bitofhope

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[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

@self@awful.systems I would like to report a bug. Sometimes reading, interacting with, or posting a comment costs several times as much as it does other times. Posting this comment was exactly one million times as expensive as the median of my other comments and reading it will cost as much. Please try and equalize the cost of using this free site so I can continue to afford alcohol.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Oh no you misunderstand. Tankies are hijacking the country code anti-imperialistly.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

goodlemmy.ml
peoplesfrontoflemmy.ml
shitlemmymlsays.space
lemmy.ac
philthy.ml
lemmymali.org

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 8 points 6 days ago (5 children)

And so three new Lemmy instances were born.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 15 points 1 week ago (13 children)

I am an anti-corpo leftists of Lemmy. I'd like to point out one thing.

We are sure Google will just evaporate tomorrow.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 27 points 1 week ago (5 children)

LLMs are quite impressive as chatbots all things considered. The conversations with them are way more realistic and almost as funny as the ones with the IRC markov chain my friend made as a freshman CS student.

Of course, out bot's training data only included the IRC channel's logs of a few years and the Finnish Bible we later threw in for shits and giggles. A training set of approximately zero terabytes in total.

LLMs are less a marvel of machine learning algorithms (though I admit they might play a part) and more one of data scraping. Based on their claims, they have already dug through the vast majority of publicly accessible world wide web, so where do you go from there? Sure, there are a lot of books that are not on the web, but feeding them in the machine is about as hard as getting them on the web to begin with.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Admit" is a strong word, I'd go for "desperately attempt to deny".

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yea, the artists are about half the reason for me to be on that site to begin with.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago (9 children)

I made a sneer about moving from Twitter to yet another Jack Dorsey social network, but after looking into it he apparently left Bluesky and joined Musk's team instead, because of moderation options. Geez, maybe I should sign up. But creating and keeping track of new accounts to sites is a pain in the aaaaaaassssss.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago

I just met with a great-aunt who has been a bit distant until now. A rare time for me meeting with relatives of her generation since I ran out of living grandparents about a decade ago (though thankfully I at least hear from most of them from mom occasionally).

We talked about some of our common relatives of her generation and some have dementia-related anterograde amnesia not quite unlike the OP's mother. At least some of them can at least remember "new" things like the very fact that their memory doesn't work right, but a lot of it is down to luck and conditioning, and even then it's really hard to always consider that something might have happened hours or minutes ago, but you just forgot about it.

Memory is hella complex is what I'm saying.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Didn't have that on my bingo card for this year, but it's on brand. A big part of The Onion's MO is just riding out the insanity and inject a little of their own.

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