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Margot Robbie
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  • I would say betting against a website that had never turned a profit in almost 2 decades of its existence despite getting millions of dollars of free labor (well, more accurately, PAYING to do work for reddit) every year seems like a no-brainer.

  • It looks like an upside down funnel to me!

  • Here's a question: since there are no pedals on this uh... "bike", how are the wheels moving?

    I choose to believe the illustration actually shows someone sitting on an exercise ball and holding another exercise ball, instead of... this.

  • Hey, that meme looks familiar...

  • I thought Stanley Cup is a hockey thing?

    And there are clearly 3 girls and 4 cups in the picture, you silly billy.

  • Two of the most critical supplies that most people don't think about prepping is salt and white sugar, because they are useful for many things and they never go bad.

    On sugar specifically, it's extremely useful because 1. It is a dense calorie source that will last forever and 2. you can use it to disinfect wounds in a pitch.

    But of course, bunkering down is kinda dumb to begin with for an apocalyptic scenarios, because then you become sitting ducks.

  • The best search I found is by asking questions to real people in forums such as this one. It's way slower than getting an immediate answer for a question, but the signal to noise ratio is higher.

    This is the reason why I think Google is prioritizing reddit so much in recent years, because reddit became one of the only places where you can get real people (well, relatively speaking more than most other parts of the Internet) answering all kind of questions.

  • LAION-5B is notoriously badly labeled that having a few poisoned data, even if it worked as advertised, would literally not matter at all.

    Plus, it's not doing anything to existing diffusion models that used LAION-5B, since many artists are under the mistaken impression that the models will constantly scrapes the Internet for new images and train on them automatically, when training a model to learn new information without catastrophic forgetting is almost impossible (hence, workarounds like LoRAs and such).

    Again, a reminder that the creator of Nightshade and Glaze, Ben Zhao of UChicago, is literally a code thief who stole GPL code for his closed source product (warning: reddit link) to scam artists who doesn't understand the tech behind ML models.

  • Speak for yourself, I first got on Lemmy to promote a movie, and the next thing I know, I was using Arch (BTW) and moderating an Android community.

    I'm still not quite sure how that happened. This place.

  • The 80/20 rule applies to toxic Internet behaviors as well, 20 percent (or less) of the user base is responsible for 80 percent of the toxicity.

    It's always the same people being awful here, if you are taking notes, you can quickly identify the worst posters on this platform after a week. People always complain about how they are unfairly banned by reddit moderators, but you have to remember, sometimes the bans are really justified.

    I think the ony real (and unpleasant) solution is to moderate very aggressively whenever there is bad behavior (although, I must add, permanent bans should be rare and reserved for extremely bad behaviors)

  • And nobody mentioned beans?

    You can't have Lemmy without at least one reference to beans!

  • I thought people use those plastic blade disposal container that has a slot on top that you throw away once it gets full nowadays.

    It's not built into the wall, but the base principle still hasn't changed even after all these times.

  • From acting.

    Producing is still work.

  • Word of mouth. Friends. Internet.

    Speaking of which, have you seen Barbie yet? I heard it's pretty good.

  • For me, it's very much cyclical: when there is a project going, there are so many people counting on you that pretty much every minute counts, and the cost of mistakes is always high. It's during these times that time management skill is critical and you need people on the team who's job is to manage everybody's time and make sure things gets done, but even with that, the long hours are unavoidable. I don't think it's something to brag about, it's the nature of the job.

    But when there is no project going, it feels like there is really not much to do all day, sometimes even the task of finding things to do is a struggle, so you do whatever you want until the next project starts.

  • I genuinely can't tell if the comic was added by somebody else to mock Musk's tweet, or if Musk is such a narcissistic prick with zero self awareness that he ""ironically" added this comic as part of his fellow-kids memelord act.

    Truth is stranger than fiction.

  • I've had many similar thoughts on the topic of death in recent months.

    The solution I came up with was to comment my thoughts on everything on public forums such as this one, any time I can, for as much as possible.

    Everything you post on here is distributed and recorded through thousands upon thousands of federated servers around the world, and as long as you don't delete them, these comments will be there, long after I'm gone.

    And the web scrapers used for AI large language models will inevitably pick up my words and thoughts here, and a small part of who I am as a person will always live on, compressed within these LLMs.

  • Noticed this too. You should try typing the url of your Lemm.ee comment into the search bar of the instance you are trying to post to, it works... sometimes.

  • I don't think lemm.ee is federating correctly, but I'll give my take here if some one can sees it.

    Beehaw will go the way of every other reddit alternatives, because the existing community is not enough to sustain the critical mass of activity needed. In fact, with the current instance policy, Beehaw is struggling to sustain itself as is with federation, which will only get worse if you defederate.

    I'm not sure why Beehaw refuse to use Lemmy's white-list federation feature and selectively pick and choose who to federate with instead of going full scorched earth.

    It's ultimately up to the admins at Beehaw to make this choice, but I would like to say, grass is not always greener on the other side, defederation will harm Beehaw more than it helps.

  • The Fade part of Dragon Age Origins. It was great when you explore it the first time, but after that it became a chore to collect all the item on a list.