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  1. Comment on What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking? in ~food

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    I did a salmon salad tonight, kinda improvised but it was 10/10: Salade : potatoes (small cubes, boiled), fenel (sliced very thin), cucumber (cubed), a bit of red onion, a bit of tarragon, lemon...

    I did a salmon salad tonight, kinda improvised but it was 10/10:

    • Salade : potatoes (small cubes, boiled), fenel (sliced very thin), cucumber (cubed), a bit of red onion, a bit of tarragon, lemon juice, soy sauce, olive oil, a bit of mayo, cumin & coriander seeds, salt & pepper.
    • Yogurt sauce on the side : sheep yogurt, tarragon, fried garlic, lemon juice, olive oil, salt & pepper.
    • Nice piece of grilled salmon on top (with skin)
    • Grilled hazelnut for garnish, couple of sherry tomatoes slices for color.
    • Some slices of toasted sourdough bread.

    I don't want to toot my own horn but I got the vibe I was a the restaurant at some point.

    2 votes

  2. Comment on Is there any interest in building a Tildes successor? in ~tildes

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    You check out mine :=

    However, if anyone has new ideas and wants to start something different, inspired by tildes and other communities, I’m interested in hearing you out.

    You check out mine :=

    3 votes

  3. Comment on Is there any interest in building a Tildes successor? in ~tildes

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    Yeah a precedent to look at is maybe art focused platform where people posts their own stuff and help each other, or tumblr where curation of particular aesthetics is valued (not sure how that...

    Yeah a precedent to look at is maybe art focused platform where people posts their own stuff and help each other, or tumblr where curation of particular aesthetics is valued (not sure how that worked).

    1 vote

  4. Comment on Is there any interest in building a Tildes successor? in ~tildes

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    I agree you'd have to be careful with the rules and design, e.g. I would probably not allow short videos, NSFW content, promotion of any kind (I was checking oddsrabbit earlier, there's a bunch of...

    I agree you'd have to be careful with the rules and design, e.g. I would probably not allow short videos, NSFW content, promotion of any kind (I was checking oddsrabbit earlier, there's a bunch of onlyfans spam...).

    That said I'm not sure "thoughtful discussion" should be the sole aim of a plateform. On Flickr you can post a photo, and getting a star from a photographer you like is all you need to be satisfied.

    1 vote

  5. Comment on Is there any interest in building a Tildes successor? in ~tildes

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    To me the main issue with tildes is the size, it's just a bit too small. The issue with being small is depth : you can have quality discussions about a lot of things here which is great, but if...

    To me the main issue with tildes is the size, it's just a bit too small. The issue with being small is depth : you can have quality discussions about a lot of things here which is great, but if the topic become too niche you're basically talking alone. It's just a matter of raw numbers, if you have 100 active users and you want to discuss something that interests only 1% of people then you're talking to yourself. It's also problematic for groups and creating sub-communities. I doesn't need to be massive either (I think you could retain the small community feel), maybe 10x bigger.

    There's several factors that lead to this I think, there's some design issue with the groups, and also the moderation doesn't scale. I'm not a big fan of the benevolent dictator model, it can work to some extend but it's not super sustainable (what if the dictator is tired ?). Moderation should also be based on rules, not on personal appreciation.

    I think being text-only is also a somewhat sub-optimal solution, what's so wrong about art or photography that they need to be second-class citizen on the platform ? I think the solution for images taking over text posts is rather giving each media type their own place to live so one doesn't cannibalize the other.

    I've actually experimented with all of this myself.

    4 votes

  6. Comment on Looking for an effective self-block application for Android in ~tech

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    Maybe at this stage you should get a dumb phone for your wife and relegate the useful stuff to a desktop computer.

    Maybe at this stage you should get a dumb phone for your wife and relegate the useful stuff to a desktop computer.

    2 votes

  7. Comment on Looking for an effective self-block application for Android in ~tech

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    I have a crappy phone and nothing makes me not want to use it as slow response time, random lags, etc. It's just unpleasant to use so I don't use it as much. Maybe you can try to put the phone on...

    I have a crappy phone and nothing makes me not want to use it as slow response time, random lags, etc. It's just unpleasant to use so I don't use it as much.

    Maybe you can try to put the phone on power saving mode, and increase effects/transitions time in the settings, you could also try to limit the bandwidth so it's slow to load stuff. Another idea would be to make it unpleasant to hold physically, maybe a super heavy, bulky, ugly case ?

    Buy the cheapest phone you can find next time :)

    1 vote

  8. Comment on Waving goodbye, carrying my bundle on a stick in ~talk

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    I think there's a strong motivation to being part of a project with a vision and that you feel is going somewhere, is getting better over time, it gives you hope and makes you overlook current...

    I think there's a strong motivation to being part of a project with a vision and that you feel is going somewhere, is getting better over time, it gives you hope and makes you overlook current issues. It's not too surprising some people don't want to invest their time into something that is explicitly not evolving anymore.

    16 votes

  9. Comment on Any significant changes to Tildes are extremely unlikely in ~tildes.official

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    Sure if you already have the lively community it could work, but don't expect it to form by itself. cyberspace.online and cozy.talk both have striking aesthetics & UX, something that makes them...

    Sure if you already have the lively community it could work, but don't expect it to form by itself.

    cyberspace.online and cozy.talk both have striking aesthetics & UX, something that makes them feel cool and fresh, but at the same time I think that's a bit too niche. Lemmy had a technology hook which can work but it also appeal only to a certain type of people. Things I wouldn't consider as hook are stuff like privacy, anonymity, basic features, no ads, details of the algorithm, etc. these are all good to have but it's just not exciting.

  10. Comment on Any significant changes to Tildes are extremely unlikely in ~tildes.official

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    In my experience the only thing I want to see is a really strong hook that will make people join, that should be priority number 1 since without people the rest doesn't matter. From what I've seen...

    Do you have any ideas on what you'd want to see?

    In my experience the only thing I want to see is a really strong hook that will make people join, that should be priority number 1 since without people the rest doesn't matter. From what I've seen the last two alternative that had some success are cyberspace.online and cozy.talk.

  11. Comment on Why normal people aren’t using AI agents in ~tech

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    To be clear there's two questions in this debate : Would normal people have a use case for agents, assuming they work ? Does the agents work well enough at the moment ? For 1) I think there's...

    To be clear there's two questions in this debate :

    1. Would normal people have a use case for agents, assuming they work ?
    2. Does the agents work well enough at the moment ?

    For 1) I think there's probably a decent number of people (not everybody but the more curious crowd) that would enjoy e.g. making mods, hacking stuff, etc. This already happens to a large extend but one still need require a little bit of prior know-how. That said I think it's going to remain a niche market, most people don't want to build their own things from scratch.

    For 2) I don't think the tech is quite ready for lay person, it doesn't always work, does stupid things, and generally the user still need to know what's up. That said I made an Android app with Claude with pretty much no knowledge of the process, it was a pain (mostly transfer issues from computer to phone) but not exactly complicated.

  12. Comment on Why normal people aren’t using AI agents in ~tech

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    Just for fun I gave it a try, I've added a Super Saiyan mode to elden ring, you can press a key combination (which also makes you drink...), you're weapon gets on fire for 60s and you have a...

    Just for fun I gave it a try, I've added a Super Saiyan mode to elden ring, you can press a key combination (which also makes you drink...), you're weapon gets on fire for 60s and you have a different moveset.

    https://imgur.com/a/Z6UZT3c

    To be clear that's reusing assets that are already there (the moves are from Sekiro), but it wrote a bunch of Lua to use them together in a new way. Maybe it still qualifies as garbage, but hot garbage I think not ;)

    It's true that there's already a adblocker with Claude as contributor, so maybe you don't need to do it yourself.

    2 votes

  13. Comment on Why normal people aren’t using AI agents in ~tech

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    Anything you didn't like in those games ? You can make a custom mod. You're TV is showing you ads ? try make a custom app that blocks them (not sure if possible...) If you're processing them on...

    played video games

    Anything you didn't like in those games ? You can make a custom mod.

    watched TV

    You're TV is showing you ads ? try make a custom app that blocks them (not sure if possible...)

    took pictures with my camera

    If you're processing them on your computer there's plenty you can do there too.

    Not saying these are great, but they are things that could be useful. Essentially you are now an expert hacker and can tweak any computer system to your liking (exaggerating a tad...).

    5 votes

  14. Comment on The real energy use of agentic AI in ~tech

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    That's quite reassuring, heavy daily agent use being less than a flight, or roughly equivalent to eating beef (my estimate); if you're a light user there's not too much to worry about, or at least...

    That's quite reassuring, heavy daily agent use being less than a flight, or roughly equivalent to eating beef (my estimate); if you're a light user there's not too much to worry about, or at least it probably shouldn't be on top of your list of things to worry about, Co2 wise.

    7 votes

  15. Comment on The magic is in the language in ~tech

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    In general machine learning just learn the pattern in the data; a network can distinguish a cat from a dog because images of cats and dogs have distinct patterns. A LLM that is just trained on...

    In general machine learning just learn the pattern in the data; a network can distinguish a cat from a dog because images of cats and dogs have distinct patterns. A LLM that is just trained on text can do stuff because there's patterns in the text.

    That said AFAIK current LLMs also go through reinforcement learning, where the information doesn't necessarily comes from the data but is learned from "experience" in a simulated environment (e.g. AlphaGo), so they might be doing some "magic" that isn't in the training data.

    3 votes

  16. Comment on There is no ‘hard problem of consciousness’ in ~humanities

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    On the topic I thought Keith Frankish discusssion with Alex O'Connor was pretty good, proponent of the hard problem often have a bunch of unexamined presuppositions in the way they frame the...

    On the topic I thought Keith Frankish discusssion with Alex O'Connor was pretty good, proponent of the hard problem often have a bunch of unexamined presuppositions in the way they frame the problem and he makes a good job pointing those out I thought.

    1 vote

  17. Comment on What are you looking forward to? in ~talk

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    I can't wait for the post-apocalyptic video of Dubai urban exploration, it's gonna be lit!

    I can't wait for the post-apocalyptic video of Dubai urban exploration, it's gonna be lit!

    4 votes

  18. Comment on Survey: The temperature in my room now is _____ and it feels _____ in ~talk

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    26-27°C these days, I got used to it I have to say and I'm cold when it goes down (two months of heatwave does that I guess...), but if it gets higher I start to suffer.

    26-27°C these days, I got used to it I have to say and I'm cold when it goes down (two months of heatwave does that I guess...), but if it gets higher I start to suffer.

    2 votes

  19. Comment on Your cookware got worse on purpose: who owns Pyrex and All-Clad now in ~food

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    I've been using the Victorinox chef's knife almost everyday for about 10 years and it still works great, never sharpened (only honed) and it can still cut tomatoes. It would benefit from...

    I've been using the Victorinox chef's knife almost everyday for about 10 years and it still works great, never sharpened (only honed) and it can still cut tomatoes. It would benefit from sharpening though.

    4 votes

  20. Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies

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    I re-watched Fight Club, it has aged pretty well and I find it somewhat inspiring. I found it has a bit of a macho, edgy teenager energy that I don't like as much as when I was younger but it's...

    I re-watched Fight Club, it has aged pretty well and I find it somewhat inspiring. I found it has a bit of a macho, edgy teenager energy that I don't like as much as when I was younger but it's not too bad. The message is also a bit muddy, I wish it was bit more explicitly pro-revolutionary, but there's room for interpretation, and I can see how releasing a movie that can inspire you to blow up financial institutions could be an issue xd

    5 votes