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- Comment on Why do horses allow humans to ride on their backs? 3 hours ago:
Why do humans allow cats to ride in their arms?
- Comment on A look at Moltbook, a social network where OpenClaw assistants interact autonomously, as they discuss consciousness and identity, technical tips, and more 2 days ago:
Dead internet is only a theory. Like gravity.
- Comment on Built a Spotify to Navidrome playlist Exporter. Meet Navispot 😅 5 days ago:
Bad bot.
- Comment on Why would anyone do this? 1 week ago:
Sometimes I forget how brutal the early 2000s were.
- Comment on London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia for governments and billionaires 1 week ago:
Having a number of different editors allows manipulating the discussion and concensus protections built into Wikipedia.
Depending on the topic, it may not be necessary. A complimentary article about a new technology product or company founder just takes a few press releases that get picked up. Manipulating world events and leaders requires more coordination.
- Comment on London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia for governments and billionaires 1 week ago:
Although manipulating the sources cited is a great way to manipulate Wikipedia. You have to recruit 10-40 people to act as a group of editors to manufacture concensus across topics. Or you can just create a website or series of press releases.
“Hey, this small-town museum has an article about a historical event. It must be true. Link it at the bottom.” Or “well, this local newspaper article says it is happened, so into the article it goes.”
Even more effective, especially for political groups, is just publish dozens of supportive articles, while miring competing articles in edit wars and the bureaucracy that comes with it. For sources, just cite expert books that are favorable. It’s not easy, but hiring or recruiting 10-40 editors is trivial for political entities.
- Comment on Chomp! 1 week ago:
- Comment on London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia for governments and billionaires 1 week ago:
We honestly need to end the myth that Wikipedia is some impenetrable white tower. It can and has been infiltrated by corporate and political groups, and even creative vandals.
It’s the most valuable digital property in the world. You think people break into the Louvre but can’t touch Wikipedia?
- Comment on Hey Microsoft, How's it going? 1 week ago:
I had the same reaction! I had to log into the screwy web portal and test it to realize it was something else entirely.
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- Comment on Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W 1 week ago:
If they built out a Mastodon network with government support, then it would.
- Comment on Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W 1 week ago:
Uh, Mastodon exists?
- Comment on How the regime in Iran jams Starlink and what people could do 1 week ago:
So the people killing women for partially uncovering their hair are the good guys?
The people murdering thousands of protestors are the good guys?
So the religious fundamentalists imposing doctrine at gunpoint are the good guys?
I think the people protesting for their lives and freedoms are the good guys, but that’s just me.
- Comment on Have anyone here actually published a memoir or know of someone IRL (as in, you've met them face to face) that published a memoir? Do people actually read these? 1 week ago:
People don’t read them but I think that’s not usually the point. The people I know who have written them usually end up with boxes in their garage that they eventually give at to friends and family.
It’s still a nice accomplishment and a good personal growth thing.
- Comment on Many guess that it's some type of religious symbol 1 week ago:
I actually have no recollection of why some records had the big holes in the first place. Were there players with a chonky spindle in the middle?
- Comment on ChatGPT Gave Teen Advice to Get Higher on Drugs Until He Died | Futurism 2 weeks ago:
Just to be clear, companies know that LLMs are categorically bad at giving life advice/ emotional guidance. They also know that personal decision making is the most common use of the software. They could easily have guardrails in place to prevent it from doing that.
They will never do that.
This is by design. They want people to develop pseudo-emotional bonds with the software, and to trust the judgment in matters of life guidance. In the next year or so, some LLM projects will become profitable for the first time as advertisers flock to the platforms. Injecting ads into conversations with a trusted confidant is the goal. Incluencing human behaviour is the goal.
By 2028, we will be reading about “ChatGPT told teen to drink Pepsi until she went into a sugar coma.”
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The headline also does not say the same thing that the post claims!
Headline: “15% of content” --> every 6th or 7th post or comment is a corporate troll
Article: “15% of subreddits contain” --> the vast majority of subreddits contain no troll content
Actual study: [file not found]
I also cannot find any Pew research study resembling the one described. The link is a 2017 report that doesn’t mention reddit.
- Comment on Huh? 2 weeks ago:
It’s called a jazz bar and they’re not that great.
- Comment on If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop? 2 weeks ago:
Unpopular opinion: I have a second phone logged into my kid’s YT account. I train the algorithm while he’s sleeping.
It takes a significant time, and YouTube doesn’t have good options for blocking content, but it helps keep out the worst of the brainrot.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 21 comments
- Comment on Looking for PDF collaboration 3 weeks ago:
I can’t attest to any as I don’t use PDFs this way, but here are a few links:
All of these are self-hostable and FOSS. I’m not sure about NextCloud integration.
- Comment on Looking for PDF collaboration 3 weeks ago:
I think you may be thinking of LibreOffice
- Comment on Is self-hosting on personal computer practical? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s better if you can have the computer on all the time, but it only needs to be running when you access it.
I’m not that familiar with FreshRSS, but in general apps will only update at opening (not in the background) for most syncing operations. You may have to do more manual syncing than you would like.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to [deleted] | 76 comments
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
It definitely works. Mastodon doesn’t have threaded conversations, so if it is complex, then it can become hard to follow.
If it’s a simple post/reply then it is not confusing at all.
- Comment on Is ice heavier than water? 4 weeks ago:
Water is weirdly one of the only materials that is lighter (less dense) in its solid form. That’s why ice cubes float.
When a mass expands, it ALWAYS becomes less dense.
Water does not “trap” air molecules as is freezes, although water may contain dissolved gasses.
- Comment on [REDACTED] 4 weeks ago:
One of the weirdest facts I know is that “pter” means wing and “helico” means spiral, so a wing that moves in a helix is a helico-pter. That’s the root, not heli-copter.
- Comment on [Serious] If a human is trained by AI slop and then they make something with their own hands, is it still art? 4 weeks ago:
I think it’s fair to say not all AI is AI slop.
- Comment on Check mate, atheists. 4 weeks ago:
I’ve shared several peer reviewed papers that show the opposite.
- Comment on Check mate, atheists. 4 weeks ago:
Science doesn’t take anecdotes.
Most food pantries and beds for the homeless in the USA are faith based. Here are the scientific papers that show it.
Assessing the Faith-Based Response to Homelessness in America: Findings from Eleven Cities
