tonarinokanasan

@tonarinokanasan@lemmy.sdf.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nazposting! - A community for posting about everyone's favourite rat girl, Nazrin!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My poor, sweet summer child

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Garden of Eden was based on The Galápagos Islands.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While the conversion is appreciated, there’s no reason to be an ass about it. OP labeled it, so it’s not like it was confusing or making unnecessary assumptions about the audience. So really you’re the one who just comes across as completely culturally insensitive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT provides false information about people, and OpenAI can’t correct it⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the trouble is, what baby are we throwing out with the bathwater in this case? We can’t prevent LLMs from hallucinating (but we can mitigate it somewhat with carefully constructed prompts). So, use cases where we’re okay with that are fair game, but any use case (or in this case, law?) that would require the LLM never hallucinates aren’t attainable, and to get back earlier, this particular case has nothing to do with capitalism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT provides false information about people, and OpenAI can’t correct it⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a thing that is true of all LLMs, but it seems like you’re misunderstanding the core issue. It CAN give outputs like that sometimes. What we CAN’T do is force it to give outputs like that ALL the time.

  It will answer “I don’t know” if its predictive text model guesses that the most common response to this would be “I don’t know”. To do that, to simplify a little, you could imagine that it reads your question, compares that to all the text in its training data, and tries to find the conversation that looks most like the question you asked, then answers whatever the person in the training data answered. But your exact question wasn’t in its training data, so if you took that mental model, and instead had it compare to 1000 similar looking things in its training model and average them, then it would hopefully do a better job of coming up with something at least close to what you actually asked. Now take it to a million, or a billion.

  It doesn’t know anything. It doesn’t understand anything you say. It just looks at patterns that it learned from the training data and tries to guess what words are most likely to be said in that case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One problem it has is that it can be REALLY slow sometimes. Like any turn based strategy game, map size has an exponential effect on how long a game takes, but the mechanics of wesnoth lean a lot more towards larger maps.

  I’m mostly talking about multiplayer though. For singleplayer there’s about a hundred million campaigns to play so you could probably play it forever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I miss the trend of games insulting you for quitting⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Both of the examples you give are Id - and to be honest, I feel like this was always more of an Id thing than it was an overall trend

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skyrocketing bluesky engagement since opening to the public⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree in general, but 20 years ago, people were using email to actually talk to each other. There are problems with the protocol, but those aren’t related to the way it is federated imo. The reason people stopped using email to talk to each other was because the features of newer options were better – things like IMs and Skype, which have continued to evolve into stuff like WhatsApp or whatever people use now. But, unlike email that was devised in an era when things were still being driven largely by the education sector etc, all these other solutions were made by post-dotcom era profit-driven companies.

  So I agree that email has lots of problems, and some of those are certainly related to its federation (e.g., the protocol has not really been able to advance in significant ways since making changes to it is nearly impossible). But I still think it’s the best example of a federated messaging protocol we have today.

  Anyway that’s all a bit afield, as you said. I think the bottom line for me is that whichever protocol it is, if one of these current attempts at federation is going to meet my goals, then eventually there should be a large number of commercial entities participating. I know that’s not everyone’s goal though, but there’s a reason I don’t use IRC for example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skyrocketing bluesky engagement since opening to the public⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Something like 80% of email goes through Google and Apple. But, email is just about the most successful federated protocol we have. Also, I believe that these companies would have become huge regardless, and I’m glad that they are dominant while using an open protocol instead of something they can exert much more control over.

  In an ideal world, I believe the goal for federated social media is that you don’t care what platform other users you interact with are on, and they can freely move to other platforms without compromise. It’s scary if a big corpo controls too much marketshare and can break compatibility with other apps. But, if the protocol is truly open, there can’t be any barrier to corpos launching services on the protocol either.

  I tend to agree when everyone is worried about an already existing major player joining federation (e.g. FB with threads). But bluesky is a new entrant to the space; they will have to fight the existing giants for market anyway. And if they’re starting small, then them being federated means that as soon as they start to get credible traction, any other company would be able to launch their own app in the same space. If the scare of big players is that they’ll choose to one day stop playing nicely with federation, then it will definitely be easier for them to say “you can no longer chat with a few random FOSS weirdos” than to say “you can no longer chat with this other major app”.

  tl;dr, for me the goal isn’t to have a protocol that can only talk to other people who care about FOSS; it’s to have a way to talk to everyone. Eventually, that means that I hope we do hit a critical mass of “big players” buying in, even if they’re motivated by profit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skyrocketing bluesky engagement since opening to the public⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To some extent I feel like the inverse of this would be “do you wish Gmail wasn’t federated?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Unity Games That Could be Impacted Most by Controversial Fees, From Silksong to Cult of the Lamb - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s nothing implicit about “opening the project in unity” that needs to be a trigger for terms to change.

  If you make and distribute a game made in unity, then you are distributing some unity IP. You would need the license holder to grant you permission to do that. The terms you agree to with unity are what grant you the right to distribute this.

  So this has very little to do with “have you opened the editor lately”, and is more similar to when e.g. Dead By Daylight has to stop selling a dlc character because they don’t renew an agreement with the rights holders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japanese YouTuber convicted of copyright violation after uploading Let’s Play videos⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  To my knowledge, almost zero games incorporate licenses that actually give any legal space or protection for streaming, it’s almost always a “we 100% have the right to sue you but we probably won’t, we totes promise fr fr” kind of situation.

  But for this case in particular, what’s actually happening is that Japan is one of the strictest countries in the world w.r.t. copyright law; I can’t know the laws of every country in the world, but in 90% of jurisdictions the worst you’d expect to happen is the videos get taken down, maybe your channel gets deleted.

  Don’t screw around with copyright law in Japan though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coming to you soon...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately from their perspective that isn’t apples to apples. They can charge higher rates for targeted ads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coming to you soon...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There are cultural traditions of using colors as symbols, many of which are harmless – red for anger, blue for sadness, green for envy. Whitelist and blacklist come from the very long-standing theme of using white to represent good and black to represent evil.

  Regardless of how you feel about the origin of those themes, it makes sense to start moving away from them now. Whether intentional or not, they can be harmful and aren’t really necessary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ex-Linus Tech Tips employee alleges mistreatment and poor conditions: “no one gets a break” - Dexerto⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish I could give this a million upvotes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  While this obviously would never help in any meaningful way, I do absolutely love it