Vanth @ Vanth @reddthat.com

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I coached my grandma to just repeat "I want to talk to a human operator, please" over and over until she got through. It worked about 70% of the time but some are nearly impenetrable.

Yep. Alexander Skarsgard as Murderbot. I think it needs more time than two episodes to cook and find itself before I pass judgement. I will watch at least another couple episodes.

I set my homepage to communities I'm subscribed to, sorted by new. So I get a very limited and curated slice of Lemmy.

I would say I'm seeing perhaps a small wave of new users from Reddit though not nearly as big as the wave from the API changes. That affects the questions being asked in general topic communities like this one; which is what they are for.

In niche topic communities, I rarely notice changes brought in by new users. New users are slow to find them, and they're probably already accustomed to niche community quirks from other forums.

Ha, two people I tagged so far in this thread. One for being a self-described and proud redpiller type (I don't remember the specifics on that one) and one for conversing in bad faith; that person kept arguing with well-sourced fact. Think flat-earther type stubbornness to acknowledge reality for the sake of being funny or edgy. There's a time and a place for that, but it was on a serious topic where everyone else was taking it seriously and trying to be genuinely helpful.

I haven't tagged you, OP. Yet.

Yes. I tag people that prove to be wastes of time: arguing in bad faith, lying, uninterested in actually taking any advice and are only here to whine, proud bigots.

I tag them because they often get good responses from the community that I want to see. I just don't want to engage with the tagged person directly, so tag them to signal to myself to not waste effort.

No tagged people in this thread.

Some examples of tags I have applied to other users,"AI Slop Slinger", "Fetish hunter", "Doesn't reply", "the world is white straight male by default", and "uses Lemmy as websearch, poorly".

For example, AI slop slinger asked a question that prompted a lot of really excellent, in-depth responses with citations that I could run down and learn even more from. But Slinger just posted semi-regurgitated text back in comments. Some assumed Slinger spoke a different language and tried to help them communicate, but no, Slinger was just a lazy asshat wasting people's time. Maybe Slinger wasn't even human.

Ah, you want specialized instead of general.

Well, then is a couple of books enough to train your LLM? How many books are there on wavelengths your first doublet filters for?

Seems like you might want a forum full of topic specific comments too to feed into the model. A photography textbook with a section on lenses is good, real questions and answers from actual photographers with real scenarios would be better for most people.

If copyright were magically not an issue, why does this need to be local/self hosted?

Like sure, some people will still self host and we need some people to keep information independent of corporations. But for people who just want a summary of a car maintenance task, why would they go to a local repository instead of the largest one they can find?

I would need more specificity around "basic human needs". It could be that only 1-30% of the world's population don't currently meet that threshold, so sure, easy call to lop off pinky thru middle finger on my non-dominant hand to help them. I mean, ask "would you cut off your pinky finger to stop the genocide in Gaza?" and that would be a hard, fast yes and that's way less than 10% of the world affected.

If we're talking past basic survival to full universal healthcare and universal basic income... I'd consider all ten fingers with more details. I'm super sus of any monkey paw curls, so I want to understand the ins and outs before I say all ten fingers.

During COVID I switched from a sit-stand-walk around type job to WFH sitting for the full 8+ hours. I found myself spiraling into some real hip and lower back pain until I invested in some new home office furniture to enable more standing and moving around.

Cheapo walking treadmill was the best $125 Bezos bucks I spent during lockdown.

New medicine down the road of ozempic and other hormone mimics/manipulators. I think we're going to see a step change increase in how much control people can exert over their bodies when genetics and environment are a challenge.

Never conceived... that makes me Jesus? So either tap into that sweet church money or get crucified.

Call them and ask.

My block has buried lines. A block away, they have overheads. The new local fiber provider is only running lines along overheads for now, with plans to tackle buried lines in another few years. Despite sending me half a tree worth of mailers, they won't run fiber to my house yet and the only way I was able to find that out was to call them up and talk to them.

Yes, especially during newbie gains phase, but not optimally and it will get progressively more difficult as goals become counterproductive to each other. E.g., you will rarely find intermediate+ folks attempting to gain muscle and lose fat at the same time. Calorie restriction for fat loss will also impede muscle growth.