I feel like we’re living in strange times where your comment appears to be AI generated as well. You complain about the surprise at the end and then offer up a similar structural surprise in your reply.

Strange times indeed, given that I naturally write comments structured similarly to GP. Hell, I'm probably even more of an LLM with human face than GP, because I capitalize the first words in my sentences, exactly like ChatGPT does.

There is a sister site “no-tech” magazine which is what I think many people on this site think of when they think of low tech.

https://www.notechmagazine.com/

I am a parent of three young kids and I turned my ‘office’ into a toy room a long long time ago. Now, I remote into a 8GB raspberry pi from my phone to do side projects. The raspberry pi is slow but I am not sitting around waiting for it to work. It can run LLMs and even stable diffusion.

I remote in, do something, write notes, then get back to life. I’ll check back once I have time. I even have wireguard set up so I can remote in from anywhere!

With the image generators coming out I’ve been scrambling to understanding their place, I’ve been looking to the chess world as a model of the future.

In chess, people would still rather see people play chess than a robot. The top chess players in the world started as a brute force obsession about the game. Those would go on to teach the next generation. They advent of computers allowed for historically statically advantaged moves. ML came along and disrupted even further.

Now many of the top chess players consult the ML chess oracle.

I see the same thing happening in a lot of areas: grammar, image generation, text replies.

I see a world where humans are celebrated for their humanness while machines assist.

This is vastly different. Chess is a battle of minds between people while you don't necessarily need context to enjoy art, and that's where AI art is likely to take over.

Yes, considering the story behind art pieces and the artist does significantly impact the way we interact with art, but you can still just like a painting or a piece of pixel art without knowing anything else about it. While Chess is about the players, art has products that exist on their own.

> That's where AI art is likely to take over

I guess that depends on what the definition of art is. If it's a digitally rendered illustration then maybe.

If it's a physical object crafted to imperfect perfections then no. AI can probably produce some alternative version of Guernica but that's just a fascimile of something that's already been made in a digital space.

I can see an artist using these tools as a way to produce ground-breaking work in the future but I would wager the artist that does that could make good art without any of these tools. You still need a craftsman to master the tools and without knowing the basics you're left with images of Elon Musk as a Disney princess on repeat.

But chess has a clear goal. It makes sense to consult a machine that is better at reaching that goal than a human. What is the goal of art and what does "better" mean for art?

(I admit that I intentionally misunderstood your post a bit. I suppose you are talking about images and text for general use, not only in an artistic context)

I recommend transcendental meditation. It’s very basic. Pick any nonsensical phrase. I chose “oohm chah kahh.” You close your eyes for twenty mins and repeat that phase in your head. You can repeat parts of it and change up the rhythm by elongating the vowels or whatever. Focus on the phrase as much as you can. Your mind will wander but always come back to it. You do that once or twice a day.

There is a bit of controversy of the science and spiritual side but I find that the way to improve focus is to limit stimuli and practice focusing.

Outside of that, sleep is probably more critical.

This is only valid if it’s a US company and many of these are originating outside of the US. Many shady companies outside of the us simply ignore the fines.

Simple solution: The fine is payable, link by link, to the next person in the chain by the party that forwarded the message.

So the phone company can pay the subscriber the $10,000, and collect it from whoever they got the text from.

I guarantee you spoofing would be solved immediately if this change to the law was scheduled for 12 months from now.

Banning foreign calls/texts that spoof local numbers sounds like a really easy and obvious thing to do.

All the big companies that outsource customer support overseas but want an in-country caller ID wouldn't let that happen.

Solve two problems at once, if you ask me

I’ve been to a number of converge shows and followed Andrew WK as I liked his childish optimism and fun persona when contrasted with the more morbid and aggressive stuff. They both put on amazing show experiences.

This project, being based out of Detroit/Michigan makes it seem like it could be an Andrew wk project. He’s well versed in absurdity and image creation. It always surprised me how Andrew wk was in target commercials. The fact that the armed is mentioned in a ford ad makes sense.

I’ve never heard of this band before this post and about to go down a rabbit hole.

Currently I run a freedbsd zfs nas as well. I had planned to do something similar but I wanted to allow the places I store backups, some access to the storage. In your example, it would be your parents. I figured it would be a nice way of saying thanks. I was thinking syncthing or something. How do you do NATing?

All servers are behind a NAT, but the servers are only configured with SSH open. With the exception of the NAS I am using which also has NFS, iSCSI running. Also, only the backup servers are allowed to make connections to NAS I am using. The NAS I am using is not allowed to connect to the backup servers.