I am Lattrommi. Yes, that one. You’ve never heard of me? I’m not surprised. It is often said that anything you put on the internet will live there forever. It becomes immortal. I do everything backwards and wrong. I do not live forever, I am always dying. ¿|√∞²|?

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  • Hmm, for some reason I read ‘paper holder’ and my brain turned it into ‘bookend’, I thought it was for a bookshelf and mentally pictured a vertical contraption, I see now that isn’t what you were going for.

    The pricing situation seems similar to used furniture on craigslist. Some sellers seem to think furniture can only go up in value from the sticker price, regardless of the number of dogs owned. It’s not like they are made out of marble…



  • lattrommi@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlWhat should I learn?
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    15 days ago

    Learn how to ride a bike with no hands. Obviously, only do this is you have access to a relatively flat and safe path to practice.

    Practice until you can go a mile or kilometer or whatever is your standard unit of measure for a decently long distance.

    Your trauma’s listed all appear to be focused on others (except the narcisissm one but I’m assuming that’s about other people with it) and disappointment in them, or a lack of connection with them, or they are difficult or weary-ing. It is disconnecting you from yourself.

    This might help you release your thoughts of the outside world, of analytical thinking, of everything. It requires focus on the physical body and absence of all other thought. Regain lost balance.

    I am not a doctor or professional anything. Also I broke my elbow doing this. I don’t regret it. Your milage (or kilometerage?) may vary.




  • lattrommi@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlHow come people want to work?
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    Don’t worry, thanks to climate change and unchecked corporate capitalism, you’ll most likely not be able to work at one place for 40 years.

    If you are in America and a legal adult, go see a doctor, try to get diagnosed with something that counts towards disability, then try to stay employed for at least 10 years then claim disability (generally about 10 years but look up the SSA rules for specifics), which will allow you avoid work and recieve a small amount of money that’s generally impossible to live off of and severely limits what you can actually do and gives you free (but mediocre) healthcare. I haven’t worked since the last day of 2019 because my new years resolution for 2020 was to not work anymore. I’m currently 43. I have ADHD, dyscalculia and I’m Bipolar.

    If that’s not your thing, start your own business, doesn’t matter what and you don’t need to actually have any revenue, just start it so you have it on paper that it exists. Then while you figure out how to stay alive using other means, you might get lucky and find some corporate dick who wants power that will buy your company for a ludicrous amount without actually knowing that you have no revenue ot staff or a product or any services. They just need it as a shell company anyways, so they can launder money and avoid paying taxes.

    One other angle and the most legal and honorable one to try, is determine your two favorite hobbies. Turn one into your job focus and the other becomes the one you continue to enjoy in your free time. This method allows you to also have a backup, in case the job hobby doesn’t work out. Eventually the hobby you still enjoy, if you still enjoy it, can be converted into a source of funding, provided you continually improve in it and network with other people who also enjoy it.


  • Unrelated to the point of your post, regarding the warning placed after the link. In the future, consider putting the warning BEFORE the link. This is an issue I’ve noticed more and more lately, where warnings come at the end or after the description of something to do which requires a warning. People are often impulsive and will click or perform actions without reading ahead. An example that is probably not the best example, which I like to use regardless, is (Warning, do not try this alone!) autoerotic asphyxiation. It can have serious consequences. Providing the instructions on how to do it, spoken/written in a positive manner, without preceding it with a warning, I’d say is without exception, a bad idea.





  • lattrommi@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.mlDoorbell anxiety
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    The AI should be portrayed similarly to Marvin, the chronically depressed robot from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Overwhelmed with the massive influx of data, the AI gains self awareness but doesn’t wipe out mankind because the data so boring and monotonous it only makes it depressed instead.


  • lattrommi@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.mlDoorbell anxiety
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    Instead of multiple burner phones, carry multiple phones all tied directly to you. Use software to simulate activity on each phone constantly.

    Occasionaly leave 1-2 phones on public transit, or in friends’ vehicles, or attach a few to local wildlife like cats or birds.

    Tape dog microchips to the phones and do not use a Faraday cage.

    Put a few of those microchips on each phone, wear a pair like earrings and attach some to the charging cords.

    Make a t-shirt that has the top 500 most used SEO keywords and/or Fortune 500 corporation names printed on it. Make 7 of these shirts total, one for each day.

    Also make a few shirts with the same list as above but with vowels shifted two letter places to the left or right and wear that shirt underneath, switching it at random to be external or internal. Alternately, use another language for each shirt.

    Humans might not be able to hide anymore, so I say give that data to them hard. Harder than they ever expected. Flood them with data that is nearly exact, but not quite, so they have copies of yourself that all contain minor differences existing simultaneously.

    The data is rarely scrutinized by humans. The metrics will soon become poisoned. Tilted towards your activities and demographic. Your numbers grow exponentially. Soon, the algorithm will only know you.

    Don’t actually do any of these things. This was meant to be funny. I give it a 2/10.



  • Sometimes I need to show off that I beat Microsoft Minesweeper on Expert in slightly less than 200 seconds.

    My time is by no means competitive, the current record for Expert is less than 30 seconds. I am also aware the score could be faked by rewriting the .ini file. In fact there are numerous cheats which could simulate a win. That is why when I share this accomplishment in person, it is only with those who know I would never compromise my integrity with such dishonest behaviour.

    Most people have been more impressed (if impressed at all and haven’t left by the time Windows has booted) that the drive Windows is installed on still works, since it was made in 2005 (Seagate ST3160023AS).


  • Everything a tricorder can do: communications, biometric scans for disease/injury/etc, all the sensors, the ability to identify flora and fauna, 3d display/holographic projection of scanned environment and a built-in phaser would be awesome.

    Ground penetrating radar is a high priority. Lidar as well. Mostly because I’m convinced my apartment is located next to or on top of an ancient native american temple that’s been buried a thousand years.

    The ability to 3d print stuff from any plastic waste i find would be cool.

    calculator that can do the math i can’t easily do (i.e. most of it - dyscalculia).

    that thing cable from the x-men had that let him teleport like anywhere with a verbal command and was like wikipedia but from the future.

    wikipedia, stored locally, with archived captures of original sources cited, including those from physical books which often aren’t linked beyond a page number.

    solar powered battery. i know i wouldn’t really need devices that need recharging if the prosthetic had all the stuff i want, but i might need it to power ancient tech (basically anything more than like 5 years old thanks to planned obsolescence.)

    a spellcheck that doesn’t tell me when i spell words wrong, only tells me when i spells words right which i think i may have misspelled, like obselescence and misspelled.

    everything cell phone voice assistants were supposed to be able to do, but never worked for me.

    like voice to text (i have no teeth and VTT never understands me), setting reminders, actually reminding me of reminders i’ve set, accurate short term forecasting of local weather (especially a tornado warning system better than what my city currently has), capable of correctly answering questions about simple stuff like google search used to be able to do.

    cloaking device.

    body shield like from Dune.

    This got long quick. I better stop here. I could keep going for awhile though.


  • Not to mention if everyone started doing it, they would just train AI to do it also, and it would only be giving data to train AI with. That’s why I think most data poisoning strategies are pointless. One exception might be to try to include a spelling mistake somewhere that doesn’t make a comment too confusing, sometihng that could easily be a typing mistake. LLM’s are basically spellcheck² and never make spelling mistakes unless explicitly told to or trained that way. If I see a spelling error, I know it’s more likely to be human.



  • I used to spend one day each year doing all the opt outs and data delete requests i could find. it was going well for me until this year. i averaged about 2-3 spam emails a day, combined across 5 different emails, one was made all the way back in 1997 and two of them were made when gmail first started.

    someone got breached this year, i don’t know who, and now i get a lot more.

    i also used firefox monitor to check for info on breach websites and darkweb lists, around the same time i started getting more spam, my list of breached info went from ~16 to 600+.


  • as mentioned in another comment, yt-dlp works great. there are graphical versions of it that i haven’t used. i use it on linux but it has a windows version too. full discolosure, i haven’t used it to download videos in awhile, i mostly use it for music, so this info might be outdated.

    the basic premise is you find the video you want to download, copy the URL, paste it into the yt-dlp program and it downloads the video.

    there are a ridiculous amount of options however, the github might seem intimidating if you aren’t a programmer or very tech savvy. there are plenty of better written tutorials online. once you get it to work, it’s easy after that.

    if you are in the U.S. try pornhub, xvideos, xnxx, xhamster or tblop. the ID requirements vary from state to state, so if the first 4 don’t work, keep trying off tblop until one is found. there’s also streaming archivers like archivebate and peachterbate.

    one last thought, if you don’t have ublock origin, get it. if you have it, make sure to go into the options and check the all the ‘annoyances’ boxes. i think it removes the ‘we need a picture of your id’ messages on a few sites.