brucethemoose

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5h ago

How to get into linux and stay with linux?
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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 5h ago
Oh wow. That’s some weird shit piefed does.

5h ago

Facebook's Fascination with My Robots.txt

The “entire internet” is not even that big these days. The Internet Archive, for instance, is on the order of 100s of petabytes. 10K (or at least less than 100K) spinning disks is almost trivial for Azure, who has many millions deployed.

And the actual training runs for text models are in the trillions of tokens; again, chump change data wise.

On the other hand, they’d lose a ton of ephemeral data scraping for training runs every time instead of just saving the good stuff. I suppose it’s possible they mass rescrape and filter the content redundantly, but… that seems like a colossal waste?

Hmm, could be what they do, I guess.

8h ago

Facebook's Fascination with My Robots.txt

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 8h ago

That's so bizzare to me.

Why does OpenAI need to crawl your site more than once? Unless its fetching search results for some question, can't they just copy it into their training archive, and be done?

Based on tiny bits of insider nuggets and some outside views, I'm increasingly convinced that these huge AI houses are efficiency shitshows. They do not care about internal overutilization, they don't optimize or check for rogue bots and bugs. They literally run busywork to keep the appearance of busy GPUs. And it's going to catch up to them when the Chinese models have the same capabilities, and run on peanuts.

16h ago

I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 16h ago

Yeah, it is great advice. But I'm under no illusion that's happening anytime soon, not for most people.

The context matters. And in this instance “stop using social media” feels more like blaming the abused teenager while the rest of the world carries on, like its totally dismissive of what she's saying.

20h ago

I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 20h ago

No, but it’s still a more isolated environment. There aren’t bunch of ads or grifters or whatever on campus because it at least tries to insulate kids from the outside world profiting off them, and to curate what they experience.

That’s what they need on their phones, too. Lord of the Flies is better than Big Brother.

I guess the difficult part would be to blunt the outside from flooding in, like kids mass reposting Andrew Tate. But at least there would be some control/fairness with exposure, instead of an engagement algorithm ruling their feed.

21h ago

Phoebe Gates wants her $185 million AI startup to succeed with 'no ties to my privilege or my last name': 'I have a chip on my shoulder' | Fortune

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 21h ago

Oh, I 100% agree. I test installed the app, and it seems to be some of both (behavior tracking with a Safari extension, and store sponsorship).

That being said, I hate store monocultures even more, like how Amazon/Walmart can bully their suppliers through sheer critical mass and shoppers don’t even look anywhere else. That’s economic inefficiency. Price aggregators are a good thing.

21h ago

I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 21h ago

Gestures at Lemmy comments in this post. See what I mean?

21h ago

I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 21h ago

should be looked at to be regulated the same way gambling and addictive drugs are.

Yet here we are, still in the War on Drugs. Betting apps are exploding in popularity and being straight up paraded by politicians and business leaders.

I agree with the sentiment, but I don’t think the engagement feedback issue will be addressed directly. It’s too profitable. We’re cooked, for a while. So maybe we should reach for every half measure with a chance of passing, like restricting kids?

22h ago

Phoebe Gates wants her $185 million AI startup to succeed with 'no ties to my privilege or my last name': 'I have a chip on my shoulder' | Fortune

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 22h ago

Phoebe Gates cofounded Phia, an AI shopping assistant, with her Stanford University roommate Sophia Kianni. The shopping assistant plugs into browsers like Chrome and Safari to compare prices and surface deals across tens of thousands of retail and resale sites in real time. It essentially serves as your own personal deal finder: say you’re looking at a $200 dress from Anthropologie, Phia can find and compare prices at second-hand sellers to help customers find a better price.

That's actually a neat premise. Fashion isn't my cup of tea, but otherwise that sounds useful (albeit not very unique; shopping assistants are a dime a dozen).

22h ago

I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 22h ago

I mean, old forums were pretty messed up.

Your point stands though. The old internet isn't what the average person experiences, anymore.

What IMO would be the best solution is to force social media sites to have a cordoned off “children” section where kids can socialise with their peers without predatory adults having any form of access to them. But that’s easier said than done, unfortunately.

In real life, we call this school!

It can definitely be done. It's not difficult, it's just that the world is not heading in that direction.

23h ago

I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 23h ago

Exactly! Precisely. It’s affecting her real life, too.

That “just don’t use social media then” response in itself feels… misogynistic? This isn’t her choice; she can’t ignore the catastrophic effects.

23h ago

I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 23h ago

Using social media has ruined my self-esteem and my relation to being a girl in this world, and nearly every day I feel hatred towards my gender, my appearance, or even teenage boys as a category. The misogyny I see from boys my age online, which is echoed in real life too, has made me grow resentful and bitter towards them, as much as I try to avoid it. As wrong as it is, I persistently find myself considering if there are truly any boys out there who are not misogynistic to some extent, and have even questioned whether I can find love in the future because of this. I understand that boys are victims of harmful content, as well as perpetrators of online misogyny – they’re growing up learning how to do this from the adults who post misogynistic videos first. But even so, I feel such a strong divide now between girls and boys in my generation, especially when the way they talk about us in real life mirrors the way they do on the internet.

That’s fucked up.

That level of misogyny is definitely learned, but it’s not just her age group. I’m floored by (for example) some comments my Dad makes, a “quiet, respectful, classy” type guy who’s never had a Facebook or Insta, who’d you’d never expect to hear insults from. And it’s definitely worse after he watches Fox News… that shit is like a drug.

My school “friends” dropped my jaw, sometimes. They got a lot from their parents, but social media (Faceboook back then) absolutely made it worse.

Even here on Lemmy, the disrespect or casual sexism from commenters sometimes makes me want to throw up. Not that I’m a particularly standup guy or anything, but the longer I live, the more I wonder “the fuck happened to my sex?” I certainly can’t critique this girl for wondering the same thing.

24h ago

I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 24h ago

The whole point of the algorithm is attention. Yeah, they could try to actually police it so coded versions of “kill yourself, ugly bitch” don’t spread, but that language works, and it makes the posters rich.

You can’t get around for “addiction for ad dollars” being the whole point. It’s always going to surface ragebait, trash talk or whatever because that’s what sells attention, no matter how hard it’s fought.

…So yeah. Policing isnt going to do anything. Don’t tell your representatives something that won’t work, and worse, has the “theatre” of helping.

I don’t know a good “solution” other than burning it all to the ground, but honestly, banning as many people as possible sounds like a good idea to me.

2d ago

everyone hates AI

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 2d ago

The research/tinkerer community overwhelmingly agrees. They were making fun of Tech Bros before chatbots blew up.

2d ago

Is it ethical to use mild shock collars on autistic children because many health and educational institutions do that too?

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 2d ago

Is Lemmy getting bots?

I’m seeing more and more posts where OP posts some kind of engagement bait, yet hardly comments in any of the discussion. Yet I don’t know why that would be; karma isn’t used to gate posting like Reddit.

2d ago

How to get into linux and stay with linux?

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 2d ago

On Reddit, Karma isn’t just more visible, but a certain amount is an explicit requirement for posting in many situations. High karma accounts are also less likely to get moderated/banned. You can see why spambots would want to amass it.

I have no idea what the incentive would be here.

4d ago

Facebook is absolutely cooked

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 4d ago

Also, this is not that far from Instagram. And even with real women Insta always felt slimy to me.

And… weird. I don’t get the appeal.

4d ago

Facebook is absolutely cooked

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 4d ago

This is why I love the idea of Cromite and other “antifingerprinting” efforts, not simply blocking but spoofing and plausibly randomizing as many metrics as they can.

I wish there was some way to distribute that to the masses. Like maybe a crazy hardware zero day, and it’s only used to stealth load anti fingerprinting on as many devices as it can.

4d ago

Facebook is absolutely cooked

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 4d ago

What I barely understand is why businesses keep fueling this ad inferno. If it’s mostly bots farming engagement, isn’t that going to limit the effectiveness of advertising? Won’t that eventually show up in their returns on the advertising’? Do they really want their business associated with scantily clad 14 year old feeds, or are they all totally blind to that.

I get part of it… social media is the internet now, for most people. So if you want reach, where else are ya gonna go? Cable? Newspapers? Local news? They killed everything else. Google’s even killing YouTube sponsors now, auto skipping sponsor segments in the app.

4d ago

switched back to KDE and don't regret

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 4d ago

IDK what y'all are on about. KDE + Khronkite uses very little RAM. There are a few background things you can disable if you don’t need them to make it even leaner.

It also just works, with so many integrations, all maintained for you.

My brief foray into discrete WMs like Sway was nostop “oh, it doesn’t have a WiFi manager? Oh, no sharing? Oh, no…” and I ended up having to install a bunch of stuff manually, manually configure it all, tie them together with some scripts and services that break with updates, and find out I did a no-so-great job because I haven’t spent literally thousands of man hours in integration and ended up using a lot of extra disk space and RAM anyway!

Breathes.

So yeah. Big DEs are nice. And lean, mostly.