douglasg14b
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- Comment on what should one archive in a fascist regime? 2 weeks ago:
Samesies…
It’s very difficult though, sourcing material is difficult enough, archiving and making it actually useful and valuable even moreso. It takes a lot of intelligent processing.
LLMs can reduce that effort a lot, on the searching side, but that’s very expensive either in hardware or in API costs. And either way, would likely involve the efforts of a team to achieve.
- Comment on what should one archive in a fascist regime? 2 weeks ago:
Because advertising is what wins?
There’s no such thing as bad publicity anymore. If you can gain a lot of publicity with well-timed and poignant collages and snippets that target audience on say tic Tok. That’s an extremely powerful tool.
Currently things like this take not insignificant time and effort. Reducing the time of production is valuable.
- Comment on what should one archive in a fascist regime? 2 weeks ago:
How, exactly?
They should sure, who’s coughing up the tens of millions of dollars that might cost?
If they don’t have the resources to do it, they can’t.
Distributed filesystems that self hosters can support may be the future for resilient data, but we’re not really there yet in a scalable way.
- Comment on what should one archive in a fascist regime? 2 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure that they do but this is a problem of and resources, which they are strapped for
- Comment on How do Americans win their country back? 2 weeks ago:
Yep and the slow gutting of the education system isn’t making it any better.
You have an entire generation coming of voting age who are rabid Trump supporters. They don’t care about policies or democracy or public institutions. They don’t care about healthcare, social securities, or the stability of the economy.
They don’t care about any of the things that have been built up through generations. They lack critical thinking ability.
The recipe works. If you make dumb kids they will vote for dumb people. It works so well that part of the future plan for a trump presidency is to get rid of the department of education. Solidifying the Republican party indefinitely.
- Comment on Is Lemmy an effective alternative to Reddit? 3 weeks ago:
Yes, and with reddit having a baseline corporate & bot astroturfing rate of ~25% that’s not exactly a good bar to measure by.
- Comment on Is Lemmy an effective alternative to Reddit? 3 weeks ago:
I… That’s not how this works. Or at least you don’t understand the context of this thread.
I can make an account (or 1000, Lemmy doesn’t exactly have controls to stop me) and run it as a bot, and NOT mark it as a bot. And use it to automatically manipulate the tone of conversations and threads without anyone knowing. And the premise of your argument is now void.
Labeling of bots is done via goodwill.
We’re not worried about goodwill users in this context. We’re talking about astroturfing bots posing as actual users.
- Comment on Is Lemmy an effective alternative to Reddit? 4 weeks ago:
Unfortunately the bot problem is coming to Lemmy.
Bots posting content is already a thing here, and then taking up front page space is already a thing.
Lemmy is speed running “How to lose your sense of community”.
- Comment on What is the purpose of this plastic piece? 1 month ago:
I like how many of the top level comments on here are going the way of Reddit already.
One-liners trying to be funny or make puns instead of actually engaging in conversation, indistinguishable from bots.
- Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election? 2 months ago:
Please do not make this another 2016, and assume Kamila will win.
The Russian bots are out in full force to pacify voters that “they have this in the bag”. This is an indication that the only way we lose is by not voting. And the sentiment is changing, I see calls to vote less and less now, and comments assuming Kamila has already won more and more.
It’s not over till it’s over.
- Comment on How do people in this day in age become nazis/neonazies sexist or even incels when there is so much knowledge against it? Do they get anything out of being that way? 2 months ago:
Incels at least is a natural consequence of the difference between society’s expectations, the needs of an individual, generally the lack of support and or direct toxicity towards men who need help and emotional support
- Comment on Why do radio stations all seem to go on commercial at the same time? 2 months ago:
Welcome to corporate conglomerates and enshitification.
Anti-consumer antitrust stances enables this to happen.
- Comment on What is the safest way for a partially disabled person in the USA to use prison for food and shelter as an alternative to dying homeless in a gutter on a cold rainy night? 2 months ago:
They literally say in the title “use prison for food and shelter as opposed to dying homeless in a gutter”.
Are we reading the same post?
This states, in not unclear terms, that the context here is being disabled and so poor that food and shelter are inaccessible. That’s the context of the post…
- Comment on What is the safest way for a partially disabled person in the USA to use prison for food and shelter as an alternative to dying homeless in a gutter on a cold rainy night? 2 months ago:
Outside of this, have you considered moving to a country with a viable welfare state that takes care of people with disabilities?
Ah yes, with all that money, paperwork, and jobs this person probably doesn’t have…
Other countries don’t want America’s destitute.
- Comment on What should I know about using a wheelchair for the first time? 3 months ago:
This looks sick. 100% might be just what I need.
- Comment on What should I know about using a wheelchair for the first time? 3 months ago:
Thanks for the tip and advice.
Yeah it’s just that poor posture over time (been fixing it with PT) has caused… Problems. Sitting usually results in ever increasingly intense lower back pain, especially if there is minimal lumbar support
- Comment on What should I know about using a wheelchair for the first time? 3 months ago:
Yeah, I’m learning already after just an evening on it that the other foot pulling double duty is not liking it.
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- Comment on So is the global IT crash fixed yet? 3 months ago:
No, still a shit show at airports at the time of writing.
Lots of kiosks, screens, and other devices still show BSODs in airports. Systems still slow and unstable.
Likely similar in other industries.
- Comment on When creating a story, how many black characters can I create without them calling the story woke? 4 months ago:
Interesting fact, Nazis were actually socialists. The term Nazi is a shortened version of the german term for National Socialist, which is part of their full name: National Socialist Workers Party of Germany
I found one of the suckers that would vote for the Nazi party because they put
{{Popular political ideology here}}in their name. - Comment on Physics Girl Long Covid and ME/CFS Livestream [Fundraiser + Interviews] 4 months ago:
I can’t imagine the stress on both their lives, specially in a country with terrible healthcare like America.
Should be a slogan.
- Comment on So is Israel just going to finish Palestine off? 4 months ago:
Literally the first thing you do on NoStupidQuestions is attack the person asking the question.
Cmon, that’s not acceptable behavior here.
- Comment on Advice Needed: How to get immunotherapy treatment in a rural area where the clinics do not administer the shots? 5 months ago:
When you say a locally owned pharmacy, can you elaborate?
The ones I’m familiar with are just at big stores here.
- Comment on Advice Needed: How to get immunotherapy treatment in a rural area where the clinics do not administer the shots? 5 months ago:
- Yes, U.S.
- I would pick up the dilute serum from the allergist and transport it myself. It’s specifically created for just me (The exact serum), so it’s not something attainable from the pharmacy.
Thank you so much for the knowledge! I’m going to take this and see what I can do. Thank you 🙏
- Comment on Advice Needed: How to get immunotherapy treatment in a rural area where the clinics do not administer the shots? 5 months ago:
Yeah, I thought it sounded unhinged. But I’m desperate, and don’t want to put myself at risk of a preventable death.
I’ve spent the greater part of my life as a shit in largely because I’m a sniffling, coughing, sneezing mess all day and night every day for 6-8 months of the year. And simply a sniffly mess for the rest.
I had one good summer last year and I can’t believe what I’m missing. Being able to do activities like hiking, or biking, going to the grocery store without being treated like I have the plague. Actually being able to go out to a restaurant or public places. Making friends, and actually being able to join them. Going to the movies…etc Not having to carry a whole-ass box a Kleenex with me everywhere I go.
It made me into a desperate man, realizing how much life I’m missing.
The comments here are fantastic, and incredibly helpful.
- Comment on Advice Needed: How to get immunotherapy treatment in a rural area where the clinics do not administer the shots? 5 months ago:
My allergist mentioned these, and noted that this is likely to be ineffective for me. Insurance also didn’t want to pay for it, though they shoveled out $4k for the serum for shots.
If I can’t get shots here though, I’ll try anything.
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- Comment on What happens if I never activate Windows? 5 months ago:
Morning. One of my devices has been running unactivated W10 for something like 4+ years now.
- Comment on The world’s best airline is paying staff a bonus of 8 months’ salary after record annual net profit of $1.98 billion 5 months ago:
Oops, that’s deadly, material right here.
- Comment on Tesla Cybertruck: A Tragedy On Four Wheels 7 months ago:
It has to be. The truck is made from stainless steel, which can develop small amounts of rust-like corrosion, but absolutely nothing of this fashion.