OpticalMoose @ OpticalMoose @discuss.tchncs.de

Technology fan, Linux user, gamer, 3D animation hobbyist

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I haven't frequented this community in a while, but wow, I had no idea things had gotten that bad. I know there are some rabid AI haters out there. I see AI posts getting downvoted with no real discussion or explanation.

Thanks for taking these steps.

Maybe I'm a weirdo, but I think it's rude to ask someone why they're not married and/or don't have kids, especially if you just met.

Just for kicks, I told a few people I was divorced and they were totally ok with it. But saying you're not married invites a ton of follow up questions.

I love the Shin and Buldak brands. I could probably eat ramen every day, but I keep seeing articles about how refined, bleached flour is linked to heart disease. We just can't have anything nice.

Damn. I've been looking for some decent whole-wheat ramen for ages. I can't believe it's not more popular.

Little Bobby Tables nods approvingly.

(an old XKCD joke)

Finally, a chance to cash in on my bored lemmings.

also !linux4noobs@lemmy.world and !linuxquestions@lemmy.zip.

Just Peertube. I've been orphaned from my Mastodon instance and I don't think I'm going to sign up for another one.

I mainly use Llama-3-8B abliterated for everyday questions, and DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite for programming/Linux stuff.

As long as I can disable it or opt out of it, I don't mind. I can't speak for anyone else, but I don't want videos recommended to me.

With Youtube, it's not a big deal because I never log in there, I browse in private mode and set firefox to delete cookies. So when I go to Youtube, I just get a blank page with no recommendations.

But with Peertube, I need to login to get full functionality (federated search, etc). So I would need an option to turn off video recommendations or whatever.

As a computer guy, I can appreciate that working with data is cool - there's a lot of neat stuff you can determine from it. As a user, it creeps me out. If I went my favorite restaurant, and the waitress recommended something based on the last 5 times I ate there, I would stop going to that restaurant.

Thought you'd never ask. https://youtu.be/i-jdhorGtQI?t=17

My pet peeve is people downvoting in communities they aren't subscribed to about posts they aren't interested in. They just sort by new, and when they see something they don't like, they smash that downvote button without even looking at the post or contents.

Part of it is because we all have unlimited votes; people vote without thinking. It would be different if everyone had a finite number of votes to use. And you get awarded a few votes for making a comment or post. Maybe award extra votes for commenting in small communities.

This would serve 2 purposes. 1.) People would use their votes a lot more thoughtfully. 2.) It would encourage people to comment and post more.

The downside is that someone could set up a bot to spam posts and comments into a dead community just to rack up votes.

Jerk can't keep his hands to himself either. I can't complain to HR cause .. you know.

For anyone interested: there's a new community for small trucks !keitrucks@lemm.ee

I think 70s-80s small pickups are going to become collectables in the future.

Stuff like this is why I don't get an Xbox account.

Nice. I'm planning to get a compact pickup soon. The prices are starting to get really steep where I live. It's like $4000+ for a 25 year old truck with 180,000 miles on it.

Conflict: Middle East Political Simulator link

Probably obscure if you're under 50.

The FSF has published its evaluation of the "Llama 3.1 Community License Agreement." This is not a free software license and you should not use it, nor any software released under it.

Dumb question here, but why shouldn't I use it? Maybe I'm missing something in the article.