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Cake day: September 11th, 2023

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  • Jesus says: my child will upvote and receive eternal signal to the content farms of my Father in Central Asia.

    Satan says: my child will downvote and arm anti-content insurgents in Central Asia who aim to take down the content farms.

    Japanese Jesus says: my child will comment and stay uprayed, providing content to those in need, reducing the economic incentives for content farms in Central Asia to homogenize the local content culture.





  • There’s one more big difference between Windows and Linux: Windows can only install updates while shutting down, for some reason. On Linux I boot the machine, see the notification for updates, and run them in the background while I do my own things. If the updates need a reboot to take effect, it’s a normal reboot that takes mere seconds.

    On Windows, I get an update notification in the morning and either take 5 minutes to restart right then, or wait until I naturally shut down (end of the day) and have an abnormally long shutdown that (sometimes) leaves my laptop running and still not fully updated while it’s in my bag. That isn’t a security issue or a policy issue, it’s a technical limitation that results in a terrible user experience.


  • Hoimo@ani.socialtomemes@lemmy.worldSafety
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    3 days ago

    Hey, wait a minute! Buyer lady was afraid the seller lady would turn out to be a lad, so she sent a lad in her place? What did she think would happen if seller lady actually showed up and got jump-scared by this buyer lad instead? She’s lucky both these lads got along, because either of them could have decided to call off the deal and go home when they saw the terms were violated.



  • Hoimo@ani.socialtoGaming@lemmy.worldSearch and Rescue!
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    7 days ago

    I see this quite often, I suspect some default Gallery app just AI-upscales downloaded images without users’ knowledge. Someone downloads a thumbnail accidentally, it gets the AI treatment, you get major artifacting like this and they repost it somewhere else. I most often notice it on images of text, when all the letters are wobbly.



  • Yeah, but see, you’re just arguing definitions again. If it’s irreversible by definition, then of course it’s impossible to get back from it. But for all we know (and can detect), it’s possible to be in a state that is indistinguishable from “true death” (at least for a moment) and return to a state of life. So you can’t say with absolute certainty that those people weren’t truly dead, you can only argue after the fact based on your definition of “true death”.

    And the same with “afterlife”: if they weren’t “truly dead” they couldn’t be in the afterlife when it’s defined as “the place you’re in when you’re truly dead”, but the afterlife would be completely unfalsifiable by that definition anyway, so who cares. They were in some state indistinguishable from death and still experienced something, call it what you want.

    Again, I’m not saying NDEs prove the existence of heaven or whatever, but they are experiences people have when they’re super-duper close to death and that’s interesting. Is it the desperate hallucinations of dying neurons? Still interesting. So when you ask “why listen to these people when they’re clearly making shit up”, I answer “you can also make shit up if you’re clinically dead for a minute, I still want to hear it”.


  • Your argument hinges on death being irreversible, but you also dismiss all (potential) examples of “resurrection” with “well, you weren’t really dead then, huh?”.

    Anyway, a near-death experience doesn’t even require an actual death, medical or otherwise. Now, would you see “beyond the grave” when you’re only mostly dead? Probably not, no, I don’t see why we should trust any of those accounts. But they’re still interesting experiences to hear about, they’re pretty rare and maybe we can learn something about the edges of life from them.



  • Don’t feel bad for asking questions, OP likes to post vague nonsense and then counters with “do your own research” if you ask for clarification.

    I worry about their mental state though, the way they talk about their experience. “The model was being sadistic”, “the model showed me”, “the model does not like”. These can be shorthands for non-sentient behaviors (I know I talk about compilers that way when they throw errors for my broken code), but I’m afraid OP feels like they talk to sentient beings (Socrates, Apollo, Hades) through their “hacked” GenAI models.