Muffi
@Muffi@programming.dev
- Comment on China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report 3 days ago:
Oh boy, Lemmy really doesn’t get sarcasm without the “/s”, huh?
- Comment on McDonald’s Gives Up On ‘AI’ After Comedy Of Errors, Including Putting Bacon On Ice Cream 4 days ago:
I think we are about to experience a true Butlerian Jihad. Not because of the fearsome power of AI, but because of the hatred of shitty LLMs.
- Comment on China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report 4 days ago:
Great! Now I know who to contact when I accidentally delete all the plaintext API keys and passwords I had stored in a public github repo.
- Comment on Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough 4 days ago:
Every time I compare specs to prices on Apples website, I get irrationally angry.
- Comment on Parents overestimate sons’ maths skills more than daughters’, study finds 1 month ago:
Hmm. In my personal experience as a teacher, parents overestimate all skills of their children if their child is talkative and charismatic. The silent children are the only ones underestimated. Maybe the girls are generally just more silent and therefore underestimated more?
- Comment on "I lost trust": Why the OpenAI team in charge of safeguarding humanity imploded 1 month ago:
Combine the two and we’ve got a proper Matrix situation on our hands
- Comment on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sues Meta, citing chatbot’s reply as evidence of shadowban 1 month ago:
Private companies should not be able to do whatever the fuck they like. They have a very important responsibility, and they will not consider ethics over profit, unless we as a society force them to.
- Comment on RIP Twitter Dot Com: Elon Musk Moves Social Network to X Web Address 1 month ago:
He’ll do it on truth social.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 month ago:
I think you’re 100% correct in assuming they’ve already fed it data scraped from SO. I’ve previously gotten code samples from ChatGPT that was clearly from SO down to the comments in the code. Even reverse searched some of the code and found the question it was from.
- Comment on Hades 2 early access launch on Steam reaches over 100k concurrent players 24 hours after launch 1 month ago:
It’s really, really good! Tougher than the first game, but that’s a welcome change. After about ~10 hours of gameplay, I already feel like it’s the best sequel I’ve played.
- Comment on If a universal basic income started today with the stipulation that you had to put 40 hrs/wk towards making the world a better place or solving societal problems, how would you spend your time? 2 months ago:
Teach. I already teach and I would continue to do so even if I had enough money to retire. I just love seeing young people discover the joy of programming and 3D modeling.
- Comment on If a universal basic income started today with the stipulation that you had to put 40 hrs/wk towards making the world a better place or solving societal problems, how would you spend your time? 2 months ago:
I think that’s the entire point of this exercise. Thinking about what making the world better would actually mean and entail.
- Comment on UK: Almost a quarter of kids aged 5-7 have smartphones 2 months ago:
The worst thing about this in my opinion, is that this is mostly a problem for the children from less resourceful families. There is already a tendency for children from lower socioeconomic households to have more problems with concentration. Adding smartphones will only exacerbate the problem and fuel the fires of growing inequality.
- Comment on Discord Shuts Down Servers for Switch Emulators Suyu & Sudachi; Disables Lead Developers Account As Well 2 months ago:
Emulation is a matter of media preservation. Give us backwards compatibility or go fuck yourselves.
- Comment on Discord Shuts Down Servers for Switch Emulators Suyu & Sudachi; Disables Lead Developers Account As Well 2 months ago:
Yea, I immediately stopped using it after the CEO’s horrifying speech at the “Protecting Children Online” hearing.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Switching to Pop!_OS on a system running a 3090 gave me a significant performance increase. This comes as no surprise.
- Comment on Norwegian Cruise captain refused to let eight passengers who were late reboard ship 2 months ago:
A couple of years ago, I traveled to a tiny town in southern Greenland to visit a friend. After having been there for a week, a cruise ship suddenly appeared on the ocean and a shit ton of tourists invaded the town for just a single day. They left trash everywhere and had the locals do random plays and entertainment stunts for them, and then left before sundown. I didn’t see a single person buy something at the local bar or café (shits expensive in Greenland, so they probably waited to buy it cheaper back on the ship).
None of the locals enjoyed it, but had to endure it regularly to get a few critical dimes out of the tourists. It felt so fucking wrong and dirty. Fuck cruise ships and everyone supporting that industry.
- Comment on What is on your "things to 3d print" list? 3 months ago:
Please take your time to enjoy the modeling process! His birthday isn’t until late may, and I wouldn’t want to rush you. If you share it whenever it’s ready, I’ll be super happy, thanks.
- Comment on What is on your "things to 3d print" list? 3 months ago:
Do you have a good model you can share? I have a friend who loves his pax, and his birthday is coming up soon
- Comment on Tidal’s subscription is getting simpler and cheaper — yes, you read that right 3 months ago:
Have they added podcast support to Tidal yet?
- Comment on Cable Firms to FTC: We Shouldn’t Have to Let Users Cancel Service With a Click 5 months ago:
I just tried to delete my inactive NordVPN account from a European IP (not through a VPN, I actually live there). Spent 10 minutes searching for a delete option without luck. The only way seems to be by submitting a form (which for some reason also requires “payment info”). Sketchy as fuck.
- Comment on Women STEM students up to twice as likely as non-STEM students to have experienced sexism 5 months ago:
I studied at the Technical University of Denmark and there was so much sexism towards the women there. I was oblivious to it the first year, and then got into a friend group of primarily women. It was mind-blowing hearing their stories, and of the way that university management and leaders shut them down every time they formally brought up the issue. There was (and still is) serious cover-ups of multiple rape cases.
Don’t think it’s not happening just because you don’t hear about it. People in power are actively trying to keep this quiet, and it’s working.
- Comment on A literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the US 5 months ago:
Also weird as fuck to be sneaking photos of children like this.
- Comment on "Did you realize that we live in a reality where SciHub is illegal, and OpenAI is not?" 5 months ago:
Are there any historical examples of a technology as valuable as LLMs being effectively shut down?
- Comment on Over 80 percent of new cars sold in Norway were electric in 2023 5 months ago:
80% of microplastics in the oceans are from car wheels. Electric cars are only slightly better for the environment than ICEs, but no personal vehicle will ever be sustainable. We need to upgrade public transportation to handle our transportational needs, and we need this upgrade process to start years ago.
- Comment on 'The Last of Us' Was the Most-Pirated Show of 2023 5 months ago:
Before they changed to HBO max, it was the only streaming service worth paying for. Once they started removing their own god damn shows, it was back to the bay.
- Comment on Supercomputer that simulates entire human brain will switch on in 2024 6 months ago:
Maybe it would answer with the question, jeopardy style
- Comment on Supercomputer that simulates entire human brain will switch on in 2024 6 months ago:
In seven and half million years it will print “42” to its terminal
- Comment on How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone? 6 months ago:
I only bought wireless headphones because the Galaxy Note 10 didn’t have an aux, and required their own overpriced adapter to connect through USB-C. I bike a lot while listening to music and hate when the headphones run out of battery halfway through my ride.
- Comment on Whatever I use 10 6 months ago:
Tried to replicate by subtracting pi from a police officer, but all I got was a type error and a night in jail.