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soiling@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian9·2 years ago“hallucination” works because everything an LLM outputs is equally true from its perspective. trying to change the word “hallucination” seems to usually lead to the implication that LLMs are lying which is not possible. they don’t currently have the capacity to lie because they don’t have intent and they don’t have a theory of mind.
soiling@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•The developer of Sync for Reddit is working on a Lemmy app11·2 years agoI don’t agree. I think it’s disingenuous to isolate the decision from the context as if it were made unprompted. it comes across as if you are blaming the admins for something you don’t like - if that’s not your intent, then what is ?
soiling@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•The developer of Sync for Reddit is working on a Lemmy app7·2 years agoit may seem that way, but that’s not accurate. something had to be done to stem the trolls and lemmy doesn’t provide any tools for less severe action.
soiling@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Jellyfin, we are moving away from Reddit and we are pleased to announce our new forum!1·2 years agoOn the topic of forums, I do like them, but I find they can often feel less “casual” than reddit/Lemmy. Different etiquette, I think.
I agree and it’s what I like about forums. to someone like me they’re more approachable. discord works best for me with friends, but it’s awkward with people I don’t know well
soiling@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•The Internet Is Failing The Website Preservation TestEnglish4·2 years agore: static content
How does authentication factor into this? even if we exclude marketing/tracking bullshit, there is a very real concern on many sites about people seeing the data they’re allowed to see. There are even legal requirements. If that data (such as health records) is statically held in a blockchain such that anyone can access it by its hash, privacy evaporates, doesn’t it?
soiling@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•The Internet Is Failing The Website Preservation TestEnglish13·2 years agothe most important things will be preserved naturally.
I believe this is a fallacy. Things get preserved haphazardly or randomly, and “importance” is relative anyway.
soiling@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Reddit communities with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitelyEnglish4·2 years agowait, I’ve never used quora. whats bad about it
soiling@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Day 2English3·2 years agoMaybe because I’m using Jerboa, but it feels slower to me. Jerboa has many issues though
soiling@beehaw.orgto Gaming@beehaw.org•Whats a game that everybody seems to love that you cant stand for one reason or another?3·2 years agoI’ve had a hard time finishing the game because of #2. DE is such a weird blend of “the devs thought of everything” and “all conversations are railroaded into insanity”. What at first felt like a game allowing the player to explore and develop political views in an alternate universe is actually more of a hamfisted, cynical parody of all possible idealogies. I think the moment I got South Park vibes (not from the writing, but from the " everyone is stupid " vibe) is when I was doomed to never finish it. That said, I actually love so much about the game, I want to enjoy and finish it. I just find it so tiring.
Their quest/story writing has definitely fallen off a cliff but I think it’s done to serve their bad game design. Or it goes hand in hand. Frankly I just don’t think Skyrim or FO4 were particularly good examples of the genre and probably won’t buy more Bethesda RPGs, but we’ll see.
soiling@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Slashdot -> Fark -> Digg -> Reddit -> LemmyEnglish1·2 years agothat doesn’t really hold because Wikipedia does not struggle with funding in the sense you’re thinking: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/wikipedia-millions-bank-beg/
so, survival doesn’t necessarily have to be at stake
I’m having the opposite experience. I feel like it’s already so active here I can’t keep up in bigger communities like this one.
soiling@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•[META] Tomorrow AskHistorians will go privateEnglish12·2 years agoin many ways AH is one of the highest quality and most valuable subreddits on the site. it’s such an important organization that really should live on outside of reddit, but obviously it only got so big because it was part of that ecosystem. I think I might mourn AH more than my smaller niche subs even though I don’t go there often if it does end uo disappearing. I really hope they can migrate successfully somewhere else.
soiling@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Seriously, what's up with big sites literally dying as we speak?5·2 years agoI don’t think it’s fair to say nothing is changing, but “dying” admittedly seems like hyperbole.
Organizations can die slowly or not at all but still be gravely damaged. They are almost certainly making these moves to capture the least critical (most profitable) portions of their userbases and hunker down for survival. Even if the change is extremely painful, they’re (likely) planning for the specific goal of avoiding total death.
soiling@beehaw.orgto Space@beehaw.org•‘Golden Asteroid’ Mission Is Back On Track, Says NASA2·2 years agois Psyche the name of the asteroid and the mission?
soiling@beehaw.orgto Space@beehaw.org•Betelgeuse is Almost 50% Brighter Than Normal. What's Going On?3·2 years agono, I think it would only be potentially harmful if its poles were pointed directly at us and we were blasted with gamma ray bursts
yep. it’s a stupid powerful build but also surprisingly flexible.