AwesomeLowlander
@AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on One Expensive Mistake 3 days ago:
I like how it just devolved from metric vs imperial to imperial vs imperial
- Comment on Linux would never do this to me 3 days ago:
I agree with the sentiment, but this is a light hearted joke
- Comment on The time that Jesus cursed a fig tree 4 days ago:
Googling this, it’s insane how much twisting and rationalisation Christians do to fit this story into their worldview.
Like https://gutenberg.edu/making-sense-of-jesus-cursing-the-fig-tree/
- Comment on A Minor Incident 5 days ago:
Summary from Wikipedia: It wasn’t an actual crusade, and may or may not have included actual children. If it did, they either died or got sold into slavery.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Crusade#Historiography
- Comment on We should drop Tesseract, or at least switch forks 1 week ago:
Man, the double talk is insane.
- Comment on We should drop Tesseract, or at least switch forks 1 week ago:
Try file.garden/amIRhTctI0qld2r5/policy.json
I fixed the link hours ago, but apparently it’s not federating to some people.
- Comment on We should drop Tesseract, or at least switch forks 1 week ago:
Even if they backtracked and got rid of the blocklist, I would’t trust them.
Agreed. They’re worse than an unknown party, they’re a known malicious one.
- Comment on We should drop Tesseract, or at least switch forks 1 week ago:
I already linked it at the end of my post. It’s too long to post in a single comment.
That said, I don’t think it’s against any rules if you want to post some text.
- Comment on We should drop Tesseract, or at least switch forks 1 week ago:
Pinging @thedude@sh.itjust.works @imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works @kersploosh@sh.itjust.works @inenduringgrowstrong@sh.itjust.works
- Submitted 1 week ago to main@sh.itjust.works | 18 comments
- Comment on batman effect 1 week ago:
fights crime
Literally. By punching it in the face.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds to critics of AI coding in Linux: "Fork it. Or just walk away." 1 week ago:
Yes we have more than just that one mechanism at work obviously, but that’s not to say we’re not using the same or similar method as part of our learning process.
You seem to have entirely ignored the gist of my first point. We may be using a more well rounded method which utilises the same technique LLMs use as a part of our overall learning ability.
If all you did was copy and paste from GNU GPL code, then your output would also be bound by the same license.
We’re back to the same argument that’s been around since the start of the current AI boom, about whether or not people produce art and everything else the same way. At this point it’s very obviously a philosophical argument in general, and from your other comments in this post you’ve offered nothing but semantics as to how they’re different. We’re going to have to agree to disagree there.
Then you don’t understand even the basics of the mathematics that makes them actually work.
I understand how LLMs work. We DON’T understand how humans work, and unless you’ve got a human theory of mind in your back pocket, insisting that they’re inherently different instead of possibly being part of our mental toolkit is premature.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds to critics of AI coding in Linux: "Fork it. Or just walk away." 1 week ago:
Training a neural network algorithm is not equivalent to human learning
That’s a stretch, since we don’t know exactly how human learning works. Yes we have more than just that one mechanism at work obviously, but that’s not to say we’re not using the same or similar method as part of our learning process.
original training data can be reproduced completely from models
So can a few savants, more if you take into account those with special training, etc. The ability to do so is obviously latent to our brain.
When they reproduce code which they have previously stored, even only in part, that is a derivative work.
I don’t know about you, but I for one have not produced anything ‘original’ my entire coding career by that metric. I feel confident in saying the vast majority of programmers have not either.
Don’t mistake me, I’m well aware LLMs are not intelligent. But I disagree with the idea that their method of learning and their actions is inherently different from what the average person does.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds to critics of AI coding in Linux: "Fork it. Or just walk away." 1 week ago:
Given that you’ve presumably looked at open source code in the past, and got more proficient (however marginally) as a result, does all your future code now belong to the GPL?
- Comment on Looking for feedback: First draft of multi-level guidelines for Fedecan and its various platforms (lemmy.ca, sh.itjust.works, piefed.ca, pixelfed.ca) 1 week ago:
I’d also say that an independent small business is often much closer to a person than an organization.
Well THAT’S a slippery slope. I’m not even going to bother asking for the demarcation line there between small businesses and not-small businesses.
Your line honestly makes no sense. Comments about something are OK, but not posts? That’s a really arbitrary separation.
- Comment on Looking for feedback: First draft of multi-level guidelines for Fedecan and its various platforms (lemmy.ca, sh.itjust.works, piefed.ca, pixelfed.ca) 1 week ago:
Honestly I’m not a fan of any sort of discrimination, whether positive or negative. So yeah, not seeing the issue.
There is a difference between calling someone out and using an online platform to organize against them.
What’s the difference as you see it? And where do you draw the line on organising using online platforms, then? Let me note my example isn’t against a person, but an organisation.
- Comment on Looking for feedback: First draft of multi-level guidelines for Fedecan and its various platforms (lemmy.ca, sh.itjust.works, piefed.ca, pixelfed.ca) 2 weeks ago:
Putting aside the ridiculousness of calling you an asshole for not being familiar with internal US bullshit, that is a fair scenario. If a shop has a ‘discounts for straights’ sign in their window, why is it not ok to call them out?
- Comment on Looking for feedback: First draft of multi-level guidelines for Fedecan and its various platforms (lemmy.ca, sh.itjust.works, piefed.ca, pixelfed.ca) 2 weeks ago:
Is it vigilante justice if there is no question of misidentification? What about a shop that has a homophobic sign in the window?
- Comment on Looking for feedback: First draft of multi-level guidelines for Fedecan and its various platforms (lemmy.ca, sh.itjust.works, piefed.ca, pixelfed.ca) 2 weeks ago:
Since the other comment got deleted — For anybody else confused, this was a US-specific bullshit where ‘nuclear family’ got used as a dogwhistle for homophobia.
- Comment on Looking for feedback: First draft of multi-level guidelines for Fedecan and its various platforms (lemmy.ca, sh.itjust.works, piefed.ca, pixelfed.ca) 2 weeks ago:
I know you’re intentionally missing the point to be an asshole but in explaining for anyone who legitimately missed it was June and and a concerted effort to declare it a straight pride month.
Imagine anybody not being in the US and not knowing the details of whatever bullshit of the day, automatically being an asshole.
- Comment on From the GOG newsletter: "A note about your GOG Patrons subscription" 2 weeks ago:
You ever stop to consider that perhaps you’re the one having issues communicating with everybody else?
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to main@sh.itjust.works | 1 comment
- Comment on Keep Android Open (Stop Google from limiting APK file usage) 3 weeks ago:
It’s not going to go anywhere in my country, unfortunately. Not even a blip on the radar.
- Comment on Keep Android Open (Stop Google from limiting APK file usage) 3 weeks ago:
You have to use the bank’s own app to 2FA.
- Comment on Keep Android Open (Stop Google from limiting APK file usage) 3 weeks ago:
Not everybody has a choice. I’m currently on grapheneos, but it looks like I may be forced back to android due to national ID requirements.
- Comment on Keep Android Open (Stop Google from limiting APK file usage) 3 weeks ago:
Many banks require apps for 2FA. This varies greatly by country.
- Comment on Hooded Horse spaceship RPG C-Beams isn't just a riff on Blade Runner - it's a "modern version" of one of my favourite childhood space sims 3 weeks ago:
Oh god, the number of hours I spent on EV. Definitely getting this.
- Comment on Switzerland’s solar railway has been a success. What happens next? 3 weeks ago:
Screwing up our transition to renewables… You probably deserve to get hit.
- Comment on Switzerland’s solar railway has been a success. What happens next? 3 weeks ago:
Adblock wall
- Comment on Final Fantasy 7 Revelation is getting a "Story Expansion Pass" amid a heap of DLC to help it wrap up the remake trilogy, leaked store listings suggest 4 weeks ago:
1 game into 3 wasn’t enough, they had to slap dlc onto it as well before it even completes?