cabbage @ cabbage @piefed.social

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Or how it has normalized using AI for everything between heaven and earth, when what is actually going on is machine learning. AI implies that the machine is thinking for itself, which of course leads (reasonable) people to draw conclusions that it's not a very reliable source.

If you want this as a platform to socialize, I think the best thing you can do is to follow your interests, see if there are communities in what you're interested in here already, and if there are not see if you can get one started.

One community I find particularly inspiring is !superbowl@lemmy.world, initiated by a single user (@anon6789@lemmy.world) who is making an amazing effort and now attracting quite a bit of attention from a bunch of followers.

But of course, it can also be challenging to build a community, as well as time consing - I have to admit I don't really interact that much with online communities myself these days.

I have a tendency to give off a very unprofessional :| during these meetings, but that's reserved for IRL only.

I only ever use :) myself. Can't think of a work email where :( seems appropriate.

I think, on your end, my user name probably shows as just "cabbage", not "@cabbage". Which indicates it's a user name (not exclusive), not a handle (exclusive).

Similarly, OP shows up to me as "Aurora (she/her)" rather than "aurora_glamour", which is her handle. Piefed still displays the instance though.

It might not be ideal, as it makes imposters possible. Then again, that has always been the case by using visually identical Unicode characters, so it's not entirely a new problem.

I never cared much about Reddit, but then again, I'm not using Lemmy either. So maybe you're right.

Welcome here! It's more focused on public discussion and less on individuals here, but there are some friendly communities around here as well. I hope you'll like it, but it might not indeed be the best platform for developing proper friendships. :)

Sweet user name!

More on topic, the 30s are messed up indeed. Or maybe it's just that I'm now in my 30s and the world is fucked. In either case I'm not a big fan.

ActivityPub is absolutely not suited for private communication. I guess you could in theory transfer encrypted content over AP as well, but it's not what it is designed for and it generally makes little sense for content in a public forum like this. I don't think anyone thinks otherwise.

This is not what is proposed though. For E2EE, Rimu suggests the following:

Encrypt all user communications, private messages, and sensitive data

So to keep user data encrypted on the server, as well as looking into finding a way to encrypt private messages. I think it's hard to argue this wouldn't be at least a minor change for the better, giving instance administrators less insight into the private data of the users (and thereby also making them less vulnerable to law enforcement).

Of course this wouldn't make PieFed or Lemmy or whatever a good replacement for Signal. It is not supposed to be. It's a public forum. But it can still do its best to protect the identity of the users in this public forum, even with the inherent limitations of the format.

Just to clarify, you are aware that OP is the main developer of PieFed?

Chances are that PieFed more or less fits his idea of what he wants, considering that's what he designed it to do.

That looks like a PieFed bug - the leading # should normally not be parsed into a headline in Markdown unless it is followed by a space. I'll give @rimu@piefed.social a heads up!

That said, there's every reason to scream at this point. I wish all Americans seeking to flee the country the best of luck.

I wish authors behind pieces like this would stop confounding AI and machine learning. People read stuff like this and end up believing that a language model managed to discover new metal alloys. The use of generative AI for an illustration certainly does not help.

That illustration is, however, not the fault of the journalist - it's credited a prompt by Skoltech PR. So the PR department of the research institute itself thought some generative AI image was the best possible way to illustrate this. Which makes me a bit sceptical.

The cited lead author currently has one citation in Google Scholar, which seems to be the product of some workshop on LLMs. Another publication is on financial time series (famously not a field deprived of complexity), and now the author is suddenly an expert of metal alloys. I'm all for supporting young researchers, but I'm also a fan of trying to understand one field before jumping to the next.

The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, a private institute in Moscow, started out in 2011 with scientific help from MIT and financial backing from the Russian state. In 2022 MIT cut their partnership for obvious reasons. I'm not sure this helps to inspire confidence, but then again I'm sure there are qualified people working there.

Then we have the concerns voiced already in this thread - can we even count on any of these findings to hold at all, if they didn't bother actually putting anything to the test beyond their possibly faulty model.

Of course, this new paper is published in Nature, which is pretty renowned and has only occasionally fucked up by publishing grifters. And I don't know the first thing about material science to assess the value of this research. Would love to hear if anyone closer to the field could give their take on it.

This is crazy to me. I have never seen it before, it seems incredibly weird to me, but your evidence is hard to argue against.

I'm sorry you experienced this, OP. As a European who has never been to the States it's hard to imagine just how fast the US is going down the drain. It seems to me it is accelerating, bit entirely on the wrong direftion.

What are your options for leaving Texas? And would it realistically be better elsewhere?

I guess this is more like the GBC / GBA shift, considering DS, DS Lite and for the most part DSi all played the same games.

It seems to me Trumps strategy is always to promise different, often contradictory, things to different people. Anti elite is the red thread.

By tearing the entire country down, I guess a lot of his base feels he is successfully fucking up the elites. They like him because his different and promises real change, and I guess that's what they are getting.

If you need to maintain any sort of public presence for private or professional purposes, having your own website and domain puts you in control over your own content. I see mine partly as a platform to instantly publish whatever I feel like, partly as a fun thing to tinker with, and partly as a LinkedIn alternative where people look me up online and I'm in control over what they see and which cookies they have to accept (none).

Breaking: EU lags behind in race to suck as much as America.

Sorry, but I don't particularly feel like catching up.

For the love of everything, please do take to the streets. Better late than never.

One relevant fun fact is that the French constitution started out in one of those tennis courts, as the founders were prevented from meeting in a more suitable space.