Notices by Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫:unverified:💀 (alyx@gameliberty.club)

@matrix So what you're saying is that birds are alien beings from another planet?

@matrix And by "35" they mean "eternally 17".

So Vivaldi partnered up with Proton, and integrated their VPN in the browser. Not really something I normally feel the need to use, but I decided to give their free VPN a try since it's right there.

I'm not seeing an immediate speed impact, which is surprising considering I'm not paying anything, and a VPN inherently adds overhead. There's probably just a small amount of latency that isn't that noticeable while browsing.

I tried out Google Maps, Bing Maps, and OpenStreetMap to see where they think I am now. Neither of them can get an exact location, but some pick a vague default location. Google thinks I'm somewhere in India for some reason. Bing thinks I'm in the Netherlands, which makes sense, cause that's the free server ProtonVPN assigned me to. OSM has simply no clue, and just opens up the map wherever I was last looking.

Found a small forum that apparently just hates VPNs. Otherwise... yeah, it does what it says.

@beardalaxy @matrix Sabine Hossenfelder (left of Technology Connections). She's a good science communicator. She actually used to be a physics researcher, but apparently got fed up because the science field is kinda broken right now. If you're looking for trustworthy reporting on particle physics and cosmology news, she's probably the best there is.

@matrix Hey, at least there's two channels on the right that are good.
But yeah, old YT was definitely more fun. It went downhill fast when it tried to take itself too seriously.

@matrix If you pan the map a little to the south-east you'll find Dracula Land.

@matrix I wish... Honestly, one of my biggest desires is to basically be able to witness every major discovery humanity finds. If there are aliens out there, I want to be around when contact is made, for example. But that's unrealistic, since humanity will likely live on for thousands of years, while I'll die well before the end of the century.

But if the whole mankind dies within my lifetime, that ensures that I would have witnessed everything worth seeing. Thus fulfilling my wish.

So 🤞 that a comet hits us sooner rather than later.

Snow White and the 7 Crack Heads

@Jazzy_Butts I have no idea. You can ask @matrix

this is so gay

@matrix I guess but... "my panties were drenched after the stream"... what vtubers are you following my man?! Tone down the parasocialism. Maybe they can't touch grass because they're allergic, but at least touch synthetic grass.

@matrix Ohhh.... If that's their recommendation... what are they following?!?!

@matrix I don't think I get it. Are these random unconnected posts?

P.S. lol at that last one though. Classic.

@matrix Please go back to the Vance memes. Those were less cursed.

@Aldo2 @LukeAlmighty
I came to the conclusion some time ago that "gender" simply doesn't exist. People are instead describing "personality" with a new word "gender". And indeed, your personality can be completely opposite of what you'd expect of someone based on their sex. You can have an extremely feminine personality while you look like the manliest of men. And your personality and various mental disorders can make dislike and feel uncomfortable with how your body looks. But nobody would sign off on dangerous and expensive medical procedures based on someone's personality. So "gender" came into the picture instead, to try to legitimize everything.

@matrix Read an article last week, and some guys were claiming we're maybe 2 years away from AGI.
On one hand I doubt we're THAT close, on another it shouldn't take a genius to realize that the pattern seeking approach that LLMs use is what human brains do too, so maybe we're closer than people realize. I wouldn't be surprised if it took years to realize we have an AGI on our hands after the AGI was created.

@djsumdog @matrix Maybe you know something I don't know about the houthis, but they started attacking western commercial boats because they're pissed off over nations supporting Israel. That's the war I'm talking about.

@matrix America didn't start this war, but hopefully they'll finish it.

@matrix Once you go SSD, you never go back.

@sun You just made me realize something. Reducing piracy did nothing to improve the quality of entertainment media.

There's been less piracy in games (thanks to Valve and GoG), movies and TV series (thanks to Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO Max, Disney+, etc.), and music (thanks to iTunes and other music streaming), and yet the quality of entertainment has dropped more and more.

Anyone trying to argue that piracy reduces the revenue for the people involved in these productions, and thus leaves them with less money with which to fund good future projects and harming the quality of entertainment, has been debunked.

If anything, there might be a better argument to be made for the reverse. The threat of piracy is more likely to force producers to make good shit, because people are more likely to want to spend money and reward people who make good shit, even if they could get it for free.