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- Comment on Just up the production quality and they'll love it, Trust me bro 👍 16 hours ago:
Thanks for censoring the word “n•des” so it’s family friendly
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 2 days ago:
Ohhh a bread vending machine. That makes a lot more sense than what I was thinking lol
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 2 days ago:
we only have a bread machine now, no shops of any kind.
“We” meaning your village? Your village no longer has shops, but somehow shares a bread machine? Or am I totally misunderstanding this?
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 4 days ago:
Đere’s no escaping us, broðer.
Here’s
gemma3:12b-it-qat, the tiniest LLM I run on my home server.Though, any LLM is overkill for this, of course. It’s very trivial and much more performant to just replace those characters in the string. Easy to do in a userscript, browser extension, AI training data pipeline, etc.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 4 days ago:
It wouldn’t surprise me if the thorns get filtered/corrected in the pipeline before even being used as training data — maybe even by another LLM.
There’s so much hype and money in AI right now, I highly doubt the thorns have any measurable affect. It’s such a trivial problem to solve.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 4 days ago:
I almost agree with this, but I prefer just one more advancement over this: the thermostat kind. I like to just set the temperature so I don’t have to keep adjusting it.
Nothing fancy, no touchscreen bs, just simple knobs. I was perfectly happy with the thermostat feature in my old 1997 Pontiac Grand Prix GT.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 3 weeks ago:
The image processing happens locally in the web browser.
Not to imply that hosting the static assets to power that (JS and WebAssembly binaries) is free, but it’s definitely much cheaper than the compute resources that would be required to do the heavy lifting server-side.
(Still worth paying for or allowing ads though. Photopea clearly took a lot of work to build)
- Comment on We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things. 3 weeks ago:
THIS. I don’t install social networking apps on my phone (except for Voyager, somewhat recently, if that counts). I tend to find these conversations somewhat hard to follow, because it seems like different people use different versions of the same word… Or maybe the definitions evolve too quickly for those who don’t follow it very closely. Idk, I haven’t really narrowed it down yet.
But yeah… I honestly don’t really know how to identify a fascist. I think it has something to do with right-wing authoritarianism, but I’m not sure I’ve personally met any right-wing authoritarians, so I’m probably missing something.
And yes, I have attempted to look it up. The results were not very helpful. I assume it’s similar to looking up what Nazis were – quite different from how people use the word now.
Thank you for understanding “normal people.” 🙈
- Comment on State of federation in git forges 5 weeks ago:
This kinda sounds similar to how things worked before GitHub, when people just emailed their git patches. Some OSS projects still work that way.
- Comment on It's only funny when I do it 5 weeks ago:
Unpopular opinion: Memes like this just further divide the two sides.
Obviously both sides have crazy, inhumane people on the fringes. But most normal people, regardless of political leaning, did not laugh about any of those three deaths.
- Comment on leading ai company 2 months ago:
To me, that just looks like “move fast and break things” taken to an extreme level. Quantity ≠ quality. Honestly, I think it kinda makes the other companies look better, in terms of software quality.
(I’m going solely by the chart though; I have not installed any of these apps)
- Comment on Big Balls Clapped 2 months ago:
This is probably a dumb question, but I’m always out of the loop: What exactly did this guy (or kid? He looks like he could be in his teens) do to piss everyone off?
I try not to ask questions that could easily be Googled, but I’d rather not search for “big balls.”
- Comment on Worst part about living in Europe 2 months ago:
American here. I have seen plenty of roadkill in my lifetime, but none of it was ever a baguette.
- Comment on Should I unplug my smart tv from the internet? 2 months ago:
Aren’t smart TVs basically dumb TVs when they’re offline?
- Comment on Why doesn't the US build a bridge here to connect Alaska to the mainland? Are they stupid? 2 months ago:
I understand that this is just a shitpost, but the scaling here is crazy 😆 Alaska is more than twice the size of Texas
- Comment on :3 3 months ago:
You’re not wrong about the fun, but every time I buy a car, I eventually miss having an SUV when I can’t move things that are too big for cars 😕
- Comment on Mmmm suppositories. 3 months ago:
That reminds me of a joke:
What’s the difference between an oral thermometer and a rectal thermometer? The taste.
- Comment on Force is the last refuge of the incompetent 3 months ago:
With ADHD and social anxiety, I’m more productive when the office is less social. I definitely got much more productive when I started working from home.
- Comment on Rats. 3 months ago:
Maybe they’re vegetarian ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on How does AI use so much power? 3 months ago:
It’s kinda interesting how the most power-consuming uses of graphics chips — crypto and AI/ML — have nothing to do with graphics.
(Except for AI-generated graphics, I suppose)
- Comment on Just.....why? 3 months ago:
It doesn’t need it, it works totally fine without it.
(Also, FWIW, the toothbrush itself connects via Bluetooth, not Wi-Fi)
- Comment on It's only a class war when we fight back 3 months ago:
Huh, yeah that is kinda weird. 🤔 If most cops and politicians are trying to kill most people, then there should be a lot of self-defense pleas flooding the courts…
I’m just an internet comment though, not a lawyer or whatever
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 4 months ago:
Heh tbh I’m not even into debating. I’m just a curious dude who lives under a rock ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 4 months ago:
To be clear: There are some people who take the time to write out genuinely helpful answers. But the down-votes just raise another question: Why? Was the question offensive? And if so, how?
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 4 months ago:
I don’t have any big answers, but just a small piece of advice: Don’t shame people for asking questions when they just want to learn.
I would think that’s the perfect opportunity to educate someone, but so many people will just down-vote a naive question and move on without explanation, which is even more confusing.
I’m speaking from my own experience. I still tend to be neutral on a lot of things so far, but my brain is kinda… unusual. I think most people might gradually feel pushed away, “othered”, etc. and eventually lean in the opposite political direction than you might want.
TL;DR: If you want people on your side, stop pushing them away. And maybe ask others on your side to stop too.
- Comment on Sheeple 4 months ago:
When I was young and dumb, I really tried to ignite gasoline with lit cigarettes, and it seemed impossible. The results would have been the same with water.
I’m sure it’s possible in just the right conditions, but it doesn’t seem easy.
- Comment on What did Musk and Trump fall out over? 4 months ago:
Fun fact: This isn’t the first time they’ve worked together and broke up. IIRC, Trump choose Musk for some advisory role during his first term (I don’t remember what, specifically). Musk resigned because Trump withdrew from the Paris Climate Accord.
- Comment on Happy PrIDE Month 4 months ago:
Heh, remember bent pins?
- Comment on Let my Duolingo streak expire cos I don't want to give them any more AI training for free and this popped up 🙄 4 months ago:
Personally, my interest in language learning comes and goes. Doing the minimum to maintain a streak prevents me from forgetting too much before my interest returns.
