OhNoMoreLemmy @ OhNoMoreLemmy @lemmy.ml

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There are things you can manage, but they tend to be about controlling your environment.

JD Vance is the perfect example of someone that benefited from the military. Fit in (and let's be honest being a straight white male still helps). Find a job that involves sitting behind a desk. Get some experience pulling a 9-5 for a few years, and then go to university for free. Don't get injured. Don't get PTSD.

All of this attitude with a capital A is too late. You can't Attitude yourself out of a missing leg, and you can't Attitude yourself out of PTSD. You can learn to cope better but coping well with PTSD is still worse than not having it.

Either have a plan to avoid danger or you need to be lucky.

I mean the fundamental problem is that humans are dicks and moderation is always needed. It should also be paid, and supported with counciling and recovery time when needed. Dealing with toxic content is a job.

Federation isn't very good at this. The tech is great but everyone is a volunteer and there's (afaik) no global ban hammer so trolls move from one instance to another. Bluesky currently has venture capital to pay for moderation teams, and centralized ban options.

I don't know how long this can last without advertising revenue though.

The other great ambiguity is hug/jazz hands. 🤗

I'm sorry your mom just died. jazz hands

Because it all connects together, and you can program them jointly to help solve tasks.

Having email and version control inside emacs makes it easy to set up an email based patch system.

Of course this system will then benefit from the existing code highlighting, introspection, and an integrated debugger.

Integrating it with your time planner means you can automatically add commits to your journal as a way of tracking what you've been working on.

The old joke always was emacs is a great operating system, it just needs a good text editor.

The real downside for me is everything is just a little bit janky. It all almost works perfectly and the code is right there to fix it, if you can be bothered. Generally I can't.

1. Fuck those things.
2. The main problem with them is not just the software, which is awful, but that it means you're working at Amazon.

The important thing is that musk is a classic libertarian grifter.

His cars are propped up by government subsidies (or they were, I think he's running into problems), starlink is heavily used by NASA, and the boring company is just another way to extract government money.

He'll pretend to be a global libertarian, but what he really wants is sky high tarrifs so he doesn't have to compete with Chinese electric cars.

Ok, it's almost empty at the moment.

The best thing you could do is post articles to it at a rate of about 1 a day. This will turn up in people's feeds and hopefully get up voted and attract comments.

Cross posting etc., can come after this. You can't promote a community with no content.

It's about generative AI as it is currently used.

But yeah, the complaints everyone has about Gen AI are mostly driven by speculative venture capital. The only advantage Google and openai can maintain over open source models is a willingness to spend more per token than a hobbyist. So they're pumping cash in to subsidize their LLMs and it carries with it a stupidly high environmental cost.

There's no possible end game here. Unlike the normal tech monopolies, you can't put hobbiest models out of business, by subsidizing your own products. But the market is irrational and expects a general AI, and is encouraging this behavior.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210261224009209

Technically it died and was resurrected.

There was a bunch of weird rebadged Ubuntu derivatives back in the day.

Ubuntu satanic edition. https://archiveos.org/ubuntu-satanic/

Ubuntu Christian edition. https://archiveos.org/ubuntu-christian/

Hannah Montana Linux https://hannahmontana.sourceforge.net/

This probably isn't a hallucination in the classic sense.

This is probably a near copy of a forum post where a user was channeling fight club and trying to be funny. The same as the putting glue on pizza thing.

And guardrails don't work very well. They're good at detection tone but much worse at detection content. So an appropriately guardrailed LLM will never call someone a "fucking ######" but it'll keep telling everyone that segalis have an IQ of 40 until there's such a PR backlash that an updated is needed.

I didn't think so. It's a deliberate design decision by the developers to make it really hard to compute.

This is actually something where Bluesky is doing more interesting federated things than Lemmy or Mastodon, and let's you use your own algorithm while with both Lemmy and Mastodon you're stuck with standard algorithms.

None of the alternative algorithms are particularly compelling yet, they're mostly topic feeds, but who knows what'll happen.

And yet you're on Lemmy which also has a hot feed.

The things is you can do both, and it's hard and unrewarding to find interesting things on Mastodon. So I stopped trying.

The really dumb things is the new feed is also an algorithm. You're just proud that it's not very good.

It's just a mathematical inevitablity that it won't work well.

Most people's posts are not as good as their best ones and if I'm just going to dip into a site I'd like to see things I'm interested in that other people also thought were good.

Some people don't like to use social media like that though, and more power to you if Mastodon scratches your itch.

Yeah but most toots are boring, and the chronological feed, and refusal to even hide repeated posts by the same person, does Masterdon absolutely no favors.

I think the last time I logged in my new feed was entirely posts by Cory doctro, who just decided to toot an entire article, and after I clicked more posts enough, it was just showing pictures of someone else's cup of tea.

There's a hacky bridge that's meant to allow for it, but Bluesky uses a different protocol, so no they can't without a bunch of effort.

https://lifehacker.com/tech/bridgy-fed-connect-mastodon-and-bluesky

Yeah I tried to move to Mastodon but without a hot feed it's just so boring.

Unfortunately only Bluesky and Lemmy seem to be attempting a decentralized hot feed, and Lemmy is too quiet for niche topics, and Bluesky is only decentralized in theory.

Just calm down and wait. You don't actually need massive amounts of milk from the start, and it takes time for everything to kick in.

If there's still not enough milk, you can mix bottle and breast.

Some people genuinely need to bottle feed, but that's not what was going on in our case.

The important thing about NHS care is that half the midwives are completely insane, and they all contradict each other. They have basically no medical training and are just meant to get someone qualified if anything goes wrong. Instead they go mad with power and use it to bully first time parents into doing what they say.

Our midwife was insistent that if there wasn't enough breast milk immediately after birth we had to switch to bottlefed. I don't think you can figure out the official NHS approach based on anything a midwife says.