baltakatei

@baltakatei@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VTuber Graduation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Window Saba 2000

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VTuber Graduation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We’ve had First Gura, yes, but what about Second Gura?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm gonna die on this hill or die trying⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Next up: the modifier letter apostrophe U+02BC ( ʼ ).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or my Steam library.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  See also: “Marvel Defenders of The Status Quo” (2022-06-22) by Pop Culture Detective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why our world has bscame shit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tababattle

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A lot of people make the mistake of thinking they have real life plot armour⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You could make a religion out of thi—

  No. Don’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you ever feel full and hungry simultaneously?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your parasitic gut microbiota hissing conspiracies to your nervous system

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer (September 4)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s happening!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They will remember⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure it’s gold and white.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia editors adopt a policy giving admins the authority to quickly delete AI-generated articles that meet certain criteria, like incorrect citations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How frequently are images generated/modified by diffusion models uploaded to Wikimedia Commons? I can wrap my head around evaluating cited sources for notability, but I don’t know where to start determining the repute of photographs. So many images Wikipedia articles use are taken by seemingly random people not associated with any organization.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imagine not being able to shower, because AI slop generator machines need that water!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Industrial cooling is all about evaporating some liquid into gas. For evaporative coolers, that liquid is water and works best if the air is dry and water is plentiful (the absurd part). If you don’t have water or the air is so humid that evaporation is difficult, the liquid is expensive refrigerant which must recycle back into liquid in a closed loop with a gas compressor that pumps the waste heat into the air through forced convection heat exchangers (big fans blowing air past hot refrigerant-filled pipes), all of which consumes a lot of energy.

  Ideally, we’d live in a post scarcity society in which huge arrays if solar panels would provide electricity to run closed-loop refrigerant plants that would consume zero water to cool our data centers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨well?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Translation: “I just signed a mortgage. I’m trying to please my parents, maybe get a wife and kid. I got responsibilities. I can’t tear down the system that got me what I enjoy. Let someone else do it while I take my fortune and go live on an estate writing my fantasies, enjoying the lucky fact that my doomer story resonated with enough of society to win several recent popularity contests.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$219 Springer Nature book on machine learning was written with a chatbot⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t have time to read that, so I threw your comment into ChatGPT:

  Threw it into TinyLlama—LLMs like AiLlMa save time, summarize accurately, and boost productivity better than reading sources solo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So much of what creating privacy busting biometric databases claim to do could be accomplished with speed-of-light geofencing, a.k.a. “distance-bounding protocol”. If a moderator decides messages from country X are problematic, then they can flag/block them for other users. It only requires carefully measuring ping times and basically involves banning traffic from places that can’t achieve certain minimum pings to certain trusted servers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deez peets⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Alien 1: Wow, humans just go around saying “Kill me…” a lot. Alien 2: Uh, rude! Middle-aged human: No, no, that tracks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It burns!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No author credit given.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The main issue I have as an editor is that there is no straightforward way to retrain the LLM to correct faulty training as directly or revertably as the existing method of editing an article’s wikicode. Already, much of my time updating Wikipedia is spent parsing puffery and removing phrases like “award-winning” or “renowned”, inserted by malicious advertisers trying to use Wikipedia as a free billboard. If a Wikipedia LLM began making subjective claims instead of providing objective facts backed by citations, I would have to teach myself machine learning and get involved with the developers who manage the LLM’s training. That raises the bar for editor technical competency which Wikipedia historically has been striving to lower (e.g. Visual Editor).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twenty-seven states and DC sue 23andMe to oppose the sale of DNA data from its customers without their direct consent⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was familiar with how their single nucleotide polymorphism fingerprinting worked in principle when I submitted my sample. So, I was not surprised when my report indicated majority Native American (both my parents were born in the Navajo Nation).

  As for preventing misuse of the genetic profile 23andMe built, the primary legal protection is the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA) which prohibits insurance providers and employers from discriminating against patients and employees based upon disorders that are correlated with their genetic information.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black Mirror AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure no one knows my blog and wiki exist, but it sure is popular, getting multiple hits per second 24/7 in a tangle of wiki articles I autogenerated to tell me trivia like whether the Great Fire of London started on a Sunday or Thursday.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stack Overflow seeks rebrand as traffic continues to plummet – which is bad news for developers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Either Butlerian Jihad or Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨7 for me⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Missing the Mormon onesie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨28 years later, Lego Island's lost source code has been rediscovered – but the fans who spent nearly two years painstakingly decompiling it by hand "can't have it"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it were up to me, copyright would only last 20 years after publication for non-commercial use and author’s life + 4 years for commercial use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuck you, Genie⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  First off, your tapeworms. Yeah, you really should’ve refused your friend’s pork chop. Next, your excess body fat. Next, your extreme aversion to feeling hunger. Everyone with a healthy lifestyle feels what you’d call “starving”, like, 2/3rds of the day. Now, your cancers. Yes, plural. Lung, skin, and colon. Pro tip: wear gloves even if your employer doesn’t provide them. Also, wear sunscreen. Next on the list… checks notes ah, yes. Done. What did I do? Do you remember what your nightmare last night was about? Yes, you had a nightmare. Excellent, anti-trauma neural circuit lobotomy was a success.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sus⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there a poly equivalent of something like the Magna Carta?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Possession⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I too wish I could inhabit a blåjaj.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give me your company⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like something the part in Atlas Shrugged Explained in Memes explaining Hank Rearden’s unwillingness to sell his steel foundries and secret steel recipe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most problems people have with Linux, I think, come from trying to be Linux power users from the start by performing very advanced techniques beyond their time and patience: dual booting multiple operating systems (so they don’t have to buy Linux-dedicated hardware), using any graphics card (the latest and greatest GPUs are all closed source and developers who work on Linux do so because they despise closed source), using the least expensive hardware (which are typically closed source and buggy with anything except Windows), and emulating Windows apps so they don’t have to learn new workflows or abandon their favorite games (technically, Proton with Steam allows Windows games like FFXIV to be played, but it’s a neverending journey to get it working and keeping it working.

  If you switch to Linux, accept that for a smooth experience you’ll have to pay more than you would for a Windows machine (e.g. System76, Framework) And if you want graphics card support for your emulated Windows games on Steam, you’re going to have to use the specific flavor of Linux the manufacturer supports.

  That said, if you value free/libre open source software, then making the switch from Windows is totally worth it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What kind of CAPTCHA is this?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which website gave you those instructions? Name and shame.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Donate if you regularly use Syncthing. Help close the causal loop.