TootSweet

@TootSweet@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  LLMs in medicine. What could go wrong?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I was selling a bag of flower and sugar to a CI who thought it was meth or coke can I get in trouble? How or why when I am selling a legal substance?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All the better to make with the aforementioned flour and sugar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Walz says the Electoral College ‘needs to go’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Great idea. It’ll never happen, but great idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chromebooks are getting a new button dedicated to Google’s AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  At work, I used to use a Mac, and when they switched me to the model with the touch bar (because of a recall around potential battery explosions), I had a terrible issue with hitting that fucking Siri button just barely north of where my backspace key was all the time when I was trying to hit backspace. This would be similar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate how anything without "world" in its name is just about the US⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I do this sometimes, and I hate when I catch myself doing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do people make and save kaomoji art?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  First off, MS Gothic is a monospace font. (Meaning all characters have the same width and move the cursor by the same horizontal distance. Ok, that’s a slight oversimplification. Especially when you’re dealing with asian characters, there’s a possibility of “double-width” characters which are twice the width of “single-width” characters and move the cursor twice as far.) In sites like Lemmy, there are usually ways to tell Lemmy to switch into “monospace” like you did with the first cat art you posted in the body of your post. And that ensures consistency in the output. With non-monospace fonts, it’s more of a crapshoot. Arial’s “m” might be a different width than Comic Sans’, for instance. Typically, sites like Lemmy (or 4chan or Reddit or Facebook or whathaveyou) won’t have ways to specify a particular font (different Lemmy clients are also free to use different fonts), so if you composed ASCII art with a non-monospace font and pasted it into a Lemmy post/comment, even if it looks right to you in Lemmy, it may not look right to other viewers of your post. And that’s why monospace is popular for these things.

  How to make these? I honestly don’t know if there are specialized tools for that. Probably just a standard text editor. The examples you posted have some asian characters in them, so a way to input such characters. I’m on a Linux machine and have fcitx set up for Japanese text input. If you’re on another OS, I’d expect the way to set up input for asian characters would be different. Alternatively, there are probably unicode character explorers/apps that can be used and don’t require quite the learning curve.

  As for how to manage these, no idea. I can think roughly about how I might go about writing a program that migth manage these, but I’m not sure if any exist out there currently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rainbow Dash jar cosplay 💦🌈🦄⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh it’s worse than that. Or maybe you’re talking about a different one. But the one I remember involved the 4channer absent-mindedly leaving the cum jar with his Rainbow Dash figurine in it on the radiator heating thing and finding said cumjar boiling. He boiled Rainbow Dash in cum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rainbow Dash jar cosplay 💦🌈🦄⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  ATBGE?

  Never have I been so ashamed to cast an upvote. I’m still considering swapping for a downvote.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nintendo can be pretty evil assholes, but yeah. I wouldn’t say they belong in the same category as Nestle and HP.

  Hasbro, meanwhile…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I know if a medical issue should be addressed by a Clinic Visit, Urgent Care, or the Emergency Room?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I once had an interesting conversation with a nurse at my GP’s office. I was scheduling an appointment with my GP. The nurse asked what I wanted to see him about. I mentioned light headedness, dizziness, globus, chest pain, palpi-

  She stopped me at “chest pain” and said “I’m going to write down chest pressure, because otherwise, they’ll send you to the ER.”

  At the time, I was scheduled for all the heart tests you can think of and a few neurological tests and had been having chest pain daily for months during which I’d had plenty of heart tests already. And the nurse was familiar with my case. Had she not been, she definitely would have just sent me to the ER.

  She made the right call. All the heart and brain tests came back fine. Nobody ever saw fit to give me a diagnosis beyond “your nervous system is too sensitive.” (I asked if he was talking about “dysautonomia” and he agreed to that. Not a “diagnosis” per se, but better than nothing.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s Boring Company has been cited for multiple safety violations with workers exposed to chemical sludge⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t imagine it’s going to be very long before Elon’s hostile attitude toward basic safety results in a high-profile catastrophy involving human deaths under the ospices of Space X.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Jesus can turn water into wine, but wine is still mostly made of water, can Jesus apply his powers recursively and create more and more concentrated wine?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Jesus told me it doesn’t have to be alcohol. He once turned piss into Mtn Dew.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I make my own internet?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think what you’re talking about is called a “LAN”/“Local Area Network”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which do you like better: Windows or Ubuntu?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, this isn’t much of a hypothetical for me. At work, my choices are Windows, Mac, or Ubuntu. I’m quite happy with Ubuntu, though I’ve switched away from the default desktop environment to i3.

  I use Arch (BTW) on my personal systems. And Ubuntu isn’t as bad as I worried it would be.

  My main gripe is snaps. Firefox is practically unusable as a snap. And my employer forbids installing any software (save for a select list of exceptions) not via the officially-supported Ubuntu way of doing things. Chrome is available without snap, so I use it on my work machine. Which annoys me, but if I’m less efficient in my job as a result, it’s their own fault.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Empires fall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Stahp I just watched a 2-hour video analysis of liminal spaces, I can only get so hauntological.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans should lay eggs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And how much are you asking for in research funding?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was really excited for CJDNS (not to be confused with “Domain Name System”) at one time. It’s a mesh networking protocol. And they’d established an “Internet 2” (as in, a sequel to “The Internet”) based on the CJDNS protocol called “Hyperborea.”

  I haven’t heard anything about CJDNS in a good while now. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were other efforts looking to do something roughly the same, but I’m not up to date on anything more recent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weevil time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Asking for a friend?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you consider making a sandwich to be "cooking?"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If someone told me they “cooked themselves a BLT”, I’d assume they meant they’d baked the bread, fried the bacon, and emulsified the mayonnaise themselves and the assembly was just the final part of the process.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Llama is not Open Source

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thankfully, Trump Is Still Alive. Unfortunately, So Is His Misguided Crypto Project⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I kindof hate the slogan “they go low, we go high” (from Hillary’s campaign.)

  But this is an example of the “good” side of that slogan. The political left(-of-what-passes-for-center-in-the-U.S.-now-a-days) isn’t given to publicly calling for assassinations of the opposition party. It’s not even given (and, yes, there are exceptions) to calling privately for assassinations of the opposition. And that’s a good thing.

  It means the left(-of-U.S.-center) hasn’t turned into the fascist-dictatorship-trying-to-happen that the right has. It’s not the left(-of-U.S.-center) calling for civil war and pandering to creeps who chant “blood and soil” while carrying tiki torches around the capital.

  The day left(-of-U.S.-center) news sources delight in assassinations even of opposition as dangerously unhinged and power hungry as Trump because that sentiment started with snide remarks like yours is the day we have to worry that maybe the Democrats are sliding into their own brand of fascism.

  Don’t get me wrong. I’m for radical support of LGBT rights, womens’ autonomy in matters of personal health, universal free healthcare, and most other “liberal” causes. (I also identify as well left and libertarian-ward of the Democratic party and would love to see “to each according to need” be our modus operandi. I’m also for direct action.) I don’t fault the Democrats for being “too radical” by a long shot. (More likely, the Democrats will continue to be far too willing to let the Republicans control the narrative and cheat their way to political power. And that’s the bad side of “they go low, we go high”) And I don’t believe it’s very likely that the Democrats will slide into widespread advocacy for political violence like the Republicans have much more so already.

  But taking delight in assassination attempts and wishing they’d been successful – even those directed at Cheeto-flavored Hitler himself – isn’t helpful.

  All that said, I get it. I’m pissed at the U.S.'s descent toward fascism, too. But wishing him assassinated isn’t going to change anything for the better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the difference between a proxy and a VPN⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do they play a part in commercial DDOS protection?

  Absolutely! As well as mitigating other types of threats. “Web Application Firewalls” (don’t be fooled, they’re not like regular firewalls really) are a type of transparent web proxy that watch requests for anything that “looks like” a SQL injection or XSS payload. Transparent web proxies may also do things like caching or even “honeypot” functionality that may shunt likely bot traffic to a fake version of the website to prevent scraping of real site content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the difference between a proxy and a VPN⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ooo. This is a good one.

  A computer can have more than one network interface, right? (Like, you can be plugged into ethernet at home but also connected to the WIFI of the coffee shop across the street.)

  A VPN gives you a whole new network device (“virtual ethernet card” if you will) that works as if that card was connected to some LAN somewhere else. Typically, you’d forward “all” of your computer’s/smartphone’s/etc traffic through the VPN so that your computer “thinks it’s on that remote LAN” rather than on your home WIFI or whatever.

  Proxies… well the term can mean a few different things in different contexts, really. But generally you’re not forwarding “all” traffic through them, just HTTP traffic (and usually only a subset of all HTTP traffic) or just traffic that is specifically told to be forwarded through them.

  An opaque web proxy is one that you can point your browser (or other HTTP interface) to. It won’t handle protocols other than HTTP. And when you want to use an opaque web proxy, your HTTP client has to know how to do that. (Whereas with VPN’s, it’s your operating system, not your individual applications, that need to know how to forward through it.)

  A transparent web proxy can be something you (and your apps and OS) don’t know you’re even using. When you point your browser or app to a Lemmy instance, it’s almost certain that the domain is pointed not at an application server that actually runs the Lemmy code, but rather at a transparent web proxy that does stuff on the instance-owner’s end like preventing spamming or whatever. This type of proxy is sometimes called a “reverse web proxy” and can also only work with HTTP.

  A SOCKS proxy, like an opaque web proxy, requires applications to know how to use it. (Ok, technically that’s not 100% true. It’s possible in some cases to have a transparent proxy of some sort forward through a SOCKS proxy in a way that the application doesn’t know SOCKS is involved. There are also some cool OS-level hacks that can force an app to go through a SOCKS proxy without the app knowing anything about SOCKS. But if you’re doing those things, you’re a hacker.) And with a SOCKS proxy, your computer doesn’t “think” it’s connected to a whole different LAN. Individual applications know that they’re forwarding through SOCKS. SOCKS supports more protocols than just HTTP. Probably all TCP-based protocols, but I don’t think it has any support for UDP. So you won’t be torrenting through SOCKS.

  That’s all I can think to say at the moment. There are special-purpose proxies for things like security auditing (like Burp Suite, for instance.) But I’m guessing that’s not the sort of thing you’re asking about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want an AI TV that blocks all forms of advertising.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I cannot think of any other methods

  Exactly. What you’re describing isn’t “AI.” It’s “magic.” And “AI” can’t do with OP wants either.

  No “AI” solution we have any reason to expect we’ll be able to create in anything approaching the foreseeable future is going to be able to do anything remotely like this without ridiculous amounts of both false positives and false negatives.

  By false positives in this case, I mean things like not coming back from the cool little slideshows until a minute past the end of the commercial break or obscuring important details of the show having falsely “concluded” that it’s a logo or some such.

  And I would have assumed “without a lot of false positives” would have gone without saying. If OP is comfortable with lots of non-ad content blocked/obscured along with the ads, then I’ve got a 100% guaranteed zero-false-negatives solution that’ll fit OP’s requirements without involving a speck of “AI” involved that OP can implement right now: turn the TV off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want an AI TV that blocks all forms of advertising.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A pet pieve of mine is people randomly sticking the term “AI” into description of some tech.

  You want ad blocking. (Which is based.) But you don’t want “AI”. If this can be done in a way that doesn’t qualify as “AI”, that would satisfy you, yes?

  And using the term “AI” that way makes it clear you haven’t really thought through what you really even want in that feature. (Not that there’s anything particularly wrong with that, especially in a showerthoughts community, but it’s still kindof a “slaps me in the face” kind of thing.)

  And the term “AI” is so imprecise anyway.

  And particular kinds of “AI” are such a bubble right now. And that’s why everybody is sticking the word “AI” into random contexts for no fucking reason. But it’s also just gimmick at best and a huge scam at worst.

  And “AI” is inevitably bad about false positives and such.

  I’d really rather see the word “magic” than “AI” in this context. Because at least that admits that this is an idle wish and not something you think actual real-world adult humans should be seeking venture capital to do.

  I’m sorry for taking this out on you specifically. You’re definitely not the first person I’ve seen do this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This took me a great deal of strength to publicly acknowledge⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Water fat and paying water to the dead. You wouldn’t last a day in the deep desert. SMDH.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LLM's are just as revolutionary as Automated Assembly Lines were.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “work”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elasticsearch is open source, again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sweet! Now let’s all go commence scowling at Redis until they do the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just speaking from their history. Like when they embraced Java, built their own JVM, shipped it with Windows, and then forked the Java language by adding Windows-specific APIs to Microsoft Java and not adding the Java 1.2 features to Microsoft Java. Or the whole “Windows tax” thing. Or “Open Core.”

  And, who knows. Maybe they’re either nicer now or less competent at that kind of evil. But if so, that’s a relatively new thing. Their history as a company is full of (not-so-)“secretly planning to control the world”. And they have never really faced any consequences for their anti-trust violations. And if they didn’t want people to hold grudges, maybe they should have thought of that before fucking everyone over as thoroughly as they possibly could.

  I guess you could say Microsoft was perfecting the art of enshittification before it became such a pervasive thing. Plus, I largely blame Gates personally for the rise of the institution of proprietary software, which is also complete BS.

  Mind you, I don’t blame you for working for Microsoft or anything. No ethical consumption (or employment) under capitalism and all that. And it’s not like I’m not doing evil things on a regular basis as an employee where I work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft gives the Wine team infectious mononucleosis. Got it.

  But seriously, Microsoft is nobody’s friend and shouldn’t be trusted.