antihumanitarian

@antihumanitarian@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you reconcile staying sane while keeping yourself up-to-date with the news?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I find old Stoic philosophy helpful. If I can’t do anything about it, I stay informed but try to be mindful of my limitations. If I can do anything about it, even if not much, if I’m worried about the thing I use that to do what I can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black Mirror AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some details. One of the major players doing the tar pit strategy is Cloudflare. They’re a giant in networking and infrastructure, and they use AI (more traditional, nit LLMs) ubiquitously to detect bots. So it is an arms race, but one where both sides have massive incentives.

  Making nonsense is indeed detectable, but that misunderstands the purpose: economics. Scraping bots are used because they’re a cheap way to get training data. If you make a non zero portion of training data poisonous you’d have to spend increasingly many resources to filter it out. The better the nonsense, the harder to detect. Cloudflare is known it use small LLMs to generate the nonsense, hence requiring systems at least that complex to differentiate it.

  So in short the tar pit with garbage data actually decreases the average value of scraped data for bots that ignore do not scrape instructions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Was about to post a Hugging Face link til I finished reading. For what it’s worth, once you have Ollama installed it’s a single command to download, install, and immediately drop into a chat with a model, either from Ollama’s library or Hugging Face, or anyone else. On Arch the entire process to get it working with gpu acceleration was installing 2 packages then start ollama.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to fix one's eyesight? What are working methods? What is to be cautious about?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Orthokeratology lenses reshape your cornea overnight. Been using them for years, heartily recommend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  KDE Connect and Syncthing do the trick for most stuff. For all else, all hail the USB C M.2 NVME enclosure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 now delisted in 177 countries⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Wonder how we should interpret the country “XD” being on the list. As far as I can tell its never been used for any real country.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta wants to be the Microsoft of headsets⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This must be pandering to shareholders, no company in their right mind would want to compete when Meta is selling their first party headset at a giant loss.