Vanth

@Vanth@reddthat.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Emotional Support From Social Media Found to Reduce Anxiety⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, this is a super common theme from queer people in small rural and/or religious communities. Online may be the only interaction they have for information and support.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At a minimum, someone with really bad judgement, who cares more about making headlines than doing high-quality research, and who shouldn’t be trusted to treat the subjects of this study with respect.

  Bailey was the Northwestern professor who had a live demo of a reciprocating sex toy, put on by a volunteer and her partner. It was optional to attend the demo, students were over 18 and allegedly informed on what they were going to see.

  He’s also been repeatedly called out for not properly informing participants in his studies. One accusation of sleeping with one of his research subjects. And toed the ethics line on writing evaluation letters for candidates of sex assignment surgery when he didn’t hold a license.

  His wikipedia article links to sources.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you have a plan for your self-hosted data if you die?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When my brother’s brother-in-law passed, he gave all that to my brother. Both on the high end of tech/self-hosting capabilities. I’ve come to the conclusion much of it wasn’t worth it.

  I’ll be focusing on ensuring access to financial accounts is passed on cleanly. And I’m working on digitizing all remaining physical photo negatives, then planning how to share all digitally with family while still alive. Since I don’t expect any to be interested in maintaining a server after I’m gone, I’m thinking I’ll keep it simple and just give everyone an external hard drive with all the photos. It’s up to them to do what they want with the drive. A copy to each sibling is increases odds it’s survives for a generation.

  I’ll make project notes and plans available to anyone interested, but no hard feelings if no one is interested. And my music and movies can disappear for all I care.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside the PSL Scale: The Looksmaxxer Rating System That All the Teenagers Are Referencing Are you a mid high-tier normie or subhuman?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not tech related.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK this is Edward Bullmore, one of the world leading expert on the human brain. He believes a lot of depression is linked to inflammation⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Inflammation is measurable. Where are the studies correlating inflammation measured via whatever medical scans to depression diagnoses?

  An incomplete article if the studies exist and weren’t mentioned. A useless hypothesis if the guy is already authoring books but hasn’t done any studies yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Simplest Path to Jellyfin Access for the Developmentally Disabled⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, thanks for the explanation.

  I would guess the next set of features “missing” from the Roku app have similar reason then. 1) I use a plugin to search and download subtitles from the browser interface; it would be great to be able to do that from the Roku app too and 2) once subtitles are available, easily adjusting the offset.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Simplest Path to Jellyfin Access for the Developmentally Disabled⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The feature from web browser I use most that is missing from the Roku app is the option to increase playback speed.

  If you’re really a/the Roku app dev, cheers. I recognize it’s a passion project for a lot of those involved and I am grateful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOP overhaul of broadband permit laws: Cities hate it, cable companies love it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Under the bills, some kinds of local telecom projects would be approved automatically if a city or town doesn’t rule within a deadline set by Congress.

  The tl;dr

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Simplest Path to Jellyfin Access for the Developmentally Disabled⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Roku has a Jellyfin app.

  Roku device locked down with parental controls + Jellyfin app connected to your server + a non-admin Jellyfin user account so they can’t click all the buttons.

  The Roku aoo isn’t great for my use because it’s stripped down. Maybe a benefit in your case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨those of you with good skills to defuse a tense situation at the workplace, what advice can you give me?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I start by evaluating whether it’s 1) within my job responsibilities to be involved and 2) I feel personal obligation.

  As you’ve described the situation, and also your personality with a strong avoidance of conflict, if I were in your shoes I might support my colleague by getting the person who is supposed to intervene. Maybe that’s a manager or security if there’s signs it might escalate to violence.

  I’m not a bouncer, I’m not a security guard. I have no job obligation and no personal obligation to cut into a violent interaction. I can be more helpful by getting someone trained for and paid to deal with the situation.

  If I’m the manager, I have more responsibility to intervene. If the person getting yelled at by the Karen is like, a family member or a close friend, I would be more likely to intervene. Work colleague does not invoke the same personal responsibility I feel towards friends and family. I would also not say this to my colleague in the way I’ve described in my paragraph.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't forget to turn purple and remove your arms⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Having something under my lower back sounds awful. Head and knees, yes, but back?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A company called Blackdot has built a tattooing robot.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wanna see that tattoo in 5+ years when it settles. Seems like fine detail is going to lose its sharpness regardless of whether it’s a human or a robot on the other end of the needle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Money Power⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. We have a two-party system with both parties racing to who can kiss rich people’s’ assholes quicker and deeper. The parties aren’t opposites, they just differ on rimming techniques.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  same wages and less jobs to go around

  If we’re lucky. It’s more likely to be lower wages. “We don’t need to pay experienced programmers anymore, they aren’t writing the code after all. We just need cheaper, less skilled people to review the code that is already 99% fine”.

  💯 Not about the tech, it’s about who is going to use the tech to make life worse for the working class.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think there is an LLM in this application. Not all AI tools involve LLM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Never heard of it. Not gonna look into it because I’m 50/50 on you being affiliated with the app and posting this just to drive clicks.

  Assuming you are legit, best of luck finding an alternate you’re happier with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we can find information by asking GenAI, who needs the Web?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My sister is a teacher and now has her students repeat back to her, “LLMs are not search engines”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FTC Warns Companies(Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Discord, Meta, Microsoft, Signal, Snap, X and more) Against Censoring or Weakening the Data Security of Americans at the Behest of Foreign Powers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok if at the behest of domestic powers tho

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i just think they're neat⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I kinda want to get a gourd and stencil “Stanley” on the side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Andrew Tate sues Meta, TikTok for over $50 million for ‘deplatforming’ him⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol, only if he were a lot poorer and a lot less white. That mother fucker launched a UK political party, acquired citizenship to Vanuatu, and rubbed elbows with the American Right in Florida. All within 2025 year to date.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if you had a mole of moles?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A mole of moles (the mammal) is fucking up the local environment.

  A mole of moles (skin condition) is death by really weird cancer.

  A mole of moles (structure separating bodies of water) is a perplexing strategy of coastline management.

  A mole of moles (spies) means global instability.

  A mole of mole (sauces) is a tasty, taste feast.

  A mole of Molé (surname) is a very French affair, hopefully some of them brought baguettes and fromage to share.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨scholarly evidences for the resurrection⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But like, why? If Bigfoot is as big and powerful and omniscient as the cryptozoologists claim, why did he have to die instead of just stomping his big feet?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨scholarly evidences for the resurrection⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  critical scholars say the disciples did think they saw the resurrected Jesus (based on a survey of 1400 journal articles since 1975)

  If the claim is “1400 journal articles since 1975 claim the disciples though they saw Jesus resurrect”, sure, I can believe 1400 articles do say that.

  I fail to see how 1400 articles from 1975 and on prove that disciples from 2000+ years ago actually did see Jesus resurrect. Pardon any math errors, but I believe any potential eye witnesses were long dead by 1975.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks I'd rather my beer stay analogue⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I asked an LLM client to name my last batch of homebrew. It suggested, “Phresh Pilsner”. My 90 year old grandma would think that’s lame AF.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks I'd rather my beer stay analogue⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  "It all starts with data, data, data, data. No company on Earth stores or computes more data than Dell today. We have a treasure trove, our customers have a treasure trove of their information.”

  Sam Grocery, Dell SVP of product marketing

  siliconangle.com/…/transforming-infrastructure-de…

  Just say it, man, “we have a treasure trove of our customers’ information”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK government suggests deleting files to save water⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope the Department that released this guidance is being absolutely pilloried in UK media. What an absolutely worthless, dishonest pipe of crap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨True or false⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No. They’re just providing statistically probable answers based on the information in their training models.

  Ask, “what size bolt do I need for the spinner in a 2012 Maytag dishwasher model ABC123?”. It probably has the dishwasher manual in its training model, maybe even content from Maytag customer forums where multiple people asked this exact question, and so has a high probability of generating a correct answer. Ask it something more controversial or unique, where answers on similar questions are varied or rare, it will be less likely to generate an accurate answer because it has less data to pull from.

  They also “hallucinate”, or generate answers that are entirely false and not directly written anywhere else. Like there have been a number of lawyers caught using an LLM to write their legal briefs, because the LLM reference sources that don’t actually exist; it just made up Adam v Bob type case names.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI claims GPT-5 AI model can provide PhD-level expertise.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They have stolen more PhD level work to dump into the training model?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think of the “bad” dates I would want to be able to warn other women of that didn’t rise to the level of calling the cops. The guy who ordered triple the food and drinks I did and skipped out on the bill. The guy who flat out lied about multiple things and then got irate when I politely excused myself from the date. The MAGA weirdo who went on an unhinged rant about how I needed to submit to him because God said so. I imagine some men have comparable experiences with some anti-social women. The experiences coming to mind were not illegal, but were absolutely things I want to spare my fellow humans from.

  I would prefer the dating apps themselves have some mechanism for disincentivizing anti-social behaviors. It would have to be more than a simple 5-star rating.

  I wonder how it would work IRL to offer the ability to write a few sentences in response to prompts about a date. The written review is not published as-is, but is used in grouping of many reviews to give a summary about a person. Like the summary product reviews on Amazon now. “Bill’s dates found he was prompt and polite. Some dates expressed discomfort at some of his political views” and “Bob’s dates warn he is often late and is quick to use foul language to describe women. Multiple dates report no intention to communicate with Bob further”. “Ben’s dates report he has skipped out on the bill repeatedly, and sends unsolicited dick pics. Multiple dates have blocked him”.

  The group summary gives a buffer so the person reviewed doesn’t know which specific date said what. And ensures the summary doesn’t include negative comments about a person unless multiple dates of theirs independently report similar experiences.

  Of course a bad actor could ditch their dating profile and start fresh any time they build up enough negative reviews to make their summary look bad. And of course the reviews and the summaries would have to be secured tighter than “Tea” is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Might want to read up on the origins of Facebook before turning this into a gender wars thing.