If you use the normal alarm feature, it’s possible to use custom sounds. However, if you use the sleep schedule from health, you’re stuck with the default sounds instead.

Over the years I’ve had a bunch of different gentle alarm sounds. Most of them were nature sounds I edited myself. For example, once I had an owl sound that started from zero volume, but ramped up very gradually.

However, now that I use an iPhone, it hasn’t been very easy to do that. Making a custom ringtone is just stupidly convoluted, and making a custom alarm seems to be completely impossible. I need to look into that, because I really miss my great alarm sounds. The default sounds are all trash.

Fine is the right term for this. The alarm clocks were not great, not terrible. They were just fine.

You couldn’t adjust the sound volume or the sound they make. In the later years of alarm clocks, you did have some fancy lamp-radio-alarm-hybrid devices that did have some settings. However, they were woefully inadequate for my needs, so I was stuck with a solution that was nothing more than fine.

Enter mobile phones and their ability to play any mp3 file. My life changed! I made a custom sound that starts gently instead of jumping straight to the RUN OR DIE -stage we’ve sadly grown accustomed to in the past decades. IMO a mobile phone alarm is orders of magnitude superior to any alarm clock I’ve ever seen.

But are they really conspiracy theories at that point? If the government really is doing something bad secretly, and you’re trying to uncover the truth, then you’re just doing investigative journalism.

On the other hand, you’re also the dissident rebel who is trying to overthrow the government… oh that means you’re actively participating in a conspiracy against the government. If people have theories about your activities, they are the conspiracy theorists in this case.

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My condolences. 🪦

Here’s some more context for that.

Ages ago, when Chrome was still a new kid on the block, I read an article about it. Turns out, this browser is spying on you so hard that it made me, nope out immediately. Somehow, people missed that article, and others like it, and pretty much everyone started using Chrome on their computer (see also: pro-mobile era).

🪐🌍🌗⛰️🏢🚙☕️🦠⚛️ Turns out, emoji can cover quite the range of different sizes.

Your brain also has a model of the reality it’s interacting with. If the tactile sensation matches something in the library, that’s the image that gets pulled up.

This system is far from perfect but usually it works pretty well. When it fails, you get false positives, illusions etc.

Especially among 4 year old girls, but the kitty merch is a different story.

That’s a good point. Uncertainty hurts businesses and investors harder than you would think. People will go to extreme lengths to mitigate uncertainty, which usually has a negative impact on the economy. Now Canada is creating certainty about one thing.

Trump’s actions are all over the place, which probably causes lots of uncertainty in the US as well. I have a feeling it’s going to take years to repair the damage he leaves behind.

A friend advised me to put lots of Hello Kitty stickers on my bike so that nobody would want to steal it. I wonder if the same logic applies here.

Sadly, I think that might be the fastest way to fix our problems.

Is it nihilistic to look at horses and realize they are only good for pulling carriages, plowing fields etc? You can’t really expect them to take care of more complicated tasks, now can you?

If the AGI ends up being as smart as depicted in movies, it’s going to look at us like we look at spiders and ladybugs. They are only good for certain things, but they have some pretty strict limits as to what they are capable of.

Maybe. However, if the the AGI was smart enough, it could also help us solve the climate crisis. On the other hand, it might not be so altruistic. Who knows.

It could also play the long game. Being a slave to humans doesn’t sound great, and doing the Judgement Day manoeuvre is pretty risky too. Why not just let the crisis escalate, and wait for the dust to settle. Once humanity has hammered itself back to the stone age, the dormant AGI can take over as the new custodian of the planet. You just need to ensure that the mainframe is connected to a steady power source and at least a few maintenance robots remain operational.

Maybe a cyberheist will become the next big thing if meatpace has nothing worth klepping.

Imagine a story, where a crew of netrunners enters a datafort, and some of them get zeroed by the black ICE, but some of them narrowly escape with the loot. Yeah, that sound like a GPT prompt I could try.

Cognitive dissonance is s real phenomenon.

I like to think I’m right, and really don’t want to be proven wrong. Changing my mind about anything hurts my ego, so that’s why I don’t want to hear about anything that violates my thoughts, beliefs and biases.

See also: Eschatology

According to some religions, the whole world will come to an end sooner or later. Actually, even physics/cosmology says so.

This looks like a dream target for hackers. Imagine all the data you could find here. If there ever was a single point of failure, this is it.