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Merry chrisatms

I love all the pleasantly deep answers in this thread.

For my input: I'm everything I ever was, all at once.

You know how lenses refract over each other at the optometrist? Or how colors combine when you stack transparent cups in the washer? That's me. I have parts from everyone I ever met, and parts from everyone I ever was. There's no mask, even if I focus on one part of the mosaic in a meeting vs. another when I nerd out w/ a buddy -- it's all equally me.

I'm not Shrek though. Onions have layers, but I'm prismatic glass, chips and dips and all.

I disagree with this sentiment; I'm inclined to believe that AI has actually lowered the bar for meaning.

Before AI, typically only skilled artists drew pictures for the web. But now that AI is making art that's less meaningful than crayon pictures, there's the growing sentiment of

I'd rather see a crayon picture than AI slop.

which could actually mean more people have the ability to go on and artify.

Of course this is anecdotal; it's the reason I started drawing again :)

NOOOOOO HOW DID I GET SHITTYMORPHED ON LEMMY

Only if there's too many is it a worry. I use it now and then bc I LOVE things in threes (I'm not Ben Affleck I swear), but...

in the above, the tricolon bonanza is insane -- how can you fit that many in such a short text?

You probably don't need to cut down :)

Sorry for the wall of text again c:

Made with no blood, no sweat, and no tears in fucking GNU's Not Unix Image Manipulation Program.

AI structure can be pretty obvious if you know which English weapons it loves to spam. Let's walk it through (sorry for the wall of text lmfao):

I skip the image because the chimney mistake and overdone shading is obvious

1. Corporate style.
   • "In these unpredictable and often challenging times" -- This is very corporate. How many messages have you seen like this during the pandemic? Buuut just because it's soulless doesn't mean it's AI, but I wouldn't expect it from a community of this archetype. (ai suspicion +1)
2. Tricolons, especially ascending. (source)
   • This is something ChatGPT loves. Essentially, there are three "things" in a sentence, sometimes clauses. Sometimes each one is larger than the last (ascending), e.g. "I honed my skills in research, collaboration, and problem-solving." And it appears a lot even in this short snippet
   • "...you can step back, breathe, and find some calm amidst the chaos". The third element is longer. Ascension spotted. (ai suspicion +2)
   • "May your days be filled with joy, your systems stay secure, and your kernels remain stable." Elements are successively syllabically longer. Ascension spotted. (ai suspicion +2)
   • "Take the opportunity to reconnect, reflect, and perhaps even find inspiration for the year ahead." Third element is longer. Ascension spotted. How funny -- three tricolons! Three three three three (ai suspicion +2)
3. Obsession with superficial positivity.
   • ChatGPT, even when making stories about evil, is very partial to love, friendship, joy, making up, peace, tranquility, (pseudo) "unconventional" friendship. Excessive meaningless positivity is an archetype too, though ChatGPT's factgivings are usually neutral-positive.
   • "more important than ever to pause and share heartfelt wishes" Share wishes. Would a human on c/linux say something like that without elaborating further about wishing for something, perhaps death to Windows users? (ai suspicion +1)
   • "moment of peace" "find some calm" "positivity" "open-source spirit" but they never talk deeper, again. (ai suspicion +1)

So yeah this is at least 90% OpenAI. Too fuckin' bad.

Bad linked article. Judging by the amount of sets of three bullets

• in: forms
• like: these,

along with the "in conclusion" prepositions and not-very-useful-but-broad headings, it was written by AI. :(

Most online sources about this Schopenhauer suggestion seem to be either AI-generated, mildly superficial (i.e. basically only talks about Schopenhauer's mom calling him an annoying intellectual type), or MBA-manipulator-esque (e.g. Get Rich! 48 Laws of Power! Buy Today!)...

which is a bummer since scaling humility up and down can be a really useful instrument to get things done. Just be agreeably approachable, but be careful if you outshine others, especially if ego gets in the way. Idk, i wish there was a more compelling source for this

CRYPT-- oh, you mean how the nice tutorial peeps have affected us.

Vimjoyer has increased the adoption rate for flakes on NixOS. And also NixOS use in general.

Mental Outlaw has probably contributed to new Gentoo users, quoth the meme, but Gentoo is still a dying breed compared to its heyday in the early naughts.

Fireship has made people -- particularly CS students I believe -- more comfortable with trying out new programming languages. (The "I'll check out the Fireship video first" approach. But then again, ChatGPT has arguably had the same effect across undergraduates... that's a digression)

Asahi Lina's longform Rust dev work, while less of a network effect, has had its own substantial effects within the Asahi Linux "Linux on the M-series" sphere. I believe she also helped port a kind of anime mocap engine onto Linux, which could over the longterm boost the anime-nerd Linux-nerd center Venn diagram. But that's speculation.

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In a broader perspective, with the combination of SteamOS and large YouTubers trying out Linux, Linux desktop adoption will probably increase more than it has now. I doubt it will pass 10% though with Linux's reputation (tech nerds, compile all day, games don't run, command line -- even though these are improving, it's hard to kick)

• Linus Tech Tips - "Linux HATES Me - Daily Driver Challenge Pt.1"
• SomeOrdinaryGamers - "I Installed The Hardest System Known To Man..."
  • not gonna lie I ignored this clickbait but he has "gamers" in his name so he's probably a gamer

Soooooooo! How'd the exam go?

Thank you! (˶ˆᗜˆ˵) ✧