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Cake day: August 17th, 2023

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  • You need to take the bad with the good, otherwise you’ll never understand how far we’ve come. We hold on to slavery to remind us what it took, how efforts were not in vain, and to continue work on pushing for the things we believe in. We are here today because of the hardships we have endured yesterday. It’s not “white guilt”, it’s to remind the world that slavery is bad no matter who does it, to teach us what it looks like, and that we all benefit from eliminating slavery, no matter the form it takes.

    When we forget those things, we have things like the anti-vacc movement. People who have their own beliefs that fly in the face of reality, who’ve never had the experiences first hand, and to bend the notion of what is good. It rewrites the legacy of people’s efforts, obscures the lessons used to fight, and trivializes the problems of the time. It manipulates both people and purpose and turns it against each.

    My own opinion: Nobody feels guilty about slavery. There are only those that feel regret it’s not still around.


  • Have you tried moving his system closer? Have you tried using your system near his location? It’s not just microwaves that can interfere with wifi, but also some kinds of fluorescent lights, or even infrastructure (pipes, electrical, mesh retaining, etc).

    What is the signal db loss? Ping is a catch-all metric but isn’t reliable for nailing down specific problems. Also the varying ping times is called jitter, and some jitter is perfectly normal - wifi tends to amplify ping and jitter. Don’t get too hung up on high ping unless it is a problem.

    If db loss is acceptable, is his tcp/ip stack compromised? Run a virus check, ensure his network configurations aren’t being hijacked (check dns, proxy, etc). Reset the stack and configs if necessary.

    Has his router been compromised? There is firmware that is going around hijacking routers for botnets - very hard to identify and reverse from what I recall. Try another router if you have one. Aside: Might be a good idea to factory reset the router and start with a clean slate too.

    Is your wireless network congested? too many devices can cause large ping and jitter, even if they aren’t on your network. Removing devices, changing wifi channels, disabling guest connectivity, and enabling game mode on the router can improve the congestion issue to varying degrees.

    TPM has nothing to do with networking, which is good because there are bootable USB OS’s you can run to test your hardware without wiping your current install if you feel like it might be another type of compatibility issue (TPM would make this much harder to do).






  • Oh that one is a good one, it’s very busy. Using the first method the trees are on the ‘bottom’ and everything progressively pops out with the fish/turtle on ‘top’.

    The other way is reverse, the trees are on the ‘top’ and the fish are on the ‘bottom’ (like I’m looking in that ‘box’). It’s also really hard to see the whole picture this way, but that’s just me.

    Also, ‘In a Box’ might not be the best analogy, you can make one that intentionally feels like you’re looking inside something – it’s just that most of these are made to pop out at you.


  • The way this works is that the image is designed to appear ‘beyond’ the surface it is printed on. It’s much easier to relax your eyes and pretend you’re looking at what’s ‘behind’ the paper. Kind of like 3d chalk art on the road in a way.

    The other way of crossing your eyes works because you’re swapping the left and right eye, which gives a different, inverted appearance. Instead of a foreground image popping out of the background, it looks like the other way. Like looking in a box, kinda.

    I can do both, but the latter is more difficult, sometimes requires a specific distance, and can be painful if you force it. If the image is too big, you may only be able to see a part of it. I think the first method is easier to do and to learn/train. Either way, you aren’t looking at what’s ‘on the surface’.

    The best way I can explain is: pretend you’re sitting on the toilet, really tired and you have nothing to look at so you just lose focus and gaze at random stuff. When the tiles or cracks start to make pictures that aren’t there, that’s kind of the effect you want.








  • Touche, lol. You are exactly right.

    But my point stands. It doesn’t have to be sci-fi intelligent, it just has to convince you it is. There have always been people who are not experts trying to explain things they know little about. AI just does that very well, and as you point out, AI (for now) understands nothing.

    I’m not actually saying “LLM’s are not AI”, that’s the sarcastic trap. What I am implying is that some people aren’t as intelligent enough to know the difference. It bounces on the original comment that unless you ask it something you’re very knowledgeable in, AI feels very ‘right’. But people only read the first sentence and have a meltdown.

    It’s just Ironic that ChatGPT does a much better job at explaining what I said. Does that mean it’s more intelligent than me? What about the intelligence of the people who missed the sarcasm? I find it amusing.