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Do you think animals have thoughts? Are they capable of hearing that little voice that we humans have in our heads?
  • To be honest, that's me too! (And I also might be autistic.) But I'm capable of thinking things out verbally, something I do particularly in regard to programming and architecture problems, or figuring out what to say to someone else. So it's a tool that's available to me. I don't think it's available to my dog, but I'll bet he's doing virtual paws.

  • Do you think animals have thoughts? Are they capable of hearing that little voice that we humans have in our heads?
  • But they can make plans, they have goal-oriented behavior that drives them to seek out a goal that exists beyond their senses. If I leave the house through the front door without giving my dog his customary distraction, he goes out the back door and around the side because he knows that, if I haven't properly secured the fence, he can get out through the fence to reach me. Nothing about that involves his senses, it's just something he's figured out.

    Now, I doubt any part of that involves an internal monologue because they don't use language (even though they can, in fact, understand limited language). If they don't use it themselves, they probably don't figure things out in their heads that way, it simply wouldn't be very efficient. But they certainly possess more complex internal cognition than just "I smell food" or whatever.

  • AI models face collapse if they overdose on their own output
  • AI needs human content

    Obviously I know what you mean here and I agree with the sentiment, but there's an interesting wrinkle: Intelligence doesn't need human content, since it arose without any. It needs stimuli. Life and central nervous systems evolved in the presence of the universe; light sensors, chemical sensors. Eventually we developed lots of other senses and we used those to build our models (literally mental models!), almost entirely without any human input, since most of that happened before humans existed.

    I think the LLM field might well collapse without new human input--maybe it's too early to be sure one way or the other--but we can still go further by constructing actual senses and a way to explore the world and making computers learn from that.

  • AI models face collapse if they overdose on their own output
  • Weird, I can see the thumbnail (too small to really appreciate this description) but when I click through there's no image. Did my ad blocker remove it?

    (edit: no, turning off the ad blocker didn't help)

  • I am a software developer at PornHub
  • There's a lesson here for lurkers looking at this conversation :-) Block people all you want. You don't need a good reason. There's no Socratic Method Fairy who's gonna get mad at you for refusing to engage with bad faith arguments, lying, or abuse. Just click on the username, the block button is near the top and pretty big.

    About to block a few accounts here myself.

  • The Vehicles of Mad Max poster
  • The ending of Furiosa really enhances the notion that these are folk tales. They describe but also film multiple depictions of the fate of one of the main characters, as if different tellings of the story give a different ending.

  • The Vehicles of Mad Max poster
  • My thought is that it becomes a lot less scarce if 99% of the population is dead and the remaining oil only has to cover the needs of 1%. Even less than that, in fact, because you had to be an elite raider type to even have a working vehicle. Most of the remaining population just live in the dirt and get out of the way when cars go by.

  • Latest Verge article about their review of Asus ROG Ally X (and this is why gamers are preferring Steam Deck)
  • I am slightly ashamed to admit the reason I'm not going to consider pop os is the stupid way they write it: Pop!_OS.

    I'm already running 11 Linux VMs (and 3 bare metal Linux OS's) in my homelab so I think I've got plenty of Linux here anyway.

  • immich SSO migration path for existing user?

    I'm an immich user, switching from a standard u/p login to an SSO-based login.

    I've tested the SSO login successfully, it seems to work, and I'm not having any issues with that.

    However, the account generated by SSO login has a different email address and identifiers from the account I created earlier. I don't want to start from scratch with my photos, as I've spent countless hours updating metadata.

    I think I need one of the following:

    1. a supported, tested way to merge an account with another account. I don't know if this is going to be similar to the "partner sharing" feature. I don't want to simply share the photos, I want to have full control over them; including, if I delete a photo, it's gone forever.
    2. a tested way to manually update the database to change all identifiers over to the new account
    3. a way to login to the existing account via my SSO portal. I can create any SSO user I want, for example.
    4. a way to export the entire library with metadata and re-import it to the new SSO account, structured exactly the same way. Ideally this would also restore anything ML has done with my photos, but it's not a disaster if I have to wait for ML to recreate what it already did in the new account.

    Does anyone have information on how to achieve one of the above?

    Followup question:

    • can anyone confirm with certainty that metadata changes I made in immich have been saved in the image files in /library/upload/*? I am already making backups (both pg_dump and the entire contents of the library), but it would be nice to know where the metadata is actually kept, in case I have to do DR.
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    Personal music servarr with a mobile app?

    I've been on Tidal for years, but it's frustrating to use for lots of reasons (they only pay their artists slightly better than Spotify, streaming services are flaky, works poorly with my DLNA home speakers). I'm looking for something I can selfhost with the following features, and I would appreciate any suggestions in this direction:

    • integrates with downloading services (nzbget and qbittorrent; or better yet prowlarr)
    • has a suggestions/radio/mix feature, or integrates well with something that does. I currently use jellyseerr for other kinds of media, so something in that vein.
    • has a mobile app which lets me download all the tracks I want, or integrates with one that does. Big bonus points if the mobile app can play to DLNA speakers.

    A bit about my lab:

    • Proxmox-based, lots of VMs and containers on 2 different cluster nodes. Lots of underprovisioned RAM in the cluster. Nodes run Fedora and I'm partial to quadlets, but I can convert anything to a quadlet if I need to.
    • Airvpn port tunneling is available to me.

    TIA!

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    What do you with physical light switches connected to automations?

    I'm setting up with HA and zigbee smart bulbs. I've got a few automations already set up, such as turning on a bunch of lights in the morning and turning most of them off again at night.

    All these lights still have physical switches. I don't want to take those switches out for lots of reasons, and putting smart switches there seems like overkill when the bulbs are already smart. What are people doing with their physical light switches to ensure that they don't get flipped?

    Ideas I've had:

    • some kind of physical plastic covering that fits snugly around it. I'd probably do this if I had a 3d printer, but I don't. Maybe someone sells a thing like this? More just a reminder not to touch them.
    • Carefully paint the switches a different color (perhaps the HA color scheme?). Again, basically just a reminder. This especially makes sense with a few multi-switch plates where some of the connected lights are automated and some are intentionally left manual.
    • Entirely replace the plate with a smart switch? Besides incurring a nontrivial cost and being a bunch of work to install, this won't even help me with the aforementioned multiswitch plates. I don't want all my lights automated.

    Other ideas?

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    Far Away - Red Dead Redemption Soundtrack

    This song plays in RDR (the first one) when you enter the nation of Mexico.

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    The Doors - Break on Through to the Other Side

    Seems self-explanatory

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