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  • Mao if he was alive: “I am quite fond of yaoi and Yuri”

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  • There’s a funny cognitive dissonance for me where every MLish person I know in person basically believes this very specific thing (plus an overt religious element) and then I log on here and get a completely different type of average user. Social progressivism here is almost always among the well to do middle class libby types (who tend to be nicer too and less conspiratorial, just with a problematic belief in the inevitability of capitalism)

    That and the easiest people to fire up into working on mutual aid during a crisis are “nice” religious people who have probably never considered once in their lives that important work in emergencies can be done outside of emergencies and wouldn’t that be good for the community? Some of coolest people are the ones you meet out volunteering/helping in an emergency, but the bulk of lefty people have a lot of doomerism and aren’t out there.

    Yay living in a reactionary society

  • What's with black superheroes and lightning powers?

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  • New bit idea: guy who insists he doesn’t have any internalized racism to confront, since he doesn’t have a sexual preference for interracial scenes, he simply believes they are better from a composition and cinematography perspective

  • Paperweight scans your inbox to map your digital footprint, then helps you take back control and delete your data. Local-first and open source.

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  • The post text is dripping with it but I haven’t looked at the code. A lot of my complaining about slop is how people for whom English is not a strong language over-depend on it, kind of never developing a voice over time. Instead sounding like the Burger King support bot.

    I wouldn’t even know if the code was machine generated. I never tried that so I don’t recognize it if it’s not glaring.

    Code is out there though so maybe someone can port it into a Thunderbird addon or something. I think this is a very cool project

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    The AI boom hasn’t stopped U.S. companies from hiring cheap offshore labor, and overseas call center employment is still skyrocketing

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  • “Semantic search” / “semantic indexing”. Yes. Would be a great thing to optionally have. But you don’t need to hook it up to a prompt and have it spit out natural language output.

    It could be just like a standard search with search results, just with a backend that looks at more stuff based on meaning not just explicit word matching. And search engines have worked like this for years to be fair.

    But I agree, the general purpose chatbots are probably helpful to get a foothold on looking something up when you don’t really know what it’s called or how to concisely describe it. The problem is that the companies that make them have every incentive to feed you their explanation too, not just point you in the right direction and have you leave their service.

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    The AI boom hasn’t stopped U.S. companies from hiring cheap offshore labor, and overseas call center employment is still skyrocketing

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  • Not creating and searching as far as I understand (or as far as I’m willing to allow it to in this case) but more summarizing, truncating, some but not all types of rewording (not technical parts for example).

    They’re getting better at extracting information out of a closed set of data, but it’s still literally impossible to guarantee that it won’t generate a contradictory or unwanted piece of text that looks very close to the right thing, based off the training data inherent to the model.

    But the “best” case is something closed ended where you know what the output is. So cleaning up a tiny piece of code, summarizing something that you provide in its entirety, translating a block of text, that’s all a good use case. Using it to distill the entire web’s information into a chatbot format? Fuck no

    The entire problem is people thinking this tool that can turn text input into soup and reliably pull text back out of said soup is something it just is not.

    Most of the models I’ve played with before the boom were not instruct models. So you didn’t prompt them and have them churn out slop that sounds like the answer to your question. Instead you just wrote text (story, article heading, etc) and it would continue the pattern. The results were “worse” in quality, but because we only thought to use it a specific way, it felt like a very powerful new tool.

    My enthusiasm for this shit has fallen through the floor in 2022 and presently is about 18% through the earth’s outer crust

  • crazy how it does that

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  • You’re absolutely right — wth indeed does that! And it also just… even mean too. You’re not just nodding along, you’re following this mystery to the end!

    Remember to stay hydrated while you’re exercising those neurons too — something you can totally do in a new way by checking out SodaStream™ — or another healthy water source. But I guarantee you that the alternatives can’t be bought with the exclusive #LitaniIsOurs colorway! Water is more than just a natural necessity — it’s something you should always keep as your strategic and tactical objective.

  • Favorite calorie counting app?

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  • Counting isn’t for everyone. If it makes you feel extra shitty about some choices, or extra anxious about hitting particular numbers, try to learn the nutrient density of foods you regularly eat and don’t use the app to track things.

    Lose It has been perfectly fine for me, and I use it about half of each year. I’m grandfathered into a 10 USD annual subscription, which I think is a bit silly, but switching over to anything else with an extensive database is overpriced by comparison. They also regularly give me “exclusive offers” to buy a lifetime plan for some ridiculous price.

    MFP had a better database but they made their actual app utterly unusable over time. Sadly Lose It is messing with their UI too and frankly I liked it better a few months ago. The war on information density has to end, please.

    My friends like MacroFactor.

    This being Lemmy I think the expectation is to abhor all subscription services, and for good reason, but I think I’d still get my money’s worth even from an overpriced one if it contains enough food from my part of the world and if its UI isn’t too tedious.

  • Every cybertruck owner is a PoS

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  • Guys can we please talk about how we better organize society without being so political?

  • Iran demands Pride flags be banned from World Cup stadiums

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  • This is almost certainly about the Shah flag, this is an interesting spin on that

  • The companies that don't allow you to use AI!

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  • Even their two sentence comment was churned out of a slop machine, either that or their brain is mimicking that sentence structure by itself.

    I can’t escape GPTisms for the fucking life of me, and it’s much worse since people where I live have passable English and use it widely but very often now fall back on running it through a chatbot “just in case”. All the slogans are the same. All the group chat calls to action are the same. The descriptions of different options in a menu or delivery app are borderline impossible to tie back to a coherent description of a food item.

    The eclectic French-tinged Lebanese flavor of English-as-third-language is all but dead in written form. And I used to fucking hate it, honestly. I’ll take it back any day.

    Is this how people with gangstalking delusions feel? This shit is unavoidable and processing it for more than a second just enrages me

  • The world covered in data centers, like a shittier Coruscant from Star Wars.

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  • I think he’s to some extent a true believer in the bait, as in he doesn’t actually think about what he’s saying actually means. Outrage is engagement and engagement is communication and that’s a success. I don’t think the actual proposal here crosses his mind, just that he can picture a high view or reply count in the corner.

    If you’ll allow me to be a little pretentious I think this is downstream from the current cultural explosion of willful ignorance. Like genuine nihilism about why people exchange information, why they would use a communication tool like Twitter at all, and just such a cynical understanding of what it means to share ideas with other people.

    My god I’m turning into Jorkin Peanitson. I gotta stop typing before I start complaining about the strangulation of capital M Meaning and how it relates to dreaming about my grandparents

  • ICANN is Accepting Suggestions for new TLDs (for $227k) - what would you pick?

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  • I really liked .io when those started popping up, I thought it would be perfect if I had any silly little personal API projects.

    Their popularity means they are way too expensive for that. Any hope of me actually buying a domain is really shrinking because the more I learned about the web the less inclined I am to have my personal info out there this way. I know there are privacy respecting ways to get a domain, but you know what I mean

  • The right can't meme

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  • Not really. I hardly considered crusty clip art charming, but in comparison, there’s a sincerity to an older relative scrolling to find the perfect pixelated bouquet photo. Older people love “AI”.

  • The right can't meme

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  • I don’t spend time on the old site at all these days but I find it very telling that there are breakaway subs for communities you know wouldn’t be into this. I know there’s a solarpunk one as well. I think it’s pretty funny that they seem to all devolve into trying to justify why they’re doing is cool actually rather than, you know, being a wing of their community that is happy to use an extra tool.

    I’m still trying to place what I feel about this stuff. There’s something almost cultlike about it. The old folks in my family have started to blast the group chats with the most uninspired “bespoke” generated birthday “drawings” and I don’t know at all how to explain why it seems cheap, why the gesture feels somehow more careless than saying nothing at all.

  • Are there any level-based city building games?

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  • Workers and Resources Soviet Republic is an automation simulator masquerading as a city builder.

    The most played game right now on my Steam account is Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic, an automation game disguised as a city builder, with obscenely detailed mechanics. You don't buy buildings, you have to have functional construction industries to set them up. You don't magically draw colored lines to set up bus routes like in SimCity, you have to buy buses at the border one by one and then set up a maintenance schedule. You don't highlight a dark patch on the map and suddenly have a metallurgy industry like in Cities: Skylines, the fuck you don't, you need to set up a coal industry and rail transport over the course of thirty odd hours before you start cranking out steel. And that's without even considering food production, alcoholism management, pollution from the necessary chemicals industry, storage and handling of fresh meat, and of course, citizen loyalty to the Party. It's a fucking insane game by and for people who probably have to be insane themselves.

    I wrote that in a post about my strange relationship with games and media in general in my blog a few weeks ago.

    Definitely one of the most distinctly engrossing games I’ve ever played. Seriously. Your cities will be ugly as fuck because it’s genuinely difficult to progress.

    Reading your post over again maybe it’s a bit on the extreme side and not what you’re asking for. This is the most extreme city management I’ve ever played. Your sewers have to flow downhill, citizens driving in personal cars is something that happens after like 300 hours, if you sell too much oil too fast you can make oil cheaper on the global market and lose money. I hate it, I’ve wasted my life on it. It’s great I want to play more.

  • The Visible Zorker: Zork 1

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  • I joke about having so many retro games to play when I retire / when the water wars come, the classic text-based games are among those. Interesting project

  • Mujadara

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  • I personally don’t like mjaddara but if you at all want to try the more traditional preparation you need to put way less rice next time. This looks like a rice dish with lentils and not a lentil porridge with rice giving it consistency. You want the rice to soak up way more liquid.

    As an adult making lentils I never add rice at all. Lentils are plenty of carbs as it is. You can go more soupy or more porridgy. Funny how it’s cheap comfort food now but as a kid I pretty much hated it.

    If you don’t want to caramelize onions, you don’t have to. My rough, zero thought, not strictly traditional, lentils recipe is more like this:

    Wash/soak some lentils for 20 minutes to an hour. 300 grams dry red lentils as an example quantityChop up a small onion, any kind, finer is better, rougher is fine Slice up a whole head of garlic (or less if you’re less garlic inclined) Lentils go into a pot, with enough water to cover them once over (I just eyeball it). I have an electric kettle so I pour in boiling water. You can start with cold water, it’s fine. You can add water to get it more soupy or let it become chunkier later. Just throw the onions and garlic in. They should cook annd soften over time. If you really really like garlic you can add it a bit later so less of the kick cooks off. In my case I just add more later lmao

    I usually use red onions and watching them lose their color is a decent indicator of getting closer to completion. Stir so it doesn’t burn.

    And here you just wait. You can add some extras if you want here, but you just do dishes and stuff until the lentils become soft. I don’t know what to say here except let them cook until they’re done.

    I sometimes add tomato paste here, or any leftover leafy greens (kale, spinach, sorry grandma I never have chard on hand), I’ve thrown in like a tablespoon of dried oats before, it’s really just a flexible base for different ideas. Mjaddara is the variation with rice. I’ve once blended my lentil soup with an immersion blender for a very different texture. It’s just a base.

    I eat this pretty regularly. If you’re on hard times you can eat a lot of this stuff for very cheap and it’s pretty nutritious and low effort. Lots of fiber and protein in there as well.

    The most important thing taste wise is probably the seasoning. I appreciate you probably can’t run out and buy the standard Lebanese Seven Spice blend, but you can absolutely throw it together yourself. And that’s what will make it taste like what I know from my childhood. It’s very allspice heavy. I once ran out while cooking something else and used about half “garam masala” and half allspice and it was a bit fennelly but a reasonable substitute.

  • Spain’s ‘greatest matador’ gored by bull in comeback from retirement

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  • pastime

    Really? I think these events could be memorialized as a sort of messed up cultural thing to look back upon, but using such a banal word for it feels pretty odd in its own right

  • Started meds and the whole universe changed. Is this normal???

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  • I am not only overpreparing for grief, but also extremely hesitant to start any medication because I live in a volatile part of the world and don’t know if I can be comfortable depending on medicine that can’t always be found. I’m also scared about things like traveling with medication, or losing professional credibility/legal rights, since it’s still somewhat stigmatized.

    I’ve grieved following much smaller improvements to my life.

    In 2020 the entire country ran out and people started rationing and sharing their medication. So there’s precedent for people figuring things out.