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Wildmimic

@ Wildmimic @anarchist.nexus

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Avid PC gamer, Linux convert, SCP fan.

Love Science Fiction, Cyberpunk, post-apocalyptic settings; Fan of the games of the defunct Arkane Studios. Listening to (Power-, Speed-, Thrash-)Metal, Gothic, Deathrock, EBM, Vaporwave, Lo-Fi; Classic and Musicals are fine too. Can't stand Hip-Hop.

Owned by two cats, recently divorced, blessed with a personality disorder (AVPD) - pensioned (even the state has the opinion I'm a total wreck lol). This causes me to be unable to keep up personal connections and makes me ghost literally everyone, so if it happens to you, sorry in advance.

Chronically online.

Pro GenAI, but Anti-GenAI-Corpos; this technology should be available to everyone, which would only be fair since we all contributed to it. Datasets and Models should be under the jurisdiction of UNESCO, since they are literally the distilled cultural output of humanity.

  • The FTC is cracking down on companies that charge you a "personalized price"

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  • "Cracking down" does not look like this. This is the equivalent of mumbling under their breath, not cracking down.

  • 80% of developers find AI coding more addictive than helpful

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  • AD(H)D has shortcomings, regardless of how you feel about it. That does not devalue the person, but it comes with a very specific set of challenges that are undeniable. Sugarcoating doesn't help it: AD(H)D sucks for the people suffering from it.

    I only mentioned the r-word because you behaved as if i had thrown around slurs in the open. If someone cannot mention the issues AD(H)D brings without you screaming "ABLEISM", you'd better start looking for the issue within yourself, especially what caused the feeling of being inadequate.

  • 80% of developers find AI coding more addictive than helpful

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  • Please explain how this is ableism in anyway. This nonexistant "person" does not resemble any human alive on this planet at all. Stop getting your panties in a bunch. I am very careful not using language that is used to insult or denigrate people. ADD isnt in the class of "r-word" language at all, and i actually fullfill 9/9 of the medical criteria for diagnosing ADD, so it was the first thing i grabbed at because it is so relateable to my own life. (and my chicken sandwiches are quite tasty too.)

  • 80% of developers find AI coding more addictive than helpful

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  • It is increasing activity, not necessarily productivity. I see the issue that LLMs do not recognize and cannot communicate when they are missing necessary information to push the inference in the direction that is needed.

    It's a bit like when you go into a diner and order a chicken sandwich, and the cook has read every book containing a chicken sandwich recipe in the world, no common sense, no budget / time limits on getting ingredients and an attention deficit disorder. You will (most of the time) get something that resembles a chicken sandwich, but it will probably never be to your taste. A normal cook has a lot of real world context to make sure that the sandwich is tasty - he knows what area he works in and what a chicken sandwich in this area normally contains, he knows how different ingredients interact with each other, and he is limited to what is available in his kitchen. If he knows you personally, he will be able to fine-tune the sandwich to your taste.

    LLM output does not have ANY of that context. Even things we do not actively think about - because it's just the way how things are - are simply not available to an LLM. Only way to make sure our hypothetical ADD-ridden cook with eidetic memory makes a chicken sandwich worth a shit is to provide him with as much clear, non-ambiguous information as possible; and since the connection to the real world is missing, there can never be enough information - or rather, we are in the dark about what pieces of information would be needed to shift the probability towards the thing we actually want.

  • As demand for Meta AI glasses explodes, it’s harder to avoid creepy recordings | Ars looks at Zuckoff, the latest free app detecting Meta AI glasses amid privacy backlash.

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  • not even that unthinkable, at least for basic machine vision (4k recording are probably not going to work). Powered by induction and using low power electronics might be able to get there; although if you arent fine with implanting induction coils in your cheekbones or under your eyebrows with attached energy storage implanted it might be a bit invasive. At that point it would be preferable to develop Cybereyes - a biointerface connecting your eye nerves using a biochip paired with a camera; the space that's left in the eyesocket is probably big enough for enough energy storage for a day. Don't forget to charge overnight tho, you might go temporarily blind.

  • What is your weirdest self-hosting problem you've had to solve? For me: Mouse inside the server.

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  • my cat currently loves hitting the "Sleep"-button on my keyboard every time he jumps on my table -.- at least i can wake it again, but it IS annoying. Haven't had the time yet to reconfigure that button to instead run a soundfile of me scolding my cat lol.

  • What is your weirdest self-hosting problem you've had to solve? For me: Mouse inside the server.

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  • And this is the way bioinvasor species spread - most of the time they don't come delivered inside of PSUs but simple crates, which improves their survivability lol

  • Never seen it this bad

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  • Good to see that he is actively removing his virtual genes from the developer gene pool by castrating his growth.

  • Never seen it this bad

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  • Torvalds was right when he said that coding AI cannot replace competent devs, or you waste more time fixing shit that AI broke than actually doing something productive. The more complex a platform gets, the more relevant is the understanding of the structure to be able to guide the AI.

    All this "we replace junior devs with LLMs" it the equivalent to castrating yourself because you can get testosterone injections, with the same result - lack of competent devs in the future.

  • Never seen it this bad

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  • LOL 93.73% uptime the last 90days, and that is an IMPROVEMENT - low point was in May this year with 84.31% 90d-uptime.

    This is embarrassing. Do they just push everying directly to production without any QA?

  • Jucika sun-bathes

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  • Isn't that guy in the water her below neighbor who can't keep his radios volume down at night?

  • First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity

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  • With how warfare is currently evolving, i do not see much future for MBTs in general, at least not in the amounts that were produced before. Drones simply kick the shit outta them while costing a fraction.

  • TIL that 4 out of 5 toddler foods are ultraprocessed. Nearly half fail to meet nutrition standards

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  • Regarding the "half that fail to meet one or more UN nutrition standards": I'd say that's the least of the problems here unless a child never gets anything else and is limited to one brand of food. Most food people eat have something missing - that's why people don't eat the same thing every day unless they have no other choice or have an eating disorder.

    The high levels of sugar and sodium are by far more dangerous, because that is what will influence your taste for the rest of your life.

  • Do you participate in this hobby without a formal IT education or a career in a similar field?

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  • I have no formal training except 1 single year of a trade school where i learnt a bit of pascal and c++. But i have been in front of computers since my earliest childhood starting with ataris in the early 80, C64, Amiga 500, and then starting from 286 across every major consumer x86/x64 CPU architecture. All I know except logic and programming basics are self taught, i never worked in the field outside of giving tech support for ISP clients a.k.a help grandma configure her mailaccount or help someone reinstall their modem driver.

  • First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity

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  • To be fair, you probably don't need to achieve the same energy density as hydrocarbons for the vast majority of flights. Yeah, non stop flights from canberra to stockholm or similar distances will probably (at least in our lifetime) always depend on high density fuel. But I can definitely see a near future where 100% of flights on the same continent can be run 100% electric. The energy conversion to electricity is most efficient in power plants and solar, so making sure that as many flights as possible are powered by those sources is for sure something that is preferable to anything we are doing today.

    Also, those batteries - after having outlived their usefulness for aviation because of capacity loss - have still a long live in front of them as energy storage for the energy net itself, where a loss of 20% capacity isn't a dealbreaker. Since the largest issue nowadays isn't generation of power, but storage of the same for covering nights, building high capacity batteries is a good thing regardless of initial usage.

    Edit: WHY the fuck aren't airports already plastered full of solar cells?

  • Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

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  • Now that MV2 is dead in chrome, i wouldn't bet on YouTube ads being able to be blocked by UBlock Lite for much longer.

  • I need an adult

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  • First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity

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  • Combustion engines have maximum fuel efficiency at a specific RPM. A Hybrid has the advantage that you can run that engine at maximum efficiency 100% of the time and using the generated electrical energy to generate motion. The gains by being able to keep the ICE at peak efficiency are more than the loss you take from the conversion. That's the same principle as in hybrid cars - look up Technology Connections video where he analyzes the behavior of his hybrid car. It is for sure preferable to than just the ICE directly, losing a lot of efficiency and therefor fuel because of differences in needed power output. Combining this into a plugin-hybrid makes - as you said - the takeoff use no or just the default amount of jet fuel at all.

    This will not eliminate the need for jet fuel, but even a reduction is preferable to the status quo. Until we get batteries that are light enough while keeping energy density at least as high as now (preferably higher), purely electric long-range flight is not an option that's available.

  • The trouble with tribbles

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  • @treczoks@lemmy.world @toynbee@piefed.social Found it! But it wasn't Mark Twain, it seems to have been the artist Waldo Peirce!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practical_joke#Famous_examples

    One practical joke, recalled as his favorite by the playwright Charles MacArthur, involved American painter and bohemian character Waldo Peirce. While living in Paris in the 1920s, Peirce "made a gift of a large turtle to the woman who was the concierge of his building". The woman doted on the turtle and lavished care on it. A few days later Peirce substituted a larger turtle for the original one. This continued for some time, with the surreptitious substitution of bigger turtles into the woman's apartment. The concierge, beside herself with happiness, displayed her miraculous turtle to the entire neighborhood. Peirce then replaced the turtle with smaller and smaller ones, to her bewildered distress.[23] This became the storyline of the 1990 Roald Dahl children's book Esio Trot.

    He seems to have been quite the joker:

    In 1910, Peirce enjoyed a bit of local notoriety when his prank on friend John Reed, the American communist who is buried in the Kremlin walls, became known and circulated. The duo had booked passage on a cattle freighter from Boston to England, but as the ship was leaving Boston Harbor, Peirce apparently decided that the accommodations were not to his taste. [citation needed] Without a word to anyone, he jumped off the back of the ship and swam several miles back to shore. Reed was then arrested by the ship's captain for his alleged involvement in the disappearance of his traveling companion and thrown into the brig. When the freighter eventually arrived in England, Peirce was at the dock waiting to greet his friend Reed. After his swim back to shore, or, by another account, being picked up by a lobster boat, he had then taken a faster ship to England. In later accounts, Peirce's John Reed story seemed to evolve and shift, to the extent its veracity may never be truly known. One further embellishment to the story is that Peirce had swum in a multi-mile swimming contest at Harvard a few days prior.[4]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldo_Peirce#John_Reed_prank

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