PhilipTheBucket
@PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
- Comment on A few people are ruining the internet for the rest of us 1 week ago:
- At least on Lemmy, this is definitely what I’ve observed. If you look at any thread that’s full of sturm und drang, it’s usually a tiny handful of accounts that are creating all of it (and then roping other people into their hostility, like a little chain reaction, like Chernobyl.) If you look at the impact, it just looks like everyone’s an asshole, but if you look at the root of the trouble, you realize most people are fine and a tiny minority are noisy and hostile and they can just get everyone else spun up.
- I agree, if you’re in NYC and you can’t see a bigger picture of things worth getting heated up about than White Lotus, you should talk with people in your community more.
- Submitted 1 week ago to technology@beehaw.org | 3 comments
- Comment on Payment Processors Are Pushing AI Porn Off Its Biggest Platforms [404 Media] 1 week ago:
They might actually just care about the moral issues involved (or at least be worried enough about pushback to fake it).
They’re going to make a river of money regardless, and so maybe it’s not worth taking a reputational hit or risking some kind of legislation, just to preserve the 0.00000001% of their revenue stream that is deepfake porn based.
- Comment on Europe on a Roll: Plans Open Source Alternative to Confluence and Jira 1 week ago:
Ha, I didn’t hate it all that much. I advocated for FOSS but was overruled, but I didn’t find it all that painful interacting with JIRA… but yes, having an open source alternative will be way better.
- Comment on Europe on a Roll: Plans Open Source Alternative to Confluence and Jira 1 week ago:
Good news only slightly undermined by the fact that Atlassian is not an American company or close to it
- Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 5 comments
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- Wild tomato plants on the Galapagos’s western islands are experiencing “reverse evolution” and reverting back to ancestral traitswww.smithsonianmag.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to [deleted] | 6 comments
- Comment on Internet extremists want to make all AI chatbots as hateful as Grok just was 1 week ago:
Grok responded to X users’ questions about public figures by generating foul and violent rape fantasies, including one targeting progressive activist and policy analyst Will Stancil. (Stancil has indicated he may sue X.)
When you fine-tune a coding AI on code that has deliberate flaws in it, and then switch it back to having conversations in English, it starts praising Hitler and constructing other deliberately hateful content. It wouldn’t surprise me if fine-tuning Grok to be Nazi also led it to “generalize” some additional things that weren’t intended by the operators.
- Submitted 1 week ago to technology@beehaw.org | 3 comments
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- Comment on The Mineral Mind 2 weeks ago:
Him who mountain crush him no
Him who sun him stop him no
Him who hammer him break him no
Him who fire him fear him no
Him who raise him head above him heart
Him diamond - Comment on New Xfinity router motion-detecting feature stokes privacy fears — feature powered by Wi-Fi signals 2 weeks ago:
I’m still just skeptical. There’s a massive difference between researchers coming up with a model that works between two cooperating routers in perfect conditions, versus one router of a lowest-bidder-poorly-maintained-15-years-old model communicating with a PlayStation from within a closet with intervening electrical wiring in the wall and everything else.
- Comment on New Xfinity router motion-detecting feature stokes privacy fears — feature powered by Wi-Fi signals 2 weeks ago:
Xfinity claims it can distinguish between a pet and a person, and you can customize the system’s sensitivity or the frequency of notifications.
Is this bullshit? I’m not completely sure but it sure sounds like bullshit. It sounds like they’re in the end stage of enshittification where they start lying to even the people who they’re betraying everyone else on behalf of, and claiming to be able to harvest and monetize data that has only the dimmest glimmer of accuracy to it.
- Comment on Anon likes a thing 2 weeks ago:
Computers
- Comment on The Weathered Rover 2 weeks ago:
I wonder what that indicates about its data set and the general use of image gen
I think you know.
On a more serious note, it’s interesting to put in pure nonsense as the prompt (just strings of syllables with no meaning), and see what it comes up with. It likes misshapen heads, which makes sense because it’s trained on a lot of human features, but it also likes houses, fish, and hot air balloons quite a lot for some reason. The images are in my opinion a lot more interesting than a lot of what it comes up with if you give it words.
- Comment on The Weathered Rover 2 weeks ago:
It was just a silly joke / observation
- Comment on The Weathered Rover 2 weeks ago:
User: I’d like you to make me a robot
Stable Diffusion: I’ll put tits on it just in case
- Comment on The Mayor of Calgary, Canada, just received this letter 2 weeks ago:
Fixed ty
- Comment on The Mayor of Calgary, Canada, just received this letter 2 weeks ago:
I hope he crumpled it up, then reconsidered, uncrumpled, took the photo, and then presumably recrumpled it before throwing it away.
- Comment on NYT to start searching deleted ChatGPT logs after beating OpenAI in court 2 weeks ago:
Lawyers have real grown-up penalties if they expose data that they’re supposed to keep secret. There are lawyers who wind up paying the price for it every day, and it hurts enough that they really try to avoid doing it.
San Francisco tech companies, who none of those things are true about and who have a constant track record of exposing people’s data, have absolutely no business lecturing anybody on this topic. How long ago was it that someone figured out how to get ChatGPT to dump OpenAI’s training data including people’s personal information? Oh, I don’t know, I’m sure someone remembers though
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 2 comments
- Comment on Folks not buying PCs from US vendors 'tariff' stockpiles 2 weeks ago:
And this situation is likely not helped by the vendors betting big on so-called AI PCs selling like hot cakes, despite the fact that there is no killer app for these devices, they carry a premium price tag, and the industry can’t even agree on a standard hardware specification.
The frame.work desktop with the AI capabilities has sold out into where they are now taking orders in what is clearly the “we’ll take your money but don’t hold your breath” batch. The difference is it has 128GB of VRAM and it costs $2,000. In other words it seems like a sensible thing to buy if you actually want be able to do AI stuff, instead of whatever unwanted nonsensical trinkets these other people are trying to shoehorn into their shoddy products.
- Comment on Project Hail Mary - Trailer 2 weeks ago:
I actually rephrased my statement and made it in the exact way that I did because of the Lord of the Rings. The movies are excellent, easily good enough to be masterpieces by Hollywood standards, but they are still a pale imitation of the original.
- Comment on Project Hail Mary - Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Yeah.
“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “The Shining” are the two times that an excellent book has been turned into an excellent movie by deviating from the book to create something that’s well suited to be on the screen and they both are good.
“The Shawshank Redemption” is the one time that an excellent book* has been turned into an excellent movie by sticking to the source material and just doing a good job bringing it to life.
In all other cases the movie is a pale imitation, if the book was any good. Just put the book out of your mind and watch the movie, it’s a movie.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to [deleted] | 0 comments
- Comment on Project Hail Mary - Trailer 3 weeks ago:
Yeah. I get that they couldn’t just have the trailer be “this guy wakes up in a spaceship and we can’t tell you anything else,” but maybe they should have.
I was willing to forgive them for spoiling the context of the mission (even though it’s still significant), but come on man. You guys knew that was a secret. You knew.
- Comment on Project Hail Mary - Trailer 3 weeks ago:
- Hooray
- I was all set to congratulate the trailer on making a compelling case for the movie without any spoilers, but so much for that lol
- Comment on Here's why Inscryption is a good game 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, almost to an excessive degree. To me it’s fine, it just means the designer has room to grow in terms of their skill at getting the right balance, but also it’s going to be a little bit of personal taste. This video includes some pretty interesting discussion of the balance between spelling things out, making sure that everyone can notice and enjoy them, versus making things opaque knowing that you’ll leave some people behind but making it that much more special for the people who found them “all by themselves” without any kind of prompting.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to videos@lemmy.world | 0 comments