Rhaedas
@Rhaedas@fedia.io
- Comment on A swing and a miss 15 hours ago:
"Some of those that work forces..." is a bad metaphor too then, I guess.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 day ago:
I'm considering it. The only reason being to get away from a corporate stance that could shift at any time, even though I don't think it's quite there yet.
However on issue of Firefox going the way of all the other browsers, I swear that the last update or so of Firefox asked me if I wanted to enable AI, I said no, and it told me how to turn it on if I ever wanted it. Much like when I first used DuckDuckGo. So wasn't that opt in? Did it change how it prompts a new user?
- Comment on 'It's All About the Oil,' Says Venezuelan Defense Minister After 'Incoherent' Trump Claims 2 days ago:
- Comment on Do you ever watch old classic TV shows and realize that they are all dead 3 days ago:
Do you research everything you watch beforehand? That's a very interesting and restricting filter for yourself.
Mind blowing realization - any media you watch, even live stream, is from a past that's gone by the time you see it.
The next level is - how real is anything that you perceive? "What is... real?" - Morpheus
- Comment on Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog 4 days ago:
The response to "what are you trying to hide" is always "WTF do you need to see so badly?"
- Comment on YSK that Elena Kostyuchenko is an extraordinarily brave woman. 5 days ago:
We have most of them picking job security vs. asking the hard questions, and when a few do ask something beyond what's expected from the officials we call them "brave". All of them should be doing this.
Some of them from some networks are playing the game because they profit from it, which is a problem as well.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge Pushes an "All in One Browser" Message on Chrome’s Download Page 6 days ago:
When it stops working.
- Comment on Battle Bun 6 days ago:
- Comment on Longing, Rusted, Seventeen, Daybreak, Furnace, Nine, Benign, Homecoming, One, Boxcar 6 days ago:
I was thinking Beakman's World. Apparently it's just such a common phrasing in high school science that it became a meme without anyone's particular influence.
- Comment on Battle Bun 6 days ago:
And Overgrowth. Some incredible programming.
- Comment on YSK that Stanford scientists examined what happens when people stop using social media. They found deactivating Facebook and Instagram significantly improved users' emotional well-being and happiness 6 days ago:
I'm just on FB for the Messenger, maximized to ignore the rest, since they make it all but impossible to use their network with third parties. Hmmm, sounds like Reddit now that I think about it, but FB did that move first. The hardest part of changing social media or any communications is getting the ones you want to stay connected with to use better alternatives. Again with the Reddit comparison, but look at how many stick with that still rather than branching out to a new thing like Lemmy. Or encrypted email.
But I agree with the title suggestion, any immersion of a single thing is damaging, and social media is by its nature and design addictive. If you can't control your intake, you should avoid what you can altogether.
- Comment on THIS is a real test of how old you are. If you score 20 your future is short 1 week ago:
And if you were lucky you'd have a higher end stereo system that could fade in the sounds too. Combine that with a pause, you could avoid that jarring noise of starting and stopping recording between songs. Just had to find the stations that didn't have the DJs who talked halfway through the song intro.
I'm a solid 20. Those of you who didn't get very high scores, you don't know what you missed.
- Comment on It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds 1 week ago:
I'm going to take this from a different angle. These companies have over the years scraped everything they could get their hands on to build their models, and given the volume, most of that is unlikely to have been vetted well, if at all. So they've been poisoning the LLMs themselves in the rush to get the best thing out there before others do, and that's why we get the shit we get in the middle of some amazing achievements. The very fact that they've been growing these models not with cultivation principles but with guardrails says everything about the core source's tainted condition.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Trick question, it's not a country. That's the island in Lost, and one of the locations it pops up.
- Comment on fine dining 1 week ago:
Regional, or maybe the local town zoning won't allow that kind of traffic.
- Comment on fine dining 1 week ago:
Yes. Not sure why I didn't use that. Technically Flying J is a brand/chain, but not what's typically thought of.
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 1 week ago:
If it's slow, then it's the central backup and you use anything else for regular use. Just having it as a fallback for recovery would be huge.
- Comment on fine dining 1 week ago:
It was years ago, but I've eaten at one of the major truck stop brands (Flying J) and it was higher level than any brand restaurant as far as service and what they offered.
- Comment on It was completely lost on me, at first. 1 week ago:
That is my response, every damn time.
- Comment on 🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽 1 week ago:
A bit 🌽y to me
- Comment on why is fossil fuel still used? 1 week ago:
Yes, it's on the list too at 33 MJ/L. Lower than conventional, but still higher than ethanol. The usual mix for drop in use with typical diesel engines is 10% bio/90% conventional. It's a good use of recycled material vs. just disposal.
- Comment on why is fossil fuel still used? 1 week ago:
Than gasoline or diesel? No, they don't. Wikipedia has a large chart on their article for energy density of various sources. Some things are harder to directly compare with each other, but diesel has 38 MJ/L, with jet fuel/kerosene and gasoline at 36/35. Adding ethanol dilutes the energy output some, while pure ethanol is 24. It's still a potent source (but with its own costs and effects that need to be included in the net equation). Chemically petroleum simply has more bonds to break and get energy from.
- Comment on builder.ai has been tricking customers and investors for eight years – selling an advanced code-writing AI that, it turns out, is actually an Indian software farm employing 700 human developers 2 weeks ago:
They're all code names "Al".
- Comment on Israel | Ben-Gvir's fascist lynch-mob wears noose lapel pins 2 weeks ago:
Rat anuses would be more appropriate.
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 2 weeks ago:
I've learned that's either a sign or a requirement of middle management. I like to go through and correct the errors on posted messages.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I know, I see that all the time, people apologizing for their English second language use, while being far clearer in imparting their meaning (which is the only important thing in the end) than so many single use American posters.
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 2 weeks ago:
The "I have a flag" of being manly.
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 2 weeks ago:
MAGA, when Nazis were fringe groups, and got punched when showing up in public.
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 2 weeks ago:
Calvin Ball. Since he's so prone to making up rules as he goes.
- Comment on My Religion 2 weeks ago:
Are you talking about murder? Because if anything legal morality is far better than most religious when it comes to killing people. And that's even with capital punishment still practiced.
