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- Comment on Why did the proposed *Red Sea–Dead Sea Water Conveyance* project involve pumping water instead of siphoning it? 6 minutes ago:
Really great answer. Thanks
- Comment on Could there be additional forces at super low energies? Could a new fundamental force be discovered anytime soon? + other questions relating to forces 2 days ago:
Wow I wish this was two questions. I’m pretty curious to see if there is anything detailed people have to say about the first paragraph but have little energy to skim through the answers to the second paragraph that seem to be dominating word count
- Comment on AI finds errors in 90% of Wikipedia's best articles 3 days ago:
I think the first part you wrote is a but hard to parse but I think this is related.
I think the problematic part of most genAI use cases is validation at the end. If you’re doing something that has a large amount of exploration but a small amount of validation, like this, then it’s useful.
A friend was using it to learn the linux command line, that can be framed as having a single command at the end that you copy, paste and validate. That isn’t perfect because the explanation could still be off and it wouldn’t be validated but I think it’s still a better use case than most.
- Comment on Someone At YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled 1 week ago:
Fuck the YouTube PMs
They were condescending on the bug with the fourth highest internal ratings that simply requested that shorts could be removed (particularly for children and for mental health). A particular gripe of some engineers was that it couldn’t be removed from the subscriptions page. I was impressed they removed the condescending comment after a month but they never really addressed the large volume of employees telling them this was the wrong thing to be doing
- Comment on Have clankers visited my blog one hundred twenty-one sexagintillion eight hundred ten novemquinquagintillion times so far in November?? 1 week ago:
Have you ever tried writing a scrapper. I have for offline reference material. You’ll do that a few times and know. I usually only want a relatively small site (say a Khan Academy lesson which doesn’t save text offline, just videos) and put in a large delay between requests but I’ll still come back after thinking I have it down and it’s thrashed something
- Comment on Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI 1 week ago:
It’s funny, I had half been avoiding it for languages. I had lots of foreign friends and they often lived together in houses and those houses would almost have this creole. They came to learn English and were reinforcing their own mistakes but it was mutually intelligible so the mistakes were reinforced and not caught. I suspect LLMs would be amazing at doing that to people and their main use case along these lines seems like it would be to practice at a slightly higher level than you so I suspect some of those errors would be hard to catch / really easy to take as correct instead of validating
- Comment on Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI 1 week ago:
Strongly disagree with the TLDR thing
At least, the iPhone notifications summaries were bad enough I eventually turned them off (but periodically check them) and while I was working at Google you couldn’t really turn of the genAI summaries of internal things (that evangelists kept adding to things) and I rarely found them useful. Well… they’re useful if the conversation is really bland but then the conversation should usually be in some thread elsewhere, if there was something important I don’t think the genAI systems were very good at highlighting it
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire’s Pee-Drinking Skills and ‘Blowjob Prowess’ 1 week ago:
Yeah, I’m not disagreeing with the probable outcome here. I just think that it’s more likely at this point in time for the LLM output to be doing its stochastic thing in a way your human brain is seeing patterns in. But, I was also curious how wrong I was and that’s part of why I asked for some examples. Not that I could really validate them
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire’s Pee-Drinking Skills and ‘Blowjob Prowess’ 1 week ago:
Yeah. Strongly agreed for most of the behaviour. I think most amusingly in Grok where obvious efforts have been made to update the output beyond rails and accuracy checks
But the guy here talking about how these will be used control the information diet of people, he’s probably right about how this turns out unless there’s changes to legislation (and I’m expecting any changes to be in the wrong direction) even if he’s possibly misinterpreting some LLM output now
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire’s Pee-Drinking Skills and ‘Blowjob Prowess’ 1 week ago:
A bunch of this can be expected failure modes for LLMs. Do you have a list of short examples to get an idea?
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire’s Pee-Drinking Skills and ‘Blowjob Prowess’ 1 week ago:
There’s huge risk here but I don’t think most are designed to control people’s opinions. I think most are chasing the cheapest option and it’s expensive to have people upset about racist content so they try to train around that sometimes too much leading to black Nazi images etc.
But yeah, it is a power that will get abused by more than just grok
- Comment on Why do so many services require email configuration? 3 weeks ago:
In your OP, sure.
But this comment reads as a desired state, and in some situations thats a feature request (in this case it seems like there are architecture / system workarounds):
I don’t want email to be accessible to those services. I don’t want those services to use email at all.
Did you get an explanation you’re happy with?
- Comment on Why do so many services require email configuration? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think that assumption was inherent in the comment
If you want an unpopular feature that doesn’t exist on an open source platform sometimes your only options are to code it, or ask someone else to. The skillset of the feature requester doesn’t change that
- Comment on Firefox 145.0 3 weeks ago:
And blocked
- Comment on Firefox 145.0 3 weeks ago:
What’s new:
- edit PDFs
- new privacy protections
- tab group previews
- dropped support for 32-bit linux
And honestly I’d stop there and say “and more”
- Comment on Firefox 145.0 3 weeks ago:
Also, the summary of the release notes is not the release notes. You cared about every dot point in those release notes equally? There are no larger broad changes?
- Comment on Firefox 145.0 3 weeks ago:
Why post it here? I personally don’t think every Firefox release is interesting enough to post to the !technology@lemmy.world channel so when a release is interesting enough to post here I figure there are reasons and that they are easy to note along with the URL.
I suspect most people have some feelings are the same because I suspect most people would be unimpressed if the channel included every minor release of everyone’s torch apps. The exact reasons something is interesting varies for people. For some people anything Firefox might be enough. For others it might only be interesting when they do something big like trying to come up with a new solution for tracking ads. Since its a community, I kind of think a good post needs to include the highlights of what is meant to be interesting to help out the others in the community, especially if they might not naturally see the same things as interesting
- Comment on Firefox 145.0 3 weeks ago:
The Firefox browser itself tells me there is an update. An update could be interesting here to read about, so make the case with the highlights.
Personally, I’m pretty inclined to downvote any post that is a link without a short summary or context. I appreciate that’s not everyone.
And personally I think it’s important to say why you downvote. The poster can choose what to do with that information and I’ve got no expectations for them to change how they do things
- Comment on Firefox 145.0 3 weeks ago:
Downvoted for not giving any sort of summary of the larger features and fixes
- Comment on Where do you typically leave/read reviews 3 weeks ago:
4.5-4.6 can be hit-or-miss
How is that not inflated? For my personal ratings, a three is something I’d be happy to eat every day. A five is close to unattainable. It’s basically centered on 2.5 with something like a tapered normal distribution. It’s tedious mapping out so I’m not lowering ratings for good places so I don’t rate anymore.
But getting past me being difficult, you can’t even rate 4.5 can you? Isn’t that information being lost when the way people rate is basically 5 for thumb up and every other number is a thumb down?
You’re right about it being useful to look at relative ratings, I just wouldn’t label that as really accurate.
It’s a separate issue but you brought up categories. I never loved rating in a situation like on Airbnb where one place might be a deliberately expensive penthouse and another might be deliberately a cheap shared room in the wilderness, especially with something like a “cleanliness” rating
- Comment on Where do you typically leave/read reviews 3 weeks ago:
Agreed Google maps is the best review aggregator (and I wish it wasn’t) but “the star ratings are scarily accurate”? I think you mean “hugely inflated”. Like almost any review system a I’ve seen recently: if you like a place and you give less than a 5 then you’re hurting it.
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 4 weeks ago:
I think it’s a bubble but I’m also suspicious we’re near peak investment and think it could sustain for a while yet. I wonder what sort of range he’s projecting for the peak and timeframe
- Comment on Is there a selfhosted option for webcomics? 4 weeks ago:
The BookLore Github:
github.com/booklore-app/booklore
Has a shelf of comics to see how reading on the server works:
demo.booklore.dev/library/3/books?view=grid&sort=…
It looks like I might be misremembering though, and there might not be a torrent search / download.
For downloads then looking at my docker compose it looks like I chose LazyLibrarian over bookshelf but I can’t tell you why.
- Comment on Is there a selfhosted option for webcomics? 4 weeks ago:
I asked something similar (its just asking about ebooks) and some of the answers there may help:
I have notes for a follow up but I didn’t finish my testing and am still using mostly commercial options.
I think I didn’t find anything good for syncing between devices (unless own a kobo reader) but Calibre OPDS was workable as a server and both Booklore and Calibre Web had options for downloading but both have to deal with book torrents often not being available / bundled without the name and I think I liked Booklore more, but was going to go with Calibre Web since I thought I could share the library file (and I travel so for now my “server” is a virtual machine on my laptop that is often not running).
- Comment on Is Kagy web browser worth it? 4 weeks ago:
They weren’t my instances. There are some public instances floating around so, before trying to self host, I gave them a shot. I can’t remember the specifics well. For me to bother investing time testing, I may have had a query that was irritating me on Duck Duck Go and Google so it might not have been a particularly fair test
- Comment on Is Kagy web browser worth it? 4 weeks ago:
For anyone curious how well it works, I just noticed they have a trial:
- Comment on Is Kagy web browser worth it? 4 weeks ago:
Every SearXNG instance I’ve tested has been terrible for my test queries. Any chance you can account for that?
- Comment on If this has been asked recently just link it no need to be mean, because I am emotionally sensitive right now. Thank you for your attention to this matter. 5 weeks ago:
Most authoritarian regimes consolidate power through improving the economy and high approval don’t they? The collapse tends to come later after to consolation I thought and I hadn’t seen it argued as a strategic thing. Any chance you can point to something that discusses this more fully?
- Comment on Scientists Say We May Have Been Wrong About the Origin of Life 5 weeks ago:
I could guess that either the author at popular mechanics just found it / just dug it out of their reading list or one of the authors of the paper reached out as part of promoting their research?
I think a year ago as someone learning biology from Khan Academy and reading about endosymbiosis and reading what I could about LUCA theories with some chemistry background then whats written here just seems like a likely possibility. The paper doesn’t seem like strong evidence and it seems like there is a lot of guess work for early life. The teams making artificial cells are doing interesting, scary work there.
But I’m no expert here, I was just pointing out the source material and a summary
- Comment on Youtube AI filter making it dangerous to watch for people with Epilepsy due to a bug 5 weeks ago:
Oh, I don’t have epilepsy so I’m not avoiding YouTube because of this filter, I’m avoiding YouTube because of the money Google keeps giving to Trump and because I noticed that my tech usage isn’t very diversified and it was pretty all in on the US. From that perspective, it removes ad revenue