sentient_loom
@sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on This is heresy but lol 2 months ago:
Yesssss
- Comment on This is heresy but lol 2 months ago:
nothing you can really grab onto and enjoy.
I thoroughly enjoy most of their albums. They’re amazing. So funky, fast, and ruthlessly aggressive.
- Comment on The UK doesn't want to force you to have a digital ID — but a 'trust me bro' approach won't make the cut 2 months ago:
Just trust the government with your identity bro
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Yeah but you’re not supposed to say it.
- Comment on In the Green Zone 2 months ago:
Wake up!
- Comment on Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious' 3 months ago:
- Comment on Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious' 3 months ago:
fully conscious according to any test I can think of
There’s no such thing as an actual test for consciousness in machines. We can do tests on animals to see if their sensory experience includes self-awareness, but we’re already operating on the assumption that they have feelings and sensory experience because they have a brain and nervous system like us, and they’re all directly related to us (as all organisms are). But that’s totally different from designing a machine which mimics (or predicts/auto-completes) our observable behavior and then assuming that it “doesn’t like” something or does anything “for fun.”
What sucks is that some idiots are going to start falling for this. And eventually software will be given human rights, which actually means that the software’s owners will have extra rights compared to the rest of us.
- Comment on Have you guys played Super Mario Bros Remastered??? 3 months ago:
I think I’d rather just play the original
- Comment on I greased the trees 3 months ago:
That’s why I greased the trees.
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- Comment on Save as PDF 3 months ago:
exports are subject to tariffs, only religious people can be saved. So printing is the secular, free trade choice.
- Comment on Just say the word 3 months ago:
Right I forgot this was 2026
- Comment on Just say the word 3 months ago:
That is not a 12-million dollar earners’ kitchen
- Comment on a man of many minds 4 months ago:
I’m currently reading Lawrence Krauss’ book “A Universe from Nothing”, and in between the excellent descriptions of our ideas about the big bang and the evolution of the universe he’s constantly sneering and lashing out against religion for absolutely no reason. There’s no relevance for these outbursts at all, but there are 16 pages of preface raging against the idea that some people believe that the word “nothing” means “absolute nothingness” instead of “space” (which is truly an active thing) plus a whole Orwellian doublespeak chapter about how nothing is actually something.
- Comment on Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... ads 4 months ago:
Damn. Time to get rid of nova launch.
- Comment on Water time 4 months ago:
@perfectsweeties @thomas is an ICE agent
- Comment on Water time 4 months ago:
These are not legitimate concerns.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Four episodes per month is a lot of work.
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Is it supposed to become a paid gig eventually?
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Does the company make any money? Like are you advertising or accepting paid subscriptions, or getting funding of any kind?
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- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
You took the bait. They know that pretty much everybody cares about that.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
who cares what set of genitals she’s got?
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- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Just in time for autumn!
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
Do you think the fediverse has a civility problem?
Short answer: yes.
Long answer: social media (and humans) have a civility problem. And I wonder how much of it is astroturfed. When Trump was first running for the 2016 election, social media was flooded with racism. I don’t thinknit was grassroots. I think it was Steve Bannon’s troll army or some other coordinated institute. I also wonder if the violent leftist rhetoric is feds, or reddit’s goons undermining the competition. They’ll post “murder all pigs” or “shoot fascists” and get like a thousand upvotes, and their arguments are belligerent and idiotic, and they pile on you for disagreeing. Feels coordinates. Feels like 2016 honestly.
is there anything we can do about it?
Downvote, report, block. Don’t engage (trying to learn that myself). But I bet they’re still driving people away.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I like the austere layout
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I still use it sometimes.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Nice. Maybe now Microsoft will respond by
offering non-subscription optionsinventing a new proprietary industry-standard file format so their bloated ransomware remains mandatory. - Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Tens of thousands of radioactive fuel fragments escaped from the Dounreay plant between 1963 and 1984, polluting local beaches, the coastline and the seabed. Fishing has been banned within a two-kilometre radius of the plant since 1997.
Since 2008, over 2,300 radioactive particles have been recovered from the seabed, with 351 removed by a remotely operated underwater vehicle this summer.
The most radioactive of the particles are regarded by experts as potentially lethal if ingested. Similar in size to grains of sand, they contain caesium-137, which has a half-life of 30 years, but they can also incorporate traces of plutonium-239, which has a half-life of over 24,000 years…
The plant’s operator at the time, the UK Atomic Energy Authority, was fined £140,000.
Oh that’ll teach em.
I still think we should replace much of our fossil-fuel energy with nuclear, but let’s never call it “green.” Energy comes at an extremely high cost. This kind of thing makes it hard to advocate for nuclear (although I think we have safer methods now).
