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- Comment on xkcd #3082: Chess Position 11 hours ago:
It looks like @koraro@lemmy.world isn’t around any more, so I guess it’s unmoderated around here (aside from the LW admins).
- Comment on xkcd #3082: Chess Position 11 hours ago:
Can’t the/a bot post here where everyone’s already subbed? If you give me a bit of time, I could get one written.
- Comment on ‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw 21 hours ago:
I’m not understanding why that’s an appropriate name, but maybe I need to learn more about butterflies.
- Comment on Do British people say "brr" when they're cold? If so, how do they pronounce the R? 3 days ago:
Tbh, I don’t think you really understand how the non-rhotic accent works. In this case, the /r/ would be fully pronounced, as if would be at the start of a word. Say bread, elongate the r and skip the ed part and you have what it sounds like.
If you’re very used to hearing the bunched r, it still might sound softer, but even in the USA (where most people use it) it’s still common to hear retroflex r there.
I’m ignoring the other r sounds, but you do find a lot of them across the various regional English accents.
- Comment on ‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw 4 days ago:
This is a great example - it kinda makes sense if you skim read it but butterflies have nothing to do with butter, just like hotdogs have nothing to do with dogs.
- Comment on ‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw 4 days ago:
Five downvotes and counting…
- Comment on ‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw 4 days ago:
LLMs are already being used for policy making, business decisions, software creation and the like. The issue is bigger than summarisers, and “hallucinations” are a real problem when they lead to real decisions and real consequences.
If you can’t imagine why this is bad, maybe read some Kafka or watch some Black Mirror.
- Comment on ‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw 4 days ago:
My friends would probably say something like “I’ve never heard that one, but I guess it means something like …”
The problem is, these LLMs don’t give any indication when they’re making stuff up versus when repeating an incontrovertible truth. Lots of people don’t understand the limitations of things like Google’s AI summary* so they will trust these false answers. Harmless here, but often not.
* I’m not counting the little disclaimer because we’ve been taught to ignore smallprint from being faced with so much of it
- Comment on ‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw 4 days ago:
I found that trying “some-nonsense-phrase meaning” won’t always trigger the idiom interpretation, but you can often change it to something more saying-like.
I also found that trying in incognito mode had better results, so perhaps it’s also affected by your settings. Maybe it’s regional as well, or based on your search result. And, as AI’s non-deterministic, you can’t expect it to always work.
- Submitted 4 days ago to technology@lemmy.world | 111 comments
- Comment on WhatsApp now lets you block people from exporting your entire chat history 5 days ago:
“We think this feature is best used when talking with groups where you may not know everyone closely but are nevertheless sensitive in nature,”
Sounds like Meta wants to be used for the next Houti strike coordination group chat.
- Comment on [**SPOILERS FOR LD 5x07 Fully Dialated**] >! Look at Lower Decks gettings all authentic... 1 week ago:
I didn’t think it sounded anything like him and then saw that it was Brent Spiner’s voice.
- Comment on This Week in Self-Hosted (11 April 2025) 2 weeks ago:
I had “install Linkwarden” on my todo list; Hoarder/Karakeep seems very similar, does anyone have opinions on which is better?
- Comment on This Week in Self-Hosted (11 April 2025) 2 weeks ago:
Not your post, either ;) We’re c/selfhosted around these parts.
- Comment on US defends tariffs on remote island of penguins and seals 2 weeks ago:
Ok, but is there a possibility of there being a loophole here? Could you transfer cargo without a port? Is it required to use a different ship to be considered as coming from that island, or is there something equivalent to changing the flag and sailing onwards?
I’m assuming that the explanation is just covering up incompetence (and providing an excuse that passes if you don’t use critical thinking skills), but that’s only my assumption. Much of my knowledge about international shipping zones from Wendover videos, so I know I’m no expert.
- Comment on US defends tariffs on remote island of penguins and seals 2 weeks ago:
I’m assuming that these uninhabited islands don’t have a port and so this is an impossible scenario, but I don’t know enough about international shipping to be sure.
- Comment on I still use a Palm Pilot in 2025, and you should, too 4 weeks ago:
I still rememberb the Palm Pilot input alphabet - every letter is represented by a single stroke and it was fast-enough and very accurate.
- Comment on C64 Retro Battlestation 4 weeks ago:
They always used to break for us, and we’d have to go back to the trusty Competition Pro
- Comment on AI Programming Assistant Tells User to Stop Being Lazy and Learn to Code 5 weeks ago:
Not that it couldn’t be faked, but here’s the bug report with screenshot: forum.cursor.com/t/…/61132
- Comment on Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives. 5 weeks ago:
So they rewrote Nepenthes (or Iocaine, Spigot, Django-llm-poison, Quixotic, Konterfai, Caddy-defender, plus inevitably some Rust versions)
- Comment on The Fediverse is what social media should be 2 months ago:
I liked that you didn’t bring up the email comparison until fairly late - lots of people reach for it very early in their explanations, but it’s so different to what the Fediverse offers that I think it just confuses people.
I raised my eyebrows clear off my head when you said that the different instances interact “seamlessly”, but you did loop back and give a more nuanced/honest account. Good stuff!
- Comment on What is your favorite retro racing game? 2 months ago:
- Single player: Stunt Car Racer on the Amiga
- Multiplayer: Super Skidmarks also on the Amiga
- Comment on In the US, it's finally socially acceptable again to clap when the plane lands 2 months ago:
I thank the driver too, but I don’t think they’d take it as a compliment if I showed relief that they didn’t crash.
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- Comment on Lindsey Graham warns US allies over Netanyahu warrant: "Crush your economy" 5 months ago:
Attacking inconvenient legal institutions, straight out of the fascist playbook.
- Comment on D-Link refuses to patch yet another security flaw, suggests users just buy new routers — D-Link told users to replace NAS last week 5 months ago:
I watched and enjoyed that one yesterday, and he’s bang on the money. People here are saying “well it’s EoL” but that means it’s got all the way through development and its full lifetime with such a prominent set of bugs.
I don’t think I’ll be buying D-Link if that’s what supported means.
- Submitted 5 months ago to securitynews@infosec.pub | 0 comments
- Comment on Reporters Without Borders sues X 5 months ago:
makes sense or is reasonable
That’s getting less and less relevant every day.
- Comment on Reporters Without Borders sues X 5 months ago:
It’s a bit stilted and no-one would speak like that (at least without sounding pretentious), but it’s not bad grammar.
Also, shame on the moron that downvoted you for asking a question.
