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ElectroVagrant

@ ElectroVagrant @lemmy.world

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Another traveler of the wireways.

  • AI helps narrow 8,000 catalyst options down to one that supercharges green ammonia | Phys.org

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  • This is the kind of AI/machine learning I can get behind, especially given it may sort of help even out some of its energy use in the process. More of this application of the tech could be great if the results hold up.

  • Business @lemmy.world
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    AI avatars in China just proved they are better influencers. It only took a duo 7 hours to rake in more than $7 million | CNBC

    www.cnbc.com /2025/06/19/ai-humans-in-china-just-proved-they-are-better-influencers.html
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  • Sort of odd to see this again (from Vox as well, I think?). It seems to add more detail, but the bottom line remains the same: it's largely because fewer people are trying to immigrate into the U.S. since the Trump admin entered office.

    Trump might struggle to ramp up deportations along the border, as Obama did, simply because significantly fewer people are coming. In March, border apprehensions fell to 7,181, a 95 percent decrease from March 2024.

    This all sucks, and another part that sucks about it is that as usual, in the absence of as many of the Republicans'/conservatives' favorite scapegoats, they begin turning inward and grabbing anyone and everyone that remotely resembles those scapegoats to abuse and deport to appeal to their base. Without more pushback, and as those deportation numbers continue to dwindle, you can expect that they'll begin more widely rounding up their detractors (or at least attempting to).

  • ChatGPT Has Already Polluted the Internet So Badly That It's Hobbling Future AI Development

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  • Odd url...Here's the original: https://futurism.com/chatgpt-polluted-ruined-ai-development

    Nice detail to use when searching the internet btw:

    "But if you're collecting data before 2022 you're fairly confident that it has minimal, if any, contamination from generative AI," he added. "Everything before the date is 'safe, fine, clean,' everything after that is 'dirty.'"

    Try running searches set pre-2022, at least for older info, to reduce the possibilities of AI generated noise.

    Anyway, kinda funny to see these generators may be producing enough noise to make producing more noise somewhat harder. Hopefully this doesn't also impact more productive AI development, such as what's used in scientific research and the like, as that would genuinely suck.

    Edit:Revised from generators "have produced" to "may be producing" to better reflect the lack of concrete info regarding generative AI data pollution as someone else pointed out. As they note:

    "Now, it's not clear to what extent model collapse will be a problem, but if it is a problem, and we've contaminated this data environment, cleaning is going to be prohibitively expensive, probably impossible," he told The Register.

  • BattleBit - Operation Overhaul: Teaser Trailer

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  • This timing is pretty amusing.

    The other day I shared this video (Failure of Battlebit Remastered), which itself was uploaded by its creator only a week ago.

    It's great to see the devs coming back to it. Tbh I don't think it's my sort of game personally, but I typically prefer to see projects revisited and restored well instead of abandoned.

  • Weather wigets for Android?

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  • Breezy Weather is a solid option with a good array of widget types that might work for ya.

  • What's a niche fediverse software you like?

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  • In a better world, this (or one of its forks) would have taken off instead of Mastodon. It makes a way better case for itself by its distinct features compared to Mastodon, which is too easy to ignore (by everyday people) as Nerd-Twitter.

  • Komi Can't Communicate is such a nice show

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  • Yeah! The last anime that I thought was as comfy was maybe Little Witch Academia.

    I don't know how I found myself watching Little Witch Academia, but it was a great choice. May have to rewatch it sometime...

  • Coinbase hires top political strategists as crypto industry shows off its newfound political might | AP News

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  • Cryptocurrency orgs have done one job extremely well here, and that's blatantly demonstrate that the best way to try to fast track legislation is Big Money.

    It's like how all the cryptocurrency screwups demonstrate why there are financial regulations to begin with, now they're inadvertently helping demonstrate extremely clearly why we need to get money out of politics.

  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Coinbase hires top political strategists as crypto industry shows off its newfound political might | AP News

    apnews.com /article/crypto-coinbase-democrats-plouffe-a450a4a8dc8fac1fd94856f952c6263f
  • MealtimeVideos Cafe @lemmy.cafe
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    Ne Zha: China's Symbol of Rebellion | Video Essay [17:13] by Accented Cinema

  • Anime @ani.social
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    Komi Can't Communicate is such a nice show

  • Fedigrow @lemmy.zip
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    Why Outreach Matters

  • Technology @lemmy.zip
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    Beyond sycophancy: DarkBench exposes six hidden ‘dark patterns’ lurking in today’s top LLMs | VentureBeat

    venturebeat.com /ai/darkness-rising-the-hidden-dangers-of-ai-sycophancy-and-dark-patterns/

  • Trust me, it's a great read

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  • Desktop friendly link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drugstore_beetle

    That aside, you're not kidding:

    It belongs to the family Ptinidae, which also includes the deathwatch beetle, furniture beetle and cigarette beetle.

    Talk about a wild family.

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  • Some apps (e.g. Voyager/Thunder) and web frontends (Tesseract? not sure which tbh) enable keyword filtering.

    In the case of the apps, it's found in settings under filters & blocks or filters, respectively. Unfortunately I can't recall which web frontends enable it for sure, but I do remember there seemed to be fewer of them that did last I checked.

  • What should the subset of the Fediverse that is Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed be called?

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  • Personally I dislike anything with -verse involved because big companies have run it into the ground and then some.

    The boring, dry ways of describing them work best in my opinion.

    Federated forums is the driest, most technical and to the point but not very telling.

    Swap out forum for link aggregator and you have similar, arguably even more technical (certainly more of a mouthful).

    Connected/linked forums might be more approachable, more readily conveying how these are separate forums but networked together.

    Cross-forums may work as well to the same end, but not sure how immediately understandable cross may be in this context and outside of gaming spaces.

    Whatever the case I kind of think this has things backwards. What's more important than describing and talking about the backend tech is pointing people to any of the sites built with them that have anything of interest to them to bother with. I can't think of anything online I've ever gone to or used because someone told me it was using Apache, Nginx, phpBB, or like an Open Source Web Server or using such and such CDN.

    The reason why is simple: next to nobody talks like that. The only people that might are deep in web dev.

  • New to Lemmy @lemmy.ca
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    Tip: when mentioning or promoting a community, use the exclamation point format for convenient linking (see post body for details)

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Wheeling wheels in a wheelbarrow is weally wonderful.

  • Whiplash from bouncing between shows

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  • Honestly that's one of my favorite parts of anthology/episodic shows. You get a loose theme of what to expect but each episode can pleasantly surprise you.

  • Anime @ani.social
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    Whiplash from bouncing between shows

  • How old should my lemm.ee account be to be able to upload photos in posts?

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  • Image uploads are enabled 4 weeks after account creation, & image upload limit is 500kb per image.

    Source is instance sidebar, but if you're using an app that's gonna be found in a variety of places. In Voyager for example it's under Communities>3 dot menu in the upper right>Instance sidebar.

  • The true American social classes

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  • Cult of Disney is eerily real. Maybe it's the US version of how some Brits obsess over the royalty.

  • What's something that's free that everyone should know about?

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  • In terms of fully free, obligatory mention:Your library may offer more than books alone, depending on how well supported they are. Borrow music, movies, sometimes even video games. For music and movies they may also offer these to borrow digitally as well via online services they coordinate with.

  • Voyager @lemmy.world
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    Request: Search by URL (as available in Lemmy web UI)

  • is there a community for asking specific questions such as “is this user a troll”, “why do people act this way,” “what should I do”, etc.?

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  • I don't think so. The largest ask communities, according to their own descriptions, say they're for more open-ended questions, albeit AskLemmylemmy.ml seems to be more lax about it (and it seems like maybe AskLemmy@lemmy.world has kinda relaxed on it too).

    There's the newer !ask@lemm.ee that doesn't have the open-ended part to their description, so might be a good fit.

  • Looking for a Fediverse Alternative to Tumblr: Loforo vs Wafrn vs Goblin vs Others?

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  • It's just a different Wafrn instance, which is why you couldn't log into it.

    As far as I'm aware it's the first and only other Wafrn instance run by someone besides the creator of Wafrn. Hopefully in time there may be more.

  • Looking for a Fediverse Alternative to Tumblr: Loforo vs Wafrn vs Goblin vs Others?

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  • Similar situation to Irelephant, first I'm reading about Loforo. Doing some brief research, it doesn't look like Loforo's integrated ActivityPub that much, nor does it seem to be open source so others could run their own instances.

    In those respects Wafrn is the clear choice for a federated Tumblr-like, as it's open source and integrates ActivityPub thoroughly. As a matter of fact, a little more digging and I found where someone has been helping test run another Wafrn instance in the form of "evil" Wafrn.

  • SAVE Act: House Passes GOP Voting Bill That Could Disenfranchise Millions

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  • The sort of bizarre thing about this kind of trash legislation is, if you take a moment to consider it as being in good faith (which it's not but...), it lays the groundwork for delegitimizing its own supporters.

    If the elections were so insecure and widely defrauded as to justify and demand this legislation, then there's zero reason to believe those seeking to pass the legislation have any legitimacy whatsoever. After all, they may have only gotten their positions by exploiting the elections' insecurity, and if not exploiting it, benefiting from it nonetheless and should in turn resign instead of further diminishing the integrity of the governments' institutions.

    However, obviously they don't want people to consider that angle, and this is mainly a means to disenfranchise voters and sow further institutional distrust while encouraging party loyalty, as there is no genuine basis for this legislation.

  • [Closed] Moved to !fedigrow@lemmy.zip @lemm.ee
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    Thoughts on "linkdumping", pacing posts, and a schedule posts feature

  • New to Lemmy @lemmy.ca
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    Tip: if on a larger instance/site, search for communities first before making a new one

  • Fediverse @piefed.social
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    Moving Beyond the False Dichotomy for Federation Management

    writings.thisismissem.social /moving-beyond-the-false-dichotomy-for-federation-management/
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    "I do not want your Gemini, I do not want any AI. [...]"

  • New to Lemmy @lemmy.ca
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    Tip: want to post to your own profile/user space? Create a personal community and set it so only moderators can post.

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    Resources for discovery across the open social web/fediverse

  • Memes @sopuli.xyz
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    how do you work??

  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    8:45

    Clonk: Terraria 15 Years Before Terraria