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- Comment on More than a hundred backdoored malware repos traced to single GitHub user 7 hours ago:
A lot of malware-adjacent stuff, like exploit demonstration code, has contained its own malware targeting the user. Probably best to run stuff like that in a container or VM.
- Comment on Is there anybody over here who can tell me more about smart meters ? 22 hours ago:
- Comment on Is Reddit in/directly attacking lemmy instances with controversial AI posts to overpower mods and reduce user experience? 22 hours ago:
No.
- Comment on Reddit sues Anthropic, alleging its bots accessed Reddit more than 100,000 times since last July 1 day ago:
In the filing, Reddit calls Anthropic a “late-blooming artificial intelligence (‘AI’) company that bills itself as the white knight of the AI industry,” alleging that “it is anything but.”
“This case is about the two faces of Anthropic: the public face that attempts to ingratiate itself into the consumer’s consciousness with claims of righteousness and respect for boundaries and the law, and the private face that ignores any rules that interfere with its attempts to further line its pockets.”
I mean, Reddit’s objection is that they want to sell the same data to Google to do the same training.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 1 day ago:
Thanks, fellas! I guess the first need would certainly be to fully archive the community in question, i.e.: lemm.ee/c/eurographicnovels.
Hmm. Yeah, if anyone’s posted images there to the pict-rs instance on lemm.ee, those will presumably be going down too.
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Yeah, like, you just posted this image yesterday. Like, post text federates, but other instances won’t have copies of the images.
- Comment on Is lemm.we actually shutting down? 2 days ago:
looks
Discuit isn’t a Threadiverse implementation, a la Lemmy, Piefed, and Mbin. Based on this, I don’t believe that multiple Discuit instances can even federate with themselves:
reddit.com/…/introducing_discuit_an_easy_to_use_r…
I don’t believe federated platforms will ever become mainstream. They have a whole host of problems, not the least of which is that they’re too complicated for most people to use. This platform is not, therefore, federated.
- Comment on Is lemm.we actually shutting down? 2 days ago:
lemm.ee/communities?listingType=Local
This link will specifically restrict it to communities hosted on lemm.ee.
- Comment on Meta(Facebook) and Yandex apps silently de-anonymize users’ browsing habits without consent. 2 days ago:
and it’s especially surprising coming from two companies that serve billions of users worldwide
I mean, deanonymization and data-mining costs are gonna be R&D, so they’re a fixed cost that doesn’t really scale up with the size of the userbase, so it makes more sense, financially, for a company with a larger userbase to be putting resources into it.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
You can editorialize in the body on Lemmy
Or, even better, just comment with one’s position like everyone else.
- Comment on Catbox.moe got screwed 😿 3 days ago:
Just noticed this on !technology@beehaw.org, which lemmy.world is defederated with. As I’ve seen a number of people posting using catbox.moe to host content posted on here before, thought it’d be of broader interest.
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- Comment on Star Wars Jedi director’s new studio is making a Dungeons & Dragons action adventure 3 days ago:
I like single-player D&D.
- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 3 days ago:
The North Korean government’s totalitarianism predates Ninteen Eighty-Four. North Korea might have been an input for Nineteen Eighty-Four, mind…
- Comment on This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast! 3 days ago:
I remember switching away from floppies to a–much faster, enormous—80MB hard drive. Never did come close to filling that thing.
Today, my CPU has more cache than that hard drive.
- Comment on I'm looking for an article showing that LLMs don't know how they work internally 4 days ago:
Define “know”.
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An LLM can have text describing how it works and be trained on that text and respond with an answer incorporating that.
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LLMs have no intrinsic ability to “sense” what’s going on inside them, nor even a sense of time. It’s just not an input to their state. You can build neural-net-based systems that do have such an input, but Stable Diffusion or whatever isn’t that.
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LLMs lack a lot of the mechanisms that I would call essential to be able to solve problems in a generalized way. While I think Dijkstra had a valid point:
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
…and we shouldn’t let our prejudices about how a mind “should” function internally cloud how we treat artificial intelligence…it’s also true that we can look at an LLM and say that it just fundamentally doesn’t have the ability to do a lot of things that a human-like mind can. An LLM is, at best, something like a small part of our mind. While extracting it and playing with it in isolation can produce some interesting results, there’s a lot that it can’t do on its own: it won’t, say, engage in goal-oriented behavior. Asking a chatbot questions that require introspection and insight on its part won’t yield interesting result, because it can’t really engage in introspection or insight to any meaningful degree. It has very little mutable state, unlike your mind.
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- Comment on Had a take about Supergiant Games that recieved a lot of pushback fromy two longest running best friends. 4 days ago:
I enjoyed Bastion and Transistor.
I also preferred Hades to either.
- Comment on Looking for a software suggestion 5 days ago:
I mean, at least tell them what the correct usage is.
OP, you probably want “software package” or “a piece of software”.
“Software” is a mass noun, like “butter”. You can’t have “a butter”. You can have “a pound of butter”.
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/software
Usage notes
Software is a mass noun (some software, a piece of software). By non-native speakers it is sometimes erroneously treated as a countable noun (a software, some softwares).
- Comment on X launches E2E encrypted Chat 5 days ago:
zdnet.com/…/twitter-rolls-out-encryption-for-dire…
Twitter rolls out encryption for direct messages but with key limitations
Both the sender and recipient must be verified, while group conversations and attached media aren’t supported by the encryption.
For an existing chat, tap the Info icon. If the option is available, you’ll see a button for Start an encrypted message that you can just click. For a new chat, turn on the switch to enable encrypted mode. Write your message, and then send it.
So what is the difference between what they’re rolling out and what they added in 2023? Support for more users, maybe?
- Comment on Need a second opinion on a project idea (Pi5 car headunit) 5 days ago:
I have a ~400 Wh powerbank in my car. It charges off the cigarette lighter when it needs charging and the engine is running. That greatly increases my ability to run higher loads on a short term basis, and gives me wall power. I can also haul it to a power plug and charge it if need be. It also lets me power a laptop if I’m parked.
I use my phone for navigation, and a mount for when I’m on longer trips.
I think that a Pi might make sense if you need something that a phone can’t do, more-intensive compute, but if a phone can handle it, it might be preferable, since you’re probably going to sporadically upgrade your phone anyway and probably have it with you.
- Comment on You Can’t Make an Omelette without Exploding Several Billion Dollars’ Worth of Eggs 6 days ago:
Might do better submitting to !theonion@midwest.social, as McSweeney’s is a satire website.
- Comment on Britain’s Companies Are Being Hacked 6 days ago:
Britain’sCompanies Are Being Hacked - Comment on Forced E-Waste PCs And The Case Of Windows 11’s Trusted Platform 1 week ago:
The Linux kernel not having a stable driver ABI is why Linux will never amount to anything outside of some embedded and server applications.
— Maya Posch, author of the submitted article
I guess maybe that’s their reason.
- Comment on Generative AI's most prominent skeptic doubles down 1 week ago:
“I’m skeptical of AI as it is currently practiced,” he said. "I think AI could have tremendous value, but LLMs are not the way there.
Ehhh. I don’t know if I’d go quite that far. I think that LLMs might be a component of a functional AGI. But just running a larger LLM model on bigger hardware is not going to suddenly barf out something that can act in the same sort of general way a human can, I agree there.
- Comment on Musk's Neuralink raises fresh cash at $9 billion valuation, Semafor reports 1 week ago:
I’m kind of surprised that some of the religious crowd isn’t unhappy about it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_beast
Revelation also references a charagma (χάραγμα), translated as mark of the beast:
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.— Revelation chapter 13:16–17
Some fundamentalist Christian groups, as well as various Christian writers in other traditions, interpret the mark as a requirement for all commerce to mean that the mark might actually be an object in the right hand or forehead with the function of a credit card, such as RFID microchip implants.[78] Some of these groups believe the implantation of chips may be the imprinting of the mark of the beast, prophesied to be a requirement for all trade and a precursor to God’s wrath.[79][80] Similar objections were raised about barcodes upon their introduction.[81]
During the COVID-19 pandemic, some groups associated COVID-19 vaccines and mask wearing with the mark of the beast, or that it was a microchip in the vaccine.[82] Some religious leaders spoke out against this as a misinterpretation of Revelation 13:16-18.[83] Medical institutions such as Hennepin County Medical Center noted this in their fact sheets about the vaccine.[84] A similar version was spread by Marjorie Taylor Greene, who referred to vaccine passports as being the mark of the beast.[85]
- Comment on YSK you can permanently hide entire domains from your search results with DuckDuckGo/Google/other engines through this user script 1 week ago:
On a Kagi images search, there’s an option to “View Image”, which will let you view the image directly, and then manipulate it, including saving it.
On desktop Firefox, you can save any image used by a webpage. Click on the lock icon by the URL. Click “Connection secure”. Click “More information”. Go to the “Media” tab. All images on the current webpage will be listed and saveable.
- Comment on YSK you can permanently hide entire domains from your search results with DuckDuckGo/Google/other engines through this user script 1 week ago:
It works on Google for me. Probably some search engines out there don’t use that syntax, though.
- Comment on YSK you can permanently hide entire domains from your search results with DuckDuckGo/Google/other engines through this user script 1 week ago:
Add
-site:reddit.comto your search terms?Doesn’t work if you have a ton of domains that you don’t want, but fine if it’s just one.
- Comment on YSK you can permanently hide entire domains from your search results with DuckDuckGo/Google/other engines through this user script 1 week ago:
Kagi shows the top domains that Kagi users block from their search results.
kagi.com/stats?stat=leaderboard
The seven most-blocked domains in descending order are:
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pinterest.com
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pinterest.co.uk
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pinterest.de
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pinterest.ca
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pinterest.fr
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pinterest.com.au
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pinterest.es
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- Comment on What if you used a flamethrower as a snowblower? 1 week ago:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-cpDxQFvow
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPWMluZdB4M
No Job Too Big
Our flamethrowers are designed from the ground up to tackle a job of any size.
- Snow and ice removal
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 1 week ago:
Just out of curiosity, listing the games mentioned here as of this writing and their date of release:
Release Date Game 1980 Pac-Man 1985 The Oregon Trail (assuming widely-played 1985 game) 1986 Kid Icarus 1988 Mega Man 2 1988 Super Mario Brothers 3 1988 Tetris 1988 The Guardian Legend 1989 Abadox: The Deadly Inner War 1989 Ironsword: Wizards & Warriors II 1989 Monster Party 1989 Populous 1989 Sweet Home 1990 Dr. Mario 1990 Final Fantasy III 1991 Battletoads (assuming original game) 1991 The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past 1992 Ecco the Dolphin 1992 Sonic the Hedgehog 2 1992 Super Mario Kart 1993 Dinopark Tycoon 1993 Doom 1993 Gauntlet IV 1993 Lufia & the Fortress of Doom (assuming first game) 1993 Mega Man X 1994 Donkey Kong Country 1994 Earthworm Jim 1994 Sonic & Knuckles 1994 Sonic the Hedgehog 3 1994 Super Metroid 1994 The Lion King 1995 Chrono Trigger 1997 Castlevania: Symphony of the Night 1997 Diablo 1997 Final Fantasy VII 1997 Final Fantasy VII 1997 Mega Man X4 1997 Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee 1997 Snowboard Kids 1998 Banjo-Kazooie 1998 Metal Gear Solid 1998 Sonic Adventure 1998 South Park 1998 StarCraft: Brood War 1999 Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings 1999 Heroes of Might and Magic III 1999 Planescape:Torment 1999 Quake III Arena 1999 RollerCoaster Tycoon 1999 Silent Hill 1999 Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike 1999 Sven Co-op 1999 Unreal Tournament 1999 Worms Armageddon 2000 Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 2000 Diablo II 2000 Resident Evil CODE: Veronica 2000 SimCity 3000 Unlimited 2000 Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 2001 Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies 2001 Final Fantasy X 2001 Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty 2001 Shenmue II 2002 The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind 2003 Beyond Good & Evil 2003 Need for Speed: Underground 2003 Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2004 Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War 2004 Champions of Norrath 2004 Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas 2004 Gran Turismo 4 2004 Half Life 2 2004 Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater 2004 The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap 2005 Champions: Return to Arms 2005 Psychonauts 2005 Shadow of the Colossus 2006 Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War 2006 Ōkami 2007 BioShock 2007 *Dark Souls 2007 Mass Effect 2007 Portal 2008 Clonk Rage 2008 Left 4 Dead 2008 Mirror’s Edge 2008 Super Smash Bros. Brawl 2009 Dragon Age: Origins 2009 Forza Motorsport 3 2009 Killing Floor 2009 Left 4 Dead 2 2009 Plants vs. Zombies 2009 Steins;Gate 2010 Battlefield: Bad Company 2 2010 Limbo 2010 Nier 2010 Planet Minigolf 2011 Bastion 2011 Portal 2 2011 Terraria 2011 The Binding of Isaac 2012 Hotline Miami 2012 The House in Fata Morgana 2012 Tokyo Jungle 2014 Forza Horizon 2 2014 LISA: The Painful 2015 Bloodborne 2015 Ori and the Blind Forest 2015 The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 2015 Undertale 2016 Doom (2016) 2016 Kirby: Planet Robobot 2016 Stardew VAlley 2016 The Witness 2016 Titanfall 2 2016 Tyranny 2017 Little Nightmares 2017 Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (for Deluxe version) 2017 Nier: Automata 2017 Night in the Woods 2017 Super Mario Odyssey 2017 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2018 Celeste 2018 Donut County 2018 Return of the Obra Dinn 2018 Rimworld 2018 Subnautica 2019 A Short Hike 2019 Disco Elysium 2019 Outer Wilds 2019 Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice 2019 Slay the Spire 2020 Cyberpunk 2077 2020 Factorio 2020 Hades 2021 Everhood: An Ineffable Tale of the Inexpressible Divine Moments of Truth 2021 Psychonauts 2 2022 Elden Ring 2022 Lil Gator Game 2023 Baldur’s Gate 3 2023 Dave the Diver 2024 Balatro
