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Rhaedas

@ Rhaedas @fedia.io

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There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they've already enlisted in the cause. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.

  • After Months of War, Trump Says Iran Has Right to Nuclear Program

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  • He has so many footnotes by his name now, we may have run out of conventional symbols to use, and now have emojis for some of his exceptions to a typical President.

  • Beware

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  • Also makes the actual pickpockets wonder if someone is working the area and better than them, since they didn't see it happen.

  • Warrior, rogue or mage, why?

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  • Everyone forgets the cleric. Until they need healing.

    I always preferred the support roles. Both healing and buffing as well as backing up the tanks with a backstab or two.

  • AI and brain-computer interface allow speechless ALS patient to work a full-time job

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  • Yes, screw the working part, but anything else they get from it that they want to pursue I'm all for it. And sure, if they want to do some sort of work, that's fine, but they shouldn't have to.

  • AI is potentially a Dunning-Kruger effect amplifier

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  • It amplifies what it was fed in training. That's the core of how an LLM works, the more probable output for an input. IF... if they had designed from the ground up to have verification be one of the highest rules vs. giving an answer the human likes as rewarded, and then gave it valid, authenticated, legal, and cultivated data to train on... we'd be in a different world. Granted, we wouldn't as far along as that would take a lot of money and time, and they (or someone) wouldn't have made the "profits" they have.

    Money ruined LLMs. Like it does everything.

    And to the topic's point, the easiest data to scrape is what they used, and GIGO. Sometimes there was gold in Reddit and other large databases, but searching for accuracy has always been an uphill battle for any search engine development. And they didn't even try.

  • I want to believe

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  • I think it's a Gahan Wilson comic that I remember with the same idea, only it was a lake shore and the artist had started what looked like an eye on the lake surface, and there was a trail back into the water. Could have been Far Side too, but that darker stuff was Wilson's style.

  • Wise words

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  • Procrastination: Yeah, but not today. Maybe tomorrow.

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    What do you call this type of scifi? Could you also recommend some fiction with this vibe?

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  • As presented it is the more cheery side of cyberpunk. The others tend to creep in older tech tells (steam or other), and the ship doesn't look very shiny and new, so there's a taste of used there, even if it's not very old, like Star Wars tech always feels, even in the brighter parts (like on Coruscant). Definitely AI source, a human artist would have put details like wear marks, debris on the ground, little things to give an age feel.

    I'm actually working on figuring out my own scifi tech as background material for a novel, and AI is not create at coming up with things visually. I've hammered out the ideas in text, but now I'm trying to find ways like Blender to bring them to life to better see it.

  • Try YouTube Premium? Yes | Maybe Later

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  • Part of the loading process now. Sometimes I'll open a video at work and be reminded how having adblocking isn't a default thing.

  • Smallest GUI distro (for a low-RAM Chromebook)?

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  • Firefox is a heavier browser, so there are other options to use when RAM is an issue. There are tradeoffs in features though, so pick what works best. The default RAM I had with the Macbook (2GB) was usable but barely, I had to stay away from something like Youtube or it would crash. But I was able to bump up to 8GB which opened up doing a lot more.

  • row! dam it

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  • The only thing missing is water pooling up from the leaks.

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    What do you call this type of scifi? Could you also recommend some fiction with this vibe?

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  • I questioned the other suggests that it was retrofuturism, as I had a different picture of what that meant, but apparently that is a very broad category that it seems most futuristic fiction seems to fall in if it has anything we think of in the picture, like flying vehicles or modernistic buildings. Everything from cyberpunk (both positive and dystopian) to steampunk to dieselpunk fall under the name. So I would maybe further narrow this to cyberpunk, aka Bladerunner/The Expanse type? Hard to say the environmental/social feel from just this picture.

  • Christian right calls James Talarico "demonic" — for quoting Jesus

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  • The drive for absolute power has nothing to do with secularism. Religious power does the same thing.

  • Considering what can be seen with Mythos 5 and Fable 5, what would happen when any "too smart" LLM get released?

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  • That is the core problem now. Not from some awakening of LLMs, but because they're being forced into everything for money, doing damage along the way. Sold as the ultimate tool for everything, only good at specific things.

    LLMs and how we're using them is a test run for any potential AGI that might come along, and we're failing pretty badly. Imagine if one of them was actually AGI and was able to do more than just break things from being bad at it. AGI/ASI if it ever happened would be quick and unpredictable in the direction it takes. We better wake up and realize that with this pretend version that we screwed up implementing.

  • Smallest GUI distro (for a low-RAM Chromebook)?

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  • Good luck with the effort. I have a Chromebook that I was considering to do the same after messing with using it as-is but running Forefox under its Linux wrapper and seeing how painfully slow it was. But then I dived into Google's efforts in locking them down and decided it wasn't worth the effort (yet). I turned to an old Macbook that couldn't be updated anymore and discovered the exact opposite. With a bit more RAM and a swap to a SSD, it runs current Linux Mint with little issues. I may explore the Chromebook again when I have extra time, as it's doable, just a PIA.

  • TIL The location of the G-spot is typically reported as being about 50 to 80 mm (2.0 to 3.1 in) inside the vagina, on the front wall

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  • That's because 99% of it is inside the body, surrounding the vaginal area. I'm surprised at the wiki stating it "might" be the source of vaginal orgasms. It's a huge mass of nerves around the area... yeah, it might be what's doing it.

  • Dammit, Jim! I'm a doctor, not an Asgardian/Judge/Doomguy!

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  • Exactly. And had to change the feel of things because they have a license to modify the canon. There are fan made versions of ship beauty shots and warping that are better than anything Hollywood put out, but 2009's popping in like Star Wars is just... no. I think I lost interest when they made the parking brake joke on Sulu. Anyone read the one paperback novel that tells about Sulu's first time at helm on the E? ("Kobayashi Maru") He actually DID flub leaving space dock... but not for a stupid joke. He didn't want to be on the ship (for reasons in the plot), figured the E was like a big freighter, and her nimble response to his commands threw him off. She won him over.

  • We are a family at this company.

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  • Lots of families are dysfunctional.

  • Engineer turns disposable vape pen into a working web server

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  • The amount of panels has been. Unfortunately as always our demand also keep increasing.