lvxferre
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The catarrhine who invented a perpetual motion machine, by dreaming at night and devouring its own dreams through the day.
- Comment on NBC News Does Entire Piece Trying To Link CEO Shooting To ‘Violent Video Game’ 1 week ago:
In other words the Fediverse Canvas 2024 was a gathering of murderers. Every single person was posting violent symbols like this:
████ █▒▒▒ ██▒▒▒ █████ ████ █ █…on a more serious note. Can’t they simply that USA’s healthcare system is so fucked up that people are taking the matters into their own hands?
- Comment on Steam is adding a new default option for game updates 1 week ago:
And even in some more benign situations, such as when playing modded. Steam replacing a modded older version with a newer vanilla one is annoying.
- Comment on Open source projects drown in bad bug reports penned by AI 1 week ago:
Your and @tal@lemmy.today’s experiences are basically the same as mine. Except with translation instead of programming.
- Comment on Open source projects drown in bad bug reports penned by AI 1 week ago:
Larson argued that low-quality reports should be treated as if they’re malicious.
It’s refreshing and uplifting to see this sort of sanity.
- Comment on Itch.io was taken down by funko pop 1 week ago:
The problem is that defending against a copyright troll in the court is an expensive headache, and the copyright troll has a whole army of lawyers to prove for sure that the Moon is made of green cheese. As such, even if the target knows that it’s a bogus claim, they still comply with the troll to avoid the court.
Sending a takedown notice under DMCA that’s knowingly false is perjury, which would presumably come up at the court hearing.
In theory, yes. In practice, good luck proving that the copyright troll knew it and acted maliciously.
- Comment on Little Rocket Lab is a Factorio and Stardew Valley mashup about building a rocketship in a cute town 1 week ago:
Factorio and Stardew Valley mashup
Okay. Sign me up.
- Comment on Itch.io was taken down by funko pop 1 week ago:
[Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, nor from any country following Saxon tribal law like USA. Take what I say with a grain of salt.]
As far as I know, in theory the victim of the bogus DMCA could sue the copyright troll for damages, including attorney fees and all that stuff. In practice, it would be the same as nothing, megacorp who hired the copyright troll would make sure that the victim knows its place.
- Comment on Itch.io was taken down by funko pop 1 week ago:
As of now the site is already back.
The core of the problem is that there’s absolutely nothing effectively preventing companies from abusing IP claims to harass whoever they want.
At the very least, you’d expect claims being automatically dropped, when they’re coming from an assumptive party that already issued multiple confirmedly false claims; something like “you issued 100 wrong claims so we won’t listen to your 101s one, sod off”. But nah, there’s nothing like this…
As such, “your violating muh inrelactual properry, remove you’re contant now!!!” has zero cost, and a thousand benefits. Of course they’d abuse it.
The role of AI in this situation is simply to provide those companies a tool to issue more and faster claims, at the expense of an already low accuracy.
- Comment on I am not alone. 1 week ago:
Some write papers full of mental masturbation.
This guy simply skipped the “mental” part.
- Comment on SAVE THE BEES 1 week ago:
Temperatures here rarely go below 0°C, and when it does it’s often just for the night, so huddling isn’t a concern. What could be a concern would be summer overheating, but they actually put some thought on where to install those bee houses, they’re mostly shadowed by trees.
Pic related. Mind you, this is urban perimeter, around a gov building.
Image - Comment on SAVE THE BEES 1 week ago:
At least here in my city (Curitiba - somewhere in the southern cone), the city hall has been plopping beehouses across the city, all of them with native species. That has been going on for a few years, and I do noticed them far more often (they go crazy for my sage).
I feel like other places in the Americas could / should do the same.
- Comment on When did browsers start being able to remember your previous session. 2 weeks ago:
back in 2006
My “two decades” guess wasn’t too far from that, then.
- Comment on When did browsers start being able to remember your previous session. 2 weeks ago:
I remember Session Restore from Firefox 2.0 times, I think. Back then people would crash the browser on purpose to have it remember the tabs.
So I guess this sort of feature is, like, ~two decades old or so.
- Comment on European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X 2 weeks ago:
It’s cool to watch Twitter dying. Specially as its death is so tied to how it works - once the key actors of a blogging platform leave, the others simply follow fashion.
Does anyone want some popcorn?
- Comment on When you die, what do you want to be done with you? 2 weeks ago:
I’d be OK if they dismantled my for parts but it’s kind of unlikely that they’ll find something usable.
The leftover is a big… whatever. Burn it, bury it, even if I end in the pet cemetery, I’m OK with it. As long as the body doesn’t leave my city.
- Comment on AI discusses document that just says “Poopoo Peepee” 3 weeks ago:
I’m impressed by the voice generation. They even gave rather thick accents to the voices (heavily rhotic, tapping, the female voice uses vocal fry)…
- Comment on Brazilian's impression on the united states(i have never been there and this is based on nothing) 3 weeks ago:
Maps like this remind me that I suck at geography. Whoever annotated those things knows considerably more about USA than I do.
- Comment on Wait, my body's own heat is enough? Always has been. 3 weeks ago:
Pets? One of my cats found a nice solution for that: recruit some dumb human as her heating pillow. (The “dumb human” is me, by the way.) And when I’m not on the bed she sleeps inside a blanket folded in the shape of a pocket.
…although winter here rarely goes below 0°C, subtropical region and all that shit. If I was a bit souther I’d probably have some heaters in the bedrooms, and that’s it - there’s no reason to heat the whole house.
- Comment on If a word can have as many meanings as we assign to it. Can was assign every meaning to one word? 3 weeks ago:
In theory, yes. In practice, no.
To assign a meaning to a word is a social matter. You’d need to have more than just one person accepting that that word conveys that meaning.
- Comment on why is my whisky evaporating? 3 weeks ago:
Only if it’s lead acetate. You’d need vinegar or at least wine, not whisky.
- Comment on turned them into their final form! 4 weeks ago:
They evolved. Just like they would inside your body.
…in Brazil those are sold in skewers, people call them kafta. And yes, if you don’t take care while shaping them, they’ll look, well… not really appetising.
- Comment on The rise of Bluesky, and the splintering of social 4 weeks ago:
Agreed - it’s more like diversification, or “not putting all egg-users in the same basket-platform”.
- Comment on Political abuse on X is a global, widespread and cross-partisan phenomenon, says study 4 weeks ago:
I am not sure, but I believe that this political abuse is further reinforced by something not mentioned in the text:
- Twitter is mostly short texts, lacking situational info, subtlety, signs of doubt, etc. Those require a lot of contextual info to accurately understand, but as a piece of content is retweeted most of that context is gone.
- plenty people are not honest; they’re assumptive as a brick. They make shit up = assume = bullshit as it goes, never acknowledging “hey, I don’t actually know this, it’s just a shower thought, it might be wrong”.
- people holding minority views are more often dogpiled, and by bigger dogpiles, than people holding majority views. Kind of like the Petrie Modifier, but with worldviews instead of sex.
It’s breeding grounds for witch hunting: people don’t get why someone said something, they’re dishonest so they assume why, they bring on the pitchforks because they found a witch. And that’s bound to affect anyone voicing anything slightly off the echo chamber.
And I think that this has been going on for years; cue to “the Twitter MC of the day”. This predates Musk, but after Musk took over he actually encouraged the witch hunts for his own political goals.
- Comment on Why do the majority of women still take their partner's last name? 4 weeks ago:
At least for my ex-fiancée it was about the link between husband and wife, plus tradition. It was basically “I’m married, you see?”. Just like a ring.
(We talked a fair bit about this stuff, as back then I was planning to add my maternal surname to my legal name. She was OK taking either surname.)
- Comment on AI slop animal abuse 4 weeks ago:
Thanks for sharing this data - it’s great.
It actually makes sense; if cat urine contained ammonia the smell would be gone once you washed your cat’s impromptu litterbox, since ammonia is both volatile and highly soluble. And yet it keeps stinking - this hints that there’s something else there producing that ammonia by decomposition. (Probably proteins. Cats eat a lot more protein than we do.)
Note: chlorine gas is the one that leaks from an open bleach bottle, and gives it a distinctive smell. The ones created by reacting bleach with ammonia are chloramines, considerably more poisonous.
- Comment on What your coffee preparation method says about you 5 weeks ago:
I left Debian but Debian didn’t leave me, it seems…
- Comment on ‘It gets more and more confused’: can AI replace translators? 5 weeks ago:
When it comes to how people feel about AI translation, there is a definite distinction between utility and craft. Few object to using AI in the same way as a dictionary, to discern meaning. But translators, of course, do much more than that. As Dawson puts it: “These writers are artists in their own right.”
That’s basically my experience.
LLMs are useful for translation in three situations:
- declension/conjugation table - faster than checking a dictionary
- listing potential translations for a word or expression
- a second row of spell/grammar-proofing, just to catch issues that you didn’t
Past that, LLM-based translations are a sea of slop: they screw up with the tone and style, add stuff not present in the original, repeat sentences, remove critical bits, pick unsuitable synonyms, so goes on. All the bloody time.
And if you’re handling dialogue, they will fuck it up even in shorter excerpts, by making all characters sound the same.
- Comment on Reddit 5 weeks ago:
How much time until this bot gets banned by “harassment”?
- Comment on Air fryers are simpler than you think, but still pretty neat [19:38] 5 weeks ago:
…fuck, now I get what you meant! Sorry I kind of ruined your joke.
- Comment on Air fryers are simpler than you think, but still pretty neat [19:38] 5 weeks ago:
I got an air fryer this year, and I definitively recommend it. It was cheap, I paid 350 reals (roughly 70 euros). In some cases the food is really similar to deep-fried food, but the biggest appeal of the device is as a small but powerful oven - specially for stuff like
- chicken wings - they turn out wet but well cooked, with a crispy outside
- reheating stale bread - pat it with a bit of water, then plop it in the air fryer.
- frozen potato fries - as he mentions in the video they get damn great
- milanesa - it doesn’t get identical to deep-fried milanesa but it’s really good, and way better than doing it in the oven.
If looking for a model make sure to get one with a detachable false bottom, otherwise you’ll get the problem andrewta mentioned and won’t be able to clean it right.
