Catoblepas
@Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone
- Comment on All hail the corn. 4 days ago:
It was pumpkins? I have always been taught squash. Or is this a calabaza = squash and pumpkin translation issue maybe?
- Comment on When a man says anything bad about women online or criticize them based on his experience, Comments: 5 days ago:
Really doubt it 😌
- Comment on When a man says anything bad about women online or criticize them based on his experience, Comments: 5 days ago:
See also: internet men any time someone uses the phrase “toxic masculinity.” I don’t think I’ve seen it come up a single time without dudes getting Big Mad (and ironically listing a bunch of shit that shows how terrible toxic masculinity is for men with zero self awareness)
- Comment on Big Brother Is Watching Your Online Criticism of ICE Crackdowns 5 days ago:
ICE can watch this: 🫱(‿¤‿)🫲
- Comment on Women would rather do drugs than go to therapy 5 days ago:
That’s for patient use only! You’ll have to transition first if you want to use it.
- Comment on EU's Top Court Just Made It Impossible to Run a User-Generated Platform Legally 1 week ago:
What are the implications for fediverse software hosted in the EU?
- Comment on Bird law is not governed by reason 1 week ago:
The classic !superbowl@lemmy.world
!birding@slrpnk.net
!crows@lemmy.world
- Comment on Bread mold 1 week ago:
Thanks, I was always taught the toxin survived heating, but apparently it’s the spores that can survive and reproduce.
- Comment on Bread mold 1 week ago:
Not at all, food spoilage caused by mold and bacteria can have waste produced by the mold/bacteria that doesn’t break down even at high temperatures. Ex: botulism. Your grandma got lucky!
- Comment on Chasing the Elephant 1 week ago:
They used to do sugar cubes saturated with vaccine for polio, we should go back to that. I know there are reasons they stopped using it, but Americans are definitely more likely to eat sugar than get vaccinated, so let’s just call it a wash in terms of health risks.
- Comment on Honestly wtf? 1 week ago:
Lah dah dah dah, bah dah dah
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 2 weeks ago:
If that’s true that takes my interest in it into the negatives. ASOIAF has about a million moving parts and very distinct characters with complex backstories, there’s not even a small chance an LLM could come close to imitating that.
- Comment on How long after starting Vitamin D supplements should you notice results? 2 weeks ago:
If you have an underlying psychiatric condition like depression then bringing your vitamin D levels to normal might improve your mood and it might not. When I got put on a vitamin D supplement after the doctor caught how low I was my biggest improvement was my energy more than my mood, but being tired all the time will make you feel like shit too.
People have already mentioned you should make sure you’re actually deficient by going to the doctor, but it’s also important to determine why you’re deficient. If you know you just don’t ever get sunlight, well, mystery solved. But if you do then vitamin D deficiencies can also be caused by things like intestinal disorders.
If the issue is not getting enough sunlight, check out the Sunbeam app. I have it as a safety thing because the UV here is godawful, but it also gives you a timer based on the current UV strength for how long you need to stay outside to get your daily vitamin D. Because it’s winter it’s like 40 minutes where I am today, but in the summer it can be as low as 5-10.
- Comment on It's been a while, which Lemmy instances should I be on? 2 weeks ago:
If you go here you can sort by size, uptime, etc, I’m not sure if anyone has made a curated list anywhere. There’s only a few instances with 100+ users, but since you’re seeing all the same fediverse content anyway it doesn’t matter much. My policy was to just pick an instance I trusted (already trusted Blahaj, so that was easy).
I would say it’s probably a good idea to pick an instance with at least 30-40 people, because the more people who have subscribed to remote communities, the more content will will automatically federate to the instance (therefor making it easier for you to find new content).
- Comment on It's been a while, which Lemmy instances should I be on? 2 weeks ago:
If you like Blahaj the there is also a Piefed Blahaj instance now! I like Piefed over lemmy, I don’t know if they’ve added it to lemmy since I left but I really like being able to mute replies. It has other features lemmy lacks too, like being able to block an entire instance or make feeds (multireddit like function).
- Comment on Shopify lays off staff to keep team ‘fast, sharp and focused’ 2 weeks ago:
Fast (to find a new job), sharp(ening their resume skills) and focused (on that next job interview)
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
\5. This is a reflection of the tendency of this particular social group (chavs? Not a Brit spotting expert) to spot and act immediately in response to emergencies rather than ignoring it, waiting for others to act, or pulling out a phone to film
\6. Something else we haven’t thought of
- Comment on Libraries are cool 2 weeks ago:
Why’s that? Is it just in case you put it in the wrong spot?
- Comment on I’ll just be over here… 2 weeks ago:
[laughs in muting replies on Piefed]
- Comment on Might not be efficient, but at least it... Uhhh, wait, what good does it provide again? 2 weeks ago:
If LLMs can’t do whatever you tell them based purely on natural language instructions then they need to stop advertising it that way.
It’s not just advertisement that’s the problem, do any of them even have user manuals? How is a user with no experience prompting LLMs (which was everyone 3 years ago) supposed to learn how to formulate a “correct” prompt without any instructions? It’s a smokescreen for blaming any bad output on the user.
Oh, it told you to put glue in your pizza? You didn’t prompt it right. It gives you explicit instructions on how to kill yourself because you talked about being suicidal? You prompted it wrong. It completely makes up new medical anatomical terminology? You have once again prompted it wrong! (Don’t make me dig up links to all those news stories)
It’s funny the fediverse tends to come down so hard on the side of ‘RTFM’ with anything Linux related, but with LLMs it’s actually the user’s fault for believing they weren’t being sold a fraudulent product without a user manual.
- Comment on Might not be efficient, but at least it... Uhhh, wait, what good does it provide again? 2 weeks ago:
In convinced the people who think it’s incredible literally just don’t know how to use a search engine, the one and only potentially useful function of LLMs other than writing asinine work related emails.
- Comment on Might not be efficient, but at least it... Uhhh, wait, what good does it provide again? 2 weeks ago:
Hilarious to think nobody could notice how dogshit AI is without being handheld into it.
- Comment on Corn 2 weeks ago:
Any professional corn farmers in the crowd? My unprofessional opinion: it didn’t get pollinated enough.
- Comment on Hi, Jeffrey! 3 weeks ago:
PSA, 2 security vendors on VirusTotal flag this site as phishing and 1 as suspicious. It might literally just be because it’s a Gmail clone and nothing else, but I don’t know enough to evaluate it further.
- Comment on Calling all Dickheads! 3 weeks ago:
My baby gay ass reading this at 10: 🤔
- Comment on Grampa when NYC elects a socialist mayor 3 weeks ago:
This is so incredibly funny in light of how the ADL launched a “Mamdani Monitor” project immediately after he was elected
- Comment on George Takei (TOS), Rebecca Romijn (SNW), Tig Notaro (DIS, SA) and Karim Diané (SA) 3 weeks ago:
They’re already putting up stadium seating for the parade along the roads in Pasadena, it’s pretty wild. Dunno if I want to battle the winter weather, I’ve lived in LA 12+ years and never done the Rose Parade, but the Trek stars make it tempting!
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Hat on top of a hat technology. The underlying problems with LLMs remain unchanged, and “agentic AI” is basically a marketing term to make people think those problems are solved. I realize you probably know this, I’m just kvetching.
- Comment on Screw your zodiac sign, tell me... 3 weeks ago:
Did yours also get fucked up in the microwave but still used for food anyway? That thing’s gotta be at least 50% of the microplastics in my brain.
- Comment on Screw your zodiac sign, tell me... 3 weeks ago:
One grandma had 4 and the other had 7. My parents kept a chaotic mix of whatever was on sale.