daniskarma @ daniskarma @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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No race, no gender. No problems.

Gender anarchism and race anarchism. People be just people. Social constructs shall not be a dividing reason, let everyone behave however the hell they want as long as they don't hurt others and be happy.

Also US race concepts are kind of weird in general. I suppose the history of slavery and segregation did a number on people's perception of race.

I've been noticing already. The older I am the angrier I get.

Mostly because as years pass I notice how most people is just bad people. Losing faith in humanity makes me angry at humanity.

Alternative. Cheap android box and coreelec.

You can have them for about 20 bucks. Have minimal power consumption. And small power factor. They also have ARM architecture.

They are good for low power applications.

Block and reported.

You should not insult people.

And?

The issue is that you should not blindly trust code. Being originally written by a human being is not, by any means, a quality certification.

While this is obviously not true. It is hilarious seeing that some comments call bullshit on this while thinking that violent protests have any better chance to succeed.

You gotta love the transparency.

The transparency is needed to know if the server is actually costing $5000

Not that the server cost only $500 and the rest go to cocaine and hookers

I don't need to keep track of my bill precisely, what I want is budget transparency.

@aihorde@lemmy.dbzer0.com draw for me a picture of Mickey Mouse.

I think there may be two exceptions to that rule.

1. Accessibility. People who may have issues writing long coherent text due the need to use some different input method (think about tetraplegic people for instance). LLM generated text could be of great aid there.
2. Translation. I do hate forced translation. But it's true that for some people it may be needed. And I think LLM translation models have already surpassed other forms of automatic software translation.

I think one of the biggest obstacles in donations is lack of transparency of what's going on with the donated money.

Nowadays I tend to only donate to projects that have full transparency on what the money is being used for.

I don't know if it's the case as the presented case is not an instance I use. But on general before donating any money is the first thing I look up, and if it's not clear I just hold my money.

But it is known that donations usually cannot sustain projects, specially "user donations". For a project to be able to have a steady and sizeable influx of money there need to be whale donators or corporations that donate to it. Relying on user donations will always mean a very little amount of money, and I don't think that's going to change as most people don't have that much disposable income anyway.

I think p2p and true decentralization is the way to go. Don't get me wrong, fediverse is great, but is not as much decentralized as "less centralized", truly decentralized model should be p2p. I've said several times that the ess centralized" model have a critical failure point and that is that instances are under a lot of pressure, economic, legal and administrative. And we are burning people out and spending all their money, because it's a model that relies in a few number of people taking that big burden.

I think a model that the burden is smaller and more spread among the user base will be more resilient, at least on this aspect.

Also I take the chance to put up a critique on domain costs, it's not much, but it's part of this topic and surely they should be cheaper, as domain cost is 90% speculation and very little labor cost. I don't know if there's any project to democratize domain names in the clearnet, but there should be one.

I do miss the era when you just put the thing in the thing-shaped socket and the thing just worked.

Now you cannot do anything without setting accounts, downloading things, updating things and accepting tons of unread documents.

Or maybe I'm just getting old.

Most people cannot sustain a 100% fight a 100% of the time for an indefinite number of years.

That's why it's wisely to know when to ask people when to fight. Because if you ask everyone to fight all the time people will be burned out and maybe they don't have energies to fight anymore when you most need it.

I have but not so much.

Not that I don't have free time in general, I have lots of free time. It's because I also have a lot of hobbies and videogames have to share my time.

It is true that lately one metric I consider very important before playing a game is "it's respectful with my time".

That's why you meed to know the cavieats of the tool you are using.

LLM hallucinate. People willing to use them need to know, where is more prone to hallucinate. Which is where the data about the topic you are requesting is more fuzzy. If you ask for the capital of France is highly unlikely you will get an hallucination, if you as for the color of the hair of the second spouse of the fourth president of the third French republic, you probably will get an hallucination.

And you need to know what are you using it for. If it's for roleplay, or any not critical matters you may not care about hallucinations. If you use them for important things you need to know that the output needs to be human reviewed before using it. For some things it may be worth the human review as it would be faster that writing from zero, for other instances it may not be worth it and then a LLM should not be used for that task.

As an example I just was writing some lsp library for an API and I tried the LLM to generate it from the source documentation. I had my doubts as the source documentation is quite bigger that my context size, I tried anyway but I quickly saw that hallucinations were all over the place and hard to fix, so I desisted and I've been doing it myself entirely. But before that I did ask the LLM how to even start writing such a thing as it is the first time I've done this, and the answer was quite on point, probably saving me several hours searching online trying to find out how to do it.

It's all about knowing the tool you are using, same as anything in this world.

Oh it is.

There's a lot of cyclist groups I know that oppose separate bike lanes for a plethora of strange reasons.

They are some of the most pro-cycling people I know. But they are blinded by what I call the "pro"-blindness, thinking that because they can effortlessly ride in traffic everyone should do it as well.

I would answer but I feel like this post is more about you trying to convince others to retire their economical support that any other thing. Or at least it feels like that.

Decision is yours, same as our decisions are ours.

Do you have examples of them being transphobic?

I've heard other accusations but it's the first time I beard this one, I'm curious.

I know plenty of small groups with their own webpage dealing with most of that. It's not that big of a deal.

I selfhost my own searxng, both labor and electricity cost are so small they are negligible.

My point is that if I am to be in al "alternative" economy is not to make rich a cool San Francisco dude instead of Jeff Bezos, is to not make rich anyone at my expenses. When I ask for something different I do not ask for making rich different people, I ask for a system that does not make rich anyone.

For instance Lemmy. Lemmy does not ask for subscriptions nor have ads. Voluntary donations are more than enough to keep it on float. Other people like Kagi CEO or some other CEOs like that would ask a subscription fee for lemmy and guilt trip people into thinking it's necessary, when it's not.

I will just copy my other response about datacenters energy usage, ignore the parts not related to our conversation:

Google is not related with chatgpt. Chatgpt parent company is openAI which is a competitor with google.

A more rational explanation is that technology and digital services on general have been growing and are on the rise. Both because more and more complex services are being offered, and more importantly more people are requesting those services. Whole continents that used not to be cover by digital services are now covered. Generative AI is just a very small part of all that.

The best approach to reduce CO2 emissions is to ask for a reduction in human population. From my point of view is the only rational approach, as with a growing population there's only two solutions, pollute until we die, or reduce quality of life until life is not worth living. Reducing population allows for fewer people to live better loves without destroying the planet.

It also arises the question on why am I responsible if a big tech company decided to make an llm query of every search or overuse the technology, when I am talking about a completely different usage of that technology, that doesn't even reach a 20-30 queries a day which would have a power usage of less than a few hundreds wh at most, which os negligible in the scheme of global warming and my total energetic footprint.

How it's being a fanboy saying that "It works for me in some particular cases and not others, it's a tool that can be used".

Please, read again this conversation and do a second guess on who is a radical extremist here.

In the case we were talking, writing code, I am the auditor of the answers. I do not ""vibe code"" I read the code that's proposed, understand it, and if it's code that I would have written I copy it, if not I change it. "Vibe coding" is an example of bad usage of the tool that would lead to problems. All code not written by yourself and copied from other source should be reviewed. Once it pass my review is as good as my own code. If it fail it would fail the same as any other code witten by me, as it's something that I was clearly unable to see.

For instance a couple of months ago I wrote a small API service that worked fine at first and suddenly stopped working a few weeks in production. It was a stupid mistake I made, and I needed no LLM to do that mistake. The service was so simple that I didn't really even used LLM there. But I made a mistake regardless. I could have use AI and get the same bad function that caused the issue. And the blame would still be mine for not seeing the problem.

Once again is a tool. If some jackass decide to vibe code an app and it's a shit app, is a bad use of the tool. But some other people can de proper reviews and analysis of the generated code and assume full responsibility of any failures of that code.