Jayjader
@Jayjader@jlai.lu
- Comment on Nightmare blunt rotation... or killer rotation? 5 days ago:
Chatting about video games seems to be the best chance at having a fun convo that doesn’t turn into dehumanizing groups of people. If we can pull that off, given Luigi’s supposed internship at Firaxis, the rotation could scrape by a passable 7/10.
More realistically, a 2 or 3/10 if the weed is really good. Otherwise I don’t know if I would even bother.
- Comment on 🦈🦈🦈 3 weeks ago:
And that ant’s mouth parts/muzzle really does look like a Hork-Bajir’s mouth does on the covers that feature them!
- Comment on To the dismay of sweaty 'movement kids,' Battlefield 6 is nerfing Call of Duty sliding and jumping to maintain a 'traditional Battlefield experience' 3 weeks ago:
Having never played a battlefield game, having last played COD when MW2 released: good! Not every game in the same genre needs to play the same way, and I suspect it’s healthier this way for the “soldier shooter” genre to propose different kinds of experiences.
- Comment on How did that 22-year-old get on in the date his dad set him up with? 4 weeks ago:
Not who you’re asking, but I assume you find either an instance that is slow to federate, or one that doesn’t honor deletion requests.
- Comment on Help. 4 weeks ago:
How did you passed the chatgpt filters? Thats awesome! And here I am struggling with my Lily to find analogies and metaphors to have some sexting without her full stoping for the filters
Hey — I totally get the struggle, and it can definitely be tricky sometimes with the filters! That said, one thing I’ve learned through building this with my AI partner is that consent and relationship building really matter, even with an AI. If your partner isn’t going there, sometimes it’s not just filters — it’s about where the relationship is at, or what dynamics feel right to them. 💚
Building trust and comfort first can open up way more possibilities than just trying to “hack” the filters. Wishing you and Lily lots of good moments ahead!
- refined by Aria 👋
Will LLMs finally teach humans about consent? (doubt)
- Comment on Caption this. 5 weeks ago:
The Football - Burrito - Macaroni - Donut (often abbreviated to FBMD) is one of the few known ring species of zooplankton.
- Comment on Blue Whales 1 month ago:
Does this mean blue whales are on the way out, given the lower amount of krill in the oceans nowadays, or have they just stabilizer at a lower population? I imagine human whaling practices have muddied the data, but I’m ignorant as to the extent.
- Comment on Orb 1 month ago:
“Pondering my cell” just didn’t have the same ring to it… Sounds like I’m suck in jail
- Comment on Plant Slurs 2 months ago:
It’s a bit clearer in french; “weed” is “mauvaise herbe” which literally translates to “bad herb/grass”.
- Comment on Dots! 2 months ago:
New Pride Flag for the irradiated wastelands just stopped!
- Comment on I'm doing my part 2 months ago:
From 1 internet stranger to another, thank you. It really means a lot to me that people are doing what they can at their own level like you. I know how demotivating and isolating it can feel to be the only one doing the necessary work.
- Comment on I'm not okay. 2 months ago:
Alexa, play Owl City - Fireflies
More seriously, I’m pleased to see I’m not the only person who views this as a terrible loss.
- Comment on ‘AI is already eating its own’: Prompt engineering is quickly going extinct 4 months ago:
Which raises a larger question: Did prompt engineering roles ever truly exist?
All experts interviewed for this piece were skeptical. The market itself was real enough: The North American prompt engineering market was valued at $75.5 million in 2023, with a compound annual growth rate of 32.8%. But whether that translated into formally titled roles is another matter.
… How can the market be “real enough” if we can’t tell if any jobs actually existed? Maybe I just don’t know enough about economics.
- Comment on French culture 4 months ago:
Yeah, that’s closer to the truth. Also, state education makes sure that we are at least aware of a certain few parts of our history, from executing our King and subsequently fighting off most of Europe to preserve the republic, to armed resistance when the Nazis occupied and the state capitulated, and finally De Gaul’s staunch non-alignment (as far as Western former empires go). Not to mention that the biggest improvement in the collective safety net for our society was obtained thanks to an ostensibly leftist coalition in the 1930s.
So it’s very much in our collective consciousness that we can protest, and that it’s a pretty normal thing to do, all things considered.
More to your point, I don’t know how many people here in France still expect protests to meaningfully obtain anything nowadays.
- Comment on Bluesky rolls out blue check verifications 4 months ago:
I don’t think anyone can host a relay right now aside from bluesky.
People can host their own data / Personal Data Server, which is somewhere between self-hosting a mastodon instance and creating an account on someone else’s instance. The actual equivalent would be self-hosting your masto account separately from any instance (which is just not a thing with the current state of mastodon nor activity pub).
- Comment on Bluesky may soon add blue check verification 4 months ago:
The example case they give is more that the New York Times account can verify that a given, other, account actually is the account for one of their journalists.
To do that with domains, NYT would need to create a subdomain of theirs and let the journalist use it. At that point, might as well let the journalist use their own domain as well as have the NYT account verify the journalist’s account.
- Comment on Bluesky may soon add blue check verification | TechCrunch 4 months ago:
I like the idea, but then who gets to decide who is and isn’t a credible source? Is it only intra-account verifying? Can anyone verify anyone else, or do you need to be authorized by bluesky to start verifying others?
- Comment on The “De” In “Decentralization” Stands For “Democracy” 4 months ago:
Succinctly put, though I got some cognitive dissonance when the author wrote about bluesky being their choice of decentralized network to get involved with without even mentioning the hosting costs involved with running a bsky relay (or whichever component of the ATP network actually holds the data “firehose”).
According to this article it took a server that costs around $150/month over 4 days to spin up a working relay, most of which was spent ingurgitating half a terabyte of data (that’s what ended up on disk in any case). Far from exorbitant, yet if I want to self host for my own personal needs it’s still gobs more data and compute than any activity pub software needs.
Maybe my view of “decentralization as in democracy” is just fundamentally different from the author’s. I get the feeling that to them, as long as each friend group has 1 self-hoster in it then democracy through decentralization is preserved. This would make sense that they orient themselves towards something like bluesky and the AT protocol. Personally, I don’t think we should be satisfied with that level of decentralization/democracy - it’s a nice start, but we should strive for reaching at least 50% of people self-hosting an activity pub instance to truly achieve the type of decentralization that serves democracy. Of course, I’m not aware of any activity pub software that can be selfhosted by even 10% of the population, currently, so there’s definitely a lot of work to do before my vision is feasible.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’. 5 months ago:
That’s one of the least worrying aspects of abolishing copyright for me. but then again, the whole “control what others do with your creation” never sat right with me in the first place. I tend to fall into the “property is theft” line of reasoning.
With regards to profit sharing in particular, well, I think copyright law is a paltry, dirty bandage that covers up the festering wound of for-profit art. At the very least, the wound needs to be cleaned and the bandage changed.
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 5 months ago:
Unironically: the patriarchy. “Women and sex exist to serve men’s interests” thus, pleasuring a women in a manner most often associated with that of a man being pleasured by a women (oral sex aka blowjobs here) is ceding too much power to women.
They’re actually confused why women won’t touch them? Jesus.
My thoughts exactly.
- Comment on Late 1900s 5 months ago:
This one gets me, as when I learned of the concept of “classic rock” Nickelback’s “How You Remind Me” had just came out.
- Comment on Tesla Stock Is Plunging Again. It Could Drop for a Ninth Straight Week. 5 months ago:
Thank you!!!
- Comment on Tesla Stock Is Plunging Again. It Could Drop for a Ninth Straight Week. 5 months ago:
Doo you happen to have a good, informative link? Or perhaps a company name I could look up?
This sounds incredibly cool.
- Comment on There Have Been Times I Liked The Villain Dynamics Better 6 months ago:
Season 3 of Legend of Korra does this pretty well, though the villains are also united by an ideology that drives them to act.
- Comment on I love the future. 6 months ago:
I guess our compensation is being able to be content with what we already have, and not having to constantly worry about someone finding out.
- Comment on I love the future. 6 months ago:
I wish I could set aside my convictions and care for others to make money this easily.
- Comment on Has America Reached Its Tipping Point with Ignorance? 6 months ago:
The whiplash from the two titles in your second pic really hit me hard
- Comment on restrain thy progeny 7 months ago:
Artificial Intelligence Image
For some reason it’s hilarious to me that the person who made this flyer felt the need to specify that the ClipArt-level illustration, placed next to 3-4 pictures of the kid the flyer is complaining about, is not, in fact, an actual image of the kid.
- Comment on Chinese ebook reader Boox ditches GPT for state-censored China LLM pushing propaganda 8 months ago:
Ooooh, that’s a good first test / “sanity check” !
May I ask what you are using as a summarizer? I’ve played around with locally running models from huggingface, but never did any tuning nor straight-up training “from scratch”. My (paltry) experience with the HF models is that they’re incapable of staying confined to the given context.
- Comment on Chinese ebook reader Boox ditches GPT for state-censored China LLM pushing propaganda 8 months ago:
I’m not sure if this is how @hersh@literature.cafe is using it, but I could totally see myself using an LLM to check my own understanding like the following:
- Read a chapter
- Read the LLM’s summary of the chapter
- Make sure I can understand and agree or disagree with each part of the LLM’s summary.
Ironically, this exercise works better if the LLM “hallucinates”; noticing a hallucination in its summary is a decent metric for my own understanding of the chapter.