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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't Hamas or Israel just meet at a predetrmined place and time and just have out or kill the crap out of each other? Instead of involving civs who don't have anything to do with war?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if it would be correct to say that the civilians have nothing to do with the war. As far as I’m aware, the IDF’s intended target is all Palestinians, civilians included.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ethical artificial intelligence ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It may be worth editing your post to specify that you’re talking about LLMs. There’s no indication that this is your intent without reading your responses in the comment section.

  Ethical meaning : “private”, "anonymous, “not training with your data”, “no censured”, “open source”…

  Private, anonymous, and uncensored. Those are easy. There’s plenty of pre-trained LLMs out there that you can download and use however you like.

  Not training with your data, not possible as far as I’m aware. LLMs rely on the availability of a huge quantity and diversity of data. There isn’t enough of that available that also come with consent of the creator for this usage.

  Open source isn’t well defined for machine learning models. Lots of models have their code and weights available, so if that qualifies for you, that’s also easy to find. Huggingface hosts most of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can't we have a static vintage web?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We can have static HTML websites, but that basically limits you to sharing static information (which, by the way, still have “bugs” in the form of typos). There’s already lots of great resources for that. Wikipedia, personal blogs, books (physical and electronic). That’s not usually what we’re on the internet for though. We’re here for interactivity. We want to connect with other people (e.g. Lemmy), and we want tools to help us with various problems we have (e.g. any portable software that just needs a browser to run). Avoiding JS would hinder that goal. If you just want to read, go to your local library, take out a book, and start reading. Or get an e-reader and download some e-books.

  You also point out the problem of online privacy. While JS does empower the tracking, it also does way more than that. The solution shouldn’t be to throw out the baby with the bath water.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do ambulances do with patients cars?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure you can have medical emergencies unrelated to driving.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Covers the bases⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also the realization that you just generally feel so much better when training regularly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steady⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hold my piss jug, I’m… uh… I feel like something’s missing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kinky⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The one that eats too much protein, definitely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kinky⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically the equivalent of dogs sniffing each other’s butts if you think about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not proud of myself. But I do it all the time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Me with a book and my phone 😆

  I don’t think it worked though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do guys have a haircut?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What people do in that case is look at pictures of people with various hairstyles online, trying to find one where they feel like “this looks good, I want to try that one”

  I don’t know what problems OP is facing, but in my case, this is basically what the hairdresser recommended that I do and also what I tried doing. Except it didn’t help because nothing was appealing to me (I’m rather change adverse). I really needed to maintain a particular style for a while to get used to it before I could decide if I liked it or not. After a while, I couldn’t tell if I disliked it because it was grown out too much or if I just didn’t like that cut, or if it was some other reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do guys have a haircut?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is kind of a tautological answer. Of course it’s as often as I want, but what do I want? I had that question when I started making my own decisions on my hair. I was never fully happy with how things looked and haven’t figured out how to style it the way I like. What part of it was I unhappy with? I couldn’t tell. Would more frequent hair cuts help? Or less frequent so it spends more time in that slightly grown out state and I have more consistent hair to work with? And so many other questions.

  If you know that most people get their hair cut after X weeks, then that gives you a starting point to experiment with instead of going into it completely blind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do guys have a haircut?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would you want to stop yourself from smiling? Getting a fresh haircut and seeing it take shape sounds like a very good reason to smile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this still on the ace spectrum or what?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like demisexual, which is a subset of asexuality.

  Everyone else is already covering the topic of the usefulness of labels, so I’m not going to bother getting into that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there or has there ever been information illegal to possess or have?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember when this Streisanded hard on Digg. Good times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The iPhone 17 square selfie camera is a bigger deal than you think⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But… why? Just give me the full image.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brad buys a house⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  U+1F431 U+1F431 U+1F431

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brad buys a house⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Write name, but sloppily. My brain will always be lazy in the same way, so the signature just ends up looking approximately the same every time. So basically, lots of squigglies too, but I’ll get the ascenders and descenders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are fossil fuels vegan?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re pretty much all made of plant matter, but that’s irrelevant. What makes it vegan or not is whether you cause harm to the fauna by using it and creating demand for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OK. I'm at wit's end attempting to convince Google's LLM to pronounce an English name correctly.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure whatever voice system you’re using is just translating things to text and feeding it into an LLM, so it wouldn’t actually have that audio data. I’m not aware of any audio equivalent of LLMs existing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mandatory self-reflection hours⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Notion does that too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a federated alternative to Wikipedia?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What benefit would there be to federation? You can already download all of Wikipedia, and you can host your own wiki.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who are the "middle class" supposed to support in the class stuggle?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Housing mostly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Truck go 💥🚚⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would assume that for operating expensive vehicles like this, you get training on how to use them properly to avoid these kinds of issues. Flipped because they ignored protocol? Well, you already tried teaching them and it didn’t take. Try someone else. Did something unexpected come up to make this happen? Now that’s potentially valuable knowledge that you want to keep in your crew.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My brother got arrested for a dime bag. His picture got put up on the jails website. And they advertise. So shouldn't my brother get paid at least a little for providing clicks?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see how it prevents anyone from getting disappeared. All they have to do is not add them to the database.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think what this is telling us is that OP hangs out in circles where no one knows what dementia is, so it seems like a complicated word for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The fewer syllables you use, the fewer words you can make. There are too many disorders out there to give them all simple names in an unambiguous way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I "sabotage" my own online content to throw a wrench in AI training machines?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The only quality that LLMs really need is that the data is human-made.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🏹🏹🏹⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Confusing-ass perspective. It looks like all the archers are standing with their left foot forward and holding the bow in their right hand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I would guess it has something to do with the loss of third places.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Macaroni and cheese⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The more cheese, the better.