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- Comment on Searching for the "most representative" Star Trek episode 6 days ago:
I came here with exactly this episode in mind. I think it is representative in a few ways:
- It involves an alien of the week.
- The alien species is culturally similar to human societies we, as viewers, are familiar with.
- It demonstrates what the Federation is all about, including the Prime Directive, respectfully dealing with less developed civilizations, and solving problems without violence (especially when the problems are your own fault).
- It’s more or less self-contained. Whether this is “representative” is debatable, I guess. I think it’s a big part of Star Trek even though there’s a larger focus on season-long storylines in later series.
- Comment on Men Use Fake Livestream Apps With AI Audiences to Hit on Women 2 weeks ago:
Everything old is new again. As long as there have been bars, there have been sleezy men lying to impress women in bars.
- Comment on I just heard about Brazilian Butt Lifts which is a procedure where they take fat deposits from somewhere on your body and place it in your butt? 2 weeks ago:
I have no knowledge of Brazilian Butt Lifts specifically, but here is some related information about how fat works in general, which I hope is a good starting point:
Fat cells don’t die easily. They just shrink. See: news.yale.edu/…/study-new-fat-cells-are-created-q…
When performing skin grafts, fat cells retain the characteristics of the original skin location. For example, here is a paper that shows a soldier who had a skin graft from his stomach to his hand, and later developed a kind of “beer gut” on his hand. Content warning: graphic images of open surgery in related articles section if you scroll down. If you are even a little squeamish, do not scroll down. …lww.com/…/does_transferred_fat_retain_properties…
- Comment on Evolution isn't linear. 2 weeks ago:
That’s a puma, not a lioness.
Though you might still be right. I’m not sure if there are clear visual indicators in pumas.
- Comment on Evolution isn't linear. 2 weeks ago:
Or metamorphosis.
- Comment on Popular social media apps TikTok and Instagram use AI to analyze photos on your phone, introducing both bias and errors 3 weeks ago:
For people ages 0 to 2, the model often classified them as being between 12 and 18 years old.
I guess they’re just not training with baby pictures then? I mean, this seems like it should be the easiest distinction to make.
Doesn’t seem like there’s any information on the purpose of this analysis. Google Photos has been doing face recognition and other classification for a long time, and it’s genuinely useful because it lets you sort your photo collection by person. It also categorizes pet photos and does a halfway-decent job of distinguishing one pet from another. I’d genuinely appreciate similar functionality in the open-source photo apps I use. This seems like a natural fit for Instagram. Not sure about TikTok, but honestly, I’m too old and ornery to understand how people actually use TikTok.
- Comment on Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps 3 weeks ago:
Thank god Amazon only allows bots to publish 3 books per day. They saved humanity!
- Comment on Generative AI is still a solution in search of a problem 3 weeks ago:
Agreed. I mean yeah, image generators are still very limited (or at least, difficult to use in an advanced, targeted way), but there’s a new research paper out every day detailing new techniques. None of the criticisms of Midjourney or Stable Diffusion today are likely to remain valid in a year or even six months. And they’re already highly useful for certain tasks.
Same with LLMs, only we’ve already reached the point where they are good enough for almost anything if you care to write a good application around them. The problem with LLMs at this point is marketing; people expect them to be magic and are disappointed when they don’t live up their expectations. They’re not magic but they are extremely useful. Just please, for the love of god, do not treat them as information repositories…
- Comment on AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO' 3 weeks ago:
Lemmy and similar are not inherently more resistant to this. Actually, they are probably less resistant from a technical standpoint, since there is virtually no barrier to creating an account. I didn’t even need an email address to sign up, let alone a phone number like the corporate sites require nowadays (not sure about Reddit, but Google, Facebook, and Twitter all require phone verification to register last I checked).
I fear that we are not ready for the wave of spam that will come as soon as the fediverse becomes mainstream.
On a more fundamental level, I don’t know how to reconcile the competing goals of accountability and privacy.
Realistically, there is no way to distinguish AI comments from human comments. Not in any way that wouldn’t become obsolete the day after it was implemented.
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- Comment on AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO' 3 weeks ago:
Parasite SEO
Is there any other kind?
- Comment on He revealed the secrets ! 5 weeks ago:
I’ve never found a problem that can’t be exacerbated with Microsoft Access.
- Comment on Am I the only one who's "shorts" feed is all basically softcore porn? 5 weeks ago:
Mine shows 90% videos from channels I’ve either subscribed to or at least watched before, and 10% random pop culture stuff.
Then again, I don’t actually use YouTube very much, and if I come across a video on Lemmy or wherever I never open it with a logged-in browser. Maybe I’ve inadvertently gamed the system.
- Comment on Ask ChatGPT to pick a number between 1 and 100 5 weeks ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on Ask ChatGPT to pick a number between 1 and 100 5 weeks ago:
What’s special about 37? Just that it’s prime or is there a superstition or pop culture reference I don’t know?
- Comment on Beeper Messaging App That Irked Apple Is Acquired by WordPress.com Owner 5 weeks ago:
I’m not really familiar with Automattic or any of their acquisitions (I know Tumblr and Pocket Casts, but I’m not a regular user of either). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automattic#Products
What’s their track record here? Should we expect anything they acquire to be gutted and squeezed like they’re Broadcom, or do they actually develop the things they acquire in a way that serves their users?
- Comment on Star Trek Coffees Launching In May With Several Blends 5 weeks ago:
$17.99 for a 12 oz bag.
Not crazy expensive for premium coffee (if it is indeed that). But most will probably remain unopened as collector’s items anyway.
- Comment on Steam is a ticking time bomb 1 month ago:
I wouldn’t say Apple disregards backwards compatibility, but they certainly don’t prioritize it to the degree Microsoft does, or that the general open-source community does. For Microsoft, backwards compatibility is their bread and butter. Enterprise customers have all sorts of unsupported legacy shit, and it dictates purchasing decisions and upgrade schedules.
Apple gave devs and users a ton of lead time before dropping 32-bit support. The last 32-bit Mac hardware was in 2006 (the first gen of Intel Macs); it wasn’t until Catalina’s release in 2019 that 32-bit apps stopped running, and Apple continued releasing security updates for older OSes that could run 32-bit apps for a couple years after that. So that was basically 15 years of notice for devs to release 64-bit apps.
That was much more time than they gave Classic Mac apps under OS X, or PowerPC apps on Intel. I was much more annoyed when PowerPC support was axed. Only a matter of time until Intel apps stop running on Apple Silicon, too. That’s gonna be the end of the world for Steam games. Ironically, it’s already easier to run legacy Windows and Linux games on Mac than it is to run legacy Mac games.
- Comment on mOLecuLaR maN 1 month ago:
Sounds like an excellent class. Probably should be a requirement rather than an elective tbh.
- Comment on Ultimate Chronological Star Trek Viewing Guide 1 month ago:
This is true for pretty much any franchise. If you’re going to watch it all, you can’t go wrong with release order. That way you have the same context that original viewers did, and what the writers likely had in mind.
That doesn’t mean TOS the best starting point for newcomers, though, since they’re probably not committed to thousands of hours of Trek right out of the gate. They’re gonna bail if they don’t like the first few episodes they watch.
- Comment on Lemmy's Image Problem 1 month ago:
Yeah, that was certainly not ideal. This is a problem with centralization more than it is with integration. I’d rather see a separate decentralized image hosting service. I feel like an image host and a link aggregation/discussion forum require different skills to develop and run, and it would probably be best to have something more specialized.
- Comment on Lemmy's Image Problem 1 month ago:
Another issue is that image storage is a huge resource burden, to the point where instance admins will simply purge images periodically to keep their database at a reasonable size. It seems like every time I look at Lemmy posts older than a couple months, the images are simply broken.
I’m not convinced image support should be built into Lemmy in the first place. Back on Reddit, people relied on external image hosts like imgur for many years, and those worked a lot better than the image system Reddit eventually built in (which is covered in wall-to-wall anti-features like the inability to simply load a goddamn image directly).
- Comment on ‘Picard’ Season 2 Was Rewritten After Paramount Deemed It “Too Star Trek,” Says EP 2 months ago:
And regarding the Jurati Borg…I don’t know, I never found that confusing in the slightest. I think their intent came through just fine.
Yes, I was surprised to read that there was any misconception. It seemed pretty clear to me that nothing they did in the past would have altered the history of TNG/Voyager/etc.
As I recall, the order of events played out like this:
- Picard and crew entered an alternate timeline in the Picard era (25th century, ~20 years after TNG era).
- Picard took that timeline’s Borg Queen into the shared past of the two timelines.
- Jurati merged with that Borg Queen.
- They fixed the timeline and returned to the standard Star Trek timeline. Queen Jurati remained in the past. At this time, “Borg Queen Prime” (the one we know from First Contact) was still in the Delta Quadrant, unaffected by any of this.
- In the 25th century, Queen Jurati re-appears with her own collective, entirely separate from the Prime Collective we’ve known throughout TNG, Voyager, etc. From the 21st century up the 25th, Queen Jurati just stayed out of history’s way to avoid a time paradox, ensuring that the chain of events that led to her creation would still happen.
I really enjoyed Jurati’s story in season 2, and was a bit disappointed that we didn’t see her at all in season 3, since she and her collective should no longer be required to stay out of history’s way. But at the same time, they set that up at the end of season 2 pretty explicitly. I just felt like if they were going to bring the Borg back again, they ought to least mention that there’s a whole other collective of friendly Borg who are possibly much more technologically advanced than the Prime Borg and are kinda-sorta part of the Federation.
- Comment on Such an interesting idea! 2 months ago:
A maximum line length of 80 characters is RECOMMENDED.
This is a terrible recommendation. It defeats the purpose of semantic line breaks if you insert them for non-semantic reasons as well. It also makes editing much more difficult. Let client software handle soft line wrapping, so the user can customize it as it makes sense for them. If your client software doesn’t handle soft line wrapping in a sensible way, find better software.
- Comment on Large Language Models Are Drunk at the Wheel 2 months ago:
AGI is not a new term. It’s been in use since the 90s and the concept has been around for much longer.
I agree that we should use more specific terms whenever possible. I call LLMs “LLMs” or “language models”. Not that it’s inaccurate to call them AI, but it’s not useful either. AI is an extraordinarily broad term. Pac-Man had AI. And there’s a large portion of the population who thinks it means something much, much more lofty and specific than it ever really has. At this point, the term should probably be abandoned. Any attempt to reclaim it is bound to fail.
I see this as yet another example of a technical term being bastardized by mainstream press who do not understand the field. It happens all the time with tech. I remember when “virus” actually meant something; the industry eventually abandoned the term because it was bastardized to the point of uselessness; now we just say “malware” and if we need to refer to viruses specifically…well we just don’t for the most part.
This is a linguistic problem more than a technical problem.
- Comment on Stable Diffusion 3 — Stability AI 2 months ago:
- Comment on US Credit Union Service Leaks Millions of Records and Passwords in Plain Text 3 months ago:
Is there a list of credit unions that are affected by this, or who are partners with CU Solutions Group? I couldn’t find any information on their web site.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Thank you. That makes sense.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
It sounds like you’re on OP’s side to “chart it and move on”, which makes sense to me. I don’t quite understand what more OP is expected to do here.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
So what happens if they don’t want to take it, or want to take it “later”? Are you expected to force-feed them? Call security? Hold yourself hostage until they change their mind?
I’m with you on instinct, but I have no idea what the regulations are like in healthcare.
my manager and this group of doctors are not ready to respect a person’s autonomy
This is why I hate hospitals. I’m there because I need medical help, not because I am incapable of running my own life.
- Comment on Anon thinks about human history 4 months ago:
Writing is hella OP. Please nerf.