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- Comment on Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts 17 hours ago:
Absolutely. I worked somewhere where we routinely had alarms go off due to botnets swarming us with weird (and obnoxious) massive download tactics (of publicly available user generated content, that is).
If it can be gotten by anyone, it will be gotten by LLM trainers.
- Comment on Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts 1 day ago:
It’s open to the public. So, many other orgs are certainly doing it anyway.
- Comment on Comcast, Disney, and IBM Are Among Advertisers Returning to X After Ad Freeze 1 day ago:
May as well it’s not like they’ll be paying for many impressions.
- Comment on Federated social media from before it was cool 2 weeks ago:
It’s alright, it’s art. You can’t expect it to reach everyone the same way.
- Comment on Federated social media from before it was cool 3 weeks ago:
This smells like ego projection. These are tools for jobs, they don’t have to compete.
- Comment on Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it 1 month ago:
They aren’t even ugly, they’re just beautiful in a different way than media accepts.
- Comment on Hacking Kia: Remotely Controlling Cars With Just a License Plate. 1 month ago:
Nice writeup
- Comment on I have no idea how to react to this. 1 month ago:
Mark Robinson has a pretty nice truck!
- Comment on Obama 1 month ago:
That is so unpresidential!
- Comment on Have you shared your own posts from platforms like this (or Mastodon) with others you know offline (besides your partner)? 1 month ago:
No, mainly because if you sort posts by new here it’s in large majority nothing anyone I know wants to see, and I don’t want them to think that’s what I’m here for.
- Comment on Discord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive” 2 months ago:
I also haven’t used it in a few years. Chat systems in general don’t cooperate with the way my brain works.
- Comment on Discord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive” 2 months ago:
It’s kinda like lemmy here, but a little more pain because not only do you have to pick your provider, but you also need to be very mindful of how your key pair is managed. Like… don’t just uninstall a client without going through the effort of trusting and verifying a new one first, or you may lose the ability to decrypt a lot of history and also break trust with relationships you have.
Security first is a major concern in the system, so it doesn’t leave a lot to the imagination unfortunately.
That said, once you convince yourself to set it up, and convince anyone else to do the same, it works pretty nicely. It’s like an inner venn diagram of discord, telegram and IRC.
- Comment on Regain Control in my ass 2 months ago:
Share your love with me in my ass
- Comment on Discord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive” 2 months ago:
Matrix works pretty good.
- Comment on Texas State Police Gear Up for Massive Expansion of Surveillance Tech 2 months ago:
You wield the power. Wield it well.
- Comment on Texas State Police Gear Up for Massive Expansion of Surveillance Tech 2 months ago:
I can’t speak to your experience but I’ve been farting around on the Internet since the mid 90s and I promise nothing ever changes.
Smaller communities tend to be more concise, that is true.
But what you have here is the hand you’re dealt. Complaining isn’t going to change anything any more thank joking. You can be the change you seek here by suggesting a course of action that isn’t asking others to suggest a course of action to you. If you’re seeking a course of action, you can try asking here.
But commenters on tech news aren’t likely to be expert activists, especially in whatever issue is your top concern.
My best advice to you is
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practice acceptance of reality, not as defeat but as the first step to understanding and deciding an action
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determine how much capacity you, as a person, have to contribute to a cause
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determine one cause you care about and can be effective at contributing to
After doing those things, SEEK OUT like minded groups who have leadership and self discipline and are effective.
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- Comment on Texas State Police Gear Up for Massive Expansion of Surveillance Tech 2 months ago:
Let me reframe my previous comment:
If you don’t want to network in person locally, you will need to find a forum whose sole purpose is activism and direct action.
It will not be brought to you, and you will not be recruited. You have to actively go seek it out.
The forum you’re on now is called “technology”. Similar ones, like “news” or literally any other topic that doesn’t solely focus on mobilizing activists will not get you what you’re asking for here.
- Comment on Texas State Police Gear Up for Massive Expansion of Surveillance Tech 2 months ago:
I appreciate your position. I don’t think you’re going to start a cultural revolution on any comment section. If you’re looking for a place to make real change, you need to network with local communities.
The the best you’ll get for “town square” value from internet forums is the expression of sentiment. People are angry, like you are, and they are using humor to literally reframe the narrative to point out the state’s fallacy.
- Comment on Texas State Police Gear Up for Massive Expansion of Surveillance Tech 2 months ago:
Thank you for stopping the massive expansion of surveillance in Texas.
- Comment on What does dying from all causes mean? 2 months ago:
Dying from all causes sounds like a really rough last page.
- Comment on Are LLMs capable of writing *good* code? 2 months ago:
I agree, LLMs have been helpful in pointing me in the right direction and helping me rethink what questions I actually want to ask in disciplines I’m not very familiar with.
- Comment on Horror Sign 2 months ago:
Ever been on a road trip?
In my mind, I think it starts with one rogue fleck or dribble, causing the next person to avoid and hover slightly, which produces lower accuracy yet, causing the next person to hover even further, which keeps compounding until you eventually get the shitter who actually purchased and ate one of the rotating bubbling skin hot dogs at a previous gas station, and then you get what you’re seeing here.
- Comment on Are LLMs capable of writing *good* code? 2 months ago:
Agree, and the point I always want to make is that any LLM or neural net or any other AI tech is going to be a mere component in a powerful product, rather than the entirety of the product.
The way I think of it is that my brain is of little value without my body, and my person is of little value without my team at work. I don’t exist in a vacuum but I can be highly productive within my environment.
- Comment on Are LLMs capable of writing *good* code? 2 months ago:
From a business perspective, no shareholder cares at how good an employee is at personally achieving a high degree of skill. They only care about selling and earning, and to a lesser degree an enduring reputation for longer term earnings.
Economics could very well drive this forward. But I don’t think the craft will be lost. People will need to supervise this progress as well as collaborate with the machines to extend its capabilities and dictate its purposes.
I couldn’t tell you if we’re talking on a time scale of months or decades, but I do think “we” will get there.
- Comment on Are LLMs capable of writing *good* code? 2 months ago:
I’m my experience they do a decent job of whipping out mindless minutea and things that are well known patterns in very popular languages.
They do not solve problems.
I think for an “AI” product to be truly useful at writing code it would need to incorporate the LLM as a mere component, with something facilitating checks through static analysis and maybe some other technologies, maybe even mulling the result through a loop over the components until they’re all satisfied before finally delivering it to the user as a proposal.
- Comment on US grid adds batteries at 10x the rate of natural gas in first half of 2024 2 months ago:
I guess my point is that I don’t think batteries necessarily compete with natural gas, but they do help make renewables slightly more competitive with natural gas.
- Comment on US grid adds batteries at 10x the rate of natural gas in first half of 2024 2 months ago:
Batteries and gas aren’t really comparable so I’m guessing this means batteries are expanded at a rate 10x higher than natural gas is being expanded, which makes sense because natural gas is such a mature staple that it doesn’t have that much opportunity growth.
Batteries are also not an energy source, but storage.
(Yeah I guess that’s technically true of all energy sources, but batteries are more like a tank than a consumable…)
Of course adding batteries to store energy from off peak renewables to ready them for the peak is the point of this, but I would point out I don’t think anything prevents charging batteries from fossil-fuel generated electricity. I wouldn’t be surprised if an economic equilibrium dictates this to be the case, even.
I think batteries will be highly valued equipment as a smoothing function to help reduce heavy load wear on any kind of generating equipment to help with peak loads, regardless of what’s charging them… possibly allowing fossil burning plants to run closer to a base load level at all times.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
Different tool, different purpose.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
You could make a client or browser add-on or something that just uses a separate account for all your voting.
- Comment on What is this plug on my wall for? 2 months ago:
Pluggin’