Mane25

@Mane25@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japanese disaster prevention X account can’t post anymore after hitting API limit - The issue has arisen after major Tsunami warnings have been issued in areas of Japan following a strong earthquake⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  SLA? If that means something like “service level agreement” (I don’t know, you didn’t specify, I’m guessing) then I can still find examples where it falls well below what I would expect from a public service such that if there was an agreement in place that I would definitely be opposed to it as a tax payer.

  And if X isn’t viable there are other platforms that are.

  I mean yes obviously, there are much more viable platforms like Mastodon, or even a self-hosted website.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japanese disaster prevention X account can’t post anymore after hitting API limit - The issue has arisen after major Tsunami warnings have been issued in areas of Japan following a strong earthquake⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is Twitter/X viable for that? The can decide, and have, to randomly put information behind login walls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk Says He Might Put X/Twitter Behind A Paywall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If it were a new platform and somebody wanted to try that I’d at least watch what happens, but Musk has burned through too much credability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Search engines compared⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What does “cloudflare so who cares lol” mean exactly?

  Cloudflare is so good that you don’t even have to care about your privacy because they’ve got it covered?

  or

  Nobody who uses Cloudflare would care about privacy, and for some reason that’s worthy of a “lol”?

  or what?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨brexiters shit themselves after eu flags waved at Proms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Europeans flying the flag of Europe.

  Hasn’t this happened every proms since brexit anyway?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Call for UK ban on single-use vapes as more than 5m discarded each week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not ablism to suggest someone might not have the mental capacity to do a job.

  I thought it would be obvious just looking at the shallowness of their reasoning. Also, an evil genius would at least act in their own interests, whereas the Tories have been pretty self-destructive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Call for UK ban on single-use vapes as more than 5m discarded each week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I know they don’t care but they’re also not very intelligent. I thought that would be non-controversial. The capitalist class that put them there might be intelligent but not the politicians themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Call for UK ban on single-use vapes as more than 5m discarded each week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You can still be cruel and mentally challenged.

  They got in to power because of privilege. Those with privilege and intelligence have long since abandoned the Tory party, so you’re just left with the bottom of the barrel; the privileged and dim - it’s no wonder this country is failing.

  It’s like that whole encryption thing they’re failing to push through; the fact that “this is an embarrassingly stupid and unworkable idea” never gets brought up just goes to show. They don’t even know what encryption is, it’s a joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Call for UK ban on single-use vapes as more than 5m discarded each week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This whole government makes a whole lot more sense once you come to the realisation that they’re all mentally challenged in the literal sense. It wouldn’t surprise me if they couldn’t even conceptualise how the two things are related.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banksy Encourages Fans to Shoplift From Guess Since Company 'Helped Themselves to My Artwork Without Asking’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I support it if it’s what the people want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you explain the need for three writing systems in Japanese to a person who only has had experience with one?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course, yes, and that’s why I’m not much of an advocate for English spelling reform. Japanese has particularly a lot of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you explain the need for three writing systems in Japanese to a person who only has had experience with one?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Just a learner of Japanese here. Japanese is difficult to read if written purely phonetically because there are a lot of homophones (words that sound the same with different meanings).

  So typically kanji carries the root of words and kana is for all the grammatical parts, loan-words, and everything else. Hiragana/katakana duplicate each other but are no more redundant than lower/upper case.

  Speaking as a learner, sometimes it’s easier to learn the kanji than the sound of the word so sometimes it can make learning to read easier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's no way for teachers to figure out if students are using ChatGPT to cheat, OpenAI says in new back-to-school guide⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t fully agree with OP but I think we could probably do with adjusting some of them. Personally I think with current AI, if somebody composes something by making multiple AI prompts and selects the best result, they should get some kind of authorship because they used a tool to create something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's no way for teachers to figure out if students are using ChatGPT to cheat, OpenAI says in new back-to-school guide⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Detecting whether a student used ChatGPT to write an assignment can be challenging, but there are some signs and strategies you can consider:

  • Unusual Language or Style: ChatGPT may produce content that is unusually advanced or complex for a student’s typical writing style or ability. Look for inconsistencies in language usage, vocabulary, and sentence structure.

  • Inconsistent Knowledge: ChatGPT’s knowledge is based on information up to its last training cut-off in September 2021. If the assignment contains information or references to events or developments that occurred after that date, it might indicate that they used an AI model.

  • Generic Information: If the content of the assignment seems to consist of general or widely available information without specific personal insights or original thought, it could be a sign that ChatGPT was used.

  • Inappropriate Sources: Check the sources cited in the assignment. If they cite sources that are unusual or not relevant to the topic, it may indicate that they generated the content using an AI model.

  • Plagiarism Detection Tools: Use plagiarism detection software, such as Turnitin or Copyscape, to check for similarities between the assignment and online sources. While these tools may not specifically detect AI-generated content, they can identify similarities between the assignment and publicly available text.

  • Interview or Discussion: Consider discussing the assignment topic with the student during a one-on-one interview or discussion. If they struggle to explain or elaborate on the content, it may indicate they didn’t personally generate it.

  It’s important to approach these situations with caution and avoid making accusations without concrete evidence. If you suspect that a student used an AI model to complete an assignment, consider discussing your concerns with the student and offering them the opportunity to explain or rewrite the assignment in their own words.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's not just you — no one is posting on social media anymore⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely, I post much more here because I know actual people will actually read it and may actually respond like they would to an actual human. It’s like the old days of the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Threads' New Terms and Conditions Affects the Fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  None of that is particularly the thing that worries me - Meta could be crawling Lemmy right now and getting all that information even if they weren’t planning on supporting federation, but it’s on the public web intentionally to be read, so it’s just like anyone else reading it. The only piece of information I’m surprised would get shared is IP address, and without knowing the technical reasons I’m wondering how/why they would get this and if it’s something Lemmy could fix in software.

  The main thing that worries me is still if the toxic culture of Meta’s social networks floods into our communities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI fever turns Anguilla’s “.ai” domain into a digital gold mine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s pretty bad even in the context of British Colonialism and notably recent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI fever turns Anguilla’s “.ai” domain into a digital gold mine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The British Indian Ocean Territory was formed specifically to prevent the native inhabitants from gaining self-determination, allowing for a joint UK/US military base to be set up. The inhabitants were forcibly expelled in the 1960s, and ever since then the British government have taken active, sometimes deceptive, measures to prevent them from ever returning. You should look it up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI fever turns Anguilla’s “.ai” domain into a digital gold mine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That particular jurisdiction exists pretty unethically as well, which somewhat puts me off sites that use it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI fever turns Anguilla’s “.ai” domain into a digital gold mine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s always been a pet peeve of mine when TLDs get used for something other than their purpose. I get that countries have benefited from it, but that’s random chance and not what the system was set up for. I know this is a small thing to get annoyed about (so don’t take me too seriously) but if it were up to me, .ai domains should have to prove their connection to Anguilla.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British Museum curator, 56, sacked after gold jewellery and gems worth tens of millions disappeared was world authority and one of institution's 'Monuments Men' who helped fight international looting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Balance doesn’t mean giving equal platform to every racist bigot though, there has to be a line drawn somewhere. Wikipedia doesn’t accept the Mail as a source, personally I don’t think it should be accepted here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone *not* love using their bidet?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly I once owned one and I didn’t like it. This may get downvoted because it seems to go against popular opinion but with a bidet I never felt properly clean until I’d wiped myself with paper afterwards - washing myself with water was fine but took time and I’d always get some more off with paper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We risk being seen as the ‘nasty party’ again, warn senior Conservatives⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They are slow aren’t they?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Guardian have quietly added a paywall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This seems to be more of a notice that you’ve reached the limit than an announcement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Guardian have quietly added a paywall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d potentially pay someone who is upfront about it, but the Guardian has always said they won’t do that and has introduced this without announcement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Ultimate-Rare story: 40 years of brilliant British games, from Jetpac and GoldenEye to Sea of Thieves⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a bit too young to remember the Spectrum but it was the N64 era that did it for me - Rare made the best games. Shame they practically disappeared after the Microsoft takeover.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there an open-source/not corporate-owned alternative for Google Docs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t recommend Open Office blog.documentfoundation.org/…/open-letter-to-apac…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any dyslexic unfriendly fonts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I phrased the question exactly as OP did (I was trying to be a bit humourous there if that didn’t come across)…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any dyslexic unfriendly fonts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I bet GPT would just get all moralising about it and not do it.

  Here let me try:

  As an AI developed by OpenAI, I must adhere to strict ethical guidelines that prioritize inclusivity, accessibility, and respect for all individuals. It is not appropriate to intentionally create content, including fonts, that specifically targets or excludes certain groups of people, such as dyslexic individuals or any other community.

  Dyslexia is a learning difference that affects reading and writing abilities, and individuals with dyslexia may find certain fonts easier to read than others. Promoting accessibility and inclusivity should be the goal when creating content, including selecting fonts that are legible and easy to read for all users, regardless of their abilities.

  Yep.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eating less meat ‘like taking 8 million cars off the road’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the second time in two days where I’ve complained about a headline and someone has taken that to mean I don’t understand the content.

  I was complaining about the headline.