Sure. I had that with computer stuff. Troubleshooting, programming tutorials, particularly bad with comparing software and products. Same with cooking recipes and phrases/mottos/congratulations to write on someone’s birthday/wedding postcard… A good chunk is just slop. Or someone wrote a few sentences themselves but “enhanced” it to be surrounded by 5 pages of slop.

And doesn’t make a lot of sense for the reader. I mean if I wanted an AI answer, I could just ask ChatGPT directly. I don’t need someone else to pre-generate that and put it on a website?! That’d be kind of the point of AI.

I wonder who missed all the news on TV and social media, and still gets the kids such a toy for Christmas.

But boy are these some construed examples. Does NBC think a toddler with access to knives and a whetstone is fine, but the knowledge how to sharpen them is the problematic part? And what’s with the matches? I don’t hide how to light them from kids. Because realistically they’d alternatively just eat them and die from the phosphor. So again, why home in on explaining how something works with that? I bet we could come up with better examples. And other news outlets have.

I’d really advocate for teaching kids about knives, though. Tell them exactly how sharpness works, and what it does to someone’s fingers. Probably at a young age so they get to know about dangerous items in the household. Provide them with a butter knife (under supervision) so they can learn how to make a sandwich without poking their eyes out. It’s super weird that some kids can’t eat properly at 7yo. And of course don’t give them a kids Alexa. But that’s for a plethora of different reasons.

I think educational activities work best once they have some application to someones life. So it’d be something within the realm of a 7yo. And it’s not fun unless there’s a sense of achievement every now and then, along with all the stuff to learn. So probably not too steep of a learning curve.

Sadly they discontinued Lego Mindstorms. I think robotics is a great hands-on topic. People can grasp what they’re currently doing, why they do it, and what it’s good for. It has a tactile aspect, so you’ll train dexterity as well and gently connect the physical realm with the maths.

But other than that, I bet there’s a lot of things you can try. Design a website (and deploy a small webserver). Maybe some easy to use photo gallery if they have a tablet or camera. Maybe a Wordpress for them to write a Blog? They should be familiar with the concept of a diary. Kids love Minecraft, so maybe a Luanti server if you’re into Free Software. But learn how to add NPCs and animals, that is (or used to be?) a complicated process in Luanti and the world feels boring and empty without. A chat server to their loved ones could motivate them to read and write text (messages). Or skip the selfhosting aspect and do the kids games available for Linux. Paint, LibreOffice…

I like the recommendations from other people as well. Sadly I don’t know which kids programming language works best. I think I heard you can just go straight for Python as well. Not sure if that’s true or what age group that applies to. It’s a bit more involved to learn the syntax and why you need brackets around certain things etc but at least they get to learn the real deal and something properly useful. 7 might be a bit young, though. And there might be a language barrier. But that applies to all the computer stuff behind the scenes, unless you’re a native English speaker.

Nice. I guess that’s about when I was born, so I only remember copying 3½-inch floppy disks for friends. And it was music on my cassettes. 😉 But I don’t remember it being called piracy either. We had a lot of games, though. Monkey Island 2 and a nice collection of DOS games. None of them were bought in a store. And I remember struggling with the English language, some games were off the table since I didn’t learn English until middle school.

I guess copying things lost some of the social aspect after that. We shared a lot of stuff in digital form after CD writers became affordable in the mid- to late 90s. But these days you’d sit alone in front of the computer and just download whatever. And pretty much everything is available. Or just connect a phone to the car and have arbitrary things to listen to. Instead of a fixed set of 3 pre-made casettes for the entire summer vacation road trip.

No idea what books to recommend, but the concept of piracy is very old. That translated to the realm of home computers, pretty much when home computers were invented and software licensing became a thing. People would share floppy disks and cassettes. And then stuff got easier with modems and the internet.

Yes, htop. And occasionally I’m in the mood for btop.

Yeah, you’re right. Cloud is a bit of a weird one. I guess I should have mentioned it along with phones as actual useful tech. I think what I meant is, at first it got slapped as a label on every product whether that was “cloud” or just their old server. And for the customers, it regularly means: “We all don’t know where your personal data is stored, probably in some datacenters of ours in the USA or with some of our business partners.” Which isn’t great for privacy, since it’s not transparent at all… But the tech itself is solid. We need horizontal scaling with big platforms. I myself have a small VPS as well, I don’t run cloud stuff on it but it magically runs leveraging some cloud technology in the background. Other than that I have a NAS at home, running some other services, but that’s a good old regular computer. 😃

Yeah, idk. Most people’s pictures and documents are in the cloud these days. I mean just use a computer or mobile phone without an internet connection and 80% of the stuff will have enough components running server-side and just stop working. Including unexpected things that could work fine, locally. And Bitcoin isn’t exactly how businesses pay their contractors and suppliers, either… Smartphones are used by ordinary people… But all of that can be used b2b as well. Quantum computing certainly isn’t something a regular person needs.

Well, Cloud computing, Bitcoin/Block chain and Quantum computing come to mind with more recently over-hyped technologies… And I’m not sure what to make of the successful ones. Smartphones have certainly reshaped the world within my lifetime. I still remember when I was a kid and there was no wifi, just dial-up internet and you’d have to use landline phones and telephone booths. But smartphones weren’t forced on us back then… People adopted them on their own because they were massively useful… Still only took a few years and everyone had one. (And it’s just now that they’re forced upon us. I mean try riding a train or attend a concert or get an appointment without using smartphones…)

A tele-operated machine isn’t intelligent. That’s just a lot of motors and a fast network connection to some human in a room in the back. It’s a bit more involved but basically the same level of “intelligence” a RC car has.

This an AI video or real? Looks kinda fake and I’m wary of all the 5s snippets on X.

Edit: there’s a better article on Mashable citing some additional Reddit thread etc, and seems people think it’s real… I’m still not convinced, but they’re right, all the waterbottles physics and the lighting looks about right. Not sure what’s the reflection on the head, doesn’t look like the camera man to me… but if it’s a fake it’s very convincing. I just wish people would upload more than 5s snippets of the world so I can have some context.

https://kdenlive.org/

It’s the default open-source video editor and pretty much an allrounder.

Uh, I didn’t know we could do strange things like that. 🙃 Here’s a link to the Arch Wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Swap_on_video_RAM

Oh wow, pretty extensive take on it. Thanks! Yes, the postmodern take on it is a bit weird. Especially the tech-bro part. I have no clue why dressing badly is a thing to do. The original nazis had fashionable uniforms designed by Hugo Boss. Seems the approach towards asthetics doesn’t entirely translate to postmodern fascism fanboys.

And all the fake stuff… yeah pretty unfortunate how this is exactly what the malicious people need and it’ll empower them. Some people have proposed to use AI for education and progress, but the unfortunate reality is, as is, it’s just a 1000 times better at doing the opposite.

I think that GPU should be supported by CUDA 9.0 and it has some Vulkan 1.2? You’d need to install an old version (<=9.0) of the CUDA framework and find some software which is fine with that. But I had the same GPU in my old Thinkpad and it’s just not very fast. I sometimes used it for some Portal2 or a few extra FPS on SuperTuxKart. But other than that it wasn’t a gamechanger even compared to the iGPU. If it’s too complicated, just do the calculations on the CPU, I don’t think there will be a big difference. You could do video encoding on it (for old codecs), but the iGPU can do that as well…

• https://wiki.debian.org/Packaging
• https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/packaging-system.html

Yeah, the American political landscape is utterly unfit to deal with AI. There’s two parties but both of them are big time into neoliberalism over regulation. And then the Republicans have the added difficulty of AI being a modern thing, but since they’re made up of conservatives plus fascists, they’re against modernism. They should be against it on ideological grounds. Yet AI is pushed by their rich peer group and those do big money with it. And it’s a great tool for repression, works top-down and can be tuned to do a lot of nefarious stuff so they’re also for AI.

If you just want something simple that does the job, you can try a turnkey solution like YunoHost. There’s several other ones out there. Some with containers, some with more or less pre-packaged software… If you want to learn more during the process, maybe don’t and do it yourself because these things don’t teach you a lot. There’s some resources like the awesome-selfhosted list in the sidebar of this community. But I think for installing services you’d mainly look at the specific documentation of the specific service you’re just about to tackle. And maybe read up on Docker containers etc to judge whether you want to do it that way.

I think the article does a good job in explaining what correlation is (later on). Somehow these two things are linked. It’d be intriguing to hypothesize this is why it’s like that. And I think it would make a lot of sense. It’s just that there is no solid evidence (yet) to draw a conclusion. Could be like that. Could also be an example where something seems obvious, but it’s not. So… I think this is a very good point. And likely a good working hypothesis (Edit: or null hypothesis) for future research.

plutonic friendship

yeah, these are forged deep underground, by magma 😆