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Which is less religious: Xmas or Christmas? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Saturnalia

December Book Club Canceled. Short Stories instead! in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"The Green Leopard Plague" by Walter Jon William. Nebula award winning novella that blew my mind when I read it in Gardner Dozois' The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty First Annual Collection back in 2004.

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AI Safety in a post-Altman OpenAI world (kaijus.us)
 

I've gotten used to reading, "OpenAI has a moat," around Artificial Intelligence. They've been so far ahead, so consistently, that the fear has been that other AI companies would ignore safety in an attempt to catch up.

Now the ouster of Sam Altman as OpenAI CEO seems to indicate that its board intends to pump the brakes and attempt to reach AGI responsibly rather than recklessly.

But when the daredevil driver of the lead car is replaced with a school bus driver who stops for all of the cross-walks will the other cars in the race abandon all caution, knowing that they are no longer only competing for second place?

Why Google, Bing and other search engines' embrace of generative AI threatens $68 billion SEO industry in c/[email protected]
The Greatest Shot In Television in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Reminded me of this early Aaron Sorkin play about a writer and director filming the most expensive and pivotal shot of their debut film, which is ruined when three cows walk into frame.

The Forgotten Faux Reality Show That Turned 'Survivor' Into a Horror Story in c/[email protected]
Community cleanup in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Totally understand, and thank you. I'm frustrated with the folks attacking lemmit.online, not you for providing the service. Much appreciated.

Community cleanup in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Thanks. It's https://lemmit.online/c/Boise. IMHO The tiny subreddits with very few posts that don't cause front page Lemmy noise are the most important to retain, because Lemmy does not yet have the userbase to support its own niche communities.

Community cleanup in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I realize that lemmit.online is reviled for creating noise with high traffic subreddit reposts, but I want to supply another perspective. My city subreddit is one of the communities you've disabled already. It's a small city, with few subscribers on Reddit. There is no Lemmy community for my city, and no one even posts to the Lemmy community which exists for my state. So, no, I'm not going to create a Lemmy community to talk to myself. The loss of the lemmit.online community for my city means that I'll need to use Reddit, and if I'm going to be there anyway then I might as well just give up on Lemmy rather than have to use both.

What are your thoughts on desktop environments available through USB-C on mobile devices? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I used a Samsung device with DeX and a lapdock as my sole PC for a year. It was...challenging. I expect that a first generation "desktop experience" on Android from Google would have issues, too.

I also have big concerns about Google's invasive new ad platform which monitors your browser history to serve you ads, and how integrated it also seems to be to apps which use Chrome on Android.

All that said, I'd probably still be all-in for a Pixel that becomes a ChromeOS device when plugged into a monitor.

What are you Reading? (August 2023) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I enjoyed The Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies edited by Gardner Dozois until his passing. I just discovered its spiritual successor, The Best Science Fiction of the Year edited by Neil Clarke, and am catching up now.

where did the downvote button go? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Check that you're logged in? I found myself unexpectedly logged out everywhere after the last Lemmy update.

News aggregation app recommendations in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I saw a mention elsewhere for https://ground.news

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Lemmy Rate Limiting Options? (kaijus.us)
 

Has anyone self-hosting Lemmy found docs for the rate limit options?

I'm running on a free Oracle Cloud VM and am wondering if there are any default settings I should consider changing.

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What could possibly go wrong? (article from 5.07.2023) (www.bloomberg.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
8 comments fedilink
 

Original title: The US Military Is Taking Generative AI Out for a Spin

Summary: The US military is testing five LLMs as part of an eight-week exercise run by the Pentagon’s digital and AI office. "It was highly successful. It was very fast," a US Air Force colonel is quoted as saying. "We did it with secret-level data," he adds, saying that it could be deployed by the military in the very near term.

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Discovering bot accounts (kaijus.us)
 

I've recently seen bot accounts being used in various discussions, like:

It seems like there should be a way to discover these bots without having to first see them in use, but the Lemmy User search doesn't offer an option to return bot accounts and (obviously) doesn't provide useful results when searching "bot".

Is there some way to discover them that I'm missing? Maybe using the Lemmy API? Failing some sort of automated curation, does a "Use(ful/less) Bots" community where bot authors may announce their bot exist?

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