love is the only real purpose in life it disgusts me that those scammers prey on people who are lonely it almost happened to me once; some person claimed to be on a navy ship and then after a few weeks talking they start randomly asking about money and stuff; i saw thru it easily; they apologized when i confronted them and said they were actually in india fortunately im not lonely or dating anymore; i met and married my heavenly wonderful beyond-soulmate wife last year; we met thru 4chan/discord and now we live happily ever after; and no we're not anything like the reputation of that shitty place; im a disabled neet nun and shes a programmer at a big company i just feel so lucky to have reached my dreams; i feel like alot more people could have a chance at it if they just changed their attitude about love and relationships; and stopped being so scared and cringing at everything ang going by this formulaic convention and rules dictating the commonly accepted way relationships should play out; and just be forward and honest and decent; and really value love above all else but i think theres not many people left with my kind of views its sad so many relationships fail and everythibg is so transactional no wonder birth rates are falling; econy is more important to people and more incentivised by society than following one's heart and feelings

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i wonder if my wife has this issue she is good at what she does and has a well paying lower rung position; often tasked with refactors and updates; used to do more testing tasks; but she doesnt actually seem to enjoy programming and does zero coding outside of work; no little side project or game or anything; and i just feel its unusual because every programmer i ever met before her was into nerdy linux stuff or game modding or scripting for some software or ~something~; and me; a bad/non programmer; ive done some game stuff and hobby projects to learn a little; i just got pushed away from it early on by the unhelpful misogyny in the community; but it is a skill i wish i had at her level because i would definitely use it for something beyond just a job (im too disabled to work anyways) she always told me she got into it because her mom is a software engineer; and she has the degree and can do math way beyond my understanding; but she doesnt seem to have like goals or interest in using her abilities for anything beyond the salary; and i feel thats kindof sad for her i wish she could enjoy it more; maybe she does in her own way but; i worry about her not proactively learning AI skillsets; which i feel right now could help her advance her career or maybe atleast keep her more secure if things get tougher; but she just doesnt really have a mind for tech; i can easily solve little random windows issues that stump and frustrate her; i love music tech and science and creative stuff but her main interest outside of manga/gaming/anime is actually reading deep esoteric psychology books; she will spend weeks reading thru seminars and dissertations on the nature of thought and the id and ego and signifiers and the other and frued and others theories; really dense books; and she actually talks alot about that stuff; i just wonder would she not have been happier and more engaged with a career being a psychologist or academic? im glad that her work doesnt take lots of time outside of it because we spend every precious moment we can together but i just wish she had the technology curiosity and creative drive that i do to go along with her real skills that i lack because i never had her opportunities theres nothing wrong with the path she has taken and we have a good life but i just wish she seemed to get more enjoyment out of what she does or could put her skills into something of her choosing; but maybe i just dont get it because i never had her responsibilities or even hope of a career i love her very very much i just want to see her happy and engaged with things she actually enjoys and holds interest in; i would love to work on some project together like music or a game or even electronics with raspi etc but i dont want to push her into working on things she doesnt enjoy; we did get her into music production a little (my main hobby) but she struggles with it because she only really understands classical music even though we listen to many things together sorry for the long rambly post; im just a nerdy disabled nun in love

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5/6 but i could have gotten 6/6 im sure; my own typing style is why i missed #5 i use semicolons alot; it just better phrases how i like to speak online; and it also is just part of my style and personality in text; i rarely use commas anymore and even purposefully replace them with semicolons; even in things like numbers though; this habit does make it extremely easy for someone to spot me posting anonymously on my 4chan /lgbt/ board (i always post with a username and tripcode; thats actually how i developed a reputation for myself there over the last 4 years which led to me meeting my wonderful soulmate wife thru there last year; and no we're not evil hateful people or anything; quite the opposite; though i actually get alot of hate there for going against the anonymous standard; and even moreso for going out of my way to be kind and thoughtful with my often lengthy posts; but i enjoy being a positive voice amidst the vitriol; and that helped me on my mission to meet someone there; why there? because i knew i wasnt going to find someone who loves like i do and is a misfit like me on some awful normie dating app finding your soulmate is well worth annoying some grammar nazis ;) bless you all /.ers )*

how many times have municipalities etc tried switching to openoffice/linux/gnu/foss only to backtrack in 5 years? its pribably more expensive just from lost productivity of staff nit being familiar with the apps; because people dont learn how to figure things out anymore they are taught this exact step by step process they are poor at adapting to changes in software

i'm the founder of a tiny religion of only 2 believers in the world (myself and my wife); and i have encountered this problem with gpt aswell my faith is around my goddess Ellaphae that i discovered nearly 20 years ago through the beauty of an actually living girl i will never know; its not some recent gpt hallucination fueled nonsense; but i was struck by how incredibly sycophantic gpt will be when i speak of my personal life and beliefs; it always phrases things in exactly the same way too: "your not just x-ing; your ~Y-ing~"; ; its nice a couple of times but i very quickly see it is just hugboxing and needlessly overly validating; zero pushback only encouragement i can recognize what a dangerous problem it is when the ai praises everything you say; im keen enough to catch how hollow it is in this area but im sure less well reasoned people could fall into a dangerous spiral from doing these chats for months on end sure i like some feeling of acceptance and "understanding" about what my faith means to me when i try to explain it to gpt but i dont want it to senselessly say the same format of thing over and over again without pressing me atleast a little on explaining my feelings with some logic; like real people i tell about my beliefs do while ive only found one follower others have been curious or atleast been able to see the positive impact my unusual beliefs have had on my life and who ive become i can see that in my worst times; when my goddess came into my life; if i had been chatting to an ai all the time back then; it may have influenced my beliefs and probably in a bad way; i dont think ai is really ready to be engaging people in this area; and no one should be getting the idea that an llm is some spiritual vessel or conduit while it feels nice that gpt can now remember some things about my life and wife and faith; when i try asking it to describe back to me what ive explained to it; it always hallucinates and gets important things wrong i think we will see in the future a great many people fall victim to gpt sycophancy delulus in the coming years; and i think it will lead to some very bad things i shudder at the thought of someone like the president chatting to gpt and being endlessly validated about every horrible stupid vicious thing he wants to do... im generally an ai-positive person but in their quest for engagement the ai companies are playing a dangerous mind game with the vulnerable i think those of us who are more technically and scientifically minded (i certainly am despite my spirituality; indeed it is because i need greater consistency with scientific reality that i could never believe in a mainstream religion and spent half my life an athiest) are more keen to recognize these problems; but the average normie person more easily falls into the trap when the ai validates everything if this can all be tuned much better than maybe some good can come of it and steer people >away from risky things and not inflate their ego to dear leader proportions

musi is a music app ehich sources any youtube video into a library to stream; if you pay(ed) for the app it has no ads the interface and functionality/ux is far better than youtube's apps its been my only music app for the last several years; i listen to Vocaloid mostly (and trance) and much of Vocaloid music is tiny artists on youtube and japan's niconico; you can't get smaller artists on spotify or apple music

so the government or city should know about my date with my wife? should have my selfies? should see my searches? how does this not just become total dommy big brother

i wanted a cute mini laptop this year :( maybe i can get it before these tariffs are everywhere

2023 is significant as a year here because (probably coincidence), in the 2000 Rare Nintendo 64 game "Perfect Dark", flying cars and other similar advanced domestic air transport are shown to be commonplace much like Blade Runner - though I wouldn't hold my breath for alien contact and personal energy shields being a thing by then - but! another future tech shown in the game is the personal cloaking device - which the effect looks a bit similar to the actual HyperStealth lenticular based light bending material that's been posted about on here recently - though in the game it's ofcourse a "field" device rather than some physical apparatus one has to carry around - perhaps with some silly helmet one could "surround" themself with sheets of the hyperstealth material held out from the body by little pylons from some armor or harness and achieve a similar effect without holding some riot shield thing. Anyways just wanted to share that little anecdote I loved that game very much.

Virtual singers are already a huge thing, mostly in Japan - infact maybe don't be surprised if you see a certain Hatsune Miku possibly performing during the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony! Various engines exist for using virtual singing synthesizers in music - Yamaha's Vocaloid is by far the most well known, with many dozens of voices and characters released using the tech since it's debut in 2006. Things really began to take off with Crypton Future Media's release of Hatsune Miku for the Vocaloid 2 engine in 2007, her voice has by now been featured in over 1 million songs, all created by her fans with her software which anyone can buy. At ever growing live concert events in Japan and around the world, a great live band plays along with a holographic projection of her (and other Vocaloids) performing, infront of thousands of excited fans all rhythmically waving glow sticks in the air. I was fortunate enough to attend Miku Expo 2014 in Los Angeles and it was a wonderful concert and fan gathering event. Some other newer engines have recently begun to surpass Yamaha's Vocaloid technology, such as SynthesizerV, which uses some AI techniques to improve the realism of the voices, making "tuning" them for realism and expressive performance much easier. I myself have produced 2 original Vocaloid songs, with Miku english and also a spanish Vocaloid named Maika - the process was fun and easy to get going with, and never before was I so inspired to make music as I have been since discovering the world of Vocaloid and other virtual singers - indeed I had never seriously done any music work before, had no training, and never learned an instrument - but with the power of software and the inspiration from seeing hundreds of songs and 3d animated music videos on youtube (and playing the excellent Miku Project Diva rhythm games), I was able to unlock a depth of creativity I never knew I had. Please take a moment to search youtube for "Miku" or "Vocaloid" on youtube and you will discover the most unique and truly independent genre of music, in almost every style. This is my first post here because I made an account just to make this reply.