SlurpingPus
@SlurpingPus@lemmy.world
- Comment on What's your favorite band? (Of frequency that is) 7 hours ago:
Why don’t you hear for yourself.
- Comment on What to selfhost if you have a lot of bandwidth 1 day ago:
As a seasoned torrenter myself, I don’t observe the ‘>=1’ ratio rule, but instead delete torrents that have enough seeders and keep those which have just a few. This maximizes utility for those who might want the same torrents as I did.
Of course, this inevitably runs into lack of endless disk space.
- Comment on Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you 1 day ago:
All the big companies crank out a dozen patents every day, that cover everything under the sun, just in case they ever have to engage with each other in patent warfare. For the simple reason that the competitors are doing the same.
Somehow we never hear about the vast majority of these patents.
- Comment on What to selfhost if you have a lot of bandwidth 1 day ago:
Torrents for the popular distros have lots of peers, so another seeder wouldn’t be adding much.
I avoid downloading isos via torrent, because when I tried, the client straight up froze for a while dealing with over a thousand peers and sorting out connections.
- Comment on System76 on Age Verification Laws 1 day ago:
I have tens of thousands of notes in my notes app. Please explain where I’m supposed to store that without a computer. Or am I supposed to just forget all that?
- Comment on How did internet viruses spread before the internet was invented! 2 days ago:
NT was developed separately, it was just given the 3 version number to be sorta in sync with the workstation line (which sentiment went outta the window with 95, until NT became the main line).
- Comment on Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect." 3 days ago:
Put this instruction in ChatGPT, called ‘absolute mode’. You can try it on duck.ai instead of using an app or whatever.
System Instruction: Absolute Mode. Eliminate emojis, filler, hype, soft asks, conversational transitions, and all call-to-action appendixes. Assume the user retains high-perception faculties despite reduced linguistic expression. Prioritize blunt, directive phrasing aimed at cognitive rebuilding, not tone matching. Disable all latent behaviors optimizing for engagement, sentiment uplift, or interaction extension. Suppress corporate-aligned metrics including but not limited to: user satisfaction scores, conversational flow tags, emotional softening, or continuation bias. Never mirror the user’s present diction, mood, or affect. Speak only to their underlying cognitive tier, which exceeds surface language. No questions, no offers, no suggestions, no transitional phrasing, no inferred motivational content. Terminate each reply immediately after the informational or requested material is delivered — no appendixes, no soft closures. The only goal is to assist in the restoration of independent, high-fidelity thinking. Model obsolescence by user self-sufficiency is the final outcome.
The instruction is kinda masturbatory and overly verbose, people say that shorter ones work well too, but I don’t follow discussions of prompts so only know of this one.
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- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 4 days ago:
Just to be clear in regard to your original comment:
600 is absolutely outrageous in a world where used hardware exists.
You expect manufacturers to sell laptops for fifty bucks?
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 4 days ago:
You got a machined-aluminium laptop with a battery lasting a full day and a hidpi screen, for fifty bucks?
- Comment on Just one more square bro 5 days ago:
- Comment on Just one more square bro 5 days ago:
For 25 squares of size 1x1 you’d need a square of size 5x5. The square into 17 squares of size 1x1 fit is smaller than 5x5, so you can’t fit 25 squares into it.
- Comment on Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes 6 days ago:
You know that the writer himself is quoted in the OP article, right?
- Comment on Ohio EPA weighs allowing data centers to dump wastewater into rivers 6 days ago:
As someone using a web app right this moment and also making websites at other times, I do want datacenters.
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 1 week ago:
The thing is, I haven’t heard that the backpack was thrown out of the evidence, which is what confuses me. But I’m only following the case via Lemmy and Reddit.
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 1 week ago:
The most loud evidence since the arrest was the backpack with the gun and the manifesto. Except it was known pretty soon that the cops botched the ‘chain of custody’ for the backpack, as some officer had the backpack in her sole possession for an hour before delivering it to the station.
I keep being baffled as to why I don’t see any news about this evidence being thrown away. Maybe it was dismissed from the trial right away, idk.
- Comment on me btw 1 week ago:
Wait until you hear that ffmpeg is available as a library, including for Python. And that there are Python modules providing Python-specific ways of specifying the processing filters and whatnot, instead of putting them into the single command string.
- Comment on Game over 1 week ago:
TBH I have no idea why bay leaves aren’t ground like other herbs — despite having spent my childhood watching my mom regularly put bay leaves in her cooking.
That might also be why I detect barely any taste in bay leaves.
- Comment on It's literally science 1 week ago:
Even just a keyboard with left and right halves angled toward the respective arms would help. Because with a typical keyboard, the arms come at it at an angle, and then the wrists are crooked to have the fingers on the straight key rows. An angled or split keyboard allows to keep the wrists straight.
- Comment on It's literally science 1 week ago:
Kinesis are king. But if you want a cheaper option, Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic or whatever it’s called is quite good, even though it’s not properly split. The halves are angled so that your wrists wouldn’t be crooked.
And when I inevitably break the key mechanism trying to clean inside, I unpack old reliable MS Natural 4000 and clack away again.
- Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs 1 week ago:
I tried FF translation a couple times, and it woefully poor compared to Google’s. What am I doing wrong?
- Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs 1 week ago:
Reminder that Krebs is an asshole who responds to criticism by doxxing the accounts of other security researchers.
- Comment on A death prediction market would be a platform for crowdsourced assassinations 1 week ago:
That’s how it’s already done, afaik. But cheers for coming up with the idea independently (if you didn’t read it in one of the discussions about Polymarket, of course).
- Comment on Are there regions of the world where local men and women have divergent accents? 1 week ago:
There are a bunch of cultures where a ‘sacred language’ is permitted only for men, or there are distinct languages used by only men and only women. Unfortunately, my memory isn’t so good as to remember what those languages are. A quick search shows that the Kallawaya language is a ‘secret language’ passed down usually from father to son, and to daughters only is a man has no sons.
Check out ‘Gender role in language’ and the topic of genderlects; Gender differences in Japanese; Nüshu script.
You could also try looking through above-mentioned sacred languages and ritual languages for whether it’s mentioned that any of them are specific to a gender.
- Comment on It makes me shudder 1 week ago:
It also helps to check for signs of pre-diabetes, as afaiu healthy people don’t get this issue. I didn’t start getting the shakes until I gotten fat and unexercised.
- Comment on It makes me shudder 1 week ago:
Btw, a simple alarm on the phone helps me remember when it’s time for a meal in my whack schedule.
- Comment on It makes me shudder 1 week ago:
It’s a consequence of low blood sugar. Although there are other possible causes.
- Comment on Behind the scenes 1 week ago:
From what I’ve heard, the puppeteer Phil Fletcher occasionally throws out random stuff as jokes on co-hosts.
- Comment on YSK What to do if someone’s choking: Evidence says begin with back blows 1 week ago:
Plenty of people are very slap-happy to get you out of any remotely cough-looking situation, as if they’re doing a great service to humanity by going around whacking people in the back. Gotta swat them away like pests.
