knightly
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- Comment on Australian police beat an opposition politician so badly that she might lose an eye -- simply for being at an anti-genocide protest. 16 hours ago:
Why?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Likewise! I know the idea isn’t practical, I just love all the weirdness that comes with taking something that’s only technically feasible and pushing that thought to extremes. XD
- Comment on 1 week ago:
You can shave off most of that 100 million years using variation breeding. No need to wait around for random chance to happen when a little radiation can trigger as many mutations as we want.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Yes you can, it just takes a lot more effort to get the right random mutation.
- Comment on Summer dad bod. 2 weeks ago:
All of them, lol~.
But for real, I’ve been working in web hosting and related fields for over 15 years and the enshittification is still accelerating. It’s long past time to stop relying on centrally hosted sites and start working on decentralized services.
- Comment on Summer dad bod. 2 weeks ago:
I’m one of those people! =D
- Comment on Australian reporter covering Los Angeles immigration protests hit by rubber bullet on live TV 2 weeks ago:
My middle school English teacher would have failed me for the overuse of passive voice like this.
- Comment on Wish I could get free drinks with my shirt off 2 weeks ago:
I’m enby, taking my shirt off is like flipping a coin.
- Comment on /ᐠ｡ꞈ｡ᐟ\ 3 weeks ago:
They’re hopeless, I can pad out my bra to C-cups but unless I swap my tee shirts and jeans for blouses and skirts they can never tell. XD
- Comment on The joy of quitting a shit job with an asshole boss 3 weeks ago:
If businesses wanted stability they wouldn’t make the working conditions so bad.
- Comment on The joy of quitting a shit job with an asshole boss 3 weeks ago:
You must live in a civilized country.
America is not a civilized country.
- Comment on What is something you like to tell people? 3 weeks ago:
They did that on purpose. “Cashless” just means giving a middleman the opportunity to take a cut.
- Comment on What is something you like to tell people? 3 weeks ago:
Buy local, use cash.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
You’re an indie, stop worrying about piracy costing you sales and start worrying about the people who’ve never heard of you but would buy your game if they did.
If anything, you should be encouraging piracy as a marketing strategy to help get your name out there. Anonymity is a bigger cause of lost sales than piracy ever could be.
- Comment on As my southern inlaws used to say, "cut that light on". 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Cold Callers phoning during work hours and then not accepting your at work and can't spend 30 mins listening to their script. 5 weeks ago:
The vindictive American in me always feigns interest to try and waste as much of their time as possible. When they inevitably hang up, I call them back and ask to be connected to Fatima (there is always a Fatima).
- Comment on can you say “what it means?” as proper english? 5 weeks ago:
Likewise!
Are you familiar with the best kep secret in English, Adjective Ordering?
- Comment on Business Insider is tracking employees’ ChatGPT usage as part of a new AI push: An enterprise version of ChatGPT is now available to all staff, with 70% using the tool “regularly.” 5 weeks ago:
I just say that I do, but I actually didn’t touch Copilot for so long that my license expired. XD
- Comment on Japan shows off futuristic 'railgun' at defence expo 5 weeks ago:
And then some, of course. The advantage of energy weapons is the speed of light, but they have negligible kinetic energy and zero penetration, relying on surface heating to cause damage. It typically takes them several seconds on target to knock out a drone, and even longer on missiles designed for hypersonic flight.
- Comment on Japan shows off futuristic 'railgun' at defence expo 5 weeks ago:
Doubtful, given that they are ridiculously expensive and can only manage a handfull of shots before the railgun rails burn out. The GAO says that military laser weapons still cost somewhere between $1 and $10 per shot, making them 2 to 20 times more expensive than regular bullets.
- Comment on When will all the folks complaining about loss of Snap and health insurance realize the GOP wants us to die and has ZERO empathy for fellow Americans? 5 weeks ago:
And we wouldn’t have it any other way~
- Comment on 🎶cowboys are frequently, secretly fond of each other🎵 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think I fit their demographic. XD
- Comment on Improving the Fediverse to allow it to actually take over the social media space. 5 weeks ago:
I cannot, and they can’t stand me either because I’ve deleted more bitcoin than most of them will ever see and I’ve personally killed roughly $5million in crypto scams before they could get off the ground. XD
- Comment on Improving the Fediverse to allow it to actually take over the social media space. 5 weeks ago:
It could have been, there’s nothing preventing such a network from providing a degree of anonymity by leaving your signature out of a post and adding a few increments to the distance on its onion route to obfuscate the source.
- Comment on Improving the Fediverse to allow it to actually take over the social media space. 5 weeks ago:
IMO, it isn’t decentralized enough. The federated model is better than centralized corporate services, of course, but it still suffers many of the same pitfalls in microcosm. We need private, encrypted friend-to-friend connections that enable friend-of-a-friend onion routing to those outside one’s personal social circle to effectively mimic how real human social networks actually work. The only middlemen we need are the friends we made along the way.
- Comment on Grok’s “white genocide” obsession came from “unauthorized” prompt edit, xAI says 1 month ago:
Incorrect. The people who designed it did not set out with a goal of producing a bot that reguritates true information. If that’s what they wanted they’d never have used a neural network architecture in the first place.
- Comment on Grok’s “white genocide” obsession came from “unauthorized” prompt edit, xAI says 1 month ago:
“Unintentionally” is the wrong word, because it attributes the intent to the model rather than the people who designed it.
Hallucinations are not an accidental side effect, they are the inevitable result of building a multidimensional map of human language use. People hallucinate, lie, dissemble, write fiction, misrepresent reality, etc. Obviously a system that is designed to map out a human-sounding path from a given system prompt to a particular query is going to take those same shortcuts that people used in its training data.
- Comment on Google to Integrate Gemini AI into Android Auto for Smarter In-Car Experience 1 month ago:
I upgraded to an older car that doesn’t have any of that nonsense.
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 1 month ago:
No
