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- Comment on Mini PC to replace fiber modem and wifi router. How to proceed? 1 week ago:
This may not be so easy, what protocol does the ISP use over fibre?
- Comment on AI chatbots provide less-accurate information to vulnerable users: Research finds leading AI models perform worse for users with lower English proficiency, less formal education, and non-US origins. 1 week ago:
I think you are making the mistake of attributing intent to an LLM. A LLM does not have intent. It takes the context and generates the statistically most likely tokens that come next. The biography is part of the context.
The fact that it gives different answers based on context purely comes down to how it was trained and that there is no concept of “factual information”.
I’m not defending LLMs, this is just LLMs doing exactly what they were trained to do.
- Comment on AI chatbots provide less-accurate information to vulnerable users: Research finds leading AI models perform worse for users with lower English proficiency, less formal education, and non-US origins. 1 week ago:
I mean this study literally says that poorly worded prompts give worse results. It makes sense too, imagine you are on some conspiracy Facebook group with bad grammar etc, those are the posts it will try to emulate.
- Comment on Humans' behavior about LLMs is the same as animals with a mirror: they believe there is "another" in there. It's just their reflexion 2 weeks ago:
Just think about the fact llms are basically trying to simulate reddit posts and then think again about using them.
- Comment on misleading cover 2 weeks ago:
Look up “ice planet barbarians”. Forgot the author but there are a lot of different kind of barbarians, orcs, demons, etc. That are rough but with a soft spot, protecting the female lead heroically while taking her for themselves.
- Comment on A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions— Backlash against ICE is fueling a broader movement against AI companies’ ties to President Trump. 3 weeks ago:
You were just boycotting before it was cool.
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 3 weeks ago:
Lots of governments want it. But its no excuse doing it in a stupid way. For example EU IDs should have a function that just verifies someone is over 18 without any other info being send. At least the German one does. But its not being used.
- Comment on Yes, Paradox are aware that a “barrage of DLCs” can scare away new players, for all their bundles and discounts 4 weeks ago:
They are one of very few studios who update their games for years after release. Games make the biggest chunk of lifetime revenue at release. Unless you are a unicorn and have low development costs (Minecraft, Terraria, factorio), you will simply go bankrupt updating your game for free. See the rise of industry dude, made 4 million and now lost his house. Why? He kept funding development for four years without any revenue. Everyone who wanted the game bought it in the first year.
If you want to keep updating your game for more than a couple of months you need cashflow. You have the choice of micro transactions, subscriptions or dlc. You need to do this or go bankrupt.
Paradox gives free content updates along every DLC. I really fail to see how that is bad. The alternative would be to simply release the game, patch it for a couple months, then start working on the next game, like every other game studio. But people would hate that to. You can really do nothing in the games industry without people hating on you.
- Comment on DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI 5 weeks ago:
Depends on how important it is. Looking for a hint for a puzzle game: never. Trying to find out actually important info: always.
They make it easy though because after every statement it has these numbered annotations and you can just mouse over to read the text.
- Comment on DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI 5 weeks ago:
I use kagi assistant. It does a search, summarizes, then gives references to the origin of each claim. Genuinely useful.
- Comment on What are super-computers used for ? 5 weeks ago:
If your gaming computer can do x computations every month, and you need to run a simulation that requires 1000x computations, you can wait 1000 months, or have 1000 computers work on it in parallel and have it done in one month.
- Comment on At what point do you consider a person an alcoholic? 5 weeks ago:
These are the official diagnostic criteria, which helped to open my eyes and stop drinking:
- Alcohol is often taken in larger amounts or over a longer period than intended.
- There is a persistent desire or unsuccessful efforts to cut down or control alcohol use.
- A great deal of time is spent in activities necessary to obtain, use, or recover from the effects of alcohol.
- Craving, or a strong desire or urge to use alcohol.
- Recurrent alcohol use resulting in a failure to fulfill major role obligations at work, school, or home.
- Continued alcohol use despite having persistent or recurrent social or interpersonal problems caused or exacerbated by the effects of alcohol.
- Important social, occupational, or recreational activities are given up or reduced because of alcohol use.
- Recurrent alcohol use in situations in which it is physically hazardous.
- Alcohol use is continued despite knowledge of having a persistent or recurrent physical or psychological problem that is likely to have been caused or exacerbated by alcohol.
- Tolerance, as defined by either a need for markedly increased amounts of alcohol to achieve intoxication or desired effect, or a markedly diminished effect with continued use of the same amount.
- Withdrawal, as manifested by either characteristic withdrawal syndrome for alcohol or alcohol (or a closely related substance) is taken to relieve or avoid withdrawal symptoms.
In a 12 month period:
- 2 - 4 criteria met: mild
- 4 - 5: moderate
- 6+: severe
- Comment on Bell Labs 'Unix' Tape from 1974 Successfully Dumped to a Tarball 2 months ago:
They wrote this without googling anything.
- Comment on It will be great, they said... 2 months ago:
Been self hosting mail for over a decade and its never been easier thanks to stalwart. The IP block list thing is true though, but mostly you request removal once from Microsoft and spamhaus and that’s it.
- Comment on It's nothing 2 months ago:
Do they go away if you breath in deeply? Does it hurt more when you breath in? Then it may be back related. There are nerves going from your back under the ribs to your chest.
- Comment on Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year 3 months ago:
I’m not talking about slop games, I’m talking about giving single dev games a chance. Even successful single dev games make maybe 140000k which is 70k on your bank account. Having 18k more would make a massive difference for those games.
- Comment on Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year 3 months ago:
They don’t have to vet anything, just make the first 50k free.
- Comment on Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year 3 months ago:
They could definitely lower their 30% cut for indie devs. Even just making the first 50k free would be huge (epic takes no cut for the first million).
- Comment on I'm in a hotel in America with no kettle in my room, if I want tea I have to microwave it. 3 months ago:
Because of lower voltage in the US, total available power of a wall socket is lower. So kettles take forever.
- Comment on Is Kagy web browser worth it? 3 months ago:
Yes absolutely. The results are actually useful, they don’t have an incentive to keep you from finding what you are searching for. There is way less copywritten content and if there is, you can just block it.
Whenever I have to go back to “free” alternatives I am shocked by how much worse it is.
- Comment on Any advice for me a guy turning 18 yo old?? 4 months ago:
Let’s say you’re a student and poor. You live cheaply, eat ramen every day, etc.
Now you get your first real job. The amount of money at first will seem crazy. There will be the temptation to just splurge, buy watches, fancy apartment, fancy car on loan, etc. This happens every time your income increases significantly.
Now let’s say you get fired. Suddenly you have the loans, the bigger apartment, etc but no way to pay for it. This will be very stressful and you may have to do things you don’t want to.
Imagine instead you didn’t have the car. You got a modest apartment, and saved some money. You have no debts, and can easily take half a year to get a new job no stress.
So when I say live below your means, I mean do not give in to the temptation to splurge. Spend less money than you make.
Try to put at least 30% or so of your income to the side (aim for 50%). Make an emergency fund of at least 3 months worth of expenses. Then start putting money into tax-deductible retirement funds and ETFs.
Most importantly, never take loans and keep monthly expenses like subscriptions to a minimum.
- Comment on Any advice for me a guy turning 18 yo old?? 4 months ago:
Live below your means.
- Comment on Getting old and would like a better way to track health the self hosted way 4 months ago:
I’ve seen this haven’t tried it out though
- Comment on When a humble bard Graced a ride along 4 months ago:
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Try /sys/firmware
- Comment on Radicale - What am I supposed to do? 5 months ago:
Everything should run under their own user when possible. This software is not using a privileged port (< 1000) so it doesn’t need root.
The docs seem a bit lazy if that is not recommended, possibly it will try to access some files it does not have access to.
- Comment on EU tax officials confront the most pressing legal question of our time: If you sell RuneScape gold to someone and they use it to buy a magic sword, do you still have to pay taxes? 5 months ago:
This is actually really interesting!
This taxable individual, Kokott explains, was found to have bought and resold through “various forums, groups, and platforms such as Facebook, Discord, and Skype” enough RuneScape gold to earn €415,484—approximately $488,000 USD—between 2021 and 2023.
They then were ordered to backpay VAT because they made above 45k. Defendant says trading virtual currencies is like trading crypto, and VAT exempt. Government says its like selling a voucher instead.
Its corner cases like this one that make taxes complicated for regular people.
I also find it hilarious that tax lawyers and accountants will have to read that court decision.
- Comment on GitHub introduces hybrid post-quantum SSH security to better protect Git data in transit 5 months ago:
The threat model is that all communication is recorded and will be decrypted once the technology becomes available. The question then becomes for how long you want your data to be secure. If its for example 40 years, you need to chose an algorithm today that is still secure in 40 years.
- Comment on Have you tried self-hosting your own email recently? 5 months ago:
I would recommend something like stalwart, which is just a single binary and works. Gives you a zonefile you can just copy paste into your DNS including all correct DMARC DKIM SPF and autodiscovery records. Setting it up yourself can be a bit time consuming and annoying.
Deliverability depends on where it is hosted, many VPC providers IP space is completely blocked in spam filters.
- Comment on Rust 5 months ago:
When oxygen was first released during the great oxygenation event, it killed all other life on earth.