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- Comment on How do I make pictures less blinding if I prefer dark apps? 2 days ago:
Have you tried the bluelight filter most screens have?
- Comment on Ants Trapped For Years in a Soviet Nuclear Bunker Survived in The Most Horrifying Way 3 days ago:
You needn’t eat the leg, Thompson.
- Comment on Deaf people get to avoid a lot of arguments 2 weeks ago:
We laughed our asses off (which he couldn’t hear), but also tried to make the stern, scolding face when he was looking. He was such a good boy.
- Comment on Deaf people get to avoid a lot of arguments 2 weeks ago:
We had a dog that was born deaf, so we taught him with hand signals instead of voice commands. Was completely fine, except when he was doing something he knew he shouldn’t, he’d turn away from you so you couldn’t scold him. But he’d also get curious about whether you caught him doing it, so he’d sneak a look over his shoulder, and then you could scold him and he’d stop.
- Comment on Is the amount of Lemmy activity declining? 2 weeks ago:
Oh, I’m with you, and I don’t need or want the endless growth thing. I was on Reddit a long time, and saw the good and bad of the huge user base.
But it’s kind of like when you have a favorite neighborhood restaurant: you don’t want it to get so successful that it’s always crowded and you can’t get a table, but you also want it to do well enough that it stays in business. If the Lemmy use base declines too much, there won’t be a reason for people to come here and we’ll lose our little corner of the Internet.
- Comment on Mark Zuckererg Demos New Facebook AI And It Couldn’t Have Gone Worse 2 weeks ago:
I honestly never look at the AI results because they’re so flawed so often. I don’t have an awful lot of problems finding answers to things with a standard search and then scrolling past any sources that are often crap. Worth noting, by the way, that search results, especially Google’s, were way more accurate several years ago, before there were so many sponsored results and they had agendas to push. So technologically, it’s a fixable situation, it’s just the enshitificaiton problem.
- Comment on Mark Zuckererg Demos New Facebook AI And It Couldn’t Have Gone Worse 2 weeks ago:
I’m an old fart - I got my degree in CS in 1985, and I’ve been paying attention to the predictions and advancements in AI for a very long time. I have at least as much issue with the way people think and talk about it as the author, but probably less of an issue with it being called AI. Remember that for decades, the informal working definition of AI was “A computer doing anything that usually requires a human.” So for ages, they said we’d have AI if a computer could read a page of printed text out loud in English. That seemed almost unattainable when it was first talked about, but now it’s so trivial that no one would consider it AI.
People have tried to make definitions that are crisper than that, but few if any of those definitions requires anything we’d call “thinking.” The frustrating thing is that the general public talks all the time about AI as if it’s conscious . Even when we’re talking about its flaws, we use words like “hallucinating,” which is something only thinking beings can do.
To me, LLMs are the worst things because to so many people they seem like the are (or could be) thinking entities. They respond to questions in a lifelike manner and can construct (extrapolate?) somewhat novel responses. But they’re also the least useful to us as a society. I’m much more interested in the Machine Learning applications for distilling gobs of data to develop new medicines or identify critical items in images that humans don’t have the mental bandwidth for. But LLMs get all the press.
- Comment on "See you soon" feels like a curse coming from the guy at Lowe's 1 month ago:
I think that’s normally the garage…
- Comment on Is the amount of Lemmy activity declining? 1 month ago:
Good point. Also worth noting that, since Lemmy isn’t owned by a company trying to make a profit, there’s no incentive to put up with outrageous jerks who drive up engagement.
- Comment on Is the amount of Lemmy activity declining? 1 month ago:
Sorry to hear your experience was so bad, but welcome back.
The situation with bots and trolls on Reddit is horrific. Do you remember that time a few years back when Russia disconnected their whole country from the Internet? That day there was a dramatic decrease in assholes and trolls. Like, night and day, it was unmistakeable and widely commented on.
So hopefully Lemmy doesn’t catch on so will that those folks come here in force, too. For now at least, it’s much better.
- Comment on Is the amount of Lemmy activity declining? 1 month ago:
The world is a pretty depressing place lately.
- Comment on Is the amount of Lemmy activity declining? 1 month ago:
Yeah, it is that. I’m way left leaning, but I actually wish Lemmy was more of a cross section. I’m not sorry to see the total assholes on the far right not here (or not very vocal), but I don’t prefer an echo chamber.
- Comment on "See you soon" feels like a curse coming from the guy at Lowe's 1 month ago:
I get no joy from DIY projects for that reason. And you forgot that halfway through it turns out you need to buy a special tool.
- Comment on Is the amount of Lemmy activity declining? 1 month ago:
Well, welcome aboard! It’s pretty good here. Fewer bots, fewer trolls, more civil conversation. I hope it works for you.
- Comment on Would it be weird to ask my brother if I could tag along when he goes out with his friends? 1 month ago:
I don’t think it’s weird, but your whole situation is pretty unusual, so I wouldn’t let “weird” become an obstacle for you. Some things are going to be weird no matter what you do, so just roll with it. You’ve said you and your brother have a good relationship, so why not just explain to him what’s going on with you and ask if he could include you at least sometimes? Not too much to lose by talking about it.
It sounds like a lot for you to deal with. I hope you’re doing better now and can find your way back to a life you feel satisfied with.
- Comment on Is the amount of Lemmy activity declining? 1 month ago:
!
It’s funny though, because someone else said activity spikes in the summer because kids are out of school.
- Comment on "See you soon" feels like a curse coming from the guy at Lowe's 1 month ago:
Spoken like someone on automatic.
- Comment on "See you soon" feels like a curse coming from the guy at Lowe's 1 month ago:
Sure, watching the self-checkout to make sure no one is stealing anything.
- Comment on "See you soon" feels like a curse coming from the guy at Lowe's 1 month ago:
Yep, my experience a few hours ago.
- Comment on Is the amount of Lemmy activity declining? 1 month ago:
I feel the same way. I was a CS major in the early 80s. I watched the internet become something amazing, and then I watched it rot. Heartbreaking.
- Comment on Is the amount of Lemmy activity declining? 1 month ago:
But is that a change?
- Comment on Is the amount of Lemmy activity declining? 1 month ago:
Hmm, my original account is on .world, but I started using this alt because it got slow. Maybe I should try browsing new there and seeing if it makes a difference.
- Comment on Is the amount of Lemmy activity declining? 1 month ago:
As for why it subjectively seems to be declining… maybe you know what you’re gonna see in New, and so you engage less with posts?
I don’t think so. For ages (maybe two years) I’ll sometimes sit in bed in the morning and browse New until I hit the stuff I saw previously. That used to take me well over an hour - maybe two - but now it takes less than thirty minutes.
- Submitted 1 month ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 20 comments
- Comment on Is the amount of Lemmy activity declining? 1 month ago:
I’m trying to relate that to the experience back on Reddit, where the same thing happened. Didn’t seem to hinder growth. But often people would abandon the smaller versions of the communities for the larger ones.
- Comment on Is the amount of Lemmy activity declining? 1 month ago:
That was what got me making this post.
- Comment on Is the amount of Lemmy activity declining? 1 month ago:
Yeah, it would figure that if the activity is flat but the number of servers is declining that it’s either consolidation or that people are abandoning very small instances.
- Comment on Is the amount of Lemmy activity declining? 1 month ago:
Right, but I’m assuming there’s a nontrivial number of UK users.
- Comment on Is the amount of Lemmy activity declining? 1 month ago:
I made this one!
- Comment on Is the amount of Lemmy activity declining? 1 month ago:
That link is just hanging for me.