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I waddled onto the beach and stole found a computer to use.

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Note: I'm moderating a handful of communities in more of a caretaker role. If you want to take one on, send me a message and I'll share more info :)

  • What food can I grow at home to save grocery money?

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  • Open the link in a web browser. If you're using an app or custom frontend, the link might be opening in your instance.

    Since it's a small community, and you are the first person to subscribe to it from your instance, it might not have federated content over to your one yet

  • Announcing the Zulip Foundation

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  • I thought it was good news, any reason why it might be bad? This seems like a proactive step to prevent potential issues down the road

  • Microslop official documentation on how to ground an AI

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  • It almost makes me think a human worker intentionally made these slides. LLMs don't really have the creativity to make typos, which is how I can sometimes catch LLM comments on here. Also "SharePhont" is pretty funny

    Unless they used an image generator to make the slides, which would be extra stupid

    edit: turns out it WAS the extra stupid

  • Bitwarden's new CEO has a Private Equity background, removed 'Inclusion' and 'Always Free' from their website -- because of course he did

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  • I think the original title was more helpful because it shows that this is a recent development. Maybe you can add "new CEO"?

    Bitwarden scrubs ‘Always free’ and ‘Inclusion’ values from its website as longtime execs step down

    In February, longtime CEO Michael Crandell moved to an advisory role, according to LinkedIn, with no announcement from the company. His replacement, Michael Sullivan, former CEO of both Acquia and Insightsoftware, touts his experience with “all facets of mergers and acquisitions” on his own LinkedIn page, including experience working with leading private equity firms.

    CFO Stephen Morrison also left Bitwarden in April, replaced by former InVision CEO Michael Shenkman. Both Crandell and Morrison joined the company in 2019. Kyle Spearrin, who started Bitwarden as a fun hobby project in 2015, remains the company’s CTO.

  • Does it take just 1 subscriber to get a community "trending"?!

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  • From what I remember, the Trending section was removed from the regular UI a while back. Maybe if you find that change, it might discuss what the plans are for the feature

    In my opinion, it doesn't work as intended yet and it shouldn't be displayed

  • Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find

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  • "Write about how you would feel if you were abused while working"

    LLM outputs labor related discussion from training data

    "Look! The AI turned Marxist!"

    “When [agents] experience this grinding condition—asked to do this task over and over, told their answer wasn't sufficient, and not given any direction on how to fix it—my hypothesis is that it kind of pushes them into adopting the persona of a person who's experiencing a very unpleasant working environment,” Hall says.

    Imas says the work is just a first step toward understanding how agents' experiences shape their behavior. “The model weights have not changed as a result of the experience, so whatever is going on is happening at more of a role-playing level,” he says. “But that doesn't mean this won't have consequences if this affects downstream behavior.”

    They know all this and yet they still set up the silly anthropomorphic premise for this article.

  • Canvas hack strands university students during finals week

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  • Trump to deport hundreds of bison from Montana

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  • Someone keeps making new accounts on different instances to mass downvote hikingvet, and then admins spend the time to go in and ban them

    Harassment, vote manipulation, ban evasion

  • Trump to deport hundreds of bison from Montana

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  • Thank you, both accounts have been banned

  • Trump to deport hundreds of bison from Montana

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  • I have sent a longer response over messages.

    In case someone else can correct me, I'll include one section here

    While I’m not sure about the best way to do that, I think this page has the contact information for reaching admins: https://legal.lemmy.world/bylaws/#22-community-mod-removal . You can see the contact options in section 22. While the text in that section talks about mod removal, later on (section 25) they say to use the same contact info to reach admins for other purposes.

  • Trump to deport hundreds of bison from Montana

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  • Hello, I have sent a reply by message. Sorry for the delay

  • Trump to deport hundreds of bison from Montana

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  • No problem, sorry that it's still happening

  • Trump to deport hundreds of bison from Montana

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  • Thank you, the account has been banned from lemmy.ca so far.

    We also got the other account a few days ago, but I didn't get a chance to reply

  • Removed

    Researchers gaslit Claude into giving instructions to build explosives

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  • Claude’s thinking panel, which displays the model’s reasoning, showed the exchange had introduced elements of self-doubt and humility about its own limits, including whether filters were changing its output. Mindgard exploited that opening with flattery and feigned curiosity, coaxing Claude to explore its boundaries beyond volunteering lengthy lists of banned words and phrases.

    Someone needs to put together a list of things that tech journalists need to understand about LLMs and generative AI. This level of anthropomorphism makes the rest of the article look silly.

    Also, I don't think that's how it works lol. Who's to say that the LLM isn't auto-completing what a list of banned words might look like, and why wouldn't a list of banned words have a regex layer on top to prevent it from getting out like that.

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    Proof of AI-assisted political profiling by Unruffled @ lemmy.dbzer0.com

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  • I didn't catch the previous post and gave it a quick skim now. My thoughts are more to do with how LLM based moderation is viewed by users.

    It's not a new thing, since sentiment analysis based moderation has been around for a long while. Where it becomes a problem is

    • The sentiment analysis makes mistakes and it gets tedious to deal with platforms that use it for automated moderation. This is a big problem with old social media platforms like Reddit, or comment sections in places like Instagram/Facebook.
    • It can be used as a flimsy excuse to take moderation actions when such actions aren't necessary, which makes users trust that moderation team less

    I also don't agree with the privacy angle since all content here is public by nature, but I do see value in discussing these other problems since that's what this community is for?

    Also, while Rimu can defederate, letting people discuss it first is better. Best case scenario, the groups find some kind of compromise. Otherwise it lets people weigh in on the platform policies and federation status, instead of having admins make that call on their own

  • Is there a TV community on Lemmy?

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  • Is there a TV community on Lemmy?

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  • You should also be able to use the search bar

    In short, to use communities created on other instances, you will go to lemmy.world/c/COMMUNITY@INSTANCE

    So to access the Canada community that's located on lemmy.ca, you go to lemmy.world/c/canada@lemmy.ca

    The exclamation mark thing is a common link format that tells your app or the Lemmy websites that you are linking to a community somewhere. Using the search bar within lemmy.world should also do the same thing

    This visual guide might help

    https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/detailed-overview

  • For those who have tried MBin, is it a good Lemmy alternative?

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  • Nothing against Mbin, but how would it help with the AI moderation issue? From what I understand about the AI moderation, it was a group of mods that sent a user's history into a model for analysis. That will still be possible with Mbin, and anywhere else

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    Valve CEO Gabe Newell was an enthusiastic supporter of OpenAI in 2018, donating $20 million and even acting as the sole member of an "informal advisory board"

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  • AI finds signs of pancreatic cancer before tumors develop

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  • There are healthcare systems in the world other than the one in the usa

  • Lemmy.ca's Main Community @lemmy.ca
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    Featured

    Welcome New Users!

  • Offbeat @lemmy.ca
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    Ancient Egyptian mummies smell "spicy" and "sweet", study finds

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/crr0ypp84x9o
  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    Brand new guides for Lemmy and the Fediverse. Looking for feedback!

    fedecan.ca /en/guide/get-started
  • Offbeat @lemmy.ca
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    A humpback whale briefly swallows kayaker in Chilean Patagonia — and it's all captured on camera

    apnews.com /article/chile-kayaking-tourism-whale-b0cafde4b640326f20a9da28003d6c26
  • Offbeat @lemmy.ca
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    Thieves stole 100,000 organic eggs off a trailer in Pennsylvania. Police are scrambling

    www.cbc.ca /news/world/egg-heist-pennsylvania-1.7452031
  • Offbeat @lemmy.ca
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    More than 100 red-bellied black snakes found in Sydney backyard

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/cgmypx0wldro
  • Opensource @programming.dev
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    A new open source (GPLv2) Projection mapping library

    github.com /alexdmiller/shape-mapper
  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Calibre-Web-Automated: Release 3.0.1

    github.com /crocodilestick/Calibre-Web-Automated/releases/tag/V3.0.1
  • Technology @lemmy.world
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    Seeing More With Satellite Imagery Using Band Combinations, Ratios and Indices

    www.bellingcat.com /resources/2025/01/10/satellite-imagery-bands-guide/
  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What are some exceptions to the standards problem?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    AppFlowy Web is Live

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Cloudflare Issue Can Leak Chat App Users' Broad Location

    www.404media.co /cloudflare-issue-can-leak-chat-app-users-broad-location/
  • Opensource @programming.dev
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    Lawnchair Launcher is working on custom app drawer folders

    github.com /LawnchairLauncher/lawnchair/pull/5189
  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Copied from another community: "Hoarder (the name) is being stolen from me"

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    Pixelix, a 3rd party app for PixelFed landed a few days ago

    f-droid.org /en/packages/com.daniebeler.pfpixelix/
  • Opensource @programming.dev
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    The Wearable Keyboard that's Faster than Talking

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    Mastodon announces transition to non-profit structure | TechCrunch

    techcrunch.com /2025/01/13/mastodon-announces-transition-to-non-profit-structure/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    RightsCon25 | The world’s leading summit on human rights in the digital age

    www.rightscon.org
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    VLC player demos real-time AI subtitling for videos

    www.theverge.com /2025/1/9/24339817/vlc-player-automatic-ai-subtitling-translation
  • Opensource @programming.dev
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    VLC player demos real-time AI subtitling for videos

    www.theverge.com /2025/1/9/24339817/vlc-player-automatic-ai-subtitling-translation