bitofhope

joined 1 year ago
[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 4 points 9 hours ago

It amazes me how well SponsorBlock works and how bad YouTube feels without it. I guess the main downside is that it's a little harder to tell the good 'toobers with strong moral backbone who don't shill awful shit in the first place from those whose sponsor segments merely get automatically skipped.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

@self@awful.systems I would like to report a bug. Sometimes reading, interacting with, or posting a comment costs several times as much as it does other times. Posting this comment was exactly one million times as expensive as the median of my other comments and reading it will cost as much. Please try and equalize the cost of using this free site so I can continue to afford alcohol.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Oh no you misunderstand. Tankies are hijacking the country code anti-imperialistly.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 5 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

goodlemmy.ml
peoplesfrontoflemmy.ml
shitlemmymlsays.space
lemmy.ac
philthy.ml
lemmymali.org

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 5 points 17 hours ago (5 children)

And so three new Lemmy instances were born.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 12 points 1 day ago (13 children)

I am an anti-corpo leftists of Lemmy. I'd like to point out one thing.

We are sure Google will just evaporate tomorrow.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 24 points 1 day ago (4 children)

LLMs are quite impressive as chatbots all things considered. The conversations with them are way more realistic and almost as funny as the ones with the IRC markov chain my friend made as a freshman CS student.

Of course, out bot's training data only included the IRC channel's logs of a few years and the Finnish Bible we later threw in for shits and giggles. A training set of approximately zero terabytes in total.

LLMs are less a marvel of machine learning algorithms (though I admit they might play a part) and more one of data scraping. Based on their claims, they have already dug through the vast majority of publicly accessible world wide web, so where do you go from there? Sure, there are a lot of books that are not on the web, but feeding them in the machine is about as hard as getting them on the web to begin with.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 19 points 1 day ago

"Admit" is a strong word, I'd go for "desperately attempt to deny".

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yea, the artists are about half the reason for me to be on that site to begin with.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago (9 children)

I made a sneer about moving from Twitter to yet another Jack Dorsey social network, but after looking into it he apparently left Bluesky and joined Musk's team instead, because of moderation options. Geez, maybe I should sign up. But creating and keeping track of new accounts to sites is a pain in the aaaaaaassssss.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 10 points 1 day ago

Didn't have that on my bingo card for this year, but it's on brand. A big part of The Onion's MO is just riding out the insanity and inject a little of their own.

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