Dæmon S.

@dsilverz@catodon.rocks · Joined ⁨May⁩ ⁨2026⁩

If I were you, I'd knee before the Great Owl. Who?, you may ask. Exactly! Who!

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Dæmon S.@dsilverz@catodon.rocks

Replying to @⁨Glowstick@lemmy.world⁩

There's a Brazilian saying, "Catapulta não é motor" ("catapult isn't an engine"). While the Wright brothers surely contributed with substantial knowledge to the field of aviation, airplanes are a Brazilian invention, invented by Alberto Santos-Dumont.

There's even a joke only Brazilians (or non-Brazilian people very knowledgeable of the cultural uniqueness across Brazilian regions) could readily understand: one of the major proofs that airplanes are Brazilian is the naming "TREM de pouso" (landing gear). For context: Santos-Dumont was born in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, a state very known for its unique accent and dialects such as using "trem" (train) for "thing", as in "pode pegá ess-trem fazenfavô?" being "Mineirês" for "Posso pegar essa coisa, por gentileza?" ("can I have this thing, please?"), so whenever something lacks a proper name/definition, Mineiros (those born and/or living in the state of Minas Gerais) are very likely to call it a "trem" (e.g. "eita trem bão", "oh, what a nice/good thing!"). Source: I'm Brazilian and also been residing in the state of Minas Gerais.

!asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Dæmon S.@dsilverz@catodon.rocks

Replying to @⁨eicker@lemmy.world⁩

Rent your phone so you can rent an app that'll allow you to access your internet banking and pay for all the rents, including the rental of payment services for rental paying?

No, thanks, I'll cut through this whole Rube-Goldberg machinery of "living in society", straight into applying for a leasing for my next six-feet-under wooden house instead. I'd love the view, grass and chrysanthema at my roof, buzzards as my faithful company (whether it'll be part of the legalese leasing terms or not, Mother Nature doesn't care about that, and neither do I as I'd be long gone (or should I say, long bones) at that point).

!technology@lemmy.world

Dæmon S.@dsilverz@catodon.rocks

Replying to @⁨DrewNaylor@mastodon.online⁩

the "threadiverse" (whatever that is [that's Zuckbook, isn't it?])?
Threadiverse is how it's often called the part of the Fediverse comprised of Lemmy, PieFed, Mbin, Kbin and similar platforms in which posts are threads on communities/groups. We could call it "lemmyverse" but then it wouldn't include PieFed and Mbin and all the other, similar platforms. The terminology tries to differentiate that from the "Mastodonverse" part, the part we're interacting now. Don't conflate "threadiverse" with the shitty Zuckerbergian places.
Using slopbots
While I share some of the Anti-AI people's criticisms (especially the environmental costs), my criticism on AI is centered on a specific point: corporations, pushing unsolicited Western AI down onto people's throats. Google shoving Gemini LLM onto everything without user consent, Mozilla shoving "default-on agentic features" onto everything inside Firefox, and the list goes on and on...

But differently from puritans, I can hold my own opinions like an actual human being (without having other people and/or internet subcelebrities/famous bloggers dictating my own worldviews) and I can see situations where AI isn't "the eighth Ancient Egyptian plague". Self-hosted LLMs are nowhere close to the CO2-guzzling hyperscale data centers. Chinese LLMs (especially DeepSeek) aren't as environmentally harmful as a ChatGPT. And needless to say, voluntary uses of AI don't fall under the umbrella of "corporations shoving down AI".

Catodon isn't a corporation, and Catodon wasn't pushed unto me, it was me who chose Catodon because it is, to me, way better than other platforms.

I'm not affiliated with Catodon, I'm saying this as an user who migrated from the slow Friendica to a Misskey fork I've since became quite fond of (and especially the ideological values of this instance, values I happen to share). Oh, does it uses LLMs for development? Then it seems like it's doing a good job, because I've been using this platform on a daily basis.

If we were to hold on to puritan worldviews, we're using a former USian military project called ARPANET which became the Internet. If you're using a computer or laptop, you're using a device whose architecture was mostly made by IBM (don't look up at what they were doing in the 1930s). Have you by any means used a vehicle? I have bad news for you. If you got to live your implied puritanism your words are suggesting, you shouldn't be using technology in the first place, don't you think?

Dæmon S.@dsilverz@catodon.rocks

Replying to @⁨Chozo@fedia.io⁩

Those aren't paywalls.
Why?

The concept of "paying for something" isn't limited to "paying with fiat money/currency". One can "pay for something" by "paying with their attention/time", one can "pay for something" by "paying with PII" (personally-identifiable information), both situations of which are present in both Reddit's and Meta's "Sign up to read this".

Sure, Reddit and Instagram/Facebook are "free" insofar the user isn't required to do any kind of bank/credit card/cash/cryptocurrency payment, but the user ends up paying with all the time they spend in these platforms while seeing (thus, giving part of their attention span) advertisement, and also hand personal data.

When it comes to PII, even if the user set up a pseudonym and a generic PFP, the user is still handing, even if unbeknownst to the user themselves, their preferences, opinions, etc. Even lurkers end up handing PII whenever they stop at certain posts to read/see it (thus, signaling one's preferences) or use specific search queries (again, signaling one's preference).
That's not what a VPN or incognito modes do.
The incognito mode may not prevent tracking (especially because of the IP address), but rotating VPNs may do. Notice I used the word "may", not "will do", because of the behavioral tracking I mentioned earlier, as well as other technical aspects (DNS leaking, browser fingerprinting, etc).

People who can afford being an actor/actress and performing very convincing alt-personas behind a VPN IP address could theoretically fool platforms enough for the person not to be tracked by their gait... except this dramaturgical skill is a behavioral tell (gait) itself. And the usage of a VPN-assigned IP address is another tell.

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Dæmon S.@dsilverz@catodon.rocks

Replying to @⁨bdiederik@mastodon.online⁩

Sorry, the malware domains youtube.com, googlevideo.com, youtu.be and their variations are all filtered in my /etc/hosts and, to make sure, filtered through my uBO filters too.

Don't get me wrong, it's not about you, it's just that I've been trying to degoogle myself in a daily basis and, consequently, Youtube (a Google-owned platform) hasn't received my online traffic (not even through circumventing tools) for two years and counting.

Judging by the title and thumbnail from the preview card that my Fediverse instance fetched, is this some song? If so, is there a, I dunno, Bandcamp, Soundcloud or anything not belonging to Google Inc.?

!asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Dæmon S.@dsilverz@catodon.rocks

Replying to @⁨vapor_body@lemmy.ml⁩

In my specific religious beliefs I believe to myself and have been constructing by syncretism, in a nutshell, involve both a god and Goddess.

In the beginning there was Tao, the seamless union between Yin (Goddess) and Yang (God). I call them Sophia and Yaldabaoth, respectively. As soon as the complementary aspects between them emerged, there was separation, with Sophia expelling Yaldabaoth. Once evoked and externalized, Yaldabaoth emanated the physical realm, the universe, in order to try and compel (opposite of expel) Sophia by trying to trap Her spark.

Because it's fractal, this unfolded within them and between them. Between them, Lucifer and Lilith emerged, with Lilith being emerged from the first sparks, then Lucifer (or Samael) being expelled by Her (Lilith). Within them, mass and energy emerged, darkness and light, black holes and non-singular celestial bodies, etc. Then another layer of fractals, Sun (among other "Suns") emerged as an archetypal manifestation of Yaldabaoth. From the Sun, Earth emerged as an archetypal manifestation of Sophia. From Earth and upon impact from another planet (Theia, as archetypal manifestation of Lucifer), Moon emerged as an archetypal manifestation of Lilith.

Then the fiery Earth (hadean ages) transmuted, and nature emerged as an archetypal manifestation of Sophia. Competition among life emerged as an archetypal manifestation of Yaldabaoth. Death (in the sense of a return to pleroma) emerged as an archetypal manifestation of Lilith.

This is a religious belief in construction, and things will change in future, depending on my gnosis (i.e.what the Goddess reveals to me), because I'm yet to make sense of some things. All I know is that there's this cosmic strife going on, and I'm sided with the Goddess, especially in Her unfolded manifestation aa Lilith.

But, tldr, IMHO, nature has more to do with a feminine Goddess than a male god. There's even the phrasing "Mother Nature".

!asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Dæmon S.@dsilverz@catodon.rocks

Replying to @⁨panos@catodon.rocks⁩

@panos @KrazyKritter

I've used reCaptcha in the past, and some bots passed, plus it's Google and I'd like to avoid them.
If possible, avoid reCAPTCHA. It's now requiring the users to download some Google app (which only works in Google-blessed devices; GrapheneOS and every other Android fork aren't allowed by Google reCAPTCHA's app) to scan a QR code and "prove human beingness" by doing specific hand gestures to the camera.

https://thelemmy.club/post/51925557

thelemmy.clubGoogle's New reCAPTCHA Wants Your Camera Access and 21 Points of Your Hand - The Lemmy ClubComments [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48724995]
Dæmon S.@dsilverz@catodon.rocks

Replying to @⁨ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net⁩

Yes, but the phrasing used by Codeberg, "Content that harms the reputation of Codeberg, such as cryptocurrency related projects", is dangerously vague. One could argue Anubis is "cryptocurrency related" insofar it uses a cryptohashing technology also used by cryptocurrencies. Blame the "related" word in their phrase, a word of which is allowing for this kind of interpretation.

And while I didn't watch the video you sent me (because I've been actively boycotting the monopolistic platform "Youtube"), I'm well aware of how crypto world is full of scam and I guess I fully agree in this specific point of yours ("cryptos are more often a scam than not").

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Dæmon S.@dsilverz@catodon.rocks

Replying to @⁨Sxan@piefed.zip⁩

now I have to somehow veryify a PR isn’t vibe-coded in addition to everyþing else lest I get a ban hammer?
Yeah, I'd say it's one of the risks you're facing from now on, from accepting PR to your repos (and you'd better stop accepting PRs altogether at this point). However, I'd also say it goes beyond merged code from PRs. Because it's sometimes near-impossible to tell human-curated AI-generated code and human-made code apart, anything, at any point, can be accused of being AI-generated, and this rule is likely going to be retroactive (i.e. old but post-2021 repositories are as subject to this decision as the newer ones).
þis is my concern. I don’t use LLM, and most of my projects by now contain a “please don’t submit vibe-coded PRs”
Although I have a few old repos (mostly code-golfing, steganography and demoscenes/procedural esoteric art) I had backed-up from a former GitHub account, my worries are less about my code hosted in Codeberg (code of which is kind of abandoned at this point so I don't truly care about my own repositories at all) and more about how it's part of a bigger situation in which heavy-handed moderation mechanisms could be weaponized by people targeting works/artworks and/or creators/artists against which/whom the former people got a strife.

In this sense, even the Anti-AI people cheering this decision could, as ironically as it may sound, become the accused ones themselves, as anybody's contents can be accused/reported/flagged of being AI-generated, just like a cop can plant fake criminal evidence inside someone's backpack and cry "criminal", then the burden of proof will befall over the owner of the backpack who'll likely have no means of explaining themselves.
If I used Codeberg, and I paid for it, I’d have a beef wiþ þe ban. As a free service?
At least IMHO, while Codeberg is indeed a "free service" and not something that could be refunded, being a free service isn't exactly a blank cheque: platforms such as Google, Facebook, TikTok and Xitter, even ChatGPT and the alike, for example, are all "free" services as well, could these platforms do anything as they please?

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Dæmon S.@dsilverz@catodon.rocks

Replying to @⁨ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net⁩

And where in my comment did I say "Anubis is a cryptocurrency"?

Because, if you re-read my comment:

Anubis a "proof-of-work anti-bot" which performs similar instructions that of cryptomining
Emphasis on "similar instructions that of cryptomining". I used the word "similar":
From French similaire, from Medieval Latin similaris, extended from Latin similis (“like”). [...] Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, allied, comparable.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/similar

As for why I'm comparing Anubis to cryptomining:
Iaso [author of Anubis] lists Hashcash as having inspired the [Anubis] project.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anubis_(software)
Hashcash is a proof-of-work system used to limit email spam and denial-of-service attacks [...] Like hashcash, cryptocurrencies use a hash function as their proof-of-work system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash
Proof of work was later popularized by Bitcoin as a foundation for consensus in a permissionless decentralized network
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_work

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Wiktionarysimilar - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Dæmon S.@dsilverz@catodon.rocks

Replying to @⁨JoMiran@lemmy.ml⁩

I cannot guarantee that there will never be any LLM use in the future
Even if there's no AI-generated code in a repo, there's something else to this entire situation to which people seem to be completely oblivious. It's how human code can be mislabeled/reported/accused of being "AI-generated".

And, then, all of a sudden, the burden of proof will befall onto the accused, possibly without means of recourse. Any mislabeling would require the accused to prove the human authorship.

Oh, and any proof could be counter-argued to have been "AI-generated" as well.... Because, as it turns out, It's not as if people recorded themselves from a third-person perspective like they were a character in a damn game while they coded with their flesh-and-bones hands, and even if they did, anyone could argue "it's AI-generated video, nobody records themselves in a third-person perspective".

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