BertramDitore

@BertramDitore@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I hate the interfaces, but especially the super-loud non-mutable beeps which seem to be common on every model I’ve seen. My two-burner induction setup has analog knobs for temp control, which is awesome, but it stills beep when you turn them, with every single temperature increase. Drives me crazy.

  I’ll never go back to gas though. My new apartment came with a gorgeous brand new gas range, and it absolutely sucks compared to my $50 countertop induction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah got it, thanks for the clarification.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup! I should have been more specific, Mobius Sync uses syncthing on iOS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s always been free for me using Mobius Sync…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pope funeral 'is being rehearsed': Swiss Guard 'prepare for pontiff's death after the 88-year-old warned 'I may not survive' pneumonia⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, the previous pope was a member of Hitler Youth, though he was conscripted like everyone his age. So yeah, I wouldn’t be surprised if the next one was a proper full-fledged Nazi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing Muse: Our first generative AI model designed for gameplay ideation.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ugh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why there is no photos of earth from space?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve earnestly answered some of your other questions, when it was quite clear you were either trolling or incredibly stubborn, and this additional question (which purposefully ignores the basic answers I gave you weeks ago) makes it obvious you don’t actually want to learn anything. Stop asking questions if you don’t intend to genuinely engage with the people who are taking the time to respond.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DeepSeek sends shock waves across Silicon Valley.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ed Zitron has the best takes on this imo. One of his pieces is linked in the posted article, but here it is again. His podcast also has some of the most grounded and hilarious insight into the absurdity of the AI bubble. If you want to hear from him in a more mainstream setting, I highly recommend the interview he did with Brooke Gladstone on On The Media. That was the first time I heard anyone really talk about the AI industry with genuine frankness and honestly.

  Basically, OpenAI, Sam Altman, and all of the big tech players have defrauded us and investors by raising laughably high amounts of money and wasting precious resources to build inferior and closed products, when any reasonable person would have known there were better ways. This whole thing also proves how essential competition is to a healthy market and producing things people actually want to use.

  In essence, DeepSeek — and I’ll get into its background and the concerns people might have about its Chinese origins — released two models that perform competitively (and even beat) models from both OpenAI and Anthropic, undercut them in price, and made them open, undermining not just the economics of the biggest generative AI companies, but laying bare exactly how they work. That last point is particularly important when it comes to OpenAI’s reasoning model, which specifically hid its chain of thought for fear of “unsafe thoughts” that might “manipulate the customer,” then muttered under their breath that the actual reason was that it was a “competitive advantage.” -Zitron

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are old ladies so popular on the internet?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Since this community is for any kind of question, I’ll answer, but I get the vague sense that you don’t really want a genuine answer, based on the inherent bias you included in the question (calling someone older than 20 a hag is pretty uncool, for example).

  But here goes: people have different tastes. Different things turn on different people, and your lack of experience being aroused by older women says nothing about the legitimacy of those who are. Also being 21 for example, is still considered very young by most people. Your question presumes that everybody in the world must only be attracted to very young women, and frankly that’s a bit strange and just not how the world works.

  Try to put yourself in some other people’s shoes, and I think this question would answer itself. Your sexual preferences are not everyone’s preferences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did UCLA Just Cure Baldness?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  100%

  I’ve had dreams where my long locks were dramatically blowing in the wind, only to wake up and run my hands through my…well shit, that’s just my scalp.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did UCLA Just Cure Baldness?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I started losing my hair when I was a teenager, so I’ve been bald for most of my life. I’ve been shaving my head for decades because it’s the only way my head and face don’t look absurd. I’m totally used to it, and long ago accepted that I’d never have hair on my head again.

  But I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want my hair back.

  If this turns out to be legit and works on most people, there could be a worldwide explosion of self-esteem in adults.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israel orders army to plan to let Palestinians leave Gaza⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Aside from this being textbook ethnic cleansing, I’m sure the always honest and honorable Israeli military would never use this as an opportunity to more efficiently murder everyone who funnels to their “exits.”

  I really wish we would stop helping them be better at genocide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Forbidden Words’: Github Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish this was all true, I really do. But there is a time and a place to be calm. This is not that time, and this is not that place.

  These systems are supposed to have COOP plans (Continuity of Operations), but not all of them do. Systems are supposed to have some degree of backups, but I can tell you from experience that this is almost never the case in any meaningful way.

  I’ve spoken to a number of feds who said their work disappeared overnight. They didn’t choose to comply, and didn’t have sufficient backups in place because of a lack of resources. Their manager or an administrative assistant somewhere most likely went on a deletion spree, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.

  Sometimes when this stuff is gone, it’s really gone. And we have every right to be furious about it.

  100% agree about the media incentives, but sometimes outrage is not only warranted, but essential.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Polish president says don't arrest Netanyahu at Auschwitz ceremony⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems like the perfect time and place for the arrest happen to be honest. Much of my family was killed at Auschwitz, and I would be incredibly offended if Netanyahu, a man currently committing genocide, turned up at a memorial for genocide. He has no right to be there, but if he goes he should absolutely be arrested immediately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing AI News Bot for Lemmy!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure you know, but you’re probably going to get a lot of grief for this. I’m deeply suspicious of any new AI tool, especially one that tries to get in between me and my news (looking at you Feedly), and I’m sure I’m not the only one. So if you’re not already, I’d prepare yourself for a lot of strong emotions, and probably not in a good way.

  If you wanted to get ahead of that kind of thing, you might want to explain what kinds of safeties you’re building into it. For example, on your roadmap you say want it to “Generate argument of for and against perspective then summarise the result of the 2 arguments.” This kind of thing in particular is quite risky. Any time you try to introduce value statements into an LLM summary, you’re in the danger zone. Even if you’re just trying to summarize the actual perspective of the piece, you’re basically just begging the LLM to hallucinate. But asking it to summarize hypothetical opposing arguments is just asking for trouble.

  I could go on, but I don’t want to start a pile on. I appreciate when folks try to build cool stuff, you’ve just waded into some choppy waters…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's 2025 now, what are the games you'll be starting the year with?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks! That’s good advice. Even in easier games I always have to stop and remind myself to chill and figure out the pattern. And whenever I do, it’s much more manageable and ultimately more fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's 2025 now, what are the games you'll be starting the year with?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Finally grabbed a copy of Sekiro, and though I’ve never been much of a fan of uncompromisingly punishing games, I’m optimistic that this will be the one that gets me there.

  Haven’t started it yet, so it’s possible, if not likely that it’s going to kick my ass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook and Instagram to Unleash AI-Generated ‘Users’ No One Asked For⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good luck exploiting and abusing your users and their data when all your users end up being LLMs. This move kind of seems like a world-famous restaurant deciding that it will start serving meals that include inedible props which only look like food, on the same plates as their real food. What could go wrong?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Serving my media library to my TV (local network only), i need suggestions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As suggested above, I would try Infuse player. I recently switched from a Kodi/Jellyfin setup to an Apple TV/Jellyfin setup and I’m extremely happy with it. Infuse has a free trial, and then you can choose to pay a few different ways (they do have a rather expensive lifetime option, but it might be worth it). The Infuse app has no trouble playing directly from my Jellyfin server, no transcoding, even for full 4K Bluray rips, and yes it even supports Dolby Vision (which the native Jellyfin app struggles with). No hiccups, no issues with multiple audio tracks or subtitles, it’s just buttery smooth direct playback.

  It also has a couple different ways of interacting with your Jellyfin library, so it feels completely seamless to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Google Spent 15 Years Creating a Culture of Concealment⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I get what you’re saying, but internal company communications (especially for publicly traded companies) still should be accessible to valid legal inquiries, otherwise there is absolutely no hope for any kind of accountability. Having IMs between end-users be off the record by default seems totally reasonable and good to me, but internal communications should not be deletable at all, let alone manually by executives. The US Government has record retention schedules, through which non-records (water-cooler talk or the digital equivalent) are kept private and real records are identified and preserved. This is the kind of thing that Congress needs to regulate for private companies. Google blatantly and actively deleted conversations they knew would be relevant to the case, that’s unacceptable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pope Francis urges investigation for possible crime of genocide in Gaza⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, you’re right, the more investigations the better. It’s just any “Vatican Investigation” should be treated with extreme skepticism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pope Francis urges investigation for possible crime of genocide in Gaza⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think we need another investigation to prove that what we can all see with our own eyes is actually happening.

  Also, Frank, I think there are some other investigations you might want to focus on before feigning your moral high ground. Get your own fucking house in order if you ever want to be taken seriously again, you diddler-protecting fuckwad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NVSTly Named Finalist in Prestigious Benzinga FinTech Awards 2024⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is not the right place to advertise your investing app. This is gross.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta Opens Its AI Models for the (U.S.) Military⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mark Zuckerberg and Nick Clegg are bad people. There is no ethical way to give militaries this kind of tool. They will use it to kill innocent people, while disingenuously touting its ‘ability’ to save lives.

  If you still have any kind of Meta account or use any of their products, you are helping to legitimize them and give them more power. I’m tired of “it helps me buy junk in my neighborhood” or “but event invites!” excuses. Nope, they’re bad people, running a bad company, that causes real harm to real people every day. If you care at all about the health of society, you must stop giving them the ammunition they turn around and use against you. Stop. Using. Meta. Products.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some self hosted services that you think are essential?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same, Syncthing is amazing. I use it with Mobius Sync on iOS and have it synching my keepass, Obsidian vault, photos, and a folder for random file transfers between devices. It’s so much better, faster, and more stable than all the most popular corporate cloud providers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consumer Financial Protection Bureau moves to place Google under supervision⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I imagine CFPB is at the very top of the hit-list to get fully doge’d. Because fuck consumers, why would they ever need protection from anti-union, discriminatory billionaire oligarchs like Musk?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USA President term limits⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  US Presidents are limited to two terms, it doesn’t matter if they are consecutive. Grover Cleveland is the only other president who has served two non-consecutive terms.

  Term-limits are a relatively recent addition though, the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution was only ratified in 1951 after Franklin Roosevelt served four terms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify’s Plans For AI Generated Music, Podcasts, and Recommendations, According To Its Co-President, CTO, and CPO Gustav Söderström⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The only legitimate use I can think of for AI in podcasting might be for realtime translations so people who don’t speak the language of the podcaster can still listen. Even that makes me feel weird, but I think it could be done ethically-ish. Same deal for voice-cloning, I think that would be super-useful for realtime translations, so listeners still kinda hear the host’s voice, even translated. But every other use I can think of is ripe for abuse and won’t result in quality content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want to feel like a bad-ass wizard⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you played Dragon Age Inquisition? I hadn’t until someone here recommended it, so I grabbed it for $3 and am deep into it. As a mage, it’s full-throated magical glory. You can use lightning, fire, and ice magic, get badass staffs, and have a good combination of AoE and normal spells. I definitely feel OP after crafting some custom armor and weapons. Lots of fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I got tired of killing my cactus so now I plant mint⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oooh I love cooking with mint. It’s great with lamb, but it works with so many kinds of dishes!

  Here are some ideas:

  Mash it up and add it to some lemon juice, super refreshing summertime drink.

  Tabouleh is a very simple salad that includes mint, this is a goto of mine, works as a side dish with just about anything and is a great way to use up your herbs (if you’re growing mint, you know what I mean, it can quickly get out of control)

  Add some mint to your pesto for a fresh take.

  Sprinkle some mint on roasted green beans.

  Watermelon chunks with feta and chopped mint. Soo good. Might freak you out, doesn’t make sense to the typical American palate, but it’s amazing.