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Comment on A new AI model can predict human lifespan, researchers say. They want to make sure it’s used for good. in ~health
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Comment on Boston Dynamics shows off LLM equipped robot in ~tech
Roundcat LinkSorry BD, but they're already replacing tour guides. They just expect you to have a smartphone rather than integrate it into an expensive dog. We really are in a innovative drought techwise.Sorry BD, but they're already replacing tour guides. They just expect you to have a smartphone rather than integrate it into an expensive dog.
We really are in a innovative drought techwise.
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Comment on Meet Nightshade, the new tool allowing artists to ‘poison’ AI models with corrupted training data in ~arts
Roundcat Link ParentYour friend is piggybacking off a style to enrich their own ability. This will lead to your friend probably producing something original with it. An Ai is stealing art on the behalf of someone who...Your friend is piggybacking off a style to enrich their own ability. This will lead to your friend probably producing something original with it.
An Ai is stealing art on the behalf of someone who cares nothing of the technique other than how it can profit them.
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Comment on Incel ideology has entered the mainstream in ~life.men
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Comment on Men took over a job fair intended for women and nonbinary tech workers in ~tech
Roundcat Link"which took place in Orlando, Fla." Surprised no one in the intended demographic showed up for the conference held in one of the "safest enviroments" for women and nonbinary folk."which took place in Orlando, Fla."
Surprised no one in the intended demographic showed up for the conference held in one of the "safest enviroments" for women and nonbinary folk.
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Comment on Anime/manga that inspired you to pick up a new hobby or something similar? in ~anime
Roundcat LinkIt wasn't really a mahjong anime that inspired me to pick it up as much as seeing it in the background of animes I was actually into.It wasn't really a mahjong anime that inspired me to pick it up as much as seeing it in the background of animes I was actually into.
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Comment on How Pixar’s ‘Elemental’ kept its fire burning at the box office in ~movies
Roundcat LinkGlad to hear this movie ended up doing better. Based on the reviews I've seen of it, it seemed like a charming little movie, and I had like the artstyle of it ever since the trailers came. Maybe...Glad to hear this movie ended up doing better. Based on the reviews I've seen of it, it seemed like a charming little movie, and I had like the artstyle of it ever since the trailers came. Maybe the reality of cinema right now is you need to have longer legs to be successful.
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Comment on Sync for Lemmy now available on Play Store in ~tech
Roundcat (edited )Link ParentHonestly, I would prefer if lemmy and kbin stopped trying to be reddit and embraced being its own thing. They're definitely trying hard to recreate the environment that they left behind, but in...Honestly, I would prefer if lemmy and kbin stopped trying to be reddit and embraced being its own thing. They're definitely trying hard to recreate the environment that they left behind, but in the end it was a very specific, privacy minded, and moderation focused group that led the exodus out of reddit, and the people who followed were the ones who found those aspects more important than the memes and communities they left behind.
This has basically led to 4 types of users on lemmy: the rebuilders, the open source wizards, the extremely political, and the queer folk, with some overlap between them. The rebuilders are the power users and mods that left reddit who are trying recreate the communities, and often end up producing most of the content. The open source wizards were either the people there before the redditors, or the techies who took issue with the API and moderation changes and saw it as a threat. The extremely political are the leftist, right wingers, and tankies who were there before everyone else, and more or less established the bones everyone blissfully plays around on. The ml in the lemmy.ml stands for marxist lennonist, lemmygrad and explodingheads are some of the oldest instances that everyone ended up defedding from once the redditors joined, and beehaw basically wants to be tildes on steriods. Then there are the queer folk who are all over fediverse, and are mostly twitter and reddit refugees who left to establish their own safe zones, with Blahajzone being the most well known.
I can imagine lemmy can be extremely alienating if you are not deep into one of these camps, and there are definitely clashes between these groups with each other and the new redditors. In the end I think trying to recreate reddit is a fools errand, but there is definitely potential there to make something different, to be its own platform with its own soul. Its the parts of lemmy the feel the least like reddit that I enjoy the most.
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Comment on Settling in to new social media patterns after the "Rexxit" in ~tech
Roundcat LinkSometimes I might complain about tildes, but the truth is it's still one of the best places online to actually have measured, in depth conversations about current topics. I've actually gravitated...Sometimes I might complain about tildes, but the truth is it's still one of the best places online to actually have measured, in depth conversations about current topics.
I've actually gravitated towards Mastodon and Kbin recently. It just took figuring out either site and setting things to my liking.
I might give Bluesky a try if I ever get an invite.
Eitherway I'm just happy so many communities are opening up when for the longest time it felt like only the big four. It made me forget I could actually have fun on social media.
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Comment on A thread for news and discussion about UFO/UAP related topics in ~misc
Roundcat Link ParentI posted this messages several hours ago, and dealt with a couple of adversarial responses, most which have been addressed by the administration thankfully. forgive me if I seem a little edgy....I posted this messages several hours ago, and dealt with a couple of adversarial responses, most which have been addressed by the administration thankfully. forgive me if I seem a little edgy.
Like I have no problems with the discussion of Covid or UFOs in principle, but often in practice these discussions lead into very conspiratorial and sometimes dangerous directions, and as someone who has come to see Tildes a somewhat more, I guess "enlightened" space compared to reddit or the fediverse, it just feels a little off putting to see a large volume of that discussion here recently, especially with titles like "Have we been visited by aliens" rather using the news' headline explaining the actual situation. Either that or articles posted from less credible sources with little verification done in advance.
My worries come more from a perceived dip in quality in the posts and discussions had on Tildes, not the fact that people are discussing these topics period. Like I had a response earlier that was basically telling me to "get a life" which was something I thought I would never deal with on tildes. Maybe my actual problem is that I had over inflated expectations of what the tildes was supposed to be.
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Comment on A thread for news and discussion about UFO/UAP related topics in ~misc
Roundcat Link ParentYeah, I just don't find "your crazy" to be a compelling argument to change my mind about the quality of conversation here diminishing.Yeah, I just don't find "your crazy" to be a compelling argument to change my mind about the quality of conversation here diminishing.
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Comment on A thread for news and discussion about UFO/UAP related topics in ~misc
Roundcat Link ParentForgive me for singling your post out in particular. Honestly, If the article had come from a more credible source, and if the topic didn't carry the amount of baggage a lot of other COVID...Forgive me for singling your post out in particular. Honestly, If the article had come from a more credible source, and if the topic didn't carry the amount of baggage a lot of other COVID theories carried, I wouldn't have minded the discussion. In fact, on the outset of the infections starting around Wuhan, I was engaged in a lot of discussion as to where the virus could've originated from, and the level of censorship that was involved with the initial infections. As the virus started to spread outward, and the conversations began to become more conspiratorial and harmful, I grew weary of seeing any topic discussing the possible lab connection. I don't think it is impossible to have a good faith discussion about the possible origins of COVID, but I do find it is difficult to have this conversations in online forums without it going in harmful directions.
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Comment on Retired Maj. David Grusch tells Congress the US is concealing ‘multi-decade’ program that captures UFOs in ~society
Roundcat Link ParentPinky swearing to god isn't exactly a good way of ensuring someone isn't lying, even if they are religious. Not only that, many people use the sanctity of oath as a means of adding credibility to...Pinky swearing to god isn't exactly a good way of ensuring someone isn't lying, even if they are religious. Not only that, many people use the sanctity of oath as a means of adding credibility to their statement, even if it is utterly false.
Cops and witnesses do it all the time, as do politicians, generals, and even the President of the United States, multiple in fact.
And as we see on a near daily basis, you can get away with blatant lies and demonstrable falsehoods as long as its something people want to hear. Even if this person is found to be lying under oath, and is punished for it, he will certainly be celebrated and rewarded by those who want to believe him, and many of those people are in high positions of power, within that very Congress.
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Comment on A thread for news and discussion about UFO/UAP related topics in ~misc
Roundcat LinkWith COVID lab leak article getting traction here, and now this story getting attention, I'm starting to question the integrity of the news that is shared and discussed in the community. Maybe my...With COVID lab leak article getting traction here, and now this story getting attention, I'm starting to question the integrity of the news that is shared and discussed in the community. Maybe my expectations for this community were overly inflated, but I always felt this site had higher standards as to what was discussed and shared, and there was more verification and fact checking before things were shared.
There's still a lot about this story that isn't verified, and the fact that we are starting to treat it like an actual event and even talk about make a thread category about it isn't exactly reassuring.
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Comment on Why is Elon Musk doing what he is to Twitter? in ~tech
Roundcat LinkI'd assume he has done all this for attention. Before the twitter purchase, he was more or less an annoying but easily ignorable rich little gremlin. After buying one of the world's largest social...I'd assume he has done all this for attention. Before the twitter purchase, he was more or less an annoying but easily ignorable rich little gremlin. After buying one of the world's largest social media platforms and placing himself in the center of it, it has been harder and harder to ignore him, and once you think now is when he will fade back into relative obscurity, bam, he does yet another thing that disrupts the way millions of users interact or do business. He more or less bought one of the worlds largest captive audiences, and even though some people are able to simply able to quit and leave, there are many who rely on the site for business, or have a severe addiction to the site who can't leave. This whole ordeal has been an interesting case style in how much can you put a user through before they leave a platform for good, and how much of the business and user base is a factor in keeping people active on the site.
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~health
Roundcat Link ParentThis site provides backgrounds on news sites including political leanings, possible bias, and controversies they or their owners are known for. https://www.allsides.com/news-source/intercept from...This site provides backgrounds on news sites including political leanings, possible bias, and controversies they or their owners are known for. https://www.allsides.com/news-source/intercept from what it seems like, its a left leaning news site with a history of pushing the lab leak theory on Covid.
My general rule of thumb is check multiple sources for the same story, and see which outlets are pushing it. Then go with a site that you know is trustworthy rather than one you know nothing about.
My feels is if the lab leak was all but confirmed, it would be big news everywhere, not just on this site. Sure you would have sites pushing or suppressing it more than others, but when they are the only site talking about a piece of news, especially something that has a lot of conspiracies and controversy behind it, I would be skeptical.
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Comment on The erasure of Islam from the poetry of Rumi in ~humanities
Roundcat LinkThis kinda reminds me of the way anime used to be handled when it was localized from Japanese to English, and they would try to westernize or eliminate the references to Japanese culture rather...This kinda reminds me of the way anime used to be handled when it was localized from Japanese to English, and they would try to westernize or eliminate the references to Japanese culture rather than embrace it or give context within the subtitles.
A few examples of this is when 4kids would edit Japanese foods into American ones in Pokemon or One Piece, How Phoenix Write takes place in a fictional state in the US with its own laws rather than in Japan where the laws and court procedures heavily lean in favor of the prosecution. Or how Shinto Shrines and Buddhist Temples would be changed into something more secular, western, or fictional in children's anime and games of the 8 and 16 bit generations.
We have definitely come a long way with how we treat the localization of Japanese media, but the fact that we still deal with this in literary translations from works from other cultural and religious background still shows we have a long way to go. Like we are more accepting of the cultural and religious differences in Eastern Asian cultures to the point we try to keep it intact when localizing, yet even modern books on a Persian Muslim poet will omit religious references and even entire parts of the work to keep it palatable to western readers.
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tech
Roundcat LinkI'm convinced at this point even if he literally took the site offline, People would desperately try to refresh until it magically appeared again, cause no amount of stupidity or hostility is...I'm convinced at this point even if he literally took the site offline, People would desperately try to refresh until it magically appeared again, cause no amount of stupidity or hostility is going to cause everyone to permanently drop twitter.
Nearly every creator, every journalist who has taken issue with Musk and the direction he has led it in still uses the site religiously, and aren't even active on the alternatives that have cropped up over the last two years or so. Every time Musk does something dumb, or hostile, everyone says "This" will be the thing that kills twitter. but at the end of the day, it is habit and addiction that keeps people there. I mean hell, his last move more or less walled lurkers off from even seeing the content inside, and yet the migration that spurred still didn't amount to much. People gave Threads a try and left, and Mastodon only had a slight bump in activity for like a week until people thought "You know what, I still would rather use the bird site than this."
Twitter definitely is an interesting case study in how much shit can you drag a site through before people permanently leave, and the answer is apparently a lot. And other platform holders are taking notice too. Spez from reddit even praised Musk for his cost cutting, and I think the enshitification we have seen throughout reddit, youtube and other platforms is a result of web hosts realizing they can treat their users like shit, and people will still use their site.
I think there is only so much you can blame enshitification on people like Musk or Spez when we are the ones encouraging their behavior by continuing to engage.
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Comment on Can we get an ~ai? in ~tildes
Roundcat LinkHonestly, I'm just tired of seeing it and wish we were more honest about what "Ai" actually was. It's mostly the branding of something that isn't actually intelligent that makes me hate the way we...Honestly, I'm just tired of seeing it and wish we were more honest about what "Ai" actually was. It's mostly the branding of something that isn't actually intelligent that makes me hate the way we talk about it, thus seeing it in nearly every tech discussion is exhausting.
Like I have no problem talking LLM or LRM because at least then, I know the discussion is going to be how the resources within these models are rearranged and compiled in order to form an output around parameters, rather than get into the speculative "It's thinking, and creating, and is going to replace us all!" discussions I often see around "Ai". Like the fear of being replaced is real, but not because these systems are actually capable of thinking.
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Comment on Web Environment Integrity - A Google proposal for general web drm in ~comp
Roundcat LinkThis will probably be what pushes me to become a luddite, or at least use the web far less. Over the years I have developed a great disdain for ads and they have grown so numerous on the web that...This will probably be what pushes me to become a luddite, or at least use the web far less. Over the years I have developed a great disdain for ads and they have grown so numerous on the web that the only way I can tolerate watching videos or going through social media is with an ad blocker. The moment I can no longer do that is the moment cut as much of the web out of my life as possible.
"Ai can do extremely exploitable thing. Scientist hope it isn't exploited."
Every. AI. Article. Ever.