Lmfao. The audiophile community would burn you at the stake.

First you need to find a study that shows that society on the whole finds risky behaviours to be nuisances, which, here’s a hint, they don’t, because they’re not all you.

Uh, yes there is, by the inherent nature of how addresses (i.e. public identifiers) work.

An IP address, email address, physical address, etc, is a mechanism to have a string of text, become a unique identifier for something, so that you can just share that piece of text to refer to it.

Once you give out that piece of text, you no longer have control of it. I can give it to someone and then someone else could ask them about it, and they pass it on, and now I have no idea who has this unique identifier that represents me anywhere out there in the world. I can ask the first person to update their records but I have no guarantee that they’ll do it successfully or that they’ll remember every single person who they gave it out to you update.

In those circumstances, it’s problematic if an identity provider insists that you always have to pay for its services in perpetuity, just to have communication from your old identity forwarded.

I think OP is overblowing things, and is especially misguided in recommending gmail, but at the same time, they do have a valid point and I think you’re somewhat misrepresenting what they said.

For one, they specifically said that the proton domain email addresses are problematic (protonmail.com, pm.me), and weren’t talking about custom domains that sit in front of Proton mail.

For two, their point is valid. Auto-forwarding being paid, does create vendor lock-in and make it hard to switch away from Protonmail if you use the OOTB addresses. It’s something worth considering.

As you said, the recommendation should be to use a custom domain that sits in front of Protonmail rather than switching to Gmail, but paid auto-forwarding is a valid criticism.

Yeah I do agree with your overall point.

Last week’s assassination of Minnesota’s Democrat former House Speaker was the logical sequel to that of the United Healthcare CEO

I don’t disagree with your conclusions about cheering on violence and what it begets, but I will just point out that if you’re going by the sequel logic then the shooting of Brian Thompson was the 5th movie in the series, with the first four being assassinated Democrat state representatives.

It also ignores the literal hundreds of movies and documentaries that have been made where American Insurance companies kills thousands and cause enormous amounts of suffering, just so that they can turn an even higher profit.

I still don’t agree with political assassination, but starting the narrative with the assassination of Brian Thompson is pretty arbitrary if the storyline is so broad that this is the sequel.

That kind of boneheadedness is annoying, but it’s at least just annoying and wastes a bit of time. Tailgating and driving impatiently actually gets people killed every single day.

But seriously people, you’re supposed to leave enough space to be able to come to a full stop if the person in front of you were to suddenly come to a full stop.

Can you bring a 60mph car to a stop in 10 bible lengths? No? Then backup further.

Prior to that I had struggled with the concept of if there is a being that could have created all of existence, us as human beings would be like a flea trying to comprehend the lunar landing. And if a being of that caliber exist I cannot fathom that it would care whether or not you touched yourself at night. Or who you were in the bed with.

The more we learn about both the universe at large, and the history of our own species and planet, the more that seems true.

Human civilization as we conceive it (creating settlements and agriculture) has only existed for like 10k years.

Human beings as we conceive them have existed for like 300k- 400k years before that ☝️.

The first human-like creatures (Habilis), existed for 1600k years before that ☝️.

There was 66000k years of creatures just existing and adapting and competing and evolving from the point of the dinosaurs being extinct until the point of Habilis ☝️.

And to get to the point of the dinosaurs being extinct, it took 3700000k of life evolving on earth ☝️.

Those numbers are truly mind numbingly, staggeringly huge. Human civilization has existed for 10k, and we’re talking about a process that took 3,700,000k of random chance to get to that. The idea that God cares about what you jerk off to is wild.

Cool beans, guess what you’re responsible for then?

What percentage of responsibility for that genocide goes to Microsoft? What percentage goes to Ford or GM or whoever sells them cars? What percentage goes to AWS? What percentage goes the people who make the roads they use?

The distinction is that it’s not ‘something to do with neurons’, it’s ‘neurons firing and signalling each other’.

Like, we know the exact mechanism by which thinking happens, we just don’t know the precise wiring pattern necessary to recreate the way that we think in particular.

And previously, we couldn’t effectively simulate that mechanism with computer chips, now we can.

There’s plenty of economic reasons to think we will as long as it’s technically possible.

Assuming that the path to AGI involves something akin to all the intelligence we see in nature (i.e. brains and neurons), then modern AI algorithms’ ability to simulate neurons using silicon and math is inarguably and objectively a precursor.

I mean, no, not really. We know what thinking is. It’s neurons firing in your brain in varying patterns.

What we don’t know is the exact wiring of those neurons in our brain. So that’s the current challenge.

But previously, we couldn’t even effectively simulate neurons firing in a brain, AI algorithms are called that because they effectively can simulate the way that neurons fire (just using silicon) and that makes them really good at all the fuzzy pattern matching problems that computers used to be really bad at.

So now the challenge is figuring out the wiring of our brains, and/or figuring out a way of creating intelligence that doesn’t use the wiring of our brains. Both are entirely possible now that we can experiment and build and combine simulated neurons at ballpark the same scale as the human brain.

When I heard that line I was like “Yeah, sure. We’ll never have AI in my lifespan” and you know what? I was right.

Unless you just died or are about to, you can’t really confidently make that statement.

There’s no technical reason to think we won’t in the next ~20-50 years. We may not, and there may be a technical reason why we can’t, but the previous big technical hurdles were the amount of compute needed and that computers couldn’t handle fuzzy pattern matching, but modern AI has effectively found a way of solving the pattern matching problem, and current large models like ChatGPT model more “neurons” than are in the human brain, let alone the power that will be available to them in 30 years.

This is literally lemmy, a (relatively) niche platform where somebody is asking about a (relatively) niche subject. I dont think anything about this is a average person.

‘Average person’ was in quotes because it’s the language you used to describe someone not comfortable with the command line.

I mean what’s the point of “self” hosting then?

If you have to be a professional server administrator to host one of these services, then why even have a self hosting community as opposed to just a hosting community for server admins to discuss how to set and configure various services? Is this community dedicated to just discussing the uniqueness of managing a home server without a static IP?

Self hosting is just an extension of open source software. It’s only goal is being able to run your own backends of apps to not be exploited by major companies. It’s goal is not to be a niche technical hobby, if that’s your goal in its own right, then get a model train or a Warhammer set.

Mainstream consumers don’t know words “Plex” and “Home Assistant” either.

Yes, they do lol. It’s flat out weird to think that the only people who have ever heard of pirating are software developers and server admins who use the command line.

You’re viewing this through an incredibly skewed lense. The average person will never even consider self hosting nor will care, if anything the average person prefers cloud services.

The only lens I’m viewing this through is one that dares to imagine that the Venn diagram of “computer users savvy enough to care about privacy” isn’t 100% contained within the circle of “computer users savvy with the terminal”.

Quite frankly your stance that the ‘average person’ doesn’t care, when this post is LITERALLY from an ‘average person’ who does, is the one that seems off base on its face.