Schadrach

@Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No wonder Reddit has turned to shit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no algorithm to be played in the fediverse.

  There presumably is. Something metric decides visibility on the feeds. That algorithm not being based on corporate profitability doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No wonder Reddit has turned to shit⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically they figured out a way to train AI to recognize Reddit threads going viral and/or predict which ones will, among those which ones will also rate highly in Google results and which will tend to be used as sources by the biggest LLMs and to post in those threads about your whatever you want to generate attention for. So overcomplicated way of automating advertising. Optimized posting to convince LLMs to talk about whatever you want to advertise.

  I’ve always said that SEO was always going to happen, Google is at fault for the search optimized and the best result for what the user is asking for not being the same result. We’re now going to start seeing either LLMs sell whatever this tactic gets used on or essentially a sort of adblock being built into LLM training and search APIs to keep it from working, to make LLMs less likely to fall for native advertising/astroturfing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but it’s mixed with other stuff which impacts the boiling point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, I find the idea of a government outsourcing IT needs to entities under the sovereignty of foreign governments kind of fundamentally problematic to begin with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So AI is a nice new technological tool in a big toolbox, not a technological and business revolution justifying the stock market valuations around it, investment money sunk into it or the huge amount of resources (such as electricity) used by it.

  Specifically for Microsoft, there doesn’t really seem to be any area were MS’ core business value for customers gains from adding AI, in which case this “AI everywhere” strategy in Microsoft is an incredibly shit business choice that just burns money and damages brand value.

  It’s a shiny new tool that is really powerful and flexible and everyone is trying to cram everywhere. Eventually, most of those attempts will collapse in failure, probably causing a recession and afterward the useful use cases will become part of how we all do things. AI is now where the internet was in the late 80s - just beyond the point where it’s not just some academics fiddling with it in research labs, but not in any way a mature technology.

  Most gaming PCs from the 2020s can run a model locally though it might need to be a pruned one, so maybe a little farther along.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨who's gonna tell him?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So his ‘genius’ anyways eluded me

  His genius is entirely about being very good at picking the right companies to invest in, and having an ego big enough to pretend that he’s behind their creations himself. Except maybe the cybertruck, that one feels very Elon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opinions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a slice of time even farther back where you’d eat Taco Bell because you could get an absolute fuckton of food for very little money, even compared to other fast food.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wokeness ended, check mate leftists ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t she the one who wanted to be cast as Princess Zelda that a surprising number of terminally online folks were super angry about because trans?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨High value⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dragon Breaks, a dragon break is what happens when time becomes non linear the fun thing is that it can be both retroactive and postactive. The ending of Elder Scrolls 2 Daggerfall is sometimes theorized to have caused a dragon break so massive that it basically rewrote the setting with its shockwave. This is admittedly just an in universe way of explaining retcons.

  Notably these are called Dragon Breaks because the god of time Akatosh is represented as a dragon and a Dragon Break is essentially time and causality just sort of having a stroke for a bit. Multiple versions of events that could have happened did, regardless of being mutually exclusive and some combination of their outcomes is what sticks when things are over and normality resumes.

  I kind of suspect TESV: Skyrim will get referred to as a dragon break later in the timeline, with things like exactly who won the civil war being one of those things where there are clear memories and clear records of both sides winning, where two different people were the Jarl of each hold, etc. How that lands afterward when things settle I don’t know. Hopefully in the least helpful possible way for the Thalmor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨High value⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ooh, good to know. Might have to actually try it out sometime. It’s been years since I played Morrowind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨High value⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s even OpenMW if you want some modern quality of life features.

  It’s been years since I played. Will OpenMW work with original MW mods, and if not what does it’s modding scene look like?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨High value⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  it just lets you doom the world if you really want to.

  …and it still leaves a back route to complete the main quest. You just have to murder the living god who is a mantling of Mephala to start the alternate route.

  the amount of lore to explore is HUGE

  …and then you come up for air after reading the 36 Sermons of Vivec, realizing that very basic steganographic techniques were used to conceal at least a couple of hidden messages withing them and the start branching out from there into trying to understand the concepts of CHIM and the Towers and Amaranth and so on trying to wrap your head around the metaphysics of the setting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library ⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No it generally makes sense to teach kids to not cite Wikipedia. Though it is consistently checked and updated you can look at the wiki link and drama for the Israeli genocide just to see a perfect example of why it shouldn’t be cited.

  Wikipedia is generally terrible for anything that was politically controversial since Wikipedia has been a thing. A lot of why is very intentionally buried in layers of bureaucracy and wikilawyering to make it look like totally reasonable, neutral point of view decision making. One of the big routes to viewpoint control on Wikipedia is arguments about notoriety and what is or is not a “reliable source” and what sources are sufficient to discuss a topic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Given the Lemmy view on AI, I wonder how many folks are now uninstalling the game and demanding a refund because it’s suddenly transformed into “AI slop”? Or demanding it be delisted from Steam since they didn’t disclose their use of AI on Steam?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has this ever happened to you?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If i invite someone out to dinner I pay. If someone invites me out to dinner I expect them to pay.

  expect the man to pay

  …they’re the same picture. Seriously, given the general dynamics of how straight dating actually ends up working most of the time IRL, these are basically equivalent statements, because the man is also generally expected to be the one to do the asking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cause and Effect⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This corny meme implies that philosophy majors become flat-earthers, etc.

  No, most philosophy majors still believe in gravity. While flat-earthers cease to believe in gravity once they realize that a flat earth is incompatible with gravity. They replace it with this notion that the earth disc (and the rest of the system) is accelerating upwards through the void at 9.8 m/s^2.

  Though I’ve come across some interdisciplinary studies types who would probably argue that gravity is a social construct because we describe it with language.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S A TRAP⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The set of all primes is the same size infinity as the set of all positive integers because you could create a way to map one to the other aka you can count to the nth prime. Reals are different in that there are an infinite number of real between any two reals which means there’s no possible way to map them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨proof of wormholes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Like, most kids in the US had Tylenol. Most kids don’t develop autism.

  Except the claim being studied is that Tylenol might cause autism when administered to the mother while pregnant. There are a lot of drugs that will cause a problem to a fetus when administered to a pregnant woman, but do not cause that problem when administered to someone outside the womb. Building a human from scratch is a fiddly process.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨proof of wormholes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or they WANT them to feel pain.

  In their myths, a woman who explicitly incapable of knowing the difference between right and wrong strayed from absolute mindless obedience to sky daddy, so all women have to suffer forever, and anything that reduces that suffering is inherently evil for opposing the will of sky daddy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨proof of wormholes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to defend RFK, but this argument is dumb.

  People from everywhere it doesn’t natively grow developed cancer long before they had access to tobacco. That doesn’t prove tobacco use doesn’t cause cancer, it just means it isn’t the only potential cause.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Got This Right, Right?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nobody has direct evidence of the shooter’s motivations or political affiliation today. Nobody.

  From the texts between him and his roomate that have been publicly released. Source: theguardian.com/…/charlie-kirk-shooting-prosecuto…

  “Roommate: ‘Why?’ Robinson: ‘Why did I do it?’ Roommate: ‘Yeah.“’ Robinson: ‘I had enough of his hatred. Some hate can’t be negotiated out.”

  So, we have his direct statement to his transwoman roommate as to his motive, either you can take that at face value or claim it’s some carefully crafted lie intentionally meant to deceive us as to his real motives. You do you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Got This Right, Right?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Likely based on his texts with his transwoman roommate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sir?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Now lie detectors don’t work at all…

  Meh, they do work. They just measure stress response, not truthfulness. The idea being that you’ll have a heightened stress response to a question you are lying about the answer to, which may or may not be accurate depending on individual and situation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sir?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Breath analyzers aren’t exactly accurate. There’s a bunch of things that can give them false positives, they often aren’t properly calibrated, and the science behind them is kinda shaky. They got challenged often enough in certain states that in at least one state if an officer has you breathe in a machine and that machine produces a number higher than the legal BAC limit, that’s proof of DUI regardless of what the machine may or may not do to result in that number.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t give a fuck if murderers and armed robbers get away with their shit.

  They care if murderers and robbers get away with **their ** shit, they don’t care if murderers and robbers get away with **your ** shit. Important distinction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tried naming the states from memory as a European⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Once read a forum thread on “how your state/region is depicted in media” and had to point out that aside from one movie about a college the biggest things I could point to were the Wrong Turn movies (slasher movies about inbred cannibal hillfolk) and the movie version of Silent Hill (which is set in WV but based on Centralia, PA while the game version of Silent Hill is in New England).

  Centralia, PA is one of those places with less than a dozen residents and a neat history. It’s been on fire since 1962, the government tried to eminent domain all real estate in Centralia and a handful of extremely stubborn folks fought back leading to an agreement where they get to stay there for the rest of their lives after which the property reverts to the government via eminent domain. All seven of them. Five of which are still around as of 2020, having lived under that agreement for forty years. The church still holds services, and their graveyard are still maintained, even the one that’s in a perpetual haze as the ground releases smoke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tried naming the states from memory as a European⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It appears like most of Appalachia is under “swamp racists” and the rest as “NYC”, which I strongly reject. Very little of Appalachia is swamp, it’s mostly forested mountains. And it’s far to rural to be compared to NYC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I say #2, specifically because it can be done mathematically, as opposed to trying to agree on some definition of “fairness” that isn’t completely different for every office and doesn’t have to be wholly redistricted every election as a consequence.

  Say, something like least split line. Basically, if you have an even number of seats for a region, draw the shortest length line that splits the region into two regions of equal population. If you have an odd number of seats > 1, then draw the shortest line that splits the region based on number per seat given one side gets the “extra” seat (for example, for 5 seats you’d split so that one side is 2/3 of the other side and give 3 seats to one side and 2 to the other). Repeat the process for each region created by these lines until each region represents one seat. If there are multiple shortest lines, you the one closest to a NS axis. The extra seat always goes to the west side of the line.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They even got their own island⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The difference being you weren’t desperate enough to take “any hole is a goal” as a motto worth following.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They even got their own island⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently I married a unicorn. She explicitly didn’t want a diamond but a sapphire and explicitly didn’t want me to spend a fortune on it. Got her ring from an online jeweler on sale. Paid less than $300 for it. During the first Trump admin. We had talked about what she wanted and I found something close after shopping around. Then I held onto it for six months planning when to ask.