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  • I find Lemmy works pretty well for a decentralised network.

    It is possible to see what everyone has been subscribed to when sorting by all, and so subscribe myself to it to get it in my subscription feed.

    There are nice apps like Liftoff which can manage multiple accounts at the same time, and even view instances all feed without an account on them.

    Mastodon on the other hand is a bit lackluster in comparison I’d say. The subscription model is pretty had to start using as I need to either find # or people to subscribe to, and even subscribing to them. And even after doing that the posts aren’t that interesting or feel empty due to no comments/likes/boost.

    Maybe I subscribed to the wrong #, but I find Lemmy much more enticing than mastodon.



  • Am I mistaken, or did you want to say 50mbps and 10mbps? 50gbps seems way above what a wireless network can do.

    For a vpn, your connection through wireless or fiber is exactly the same. The city only provides the fiber infrastructure. When you get Internet, it’s through a provider which will use their equipments and main network (they link their network to the city infrastructure, using their devices. At least, it’s how it works in France). Unless the provider is the city.

    Tho I guess that providers do give data to the state so whatever the case, it would be the same thing.


  • Tibert@jlai.lutoTechnology@lemmy.mlNone of Your Photos Are Real
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    Well it depends.

    Just from the subject: are mobile photos real

    (to simplify this and avoid a definitive no, well not talk about photos beeing real or not in numeric form).

    Photography is a complicated topic on mobile phones, with plenty of algorithms enhancing what a tiny sensor can deliver.

    • But let’s assume there is a phone and algorithm, which manages to represent a photograph as close as possible to what I see.

    Are my photos real because they represent what I see at one precise point in time? Because it is what I remember something was?

    Or are they not real because of the algorithms interpreting the results to make it look like I see it?

    • Now let’s assume I have another phone, like a Samsung or whatever. Such phone may take a picture, but that picture is modified, there is maybe more saturation for the sky and grass, while combining multiple pictures to do HDR… And plenty of other things.

    Now are these photos real?

    They change what I see, but would that make them less real for you/me? How do you see your pictures?

    about the article : When ai/photography manipulation is brought in the question, in order to change the first result :

    • It could slightly change colors, then I guess we could maybe comme back to above, is this interpretation real or not? More or less real?

    • It could be a modification of what and how elements appear in that picture. Here, for me, there isn’t any question. The reality of the pictures are completely broken as they do not represent anymore what I could see.



  • Well the battery in my phone lasted longer than my laptop. The difference : one stayed a long time at 100% the other one is constantly pliged and unplugged with 100%-20%-80%…, but also battery tech and management would be different (maybe).

    Letting the battery at 100% stresses it and does degrade it with time, charging and discharging also degrades it. But it would be better for the battery health to keep it in the 80-20%.

    However if it is easier to let the device plugged in, maybe check if it can run without a battery, and if not maybe it can be changed? Tho not sure if you can find replacement in some years.

    Tho maybe the battery station could also be designed to stay at high charge? It isn’t the easiest thing to know how it works and how it is designed.




  • I have no real idea, only suppositions :

    (I’m not treating Ukraine as the enemy, this is a full supposition).

    The real hard part is costs and time. If the soldiers pushed the front lines, and there is no risk of enemy attacks behind the line, there can be multiple things in the way :

    The terrain may not always be good for fast travel. With difficult terrains or mud and water.

    And because front lines aren’t perfect, there is always the risk of enemy attack behind, destroying supplies.

    Now why exactly Russia did not send supplies to their soldiers, no real idea. They only know what they chose to do.

    Ukraine is huge, giant. Going up to the front lines takes time and money. And well I very much guess that Russia just sent soldiers without care, maybe even now they doing that. They underestimated Ukrakne’s defenses and the support they get from other countries.



  • I don’t think you look at it from the right way.

    AI is already in a lot of people’s lifes and they don’t even notice it’s that.

    From your keyboard word correction and prediction, to power management, smart image edition and categorising and more.

    And some things are done locally on your phone.

    The increase in AI capability on phones can allow more things to be done locally, and maybe even get something like a local LLM to predict what you want to type. (LLM = large language model, like chatgpt, bard, Llama and others, they can be used for more than just answering your questions).



  • What is college? Is it employed for middle school or high school? If so then no.

    And if someone who didn’t get such eduction thinks they have the tool to distinguish between false and true, they are delusional. The more verified knowledge someone has, the more that person develops their ability to manage information and find if it’s bad or good. Tho that doesn’t mean that everyone has equal training or capacity in doing so.

    If college is employed as a synonym of university, then kinda yes? Tho for myself I wasn’t really trained into getting the right sources. However the knowledge gained from the years of eduction allowed me to somehow manage a bit the informations.

    However, I don’t think I would have been able to really avoid bad information without getting the university training, where I also learned sources and reputable sources.

    Even now it can be sometimes hard to get a good source to check. And often for random info I’ll forget on the Web I don’t even bother.