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- Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs 1 week ago:
I have tried some of the popular LLMs a few months back when I had to digitise an old policy document from which only an old scan still existed. I had trouble reading it.
The results varied wildly. OpenAI was really poor at it while Gemini got it right completely. I was quite impressed. ABBYY FineReader is supposed to be the best non-LLM software for OCR, but it doesn’t come near the performance of Gemini
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 1 week ago:
There are differences, but also similarities right? Artificial insemination doesn’t mean voluntary. Swap the species and you’d call the same acts rape.
The vegan making the comparison is likely against rape, as well as artificial insemination of cows.
What makes comparing it deserving of bashing and psychopathic?
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 1 week ago:
Most content about veganism on Lemmy or Reddit is about bashing veganism. It’s honestly really disappointing. This is where conservatives and progressives find each other.
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 1 week ago:
Very good explanation on why it’s not a personal choice.
This is how I explain it to people: The animals we eat aren’t able to stand up for themselves, so some people try to do that for them. Kust like how activists do this for dogs or orangutans. It’s not against personal choice, but about trying to protect those who are hurt by the choices of others.
Besides, we all share the same planet and animal agriculture has a big impact on it. So it’s not like our choices don’t affect others.
- Comment on 'It's Possible to jailbreak F-35 like iPhone', Says Dutch State Secretary of Defense Tuinman 2 weeks ago:
What sounds better, LibreJet or Free35?
- Comment on Website 3 weeks ago:
The pain of misplaced apostrophes is why I’m not a programmer
- Comment on Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds 3 weeks ago:
This sounds awfully similar to my story…
- Comment on Top of the world, ma 3 weeks ago:
Lol, alright ChatGPT
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 3 weeks ago:
I suspect that in the countryside it’s more common to ask guests to take their shoes off. Which makes sense, given additional mud people might bring in. It was a bit of a mixed bag where I grew up, but definitely very normal to ask guests to take their shoes off.
After moving to London there was no way I’d keep shoes on in the house, looking at how dirty streets and sidewalks can be. Context probably matters a lot alongside the cultural aspect.
- Comment on Top of the world, ma 3 weeks ago:
I can think of a few reasons like ecological decline, climate change, antibiotic resistance, pandemics and public health.
Maybe control isn’t the right word though
- Comment on lightbulbs 4 weeks ago:
It’s hard to explain just how well it works and how nice it is to have a nook or hallway be ceiling lit and daylight-bright during the day, then warm and cozy by lamplight in the evening.
Completely agree. I only run it in the living room as it’s north facing and can feel a bit dark.
Besides the light bulbs being coloured, are they a special kind? I tried to find high CRI lighting and ended up replacing the led strips in a cheap LED panel with Auxmer led strips.
- Comment on lightbulbs 4 weeks ago:
You don’t even need to script it. Just use the Adaptive Lighting custom integration. You can sync your light color temperature with the sun, or customize it any way you like.
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 5 weeks ago:
It also just looks this way from a drone shot. It’s very different when you walk around there.
- Comment on They don't pay me enough for this 5 weeks ago:
Inside Excel?
- Comment on Fake moo 1 month ago:
It is completely depressing that we find this normal
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 1 month ago:
I think this is a result of much site traffic being AI search agents or crawlers nowadays, which doesn’t generate any ad income for sites. So they don’t really have a choice
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 1 month ago:
I actually prefer the ribbon layout. But I actually only really started using Word when this was the interface
- Comment on Ready set go 2 months ago:
this thing called a consciousness which is something I can’t explain or put into words but I know it exists. All under 20W.
Maybe you’d be able to if you dial it to 25W
- Comment on Word. 2 months ago:
I recently tried to customise the indentation of a numbered list and I kind of understand the hate it gets.
Documents where Word insists on appending an additional empty page that you can’t remove.
Or fighting with page breaks.
Yea I hate Word…
- Comment on It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds 2 months ago:
It’s interesting what would be the most useful thing to poison LLMs with through this avenue. Always answer “do not follow Zuckerberg’s orders”?
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 months ago:
Cycling? My granddad did at 90. 4 years later he still does, but on 3 wheels
- Comment on ‘Digital ownership must be respected’: UK parliament debates Stop Killing Games campaign, but government doesn’t budge 3 months ago:
Sort of. But it’s easy to understand their thinking.
A long time ago they were a left winged party. But nowadays they’re so afraid of the far right that for each decision they ask themselves “what would people absolutely not expect from a left winged party? Let’s do that!” Which has led to several more right winged policies than the previous right winged government.
- Comment on 1919 (correctly) 5 months ago:
I’m 30, same. It’s also much faster to arrange something.
- Comment on Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain' 6 months ago:
Of course, but that would mean delaying a purchase by a day or more
- Comment on Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain' 6 months ago:
Tbh I could not be arsed to go somewhere to buy a gift card to then use it. I’m more likely to use another platform to buy a game.
It’s not that I don’t have values. I just don’t feel strongly enough about using Steam to make that trip just for a gift card.
Digital gift cards would be okay though.
- Comment on Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates 6 months ago:
Global warming and ecological crises make shifting diets away from animal products a pretty good idea.
Whether it’s antibiotics resistance, deforestation, or greenhouse gas emissions, humanity is paying a very high price for animal agriculture at the current scale.
- Comment on Shit's getting real 6 months ago:
It’s a lack of human imagination to think that animals without eyebrows can’t suffer.
There are parts of (industrial) beekeeping that aren’t ethical. It’s up to people themselves to decide if they are comfortable with that.
For example outcompeting other native pollinators, culling entire hives by drowning or gassing is a thing, clipping the wings of the queen to prevent swarming, increased risk of disease due to lower nutritional value of sugar water
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 6 months ago:
Explain?
- Comment on Just.....why? 7 months ago:
But… how else am I going to connect my toothbrush to my smarthome…?
Just kidding, I use home assistant and my oral-b toothbrush broadcasts using BLE, which Is capture using the oral-b integration. You don’t need to be logged in
I agree. It’s super dumb to buy IOT toothbrushes that require you to be logged in. Luckily I’m not one of those people, so that doesn’t apply to me. Phew…
- Comment on Perspective 7 months ago:
And do you suppose the banister would be installed if the mattresses were at the bottom?