hendrik

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any lemmy instance that's truly liberal enough to tolerate a completely divergent point of view ? The EU norms are not for me, and I'm also far far away from the MAGA politics of USA !!!⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That's what I wrote. Lemmy is a software, which can be ran on servers. You're currently on somebody else's server. In a group that is moderated by yet different people.... They gave some rules to you and you now have to choose whether you're willing to play by their rules.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any lemmy instance that's truly liberal enough to tolerate a completely divergent point of view ? The EU norms are not for me, and I'm also far far away from the MAGA politics of USA !!!⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I meant island in the context of, a different Lemmy instance, separated from the tone and atmosphere of the rest of the network. But yes, we have a few people from other parts of the world as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any lemmy instance that's truly liberal enough to tolerate a completely divergent point of view ? The EU norms are not for me, and I'm also far far away from the MAGA politics of USA !!!⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  We get that question every few weeks. No, Lemmy isn't a "free speech" place. We tolerate a lot of things here, but the rules are made by the individual communities and instance admins. Generally, they remove misinformation, unhealthy things, hate and such. We don't know about any "islands" which treat things differently. Lemmy is Free Software, though. You're welcome to launch such a place, aand you'll get to make the rules there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Financial Times] Brands target AI chatbots as users switch from Google search⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, that's the basic idea of targeted advertising. And it works well. Google, Meta etc are making billions that way. I believe this can be translated into AI. And as a bonus they can exploit a few more psychological effects. Like make it sond like a recommendation from a friend (your AI companion), or have it nudge you so you'll think buying it was your idea...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What OS should I use for self-hosting that doesn't require extensive terminal knowledge?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  By the way, you can still run the Yunohost installer ontop of your Debian install... If you want to... It's Debian-based anyway so it doesn't really matter if you use its own install media or use the script on an existing Debian install. Though I feel like adding: If you're looking for Docker... Yunohost might not be your best choice. It's made to take control itself and it doesn't use containers. Of course you can circumvent that and add Docker containers nonetheless... But that isn't really the point and you'd end up dealing with the underlying Debian and just making it more complicated.

  It is a very good solution if you don't want to deal with the CLI. But it stops being useful once you want too much customization, or unpackaged apps. At least that's my experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Financial Times] Brands target AI chatbots as users switch from Google search⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for your perspective. Sure, AI is here to stay and flood the internet with slop and arbitrary (mis)information phrased like a factual wikipedia article, journalism, a genuine user review or whatever its master chose. And the negative sides of the internet have been there long before we had AI to the current extent. I think it is extremely unlikely that the internet is going to move away from being powered by advertisements, though. That's the main business model as of today, and I think it is going to continue that way. Maybe dressed in some new clothes, but social media platforms, Google etc still need their income. I wonder how it'll turn out for the AI companies, though. To my knowledge, they're currently all powered by hype and investor money. And they're going to have to find some way to make profit at some point. Whether that's going to be ads or having their users pay properly, and not like today where the majority of people I know use the free tier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Financial Times] Brands target AI chatbots as users switch from Google search⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, wow. What's your estimate on how it's going to turn out? Is it a vastly different thing? I mean SEO also requires quite an amount of technical knowledge about how proprietary algoritms work. Experience... You always need to be super up to date with everything. And we have a lot of snake-oil salesmen. I believe "AIO" wouldn't be too different?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: Meta's AI Chatbots Can Have Sexual Conversations with Underage Users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Hehe, as the article says, there is an abundance of them. Dozens if (paid) online services... You can do it on your beefy graphics card... And as per this article to some degree with your Instagram account. I've tried it on my own and it'll generate something like internet fanfiction, or have a dialogue with you. It's a steep learning curve, though and requires some fiddling. And it was text only and I don't own a gaming computer, so it was unbearably slow. Other than that I try to avoid Meta's services or paying for those kind of "scientific" experiments so I wouldn't know how the voice conversation is like... Maybe someone can enlighten us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: Meta's AI Chatbots Can Have Sexual Conversations with Underage Users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh wow. A few days ago, societly looked down on people doing (erotic) role play with chatbots... Today it's rolled out on some of the largest internet platforms. Is it really that easy to do this with Meta's chatbots? I've tried asking ChatGPT and other major services to write me erotic fanfiction or answer lewd questions. And it'd always either dodged the question or straight out refused.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Financial Times] Brands target AI chatbots as users switch from Google search⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds fun, SEO so it's also ingested by AI... Maybe I should check my spam folder to see if all the people who send me spam to optimize my homepage already picked up on that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Applying 'extreme heat' to lithium-ion batteries reportedly restores their capacity, and I think it's the sustainable tech breakthrough of 2025⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure. But we need to see pics, or it didn't happen.

  The abstract doesn't mention them re-gaining their old capacity. It only says they shrink. And something about voltage. So I have my doubts. I mean it's nice if my spicy pillow shrinks a bit. But what does that help if it's still nearly dead? And an application in products would be hard to accomplish. At that temperature, all the plastics and the solder are going to melt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First draft woes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it needs to work across instances, since we're concerned wit the Fediverse and federation is one of the defining mechanics. Also when I have a look at my subscriptions, they come from a variety of instances. So I don't think a single instance feature would be of any use for me.

  Sure. And with the cosine similarity, you'd obviously need to suppress already watched videos. Obviously I watched them and the algorithm knows, but I'd like it to recommend new videos to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SMS/MMS backup and sync?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I've always backed up my SMS to my E-Mail inbox. With something like SMS Gate or SMS Backup+. I think it's nice to have all messages in my mail program. Of course that only does one way. To reply and get immediate notifications, I use KDEConnect (or GSConnect wich is the same thing for GNOME.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Making AI-generated code more accurate in any language⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wasn't "error-free" one of the undecidable problems in maths / computer science? But I like how they also pay attention to semantics and didn't choose a clickbaity title. Maybe I should read the paper, see how they did it and whether it's more than an AI agent at the same intelligence level guessing whether it's correct. I mean surprisingly enough, the current AI models usually do a good job generating syntactically correct code one-shot. My issues with AI coding usually start to arise once it gets a bit more complex. Then it often feels like poking at things and copy-pasting various stuff from StackOverflow without really knowing why it doesn't deal with the real-world data or fails entirely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open Source AI Definition Erodes the Meaning of “Open Source”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I've also had that. And I'm not even sure whether I want to hold it against them. For some reason it's an industry-wide effort to muddy the waters and slap open source on their products. From the largest company who chose to have "Open" in their name but oppose transparency with every fibre of their body, to Meta, the pioneer of "open source" AI, to the smaller underdogs who pride themselves with publishing their models that way... They've all homed in on that term.

  And lots of the journalists and bloggers also pick up on it. I personally think, terms should be well-defined. And open-source had a well-defined meaning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open Source AI Definition Erodes the Meaning of “Open Source”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, wow. Should be pretty obvious that something isn't open source, ...well... unless the source is open...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come there are components in TO220 packages that supposedly take 100A with their small legs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for doing the maths. I would have also guessed it's due to the short distance these amps have to travel. And in practice, we'd likely be using just the thicker parts at the top of the legs and clip most of them off, so it'd be way less than the almost 15mm in your numbers. Still probably an issue with the thickness of the pcb traces, but that's something the designer has to worry about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan has been down since Monday night after “pretty comprehensive own”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol. And what kind of people are on Soyjak, is that site more or less degenerated?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s game over for people if AI gains legal personhood⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly. This is directly opposed to why we do AI in the first place. We want something to drive the Uber without earning a wage. Cheap factory workforce. Generate images without paying some artist $250... If we wanted that, we already have humans available, that's how the world was for quite some time now.

  I'd say us giving AI human rights and reversing 99.9% of what it's intended for is less likely to happen than the robot apocalypse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  See to what IP your domain points, and if that's really the external IP of your router. Might also help to put in your IP address into the webbrowser instead of the domain, to see if port 80 / 443 really go somewhere. Another possibility, do a portscan from the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Access to future AI models in OpenAI's API may require a verified ID⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They can't seriously complain about intellectual property theft, can they?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An Open Source Pioneer Wants to Unleash Open Source AI Robots⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And if we're really talking about "open-source" and not just "open-weight", the scientific papers, datasets and tooling are going to help democratize the technology and even out the playing field to a degree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy.World no longer participates in this community⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for looking into it. Most posts here are cross-posted to !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com so unless someone wants to continue this specific community, I'm going to leave in a few days and just go there instead. Wish you all the best. I really don't think things like this align well with the broader spirit of a privacy community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy.World no longer participates in this community⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, where do we go? If the allegations are true (and I have no reason to doubt that), I'd like to defederate as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  beehaw.org aspire to be nice, friendly diverse and safe. But they're more towards nice, not women. And we have lemmy.blahaj.zone for queer folks. To my knowledge, there isn't a place aimed towards women. Maybe heehaw is the closest... Still not really a fit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Human-AI relationships pose ethical issues, psychologists say.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel psychologists aren't really in the loop when people make decisions about AI or most of the newer tech. Sure, they ask the right questions. And all of this is a big, unanswered question. Plus how a modern society works with loneliness, skewed perspectives by social media... But does anyone really care? Isn't all of this shaped by some tech people in Silicon Valley and a few other places? And the only question is how to attract investor money?

  And I think people really should avoid marrying commercial services. That doesn't end well. If you want to marry an AI, make sure it is it's own entity and not just a cloud service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Off-grid hosting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people do it. For example we have this solar-powered website: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/

  You'd need an energy source like a solar panel, a battery and some computing device. Like a single board computer (Raspberry Pi) you can also run webservers on smartphones, or even a microcontroller.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you use a self-hosted, AI-powered search engine for your favorite sites?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really. I could use some good selfhosted search engine. I mean all the existing projects (which is just YaCy, to my knowledge) are a bit dated. Nowadays we only got metasearch engines and we're relying on Google, Bing etc.

  But I don't need any chatbot enhancements. That's usually something I skip when using Google or Bing because it doesn't work well. The AI summaries tend to be wrong, and it's bad at looking up niche information, which is something I need a search engine to be able to find. The AI just cites the most common slop, or at best the Wikipedia article. But I don't really need any fancy software to get there... So for me, we don't need any AI augmentation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Is Evolving — And Changing Our Understanding Of Intelligence.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. Plus the turing machine has like an infinite memory tape to write and read. Something that is in scope of mathematics, but we don't have any infinite tapes in reality. That's why we call it a mathematical model (imaginary) and not a real machine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most Americans don’t trust AI — or the people in charge of it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure. I think you're right. I myself want an AI maid loading the dishwasher and doing the laundry and dusting the shelves. A robot vacuum is nice, but that's just a tiny amount of the tedious every-day chores. Plus an AI assistant on my computer, cleaning up the harddrive, sorting my gigabytes of photos...

  And I don't think we're there yet. It's maybe the right amount of billions of dollars to pump into that hype if we anticipate all of this happening. But for a lame assistant that can answer questions and get the facts right 90% of the times, and whose attempts to 'improve' my emails are contraproductive lots of the times, isn't really that helpful to me.

  And with that it's just an overinflated bubble that is based on expectations, not actual usefulness or yield of the current state of technology.