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- Comment on What would you want to see this site do differently from Reddit? 1 week ago:
It’s a bit more of an issue in its earlier days compared to now, but it also needs to stop copying Reddit. People aren’t going to go to Lemmy if its communities are just copies of Reddit posts.
At the same time, there’s an argument that it shouldn’t be trying to compare itself with Reddit anyway. It should try to be its own thing.
- Comment on What would you want to see this site do differently from Reddit? 1 week ago:
As a whole, Lemmy isn’t really big enough to branch out into individual game communities just yet. They just end up petering out.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 1 week ago:
“The customer is always right” might get misused a lot, but it is correct in this instance.
If a lot of your customers don’t like something, it’s not something wrong with the customers.
- Comment on Why do all text LLMs, no matter how censored they are or what company made them, all have the same quirks and use the slop names and expressions? 2 weeks ago:
It’s something of the law of averages. At their core, an LLM is a sophisticated text prediction algorithm, that boils down the entire corpus of human language into numeric tokens, that it averages out, and creates entire sentences by determining the next most likely word to fill the space.
Given enough data, and you need a tremendous amount of it for an LLM, patterns start to come about, and many of those end up the ones that we see in LLMs.
- Comment on MPV: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Solution You're Probably Sleeping On 2 weeks ago:
Or if you have good hardware that doesn’t need the transcoding. If I was loading up h265 video on my server, I’d need to convert it to h264 or something else compatible if I wanted to use it with my iPad.
- Comment on Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage — delays forcing rapid transition to QLC SSDs 2 weeks ago:
Hasn’t bitcoin not been viable on GPUs for over a decade? Most of the cryptocurrency hype was mining other coins on GPUs, or using them to do blockchain calculations for NFTs and things.
- Comment on God ****** dammit, here we go again 2 weeks ago:
At the same time, it is trivially easy to strip a + alias, so I’d not trust it to do anything much at all.
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 3 weeks ago:
To a lesser extent, so did the Lorax’s Aloysius O’Hare.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
The anti-vegans, who are strong proponents of an all-meat diet.
- Comment on OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly 4 weeks ago:
That would make sense, if they were doing something like tracking how often and what categories trigger their moderation filter.
Just in case an errant update or something causes the statistic to suddenly change.
- Comment on Velma can't math. 4 weeks ago:
Plus the first two seasons basically had the producers get fired, and a new person brought in.
That would be bad for any show.
- Comment on Fight me 5 weeks ago:
It would end up creating some, due to inefficiencies, which may contribute.
- Comment on Banana 5 weeks ago:
It’s still around. It just got replaced by the new banana for produce.
You can still buy Gros Michel bananas, they’re just harder to find compared to a Cavendish.
- Comment on Banana 5 weeks ago:
So are you. They’re not special.
- Comment on egg time 5 weeks ago:
You do see it sometimes, where people complain that dinosaurs are no longer fearsome giant lizards because we found out that they might have feathers, on social media and places.
It generally becomes obvious that they have never met a goose, chicken, or been at risk of swooping before.
- Comment on egg time 5 weeks ago:
Let’s compromise and call them both fish.
- Comment on Automattic CEO calls Tumblr his 'biggest failure' so far 5 weeks ago:
It’s been that for a while. Tumblr’s had it a while, between the earlier days of the user base, and the site not being the most well-coded thing compared to Twitter or Reddit.
- Comment on GoFundMe CEO says the economy is so bad that more of his customers are crowdfunding just to pay for their groceries 5 weeks ago:
Linking to the evergreen College Dropout GoFundMe CEO skit.
“I run a website that hosts popularity contests, and if you lose, you die!”
- Comment on If websites are slow for you, this is why, AWS is breaking everything 5 weeks ago:
Maybe it’s cascade effects? Something depends on something else, which depends on a third thing that depends on AWS for something?
- Comment on Automattic CEO calls Tumblr his 'biggest failure' so far 5 weeks ago:
They do call it a Hellsite for many reasons. Not being profitable is one of them.
At the same time, it has calmed down a bit as the user base has aged up, and the more volatile elements have left for bluer skies.
Oddly enough, other than the mess of the NSFW filter, it’s been fairly controversy free. You can still use their API without paying globs of money, for example. Twitter and Facebook have all thrown that out, and Reddit has made other bad decisions, in addition to imploding their third party app ecosystem.
- Comment on What's the deal with breakfast in bed? 5 weeks ago:
IMO the appeal isn’t the actual breakfast in bed, it’s having your partner care for you enough to make you breakfast and bring it to you.
- Comment on Is there an anti- sleep-paralysis device? 5 weeks ago:
Lately, she doesn’t even wake up and she just kinda turns in her sleep and whacks me in the face like she’s hitting the snooze button. It’s… admittedly been very effective.
Cat energy
- Comment on How would you quickly describe Lemmy to a non-fediverse person? 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think a non-Fediverse person would be very familiar with Mastodon. They’d be more likely to go “What, like elephants?”.
I would keep it really simple, and just go for “Reddit alternative”. The whole Federation and decentralised business is going to be a sledgehammer if you introduce it to someone who’s not familiar with the concept.
- Comment on How, and why, are there so many AI-generated videos of incredibly obscure/niche topics? 5 weeks ago:
Then you shit out the slop content and hope your channel picks up. If it fails to drive numbers you abandon it and start with the next channel with the next topic variation. If you get lucky and the algorithm blesses you, you continue to shit out hundreds of videos.
I’m not even sure that you would have to do the abandoning part. There’s likely toolkits that let you upload to multiple channels at once. You can just start them up and spread them out as you wish.
- Comment on Tesla reintroduces 'Mad Max' Full Self-Driving mode that breaks speed limits 5 weeks ago:
Firstly, that clip shows nothing about the driver’s current speed, only that everyone is driving the same speed.
You cannot do 140 km/h down the interstate, just as you do not do 100 km/h down a residential street or a main road. That’s a pretty notable difference.
An extra 15 miles an hour is a pretty significant difference basically everywhere, unless you’re on the Autobahn or something.
- Comment on Tesla reintroduces 'Mad Max' Full Self-Driving mode that breaks speed limits 5 weeks ago:
No it isn’t. No normal person drives 30 kilometers over the speed limit. You don’t go on the interstate, and have people zipping past at 140 km/h, or doing 70 in a school zone.
- Comment on It's true... 1 month ago:
That’s a good way to get kicked out of the wet lab. Most tutors are incredibly serious about treating bodies with respect, you can’t take photos, or muck around with them.
Going Hamlet with them would be absolutely not on.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 1 month ago:
It does vary. My Thinkpad (T490s) is awful if you want to do more than replace the battery and main drive.
To replace the keyboard for example, you basically have to disassemble the entire laptop.
- Comment on Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor 1 month ago:
They do. That’s why it’s called an LLM (Lizard Language Model).
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 2 months ago:
But also, they’re not real users watching those ads and getting impressions. Unless people are using an agent system that could be convinced to buy the product, it doesn’t seem like it would be that useful.
You may as well serve ads to standard viewbot at that point.