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dave@feddit.ukto
science@lemmy.world•Scientists have confirmed that a 26ft tall, tree-trunk-shaped organism, first discovered in Scotland in 1843, isn't a fungus or plant, but an entirely distinct evolutionary branch of lifeEnglish
341·15 days agoDick! Dick, take a look out of starboard…
I nearly fell off’ve the crapper when I read that.
dave@feddit.ukto
News@lemmy.world•‘Sometimes You Need a Dictator,’ Trump Says Following Threats to Cancel ElectionEnglish
4·18 days agoWhich part of them did you date then? Just out of curiosity…
dave@feddit.ukto
Leopards Ate My Face@lemmy.world•“Would you believe if I told you I voted for this man?” she said, referring to Trump.English
14·20 days agoShe thinks it’s not kosher
“No, the fact you’re fat makes you look fat—the dress just makes you look blue.” was a reply one of my friends who worked in retail gave to a customer once. He does not work in retail any more.
dave@feddit.ukto
World News@lemmy.world•Australians could soon live and work in EU freely, with the same rules applying for EU citizens in Australia, as part of long-awaited trade dealEnglish
7·24 days agoIt already is—it’s been much easier for Australians to move freely round Europe for some time. We have friends with dual uk / au passports, and they always use their au docs when travelling in Europe.
Yes it’s more the image viewer I was referring to not the feed view. I worked a bit with the Arctic developer to get it just how I like it, so I guess I’m a bit biased :) But I’ll write it up and see what others think.
I use GitHub a lot so happy to post there. And I’ll post here re ideas. My biggest ‘miss’ from Arctic was the excellent image handling (from a UX perspective). I think they had that just right and would love to see it work that way on Mlem.
dave@feddit.ukto
LEGO@piefed.social•Lego announces Smart Brick, the ‘most significant evolution’ in 50 yearsEnglish
2·1 month agoI got a large set, and all th bags were paper—including the small ones inside the larger one. It probably is a process of replacing them over time.
dave@feddit.ukOPto
Software Gore@programming.dev•I am not a number (but my phone is)English
2·1 month agoYou can’t have a joint credit card account. It has to be in one person’s name.
dave@feddit.ukto
Mlem for Lemmy@lemmy.ml•[ TestFlight Update ] Mlem TestFlight Patch Notes 2026-01-03English
1·1 month agoThe TestFlight link on the GitHub page is returning an error for me. Is it still open?

Kowtow to the king? I am not subservient… Lentils are yummy!
dave@feddit.ukto
People Twitter@sh.itjust.works•Unbothered. In its lane. Flourishing. English
2·1 month agoOh sure. The training data is about 5mb so easily manageable on a relatively modern machine, but not on the kind of thing that was used for ELIZA.
dave@feddit.ukto
People Twitter@sh.itjust.works•Unbothered. In its lane. Flourishing. English
7·1 month agoThat tldr needs a tldr…
But also you absolutely can learn & build small versions of LLMs on a regular laptop. I did it on my old 2017 Dell XPS, and trained it on the complete works of Shakespeare. It learnt to write almost passable Shakespeare hallucination in a couple of hours. There’s a good tutorial online if you search for it.
This guy resists.
Tbh, “I know nothing on the subject” ought to be enough. :)
dave@feddit.ukto
Chapotraphouse@hexbear.net•Somebody call the Volcel police, we've got a code red terror cellEnglish
15·2 months agoOr just 1 willing to reveal it

Edit: 2, lots of others commented it
dave@feddit.ukto
People Twitter@sh.itjust.works•This Russian guy is an advisor to Vladimir PutinEnglish
71·2 months agoCan you make a leaderboard? We can see which of us is closest to LLM—I’d place myself quite high up.
dave@feddit.ukto
People Twitter@sh.itjust.works•This Russian guy is an advisor to Vladimir PutinEnglish
6·2 months agoThe fact you haven’t seen it and that it’s so common in LLM output just means there’s a huge amount of the internet you don’t look at. That could be a good or bad thing—depending on your perspective.











Just no respectful.