Telorand
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- Comment on Self Hosting for Privacy - Importance of Owning your own Modem/Router? 1 day ago:
Oh, that’s an interesting way to do it. You’d probably have to have a handful of moderators each for the various comms, but it sounds like it would at least resist lazy engagement.
- Comment on Self Hosting for Privacy - Importance of Owning your own Modem/Router? 2 days ago:
However, if you’re going to down vote something, have the balls to explain why.
This is why downvoting is fundamentally flawed. It could be “I don’t like it” all the way up to “I know for a fact that’s wrong,” but nobody else will ever know the rationale.
I don’t even see downvotes on my instance, and I never want to, because it just raises questions and confusion.
- Comment on AI is making us think and write more alike: Large language models are standardizing human expression — and subtly influencing how we think 2 days ago:
No. If people think em-dashes are a “surefire sign” of LLMs, they’re just as dumb as the people who take LLM output uncritically. Sometimes, you need to separate a thought with something other than a period, semicolon, or parenthesis, and a hyphen or double hyphen is simply not correct grammar. LLMs can pry my em-dashes from my cold, dead fingers.
- Comment on How Much Do LLMs Hallucinate in Document Q&A Scenarios? A 172-Billion-Token Study Across Temperatures, Context Lengths, and Hardware Platforms [TLDR: 25%] 6 days ago:
You say tomato, I say tomatermort.
- Comment on How Much Do LLMs Hallucinate in Document Q&A Scenarios? A 172-Billion-Token Study Across Temperatures, Context Lengths, and Hardware Platforms [TLDR: 25%] 6 days ago:
Great, when did I say otherwise? Pareidolia is a thing humans do, because we like patterns. Finding patterns is something that has benefited our species, but it is sometimes so strong that we see faces in electrical outlets or the shape of a car’s front profile (for example).
- Comment on How Much Do LLMs Hallucinate in Document Q&A Scenarios? A 172-Billion-Token Study Across Temperatures, Context Lengths, and Hardware Platforms [TLDR: 25%] 1 week ago:
We do enjoy pareidolia, don’t we?
- Comment on How Much Do LLMs Hallucinate in Document Q&A Scenarios? A 172-Billion-Token Study Across Temperatures, Context Lengths, and Hardware Platforms [TLDR: 25%] 1 week ago:
One in 100. However, that is simple a measure of probability, so do not expect that to always be true for every 100 prompts.
For example, if you rolled a 100-sided die 100 times, it’s possible to get a one every time. In practice, it would likely be a mix. You might have a session where you get no wrong answers and times when you get several.
The problem is that ignorant people trust these models implicitly, because they sound convincing and authoritative, and many people are not equipped to be able to vet the information being generated (also notice I didn’t say “retrieved”).
- Comment on ‘Happy (and safe) shooting!’ AI chatbots helped teen users plan violence in hundreds of tests 1 week ago:
That’s what regular people never seem to understand (and the AI apologists are hoping you don’t know). These models aren’t “getting better,” they’re just filled with more reactive patches over these unintended responses. And as the models scale up, so do the holes that need patching.
It’s a never ending game of bad-prompt Whack-a-Mole, all at the cost of our environment and safety, just so the Tech Bros can try to convince venture capitalists that “AGI is definitely just around the corner, trust me, bro,” and keep that bubble filled with their own farts.
- Comment on Voiden - A Markdown based Open Source Alternative to Postman 1 week ago:
Absolutely! Not making fun, but whenever somebody brings up Emacs in earnest, this is what I think of!
- Comment on Tech industry is in tariff hell, even if refunds are automated 1 week ago:
- Comment on Voiden - A Markdown based Open Source Alternative to Postman 1 week ago:
Emacs is not that hard. You can learn Emacs in one day, every day!
- Comment on System76 on Age Verification Laws 1 week ago:
A relatively small company can’t afford to fight a protracted legal battle or simply ignore the law. They have employees with families, and $800/hr for legal representation adds up fast, not to mention potentially getting hit with $6500 fines per infraction for refusal to comply. They also can’t afford to just not sell in California, which has a huge chunk of the US population.
We don’t have to be happy about the state of things, but it’s not their fault that capitalism and authoritarianism have effectively forced them to comply.
Be upset by all means, but remember to focus your anger upon those who actually put/is putting these laws in place.
- Comment on AI vibe-coded operating system is so bad it can't even run Doom — Vib-OS can't connect to the internet, browser app is an image viewer 1 week ago:
There’s a handful of projects out there that are trying to do exactly this, by programmatically poisoning potential training data.
- Comment on Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious' 3 weeks ago:
Are you talking about The Pearl, by chance? It’s one I haven’t read, yet, but if you’re talking about another story, I’d like to read that, too!
- Comment on Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious' 3 weeks ago:
Did he throw him out? Last I knew, he basically gave Kent a blanket “no,” forcing him to go his own way.
Not arguing, just asking.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 weeks ago:
Tinykin. A hand-drawn, cute Pikmin-like, but it’s all puzzle-platforming, rather than racing against time and dealing with enemies.
Controls are tight, sprites are adorable, sound design is thoughtful, story is unique, and it’s prefect if you want a more relaxed Pikmin experience.
- Comment on Twitch splits penalties into streaming and chatting bans 3 weeks ago:
They’re talking about Twitch’s own internal moderation, not streamer-specific mod tools.
A streaming suspension applies to violations occurring during a livestream. This penalty blocks the user from going live and temporarily disables chat on their channel.
- Comment on Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products 3 weeks ago:
It was not. Poe’s Law.
They’re a complete stranger, and there are actual people who unironically say stuff like that, even on the Fediverse.
- Comment on Leaked Documents Show Meta Cracking Down on Access to Abortion Information 3 weeks ago:
Omfg, don’t talk to Meta’s chatbot. Period. Don’t use Facebook.
I can’t believe it’s 2026, and people still think Meta somehow has any neutrality—after it’s been demonstrated time and again that they aren’t just accidentally bad, they’re actively malicious.
- Comment on Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as shops warn it's being stolen to order 3 weeks ago:
“It was razors, cheese, coffee. Today, these people that are taking stock from convenience stores, from supermarkets, it’s taken to order. So chocolate is primetime now.”
It is not lost on me that the setting of 1984 takes place in a conquered England where chocolate rations are regularly reduced, nor is it lost that people in “Airstrip One,” the new name for England, are constantly trying to acquire necessities and specifically razor blades.
The fact that people are stealing these items in particular is concerning.
- Comment on Ladybird Browser adopts Rust, with help from AI 3 weeks ago:
Sigh of course it’s a Nordic thing. I should have guessed. White nationalists also love other Heathen/Norse symbolism.
Good to be careful, so thanks for educating me.
- Comment on Ladybird Browser adopts Rust, with help from AI 3 weeks ago:
Can you explain why you feel that way? “Hyperborea” is not a term I’m familiar with vis a vis Nazism.
- Comment on Ladybird Browser adopts Rust, with help from AI 3 weeks ago:
Join an instance without downvotes, and you’ll never have to care about them again.
- Comment on Ladybird Browser adopts Rust, with help from AI 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for the reference!
- Comment on Is the AI hype still on or have the models plateaued? 3 weeks ago:
Because I’m tired of people making flimsy arguments for why LLMs are “akshully really good and underrated.” I’m tired of regular people, wittingly or unwittingly, carrying water for the billionaires who are currently fucking over the economy, the environment, and even entire supply chains in an effort to show—against all evidence to the contrary—that LLMs are much more than fancy chatbots.
It has been an incessant drone of sloppy arguments and omitted facts, and I am tired, boss.
- Comment on Is the AI hype still on or have the models plateaued? 3 weeks ago:
Obviously, my mini-benchmark only had 6 questions, and I ran it only once. This was obviously not scientifically rigorous. However it was systematic enough to trump just a mere feeling. … If and when AI usage expands from here, we might actually not drown in AI slop as chances of accidentally crappy results decrease. This makes me positive about the future.
Spoken like a true AI apologist. You ran one test, and you extrapolated your results to an optimistic outcome that conspicuously matches what you wish to be true. Not scientifically rigorous? Bruh, this is the very definition of confirmation bias.
If this is actually a hypothesists you want to test, maybe contact some computer science researchers to see how to best design an experiment. Beyond that, this is virtually the same as flipping a coin once and drawing a conclusion about how often heads is the outcome.
- Comment on AI bots may lead to the end of the internet as we know it 3 weeks ago:
I know it sucks, but drunken starfish got me lol
- Comment on AI bots may lead to the end of the internet as we know it 3 weeks ago:
NYC Mesh!
There’s likely others, but this one has been around for about a decade and is still operational.
- Comment on AI bots may lead to the end of the internet as we know it 3 weeks ago:
Makes me wonder if the future of the internet is federated network hardware. There’s already efforts in bigger cities to distribute mesh networks (especially to lower-income areas), so it doesn’t seem like a far leap to create an internet by users and for users.
- Comment on The creator of systemd wants your entire system validated by SecureBoot 3 weeks ago:
Anyway, somebody working for Microsoft isn’t proof positive that they share the values of Microsoft (unless you’re in upper admin); you’re not guilty by association. People generally need to work to eat in this capitalist hellscape, and FOSS doesn’t tend to pay well.
