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Comment on Choosing hosting and DNS outside US and EU jurisdictions, hedging against repression in ~tech
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Comment on Manifestos, fear, and ‘loser thinking’: inside Proton’s AI reckoning in ~tech
Pepetto Link ParentYou're absolutely right! and nothing is stopping you from spending a fair bit of time day and night thinking about a bunch of AI summaries and asking questions. If anything, AI's are more...You're absolutely right!
and nothing is stopping you from spending a fair bit of time day and night thinking about a bunch of AI summaries and asking questions. If anything, AI's are more available to enthusiastically discuss/answer any follow up question. -
Comment on YouTube mobile app has deeply hidden the subscription feed in ~tech
Pepetto LinkYou could try Greyjay? It's what I use exclusively and it works fine. Its configurable, removes adds, shows what you subscribed to (locally on device) in chronological order, and it aggregates...You could try Greyjay? It's what I use exclusively and it works fine. Its configurable, removes adds, shows what you subscribed to (locally on device) in chronological order, and it aggregates Nebula, PeerTube and Twitch feed as well. It's basically YouTube premium but for every video platform at the same time.
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Comment on Manifestos, fear, and ‘loser thinking’: inside Proton’s AI reckoning in ~tech
Pepetto Link ParentOh absolutely, but thats problem would also arrise from human summary... If you don't actively engage your brain on a concept, you memorize it less. If you read a summary in 5 minutes then go play...Personally for me, I don't use AI summaries any more because I found the information wasn't sticking. Sure it takes me longer to read things on my own, but I'm absorbing the full context and that makes me much more effective at relaying information to my teammates over a long period of time than if I relied on AI to summarize it once, regurgitate it, then completely forget it a week late
Oh absolutely, but thats problem would also arrise from human summary...
If you don't actively engage your brain on a concept, you memorize it less.
If you read a summary in 5 minutes then go play videogames, you'll learn less than if you read the full article in 45 min. But if you read 3 summaries to pick which text you'll read more intentionally for the remaing 30 min, (or even if you just read 9 x 5 min summaries) then I'd wager you'd actually learn a lot more and in a quite durable way."Just read a bunch of abstract" is a very valid first step of any academic research.
And reading a summary is definitely better than not reading anything, which I think is the spirit of the advice "or just ask for an AI summary".
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Comment on Manifestos, fear, and ‘loser thinking’: inside Proton’s AI reckoning in ~tech
Pepetto (edited )Link ParentNo worries I didn't say that. I said reading a human summary is surrendering though just as much as reading a machine summary. Reading a summary instead of reading the full article is the...possibly coming off snarky — apologies in advance if that's the case.
No worries
If you think that human work is no better than LLM output, I'm sorry, but you've been using them too much.
I didn't say that. I said reading a human summary is surrendering though just as much as reading a machine summary. Reading a summary instead of reading the full article is the surrendering if anything is.
I've heard that before.
Well... They do continue to be improve rapidely like most new tech... You seem to imply many claims of improvment turned out to be a lie, which kind of confirms the "ideologically driven" allegation, as I've seen it improve a lot... I didn't say it was perfect, but I'd have to be blind not to recognise most benchmark of capabilities keep getting blown past one after the other.
why would I need my summary machine to be anything more than a penny-slot?You sound like you're asking me why you'd need something to be reliable?
Ok, my bad, I didn't know what a penny-slot is, I thought you meant the usual "it's just a glorified autocomplete" talking point.
For summary, reliability is adequate now, so no, not a slot machine.
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Comment on Manifestos, fear, and ‘loser thinking’: inside Proton’s AI reckoning in ~tech
Pepetto Link ParentSo... self hosted / "open source" LLMs are fine?So... self hosted / "open source" LLMs are fine?
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Comment on Manifestos, fear, and ‘loser thinking’: inside Proton’s AI reckoning in ~tech
Pepetto Link ParentHow is a human summary any less "surrendering thought" than an AI summary? I find LLM summary valuable to much more effectively find and assess online resources. If LLM are still sycophantic to...How is a human summary any less "surrendering thought" than an AI summary?
I find LLM summary valuable to much more effectively find and assess online resources. If LLM are still sycophantic to you in 2026, then you haven't learn how to use them, they got much better about that (not perfect, hence the "know how to use it"). Also, it's hard for a summary to be overly sycophantic... and why would I need my summary machine to be anything more than a penny-slot?
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Comment on Proposal: For sensitive topics, if a thread is intended for a particular demographic, there needs another thread open for everyone to discuss without having to join the targeted thread in ~tildes
Pepetto Link ParentI feel our aim is to avoid hurting each other, but I'd rather we do so by learning how to listen to each other instead of just not interacting anymore... (Edit: I realise this is a completely...But partial separation should still be a little better than no separation, no?
I feel our aim is to avoid hurting each other, but I'd rather we do so by learning how to listen to each other instead of just not interacting anymore...
(Edit: I realise this is a completely different point than the one I originally made... I sometime do that, sorry... )
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Comment on Proposal: For sensitive topics, if a thread is intended for a particular demographic, there needs another thread open for everyone to discuss without having to join the targeted thread in ~tildes
Pepetto LinkSometime, a new approach isn't needed, just try using the current approach harder! since we're working in a scenario where most user are operating in good faith, let's just be much much much more...Sometime, a new approach isn't needed, just try using the current approach harder!
since we're working in a scenario where most user are operating in good faith, let's just be much much much more thoughtful about what we comment and how we say it.
Take into account how pathologically online people (most of us are) are very easily triggered, and take necessary precaution.
The proposed solution (dual thread) is too complicated to implement in practice, many people will still respond in whichever thread is on top in main page... -
Comment on How have you improved your living spaces? in ~life.home_improvement
Pepetto Link ParentOh yes, of course. I have 6 mugs and if I bring a new one, I get rid of an old one. (actually, I have a 2 mug buffer in case of change of heart, but the buffer is in an attic box so it doesn't...Oh yes, of course. I have 6 mugs and if I bring a new one, I get rid of an old one. (actually, I have a 2 mug buffer in case of change of heart, but the buffer is in an attic box so it doesn't clutter the cabinet). So I only bring in mugs I like better than the ones I already have!
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Comment on How have you improved your living spaces? in ~life.home_improvement
Pepetto (edited )Link ParentI also do that, almost no duplicates. It's actually even less cognitive load, the unifying principle is that there is no unifying principle... (Syndrome would agree, if every chairs is special,...I also do that, almost no duplicates.
It's actually even less cognitive load, the unifying principle is that there is no unifying principle... (Syndrome would agree, if every chairs is special, none are special.)
I do form emotional attachment to most, but this scheme make me able to bring home anything I fall in love with even if it doesn't "fit in" perfectly. You occasionally get heartbroken but better to love and lose than never having loved at all.
And it's a much cheaper lifestyle, you could probably get by with buying nothing and just collecting stuff that people discard...Side bonus, our home is much more interesting than bland standardized white/black and beige stuff.
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Comment on Non-queer men of Tildes: PLEASE consider before commenting on ~life.women and ~lgbt without careful consideration. We are losing members over this issue. in ~tildes
Pepetto Link ParentThanks, Rereading, your reading comprehension is fine, I can totally see what you mean, my comment was ambiguous.Thanks,
Rereading, your reading comprehension is fine, I can totally see what you mean, my comment was ambiguous.
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Comment on Non-queer men of Tildes: PLEASE consider before commenting on ~life.women and ~lgbt without careful consideration. We are losing members over this issue. in ~tildes
Pepetto (edited )Link ParentOh, I absolutely agree kindness is it's own reward. But some people can and will take advantage of your kindness to abuse it. Very many people feel a "justice" instinct to avoid that. I was merely...Oh, I absolutely agree kindness is it's own reward.
But some people can and will take advantage of your kindness to abuse it.
Very many people feel a "justice" instinct to avoid that.I was merely explaining, in my own way, that we tend to have a tendency to overestimate the likelyhood that our kindness is being taken advantage of, and should therefor stay kind long after abuse is blatantly obvious to everyone (not just ourselves).
Being taken advantages of because of our kindness is bad, but prematurely withholding kindness can be just as bad.
Withholding kindness is just making your own need much more important than other's, under the guise of boundary setting or self care.but why are you asking me and not phoenixrises ? they're the one who suggested we shouldn't be kind because it hasn't solved everything yet...
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Comment on Non-queer men of Tildes: PLEASE consider before commenting on ~life.women and ~lgbt without careful consideration. We are losing members over this issue. in ~tildes
Pepetto (edited )Link ParentAlmost everytime I've felt I should stop being kind because I'd already been kind enough and it clearly hadn't work... Well it turned out I hadn't been kind hard and long enough. I regularly hear...be nicer to them because they still don't understand, even though being non-controversial clearly already didn't do anything.
Almost everytime I've felt I should stop being kind because I'd already been kind enough and it clearly hadn't work... Well it turned out I hadn't been kind hard and long enough.
I regularly hear both conservatives and progressives claim being kind has been tried and hasn't worked so we should stop.
So I'm very suspicious of my own potentially motivated reasoning when I have similar conclusion.
I'm curious what metrics (doesn't have to be a hard metric, soft vibes work as long as we acknowledge it's soft and potentially unreliable) you use to confidently say enough kindness was distributed and no more is needed.
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The problem with that logic though is that now you have a bunch of white people with opinions that they don't know about infiltrating spaces suddenly deciding that they're gonna be offended at things they don't fully understand.
I agree that is a problem.
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Comment on Non-queer men of Tildes: PLEASE consider before commenting on ~life.women and ~lgbt without careful consideration. We are losing members over this issue. in ~tildes
Pepetto Link ParentDamn, failed prediction #288647 that I need to own up to... I think empathy is instinctive to most of us, but we quickly teach ourselves to exclude most people from it. Either to protect oneself...The opposite, actually. I spent a lot of time at church in the early years of my life and I had to break out of that too.
Damn, failed prediction #288647 that I need to own up to...
Changing your mind is really difficult but it's weird that basic empathy is too.
I think empathy is instinctive to most of us, but we quickly teach ourselves to exclude most people from it.
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Comment on Non-queer men of Tildes: PLEASE consider before commenting on ~life.women and ~lgbt without careful consideration. We are losing members over this issue. in ~tildes
Pepetto (edited )Link ParentThat list of LGBT friendly forum is kind of universal though... describing inner experience (not negotiable, sure) kinda melds into prescription for how the world should be run here... you...Again, this is your experience, and not a universal truth.
That list of LGBT friendly forum is kind of universal though...
And no, I shouldn't have to lay out why my experience is real to me when you imply it isn't.
describing inner experience (not negotiable, sure) kinda melds into prescription for how the world should be run here... you experience there are more rational discourse forums than safe space forum. I experience the opposite.
One of us is wrong, obviously. It doesn't really help us know which is which when you accuse me of not accepting your experience as valid...Both our experience is irrelevant compared to actual reality. which should determine what
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Comment on Non-queer men of Tildes: PLEASE consider before commenting on ~life.women and ~lgbt without careful consideration. We are losing members over this issue. in ~tildes
Pepetto Link ParentYour friend is lucky to have you, but I wager that your position was already pretty LGBT friendly before they came out. Changing your mind about something is much harder than you make it out to...Your friend is lucky to have you, but I wager that your position was already pretty LGBT friendly before they came out.
Changing your mind about something is much harder than you make it out to be. and you expect us, regular lazy people to just do the work on our own, read multiple books and articles (many of them very hostile to "our" worldview), spontaneously just because someone expressed something we disagree with? that's not how human work. JAKing on a forum is much easier than reading a "boring SJW book".
Changing society is hard, most of the work will be done by those who stand to gain from the change, or the work will not be done at all.Also, Tildes is part of this "forever internet", for all you know the push back and JAKing is full of futur-ex-Bigots trying to work through their views because of some LGBT friend they have IRL which they don't want to hurt by asking them directly. This isn't a hypothetical, I did that!
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Comment on Non-queer men of Tildes: PLEASE consider before commenting on ~life.women and ~lgbt without careful consideration. We are losing members over this issue. in ~tildes
Pepetto (edited )Link ParentWhile I'm not the most exposed to that situation, I believe I do understand how tiring it can be. but there is no alternative. If the Black community didn't explain, over and over, I don't think...While I'm not the most exposed to that situation, I believe I do understand how tiring it can be.
but there is no alternative.
If the Black community didn't explain, over and over, I don't think their White friends would spontaneously understand their point of view...
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Comment on Non-queer men of Tildes: PLEASE consider before commenting on ~life.women and ~lgbt without careful consideration. We are losing members over this issue. in ~tildes
Pepetto (edited )Link ParentI've barely seen any IRL safe space, so no, I've never said anything about anything outside the internet. I'm all for a lot more IRL safe space, even if they usually feel downright hostile to me....internet or otherwise
I've barely seen any IRL safe space, so no, I've never said anything about anything outside the internet. I'm all for a lot more IRL safe space, even if they usually feel downright hostile to me.
But online, a quick google search implies to me there are many LGBT+ adjacent forums.accessible or pointless
And I do not think online safe spaces are pointless, but I'll double down that I think they are very accessible. Are they not?
If we ever need more online safe space, a new discord channel take less than 30 min to setup...
So why try turn Tildes into something it isn't? the rules as they are heavily discourage silloing part of the forum for exclusive use, because that was never the intended usecase...
Where else can the "just asking questions" crowd ask those question really? (While JAQing can be weaponised, I think most are legitimately just trying to learn) -
Comment on Non-queer men of Tildes: PLEASE consider before commenting on ~life.women and ~lgbt without careful consideration. We are losing members over this issue. in ~tildes
Pepetto (edited )Link ParentI think I identify with this. Applying the golden rule: I expect and enjoy whenever someone repeatedly contradicts me whenever I'm wrong, because I value truth over comfort (within reason). So I...Because some people fundamentally disagree with the concept of being able to opt out of these discussions.
I think I identify with this.
Applying the golden rule: I expect and enjoy whenever someone repeatedly contradicts me whenever I'm wrong, because I value truth over comfort (within reason). So I do the same to other as amicably as I'm capable. Sometime I'm the one who was wrong as I discover blind spot. I wouldn't have found those blindspot if everyone stayed in their personal little safe space.The internet already has quite enough safe space. The internet also already has plenty of absolute free speech free-for-all. Middle ground like tildes, with an expectation of friendly/rational/respectful discourse, is somewhat rare. So I'd rather Tildes stay as is.
People leaving over normal discourse (obviously not talking about abuse campaign) are just fundamentally looking for something which tildes isn't.
(edit: I'd like to clarify that I absolutely agree with OP's general idea of being more thoughtful when posting. thats always good, of course. I disagree only with censuring oneself)
R3qn65 has put it very well, but if like me you like to hear the same argument repeatedly applied to multiple examples, so that you get a better intuitive feel for it, here you go:
the fallacy of gray