nickwitha_k
@nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on Steam Deck Gaming News 20 hours ago:
As a preface, I used to do this a lot on Reddit. My hobby (sounds odd) was to make a little old-school-blog-style post, detailing what I found interesting in gaming in the last week or so. I got a name for it, for a time, but having long-since abandoned reddit I thought I might try the same thing here, if you’ll indulge me!
Happy to have you posting!
- Comment on Not real... *for now* 20 hours ago:
That’s a good way to make some of us dedicate the energy to building and flashing custom firmware.
- Comment on Not real... *for now* 20 hours ago:
Is this an ASD thing? That would make a lot of sense for my own behavior, if so.
- Comment on Indie devs have begun adding a no generative AI stamp to their store pages 4 days ago:
There remains a significant enclave that rejects it, but yeah, it’s definitely smaller than equivalent groups in other mentioned professions.
Reporting in.
I think the tech is amazing, but it’s an immense shame that so many of my/our peers don’t give a flying fuck about ethics.
Yup. Very much agreed here. There are some uses that are acceptable but it’s a but hard to say that any are ethical due to the ethically bankrupt foundations of its training data.
- Comment on Hardcore gaming 4 days ago:
I’m betting that it can drive 250Ω headphones. Verifying.
- Comment on After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad 4 days ago:
Yeah. That makes a lot of sense. The general inaccuracy/untrustworthiness of LLMs makes me very uncomfortable in their use for data processing and transformations. I’d rather take a while to get it right than to potentially hand off a CSV with glaring problems due to use of an LLM.
- Comment on After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad 4 days ago:
“make all the dates in this CSV iso-8601”
This is a use of AI/LLM processing that I could agree with, if it could be trusted. Since it cannot, better to open in vim and regex replace, or process with Python.
That said, I’d rather store as epoch and display as ISO-8601 as the arithmetic is much less prone to error in epoch than any other format.
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 1 week ago:
it’s ok for people to profit off of their IP
Absolutely. I just have trust issues with closed source software and platforms. Burned too many times.
- Comment on Business school professors trained an AI to judge workers' personalities based on their faces. 1 week ago:
When your education revolves around dehumanizing people and turning them into abstract numbers, it’s not that far of a leap, unfortunately.
- Comment on Business school professors trained an AI to judge workers' personalities based on their faces. 1 week ago:
Those who produce MBAs at it again.
- Comment on Republicans getting upset at women for dumping their fascist boyfriends after the election [Day 76] 2 weeks ago:
I’m amazed at your persistence. 🥄
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
You can literally block instances as a user on Lemmy and have been able to do so good quite some time. No need to run your own instance.
- Comment on Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US 2 weeks ago:
I am in agreement with you here, at least ideologically. I think that IP law needs a massive overhaul because data “wants” to be free. The major problem is with the context of the hyper-commercialized landscape that we currently live in.
- Comment on Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US 2 weeks ago:
That’s literally not what the ruling is about. It was about an AI bro company using proprietary, copyrighted materials to train its AI, which they obtained by questionable means, after being denied license to do so by the IP owners. Further, after training the AI with unlicensed materials, they launched a competing product.
Whether you support IP or not, the AI company is clearly in the wrong here.
It’s a pretty definitive example of many AI companies being little more than leeches, stealing others’ work and repackaging it as their own. All with zero long-term consideration of “what do we do when there’s noone left to leech off of because we undermined the ability of those make the source data to make a living, while unnecessarily driving increased emissions and consumption of potable water for something that provides little actual value do humanity as a whole?”
- Comment on If you're on the fence about building or buying a 3d printer enclosure, please let me give you a push. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. I’ve been so removed from that stuff for so long that I forget the terminology.
As for overkill, depends on how their acceptable risk profile, number of printers, and types (FDM, resin, pastry, etc).
- Comment on If you're on the fence about building or buying a 3d printer enclosure, please let me give you a push. 2 weeks ago:
Look into what illicit/grey market pot growers use. Big duct fans and filters.
- Comment on PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why 2 weeks ago:
When I worked at a web host, we had people like that. Being support sucked. Like, yes, it sucks that your e-commerce site that uses horrifically outdated software is offline but, we don’t offer quad nines, especially not on a $35/year shared hosting plan. And, honestly Drew, your site gets single-digit visits per month and sells erotica based upon the premise of Edgar Allen Poe being transported to 1990s Brooklyn and working as an apartment building super. At best, you’re breaking even on that hosting bill.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Human chorionic gonadotropin.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
For the moment, yes.
- Comment on Admin assistance needed 3 weeks ago:
No apologies needed! I’m just happy that my fellow SDF folks are on the same page here.
- Comment on YSK in the U.S., you can buy produce directly from black farmers and they will ship it to you. It can cost less than your supermarket and will piss off people in power. 3 weeks ago:
Black farmers in the US have a particular history, what with chattel slavery and independent black farmers in particular being targeted for hostile takeovers and anti-competitive behavior from racists running big AG conglomerates in ways that other ethnic and cultural groups in the US have not faced.
- Comment on YSK in the U.S., you can buy produce directly from black farmers and they will ship it to you. It can cost less than your supermarket and will piss off people in power. 3 weeks ago:
Thank you! I did not know that. Last news that I heard about black farmers was about then getting screwed by massive ag conglomerates.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Best to take more tests. First thing in the morning is often recommended as it can raise the concentration of possible hCG in your urine, making false negatives less likely. If possible and safe for you to do so, a blood test is usually much more accurate, with a lower detection threshold.
I know it’s probably really stressful and causing a lot of anxiety but, try to do what you can to keep yourself calm and do self care, like drinking chamomile tea or whatever helps you. If it’s super stressful, just take things one day or one hour at a time and try not to put any pressure on yourself for any decisions that you may or may not need to make. You don’t even have the data yet.
Hope that whatever the result that you have as good of a day as you can.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Yes. Ovulation is when an egg is released from an ovary and makes its way down a fallopian tube to the uterus. It is when someone who has a female reproductive system can normally become pregnant.
Ovulation tests are used to tell if they are in their monthly window of fertility, generally if trying for a pregnancy when they have had trouble conceiving or have an irregular menstrual cycle.
A pregnancy test detects human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG). This is a hormone that is released by the placenta after a fertilized egg implants in the uterine lining.
- Comment on Admin assistance needed 3 weeks ago:
Edited to add them. Pretty much every community that they’ve created is problematic in content or purpose, beyond them being a self-identifying fascist.
- Comment on Admin assistance needed 3 weeks ago:
Much appreciated. I can never remember who to bug on the unix comms. It’s ashton1593
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- Comment on New side hustle just dropped 3 weeks ago:
I’m glad that I missed most of the streamer nonsense.
- Comment on AT&T says it won’t build fiber home Internet in half of its wireline footprint 2 months ago:
I bet anything that they’re hoping for the feds under the new president/king to force CA to let them walk away from the upgrades.
- Comment on Max is testing always-on HBO channels 2 months ago:
Probably to cram ads in.