Arthur Besse @ cypherpunks @lemmy.ml

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Did you read the article? It sounds like you didn't.

Did you read the article? It sounds like you didn't.

This video is full of jarring edits which initially made me wonder if someone had cut out words or phrases to create an abbreviated version. But, then I realized there are way too many of them to have been done manually. I checked the full original video and from the few edits i manually checked it seems like it is just inconsequential pauses etc that were removed: for instance, when Linus says "the other side of that picture" in the original there is an extra "p" sound which is removed here.

Yet another irritating and unnecessary application of neural networks, I guess.

Lemmy added an alt text field for image-only posts a few versions ago; it would be nice if more people would use it.

At least this post does link to the mastodon post which it is a screenshot of.

I really don’t get how its different than a search engine

Neither did this guy.

The difference is that LLM output is (in the formal sense) bullshit.

I hope they’ll be gentle if they ever realize Canada exists

here is their canada portal: https://www.aljazeera.com/where/canada/

they also have some documentaries: https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish/search?query=canada

Auschwitz was in Poland. They were careful to keep all the concentration camps out of Germany

The six extermination camps where 2.7 million of their victims were murdered were all in Poland, but the Nazis did have hundreds (or dozens, if you count all of the subcamps near a larger one as being a single camp) of concentration camps in Germany.

Ads?! in Ubuntu? Never! They were simply "integrating online scope results into the home lens of the dash" 🤡

(that is an actual quote from the sentence immediately following "We’re not putting ads in Ubuntu" in Mark Shuttleworth's blog post responding to the entirely predictable backlash after they did this, twelve years ago...)

Posting maps and call it a day. Classic. Any kind of context is for nerds I guess?

Your comment I replied to also doesn't say anything about the context of the expansion, it just says it "is not real".

But if you want some context, I encourage you to watch the 20min video i posted earlier in this thread.

NATO expansion

Which is not real. I am saddened you choose to believe in it.

🤔

(via this article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlargement_of_NATO ...which will presumably amaze you)

If you're actually curious and have 20 minutes, try this video: Ukraine: The Avoidable War

To answer your question: yes, YTA 🤦

Also, I'm deleting this post per asklemmy rule 3.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield,_Ohio,_cat-eating_hoax

Snopes says they haven't found evidence that this is something he actually said, and also that even if he did say it, it was most likely "kayfabe" - a pro wrestling term for maintaining the story line outside of the ring.

Otoh, https://www.houstonpress.com/news/opinion-the-reality-behind-hulk-hogan-vs-andre-the-giant-16554572 is an interesting read i just found while searching for the above which includes some good reasons why Andre might legitimately have stopped being friends with Hogan. Also TIL Jesse Ventura tried to unionize WWF and later learned in court that it was in fact Hogan who had ratted him out to their boss (Vince McMahon). (Or maybe this is all just higher-order kayfabe? 🤡)

(my contribution to lemmy's beans arc)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasshopper_3D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratfor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_(syntax)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra_Programming_Language

also: The Oyster was an erotic magazine published in London in 1883

The tone which comes across in the video (linked from the other post I linked to in this post's description) is unfortunately much less amicable than this article conveys.