics properly.
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More specific to the broadcaster I'm subtooting here: in their parting statement, I am reading a subtext of "we were hoping that people would start conversations with each other under our posts"
And like... what?? That is not how any of this works. You're not a debate moderator who assigns the topics to speak about and then lets others do the work. You need to actually participate in the conversation yourself, if you want it to be had!
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There's like a 1:1 correlation between "organizations whose experiments of being on fedi failed" and "organizations which treated fedi as a write-only bullhorn"
If you heard how Unity stiffed the startup I work for with a $5k/year per person license, and thought “nah, it’s because they are making weird VR software. I’m safe.” You should think twice! They even go after people you’ve worked with!
Do NOT start a new project with Unity. They have a division tasked with making you regret it.
my friend @rail_ told me they really liked this picture so i'm posting it
Maintenance tip for possible design flaw for Framework 13 laptops
I own a Framework 13 (i7-1260p) laptop which on rare occasions suffered from agonizing slowness. This was usually fixed by a reboot so I always thought it was some quirk with Linux.
However, it was not.
A few weeks ago I while I was playing Factorio, the performance suddenly dropped from one moment to the other. A reboot did not help.
While we'll celebrate Indigenous Feast Day it's also The National Day of Mourning on Thursday.
Educate yourselves. Educate your children. Educate your family.
You have a lot to be thankful for but it comes at our expense.
"Where can I shove a blockchain in?"
Please don't.
Blockchains are about establishing consensus in a world where you can't trust anyone. They're a libertarian macho bullshit fantasy that also boils the oceans.
If you can't imagine a way to build consensus with your community without relying on a technology that is actively harmful to the future, then you lack imagination and creativity.
"be gay do crime" aber auf deutsch? das geht so:
Sehr geehrte Lesenden,
unter Bezugnahme auf die fortschreitende gesellschaftliche Differenzierung und in Übereinstimmung mit der Zielsetzung, die strukturelle Integration pluralistischer Lebensentwürfe zu fördern, möchten wir Ihnen im Rahmen dieses Schreibens eine fundierte Grundlage zur intellektuellen Auseinandersetzung und potenziellen praktischen Anwendung subversiv-symbolischer Handlungsstrategien nahelegen.
Es erscheint aus verwaltungsrechtlicher sowie sozialphilosophischer Perspektive angezeigt, eine kritische Reflexion bestehender hegemonialer Diskurse und normativer Ordnungen zu befördern. Diese sollen im Lichte einer theoretisch fundierten und performativ-symbolischen Praxis hinterfragt werden, die auf die Dekonstruktion sozio-struktureller Asymmetrien sowie die Sichtbarmachung institutionalisierter Diskriminierungsmechanismen abzielt. Hierbei könnte eine bewusste Abweichung von traditionellen Konventionen als konzeptionelle Grundlage dienen, um transformative Impulse innerhalb des gesellschaftlichen Diskurses zu initiieren.
Eine solche Methodik umfasst die deliberative Wahl einer von den gängigen normativen Erwartungshaltungen abweichenden Identitätsgestaltung. Dabei ist ausdrücklich die Möglichkeit der Implementierung symbolisch widerständischer Verhaltensweisen in Betracht zu ziehen, die in einem diskursiven Sinne eine Rekontextualisierung von Machtstrukturen und sozialen Hierarchien ermöglichen könnten. Es sei dabei hervorgehoben, dass die juristische Bewertung derartiger Handlungen im Rahmen eines analytischen Ansatzes sekundär zu betrachten ist, sofern deren primäres Ziel die kritische Hinterfragung und Reform gesellschaftlicher Ordnungsprinzipien darstellt.
Die vorliegende Empfehlung richtet sich insbesondere an jene Akteur*innen, die sich durch einen hohen Grad an Engagement für soziale Gerechtigkeit, Diversität und integrative Werte auszeichnen. Ziel ist die Etablierung eines paradigmatischen Dialogs, welcher die Transformation bestehender gesellschaftlicher Machtstrukturen begünstigt und den Weg für eine nachhaltige, pluralistische Gesellschaft ebnet.
Sollten Sie Interesse an einer weiterführenden Beratung, an spezifischen Leitfäden zur konzeptionellen Ausarbeitung nonkonformistischer Strategien oder an der Teilnahme an einschlägigen Fachseminaren zu den Themen Identitätsdiversifizierung, strukturelle Normenkritik und subversive Praxisformen haben, steht Ihnen unser Referat für weiterführende Anfragen zur Verfügung.
Mit verbindlichsten Grüßen und den besten Wünschen für Ihr Engagement zur kritischen Weiterentwicklung gesellschaftlicher Strukturen,
Ember
Hauptreferent*in für Normendekonstruktion und Antikonformismus
Ministerium für Gesellschaftliche Kohärenz, Hegemonialkritik und Antikonformistisches Handeln
RE: https://catcatnya.com/users/cache/statuses/113554716370750422
And, to be clear, everything I describe above would have to be done with the full consent of (at least the network administrators of a given network if not actually) the end user.
You, or someone who administers your machine, would need to trust the certificate authority. You, or someone who administers your networks, would need to select and use these altDNS servers.
You would need to choose to use a browser that supported the services we designed.
I'm not talking about a vector for attack, but rather one for liberation.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.