bitofhope

joined 2 years ago
[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

This Adolf guy kinda had me when he was just a dude traumatized by war who liked buildings and was kinda shit at drawing them, but his political takes were full on yikes and he quickly lost me when it came to the arts as well.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 12 points 1 month ago

Funeral? Poppycock, KPIs are great. Bloodwork is coming in excellent. Perfect cholesterol, low leukocytes, beautiful plumage. So what if he's braindead?

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

He's definitely up there, or at least used to be. The Cathedral and the Bazaar, his attempt to justify why Linux is more successful than GNU or BSD, used to be very much a part of the open source canon. He cofounded OSI. He forked some POP3 client to make his own bad and insecure one called Fetchmail, then refused to improve it.

Personally I'm happy to know he's become less relevant nowadays.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 7 points 1 month 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 8 points 1 month 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 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago (5 children)

And so three new Lemmy instances were born.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 18 points 1 month 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 28 points 1 month ago (5 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 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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

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

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