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- Submitted 9 hours ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 13 comments
- Comment on Here's what a Brazilian restaurant owner did after city hall banned sidewalk patio tables 2 days ago:
Idk about that case, but here all sidewalk patio tables are banned unless you get a permit, and that permit decides if there is room for pedestrians to pass the tables.
- Comment on Here's what a Brazilian restaurant owner did after city hall banned sidewalk patio tables 2 days ago:
It’s not stupid if it blocks pedestrians from using the sidewalk. I mean, imagine putting them tables all across the road for cars… I think this is a creative and good solution for everybody.
- Comment on Is it just my area or has this been an insanely humid summer? 4 days ago:
Not here in Sweden. We have warnings and drought in several areas of the country because there has been less sky water than usual.
- Comment on What's the equivalent of rose coloured glasses for always seeing something in a negative perspective? 1 week ago:
People that call themselves “realist”-glasses.
- Comment on Curiosity has not killed any Martian cats 1 week ago:
Something something misinterpretation of Schroedinger’s box.
- Comment on Tesseract is shutting down 1 week ago:
There are terrible people everywhere and in particular everywhere online.
This is why I would never be bothered moderating and I am reluctant to release anything to the public of what I do for my own enjoyment. Cheers to moderators and people that post their art and comics and other stuff online.
- Comment on Tesseract is shutting down 1 week ago:
Dude, this is exactly what you are doing. You have wandered into the fediverse that welcomes everybody and you are upset that not everybody agrees with you on everything and that justifies you being a dick. You are exactly the thing you are hating on in your head canon self righteous hero narrative.
Take this moment to reflect on your first instinctual mental response. Is it “but that’s because I’m right”? Think about this and what it implies.
- Comment on Musk's AI firm deletes posts after chatbot praises Hitler 2 weeks ago:
White supremacist has his people skew the AI chat bot bias from factual to fit his reality tunnel and now it is a nazi bot.
Shocker, isn’t it.
- Comment on What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop? 2 weeks ago:
I’m thinking it’s like ads. Some people see them, read them, click the links. Others recognize by glance and filter them out without bothering to process.
Social media, and internet in general, has always been a wild mix of top notch content and bottom of the barrel garbage sharing screen estate.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I think LLMs and generative AIs are a really interesting technology with many potential applications in the future and even today.
But it is ridiculous how tech bros and marketing are pushing and overselling the capabilities of a technology that is yet in its early childhood. Infancy is already past as it knows basic motor functions.
And it is m funny when these companies publish their ambitious attempts and hilarious failures like this article right here. It reminds me of a more funny and diverse and geeky internet when nerds got money from investors to do whatever with a domain name. Maybe it is still there, behind the wall of marketing execs.
- Comment on Dogs should have tags with the name of their owners too 3 weeks ago:
I believe they can be read by anything that can read rfid and can access the online database for information for that serial number.
- Comment on Dogs should have tags with the name of their owners too 3 weeks ago:
Here in Sweden too but my biological chip reading abilities are somewhat lacking.
“Eehh, du?” in Swedish. I’ve done it, I’ve been it.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 15 comments
- Comment on What are the differences between 1) probabillities, 2) possibillities, and 3) plausabillities? 3 weeks ago:
Coin toss:
- Heads or tails are 50/50 probability.
- It is possible that the coin lands on its side.
- It is implausible that it splits in two.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Nah. We still have the family computer that connects to the internet.
The family is pretty much just me and my dog though.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
A civilization on a planet without a moon would probably say the same about earth. I wonder how they would imagine life on our planet to be in comparison to their sad, stable moon-less lives.
- Comment on How do I save an entire website? 5 weeks ago:
If you are comfortable with command line and want to learn the Swiss army knife of such uses for future scripting and whatnot - curl.
I’m on the fly right now but search for “curl crawl web pages” and you’ll find.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Session musicians are technical instrumentalists that excel at being able to play in many different styles as requested by the producer without letting their ego get in the way.
I don’t care much for pop music, but with age I’ve reconsidered my youthful music snobbery antagonism for pop music being “unauthentic” to instead think that they excel at being entertainers with a mass appeal and that it is not necessarily a bad thing either. Not everybody has interest in seeking out auteurs. Who am I to judge how other people bring happiness into their lives.
And I’ve realised that a lot of bands that are considered “authentic” are the day job for the band members and is that one project of many that worked out well enough to be a career.
- Comment on Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up 5 weeks ago:
Regardless of opinions, this
articleopinion piece is written like by an angry teenage nerd.I don’t understand what these angry anti FF people want that keep on having weekly rants on the topic. You are free to not use the software if you don’t like it or the company or whatever. Just move on and be happy.
I’m getting tired of these haters any time Mozilla does literally anything and there is not a single constructive idea ever but the demand that Mozilla must operate like a benefactor for nerds that do not have to pay for anything ever.
Damn, I almost wish Mozilla went commercial with FF to fund the development of it just because.
- Comment on AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers 1 month ago:
Unrelated: The top bar in this article indicating the article position is so fucking stupid. Guess what the scroll bar on the right hand side is for?
- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 1 month ago:
A toddler can pretend to be good at chess but anybody with reasonable expectations knows that they are not.
- Comment on European Union funding an obfuscator 1 month ago:
Anybody using obfuscation for securing algorithms is fooling themselves. It can be useful in fringe scenarios when you know and accept the limitations but for general use it is not. There is no obfuscation clever enough that can not be broken down and figured out.
Example - delaying cracking of copy protection for the first few weeks of a game release. It will be cracked eventually though, regardless the obfuscation and protection. Nobody expects it to be secure - but complicated enough to buy some time.
Other example - obfuscating assets loader for your game app to make it slightly harder to steal the graphics for scams and knock offs. It will not stop anybody dedicated to it but it can make the lazy skip it and go for the next game instead. Nobody expects it to be secure, but it might work as a deterrent because the next bicycle has a simpler lock to cut.
Counter example - thinking you’re clever by obfuscating your homebrew cryptographic algorithm. Just don’t. Use a FOSS crypto library, learn how to secure keys and be done with it. It’s not secure or safe in any possible way ever and it is a really bad idea all over.
- Comment on Is this "artist" on spotify AI generated? 1 month ago:
Consider other streaming services than Spotify, like Deezer or Tidal or Qobuz, that pays the artist better and don’t do deceiving garbage like this.
- Comment on What if the kōan about the sound of one hand clapping is a wank joke? 1 month ago:
The little death does not risk reincarnation.
- Submitted 1 month ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on Is Reddit in/directly attacking lemmy instances with controversial AI posts to overpower mods and reduce user experience? 1 month ago:
Dude, go out for a walk. Enjoy the sun, the wind, the birds and the grass. You are overthinking things that do not exist.
- Comment on I'm looking for an article showing that LLMs don't know how they work internally 1 month ago:
Well, on the other hand. Meat bags can’t really do neuron stuff either, despite that is essential for any meat bag operation. Humans are still here though and so are dogs.
- Comment on Pro-AI Subreddit Bans 'Uptick' of Users Who Suffer from AI Delusions 1 month ago:
I’ve been trying to configure ChatGPT tell me if I’m wrong in a question or statement but damn it never does unless I keep probing for support or links. I’ve been having the feeling that it has become worse with latter models. Glad but also sad to see I was right.
Anybody know other LLM that are more trustworthy and capable of searching online for more information?
- Comment on My mom tells me I should cut dad off for cheating on her, am I a bad person for not wanting to do so? 1 month ago:
Thanks. Yeah, anything relationship oriented tends to become completely and binary moral high ground burn all bridges and salt the earth from people that have no stake in it except to have a short moment of hormones pumping before they scroll to the next bit of entertainment.