Not exactly related to technology, but I wished for a LLM that could talk with me (and giving me valuable insights) about things like black magick, chaos magick, summoning practices and rituals involving literal “demons” (as in Goetia and demonolatry), as well as very dark poetry and enchants (texts involving very sensible elements symbolically and metaphorically, such as very deep gory goth). These “ethical boundaries” also affects how LLMs can talk about such topics, because LLM deem them as “dangerous topics” (especially Claude, a very sensitive LLM that even refuses to talk about Lilith).

Ah, got it. Thanks for the reply!

A sincere question: why they don’t place some relay/repeater for the robot’s signal so they could control it from anywhere in the world through internet (or even some very private wireless communication network, outside internet due to security concerns)? The fact that they have to switch personnel every 15 minutes is a sign that they’re doing this in situ, rather than remotely.

Drones with mobile network connectivity are already a thing, for example. If you consider that internet exposure is dangerous (connection could be hacked, etc), ham transceiver repeaters are also a thing, and you can even chain many of them across many kilometers. It’s called mesh network.

Isn’t a file browser needed for browsing the saved documents and spreadsheets?

Not to mention that office suites (such as WPS, OpenOffice and LibreOffice) will inevitably pop up a file browser when the “Open” or “Save” buttons/menu items are clicked.

It seems utopia/dystopia, but some things get discovered/invented by accident. The more companies and organizations (and even individuals) fiddle with AI improvement, the more the “odds” of a sentient AI (AGI) being accidentally created increases. Let’s not forget that there are lots of companies, organizations and individuals (yeah, individuals, people outside organizations but with lots of computing power and knowledge) simultaneously developing and training AIs. Well, maybe I’m wrong and just very optimistic for such thing to appear out of nowhere.

Interestingly enough, there’s an AI experimentation focused on (trying to) debunking conspiracy theories. The article was posted here on [email protected]

Edit: the “Can AI talk us out of conspiracy theory rabbit holes?” article’s cover is misleadingly trying to relate conspiracy theories with occult, pagan and esoteric concepts, with symbols that you find in esoteric field (such as the eyed hand, alchemy symbols for planets and stars, etc). I’m a pagan myself. Religious intolerance is a thing that harms minority religions and the article sadly helps to spread this intolerance.

The occult, pagan and esoteric has nothing to do with conspiracy theories, they’re belief systems, they’re religions, they’re spiritual practices and views. Religions such as Luciferianism and Wicca are often attacked by Christians (with moralist speech such as “you worship Satan, you worship demons, you’re evil, repent”; let’s not forget what the church did to “witches” some centuries ago). I’m not attacking Christianity here (I was a Christian once), but it’s a reality: pagan beliefs, such as mine (I’m somewhat Luciferian and Thelemite in a syncretic way), are often attacked, and such a scientific article does harm pagan beliefs. Pagans don’t spread conspiracy theories.

I’m not supporting conspiracy theories (they don’t even matter to me anymore), but people fiercely attacking conspiracy theories generally are unbeknownst to how some few conspiracy theories became facts (not every crazy-fetched theory, but a little few): back in 2012, I was aware of the existence of an annual meeting called “Bilderberg Meetings”. Around 2014, an official website popped up, finally listing matters and subjects being discussed at their secret meetings, as well as its attendees, but the group existed since 1954, so decades of talking about global matters behind closed doors. It took a journalist (now deceased) nicknamed as “Big Jim” to disclose the topic list, attendees, meeting dates (beginning and ending) and location (such as which 5-star hotel to be paid with taxpayers money), before the site finally became to disclose such things.

I remember being called “crazy” when I pointed to the fact that such meetings existed, now it’s simply normal and well-accepted (but it doesn’t take back the offenses I received that time). That’s OK for me, because I moved on. As I said, it doesn’t matter to me anymore, now I’m really numb to it all. There are worse things than rich people and politicians gathering behind closed doors, such as impending weather disasters and scorching temperatures due to the now irreversible climate change (in parts, some of the corporations that attended such meetings to be blamed, but not only them; if they were transparent about their discussions about climate change, maybe people opened their eyes earlier about how impending were the now climate disaster, uniting and charging companies and governments to earlier actions with the needed transparency).

TL;DR: For a fun, I tried the mentioned bot. I talked to it about the former secrecy of Bilderberg meeting (before 2014, when their official website got online).

He “agreed” but pointed on how “this level of privacy is not uncommon in high-level discussions” and regarding “media spotlight and pressure, which is a reason why the meetings are private”. I counter-argued by pointing out how the phrase “If you got nothing to hide, you got nothing to fear” does not only apply to “mortal citizens” but also to CEOs and politicians, but it insisted on how such meetings needs “discretion”.

One thing it pointed is valid, tho: “correlation doesn’t imply causation”. Indeed, the fact that such meetings were undisclosed doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re criminal or conspiratory. But does the same rule apply for citizens? The same rules should apply for both the “powerful” and the citizens.

As I said, time passes, really bad things happened so far (climate change, rise of bigotry and inflation worldwide, COVID-19 with seven million fatalities reported but up to 30 million estimated deceases including one of my uncles, etc) and I became really, really numb, so I don’t care anymore. Humanity (even the richest men) is deadwalking towards extinction, anyways. Unfortunately. Sorry for my sadness and numbness.

I didn’t test displayport, but IIRC it’s digital, like HDMI is. So, my guess is that Displayport also emanates lots of EM interferences. The very sharp nature of squarey digital waves (in contrast to a sinusoidal wave from analog) decomposes into high-frequency interferences (because a square wave always has high frequency components, as observed through FFT). That’s what causes UHF interference.

It’s not exactly new. It’s known as Van Eck Phreaking. There are open-source projects such as TempestSDR that uses software defined radio dongles (such as RTL-SDR and AirSpy) to reconstruct a remote screen just by listening to its radio interferences.

I once listened to the radio noises emanated from my HDMI connection between my laptop and my LCD screen using a Baofeng UV-5R tuned in UHF frequencies. I could tune it from the street, dozens of meters away from the computer desk. HDMI is very noisy, even noisier than VGA. Even the shortest HDMI cable serves as an antenna for propagating such interference.

If it weren’t for “CA” (California) in the description, I would firmly believe that the photo is of some house in simpler inland cities here in Brazil. It’s a fairly common thing that we call as “puxadinhos” (constructions that have no engineer, often built by the owners themselves, because both a civil engineer and a mason are generally pricey and inaccessible to a vast majority of Brazilian population).

Nitter died? I’ve been using it days ago. It’s not as before the Twitter’s API restrictions, tho, because it started to using data scrapping to fetch Twitter profiles and posts.

I don’t know if I’m allowed to share here, but there’s an… how could I say… alternative… archive snapshot, from the moment when the paywall weren’t in place yet… It’s available today at a site that are known for archiving things. 😀

Bots are like microplastics. No place on Earth is free from them anymore.

if(!this.isBot()) 
  say("hi")

(Sorry for the pun, I’m not a bot, I’m a programmer that understands bots)

Nailed it. Prove me wrong.

Imagine people that work using X as their sustenance platform. Just imagine it. Oh, no one cares about them, neither government, nor corporations, nor minions from both sides… Because Hobbes was right. Men is a wolf to men.

There is absolutely no saint in this whole story. Musk is a billionaire trying to play god, while the supreme court is also trying to play god. Both consider themselves “above the rule of law”, while an entire population (composed of 200 million people) is divided between “Musk is right, let’s impeach Moraes” and “Moraes is right, let’s jail Musk”. There’s no good or evil here, for me, it’s the grand-old classic Divide et impera. It’s so obvious!

The good side of all this is that people are slowly learning about decentralized platforms, getting a little closer to tech-savvy. People are discovering fediverse, even if it’s through a not-so-good fediverse instance (Threads from Meta, or Bluesky). When people really literate themselves about the decentralization, it’ll be harder for both state bureaucracies as well as for corporations. The mastodon in the room which neither corps nor govs want to talk about (pun intented).

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I guess Gemini took the word “use” literally. Maybe if the word “have” would be used, it’d change the output (or, even better, “and which ones do apes’ stomachs have?” as “have” could imply ownership when “apes” are the subject for the verb).

A not-so-recent fediverse Brazilian user here, before all the X incident in Brazil. I joined Mastodon exactly 1 month ago. Since the beginning, I was only interacting with non-brazilian Mastodon users. In the last few days, however, I’ve been noticing more and more brazilian posts emerging inside Mastodon feeds, even in my home feed (where I follow hashtags such as #poetry, #poems, #occult, #hermeticism, #art and #aiart, as well as non-brazilian users that I’ve been following). Seems like brazilians are spreading across the many existing alternatives, not just Threads or BlueSky. It’s exactly what happened when WhatsApp or Telegram got temporarily blocked here: people started spreading across Discord, Signal, Matrix and so on.

It’s a complicated matter if we consider things such as the GDPR’s “Right to be forgotten”.