finalarbiter

@finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists Are Increasingly Worried AI Will Sway Elections⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Will? Already have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing Proton Sheets⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I comment this on many of their LinkedIn posts. I think they’ve blocked me at this point

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨idk⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Now I’m having thermodynamics flashbacks. It’s just under 500 rankine I think? Been a few years since I even thought about that unit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨idk⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Then you’d have a little freezer I think. Isn’t the freezing point of water (at normal atmosphere) approx. 274 K?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I love how Valve’s strategy is basically just ‘don’t piss off the customers and occasionally do something super fucking cool’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Potentially life-changing if you're eligible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  IGOT GOUT

  Also works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rant: Reddit has a huge problem with mods falsely reporting “report abuse”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What does this have to do with a shitposting comm or Lemmy in general?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta - There's Levels To This Shit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly my one critique of this is that if they manage to infect you with that ‘biotracker’, then they must already know where you are to do so. If not, how would the person they want to track be the only person infected with it? So then this tracker doesn’t really provide any new information. Maybe I’m overthinking it…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LLMDeathCount.com⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really equivalent. Most videogames don’t actively encourage you to pursue violence outside of the game, even if they don’t explicitly have a big warning saying “don’t fucking shoot people”.

  Several of the big LLMs, by virtue of their programming to be somewhat sycophantic, have encouraged users to follow through on suicidal ideation or self-harm when the user shared those thoughts in chat. One can argue that OpenAI and others have implemented ‘safety’ features for these scenarios, but the fact is that these systems have already lead to several deaths and continue to do so through encouragement of the user to harm themselves or other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm unsure what to self-host⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t do a whole lot right now, partially because I’m just not sure what I want to run or how much risk I want to take on in terms of security (for exposed services) and data recovery. I started with pihole to get better ad blocking on my tv, and recently started hosting a dinner vtt server for my d&d group. Some time in the future, I might spin up a nextcloud instance to replace my dropbox or immich for google photos

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top 20 Most Guru Bought stocks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do you keep posting these thinly-veiled ads in a shitposting comm?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet Mico, Microsoft’s AI version of Clippy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure if it’s exactly the same, but there is a similar tool under ‘viva insights’ in teams

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3155: Physics Paths⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I really thought this was just going to be a link to the same comic. Shame on me for doubting ig

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tried makin nookie⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  ‘Nyockie’ isn’t a word either, you’re looking for gnocchi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forbidden knowledge⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This meme has been floating around for at least a decade at this point

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brave launches 'Ask Brave' feature to fuse AI with traditional search⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As if the various bits of fraud over the years wasn’t enough of a reason to avoid it like the plague

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dinner is ready! ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m torn between D and G. I love Thai, Chinese, Japanese, and Mexican/Central American cuisines, not to mention American barbecue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s fun but I wouldn’t want to denigrate Dickens by saying he got poverty wrong to make a political point.

  I think they’re actually making the opposite claim- American wages are just that fucked, rather than Dickens being wrong

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We could have had it all⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or a tiny bench

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite open source 3D printers?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, they’re definitely pretty interesting. I’m usually interested in the other end of the build volume scale with large machines, but it’s super cool to see how they manage to pack so much into such a small space!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite open source 3D printers?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Documentation and open source are two orthogonal concepts. I’ve seen plenty of well-documented closed-source projects and just as many open-source projects with no documentation at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite open source 3D printers?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Voron is a fairly popular set of designs and geometries, but they’re harder to source and build. There’s also RatRig, which sells a kit and I think just started selling fully-assembled machines under another brand name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3137: Cursed Number⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The number that makes people go insane is bigger than 2.6*10^21^, or 2,600,000,000,000,000,000,000

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Juggalos Not Happy as Insane Clown Posse Releases AI-Generated Video⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have unfortunately known some furries who happened to be shitty people, but that isn’t a trait exclusive to any one community. Case in point: the person you responded to is also a shit person

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can still enable uBlock Origin in Chrome, here is how⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They only made those changes after several of the people whose likeness they stole called them out. Regardless, it should never have happened in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can still enable uBlock Origin in Chrome, here is how⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean the browser that was caught injecting affiliate codes on cryptocurrency sites and misleading users into making donations that were collected by brave instead of the supposed recipient? That browser?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This line of thought is short sighted. Your senior engineers will eventually retire or leave the company. If everyone replaces junior engineers with ai, then there will be nobody with the experience to fill those empty seats. Then you end up with no junior engineers and no senior engineers, so who is wrangling the ai?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anker's 3D texture printer raises $45 million in most successful Kickstarter campaign ever — world's first UV printer for personal use to begin shipping in August⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s cool as hell. My understanding is you have to have extremely high volume before uv makes financial sense. The previously-available commercial uv printers are extremely expensive, so the anker printer is only cheap by comparison. Hopefully we will see some more competition at this level that will continue to bring the price down towards something more affordable!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey..⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, happens to me occasionally, typically on my morning commute when I’m still waking up. Scary as fuck every time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anker's 3D texture printer raises $45 million in most successful Kickstarter campaign ever — world's first UV printer for personal use to begin shipping in August⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  UV printers are used for direct to object printing, you likely own some stuff that has gone through the process. It’s especially popular for customized promotional items that would be otherwise difficult to print on, like flash drives, gold balls, etc. Admittedly, I also don’t see much of a reason to buy this for my own use, but one could say the same about other hobbies like 3d printing.