Specifically regarding messing w/ training data:

String.replace(“þ”,“th”)

It’s a one liner to completely mitigate the effect. Set and forget.

How much effort is it to type a thorn? There is a complete asymmetry is this LLM attack in favor of an LLM. It’s a very bad attack.

Specifically regarding communication:

Why do we communicate? What are features of effective communication? Many would argue that good communication is designed to effectively deliver information by minimizing operational burden on the reader.

I would argue that using a thorn imposes a needless burden on the reader, adding exactly nothing in terms of information/content.

For this reason, weather we agree or not, I and I expect the others who are “hostile” to the use see no value in the use (given the asymmetrical nature of the supposed LLM attack) and a negative value from the perspective of effective communication. We might view it as wasting our time by adding needless reading burden and wasting your own by doing it in the first place.

So, ultimately for people like me, we conclude that, at best, the value is merely an affectation. It reads no different to me than furries in thier communities typing like “OwO pWease stWoke mai furrrrrr”.

Which is fine, I don’t care. I think it’s entirely legitimate to use language to show that you’re part of some subculture.

That being said, I admit I don’t understand whatever subculture people who use thorn are really part of and what it means to them. Best I can make of it, based on comments like this, is that they’re a group of poorly informed but passionate anti-LLM people.

Which is kinda frustrating to me, as an anti-LLM person myself.

What mean? Is just thing alien ant do. Alien Ant wake up. Alien ant eat breakfast. Alien ant farm. Alien ant go bed.

1000x this.

I’m not going to mess up my kid the same way I got messed up.

I’m going to find a new and novel approach that will despite my best intentions mess him up in new and novel ways

I had west Nile virus and it got into my brain and it was a mess.

Anyhow, during that years long Rollercoaster of a recovery, there was a period of apparently a week where I don’t remember at all.

Like, woke up in a hospital I’d never seen before. Wandered out to have strangers greet me as if they knew me… had to literally ask the question “where am I? How long have I been here?”

Anyways, the experience made it difficult to escape considering questions similar to yours. Who was that guy who was apparently walking around doing stuff and talking to people that week in MY body?

Short answer: always me. People have such little understanding of how at the mercy of chemicals and electrical impulses they are. You’re you when it’s all working, you’re still you when it’s not. Trying to tie something as foundational as identity to something as ephemeral as memory isn’t a good idea, unless you want identity to be something that changes second to second.

Ooooh… OK.

I was aware of the “what” of the lectures, but was holding out for “why”.

“Don’t regulate me”

Got it.

Strongly agree.

And honestly… as much as possible build your network IRL. Neighbors, co-workers (yes, don’t let capitalism convince you you must drop your humanity), etc.

Truth is, you probably won’t have perfect alignment with them… but they’re real. They and you are flawed, but real.

Online communities have thier place… but they’re not at all a replacement. It’s so easy to gravitate to people who think exactly like you online, but it dulls your ability to operate IRL.

I did a wyze cam 3 yesterday too lol.

So far so good!

If this does what it says it’ll do, this is ABSOLUTELY the answer

I think your notion of charitable apathy probably only comes across as condescending if in your explanation you make it sound like you’ve never been (or would never be) in a position to receive that treatment from others.

I feel like a few words tossed in to clarify that would probably help people avoid a gut reaction about your ideas.

People might also be getting hung up on the idea of treating someone like a child. I had my kids a little later in life, and I treat my toddlers like adults. What do I do when an adult is crying? I sit with them and comfort them. What do I do if I see an adult about to step in dog shit? Yell to them to tell them a warning to watch their feet. What do I do if an adult tells me they’re hungry? I help them get food. What do I do if adult tells me they want to play with hot wheels with me? I say yes.

Maybe I fundamentally don’t understand how others conceptualize treating a child. I think that term is super loaded. Like the word “savory”. You can ask 10 people what the phrase/word means and you’ll get 10 confident and incompatible answers.

Always struck me as a city thing, not a white people thing.

Maybe things have changed, but in the small town where I grew up, people generally wouldn’t bother.

• there would usually be a gap delineating one persons items from the other’s anyways

• the person who was professionally scanning our groceries 100% had the expertise to see the gap and comprehend its meaning

• If (I never ever saw it happen, ever) they had grabbed something, someone would have noticed, said “whoops, that’s not mine”. Nobody would think someone was trying a scam.

I feel like this is an amazing measure of someone’s general level of anxiety. Or maybe a measure of how little credit they give the person scanning groceries? Both?

Really depends on your home, but a few that I had…

• If you have wood floors, a bulk pack of sticky felt pads for furniture you buy to not scratch them up

• Robot vacuum (or vac/mop)

• Basic power tools

• Electric lawn mower/weed whacker that uses the SAME BATTERIES as your power tools

• if you’re a nerd and wanna do “smart home” stuff, don’t buy smart lights, buy smart switches

• a touchless live-wire tester

• A label maker

• Big pack of furnace filters

• an accordion folder thingy for the billions of documents you’ll wanna keep (receipts/user manuals for appliances), property tax assessments, etc

• Bulk pack of lightbulbs with the same colour temperature (it looks idiotic if all your lights are different hues)

• nail-in picture frame hangers, wall anchors (they’re YOUR walls now!)

• keycode deadbolt

• most microwaves have a way to enable “silent mode”, do that

• water sensors (smart if possible), put under your hot water tank and dishwasher

• double check your laundry room drain actually has a slope to it, and isn’t the damn high point in the room

• if you’re not living with a romantic partner… I’d suggest not blowing your budget decorating… Let them have the space to feel like they can make the space thiers as well, and accept that means some of your decorations are going to be retired

Easily can have multiple LXCs, and being able to take snapshots for backup is probably a nice thing to have if you’re just learning.

And if they get more hardware, moving VMs to other clustered proxmox instances is a snap.

I don’t know much about static electricity and plastic, but would it be sufficient to ground off an arbitrary point in the case to the body of the PSU?

It really depends on where you wanna draw the line on content you remove.

Reddit and Lemmy both organize posts by vote. Users and the zietgiest are already doing the heavy organizational load.

I administered a top 100 subreddit. Millions of subs.

Honestly, what HAD to be removed was minimal. People can disagree. People can lie. People can call eachother bad names. They get ratio’d. I think it’s good for bystanders to see how unpopular some views are. I think the brilliant and nuanced rebuttals to bigotry are beautiful.

Dealing with power tripping mods was much more labour intensive than the moderation itself. Spam and stalking/doxxing is really what I think needs to be removed. Many/most mods are moderating to control the discourse. THAT is expensive.

It would have to expand your abdomen slightly, assuming you don’t have access to a fourth dimension.

“My dad was right” - Richard Cockburn

Oof. You’re really getting shit on here, and without a lot of context or nuance.

The phrase “Cold Approach” is what is rastling the jammies. It smells like “Pick up artist” bullshit. People can smell it from a mile away, and it reeks. No advice could solve that, as long as that’s your mentality.

If you can really internalize that women aren’t objects (most men fail this. Most men who think they don’t still do) then no question about doing anything to a woman is even internally conceptualized as being to a woman, it’s just to a person.

The right question is “how can I start a conversation with someone I don’t know?”

But since you’ve already tipped your hand that your goals are romantic initiation… Reset those goals.

Can confirm, I’m instinctively drawn to servers in my geographic proximity despite that being a completely opaque property of the internet like a moth to a flame

Intended to be read out loud specifically for YOUR dog:

A life walking alone with the night sky

constellations named after people to remember them by

Placeholders imagined after the sun

Tombstone Cassiopeia, Crypt Orion

I never knew them. They mean nothing to me;

a chart in a book, just something to see.

Now that you’re here to walk near and far

I’ll remember our moments much more than the stars

What’s your dog’s name?