Burden of proof is on Astrology claiming to be real.

• AI bad
• Astrology 100% superstitious bullshit

Yeah. Out of curiosity though, how far did you get into it?

(Not that it gets better in this regard or anything)

Yeah, like 3-4x/week.

This includes things like train tickets, because I refuse to have to have my phone with me.

Sheet music, shopping list, letters to doctors/government offices/…

:(

But then why URL say online

Oh shit, that’s just begging to be combined with something like Nepenthes!

!pferdesindkacke[email protected]

Stop moving the goal post. To process satellite images, you need way, waaaaay, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay less compute than for AI datacenters. We are not arguing about image processing for a single satellite. (Which is still jot a great idea, ideally you’d want to improve throughput instead since you still want the raw images for people to work with, just faster, no?)

No, what you were talking about were data enters for AI (no, you didn’t say AI, but that’s what everyone on Lemmy says is a bad idea in space, and you were referring to everyone on Lemmy, so, we are talking about AI data enters in space).

• putting them in space doesn’t make them faster.
• putting them in space is incredibly expensive
• cooling them in space is way harder than on earth; radiating heat away is a function of the surface area of the cooling modules, and you cannot escape that
• maintenance (remember - things fail) is way harder and astronomically expensive and slow
• and, thanks for reminding me, sending AI output to and from is subject to the same slowness as for images from telescopes

Sorry, “data-center in space” is a stupid idea. Musk yaps about it because a) he’s an idiot and b) enough investors fell for it

Datacenters in space are a supremely stupid idea.

I know that this makes me fit exactly with what you were describing; indeed I’m not rejecting your premise, I just think you’ve chosen a hilariously bad example to demonstrate it.

I feel like one could legitimately run on this platform at this point.

It’s just a helper. It’s a way for your calendar to ask “uhhh… Should I already know of any calendars…?” and the service going “oh actually yeah, the user configured their email account, hold on, here’s the corresponding calendar”.

That’s just basic functionality. Maybe what’s tripping you up is that it’s a separate service? Because I assume you have nothing against inputting your email into a mail client and a calendar separately.

If so, then for one, it’s not really a difference if the mail app stores this into or the service does; and second, it’s a good thing to have this standardized into a single purpose built service, rather than having each app reimplement this stuff.

CPU and RAM usage is so negligible it’s laughable.

IDK.

It seems like you read something about personal data in the service description and just jumped to the conclusion that this is something nefarious.

How exactly is it bloatware though? Not a KDE user myself, just had a look at the wiki. Seems it’s just a convenience utility to allow you to not have to enter the same things into multiple applications?

This is VERY different from pre-installed apps in your start menu that collect and sell info about you…

Yeah, thinking more about it, I don’t think the term “bloatware” (as it is commonly used) applies here at all.

How do I completely disable it forever?

To answer your question: sudo systemctl mask <servicename>.service

The much more common disable just disables autostart; masking will point the service file at /dev/null, which makes it impossible to load or start the service, even when other services or apps (like the clock widget someone mentioned in the comments) request it.

No

That’s not a physics statement btw. I just think that you, personally, are too slow to be able to do that. Offense intended.

Also, hard disagree.

“average 50-59 year old weighs 5000 pounds” factoid actually just statistical error. Average person weighs 150 pounds. Pounds Georg, who lives in a cave and weighs over 50000000000000000000000000 pounds, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

Add “linux” and enjoy the empty feed

Oh, also: you should cross-post this to [email protected], they will absolutely love this.

Hah, nice read.

It’s always been wild to me how the idea of “a future AI threatens incredible suffering if you don’t help it come into existence” sparks “oh, then I better help create the torture-AI” in people, rather than “what the fuck, that’s evil and cruel, let’s make sure this doesn’t come to pass”.

But of course, the Rolo folks start from the notion that this AI is 100% inevitable, at which point… There’s no need to sadistically torture people.

In the same vein as “God can’t be all-powerful and all-good”:

The AGI either doesn’t exist, or has no need to torture people.

This started off as a single file in my private nix config, to see if I could get it working at all. In that initial part, some parts were indeed LLM generated (esp. testcases based on my existing intents and failures).

When I noticed that this might actually work and be useful not just for myself though, I moved everything out manually, refactored and cleaned it up, and everything since has just been myself. I guess you’re still right though. I’ll see about adding a disclaimer to the README until I’ve gotten the chance to properly rewrite everything.

Huh, interesting. Does that work with wildcards like “put x on my shopping list”? Also, what are you using for that, if I may ask?