Radiant_sir_radiant @ Radiant_sir_radiant @beehaw.org

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Awesome work, and a fantastic idea in the first place.

Were you planning to bury a life-size skeleton wearing a construction worker's outfit nearby?

Either way, do post updates please!

Take your time, mate. You're the most important person in your life!

And no need to thank me - I do think you are a gifted writer (however much or little that may be worth coming from an anonymous person who speaks English as their third language) and just wanted you to know that your sharing your stories is much appreciated even though I don't have much to add to them. But I totally wanna cuddle with a raver girl now.

Yeah but seriously, what kind of person gives a designer phone a unibrow anyway?

I do too, in a way - I find it helps to think about what help I need,

The interesting (to me) thing is that as soon as I've read this, my mind said "duck programming".
\ (For the blissfully uninitiated, duck programming is when a software developer explains a problem to a rubber duck. The solution will often present itself during the explanation after having been hiding in plain sight for hours up to this point.)

Do.you think atheistic prayers work in a similar way?

The human mind sure is a fascinating thing.

Unfashionably late to the party (which seems to be my only secret superpower), but if there's any way to support you, by any means, do let me know. I always enjoy reading what you write and I would love to give something back.

I'm an atheist, but only mention it when asked. I don't know what much to tell you about it - as far as religions go, it doesn't get much simpler than "there's nothing".
\ As for why, I'm very fond of the scientific method and it's the only thing that makes sense to me.

Seriously, health departments around the world should have offered a fourth Covid certificate during the pandemy - tested, vaccinated, recovered and "will irrevocably forego any right to treatment in a hospital in case of infection". That way all the tinfoil hats couldn't have spread their 'dictatorship' bullshit nearly as easily, because hey, all you have to do in order to be able to go to the pub is to absolve society of the risk of you catching an absolutely harmless and possibly even imaginary cold.
\ Let a few thousand of those fuckers die and at the same time keep the hospital beds free for those who need them through no fault of their own. Watch the survivors crap their pants and mumble something about science maybe not being so bad after all.

The problem is that some people consider stupidity to be a virtue. That's their right (sadly), but they shouldn't be able to make society suffer the consequences.

Glad it worked, and thanks for the feedback!

Thanks to a few centuries of upper nobility, we already know that marrying your cousin for several generations is not always a good idea. It'll be interesting to see what happens after a few iterations of AIs being trained on data mostly produced by other AIs (or variations of themselves). I suppose it largely depends on how well the training data can be curated.

ChatGPT says:

Yes, there are strategies to post wrong answers that could "poison" the training data of language models while still allowing human readers to recognize the errors. Here are a few approaches:

1. Subtle Semantic Errors: Provide answers that contain subtle but significant semantic errors. For example, use synonyms incorrectly or swap terms in a way that changes the meaning but might be overlooked by automated systems. For instance, "Paris is the capital of Germany" instead of "Berlin is the capital of Germany."

2. Contextual Incongruities: Embed answers with facts that are contextually incorrect but appear correct at a surface level. For example, "The sun rises in the west and sets in the east."

3. Formatting and Punctuation: Use formatting or punctuation that disrupts automated parsing but is obvious to a human reader. For example, "The capital of France is Par_is." or "Water freezes at 0 degrees F@harenheit."

4. Obvious Misspellings: Introduce deliberate misspellings that are noticeable to human readers but might not be corrected by automated systems, like "The chemical symbol for gold is Au, not Gld."

5. Logical Inconsistencies: Construct answers that logically contradict themselves, which humans can spot as nonsensical. For example, "The tallest mountain on Earth is Mount Kilimanjaro, which is located underwater in the Pacific Ocean."

6. Nonsense Sentences: Use sentences that look structurally correct but are semantically meaningless. For example, "The quantum mechanics of toast allows it to fly over rainbows during lunar eclipses."

7. Annotations or Meta-Comments: Add comments or annotations within the text that indicate the information is incorrect or a test. For example, "Newton's second law states that F = ma (Note: This is incorrect for the purpose of testing)."

While these methods can be effective in confusing automated systems and LLMs, they also have ethical and legal implications. Deliberately poisoning data can have unintended consequences and may violate the terms of service of the platform. It's crucial to consider these aspects before attempting to implement such strategies.

That screenshot alone brings back so, so many memories.

Been with Winamp ever since my first 486DX all the way up to my first 4k screen when it became unusable due to size/scaling issues.

I'm really keeping my fingers crossed for this one to succeed.

especially on meme pages for whatever reason.

I feel you. Memes are the main reason I've subscribed to .ml communities, and these are lately getting flooded with tankie propaganda. If only the pictures were even remotely funny, it might still be somewhat tolerable, but...

I think this is a very good and important point.

Seconded, or thirded, or whatever. I've only just realized that lemmy.ml posts are the reason I've kept a healthy distance from this place during the last couple of weeks. Is that instance like a testbed / launchpad for China's latest trollbots?

Hmm, the way you describe it makes sense.
\ You'll probably want to send the UPS a command to kill the power after shutdown is complete. I'm not sure what software you use on the server (if any) to manage the UPS, and not too familiar with them anyway, but a common concept would be: UPS reports power failure with <$minimum runtime remaining, server shuts down gracefully and sends a "kill power" command to the UPS at the end of its shutdown sequence, UPS kills power, power eventually returns, UPS turns back on, server gets power again and reboots.

I know APC PowerChute and whatever software comes with HPE UPSes can do that.
\ It also means your UPS has some runtime left in case of emergency or if the power returns and quickly fails again.

Congrats on your new setup! A UPS is never a bad idea.

As for the auto power-on, check the BIOS settings. Most have an option that says somehing along the lines of "computer power state after plugging it in" and you can usually set it to on, off or whatever it was before power loss.

Well, I can confirm from personal experience (me and family) that tourists wanting to enter the US aren't treated that much differently from criminals.

But then you've created dozens (or hundreds) of opportunities a day for someone to get your passcode by shoulder-surfing, which you probably wouldn't even notice in many situations. I'd argue that unless someone forcibly borrowing your face or fingers to unlock your phone is a strong possibility, entering a passcode each time is less secure than using biometrics.
\ Especially since the passcode also protects various security settings.

There are soo many to choose from...!
\ Off the top of my head, the phone shot scene from Danger 5 cracks me up every time. But ask me again tomorrow and I'll tell you something completely different...

Postal 2. The game mechanics and open-world flexibility have aged amazingly well, it's still very funny, and I love the way the game's level of violence firmly depends on the player's actions.
\ Plus the Postal Dude's petition to make whiney congressmen play violent video games is needed more than ever.

On Android I miss Spaghetti & Marshmallows, where you had to build towers out of said materials. That was a wonderful game with great physics but sadly only runs on very old phones.