rebelsimile
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- Comment on OpenAI and Anthropic are ignoring an established rule that prevents bots scraping online content 1 week ago:
All they’re going to do is teach the AI that sometimes people end posts with useless disclaimers.
- Comment on Finally playing with POWER. 1 week ago:
had one as a kid, it was terrible even by kid standards. I used to pretend to be a cyborg cop with it and my gray light gun though.
- Comment on Weight 1 month ago:
Joke’s on you, I’d die before weighing myself on Earth too.
- Comment on Microsoft's latest Windows update breaks VPNs, and there's no fix 1 month ago:
I have a 32 bit machine that is still in service for this task and some others, but I’d rather run it on a modern machine (m1 mac)
- Comment on Microsoft's latest Windows update breaks VPNs, and there's no fix 1 month ago:
Can Wine run 32bit Windows adobe software?
- Comment on Roku OS home screen is getting video ads for the first time 1 month ago:
Great. That covers what, 1 month of his administration? Keep going, unless you’re cherrypicking this incredibly active recent two weeks. This list should be enormous.
- Comment on Roku OS home screen is getting video ads for the first time 1 month ago:
Oh man, don’t stop, what about two weeks prior to that? And two weeks before that? I bet we must be living in a consumer utopia with the pace of the last two weeks, surely applied to the last 3 years, right? right?
- Comment on Roku OS home screen is getting video ads for the first time 1 month ago:
I think our parent’s generation (or maybe their parents’?) would have said something like “There ought to be a law!” but we don’t say that because we don’t expect anyone in office will ever help us. Hm.
- Comment on Come on, science! 2 months ago:
they used to talk about ‘the $100 computer’, but I think they were envisioning a laptop or a netbook, no one thought it would be a mobile phone
- Comment on Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone 2 months ago:
I am honestly guessing but as long there’s mac compatibility on those (older) games I’d expect them to run just fine. MacOS is probably my favorite OS from an overall coherency standpoint, power with the command line, aesthetics and usability. You’re just not going to find a lot of overlap between people who use linux and the traditional mac crowd (except when it comes to software development weirdly, which is where I sit), but it is criminally underdiscussed around here every time Windows enshittifies. (BTW, not a fanboy, running multiple Windows, Linux and MacOS systems at home)
- Comment on YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps 2 months ago:
they’re going to spend $20 million in salaries playing Tom and Jerry games to try and get $7 from me that’s never coming…
- Comment on Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt 2 months ago:
Thanks for the link! I actually use SD a lot practically so it’s been taking up like 95% of my attention in the AI space. I have LM Studio on my Mac and it blazes through responses with the 7b model and tends to meet most of my non-coding needs.
Can you explain what you mean here?
Personally I prefer avoiding fine tuned models wherever possible and just working more on crafting longer constrained contexts for pretrained models with a pre- or post-processing layer to format requests and results in acceptable ways if needed (latency permitting, but things like Groq are fast enough this isn’t much of an issue).
Are you saying better initial prompting on a raw pre-trained model?
- Comment on Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt 2 months ago:
I haven’t tried them yet but do LORAs (and all their variants) add a layer of learning concepts into LLMs like they do in image generators?
- Comment on How does South Park get away with trashing identifiable people? Are they sued often? 2 months ago:
You would probably get a kick out of the episode after this.
- Comment on mimic 2 months ago:
Cephaloflage
- Comment on How People Are Really Using GenAI 3 months ago:
If I ask an LLM something like “is there a git project that does <something I’d describe in natural language but not keywords>” or is there a Windows program that does X, it may make up the answers, but at least I can verify that via a search engine. If I try to Google that (that’s theoretical, I don’t use Google), I’m going to end up on a page full of ads that is filled with trap links that lead to malware, top 10 lists with the same repeated content and all the other shit the internet has become. I kind of don’t mind the hallucinations relative to the ads. What a time to be alive though.
- Comment on Green dye being poured into ballot boxes, throwing a petrol bomb near a polling station: protests across Russia and in occupied Ukraine on the first day of voting in Russian presidential elections 3 months ago:
I think the idea is the whole election is illegitimate, so they’re taking a massive shit on it in lieu of Putin’s grave.
- Comment on Keywords tried to make a game using GenAI but said the tech was 'unable to replace talent' 3 months ago:
Honestly, the shorter way to say all of this is “the AI” is supposed to make everyone a coder. “The AI” is supposed to make everyone an artist. Who is doing more coding or art than they used to? I know some people are (I am) but I know most people aren’t, even a little bit. That’s how you know it’s a tool for people who want it, or wanted it before it existed, but it’s not really driving any new demand at the level that would replace the experts already in place who can use the tool.
- Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users 3 months ago:
No, I think it sets a bad precedent. I don’t think TikTok should be allowed in the US (if the US decides it doesn’t want it as they’re seeming to). Taking the property is going to cause a bunch of what you mentioned.
- Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users 3 months ago:
I dunno what hill you’re trying to die on here. A stupid dancing app that provides a data collection platform by a foreign surveillance state is a plot on the Orville. Nobody is concerned with it competing with Google, Apple orYouTube. It’s so off-base. Google sucks anyway. If people are searching on TikTok it’s because it’s giving better results for them than Google. It’s about who is collecting the data.
- Comment on Is there a word for the phenomena where everyone benefits from design decisions made to help vulnerable populations? 3 months ago:
I tend to think of it as positive synergy but you’re right, it does need a more defined/known term.
- Comment on The upcoming Crazy Taxi reboot is a triple-A game, according to Sega 4 months ago:
Who are you who is so wise in the ways of the content of the article?
- Comment on Reddit started doing what they always wanted to do, sell user content to AI. 4 months ago:
I come to Lemmy to read threads of people arguing about whether or not they’re talking to each other at all. This is doing it for me.
- Comment on “In 10 years, computers will be doing this a million times faster.” The head of Nvidia does not believe that there is a need to invest trillions of dollars in the production of chips for AI 4 months ago:
Honestly as someone who has watched the once-fanciful prefixes “giga” and “tera” enter common parlance, and saw kilobytes of RAM turn to gigabytes, it’s really hard for me to think what he’s saying is impossible.
- Comment on ‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything 4 months ago:
They mean “free to charge you a dollar” by “free”
- Comment on Music Piracy Is Back, Baby 4 months ago:
No, they’ll think the corporate dystopia they’ve grown up into is normal. They don’t know that corporations tried and failed to stop people from owning and using VCRs. They think it’s their duty to sit and watch ads from their favorite creators like passive cows.
- Comment on Is It Worth The Time? XKCD 1205 updated for open source and shared tools. 5 months ago:
I hadn’t ever seen this XKCD, but as someone who’s constantly worrying about spending too long solving silly problems, this is really encouraging. Even more so when you solve someone else’s problems and save them time. Thanks for the share!
- Comment on Breakthrough: "Electronic soil" boosts crop growth by over 50% 5 months ago:
Cool anecdote.
- Comment on Breakthrough: "Electronic soil" boosts crop growth by over 50% 5 months ago:
Which is why “rurality” is a synonym for modernity, and why “rural electricity/telephone/internet access” reminds you of a high tech data center. Ok.
- Comment on Breakthrough: "Electronic soil" boosts crop growth by over 50% 5 months ago:
The Venn diagram of farmers and early adopters is harry potter’s glasses