mozz
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- Comment on YouTube to restrict teenagers’ exposure to videos about weight and fitness 2 months ago:
What about blending tutorials tho
- Comment on Looking for advice on PC build for programming 2 months ago:
Low level programming C
Could be pretty much any computer
rust
Need a lot of memory (8-16 GB) if you are planning on dissecting any existing projects
Machine Learning programming with Python
Start with colab / huggingface and get a feel for what level of hardware you need for the stuff you’re doing before you start buying stuff
If you want just a general high quality system with upgradability etc, frame.work or System76 are supposed to be good high end providers.
- Comment on Now you'll be able to purchase sunlight at night! 2 months ago:
How will launching mirrors of the size of your entire farm (if not hundreds times larger) for extra 30 min of sunset ever be more cost-effective than simply adding a small percentage of extra PV panels
This is this year’s single biggest understatement
- Comment on Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding" 2 months ago:
Have you ever attempted to fill up one of those monster context windows up with useful context and then let the model try to do some useful task with all the information in it?
I have. Sometimes it works, but often it’s not pretty. Context window size is the new MHz, in terms of misleading performance measurements.
- Comment on In your opinion what's the best way to do and restore full backups of a Linux server? 2 months ago:
Also, export your DBs first, and snapshot the export instead of the raw DB files
- Comment on In your opinion what's the best way to do and restore full backups of a Linux server? 2 months ago:
borg
- Comment on More than 28% of Americans are now searching for a new job — the highest rate in a decade 2 months ago:
Yeah, people have forgotten what a fuckin apocalypse was happening as of like not that long ago
- Comment on More than 28% of Americans are now searching for a new job — the highest rate in a decade 2 months ago:
Mostly just posting some accurate information for context
I also am implying yes that the metric of “number of Americans who are looking for a new job regardless of whether or not they’re currently employed” is kinda bullshit
And by implication that posting this article in this particular way (with its implied incorrect meaning of “searching for a new job”) is likewise bullshit
“Unemployment” as a metric is actually bullshit also, for a couple different reasons, but this article I think is probably substantially worse
- Comment on More than 28% of Americans are now searching for a new job — the highest rate in a decade 2 months ago:
- Comment on Private voting has been added to PieFed 2 months ago:
Dude this is genius
I am interested to see how it plays out but the idea of the instance admin being able to pierce the veil and investigate things that seem suspect (and being responsible for their instance not housing a ton of spam accounts just as now) seems like a perfect balance at first reading
- Comment on Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous? 2 months ago:
With the current way that ActivityPub works, this isn’t really possible. If votes are anonymous then there’s nothing to stop any random person from adding 5 or 5,000 anonymous votes.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
Oh, yeah, at that point it'll be a scalability clusterfuck. No idea what the solution is. Maybe something with persistent caches run by third parties or something? That actually would be fine, since all the actions are signed with the private key of the actor, I think.
ActivityPub is not to me a real great designed protocol but it's whatever. Usually the key part for social networks is the "social" part of it; the protocol or the web site can be pure shite and if people like interacting with the other people there then it's fine. But yes, you are correct that beyond a certain point of scalability there are some dragons lurking that don't have obvious weak spots.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
Apparently mbin does not put Like/Dislike activities in there
Yes. That's what I said. I'm actually not 100% sure about it; for all I know there's some way to get it, but AFAIK all the existing softwares don't publish votes "after the fact", only at the time to current subscribers. But then, of course, it's kind of a moot point because you can just grab it from any mbin instance's DB through the UI without needing to do anything special or any particular knowledge.
In a world where ActivityPub is only used in server-to-server, this would be fine. If we ever get to a (IMNSHO, better) scenario where we have more clients talking AP directly, then this will not work, and mbin will have to add those as well.
Not really. You can have your client talking to all the servers and grabbing votes for whatever you're subscribed to, and losing votes for anything you're not subscribed to. It works basically exactly that way for one-user instances already.
There is no sane way to square this peg into a round hole. Privacy and "Social Media" are inherently incompatible. The advice about not putting anything online that you are not willing to ever be made public is evergreen, and anyone that does not follow it will eventually have to learn it the hard way.
Tru dat. 100% agreed. It seems like there are all these people in this thread arguing that their votes need to be private. Their votes are not private, and will never be private, for as long as ActivityPub is what they're using. I can see some value, maybe, to making it slightly difficult to extract the information instead of just giving it for free to everyone, but holding onto the idea of your votes being private is a gateway to unhappiness and only unhappiness.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
It's not quite that simple. As far as I'm aware, it's difficult to fetch from another instance "after the fact" what all the votes are for a particular user or comment; you have to be signed up to receive updates on it, and then after the fact you can go hunting around in your own instance's DB and see what all the votes were (or your UI can do it, if it's supported).
But, yes, there are instance softwares that will do it, and no one's defederating from every one of those instances (nor I think should they). Someone posted a link to an mbin instance breaking down the votes for this post. Votes are not private.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
You're proposing removing the bar entirely because it is not high enough.
Incorrect. I said that I see no obvious answer as to whether to remove the bar -- that's the (a) part. What I'm proposing to do is definitely to educate people about the existence of the bar and the fact that they shouldn't be voting on porn, or contentious political topics from an account with their real name, or etc etc like that.
More than 1% of the currently active Lemmy users are actively running a server (it's 1.4%, 649 active instances out of 45k MAU), so I think the number is definitely less than 99% of people who wouldn't know how to do it in the first place. The broader point about it being fairly difficult / fairly rare to have the knowledge, I can agree with, but I wasn't saying necessarily that we should make it easier for the 98.6% of people to do; just that everyone should be aware that it's possible.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
Your votes are already public. It’s a matter of (a) do we want to make it slightly easier for the people who aren’t technically inclined to see them too (b) do we want people acting with the awareness that they’re public.
(a) doesn’t have a clear answer to me. The answer to (b), though, is clearly yes.
- Comment on Teacher pay needs to nearly double to afford a typical house 2 months ago:
- Comment on Teacher pay needs to nearly double to afford a typical house 2 months ago:
The best place to live I have ever been aware of in history was the US during the post-labor-movement environment of the 1940s through 1970s (for the white people). We just gotta have a second one of those that’s capable to demand that again, and extend it to all races.
Nothing’s inherently wrong with the US governmental system; the economic system just tends to get out of whack (and also distort the government along with everything else) if there isn’t a strong labor movement keeping it the fuck in check.
- Comment on Teacher pay needs to nearly double to afford a typical house 2 months ago:
Exactly
Underpaying cops is what leads to Uvalde. Have high standards, throw the fuckin book at cops who abuse their power, and pay the rest of them properly. Cops, teachers, construction, bus drivers, all the people who make things operate should get paid a fuckin living wage, and the jobs that are skilled in addition (I.e. most of those) should be able to demand a higher wage and limit the people who’re allowed to do it to the people who can do it properly.
- Comment on Teacher pay needs to nearly double to afford a typical house 2 months ago:
I am somewhat shocked that teachers could start affording houses if you doubled their pay. Maybe like a house in a shitty neighborhood in conjunction with a partner… maybe
- Comment on Meta shutters tool used to fight disinformation, despite outcry 2 months ago:
Someone else had one, it was great, Facebook bought it, and then they (to their credit) made it available for free to everyone for quite a while, and now they've decided you know what maybe we can have a little disinformation and it's okay, you guys understand, right?
- Comment on Just why?? 2 months ago:
They don't want to touch you, or to depend on your qualifications in order to fulfill the task
Putting the change on the counter leaves 0 chance that you'll fuck up the process for them, in any way
- Comment on There are 27 Empty Homes for Every Homeless Person 3 months ago:
that there are 27 empty houses for each homeless person
And my point is that that doesn't tell you a thing about whether there is or isn't a problem.
It happens that, in the US, there is a problem (way too many homeless people and way too many empty houses), but computing the ratio of those two bad things is inherently a pointless activity. That's my point.
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- Comment on There are 27 Empty Homes for Every Homeless Person 3 months ago:
I’m not sold on this as a metric because it’s comparing the ratio of two bad things
Like, if homelessness started going down, then we would have 50 empty homes for every homeless person. Oh no! Things got even more unequal!
Homelessness is bad + empty homes because of equity real estate are bad. Just bring them both down. We can still have 27 homes per person and there be 100 homeless people and 2,700 empty homes.
- Comment on Major shifts at OpenAI spark skepticism about impending AGI timelines 3 months ago:
OpenAI at least is now attempting to bolt on a “memory” by having the LLM spit out short snippets of what it might need to know later, which it then has access to when completing later prompts. Like everything else post-GPT-4, it seems fine but doesn’t work really all that well at what it is intended to do.
- Comment on Major shifts at OpenAI spark skepticism about impending AGI timelines 3 months ago:
I just tried Claude after having some issues with using GPT on Firefox that OpenAI’s support was unable to resolve other than some “it’s all your fault clear, your cookies” bullet points.
I only tried Claude a little bit so far, but it seems way better.
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- Comment on What are your favorite Nintendo 64 games? 3 months ago:
Happy to see Perfect Dark so well represented - it was a hell of a hidden gem; it got sorta overshadowed by Goldeneye in the collective memory but it was one of those rare and shining examples of a sequel that perfectly extended the winning formula of the good first game without mucking up the core mechanics any.
- Comment on Zuckerberg responds to Musk fight invitation: ‘Are we really doing this again?’ 3 months ago:
Zuckerberg is a big piece of shit who could be using his dominant position and all his money to do something good for the world, and instead is actively helping ruin it. But, at least he created his thing, instead of just buying with apartheid money things that other more capable people built, and then ruining them. He's not just a useless alt-right lump. And, he actually trains in martial arts instead of just sitting around taking ketamine and using weird alts on his own social media network to try to make himself look likeable.
I wish that this would happen. I think it is sensible to think that it would be like that Australian TV presenter who made fun of Tae Kwon Doe so they invited a high level female TKD competitor to come on the air and kick the shit out of him.
