antonim
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- Comment on Google must sell Chrome to end search monopoly, justice department argues in court filing 4 hours ago:
I’m worrying that whatever gets sold (Chrome or Android) might end up in the hands of someone even more scummy than Google.
- Comment on Habits of Insects 5 days ago:
Isnt the dog the first thing people think of when seeing “doge”?
It used to be so, but in recent several years Doge has lived and pretty much been defined in public consciousness by the cryptocurrency, which Musk has openly endorsed/memed.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 weeks ago:
And that’s more or less what I was aiming for, so we’re back at square one. What you wrote is in line with my first comment:
it is a weak compliment for AI, and more of a criticism of the current web search engines
The point is that there isn’t something that makes AI inherently superior to ordinary search engines. (Personally I haven’t found AI to be superior at all, but that’s a different topic.) The difference in quality is mainly a consequence of some corporate fuckery to wring out more money from the investors and/or advertisers and/or users at the given moment. AI is good (according to you) just because search engines suck.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 3 weeks ago:
AI LLMs simply are better at surfacing it
Ok, but how exactly? Is there some magical emergent property of LLMs that guides them to filter out the garbage from the quality content?
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 3 weeks ago:
If you don’t feel like discussing this and won’t do anything more than deliberately miss the point, you don’t have to reply to me at all.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 3 weeks ago:
they’re a great use in surfacing information that is discussed and available, but might be buried with no SEO behind it to surface it
This is what I’ve seen many people claim. But it is a weak compliment for AI, and more of a criticism of the current web search engines. Why is that information unavailable to search engines, but is available to LLMs? If someone has put in the work to find and feed the quality content to LLMs, why couldn’t that same effort have been invested in Google Search?
- Comment on there's now more ads in "legit" sites (YouTube, amazon) than in piracy sites 1 month ago:
It has custom user-made themes that are dark mode, so it probably has *dozens *of dark modes.
- Comment on i need it, soz 1 month ago:
I mean all of that is true, but, speaking as someone from Croatia - we don’t follow safety standards and regulations here anyway even with native workers, the quality of the bridge would definitely not be any better had Croats built it, and I doubt there even is the adequate workforce and know-how within Croatia that would be needed for such a massive and complex job. I would unironically expect the deadlines to be breached by several years. We also aren’t a rich country by European standards, so the price was probably a crucial factor.
In case you’re worrying about general Chinese influence on Croatian politics, that’s not really a problem, our govt is strongly pro-EU (for better and for worse), as well as much of the population.
- Comment on i need it, soz 1 month ago:
What the hell is “sus” about that?
- Comment on Whale 1 month ago:
- Comment on Whale 1 month ago:
Hmm, “1200-600 CE”?
…seattleartmuseum.org/…/whale-effigy-charm/
Looks like it should be 1200-1600 CE (or AD).
- Comment on Maybe It Should Be Illegal To Instantly Delete A Website's Archives - Aftermath 2 months ago:
, it’s a salty article
Actually the author himself is somewhat harmed by this situation. I would be salty too. When I wish to write my CV, I can say: my text have been published at X and Y. Especially nice if it’s an important and well known publication. Now a part of his CV is literally erased, he can’t access his own texts anymore (not even on Internet Archive). That’s… utterly ridiculous. It’s a common practice to send the author a copy (or multiple) of the text he has published, he has every right to own a copy of them. Now the copy that was intended to be available to everyone is not available even to him. Something of the sort really has happened to me too when a website I published an article on a site, which recently underwent a redesign and now the text just isn’t available anymore. Admittedly it’s still on IA, but it’s an awkward situation.
- Comment on New York Times 1924, Hitler leaves prison 2 months ago:
It’s visually convincing (looks like a proper old-timey newspaper article, even has a misspelling/adapted name that nobody would use today), and OP even included the context with the source and date above the pic. I’ve seen the pic before, and if it were fake, nobody would manage/bother to add the original date it was published in.
- Comment on ISP to Supreme Court: We shouldn’t have to disconnect users accused of piracy 2 months ago:
Absolutely the correct position, nothing dirty about it. At this point, for better and for worse, the Internet is a basic necessity. Imagine having your water turned off because you threw water balloons at your neighbour.
- Comment on Proton launches privacy-focused Google Docs alternative: Docs in Proton Drive is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted collaborative document editor 4 months ago:
No, there is no default option, just a dropdown that offers docx, pdf, rtf, txt, odf…
- Comment on Proton launches privacy-focused Google Docs alternative: Docs in Proton Drive is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted collaborative document editor 4 months ago:
Yes, Google Docs exports to ODF.
- Comment on Stay Mad 4 months ago:
At this point I doubt tankies should be much of a concern. What are they, 1-2% of the potential Dem voter base? I’m worrying more about the indecisive ones who have seen the performances in the debate.
- Comment on Every song has that one comment 7 months ago:
Tbh if there’s a musician that deserves this sort of comments, Eno is definitely one of the best candidates.
- Comment on Kids these days are too soft. Can't even roll with these guys. 7 months ago:
This has to have some weird ass allegorical meaning.
- Comment on tikatalik 7 months ago:
:(
- Comment on tikatalik 7 months ago:
Maybe the artist just screwed it up, but there’s a snake species that really does have eyes positioned like that, on top of its head. Arabian sand boa:
- Comment on Mystical land pirates (with pizza) 8 months ago:
The taxi driver knows where he is at all times. He knows this because he knows where he isn’t.
- Comment on The later books are really something 8 months ago:
I get the frustration but it’s still funny.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
The sort of English you’ll see in literature, newspapers, any remotely formal communication, in grammars (which learning materials are based on as well). The stuff learners will aim to learn.
Differences between US and UK English, and the dialectal variety within each of them, is not all that relevant here. Where I live, students are taught British English, but no professor ever chastised us for using American pronunciation or vocabulary. Both are within the range of what natives will find acceptable.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
I’ve read about Euro-English and discussed it back on reddit quite some time ago, and I have to say I’m very skeptical whether such a thing exists or ever could exist. Fundamentally it’s a mis-learned standard English, and the mis-learning is to a large degree determined by the speaker’s native language - which varies extremely across Europe. Slavic speakers will have issues with articles, Germans much less so, etc. Consequently there’s hardly any definite characteristic of Euro-English (the examples in the article are too vaguely described, and I’m sure many European ESLs would find them grammatically unacceptable too). Perhaps one could speak of a variety of English used by EU politicians and institutions, but those people are hardly a linguistic model for the vast majority of other speakers.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
The point isn’t so much in which browser you’ll prefer to use at the end of the day (that’s on you as a consumer to decide), but being able to decide which browser to have installed on your PC in the first place.
- Comment on Hey, I'm new to GitHub! 8 months ago:
Same. I learned about the ‘releases’ section only recently thanks to some kind Lemmy user (kinder than some I’ve seen on Lemmy and reddit discussing this same image, some people are openly supporting gatekeeping of software).
- Comment on Bluesky, a trendy rival to X, finally opens to the public 9 months ago:
How can a website be trendy if nobody could use it until now?
- Comment on 4chan daily challenge sparked deluge of explicit AI Taylor Swift images 9 months ago:
I’ve seen a few in passing. They just look like any other AI “art”/porn.
- Comment on 4chan daily challenge sparked deluge of explicit AI Taylor Swift images 9 months ago:
Do people actually enjoy seeing those pictures? I can sort of understand generating them for shock value, but finding them erotic or pleasing??
