One of my acquaintances told me that he uses AI to mass-produce college notes of subjects he himself doesn't know to capitalize on people who will buy them.

Unfortunately I've seen a lot of people are buying his notes. I think this is a terrible thing to do. It's not only immoral but you're making people study on potential AI slop which will compound over the years and that will result in a degradation of the humans' knowledge on the topic in my opinion.

Do not trust online college notes, especially if they're paywalled. There's infinite free knowledge online.

Hi, I am looking for libre solutions to buy for my home surveillance system.

I know that there are open source NVRs, but are there open source WiFi cameras? Cabled cameras just transmit an electrical signal so I don’t care about them.

Someone gifted me a Tapo C-210 but I don’t like the fact that it transmits videos to TpLink’s servers. I just want my self-hosted solution.

Thank you.

I am so fatigued with so much negativity that happens in the world and in my personal life as well. I have become numb to the topics I used to care such as politics, equal rights, environment and so on: I just want my day to end and that's it. I don't think I'm depressed tho (I used to and I know what it is like).

I don't know what to do. What would you suggest doing? Thank you.

XMPP and Matrix are very similar protocols that aim to accomplish roughly the same things. I'm looking to install a server on my (quite powerful) home server in order to communicate with my tech-savy friends and my girlfriend.

I would like to use the "perfect" one between the two, but I can't come to a decision.

Pros of Matrix

• Has more functionalities (albeit as far as I know XMPP can do pretty much the same with its extensions)
• It is JSON-based which helps reduce overhead, not by much, but it's free lunch
• I can't set cryptography wrong since it's built-in
• Messages and conversations can be synchronized from other servers if mine goes down for a short while. Its state seems generally stronger than XMPP's

Pros of XMPP

• More lightweight
• Less metadata leaks and supports aliases in public MUCs
• It's more "open" (less centralized)

Which one would you pick? We don't need to shield ourselves against the CIA but I'm a privacy freak so I'd like to pretend we do. Thank you.

I work in a software house where everyone uses AI. Some of them can't even write a single line of code, let alone analyze it. I was shocked when I saw their work is CTRL-A, CTRL-V into Claude and CTRL-V into the IDE without a single neuron being activated. They even ask it to summarize and generate a response for 3 lines of text in a Slack message! (Partially because they don't know what they're doing and partially because they're too lazy to think).

Well, everyone talks enthusiastically about AI, some have unrealistic expectations (thinking that it's actually intelligent, when it is not) but what bothers me is that they're indeed faster than me so sometimes I think "why am I even resisting?". Well the answer is that I love to keep my brain active and having the control of what I'm doing. Does anyone else feel kinda similar? Am I in the wrong?

P.S. Also I just want to point out that I've seen with my own eyes the deterioration of cerebral functions in people who heavily rely on AI. I'm not talking about just "forgetting how to code" but I see them losing space awareness (invading personal space, sitting like a liquid on the chair), self awareness (loudly burping, hoarding half-drank bottles of water on the desk), focus and they're easily irritable. It's multiple people behaving like that and they weren't like this before. AI is a drug.

Hi, I'm 27 years old and I'm a software developer at a particularly toxic family-run software company, and I absolutely want to make a change.

I'm also trying to graduate. I'm halfway through and I think it'll take me several more years.

My goals, which are mutually exclusive, are to earn enough to move out on my own, graduate, and travel the world since I've barely left my hometown and I'm almost 30. My past life choices have led me to not being the person I wish I was

My concerns are:

• Should I look for a part-time job so I can have more time to study even though I'm close to being 30?

• Should I look for a remote job so I can travel in the meantime?

• Should I join a consulting firm (e.g. Accenture) to expand my skills since they're very demanding, or should I join a firm focused on a single product to continue on the knowledge I have (.Net) even if it's not very specialized?

I'd be very grateful to anyone who can guide me...

I feel the need to help people in need. I am witnessing so many people dying around me and I see that the only thing that truly matters in life is to leave a better world behind us.

The problem is that I have a full time job and I couldn't find any organization I could join at night only or in weekends. The only thing I'm doing is donating to charities but I feel it's not enough.

For information I live in Europe.

I use a 2016 laptop as my server which has an old Nvidia 740M. Albeit slow and old, it's a chip I'd like to use. Unfortunately nothing I tried (Immich AI tagging, local AI etc) supports that. Is there something it could be useful for?

Edit: I found a way to make my old GPU perform semamtic search on my pictures. Its power is just slightly more of a CPU of the same year but it can't compete with a modern CPU (let alone a modern GPU). Still, an extra piece of hardware put at use

cross-posted from: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/wholesome/p/428550/it-s-true