RedstoneValley
@RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 6 days ago:
That’s a very long answer to my snarky little comment :) I appreciate it though. Personally, I find LLMs interesting and I’ve spent quite a while playing with them. But after all they are like you described, an interconnected catalogue of random stuff, with some hallucinations to fill the gaps. They are NOT a reliable source of information or general knowledge or even safe to use as an “assistant”. The marketing of LLMs as being fit for such purposes is the problem. Humans tend to turn off their brains and to blindly trust technology, and the tech companies are encouraging them to do so by making false promises.
- Comment on Good job 6 days ago:
Well, they are quite bad from a UI/accessibility perspective. While looking nice and fancy, it can be difficult to read the contents and makes it harder to identify information. That’s totally fine as an optional feature for those who like it, but the default should be a clean and easily accessible design.
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 1 week ago:
It’s funny how people always quickly point out that an LLM wasn’t made for this, and then continue to shill it for use cases it wasn’t made for either (The “intelligence” part of AI, for starters)
- Comment on Good job 1 week ago:
We had transparent UI elements before and decided they were shit. Am I the only one still alive to remember?
- Comment on Programmer paradigm shift... Have YOU made the shift??? 🫵 2 weeks ago:
TBH I can wait for these fucks to find out that their kindergarden approach to programming won’t work. I’ll charge a premium to fix their shit later.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
and got a promotion for it
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 months ago:
Bought a new PC and switched from dual boot Win10/Linux to Linux only. All of the games I’m playing work well, so no need for Windows 11
- Comment on Google's AI is using past tense to describe a sporting event that takes place in 3 days. And it knows who won too. 4 months ago:
Of course they do. AI is aggressively marketed as as such. Most people simply don’t know that an LLM doesn’t have a concept of "truth“, and the misleading marketing is to blame for that.
- Comment on EA lost $6 billion in market value, following FC 25 & Dragon Age underperformance news 4 months ago:
Oh no. Won’t someone think of the shareholders.
Well, at least they were pioneers in the art of enshittification.
- Comment on Meta Censors #Democrat when searched for 4 months ago:
Yeah, that was my thought too. What a dumb way to censor by search input instead of censoring the output.
It probably went like this at Meta: Product Manager: Hey we just got this word filter list from HQ to be implemented ASAP. Devs: Sure thing boss.
- Comment on Meta Censors #Democrat when searched for 4 months ago:
German news magazine Der Spiegel wrote they had talked to a Meta representative and they said “This is definitely an error and we will fix it fast”
My personal take: An incident like this illustrates how vulnerable we are to being censored and silenced when using social media and communication channels owned by billionaires. It’s time not only to leave those platforms but to educate your friends and family why this is absolutely necessary. No more excuses.
Original: Update, 13.30 Uhr: Auf SPIEGEL-Anfrage hat sich Meta inzwischen kurz und knapp zu dem Phänomen geäußert. »Dies ist eindeutig ein Fehler, den wir schnell beheben werden«, so eine Sprecherin des Konzerns.
- Comment on Meta Censors #Democrat when searched for 4 months ago:
Just tested in in the EU with a friend’s Instagram account. It’s real.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
I completely forgot about this one. These clowns also think they are very clever in using thinly veiled Nazi symbolism in their publications. Like using the number 18 in their recent “Abschiebeticket” campaign (1 = A, 8 = H in the alphabet and is common code among themselves for Adolf Hitler) And when asked about that they smugly pretend being absolutely innocent.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
If you need some context, Musk is actively trying to influence German elections by advertising for the far right party afd. While doing something similar in the UK with the the right wing Reform party, and calling for a neo nazi to be released from prison.
So there’s that. It doesn’t even matter if this was a nazi salute or not, because it was clear that he is a fascist before this incident.
- Comment on Behold, the peak of Twitter (formerly renamed to X) 5 months ago:
X is blocked here. What’s at this link?
- Comment on Got my boy Crassus on speedial 5 months ago:
That’s pretty crass
- Comment on Learning a new language is easy! 5 months ago:
Probably a "supporting firefighter group vehicle“ to be exact.
- Comment on Learning a new language is easy! 5 months ago:
Hilfeleistungs-Löschgruppen-Fahrzeug is a very odd composite word for Germans too. It’s not commonly used, this is probably "Amtsdeutsch“, a bureaucratic way of naming things as accurately as possible. Mostly used like that by government institutions and Microsoft help documents in german.
See also: Umschaltfeststelltaste (Caps Lock) und Gruppenrichtlinienbearbeitungsprogramm (Group policy Editor).
Shudders. This is why I (as a native German speaker) prefer english documentation.
- Comment on Anon's PC works 5 months ago:
My current PC used for gaming is a self built one from 2014. I have upgraded a few things during the years, most notably GPU and memory, but it did an excellent job for over a decade. Recently it started to show its age with various weird glitches and also some performance issues in several newer games and so I’ve just ordered a new one. But I’m pretty proud of my sustainable computing achievement.
- Comment on Nom nom 5 months ago:
Sooo, does the crocodile face to the left or to the right?
- Comment on Hurry 5 months ago:
My guess is grading. When you’re grading you need to supply a different amount of power to the arms depending on the angle. But I’m no expert in this. Seems to be the standard euro configuration and I was looking for this to setup a simulator
- Comment on Hurry 5 months ago:
It’s for configuring joysticks in a simulator…
- Comment on Hurry 5 months ago:
You asked for it 🤷🏻♀️
- Comment on Is there any proof behind the idea that "reddit is filled with bots"? 6 months ago:
Oh no I might be a bot and didn’t know it yet
- Comment on If trump appointments someone that doesn't last as long as Anthony Scaramucci do we measure that in fractional moochies or do we abandon the mooch system because it failed us? 6 months ago:
Micromoochies, Nanomoochies, Picomoochies? The possibilities are endless
- Comment on Love her or hate her, she’s spitting facts 6 months ago:
Thank you kind stranger
- Comment on Love her or hate her, she’s spitting facts 7 months ago:
As a non-native english speaker, I don’t know what “pegging” means and now I’m too afraid to look it up.
- Comment on Words truly matter 9 months ago:
They could be sentient without us knowing. But they live on a different time scale. Everything we do to them would happen very quickly in their perception. So don’t worry and bon appetit.
- Comment on English may be a hot mess but at least we don't have to worry about this nonsense 1 year ago:
It’s a little bit worse than that in fact. “Programmiererinnen und Programmierer” or “Programmierer:innen” or “Programmierende”. And if you get it wrong you are not a grammar nazi but more of a regular nazi.
/s just in case
- Comment on You understand? 1 year ago:
If anyone wants to know more about the math, I think this refers to www2.nau.edu/lrm22/lessons/…/santa.html
