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[–] salarua@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 months ago

if you try to upvote/downvote or comment on a post from a community you're banned from, you'll get a message informing you that you're banned

[–] salarua@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm not too keen on Tomorrowland. it's got a lot of great man theory messages in it, which isn't surprising since it was written and directed by Brad Bird, a notorious Objectivist

[–] salarua@sopuli.xyz 2 points 11 months ago (5 children)

ranked-choice is the wrong choice here. it's expensive to print new ballots and the process is needlessly convoluted and wasteful. approval voting is not only cheap and effective, it more accurately represents the will of the people

[–] salarua@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it’s just a lot of Israelis seem to see all gazans as hamas now, which is ~~problematic~~ genocidal

fixed it for you

[–] salarua@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

if you're looking for a nice ultraportable, System76 has you covered

[–] salarua@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 year ago

opt-in analytics! servers running Synapse can choose to send a bit of analytics information like number of users, but it's opt-in so the number is potentially even higher

[–] salarua@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i'm not informed much either, but here's what i gather; it's centralized around the proprietary Snap Store and you can't run your own Snap repositories, Snap apps take ages to start up, and each Snap app is mounted as a separate partition (???). there's a whole bunch of technical issues that go over my head too, and Snaps have seen so little adoption that Canonical basically had to twist the arms of flavor maintainers to drop Flatpak support and support Snap out of the box. it's evidently so bad even Ubuntu's official flavors wouldn't support it until Canonical forced them to

[–] salarua@sopuli.xyz 45 points 1 year ago

yes. it only surfaces citations that may back up the content better, an editor still has to read the source and approve the change

[–] salarua@sopuli.xyz 97 points 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

Wikipedian here - AI on Wikipedia is actually nothing new. we've had a machine learning model identify malicious edits since 2017, and Cluebot (an ML-powered anti-vandalism bot) has been around for even longer than that.

even so, this is pretty exciting. from what i gather, this is a transformer model turned on its side; instead of taking textual data and transforming it, it checks to see if two pieces of textual data could reasonably be transformations of each other. used responsibly, this could really help knock out those [dubious] and [failed verification] tags en masse

[–] salarua@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

lmao nice catch, i'll edit the date

[–] salarua@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

to be honest i'm not entirely sure what the draw is either. many reaction videos are based around a theme, like "school tiktoks i watch instead of doing homework", so maybe it's an easy way to find more-or-less quality content about a particular subject without having to actually look for it. or maybe people just watch for the funny faces, given that SSSniperWolf's audience tends to be very young.

i do like "[expert] reacts to..." videos where an expert does a thorough analysis of some media featuring their field of expertise, like "Traçeur reacts to Mirror's Edge" or "Martial artist reacts to Avatar: The Last Airbender" or "Chemist reacts to Breaking Bad", but that is an entirely different thing than freebooting because it's thoughtful commentary that's transformative and adds to the video

[–] salarua@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

it's in the name: generative pre-trained transformer. the one thing ChatGPT and GPT-3/3.5/4 are truly good at is transforming data. it can restructure paragraphs to have a different flow, take class notes and make flashcards out of them (that's how i use ChatGPT), or even take non-textual data and potentially present it in textual format if trained right

 

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/573669

it's just me that's going to be using whatever it is, i plan to host a Nextcloud, probably a Matrix server using Synapse, a website, and email. i have an Ethernet cable ready to go, but i'm using someone else's internet at the moment (with their knowledge and approval).

i've been looking at Pine64 SBCs, but i'm open to anything as long as it's not a Raspberry Pi

 
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.anji.nl/post/1356

It seems to me driverless cars have actually been performing surprisingly well in San Francisco, better than I would have expected for prototypes roaming around a busy city, but unusual traffic situations involving firefighters or police have resulted in several notable "Man versus Machine" standoffs.

 
 

spoiler alert: drivers. it's all drivers' fault

 

nazi/scat trolls all seem to come from a certain domain, and i've never seen any actual content from it. so why are we still federated with it?

 

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