If we had decent privacy, they could be amazing. Imagine something like Facebook, the way it used to be advertised, that could identity your friends and give you some of the information they’ve chosen to share with you.

Instead of trying to frantically remember your friend’s new partner’s name, you get a subtle name bar above their head. Maybe you get a reminder about their birthday, or a life event they’ve shared.

Unfortunately though, we’re currently stuck with the shitty version that going to extract all the data it can, and sell it to whoever can afford it :(

It’s not just names in lists though. Using my mother’s grandparents as examples, I know where they were born and grew up, I know who they lived with at multiple points in their lives, and I know a few of the places where they lived.

I know where and when they got married, and some of the guests, and I know what children they had and when. As they were adults at the time, I know some of what my great grandfather was doing during the first World War and how he died.

I haven’t done a deep dive into their lives yet as I’ve been working backwards, but I’ve already got a decent idea about who they were and what they were like. I know a fair bit about his parents and family too, as I checked that side first.

The biggest issues are finding photos, and the cost and availability of records. There are not many photos due to them not being as pervasive at the time, and there are not many records because a lot of things either weren’t recorded or weren’t saved. Both of those can be solved with the technology we have now. Lots of people have their own information saved, separate to the official sources, and it’s easier to have multiple copies of everything, so they won’t get lost or destroyed as easily.

Hopefully this means that we’ll remember more of the past going forwards :)

While that’s true, we have much more extensive record keeping these days. I’ve been researching my family tree, and 100 years ago there were still a decent number of people who were mostly illiterate. Add to that documents like the census being handwritten in cursive on paper, and you get lots of errors being recorded, and the records themselves being damaged by age.

Unless something drastic happens, a lot of our records will still exist in the centuries to come. It will mostly be our official records, but they should still be there :)

I’ve tried ChatGPT a few times to see if it’s useful for me, and it’s worked surprisingly well in most cases.

I made a website that needed two modal images, one on the top and one on the bottom. I wanted them to be enlarged when they were clicked on. I found a load of guides for getting one to work, but I couldn’t get both to work. A few minutes with a prompt got it working. It didn’t help me to learn JavaScript, but did give me working code that I needed quickly.

I’ve used it to fluff up some text. I’m not very good at making things sound good in text, so it helped a lot.

The latest one I’ve tried is getting camera settings for a dark gig setup. I was able to give it an old photo that was under exposed but gave an accurate impression of the room, and ask for recommended settings with the same lens, a new lens, and a flash. It gave me a selection of settings with and without the flash, including settings for rear curtain sync, so when it leaves a ghost trail behind the subject. It’s nothing I couldn’t figure out, but would have taken a bit more trial and error in the room. I probably wouldn’t have thought of the ghost trails.

If you’re using Lemmy in a browser, opening a link will take you to the link’s instance, like opening a new website. This will mean that you need to log in to post etc.

If you use Lemmy through an app, that should handle the links and make it essentially work like one big website. You can open links from any part of Lemmy and be able to post and comment from your existing account.

The only issue may be the fact that you’re on .ml. Some instances have blocked .ml and a few other instances because of what are basically political differences. That will restrict where you can post, and could be part of your issue.

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They are the Gummy Bears!

This thread needs a bit of Punk Rock Factory 🤘😁

https://youtu.be/Ese77uJ7SFo

Bouncing here and there and everywhere?

To add to this, I’ve been looking for a cheap kid’s tablet recently, and checked Amazon. A significant number of products have the details listed incorrectly. Some are obvious, like mistaking storage and RAM, but some would have the details completely wrong, saying something like ‘purple’ for the screen, or ‘10 inches’ for the wifi capability.

An AI isn’t going to be able to figure out what should be where from that, so you’d have to manually check every product. If Amazon can’t get it right, what chance do you have?

Put your thumb over the mouth and nose and it looks an awful lot like a greyhound statue that’s been repurposed.

You set the whitelist in Minecraft, and it uses your ID. I can’t remember exactly what Minecraft calls it, your player ID maybe. It doesn’t matter where you connect from then, as long as you’re logged in. I think it works the same way with pirated accounts too, but I haven’t got any here to check.

For the firewall, I’ve just been checking through the Minecraft log every now and then and banning the obvious bots and scanners, so that shouldn’t affect you either :)

We connect directly via IP at my friend’s house and only we are on the server, so no worries of griefers or internet randos.

Just in case you haven’t already, set up a whitelist. I’ve got a server running the same way, and I regularly get people trying to connect. I’ve also set up the firewall and blocked known scanners, but still get a few attempts.

And the ‘I said what I said’ and ‘Fact!’ dipshits.

Don’t you mean /g?

I’ll give that a try next time, thanks :)

I’ve got a weird issue with the soles of my feet. I’m not ticklish at all, but the soles of my feet react as if the nerves are turned up to 11. It’s only for light touches though, I can walk around barefooted with no problems, even on rough surfaces.

If someone touches my feet it’s a sensory overload that lasts for a while afterwards. It’s a weird combination of light tickling and burning, and feels like there’s something stuck to the bottom of my foot for a minute or two after the touch stops. The really weird part is, I can tickle my own feet, but apparently you’re not supposed to be able to tickle yourself 🤷🏻‍♂️

Please, do tell. Cramp is annoying pain, because it tends to lock my leg up when it happens.

I can’t remember if it was the exact same procedure, but I’ve had something very similar when I had a bladder biopsy done, but I’m going to beat you on making someone else uncomfortable :D

For anyone who doesn’t know, these procedures start with an anaesthetic gel being squirted into your penis through a syringe to numb everything, then the camera and tools get inserted. It’s been a while, but from what I remember, some air gets pushed in along with everything else. The nurse warned me that the air coming out can be uncomfortable. I also had to have a pretty full bladder for the procedure.

Afterwards, I needed to pee straight away, so used the toilet next to the waiting room. When I went, it burned a bit from the gel wearing off and everything just generally being tender. Suddenly though, I had this feeling of intense pressure, and a fireball forced its way out followed by some boiling pee. I used my free hand to steady myself, and my knees almost buckled. I let out an involuntary ‘Jesus Christ!’. I finished and cleaned up, and the nurse met me outside the door.

She had a huge grin on her face, and said ‘I told you it would sting’, then nodded towards the waiting room, where about half a dozen terrified looking men had apparently heard me :D

Ch ch ch chicken!