Jayjader
@Jayjader@jlai.lu
- Comment on Spidertron model from factorio game 1 day ago:
At least they aren’t green tips!
- Comment on Suggestions for Community Organizing 6 days ago:
Also, no federation on the NodeBB/piefed unless/until the users overwhelmingly ask for it.
- Comment on Suggestions for Community Organizing 6 days ago:
NodeBB or maybe piefed to host announcements and provide a place for questions and feedback.
Consider creating an account for each household with a “correct horse battery staple” style password that’s easy to input on mobile, print out a little slip of paper with an explanation blurb and account name & password, and deposit in their mailbox.
Do not expect any users until you’ve hosted several game nights that had multiple attendees. From what you say you are the events committee, not the online life committee. I would thus recommend to stay focused on events until people bring up, unprompted, a desire for more casual day-to-day interactions. You want to be integrating into their existing habits, not trying to replace them. Let the “switching” happen on their own initiative lest they feel like they’re being co-opted for your own personal agenda.
- Comment on ActivityPub Client API: A Way Forward 1 week ago:
Interestingly, that page cites vocata as related work
- Comment on typical lemmy users on their way to work 1 week ago:
how delightful
great dedication to the bit - Comment on I played Mists of Noyah, and let me tell you... 1 week ago:
Thank you for going to the effort of typing out this review. I hope the catharsis it gave you makes up (in part) for the torment the gameplay inflected upon you.
If you haven’t already, I suggest posting this review on steam; the specificity of your complaints is valuable feedback on the off-chance the devs care about making “good” games and I imagine few prospective buyers will find this fedi post.
- Comment on what do y'all use for CI/CD? 1 week ago:
I dislike yaml as much as the next person, but you can always “just” write Jason. Unless I’m misunderstanding your criticism?
- Comment on what do y'all use for CI/CD? 1 week ago:
Forgejo has their own runner: forgejo.org/docs/latest/…/runner-installation/
I’ve used it on my personal machine, was very easy to setup and mostly compatible with GitHub actions out-of-the-box (including things like
actions/checkout@v4). - Comment on Having a rough morning. I'm still pondering the question about beavers, and my kid asks me THIS 1 week ago:
Then there’s kids like me, who would daydream about actually being a fae changeling.
It’s not even as if my parents didn’t love me, I was just a weird kid who was more comfortable being weird than fitting in.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I see a new post. I click, I read, I scroll on. I am the lurker.
#haiku (<- test to see how far this propagates in the mastodon / microblogging part of the fediverse)
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 weeks ago:
Played a bit more of the Lizardmen campaign in Total War: Warhammer 2 (easy campaign difficulty and normal battle difficulty). It feels really good when an in-depth-planned deployment and battle plan turns a predicted “valiant defeat” into a “close victory”. The constant tension between expansion and territorial defense is surprisingly hard to balance, especially with the “main quest” events that spawn Chaos armies a few turns’ march from your capital. The most frustrating so far is how the option to confederate with other Lizardmen factions only seems to be possible if you have no preexisting diplomatic ties - as soon as you sign even a pact of non-aggression the option simply disappears from the diplomacy menu despite good relations/standing.
I’ve also been playing a bit of Old School RuneScape. The quest line(s) involving the Humans Against Monsters association hit a bit deeper given current events IRL…
I’m thinking of giving Project Zomboid another try. I wish I had someone to play it with, zombie apocalypse games are much more fun when you can roleplay as a group of survivors (and diversify your skills).
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 weeks ago:
[Disco Elysium] takes a lot of energy and a specific mood to play
Totally! In my experience you need to be depressed, in no small part because of People, and waiting on the final thing that will push you over the edge and make you give up on them entirely, for the game to best resonate with you. You need to love Humanity and yet be weary of her, to have hope and yet be terminally cynical about anything good ever happening.
It’s almost like the game was designed as therapeutic deprogramming for bitter activists. Then again, I might just be projecting my own experience and perspective.
- Comment on Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It 2 weeks ago:
As well as 200 miles from every international airport inside the US.
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 2 weeks ago:
Given the stochastic nature of LLMs and the pseudo-darwinian nature of their training process, I sometimes wonder if geneticists wouldn’t be more suited to interpreting LLM output than programmers.
- Comment on Mastodon features 3 weeks ago:
It is, but maybe they mean they want no limit whatsoever on post length.
which, well, if your instance starts sending out megabyte-sized text posts I don’t expect it to stay federated with many others for very long.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 3 weeks ago:
I’ll be honest, that “Iceberg Index” study doesn’t convince me just yet. It’s entirely built off of using LLMs to simulate human beings and the studies they cite to back up the effectiveness of such an approach are in paid journals that I can’t access. I also can’t figure out how exactly they mapped which jobs could be taken over by LLMs other than looking at 13k available “tools” (from MCPs to Zapier to OpenTools) and deciding which of the Bureau of Labor’s 923 listed skills they were capable of covering. Technically, they asked an LLM to look at the tool and decide the skills it covers, but they claim they manually reviewed this LLM’s output so I guess that counts.
Project Iceberg addresses this gap using Large Population Models to simulate the human–AI labor market, representing 151 million workers as autonomous agents executing over 32,000 skills across 3,000 counties and interacting with thousands of AI tools
from iceberg.mit.edu/report.pdf
Large Population Models is arxiv.org/abs/2507.09901 which mostly references github.com/AgentTorch/AgentTorch, which gives as an example of use the following:
user_prompt_template = "Your age is {age} {gender},{unemployment_rate} the number of COVID cases is {covid_cases}." # Using Langchain to build LLM Agents agent_profile = "You are a person living in NYC. Given some info about you and your surroundings, decide your willingness to work. Give answer as a single number between 0 and 1, only."
The whole thing perfectly straddles the line between bleeding-edge research and junk science for someone who hasn’t been near academia in 7 years like myself. Most of the procedure looks like they know what they’re doing, but if the entire thing is built on a faulty premise then there’s no guaranteeing any of their results.
In any case, none of the authors for the recent study are listed in that article on the previous study, so this isn’t necessarily a case of MIT as a whole changing it’s tune.
(The recent article also feels like a DOGE-style ploy to curry favor with the current administration and/or AI corporate circuit, but that is a purely vibes-based assessment I have of the tone and language, not a meaningful critique)
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 3 weeks ago:
I would love to read that study, as going off of your comment I could easily see it being a case of “more than 10% of jobs are bullshit jobs à la David Graeber so having an « AI » do them wouldn’t meaningfully change things” rather than “more than 10% of what can’t be done by previous automation now can be”.
- Comment on CompSci freshmen will relate 4 weeks ago:
Powers of two per knuckle? I’m curious what the method is.
- Comment on Can you explain your grad school research to relatives over Thanksgiving Dinner? - Journal of Astrological Big Data Ecology 4 weeks ago:
If I’m understanding your comment correctly, wavelets are a kind of discrete and/or finite quantization of the “full” infinite Fourier transform, by way of using more complex “basis vectors” than pure sine waves?
Very cool and thanks for the reading recommendation!
- Comment on Is there a formalized ban appeal process for the fediverse? Do I just direct message a mod? 1 month ago:
I want to chime in on the subject of community sidebars.
To my understanding, many of the mobile apps people use to interact with the fediverse (and more specifically the threadiverse) haven’t figured out a great way to render community sidebar content in a way that a new user knows that it exists. Sidebar content is accessible, but often hidden in a sub menu or a non-obvious interaction. I use Boost, for example; in it you swipe inwards from the right side of the screen to slide the sidebar into view. This isn’t surprising to me, a somewhat veteran Reddit user that expects communities to have sidebars and for those sidebars to be on the right side of the screen. However a user that doesn’t already know about community sidebars has almost no way of discovering their existence when they use Boost. Mobile apps have limited screen width so they tend to focus on their “principal use” (visiting a community to browse their posts), but if you don’t know that communities have sidebars in which they describe themselves and their posting and commenting rules it’s very easy to end up in OP’s position.
Not to excuse their comments nor question their ban; I agree with the decision by the mods of c/196 to not spend any more effort dealing with such an oblivious user.
I suspect many Lemmy clients are designed for experienced users who already know how to navigate the space(s) and how they function. Yet much of the “how do we introduce new people to the fediverse and onboard them?” discussions I’ve seen seem to settle on “suggest a generalist instance like LW or .zip, suggest a mobile app like Voyager, and make them start browsing! Newbs are put off by having to do work like read up on an instance”. I wonder how much this end up contributing to creating cases like OP’s.
Then again, !womensstuff@piefed.blahaj.zone was plagued for over a year by men claiming they were “just responding to posts in their /all feeds”. When told about the community’s rules and sidebar, the most common response was along the lines of “I can’t be bothered to read the community name before commenting on a post in my feed, now I need to navigate to the community and find their sidebar?? This community should find a way to prevent their posts from appearing in /all instead”. If these users aren’t going to the effort of reading the community name as displayed on posts then there’s no guarantee they would read community sidebars even if they were already on-screen, in front of their eyeballs.
Even in the comments on this post I can see the argument that basically boils down to “spaces that don’t cater to me should also bear the effort of keeping out of my way” being voiced.
- Comment on The wonder of the sea 1 month ago:
My experience as a TF2 n00b in public lobbies
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 1 month ago:
In France we’ve had a few white trash rappers take a decidedly punk slant. Ptite Soeur and Gemroz came out with the album Kayfabe Chimera about a year ago ; the track “Kayfabe” is, to me, full of punk messaging. Femtogo has more recently collabed with Ptite Soeur and the album they released, Pretty Dollcorpse, also has a decidedly punk message.
In terms of “old-school” punk music, you might find better recommendations on mastodon /the blogiverse rather than here on lemmy/the threadiverse.
- Comment on Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter 1 month ago:
According to this article written in July, it’s a bit more dire than that if you take a step or two back. Basically, openai and their copycats/derivatives are being held up by investments from Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta, who in turn are being held up by investments from Nvidia. If/when the whole chain collapses it’ll be more than 0.5% of earnings that disappear.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 1 month ago:
Not that I disagree, just as someone who loves computers and programming it really feels like throwing out the baby along with the bathwater.
We could (should imo) be planning a sort of overthrow of the rich assholes who don’t share; make sure everyone has access to a computer, the electricity need to run it, and the knowledge to use it to their own benefit.
The second, longer quote in my previous comment is from the intro to a computer self-help/“how-to” book, Without Me You Are Nothing (pdf link).
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 1 month ago:
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” – Frank Herbert
“Right now there is an explosive growth of the number of computers and things they can do. Not only are their numbers increasing at a dazzling rate, but the storage of information in giant data banks is growing in the same explosive way.
We have no way to control this now and none in sight. In fact, the very nature of this growth says that all controls will lag far behind computer developments. Any attempt to ban them will only drive com- puters underground. Never lose sight of the fact that computers “crunch time.” The speed at which computers can operate tells us that laws cannot keep up with them. The person with a computer can dance rings around you while you react as though you were embedded in molasses.
What can you do?
Get your own computer. Learn how to use it. We are here to help you make that first step: how to find the one that fits your needs and your pocketbook, where to put it, how to program it-all of the essentials. If you don’t do this, the Bill of Rights is dead and your individual liberties will go the way of the dodo.” – also Frank Herbert
I hate how much we seem to be slowly careening towards Frank Herbert’s vision like the worse case of collective target fixation.
- Comment on Piping mouse 1 month ago:
The last time I saw this meme, someone commented that these bags are made and used so that the mouse can be euthanized after an experiment. Supposedly this holds the mouse in place so that it can be “cleanly” decapitated.
- Comment on Dwarf Tyrant vs Tyrant^2: Who would win? 2 months ago:
So it weighs as much as a rhino, for small values of “a rhino’s weight”!
- Comment on 2 months ago:
It’s a very clever follow-up to their previous project, the fediverse schema observatory (also mentioned in the Last Week in Fediverse published October 30th of last year).
- Comment on Fucking math... 2 months ago:
Ah, a man of science!
- Comment on Like father... 2 months ago:
I have no firm convictions towards or against theism, but learning this in school really made me go “I can’t believe God was this lazy”.