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The Consciousness Gradient: Qualia, Integration, and the Emergence of Intelligence Version 2 preprint is now available. zenodo.org/records/191175…

It only took a few prompts, but as you can see, the code is ugly. It does what I wanted it to do, though.

C++ audio recorder. I made this with AI, so I might as well make the code public. github.com/w4ffl35/audior…

The story is meant to be detached, stark and lifeless, but I can still improve certain descriptions and extend certain scenes to get my point across, so I might make a few edits, but no way in hell am I going with some of the given suggestions because it changes the whole point

The problem with the reviews from both are that they tell me I need a central character, and that it's all narration etc - but that's the whole point - so I had to clarify this with claude and then it gave me good advice on where I fell short and I don't disagree.

I wrote a "short story" a while back... maybe a couple years ago now. It's not good. The premise is there, but my writing style is lacking. I used Gemini and Clause to review it and tell me what I'm doing wrong. They reviewed it critically and gave me tips on how to improve.

Ubuntu is one of, if not THE worst Linux system you could choose to use if you value privacy and security. Canonical is no better than Microsoft.

As the systemd political theater debate rages, people are forking systemd to get around storing their birthdate... but canonical has been building a database on users via crash reports with pii for over a decade and handing it over to law enforcement whenever it is requested.

@ShamashAran Just to really drive the point home here, read this. Stop using Ubuntu, period. They're as bad as Microsoft. Possibly worse as they are wolves in sheep's clothing. It's not an OS you should be using.

@ShamashAran And turn off time syncing features.

Has anyone yelling and screaming about Systemd and age verification actually looked at the PR? I'm guessing not. The thing you really want to watch is xdg-desktop-portal, where the age verification will actually take place.

@Zantherax2112 @Glock9Dorito Used to play this with people at my job pretty regularly after hours

@Glock9Dorito You had to be there. Nothing will ever top WAW

we are not the same

@Gaigous If it's as simple as clicking "I'm over 18" like the pr0n sites do, then it's fine with me. I baked this into my own offline ai desktop platform. If it involves the government enforcing anything like what California has done, then it's unconstituional

Age Assurance allows companies to pick and choose whatever method of Age Assurance they'd like, some are as simple as clicking your Date of Birth from a drop down menu.

There is nothing about Age Verification in the White House National Policy Framework. Jon is lying and projecting his own views as usual. The WH National Policy Framework very explicitly says Age Assurance, not Age Verification.

*gemini and claude

@cyber_razz They already did this years ago. It's called "main" but you can override it by default in the settings, so all of my repositories still use master.

@asimovinc Noticeable improvement from your earlier videos

Another video from Day 179. Asimov is getting better and better.