CombatWombat
@CombatWombat@feddit.online
- Submitted 17 hours ago to astronomy@mander.xyz | 0 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Lots of things would happen, but the specifics wouldn’t much matter because there’d be no-one left to tell the tale afterwards.
- Comment on AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles 4 days ago:
There’s a capital strike on, and you can’t simply withhold capital or else it is put to use elsewhere so it has to be employed for enshittification.
- Comment on AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles 4 days ago:
If you used Google Translate previously for translations, they’ve switched out the backend for Gemini. Most of the existing translation tools have been destroyed and replaced with LLMs already.
- March could be the best month for the northern lights for nearly a decade — if the sun stays activewww.livescience.com ↗Submitted 6 days ago to astronomy@mander.xyz | 4 comments
- Comment on Sarcasm is a whitewash way to be mean. 1 week ago:
I think unfortunately we’ve lost a lot of that older meaning as it’s been crowded out by a more racially charged usage.
- Comment on Sarcasm is a whitewash way to be mean. 1 week ago:
The word sardonic used to mean what we now use sarcastic for — verbally ironic. Sarcasm comes from the Greek “to tear flesh, bite the lip in rage, sneer” and meant “bitterly cutting or caustic” when it first entered English. For me, although I understand that hypothetically you could have sarcasm that doesn’t have this inherently negative bent to it, the word still retains a fair bit of its original connotation for good reason.
- Comment on Should this be the year we finally try voting for other candidates? 1 week ago:
I dunno about your district, but we usually have some pretty good candidates through the DSA on our ballot: https://platform.dsausa.org/
- Comment on The 2026 Global Intelligence Crisis 1 week ago:
Also somewhat reassuring:
Higher margins increase retained earnings and investment capacity. If output rises and real GDP increases then by national income accounting identity something must be rising on the demand side: Consumption, investment, government spending, or net exports must be increasing (more here). A scenario in which productivity surges but aggregate demand collapses while measured output rises violates accounting identities.
- Submitted 1 week ago to economics@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Submitted 1 week ago to astronomy@mander.xyz | 1 comment
- Comment on The Macroeconomic Effects of Tariffs: Evidence From U.S. Historical Data 1 week ago:
Unsurprising findings, but particularly frustrating given the pro-tariff crowd continues to cite increased manufacturing activity and output as a benefit of tariffs.
- Submitted 1 week ago to economics@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on FBI Got Grok to Hand Over Prompts Used to Create Nonconsensual Porn 1 week ago:
I’m not as quick as you. I got most of the way through article and was still wondering why X would expose a database of historical prompts to an llm for querying by law enforcement.
- Comment on FBI Got Grok to Hand Over Prompts Used to Create Nonconsensual Porn 1 week ago:
I mean, most llm makers work pretty hard to conceal the system prompt, and I have no idea why XAi give Grok access to a database of historical prompts. LLMs don’t have memories by default, and their inability to learn from past experiences is kind of a big stumbling point for a lot of folks. You can ask, but I doubt you’re likely to get anything other than a confabulation.
- Comment on FBI Got Grok to Hand Over Prompts Used to Create Nonconsensual Porn 1 week ago:
I’m not as quick as you. I got most of the way through article and was still wondering why X would expose a database of historical prompts to an llm for querying by law enforcement.
- Comment on FBI Got Grok to Hand Over Prompts Used to Create Nonconsensual Porn 1 week ago:
People commenting after only reading the headline and not the article is exactly the behavior I find irritating and distasteful about headline-related complaints.
- Comment on FBI Got Grok to Hand Over Prompts Used to Create Nonconsensual Porn 1 week ago:
I’m usually against complaints about poor headlines, but this one is completely factually incorrect? The FBI didn’t interact with Grok here literally at all? They issued a search warrant to X to get their logs?
- Comment on Mistranslation Porn 1 week ago:
Usually I roll my eyes pretty heavily at the WhateverPorn names for non-pornographic communities, but I suspect this one’s gonna be accurate more often than not.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
My understanding is that it’s quite the opposite — a racist would be less likely to shout a slur because they don’t feel the social stigma as keenly.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It’s not a coincidence, as far as I understand. The tics are involuntary, but they are specifically due to intrusive thoughts about what the most inappropriate thing to say right now would be. The blame here mostly lies with institutional racism for making that slur so awful; were it not available, I assume his tic would have focused on another terrible word, say “fuck”.
- Comment on Singing is just talking with more tone variations. 1 week ago:
If you’re comparing freestyle rapping is this still the case? What about reciting a memorized poem? (I agree with you, I’m just curious if you know where the boundaries are because I sure don’t)
- Comment on Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst 1 week ago:
My condolences for your loss.
- Comment on Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst 1 week ago:
Capricious is my favorite adjective, rather than trying to ascribe mental disorders to global systems. If you’re asking regarding a specific human, you should talk to a psychiatrist — if it is disruptive to their life, it may be a sign of borderline personality disorder.
- Comment on Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst 1 week ago:
This use of bipolar has very little to do with the experience of most bipolar people. Bipolar rapid cycling is defined as four episodes per year, much closer to the change of the seasons than the change of weather from day to day.
- Comment on Until further notice: archive.today/archive.is/archive.ph/... is banned from this community for apparently being a Russian DDOS tool - Lemmy.World 2 weeks ago:
Any good archiver will check for an archived copy before making a request, and batch requests. This was very different than the attack you’re imagining — if you opened any archive.today page, it would poll a developer’s personal blog, regardless of whether you were interacting with content from that blog.
- Comment on Until further notice: archive.today/archive.is/archive.ph/... is banned from this community for apparently being a Russian DDOS tool - Lemmy.World 2 weeks ago:
Unfortunately, they’ve allegedly modified the contents of some archived articles, so even though they may do better to archive, nothing archived is of any value because it cannot be trusted.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to economics@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It does more to handle client-side rendering than archive.org, so there are pages that could be rendered by today that were not archivable by org. Also, because of differing usage patterns, it has archives of pages that org didn’t, and even for pages that org does have, at times org doesn’t.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Deeply saddening. Archive.today was a great resource, and stored a vast repository of human knowledge. As the internet turns to slop, we need sites that preserve the history of the web more than ever, and it’s very disappointing that the team at archive.today has failed us so profoundly in our hour of greatest need.