Deebster
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- Comment on Why are you here and not on Reddit? 1 day ago:
Not using Lemmy, but there are other options that can do both thread/Reddit style and microblog/Twitter style like mbin. Personally, I find them so different that I’m happy to stick with different accounts on different sites.
- Comment on Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host 1 week ago:
Also there’s that a file on a cloud service might change. E.g. Amazon sometimes updates ebook covers to advertise that there’s a show - even for those who have paid extra to have the ad-free option.
E.g. the sticker-type graphic on this and that the title is updated to “The Fires Of Heaven: Book 5 of the Wheel of Time (Now a major TV series)”:
Image - Comment on Self-hosting is having a moment. Ethan Sholly knows why. 1 week ago:
Podlet is really useful in this area.
- Comment on xkcd #3093: Drafting 2 weeks ago:
It’s a wiki, so there’ll always be troll edits.
- Comment on xkcd #3092: Baker's Units 2 weeks ago:
It’s a shame that it looks a bit stupid in Voyager (post title and link are both next to each other and the same) but hopefully it’s an outlier.
- Comment on xkcd #3090: Sail Physics 2 weeks ago:
If you upload an image, the URL field is populated with the URL of the uploaded image, so there’s not really multiple fields like it appears.
I can definitely change the template, although I won’t edit the bot before the next comic which might be any second now.
- Comment on xkcd #3090: Sail Physics 2 weeks ago:
Bot author here - I thought that the current implementation was a big improvement because it meant you didn’t have to load up an external website but I should have known that not everyone would be happy!
Looking at the votes for the comments for and against this idea, it looks like if it went to a vote the current setup would win, but I’ll think about how it can be improved.
- Comment on xkcd #3090: Sail Physics 2 weeks ago:
I had tried that before (when posting manually) but didn’t think it worked very well. I’ve edited it in to this post. to test.
It’s also not technically the alt text, it’s the title text, but I’m not sure many people care about the distinction.
- Comment on Student Demands Tuition Refund After Catching Professor Using ChatGPT - Slashdot 3 weeks ago:
This is a great use of AI and it’s caught some small errors like the wrong its (which is one I find distracting when reading). The editing is light enough that it’s still your voice, just with extra punctuation and fewer typos.
- Comment on Stop Internet Searching and Start Asking on Fediverse? 3 weeks ago:
You’re right, and it’s infuriating that the AI scrapers are just so lazy/incompetent that they do things like try to scrape every dynamic page of a git repo instead of just cloning it. Similarly, they could just connect over ActivityPub and it wouldn’t have much more overhead than another private instance.
There’s Anubis which uses JavaScript to force browsers to do some work before they can access, but given how unpopular Cloudflare is around here, I imagine there’d be a lot of complaints if it was deployed on every instance.
- Comment on Thousands of chickens euthanized in South Africa after they were left starving and eating each other 4 weeks ago:
Culling took a real toll on the staff
I can believe it, I would be surprised if some of them have PTSD from this, having to triage and kill most of those starving birds.
- Comment on I repurposed an old phone into a portable Atari 2600 for my mom 5 weeks ago:
It says it’s wireless, but I’m not sure what it’s using - I’m guessing something custom enough that the dongle is necessary.
- Comment on rss feed 5 weeks ago:
wHAT WOULD rANDALL DO?
- Comment on rss feed 5 weeks ago:
The caps lock makes sense! A key logger will get confused when you type your passwords in.
- Comment on xkcd #3082: Chess Position 5 weeks ago:
I think it will be, thank you very much.
- Comment on xkcd #3082: Chess Position 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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? 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Five downvotes and counting…
- Comment on ‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.
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- Comment on WhatsApp now lets you block people from exporting your entire chat history 1 month 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 month 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) 1 month 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) 1 month ago:
Not your post, either ;) We’re c/selfhosted around these parts.
- Comment on US defends tariffs on remote island of penguins and seals 1 month 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.
