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Comment on US shoppers, drawn by steep discounts, power through Black Friday in ~finance
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Comment on US shoppers, drawn by steep discounts, power through Black Friday in ~finance
bakers_dozen Link ParentYeah the article kind of reads like whitewashing consumer mistrust and poor confidence in the economy. Like those articles trying to sell the idea that Thanksgiving dinner cost the same this year...Yeah the article kind of reads like whitewashing consumer mistrust and poor confidence in the economy. Like those articles trying to sell the idea that Thanksgiving dinner cost the same this year as last year.
This article has a lot of "yes, it looks bad, but look at this instead" and just seems like misdirection.
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
bakers_dozen LinkFinished Outer Worlds 2, wanted to like it, but could not recommend it. Somebody said, "What if we made Fallout again, only this time it's cowboys in space?" Interesting at first, but it just...Finished Outer Worlds 2, wanted to like it, but could not recommend it.
Somebody said, "What if we made Fallout again, only this time it's cowboys in space?" Interesting at first, but it just never really went anywhere. The characters aren't engaging or real. They are shallow and uninteresting. The story feels like there's no point. You really aren't rooting for anyone, because nobody is worth rooting for. Some parts of the gameplay are kind of awful, like when you're in a shootout, and your own NPCs keep pushing you as they run around. They'll even push you off a cliff.
It has a lot of interesting elements that never really come together. The different factions are all kind of awful in their own way. There's the evil-ish corporate overlord cliche, the evil-ish religious overlord cliche, the other evil-ish religious fanatic cliche (and the other other religious fanatic cliche), the oppressive evil-ish 1984-style overlord cliche, and it just goes on like that.
It's pretty much a lot like Fallout, which was a great game, but that's exactly the problem. They're offering the best gameplay 2015 has to offer, but Fallout was better.
For being a space game, you don't actually do anything in space. You just get cutscenes going from one planet to another. Then you're back on the ground again just like the last area, only this time it's snow planet, or crystal planet, or whatever. It kind of all feels the same.
When you're on the ship, it's filled with things like hanging potted plants which would be perfect for a home base but have no business being in a spaceship. This pretty much sums up the game. There are a lot of stylish ideas which are so stylized that they don't work and just don't fit together at all.
There's nothing really wrong with it, but it got old fast. It's just a game that fails to reach it's potential. Most mid game I have ever played.
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Comment on Grieving family uses AI chatbot to cut hospital bill from $195,000 to $33,000 — US family says Claude highlighted duplicative charges, improper coding, and other violations in ~tech
bakers_dozen Link ParentThat's a really good point, and I'm glad you brought it up. I've been thinking about it, what do you think is the real risk? Identity theft on a large scale, e.g. harvesting mass info about users?...That's a really good point, and I'm glad you brought it up.
I've been thinking about it, what do you think is the real risk? Identity theft on a large scale, e.g. harvesting mass info about users? The cynical side of me feels like that battle is sort of already lost, at least in the big cultural picture. The technology is inevitable.
The developers should sanitize input so that private information is hashed, not stored, or just completely ruled out from being stored at all.
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Starter comments on Tildes?
I get a lot out of browsing Tildes and all the conversations here. This is in keeping with the Tildes philosophy of high-quality content and conversation. In the spirit of quality discussion,...
I get a lot out of browsing Tildes and all the conversations here. This is in keeping with the Tildes philosophy of high-quality content and conversation.
In the spirit of quality discussion, context is everything and reference points matter. I have found my own thoughts nudged many times here, and often the comments and points of view lend entirely new perspective to the content (and are sometimes more interesting).
While I appreciate the discussions, there are often links to an article, a video, a blog, or anything really, with no context and little description.
So in the spirit of conversation, I'm asking if there could be "conversation starter" comments for posted links. I'd like to know why this video or that blog is different from just randomly finding some link online. Why is this link on Tildes? What makes it interesting or important? What are we talking about? Where is the quality conversation?
Is that too much, or would that be reasonable? Thoughts?
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Comment on Grieving family uses AI chatbot to cut hospital bill from $195,000 to $33,000 — US family says Claude highlighted duplicative charges, improper coding, and other violations in ~tech
bakers_dozen (edited )Link ParentGreed, apathy, neglect, take your pick. The endless maze of bureaucracy is profitable, even if (or maybe because) it leads to double-billing and other issues. It's all built deliberately towards...Greed, apathy, neglect, take your pick. The endless maze of bureaucracy is profitable, even if (or maybe because) it leads to double-billing and other issues. It's all built deliberately towards revenue - at the expense of oversight, because oversight costs money. Accountability costs money. Stalling and delays make money, if the errors are in the hospital's favor.
In some areas, patients have nowhere to go except the local small hospital or urgent care, which just adds to the industry leverage of consolidation, vertical integration and monopolization. Those are bigger issues in the US, but the main issue IMO is treating healthcare as a for-profit business. I feel like morally, to your point, it is essentially extortion or profiteering since your choices are to pay or to die. Or both.
It's incredibly dark, but that is literally exactly what happens.
Edited to add: I wonder why AI is becoming such a big thing in healthcare now, yet despite that, issues like this continue to happen. I don't think double billing is patient-centered care, but maybe I don't have that healthcare=profit mindset.
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Comment on Grieving family uses AI chatbot to cut hospital bill from $195,000 to $33,000 — US family says Claude highlighted duplicative charges, improper coding, and other violations in ~tech
bakers_dozen (edited )LinkDespite the cultural upheaval over LLMs, it's great to see Claude being put to good use for advocacy. I look at LLMS as an accessibility tool, making arcane systems more available to even the...Despite the cultural upheaval over LLMs, it's great to see Claude being put to good use for advocacy. I look at LLMS as an accessibility tool, making arcane systems more available to even the least technical among us. This is a wonderful use case for AI.
US healthcare is a predatory, impenetrable, bureaucratic mess that oppresses those who need it. Hopefully the future holds greater equality and support for those most vulnerable.
Original story on Threads.
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Grieving family uses AI chatbot to cut hospital bill from $195,000 to $33,000 — US family says Claude highlighted duplicative charges, improper coding, and other violations
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Comment on This site is fast in ~tildes
bakers_dozen (edited )Link ParentThat makes sense and I appreciate you taking the time to make a thoughtful reply. I saw your recent post on "queer temperature check," I didn't respond because I'm not in the club, so to speak....That makes sense and I appreciate you taking the time to make a thoughtful reply. I saw your recent post on "queer temperature check," I didn't respond because I'm not in the club, so to speak. But, I appreciated a lot of the points there and thoughtful responses. A lot resonated with me and it was interesting to see the different personal journeys unfold in conversation. Which is how I personally often read Tildes. I like your long form posts.
I've actually had you tagged as a "friend" for some time for that reason. But what you say here also makes sense and it spurs a little bit of reflection for me.
The thing is, this post was actually engaging, interesting and true, and made sense to me in every way. It was spot on. I have been on forums like this since the 20th century, and you hit the nail on the head.
But to your point - clipped and abrupt sentences, to me, can be (not always, but something to watch for) hallmarks of artificial content when it is written to generate engagement.
They create tension.
Suspense.
Anticipation.
... but then... (see the suspense?) there's an exciting payoff, with swooping writing, rising and falling, in a new direction! The style changes, the rhythm and tone change, settling down into a good feeling of resolution.
And it. Feels. Great!
Just off the top of my head, not written to be a stellar example, and definitely not black-and-white in terms of discernment. This is just a tiny bit of something that would make me think of artificial writing, because it's intentionally written specifically to grab the reader. This style is very different from a normal dialogue with a person, with pauses, interjections, incomplete sentences, unanswered questions, unwanted or uninteresting asides, rambling and long-winded sentences, and all the messy things that make up human conversation. See how this long comment is boring?
That's not the only factor, and not the only thing about this post. But just one of the things that typically makes writing feel a certain way, to me. EM dashes don't necessarily mean artificial writing, either, but they stand out. Not an indictment of you.
But your response here makes me think again. My comment was abrupt and not meant to be rude or judgemental. I could have put more thought and grace into it, and I appreciate what you said.
To be honest, it was a lot like you pointed out - I just had this odd feeling and just put that feeling out there without thinking about it.
But there are a lot of things that concern me about artificial writing, including the feedback loop that occurs when we read it, and it in turn influences our own writing styles (and we don't even know it if we aren't aware). That makes these things harder to tell apart, and what's more troubling, language influences the way we think. All language, all conversation. Now ChatGPT is embedded in public discourse, and thereby affecting our mental processes, whether we like it or not. It is bound to shape the future of human thinking - under the direction of it's owners, in whatever case - because it is already pervasive. We are already there.
This occurred to me here because of what you pointed out, you were writing more or less a stream of consciousness. Completely fair and not an indictment of you at all. Just has me thinking more about this influence and feedback loop on all of our writing and conversations (and my own discernment in such cases).
This is also more or less just stream of consciousness, but I appreciate your posts here and look forward to seeing more.
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Comment on This site is fast in ~tildes
bakers_dozen (edited )Link ParentWell the thing is, this isn't a judgement or an accusation. kfwyre is pretty clearly a real person with a lot to say and I value what they have to say and have followed their comments before. I...Well the thing is, this isn't a judgement or an accusation. kfwyre is pretty clearly a real person with a lot to say and I value what they have to say and have followed their comments before. I think everyone reading this post is likely aware of that.
But, that's the exact reason I commented. The post feels off, it feels unusual. Now maybe it's just me. Maybe I'm just becoming too cynical with the glut of LLM in social media. Which is also why this post reads exactly like that, to me, because a lot of LLM reads exactly this way (again, to me) .
There's no malice here but rather making an observation. I don't think kfwyre is some kind of spam bot.
But it doesn't feel completely genuine, and maybe that is just the writing style, but I do find it a little disheartening to see other comments making such assumptions about judgement and nobody actually seeking to understand. If I were a writer, I would certainly want to know.
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Comment on This site is fast in ~tildes
bakers_dozen LinkThis reads like ChatGPT.This reads like ChatGPT.
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Comment on ‘Tron: Ares’ stumbles with $33.5 million debut in ~movies
bakers_dozen Link ParentRein in = pulling the reins on a galloping horse, slowing down, getting control. Reign = rule, as in, a king reigns over a country.Rein in = pulling the reins on a galloping horse, slowing down, getting control.
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Comment on Timeout when connecting to a local webserver through the internet, but only on WiFi in ~comp
bakers_dozen (edited )Link**EDIT: ** I just noticed this comment in your post, and from here this sounds like DNS issues. My original reply is underneath. Opening https://192.168.1.123:58443 (webserver address) is fine...**EDIT: ** I just noticed this comment in your post, and from here this sounds like DNS issues. My original reply is underneath.
Opening https://192.168.1.123:58443 (webserver address) is fine (WiFi or wired).
Opening https://10.0.1.123:58443 (gateway address) is fine (WiFi or wired).Original reply:
From your updated comments (cited below) it sounds suspiciously like a NAT or port forwarding issue. Or something similar to asymmetric routing issues. Some of your packets are getting through and some aren't.Using the mobile network I can access my server just fine. With a hotspot I can use the same laptop to access the site.
I've given up and have just added a DNS record to the gateway that points to the local server. This way it works inside the network and outside too. It's not pretty, but it works.
The same issue is also happening with the VPN server I host on a different machine that's sitting besides the webserver. I see traffic coming in, but no connection is established on the client side.
Testing this again now, I see the traffic coming into the VPN server takes forever when on WiFi (haven't checked with a wire). When I'm on mobile, the logging of the VPN server shows instant negotiation. I assumed the issue was something with the return traffic, but that's not the case. Something to look into later.So my rambling thoughts - when you query dns for your server name (or VPN) do you get the same results on wired and wireless? Different results inside the network vs outside? Because typically, outside and inside DNS results should be separate, and different. If you're trying to reach http://foo.bar and it turns up both an internal and external (NAT) address then you're going to get mixed up. Also you don't want servers overlapping, I assume your servers are all using the same (public) IP and this is why you are using nonstandard ports to differentiate servers?
Your wireless DNS resolution should be identical to your wired DNS (both internal). Also DNS queries are round-robin, meaning, if you have two different DNS server addresses you query, you will variously get results from both. If those servers aren't returning the same answer you will have issues.
On the same lines, is the behavior any different if you only connect to ip_address:port and don't use DNS at all?
For further testing I would recommend disconnecting your internet and make sure all of your traffic is routable internally (wired and wireless both) . Can you hit the VPN or the web server?
With NAT, the nonstandard TCP port (internal) may be getting forwarded out to the internet rather than to internal devices. With your setup I would ensure ALL internal traffic is routed internally first and never go out to the carrier unless that specific traffic needs to get to the internet for some reason.
It really sounds like when you're on wireless, some of your traffic is going out to the internet and coming back in, and some of your traffic is trying to hit the server internally, and all of your devices are getting confused.
Try disconnecting your internet service and see if you can reach everything internally.
If you aren't already set up this way I would consider doing this: (Carrier) <-> (dedicated firewall) <-> (dedicated internal router) == (everything else internal)
Rather than having an all-in-one device to handle all the routing and firewall and wireless etc. Your network is complex enough to justify the separation and this would make it much easier to troubleshoot. In other words, keep the internet traffic routed to a separate dedicated device outside of your internal network. And aside from that, all your traffic should be perfectly routable inside. Your internal router should handle all DNS, DHCP and everything else, and anything that specifically needs internet access (like DNS) should be owned and cached on the router but handed off to the firewall if needed.
One last consideration I would recommend to anyone for internal networking. Consider setting up your internal IP range as 172.16.0.0 to 172.31.255.255 instead of 192.168 or **10.x ** . The reason is because everyone uses 10.x or 192.168, and using differentiation makes it much easier to deflect any potential overlap. Network devices sometimes use 192.168 as the default setup for configuring via network. If that default IP happens to be the same as one of your servers, it's a pain to set it up. But setting up 172.16 right from the get go will preempt overlapping issues. It isn't nearly as popular.
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Comment on Timeout when connecting to a local webserver through the internet, but only on WiFi in ~comp
bakers_dozen LinkSince you say the SSL handshake is completed, my first guess is to look at some kind of filtering or interception occurring on your laptop. Some troubleshooting questions - are you able to reach...Since you say the SSL handshake is completed, my first guess is to look at some kind of filtering or interception occurring on your laptop.
Some troubleshooting questions - are you able to reach other servers or websites on the internet? Including nonstandard ports? Ping?
When you're on wired networking are you sure your traffic is hairpinning out to the internet and back in to your server? Are you sure you aren't just routing internally?
Is anyone else able to reach your server across the internet?
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Comment on ‘Story Of Your Life’ is not a time-travel story (2018) in ~books
bakers_dozen LinkWhat a fascinating post.What a fascinating post.
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tv
bakers_dozen Link ParentMainly, to me it looks like manipulating the same audience which it is supposed to support. But as I mentioned in another comment I am probably reading too much into it, and you make some good points.Mainly, to me it looks like manipulating the same audience which it is supposed to support. But as I mentioned in another comment I am probably reading too much into it, and you make some good points.
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tv
bakers_dozen Link ParentYes on reflection, my original thinking wasn't clear, and also I feel like I was reading too much into the show with some expectations. You make some valid points especially around the difference...Yes on reflection, my original thinking wasn't clear, and also I feel like I was reading too much into the show with some expectations. You make some valid points especially around the difference between character development and world development.
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tv
bakers_dozen Link ParentI see your point, well-made and well taken. This conversation makes me think I am probably reading too much into the show. This is probably more about my own cynicism around manipulative corporate...I see your point, well-made and well taken. This conversation makes me think I am probably reading too much into the show. This is probably more about my own cynicism around manipulative corporate marketing in general and particularly bad representation in media.
I do see this kind of manipulation everywhere, of vulnerable groups of all kinds. It bothers me a lot but I think I am projecting my own biases.
All in all, this makes me want to take another look and reevaluate. Well said, and maybe we will not be in disagreement after all. Cheers
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tv
bakers_dozen Link ParentThat is absolutely "le mot juste." Did not notice that at all.That is absolutely "le mot juste." Did not notice that at all.
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tv
bakers_dozen Link ParentWell as far as diversity, what you say is pretty much the opposite of how I feel personally. To me the characters look like cliches. Not racist cliches, but cliches nonetheless. I tend to feel...Well as far as diversity, what you say is pretty much the opposite of how I feel personally. To me the characters look like cliches. Not racist cliches, but cliches nonetheless. I tend to feel like bad representation can be potentially worse than no representation. I don't think it matters if the actors are white or not.
If you saw "The Last of Us" on HBO, there is a famous gay episode. To me it's one of the best things ever put on the screen. I think it's outstanding and I think it will be something of a historical landmark in show business. It's not just good representation, it's incredible. You actually care about the people involved. They have depth. They are real. Everything they do is necessary, meaningful and important. The characters are treated with great respect, dignity and worth.
Most importantly, "being gay" is just part of the characters. They aren't defined as "gay" being the entirety of the character. They are people, just like any other people, where "gay" is just a sometimes part of the character, not the one and only outstanding characteristic.
That is respectful representation.
This show seems like the opposite. The characters don't seem interesting, meaningful or important at all. The aliens don't seem to be interesting people. Which is why, to me, diversity feels like an excuse to cover bad writing. In other words, it's using diversity as a marketing tactic to get viewers to watch. To me that feels manipulative towards the people it's supposed to support. Basically the opposite of respectful diversity.
I will admit, in my eyes I see far too much disrespectful representation "out there" and maybe I'm overthinking or reading too much into this.
So in other words I guess my original comment wasn't clear or well thought out. I feel like diversity and representation should be inclusive and respectful, and this show just doesn't feel anything like that to me. And maybe I am expecting far too much.
I think this is reality and the article is just a whitewashing sales pitch.