Cass.Forest
Creative burnt out gifted kid just trying to exist On Mastodon @cityboundforest@computerfairi.es
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Cass.Forest@beehaw.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What thing could you do the most significantly better than your parents?4·11 months agoShow empathy towards those that have different experiences than I do
Cass.Forest@beehaw.orgto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Is Windscribe a good VPN for torrenting?English11·11 months agoJust a note that Proton VPN doesn’t allow P2P on their free plan.
Cass.Forest@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•German parliament will stop using fax machines6·11 months agoTbh I was surprised they’re still using them
Cass.Forest@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•If AI is making the Turing test obsolete, what might be better?14·1 year agoThere is, however, still the concept of the Chinese Room thought experiment, and I don’t think AI will topple that one for a while.
For those who don’t know and don’t wish to browse off the site, the thought experiment posits a situation in which a guy who does not understand Chinese is sat in a room and told to respond to sets of Chinese characters that come into the room. He has a little booklet of responses—all completely in Chinese—for him to use to send responses out of the room. The thought experiment questions whether or not the system of the Chinese Room itself can be thought to understand Chinese or even the man himself.
With the Turing Test getting all of the media spotlight in AI, machine learning, and cognitive science, I think the Chinese Room should enter into the conversation as the field of AI looks towards G.A.I.
Cass.Forest@beehaw.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•the Lactaid-brand eggnog gives me explosive diarrhea2·1 year agoIs this the new sugar free Haribo gummy bear bag
Cass.Forest@beehaw.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is the one most astonishingly dumb things that, as a child, you believed was absolute truth?English1·2 years agoHalf-joke (see here)
Cass.Forest@beehaw.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What would you do if Capitalism didn't curb your potential and force you to sell most of your time?English51·2 years agoI would, in no certain order:
- Work at a coffee shop part time making coffee for people. Preferably a locally owned shop, but it wouldn’t matter too much if not.
- Work as a bartender similarly as above
- Potentially garden if I have the time and interest for it
- Create more YouTube videos
- Write, record, and release more music
- Learn to paint
- Get a film camera and take photos with it
- Contribute to FLOSS projects
- Finally make that D&D table that doubles as a dining table that I’ve been wanting to make for a few months now
- Actually follow through on learning my several languages I’m working on learning
- Become an interpreter (probably in ASL)
- Develop video games
- Create more art in general
- Do research on how art and society mingle together and interact
Cass.Forest@beehaw.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is the one most astonishingly dumb things that, as a child, you believed was absolute truth?31·2 years agoNo silly, birds aren’t real /hj
Cass.Forest@beehaw.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are some commonly known facts that are too bizarre for you to believe to be true?7·2 years agoit would take you 257 years to meet everyone alive on earth at this moment
Sounds like a terrible sorting algorithm /jk
Since I’ll be moving to LibreWolf and it’s based on FF, I’ll check out Mull. Unfortunately I don’t see my device on DivestOS’s site (it’s a Motorola Moto G Power 2022), but it’s also quite new so it’s understandable. I’ll switch it to Lineage or something like that whenever it gets support for it but I’m fine with a degoogled Android for now.
I’m personally like to stop using Brave, and I will, however while LibreWolf will be what I’ll switch to on desktop, I’m not sure what I would want to switch to on my Android phone. I see that LibreWolf doesn’t have an Android version (and potentially never will; fine, developers will do whatever they want). I’ve heard about IceRaven, however, I’m not sure how good it is. Also would like an actually privacy focused search engine, but I think LibreWolf might have a good list on that front.
(Note: please do suggest in replies, not sure I made that apparent)
Cass.Forest@beehaw.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Gamers. What was the game that got you into the hobby?2·2 years agoInitially it was Animal Crossing: Wild World. One of my parents’ coworker’s daughter was babysitting me before school when I was in 3rd grade and she had the game on her DS and I fell in love with it. Still have the copy I got to this day. However, I wouldn’t say I fully got into the hobby until The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword and Twilight Princess (Wii). TP especially got me to fall in line with video games as a storytelling medium artistically and narratively.
Cass.Forest@beehaw.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•If you could go back and tell your childhood self something about their future that would improve their childhood, what would it be?10·2 years agoDon’t listen to your parents; for all of the advice out there in the world that says that your parents know what’s best for you and want that for your future, that does not apply here. Also it’s okay to be gay and agender, so go slay and get a sweet boyfriend.
Cass.Forest@beehaw.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Do you use a place mat and how old are you?English1·2 years agoNo. 25.
Cass.Forest@beehaw.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What would you do if you won the lottery?English3·2 years agoPay off mine friends and my student loans, pay for moving costs to a European country for me and my friends, pay for US citizenship denouncing for me and my friends, set aside an amount of money for myself and my friends for savings to live comfortably, pay for first month’s rent for me and my friends, pay for food for a month for me and my friends, and then if there happens to be anything left, donate it to charities.
Mine’ll have to be Doctor Who and The Good Place. The Good Place is just a nice, comfy comedy show with a really good message and Doctor Who is my comfort show.
See Citizens United v FEC. Basically, it was ruled that corporate lobbying counts as free speech under the 1st Amendment.
Companies tend to donate to political candidates so that those candidates, upon being elected, propose and vote in legislation that benefits those companies or vote out legislation that doesn’t (e.g. oil companies and climate change policies)
Edit: a detail that was implied but should be noted
I do video editing myself in Linux and Kdenlive does pretty much everything I need. The UI is a bit odd to learn but I’d imagine any new editing software is gonna have a learning curve of some sort.