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TootSweet

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  • I'll quit watching YouTube before I give it my ID

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  • Well, I guess just to list off who I watch frequently, kinda sorted into categories:

    TTRPG:

    • Critical Role - Really famous. Live-play of TTRPGs. It's really a huge investment of time to keep up with it, though.

    Just people I have parasocial relarionships with:

    • Any Austin - Kinda "philosophy of gaming" is how I'd describe his latest content. I've been a huge fan of his for many many years and am way more invested in him than the content he currently makes. But he's really fascinating. His alternate channel "The Excellent Man From Minneapolis" is music he writes/records. Good stuff as well IMO.
    • Memoria - Gaming entertainment content. Found her when she was featured on Austin's channel.
    • gl;hf - A podcast that Austin and Memoria do together. It's about everything and nothing.

    Long form deep dive investigative and social commentary stuff:

    • OKI's Weird Stories - Cool expos on things like conspiracy theories and cults.
    • Fredrik Knudson - Similar cool expos on things like gaming communities, fandoms, niche infamous figures, scientific experiments, etc.
    • Folding Ideas - Somewhere between expos and social commentary. Does stuff about flat earthers, gold, cryptocurrency, etc.
    • Contrapoints - Insightful and really well-edited/highly-prodiced left-wing social commentary stuff.
    • Philosophy Tube - Quite similar to Contrapoints but different. I'd imagine if you like one, you'd like both.
    • Munecat - Also similar to Contrapoints and Philosophy tube.
    • Innuendo Studios - Maybe discontinued, but really really good source for info on how the alt-right "works" and how to fix (particularly American) fascism.

    Tech/hacking:

    • Ben Jordan - Stuff about privacy, police tech, fighting scraping for gen-ai training, etc. Informative.
    • Marcin Plaza - Hobbyist mobile computing device prototyping. Quite entertaining as well.
    • James Channel - Fucking hillarious. Mostly game system modding content, but way funnier than that makes him sound.

    Satanism:

    • The Satanic Grotto - A small satanist group based in Kansas that made the national news big time not too long ago holding a "black mass" at the state capitol. I'm just fascinated by all the legal fallout of the whole thing. And... I think the Satanic Grotto is the good guys. "Part of the solution" if you will.
    • Behemoth X - Just really dark and atmospheric content about rituals to commune with demons. Dude 100% believes demons are real and powerful and he does blood sacrifices to them and talks about what wisdom he claims they've shared with him. Also life advice. Lol. Really interesting. Only major downside to the guy: he's really leaned into using AI art in his videos lately. It's pretty cringe.

    Other creepy stuff:

    • Tales From The Trip! - Substance use trip reports. Only bad trip reports.
    • Night Mind - Essays on horror media. Mostly video games and ARGs.
    • Nexpo - Similar to Night Mind, but occasionally does stories about grisly murders or creepy cults.
    • blameitonjorge - Similar to the above, but with a lot of focus on lost media.
    • Nick Crowley - Mostly creepy internet and TV history rabbit holes.

    Vidja gaming content:

    • Summoning Salt: History of speedrun world records. Way more interesting than it sounds.
    • Pointcrow - Bit of a guilty pleasure. Popular Twitch streamer who does speedruns and challenge runs and stuff. Quite entertaining, but a bit sophmoric.

    I'm sure I could think of more if I thought for a bit. I should mention that I don't usually log in to YouTube. I keep my subscribed-to list in NewPipe on my phone. But I also do a fair amount of just searching by topic or happening across YouTube content on Lemmy or Hackaday.

  • I'll quit watching YouTube before I give it my ID

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  • Quitting Reddit was hard in several ways.

    Quitting D&D (because of WotC being assholes) sucked because I was an Eberron/Keith Baker fan and have a lot of money sunk into D&D.

    But I don't know if I could quit YouTube. If that happened, I'd try to find ways to hack my way around it. I might ask my favorite creators to migrate to other platforms. But if I had no options to get their content but to give YouTube my ID, I might honestly have to do it.

  • Chomsky had deeper ties with Epstein than previously known, documents reveal

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  • The difference between MAGA nuts and sane people is that sane people will see stories about people they previously liked being involved with Epstein and still be glad more of the Epstein files are being released while the moment MAGAts sense the Epstein files will be bad for their orange leader, they try to sweep them under the rug.

  • What are the best reasons people have given you for not wanting to try Linux?

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  • "My graphics programs." Printmaster in particular. That was a long time ago and now she's more open to Linux. We'll see what happens next time Windows does some bullshit.

  • What are the best reasons people have given you for not wanting to try Linux?

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  • Based.

  • AI bubble madness: Why Nvidia's market cap fell $600,000,000,000 in One Day

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  • Pop some popcorn and get ready for fireworks.

  • The prophecy

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  • Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime. That's why I liberate the company's time.

  • What show is weirdly or oddly cozy for you?

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  • Star Trek: Voyager. I was raised on that shit. Not objectively the "best" Star Trek. (Far from the worst, though.) But it's the one that's most nostalgic and, indeed, "cozy" for me.

  • rule

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  • I can't let you do that, Dave.

  • what do you use to add weight?

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  • Not exactly the densest material out there, but pennies are cheap and easily procured. May not be quite what you're looking for for your use case. (You asked about "cost/weight ratio" and "weight to space" which makes it sound like you're looking to add a lot of weight.)

    I've been known to make a fully-enclosed cylindrical cavity and set my slicer to pause at exactly the right layer to where I can drop a few stacks of pennies into the print before upper layers seal the cavity closed.

  • PIC

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  • New thing to ponder just dropped

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  • I prefer cubic for easy stacking.

  • Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throats - The force-feeding will continue until morale improves

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  • God that article is depressing. Where I work, it's bad but not as bad as any of those stories.

  • LLMs are bullshitters. But that doesn't mean they're not useful

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  • You sound very upset

    I am.

    about a tool

    No, about a massive scam.

  • LLMs are bullshitters. But that doesn't mean they're not useful

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  • I skimmed it to find the parts where it talked about why LLMs aren't useless. Basically the only place it talks about why they aren't useless is the section "…, and sophists are useful":

    If I use a LLM to help me find a certain page in a document, or sanity check this post while writing it, I don’t care “why” the LLM did it. I just care that it found that page or caught obvious mistakes in my writing faster than I could have.

    So, I'm supposed to wade through the BS and hallucinations to find these nuggets of helpful feedback rather than just proofreading it myself? That's a pretty weak use case.

    I don’t think I need to list the large number of tasks where LLMs can save humans time, if used well.

    So he's basically admitting he can't come up with any actually good uses. "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain."

    By all means, use LLMs where they are useful tools: tasks where you can verify the output, where speed matters more than perfection, where the stakes of being wrong are low.

    There's no universe where such a use case exists in a way that isn't actively harmful or at least "brain rot"-y to anyone consuming the content created by the LLM user. This is why AI slop exists.

    In short, "yes it does."

  • US | Missouri seeks federal help in pressing China for $25 billion in COVID damages

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  • Any time Missouri comes up in (inter)national news, it's just embarrassing.

  • Evolution at its finest!

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  • The redneck version of Raven from Snow Crash.

  • LLMs are bullshitters. But that doesn't mean they're not useful

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  • Yes it does.

  • I am just sooo sick of AI prediction content, let's kill it already

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  • They had me at the title.

    They lost me at:

    [AI] is a truly transformative technology after all.

  • Why is there symbol of islam as piefed.social logo?

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  • A Dune reference.