shreyan

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shreyan
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 (1y ago)
↳ In-reply-to » Metaverse Could Contribute Up To 2.4% of US GDP By 2035, Study Shows A study commissioned by Meta has found that the metaverse could contribute around 2.4% to U.S. annual GDP by 2035, equating to as much as $760 billion. Reuters reports: The concept of the metaverse includes augmented and virtual reality technologies that allow users to immerse themselves in a virtual world or overlay information digitally on ... ⌘ Read more

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci Oh wow, I hadn’t heard of Vircadia before. This looks really cool.

Also. The idea of Augmented Reality is much more appealling to me than full Virtual Reality. And a pair of glasses is a lot easier to wear than a headset.

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shreyan
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 (1y ago)
↳ In-reply-to » @prologic hmm, dunno about the recency of that line of thought. I suspect though that given his (recent or not) history, if someone directly asked him "do you support rape" he would not say "no", he'd go on one of these rambling answers about property crime like he did in the video. Maybe I'm mind poisoned by being around academics my whole career, but that way of talking is how an academic gives you an answer they know will be unpopular. PhD = Piled Higher And Deeper, after all right? In other words, if he doesn't say "no" right away, he's saying "yes", except with so many words there's some uncertainty about whether he actually meant yes. And he damn well knows that, and that's why I give him no slack.

@prologic@twtxt.net Generated haha 😆

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shreyan
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 (1y ago)
↳ In-reply-to » What is a good device for home virtualization these days? I have been looking at the Intel NUC 13 pro's. Basically I want something "quiet" (ie not a screaming banshee 1U), smallish, but with lots of threads and rams. Disk will come from an external NAS.

@xuu What’s your budget?

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shreyan
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↳ In-reply-to » @prologic hmm, dunno about the recency of that line of thought. I suspect though that given his (recent or not) history, if someone directly asked him "do you support rape" he would not say "no", he'd go on one of these rambling answers about property crime like he did in the video. Maybe I'm mind poisoned by being around academics my whole career, but that way of talking is how an academic gives you an answer they know will be unpopular. PhD = Piled Higher And Deeper, after all right? In other words, if he doesn't say "no" right away, he's saying "yes", except with so many words there's some uncertainty about whether he actually meant yes. And he damn well knows that, and that's why I give him no slack.

Indubitably, it would be an intellectually stimulating and intellectually invigorating exercise to endeavor to craft a prose devoid of any substantive idea or notion. To partake in such a linguistic activity, one must embrace the aphorism that the beauty of language lies not in its utilitarian function but rather in the aesthetic pleasure of its form. The pursuit of such an objective requires a mastery of language that transcends the pedestrian concerns of conveying meaning and instead focuses on the artful arrangement of words and phrases into a mosaic of syntactical structure. One must be cautious, however, not to fall into the trap of mistaking verbal acrobatics for genuine intellectual profundity. For while it may be entertaining to indulge in a linguistic parlor game, it is ultimately through the substantive and coherent expression of ideas that we achieve true intellectual enlightenment.

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shreyan
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 (1y ago)
↳ In-reply-to » @prologic hmm, dunno about the recency of that line of thought. I suspect though that given his (recent or not) history, if someone directly asked him "do you support rape" he would not say "no", he'd go on one of these rambling answers about property crime like he did in the video. Maybe I'm mind poisoned by being around academics my whole career, but that way of talking is how an academic gives you an answer they know will be unpopular. PhD = Piled Higher And Deeper, after all right? In other words, if he doesn't say "no" right away, he's saying "yes", except with so many words there's some uncertainty about whether he actually meant yes. And he damn well knows that, and that's why I give him no slack.

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci I would agree, but it feels like GPT already does that. :)

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shreyan
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 (1y ago)
↳ In-reply-to » @prologic you mentioned in a memo earlier how you said "boring microblogging" about yarn, well, hopefully I'm allowed to help prevent the "boring" part. If I like something I tend to really like it, so, and I'm curious how exactly this is federating. Any hints mate?

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah. While I strongly dislike Jordan Peterson et al I would like to someday discuss some of these controversial things with you and others while not getting too heated.

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shreyan
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 (1y ago)
↳ In-reply-to » I've seen BlueSky referred to as BS (as in Blue Sky, but you know...), which seems apt.

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci I’m on BlueSky. This isn’t the case. Such accounts were banned within 7 minutes of reporting them. Federation is their top priority right now - it was just delayed by the sudden influx of users, which caused them to have to focus much more strongly on moderation.

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shreyan
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 (1y ago)
↳ In-reply-to » So the news is telling me, Bluesky is the hottest new decentralized thing, with parole waiting month to join, or buying invite codes of ebay, for thousands of dollars.

@thecanine@twtxt.net I have a few invite codes. Message me on matrix as shreyanjain:matrix.org or email me shreyan.jain.9@outlook.com

XRPC is pretty neat but yeah until federation hits it’s a little iffy

You can 100% host your own right now, but federation lands sometime next month

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shreyan
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 (1y ago)
↳ In-reply-to » The discovery of the year is sxmo, he's damn good! It's hard to believe that a smartphone can do that. It seems crazy at first glance, but it's convenient.

@prologic@twtxt.net yeah sxmo is awesome. personally i daily drive sailfish os because i want the power of full gnu/linux on my phone but i still don’t want to abandon convenience, and it does feel the most complete of any mobile gnu/linux distros i’ve looked at and/or tried

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shreyan
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 (1y ago)
↳ In-reply-to » 'You Just Lied': Elon Musk Slaughters BBC Reporter In Live Interview - YouTube As much as I don't hold a very high opinion of Elon Musk (and to be fair I don't actually know him all that well, only what I've read about him and observed), this particular video however is quite hilarious. This (ignoring the Twitter™ nonsense) is hilariously funny and quite on point. "Who decides whether its misinformation anyway?" And "You can't even provide one example" Haha 🤣

@prologic@twtxt.net Pretty amazing how unprepared that guy went in

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shreyan
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 (1y ago)
↳ In-reply-to » Given the continued hostility of jam6 and buckket over Yarn'a use of Twtxt (even after several years! 😱) I am continuing to face hard decisions.

@prologic@twtxt.net Honestly this is quite disappointing to see as someone new to the twtxt/yarn ecosystem - it feels like the entirety of the buckket argument is based on a “purist” viewpoint when nothing yarn does feels fundamentally incompatible with original twtxt

Very sad 😔

However I do agree with jan6 on that while yarn is a great twtxt client, twtxt is a terrible yarn client

That doesn’t mean that yarn should change its underlying format away from twtxt though, twtxt is probably yarn’s biggest selling point

my view of twxt is essentially a feed of arbitrary plain text data with timestamps, which can open up the ecosystem to all sorts of good experimentation in clients

and for the specific case of multiline twts, when you actively have a pr waiting which addresses the issue, the stubbornness of the opposition seems quite unreasonable

that’s just my two cents, didn’t mean to write a paragraph (lol a multiline twt for you right here)

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shreyan
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 (1y ago)
↳ In-reply-to » The Bitcoin Whitepaper is hidden in every modern copy of macOS While trying to fix my printer today, I discovered that a PDF copy of Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin whitepaper apparently shipped with every copy of macOS since Mojave in 2018. I’ve asked over a dozen Mac-using friends to confirm, and it was there for every one of them. The file is found in every version of macOS from Mojave (10.14.0) to the current version (Ventura), but isn’t in High Sierra (10.13) or earlie ... ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net To be honest I find it pretty funny… just why the Bitcoin whitepaper? And what’s with the other image in the same directory?

I’m not anti-Bitcoin or pro-Bitcoin, it’s just an interesting choice

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shreyan
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 (1y ago)
↳ In-reply-to » Often people run a node somewhere, then connect to it with the remote node feature from other machines. Or use a light wallet. Cpu use will go down when block chain is synced. Also just a tip - check the prune blockchain feature to save a lot of space.

@prologic@twtxt.net Check out GNU Taler. It meets at least some of those goals :)

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shreyan
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 (1y ago)
↳ In-reply-to » Often people run a node somewhere, then connect to it with the remote node feature from other machines. Or use a light wallet. Cpu use will go down when block chain is synced. Also just a tip - check the prune blockchain feature to save a lot of space.

@prologic@twtxt.net what do you think could help make it more decentralized?

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