OpenStars

@ OpenStars @piefed.social

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Compassion ~ Thought

10h ago

Missed opportunity
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OpenStars @piefed.social 10h ago
Actually, yes it is (according to capitalism). 😭

10h ago

Lemmynsfw is down, possibly forever. The server is still serving images and videos though - if anyone wants to archive do it now!

One of PieFed's earliest features was the separate distinction between NSFW and NSFL / gore. Although with Lemmy lacking that, I would guess that any poster would be afraid to rely on it without also toggling the NSFW label as well.

12h ago

‘OVER EASY VALENTINE’S’ [OC] (with ‘forever alone guy’, Joseph Erkhoff)

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OpenStars @piefed.social 12h ago

You could be too, in about one minute...

12h ago

The sun is a deadly laser...

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OpenStars @piefed.social 12h ago

They took a mental health / exercise break before they get back in there...

21h ago

By Jove, Anakin solved the riddle!

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OpenStars @piefed.social 21h ago

yes

21h ago

Rising teenage pregnancy among young teens in Philippines

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OpenStars @piefed.social 21h ago

Those teens had sex.

1d ago

🐧

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OpenStars @piefed.social 1d ago

People need to: (1) have capacity, like a single mother with 3 kids and commuting to work 3 jobs isn't going to switch even if it took less than a day, and (2) they need to see the value of doing so first. Lowering the entry barrier will help IMMENSELY, and then after that people are willing to put up with some slight amounts of effort so long as they know in advance it will be worthwhile.

Unfortunately a non-technical mainstream normie isn't going to know how to check their hardware first, and barely knows what software they themselves use (including the variety of plug-ins) on a daily basis, or how to know which ones they will have to give up using, and seek alternatives for.

If such alternatives exist. Like, on a mobile device (including laptops, or an Android phone/tablet), nobody has ever managed to tell me an actually usable web browser that doesn't burn up my battery in the background all day long like Firefox does - Firefox is an absolutely horrid shit app, which just so happens to be better than Chrome... barely.

And what program/app is more crucial in this modern era than a web browser? So when people see the state that the CEO of Firefox has put that FOSS program into, and the lack of anyone else (e.g. LibreWolf) making a better app - which again must be usable by non-technical mainstream normie users - then they nope right out and never bother to reconsider.

Note that the market share of people using desktops vs. a laptop or mobile where battery concerns are absolutely critical is dropping, see e.g. this article.

1d ago

Please stop

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OpenStars @piefed.social 1d ago

Or Linux skinned to look like it? (As if that is somehow much better? 😜)

2d ago

Every year

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OpenStars @piefed.social 2d ago

If 30 is old then I am... nevermind! 😬

2d ago

The sun is a deadly laser...

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OpenStars @piefed.social 2d ago

Well, "life as we know it". But for all we know energy rather than matter-based beings could have existed more readily back then, and perhaps struggle to exist now under lower density conditions. Thereby making that earlier era more habitable for their type of life, even as our current era is more habitable for our own type.

2d ago

The sun is a deadly laser...

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OpenStars @piefed.social 2d ago

WRONG! It is turtles actually. It's elephants alternating with turtles (and then every tenth level is capybaras) all the way down.

2d ago

I have so much

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OpenStars @piefed.social 2d ago

2d ago

Cadence heard you wanted some AI in your AI so it used AI to design an AI chip

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OpenStars @piefed.social 2d ago

It might at that. Though there will also be a lag time where even after it comes, people have become so inured by the past lies that they are slow to adapt. And hallucinations still exist, especially in the cheaper models where significantly fewer than 10^{8 (or was that 2}8?) compute cycles are expended to answer the equivalent of a random Google search query.

It would also help if humans were precise. General "AI" in the sense of movies (such as the one I showed a picture to, in the first panel) do not exist. But LLMs do.

2d ago

That's me

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OpenStars @piefed.social 2d ago

Perhaps you could be... in your dreams?! 😂😴

2d ago

Cadence heard you wanted some AI in your AI so it used AI to design an AI chip

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OpenStars @piefed.social 2d ago

AI is getting better all the time. Eventually it will surpass human intelligence, but that seems decades away. Some challenges that remain are:

Untrustworthy proponents, who even if they were telling the truth NOW, that fact would be inconsistent with their past lies.
Energy utilization costs
Unethical training practices, note how like each of the above this is independent of its actual capabilities
While we are at it, how many "AI" answers in the past have been curated with manual effort, or even are due more (sometimes exclusively?) to human answers placed into the area where the supposedly, and falsely reported, answers from "AI" were supposed to have been. I concede this may be a shrinking pool of answers (yet for all we know it could even be a growing one? as in waves of propagation where answers that were previously impossible via AI, become possible, but then there are even more answers beyond that that remain impossible, until AI again catches up to those, and the wave moves forward).
Reliability - as in how many answers are worth paying attention to vs. must be discarded (remember those people who trusted the AI answer and thereby had to be evacuated via boat due to the rising tides making a crossing impossible?), and more importantly there a lack of distinction between which answers are which. Even Sam Altman says this, so you don't have to take my word for anything here.
The culture of constant blaming of people for believing the false narratives spread by AI proponents - like you should have just used a better prompt, bro! This happened with Windows too, for decades, as in "you should have just spent 50 hours turning off this list of 100 things that are super annoying and replaced core components of the OS, and then do a large subset of that again and again after every update process... bro!" At some point though, when can we say that "Windoze sux"? Or Reddit? Yes Reddit has technical superiority to Lemmy in many ways, plus there is tons of content there that while it may be elsewhere too (Facebook, Instagram, X) is not on the Fediverse, and in some cases is nowhere else. Yet... we all are here? (And some of us also there too.)
The profit incentive makes people distrust anything coming from the source that you linked to. Facebook, Reddit, X, Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc. all enshittified, and just because chatgpt has not enshittified YET, does not mean that it will not in the future. I would not have said this as strongly here if you had linked to an ethically-sourced, non-profit or even FOSS source (something running DeepSeek?).

It is true that "AI is getting better", and it is also true that "A'I' sucks", both. And many of us do not spend 10 hours a week keeping up with which of the large (but shrinking?) variety of things A"I" cannot be trusted with vs. where it might be halfway useful (if it does not lead to your early untimely demise, e.g. in interpreting medical advice). Like I would use it to retrieve a link for me to read (& VERIFY!!!!!!!) information, but I would NOT trust it to interpret an image for me. It happened to work successfully here, but this is a mere party trick? Beware, any company that is looking to fire all of its staff and rely instead purely on AI - it is not ready for anything close to what the promises claim that it is ready for.