Ya'll got social media? Wish I had friends to talk to -- I'm starting to think the Dead Internet Theory has some weight to it.

I cannot find a place to talk to like-minded people anymore; it's all gamified to sell you something. All folks do on Reddit is talk at you. I'm starting to doubt half the people posting are actual people now... with so many comments that are perfectly formatted and phrased like ChatGPT.

Yeah, but that's just moving the goal post. They'll find some way to get around having to do it.

Any ideas? I'm struggling to come up how they could circumvent this

I kind of solved it with epubs and sending it to my TV screen.. lean back like watching TV and set the font size to a comfortable size and tap arrow right on a wireless kb.

I wonder if a turtle drowned halfway across.

I had a similar very tiny-scale problem that was solved much quicker by awk+perl. I had a relatively large dataset across many YAML files that I needed to compute a result. Turns out that using yq / jq to performn a query was much (order of magnitudes) slower (>10m) to compute any kind of result. Outputting the data into CSV, then iterating over that was much, much faster (seconds). Of course, dumping it into SQlite and querying that was nearly instantaneous.

I know it’s not a direct 1:1 comparison, but it brings to mind that solutions that were made common decades ago are still relevant today.

I see 2FA is often misunderstood by people. The basic premise with 2FA is that you combine “something you know” with “something you have”.

You are already part of the 2FA — you’re the first factor: “something you know”.

The second factor: “something you have” — often a personal device, or an object. This is ideally something no one else can be in possession of at the same time as you are.

Except that for 99% of my passwords, I am 100% sure I do not, and never will, know them, they are 60-100+ bytes of random data, only known by my passwordmanager. The only thing I know, is the passphrase for my passwordmanager. TOTP codes are also stored in there, but I see it more as a replay-protection for captured passwords, though this is also really a non-issue in this time of almost no plaintext protocols.

Well, I draw the line here. If I see an ad, or feel like I'm being sold an advert in my chat with ChatGPT I am canceling.

Actually, I went ahead and canceled anyways.

But where we're going, we don't need eyes to see...

Libera te tutemet!

Apt reference.

Did you forget Stephen King’s The Dead Zone?

ChatGPT...