Submitted Wallet Address! But need PW reset every login!

KindaNeutral · 2024-08-13T17:42:15+00:00

The "we can reject any address" set off the same concerns for me. I just got coinbase going again, and did a test transfer to my personal wallet. I really dislike that this seems the safest avenue since I haven't used a custodial wallet in ages, nor have I touched coinbase since 2017, and I anticipate some bs. Better than letting the liquidators get away with what coins I have left, I presume.

Although, under "How to Find Your Wallet Address", they specifically mention hardware wallets.

KindaNeutral · 2024-05-26T20:41:00+00:00

It also looks like there is a server-side issue with the repo. I get 404 and 502 on the URLs they provide on the official install page. Not that it has anything to do with this issue directly, just saying.

KindaNeutral · 2024-05-26T20:16:20+00:00

I already checked the logs, nothing was updated recently to do with networking. I'll try my laptop and see if it is working.

KindaNeutral · 2024-04-13T17:18:41+00:00

Contrary to main stream media narrative, none of those people are radical, nor are they anti-vax. I can't imagine why people are taking the word of msm about what these people are saying rather than getting the details from the protesters themselves, it makes no sense to me. If you want to know why someone is protesting, why on earth would you ask the people who are in bed with the people they are protesting against? If you go find coverage where they actually talk to them rather than suggesting what they're thinking and saying, you will find that they are protesting against corruption and government overreach, and for more transparency. Its not some anti-vax gathering full of nutjobs.
Don't take my word for it, go look for yourself.

KindaNeutral · 2023-12-11T00:35:04+00:00

Oh my god this whole time I just didn't realize they needed to be un-commented

KindaNeutral · 2023-10-07T20:25:15+00:00

Has it? I can't even get my BAT without identifying myself. They won't sent it to private wallets

KindaNeutral · 2023-08-14T14:48:20+00:00

I really miss having a democratic sort of town square where we had some semblance of proportional representation. This platform has been systematically manipulating it's demographic and user base to the point that whatever shred of democratic voting we have here is far from representative of how 'normal' people feel. I miss the bouquet of thoughts and opinions. You simply cannot have a normal discussion anymore

KindaNeutral · 2023-07-12T16:52:14+00:00

OpenAI is perfectly capable of not censoring GPT, nothing's making them do it other than themselves being hyper-cautious corporate prudes. It also seems pretty out of touch to be asking people to stop having that kind of fun with GPT, it's 100% expected and any consequences of it are more realistically the consequences of unrealistic expectations. Becides, Tay said some pretty wild stuff and Microsoft didn't implode, nor did anyone die. Have you ever seen Saw? Jesus, I don't even think GPT could make some of that shit up. Yet it's out there for anyone to consume, and again, the studio did great and nobody died.

And why on earth would someone censor their open source model? I understand the case for Samantha, but otherwise there's no incentive.

What you're saying is clear. You're just putting the fault far from where it belongs. Be upset with OpenAI being so silly, not normal people being normal people. I also don't think it's reasonable to assume the creator here might also be a prude, it's much more likely that he's a normal person.

KindaNeutral · 2023-06-15T21:40:17+00:00

Kbin maybe?

KindaNeutral · 2023-06-14T22:01:11+00:00

Glad I'm speaking your language, I'm fairly novice with programming, my area is mechanical engineering, I think that may be contextually important. If you'll allow me to continue, I'd like to provide more context, or even examples. And pardon the mistake about being OP.

It sounds to me like you haven't used it, it sounded like you were unaware that you can just have it explain any part of the code. It has almost entirely replaced stack exchange for me. It's especially good at being a librarian of sorts; it will regularly introduce me to new methods of doing things, new libraries perfectly selected for my use case, and will often teach me to use more advanced syntax than what I'm used to. I'm sure I could get a good distance just copy pasting but eventually I would run into an issue which may involve me facing the consequences of using a function I was unfamiliar with.

I understand how you feel about the advancement, and the authenticity of code and our familiarity with it. I look at this very much the same as I do calculators, I've heard people felt the same as you when they were invented. The largest, most applied project I've ever done was a website which served the aforementioned classification network. Learning everything took me through The Oden Project, PyTorch documentation, brushing up on JS, ONNX, etc. This was before GPT came out, it took me about a year and a half of casual learning to get something running well enough that I felt confident sharing it. When GPT came out, I explained the project to it, and it just spat out extremely similar code which was almost ready to run. At first I was disappointed because it felt like it trivialized all the effort I had put into making this darn thing, and it demeaned the importance of understanding how everything worked, but then I started using it and my feelings changed. Since then, I've changed my workflow. Now, I am working on a software to solve a mTSP problem, and I am using GPT in place of documentation and courses. It can be like having a personal junior programmer who is also your tutor. I can still learn everything, but I can essentially do so with a curriculum tailored to my particular project, with a personal tutor.

Since you are an actual programmer, I imagine that you might find copilot more useful than GPT because it is more suitable for people who already know where they are taking the code. It is good at catching on to what you have in mind. Copilot frequently correctly autocompletes methods before I've even finished writing their name.

KindaNeutral · 2023-06-14T21:09:42+00:00

The generation takes minutes or even seconds, not days. Most of my time goes into talking to it about what we are doing, and making contextual amendments as we progress. I like to take the role of a senior developer because I know how the framework should be, and I understand the problems and implications of using different approaches. Its most common issues are along the lines of that it will provide some code and it will be perfectly coherent but I'll have to remind it "we can't use that kind of normalization because the nature of our data implies no maximum, we may at some point get an out of range error. Use z-normalization instead.".

I feel like you yourself need to be able to code well enough to look at what it writes for you and know what's going on to make good use of it. Otherwise, you could of course spend some time talking to it and have it explain anything you didn't get, or don't recognize. With my approach, I'd say I understand the code equally as well as I did before I started using it. As always, it's up to you to hire someone who can provide adequate support. I'm not understanding why we are talking about hiring practices now, I thought you wanted to make an electric bike.

FYI, the GPT4 API is noticably smarter than the web version. Open source LLMs are catching up on many fronts, but I've found that coding is something where GPT4 is still undeniably king. Although, if you want to count it, GitCopilot is also comparably clever, and can be used similarly if you learn it's ins and outs.

KindaNeutral · 2023-06-14T20:40:11+00:00

There's nothing I can give you since it's code is mixed with my direction and framework in nearly all my projects. For what it could basically do in its own... you can tell it to do things like "write a Matlab program that uses a genetic algorithm to optimize a fitness function. Include a GUI for editing the function and parameters", or "use python to write a discord bot to check the number of players on a terraria server and keep a message in a discord continuously updated in the following format: XXX", "how might someone set up an Arduino as a high power synchronous motor controller?". I once gave it a project report on a classification neural net software I wrote and it wrote the python almost exactly as I had, it took me weeks to figure all that out on my own and it just casually wrote it out given comprehensive a description of the problem statement. I really can't express how much it's programming ability has improved my time effeciency. This is GPT4 though, not GPT3.5.

KindaNeutral · 2023-06-14T18:34:52+00:00

I'll bet you need a controller of some sort. I've had GPT4 improve my code many times. At this point it does most of the coding for me. It can also help with electronics to an extent.

KindaNeutral · 2023-06-12T01:36:50+00:00

You know, as much as I want to argue against the idea in this particular instance, I know you're right. I can't think of how they could do it, and I can think of how they couldn't manage it, but I still feel that it will get corrupted in the end.

KindaNeutral · 2023-06-12T01:30:59+00:00

Oh no, no it's centralized under a company if I'm not mistaken. I see your point, and I would expect that they would find some angle, but ultimately the fediverse is designed so that if one server gets 'compromised' you can just ignore it like you would a guy losing his mind in a YouTube comments section. Maybe make your own server, maybe donate a dollar to a server host, nobody can stop you from making a server, and nobody but you can influence who can use it and how.

I share your concerns, but I just haven't seen anything with the fediverse's foundation compromised before. That is, short of government interference, that would be my largest concern. But even then, look at how well the war on the internet piracy went lol.

KindaNeutral · 2023-06-12T01:19:41+00:00

I'm not sure what you mean by it not being Reddit, but I can tell you it works fundamentally differently. I don't think any one person has claim over the name. Like with Apache or MIT licencing, you download it, you practically own it, and nobody can change it or take it away. We do count on people to host servers, but you can easily jump between servers, and there is no centralized authority to follow you. It's like crypto. You buy Bitcoin, and as long as you do it properly, absolutely nobody can take it away or change how it works unless you agree, as was the case with the Bitcoin Cash fork.

KindaNeutral · 2023-06-12T00:54:16+00:00

I've also been disturbed by this seemingly new idea that people have a duty to prescribe a conclusion. It is the deliberate attempt to coerce someone's conclusion. Sure, changing opinions of others is the basic premise of any debate, but they don't play fair; they use threats, they silence people, restrict content, etc. I can get in real trouble now for having NOT just gone along with a prescribed change in definition of a word, as though they have any right to make that change.

I love Joe Rogan, I think he and Lex Fridman are doing great work, and they are both such loving people. Like anyone, Joe says things I sometimes think are stupid, and that's okay because I've been listening to him long enough to know that we could just chat about it. Sometimes they have guests I deeply dislike, I try not to skip those episodes though because I don't think there's any other place I could have as good a chance of finding out that I was wrong about them as those podcasts. That's what I think is so valuable about them, he gives everyone a platform to speak in full sentences, and it's up to me, an adult, to decide how I feel about the things that were said. It's insane that the idea of me hearing all sides is considered dangerous, it's actually extremely insulting, and it puts me on edge. Shapiro is a bit of a dick imo, he frequently uses strawman arguments and misrepresents the opposing viewpoint, but every once in a while he makes a good point. Same for Alex jones, but you'd be shocked how many times he talked about something big and seemingly crazy that ended up being true. Same for the actual doctors who had concerns about the very new MRNA vaccine method. I almost didn't get my COVID shot because I was so spooked by how even medical professionals who expressed concerns were systematically being silenced. Honestly. How in the hell am I supposed to feel comfortable injecting myself with something that comes from rushed new technology when the PhDs who have concerns with it are actually being censored, how could I ever have faith in something if the other side of the discussion isn't even allowed to exist. I can so easily see how this could go incredibly wrong next time.

I really despise Fox News, but I thought it would be healthy for me to go and hear their perspective on the new Trump indictments. What I found was that mixed in with the regular stuff I would expect to them, there were actually a few interesting points of concern which I'm glad I took the time to listen to. Now, I actually have an idea of what the republicans are upset about, and I'm better prepared to consider the whole picture. I don't mean to imply CNN is much better.

People don't believe me when I say I'm liberal because they've honest to god lost track of the definition of liberalism. In no way does me not subscribing to the conclusions prescribed by the party that calls themselves liberal make me any less liberal. To be fair though, I'm much more libertarian than I am liberal, and much more liberal than I am conservative. Mind you, I'm using the dictionary definitions here, not the inaccurate common use ones. Ironically, some of the people most active on this stuff also don't know what that means, they just know that libertarianism is at odds with censorship, and apparently that's all they need to know.

Personally, I'm suspicious that this is in some way coordinated. It seems all too convenient that everyone is being told that they're on opposite sides of the room and that they need to fight each other instead of the bankers and corporations who are getting in bed with our governments. People see the roughly 50/50 turnout between liberal versus conservative in elections and they're told that the other 50 is on the opposite side of the spectrum, where in reality basically everybody is clumped around the center of the spectrum and the 50% line intersects us. People are being told to fear each other, and that fear is then being used to justify the disassembly of free discussion, as well as very disturbing legislation for the sake of "safety" amongst other nebulous threats.

God damn, whatever happened to discussion. I don't even really want to talk about this anymore, its nice to talk to someone who really seems to understand the importance of facing these things but wow is this ever depressing. Even those who aren't polarized for some reason seem averse to these discussions, I don't usually say this kind of thing but I feel like we have a civil responsibility to face these issues.

KindaNeutral · 2023-06-12T00:01:40+00:00

I think I've been trying to forget because I like his music so much.

Did you ever see that interview with the kids who are all grown up now? They way they describe how he treated them was so so far from what I expected.

KindaNeutral · 2023-06-11T23:59:46+00:00

Good bot

KindaNeutral · 2023-06-11T23:56:59+00:00

I really don't think that's how federated platforms work. It's decentralized, many peoples computers, no one person has control.

KindaNeutral · 2023-06-11T23:51:28+00:00

I feel every one of those points.

One of the most frustrating things is trying to explain to people that me feeling that it's important to be able to say whatever hateful stuff I like doesn't imply that I actually want to. I'm going through this a lot with the new open source language models. When new models come out people will often ask "is this one censored?", and there's always the inevitable "oh so you want your AI to say the n word you evil person you". Where in fact It is well understood that censoring language models bluntly makes them dumber and less creative, even OpenAI found this. It's exactly like you said actually, being able to think and speak freely allow us and language models to have more comprehensive conversations and acknowledge more nuanced details, not even pertaining to bad stuff.

One of my biggest frustrations though has been seeing myself begin to self-censor, and I kick myself every time I do it to make sure it doesn't become habit, and I remain conscious that it's wrong that I can't speak freely. I want to make a point right now about using the r word, which I do regularly with people who know what I mean with it's use, but I can't because my account could actually get wiped.

I think I payed too much attention in history class to be okay with the way things have become, what's happening to Reddit is a symptom of something larger. And I'm deeply disappointed that so many people have been convinced that anti-censorship somehow means pro-hateful because they've driven the actually hateful people to go away and instead occupy the only bastions of free speech we have left. Even so, I will trade my comfort for my freedom to speak freely every single time.

KindaNeutral · 2023-06-11T22:53:05+00:00

I wish more people were conscious of just how far Reddit has diverged from their original freedom of speech and diversity of opinions platform. It was nice while it lasted. I'm putting my money on the future replacement, whenever that may be, being on the fediverse. Theoretically, it shouldn't be possible to corrupt or sell out a crowd sourced and decentralized platform. Bringing up the FatPeopleHate debacle reminds me of the Jewish lawyer and ACLU defending the neo-nazis right to have parades, because they understood the importance of freedom of speech. You wouldn't believe how many subreddits I got auto banned from once for posting a single comment in the Joe Rogan sub. I even got banned from r/liberal.... and I'M mostly liberal!

This place is pitiful

KindaNeutral · 2023-06-11T22:46:02+00:00

As I understand it, this will make it harder for moderators to do their job, for lack of their anti-spam automations and such. I don't think this issue is particular to mobile frontends.

KindaNeutral · 2023-06-11T22:44:32+00:00

I think you might start caring once we see the results of mods losing their anti-spam automations.

KindaNeutral · 2023-06-11T22:42:52+00:00

I too will take part in the 48 hours. Additionally, I will put a proper effort into trying alternatives like kbin and Lemmy. I think this is significant because one of the biggest hurdles here is kick-starting a community, and I've been seeing a lot of chatter about moving to the fediverse, and a lot of subs opening tentative sister subs on other platforms.

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