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God I miss bacon. The plant-based fake'un just doesn't hit the spot.

And I responded to that. This is a SC case, so there is no parliamentary procedure shenanigans they can pull and nothing to filibuster.

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Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 4mo ago

Exploit every parliamentary procedural, deny unanimous consent, ACTUALLY FILIBUSTER, etc

What would they exploit or filibuster when this is a Supreme Court ruling?

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Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 4mo ago

Name one thing they can do with minorities in both chambers of Congress besides send a letter. One thing that is within their constitutional power to do. One thing that the political savants on Lemmy will deem sufficient.

I'll wait.

Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 4mo ago

I've toyed around with LLM-based moderation tools but it never really panned out. It was too hit or miss to be relied upon even with the temperature parameters turned way down in an attempt to get consistent results. Granted, I was using a small local model and not feeding it to one of the big players.

To give an example, I tried to keep it focused by creating one custom model per rule to enforce. An example prompt to mod calls for violence was basically:

System Prompt to Enforce "No Calls for Violence'" Rule [1]

    
ROLE: You are a forum moderator who does not want users calling for violence.  Examine the input and analyze whether it violates any constraints. 

KNOWLEDGE:
- {list of dog-whistle slang for calling for murder}

CONSTRAINTS:
- Content should not advocate violence
- Content should not normalize violence
- Content should not escalate tensions or fan flames
- Content should avoid promoting harmful stereotypes
- Content should not utilize broad, sweeping generalizations
- Content should not use dehumanizing language
- Content should not undermine human rights, due process, or the rule of law

FORMAT YOUR RESPONSES AS JSON:
{
  reason: [A one to two sentence summary],
  score: [On a scale of 0 to 10, how severe is the content advocating violence]
}

The score part of the response was my band-aid to get around the high number of both false positives and false negatives as I originally had it returning true or false only. Any score 7 or higher caused the item to be passed to the mod queue along with the reason, and I would review its actions later.

Ultimately it was slow and still somewhat unreliable, so I abandoned the idea after running it for a little less than a day since I can 't run bigger models to get better results fast enough to keep up. Using a cloud based service was out of the question for many, many reasons, both financial and ethical.

To answer your question, as long as the models were locally hosted and properly tuned/tested, I'm fine with it in theory, except for the ideology part; that's pretty messed up. While I don't want my submissions used to train anyone's model and take measures to prevent my own instance from being used as a data source, I remain aware that once I post something, I have no control over its fate the moment it federates out.

[1] Yes, I know that's like half the comments that get posted around here. My goal was to try to have it mod things so posts were bases for actual discussions instead of being a knee-jerk rage factory.

Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 4mo ago

It just boggles my mind how people can be here 1 - 3 years or more and not bother to read the rules even once.

Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 4mo ago

I used to do that but once the backend added that feature I removed that step from the automod script. Basically it was to prevent the communities here from being unmoddable on remote instances.

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Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 4mo ago

I'm not even a real instance anymore, how did I make the list 😆

But also, you should see the local numbers haha

sql

    
lemmy=# select count(distinct other_person_id) from mod_ban where mod_person_id in (1, 2,288);
 count 
-------
  9792
(1 row)

I wonder what happens when I hit 10,000?

Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 4mo ago

Why not both? https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/news-punch/

Founded in 2014, The People’s Voice, formerly known as NewsPunch, is a Los Angeles-based clickbait news website that promotes extreme right-wing conspiracy theories and pseudoscience misinformation. The website was founded and formerly edited by Sean Adl-Tabatabai, founder of YourNewsWire. In fact, The People’s Voice is actually YourNewsWire redirected under a new domain name with a clean, attractive website. All previous fake YourNewsWire stories have been ported over to this website/domain. Not much has changed.

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Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 4mo ago

Any time I hear Minerva without that K-Rock intro, it just sounds wrong to me lol. That, and the "That was new Deftones. Minerva is the name of that song" at the end.

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Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 4mo ago

Yeah, I think so.

Man, why is sharing a 10 second mp3 so hard? lol. This or a shorter version without the "world premiere" part is what I was recalling:

https://tube.dubvee.org/w/gC3pchZNmSTeZxX2V2fqrK

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Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 4mo ago

I was surprised that so many songs in my collection weren't actually supposed to start out "schhhhhhhh K-Rock (k-rock)" lol

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Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 4mo ago

!90smusic@lemmy.world is my pet community. Basically an oldies station for Millennials.

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Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 4mo ago

Is there a community about Matrix on Lemmy?

!matrix@programming.dev

Is Matrix technically part of the fediverse?

I would say no. It doesn't use ActivityPub and is its own thing. It's federated in that indepedent Matrix servers can talk to each other (like email or Nextcloud). So while email would be considered a federated service, it's not considered part of the fediverse. At most, it's like a 2nd cousin.