Telorand
@Telorand@reddthat.com
- Comment on Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious' 1 day 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' 1 day 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? 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day 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 2 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 days ago:
Thanks for the reference!
- Comment on Is the AI hype still on or have the models plateaued? 3 days 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 days 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 4 days 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 5 days 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 5 days 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 5 days 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.
- Comment on Flood of vibe-coded/slopware spam? 6 days ago:
I don’t know that I’d be on board for clamping to zero. You would have to decide if you are going to have a weighted zero (i.e. secret negative tally), and if so, why bother with clamping? If not, why have downvotes?
Scoring just demonstrates popularity. It’s a voluntary poll, and it has no bearing on the quality or validity of someone’s comment. I’ve seen good posts go unnoticed, and I’ve seen bad ones get lots of points. Voluntary polls are almost useless as a metric, and especially for a system like this one where all you have to do is click a button, it’s even less useful than one where you are required to write a statement about why you voted the way you did.
I’m not saying people shouldn’t be allowed to have downvotes as a way to gauge popularity, if that’s a metric they want to use to filter their content, nor do I think they should be forced to experience the Fediverse my way. I am however saying that reporting helps everyone, regardless of whether downvoting is enabled or not (plus it has the added benefit of potentially removing content that doesn’t belong; server space is a premium here, after all). We have options here on the Fediverse, and it’s a small ask to use the reporting feature and not assume there’s a “correct” or “standard” way to experience Lemmy. We can create something better than Reddit.
- Comment on Flood of vibe-coded/slopware spam? 6 days ago:
Not having. Enforcing.
- Comment on Flood of vibe-coded/slopware spam? 6 days ago:
If better means “more inclusive,” then yes. It’s better. Did I say to stop downvoting? No. Did I tell people to abandon their downvoting-enabled instances? No (though have a look and see how I’ve been told multiple times to leave mine).
Dunno why people are hellbent on excluding people who don’t want optional downvotes when non-optional reporting exists.
But do go on about how I’m excluding the poor instances with downvotes by recommending an inclusive action that they also benefit from.
- Comment on Flood of vibe-coded/slopware spam? 6 days ago:
It’s not basic functionality. It’s optional, and I don’t want it. So, no thank you.
The insistence that everybody experience the Fediverse in a particular way is what makes centralized services garbage and prone to enshittification.
- Comment on Flood of vibe-coded/slopware spam? 6 days ago:
If you mean a mod from this comm, I’d love some clarity on this matter, too.
But as a general application, what would that tell you? Moderators aren’t some special class of people; they’re regular people who volunteer.
The better question is: what would you do if you were a moderator? Would you want to review and remove a post that was potentially AI slop, or would you keep it and let users rely on downvotes and sorting?
For my part, if a particular community’s mods aren’t interested in clamping down on AI slop, then I know where I don’t want to be.
- Comment on Flood of vibe-coded/slopware spam? 6 days ago:
You’re supposed to report posts that break instance or community rules, not whatever you happen to consider to be “bad faith”.
This isn’t Reddit. Mods aren’t beholden to some set of standards handed down by moneyed interests. They’re real people with (hopefully) common sense and a desire to create something better than Reddit.
Besides, even if your instance has disabled downvotes, other instances can still see them.
That’s my point. If instances like mine can’t see downvotes, it’s excluding people like me, because people can’t be bothered to report. Furthermore, all it is is a popularity contest. “A bunch of people don’t like it” is no guarantee you won’t, nor does it demonstrate that the content is in fact garbage; it just shows a bunch of people don’t like it.
- Comment on Flood of vibe-coded/slopware spam? 6 days ago:
On your instance, yes. Those downvotes get dropped on my side, so I can’t see them, and neither can anyone else on a non-downvote instance. My proposal would address the issue of slop for everyone, whereas downvote proponents are just saying, “Yeah, well my way is better. Lemmy is only for people who do it my way.”
If this thread is a lesson in anything, it’s that the bad habits of Reddit carried over, and people are so fucking lazy, they can’t be bothered to click the report button.
- Comment on Flood of vibe-coded/slopware spam? 6 days ago:
I fundamentally disagree with downvotes, so changing instances isn’t an option. Just report it. It helps everyone and it removes it from the Fediverse, not just pushes it to the bottom of a list by the arbitrary metric of popularity.
- Comment on Flood of vibe-coded/slopware spam? 6 days ago:
No. My instance doesn’t have downvotes. You downvoting a post does nothing for instances like mine.
Report that shit instead. There’s no reason it needs to stay on the Fediverse.
- Comment on Flood of vibe-coded/slopware spam? 6 days ago:
My instance has downvotes turned off (which I like). That action only benefits people who care about downvotes.
The better option that helps everyone is to report bad faith posts.
- Comment on Flood of vibe-coded/slopware spam? 6 days ago:
So yes. Use the report tool and downvote it to oblivion.
My instance doesn’t have downvotes, so reporting is the most effective remedy for everyone’s benefit
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can’t Trust His Testimony. 1 week ago:
It was originally built to creep on college women, so creeping on its users more generally now is just a continuation of exactly what it was built for.
- Comment on Countries that do not embrace AI could be left behind, says OpenAI’s George Osborne 1 week ago:
Waiting for the AI rapture to take all these fuckwits away.