Qwel
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- Comment on 1 day ago:
You guys are insane. Unusal people exist. Lemmy DMs are visible by instance admins. Ask them if they see any DMs that looks suspicious.
And then maaybe stop defaming her? Like, this post should be ban worthy by any reasonable instance and community rules?
Is it me or is it always the 50 years olds that say this shit? Like idk maybe you guys are particularily bad at guessing how gen Z behaves. I definitely know at least one woman IRL that would post like that. Two if I’m being generous. Not a majority but they fucking exist. And it turns out Lemmy isn’t exactly filled with the most normal normies.
- Comment on That's how the world works. 1 day ago:
This isn’t exactly what I was searching for, I was more interested in the “independant farms” part
In France, most “family ran” farms work on rented land and under an exclusivity contract that forces them to sell all their production to a single company. This leads to a situation where the few billionaires that buy food from everyone get to set the prices at which they buy different crops (and therefore what the farmers produce), and whether to export it. In other news, France is exporting wine while malnutrition rises and the major food charity is running out of fund as the demand increases. The government has stepped in to fund the charity, but still, we end up prioritizing exporting alcohol over feeding locals.
I would be more interested in how the system decides what is exported and produced, rather than in what is currently exported and produced
- Comment on Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptions 1 day ago:
en.wikipedia.org/…/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_wit…
en.wikipedia.org/…/Wikipedia:LLM-assisted_transla…
The two related “policies” are rather short, you should read them if you haven’t.
AI shouldn’t be altering databases of knowledge, especially when it is so inconsistent
The policy only allows usage as an auto-translater (a task at which they are not worst than old-style auto-translaters that were always allowed) and as spellcheck/grammarcheck (where it is also not worst than other allowed options).
None of those tools were previously seen as altering Wikipedia by themselves. The goal is that LLMs should be used and considered like they were.
To be clear they always were articles for creation submitted from clearly google-translated text, and they always were dismissed as slop. To get an autotranslated article accepted, you need to remove all the crap until all the information is correct and the grammar is good enough. This is a rather standard workflow for translations. The same thing should apply to LLMs.
The new issue here is that LLMs can “organically” change informations while asked to translate. When a classic autotranslate changes the information, it often (not always) leaves a notable mess in the grammar. LLMs will insert their errors much more cleanly. This is acknowledged by both texts and, well, texts will change if that becomes a reocurring issue.
- Comment on That's how the world works. 1 day ago:
That sounds impressive, I never heard about it. Do you have some resource about it? I don’t know how to search for it and Google is, like, you know
- Comment on Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project 1 day ago:
So, yeah, flatpak is horribly inneficient on disk usage and can easily take 60GB if you are a bit generous on app installs. 60GB is, notably, less than 1.4TB
Out of curiosity, how did you search for what was using up the space? Did you try apps like baobab or filelight? One of them is usually preinstalled and they have not failed me yet (except when hard-linking or copy-on-write is involved, but that shouldn’t show up on the global disk usage percentage)
- Comment on That's how the world works. 2 days ago:
man is a woman-made problem if that helps
- Comment on That's how the world works. 2 days ago:
Making food from pure electricity would be a cool sci-fi thing
- Comment on That's how the world works. 2 days ago:
Regardless of nationality, don’t expect your billionaire overlord to have ethics if it comes at the cost of a 0.7% revenue loss
- Comment on wir suchen dich‼️‼️🗣️📢📢 4 days ago:
“ch” is sometimes pronounced “k” in some languages, including english
- Comment on Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project 5 days ago:
It’s flatpak. Not snap, by god, not snap.
It’s inefficient, but he is stating that he is now using “only 600GB”, so I would guess it shouldn’t be that notable to someone who thinks 600GB is not much.
I used to dislike it, but Flatpak is allowing a lot of small distros to exist outside of Debian/RHEL/Arch. Void, Chimera, Adélie or Guix (insert yours here) “only” have to implement a desktop environment and Flatpak to be usable. It’s not ideal and it kind of goes against the point of those distros, but they definitely couldn’t package Flathub’s 3300 apps themselves. Especially the proprietary ones that only provide a .deb and .rpm.
Also the sandboxing is nice when installing proprietary stuff. I don’t want Microsoft Team drooling all over my home.
- Comment on Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project 5 days ago:
It would not vikdevelop.github.io/SaveDesktop/
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 1 week ago:
The issue here is that the filter is taking a not-realistic graphism and forcing it to be realistic (and, along the way, completely changing unrelated artistic intentions). The desired outcome would be to leave thing as unrealistic as they were, as intended initially. It’s not related to being picky about realism.
If an AI company takes Ocarina of Time, turns it into a realistic game while changing everyone’s hair color and skin tint, and claim it is obviously superior, gamers are not going to be happy. The inside of that tree is not going to inspire the same feeling when using fully realistic lighting.
The goal posts did move a few years ago, as a lot of people got bored of realism and more into stylized 3D. All the realistic games kind of end up looking the same and the Sifu-Lorn’s Lure range of polygon count is much more exciting.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 1 week ago:
It just isn’t the same person. Makeup was added, hair coloring, veins in one eye but not the other, lip and nose texture were changed to be rougher, lighting was put on the back of the jaw to make it look square, even the skin tint was changed. It’s not a bad image, it’s just not the design that the author was going for, at all.
- Comment on What do your teeth taste like? 2 weeks ago:
It’s dust yeah, but it’s a bit different than sand or sawdust. It has a slight taste to it, I wouldn’t call it outright nothing.
- Comment on What do your teeth taste like? 2 weeks ago:
You guys just don’t grind your teeth fine enough.
- Comment on xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles 3 weeks ago:
Batteries are about 30% of the price of a full car, which is a lot, but significantly less than 100%. You definitely have an incentive to replace them instead of the full car.
To replace most of them, you need to unscrew the 4 big bolts that hold it, remove the dead one, put a new one in and rescrew the 4 big bolts. This is made difficult by the 700kg that the batteries weigh, but is doable if you have the equipment to lift and move heavy things.
Your issue is Tesla. Tesla has an absurd and dangerous battery design to make their models as flat as possible. I will not list the reasons why Tesla should not be used as a reference
I am not sure why you are stating that the poor people cannot charge at home, it is much cheaper than charging at a station. Fast chargers do sometimes have a queue issue, but it’s not as bad as it would be at a gas station with three lanes. They’re not converting gas stations to charging stations, they’re adding chargers to parkings that can charge dozens of car in parallel. And you won’t use them often because it’s so pricey.
- Comment on AI finds errors in 90% of Wikipedia's best articles 3 months ago:
Most of the errors aren’t so bad, but it’s definitely nice to correct them.
You need to know Wikipedia’s system a bit though, because ChatGPT suggests these kind of things:
Want me to draft a crisp correction note you can paste on the article’s talk page?
Using LLMs when interacting with other users is “strongly frowned upon”, and you can get banned if you refuse to stop
- Comment on How could you do this to me? 3 months ago:
fyi, the drivers for AI and gaming are not the same. They’re in the same project, but they don’t use the same parts of that project. I wouldn’t use them to argue for the stability of gaming.
- Comment on Framework stops selling separate DDR5 RAM modules to fight scalpers 3 months ago:
They made a blog post “for transparency” that listed all the projects they supported, and called for the community to submit their favorite projects in a form.
The blog post did not acknowledge the situation, but the list showed that they stopped supporting Omarchy and kept support for Hyprland. It was noted during the drama that Hyprland’s toxicity levels have dropped since they set up a moderation team. Their reputation might not represent them as they are currently.
I stopped following the events at this point, so if something happened after that, I’m not aware of it
- Comment on It's been a while, which Lemmy instances should I be on? 3 months ago:
Yeah. Yikes.
The advice is decent actually. It’s the non-advice comments that should just be deleted. Even the advice from that .ml guy is careful. Wouldn’t have caused any issue if someone didn’t pick the fight while fully aware that there will not be a resolution.
- Comment on Thank Mozilla for Killing Localization on Support Mozilla (And Replacing Human Contributions With AI Bots) 3 months ago:
If you’re going to fund something, go for Servo
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 3 months ago:
From what OS?
Generally, I would advise finding out by yourself with a Ventoy USB.
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 3 months ago:
Only to Zorin
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 3 months ago:
FYI, subliminal messages, as in “messages that you can’t see but your subconscious will be affected by” are not a thing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subliminal_stimuli
I remember watching a science show where someone wanted to demonstrate them, blatantly failed, tried again, failed again, called a psychologist to try better, and failed again. At the end the guy excused himself and said that it must surely be working for everyone but him, for some reason. Except no one actually managed to get it working, the guy who invented the concept later admitted he faked the result.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 3 months ago:
What did XP do? I’ve never heard someone complain about it
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 3 months ago:
Looking at the specs, I would guess it is
You can setup a Ventoy USB stick if you want to try multiple options
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 4 months ago:
It’s similar in that it has an application launcher at the bottom, a windows-like start menu, and aims to be simple.
Zorin has a modern UI where Mint is more windows-7-ish. They don’t have the same file explorer, settings app, app store, generally the core apps are different.
Look they’re quite different, it’s hard to make a full comparison, just run a Mint .iso in gnome-boxes if you’re curious.
- Comment on Bewildered enthusiasts decry memory price increases of 100% or more — the AI RAM squeeze is finally starting to hit PC builders where it hurts 4 months ago:
Do you actually feel your computer slow down? I would guess your 20 unused tabs would be swapped out and the rest should run relatively fine
- Comment on Has anyone here ever doubted if your parents were your "real" parents? Is it normal to have these weird thoughts? 4 months ago:
They might disinherit you for being disrespectful? That’s insane. Did they threaten you to do that? If the relation is that bad I can understand why you would care. My parents would just think I’m being weird.
I hadn’t thought about a DNA test, but I definitely don’t see how it could help me with my life. If it comes positive, nothing changes. If it comes negative, I don’t see the administration doing anything about it. They won’t even know you passed a test, even if they had procedures for these cases. You or your parents would need to bring up the issue in a legal procedure for the administration to consider it.
What I mean is that if you have issues with your parents or tutors, knowing what they are exactly does not fix the issues by itself (surely there is a better angle to think about it?). I understand that you would think about it, but if you don’t like thinking about it, I think you usually don’t need to invest yourself into it. Like, you can keep the obsessive thought without worrying about it. And that will make it stop over time. I don’t know how much sense this makes, it made sense to me back then :shrug:
- Comment on Has anyone here ever doubted if your parents were your "real" parents? Is it normal to have these weird thoughts? 4 months ago:
I did, and shrugged it off
for me this is the same kind of questions as “maybe the universe was created 5 seconds ago”. It’s impossible to resolve, and doesn’t change anything