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  • Maybe. People with more technical knowledge should understand that LLMs aren’t magic or sentient and have some severe limitations. Hell, I have been tinkering with ML and ANNs for a better part of 15 years or so and they can be extremely useful. (I am no expert and never indend to be.)

    It’s the marketing wank, scams, art theft and all the bullshit that pisses me off now. In that regard, I am squarely in the “Fuck AI” category. There is absolutely nothing phenomenal that has come of this recent bubble in the commercial space. AI generated images are mostly trash, articles are riddled with gross factual errors, phishing and other scams are more realistic (and maybe even more dynamic) now and public forums contain even more annoying bots. And the worst bit is that AI generated media, like music, is just a collection of averaged values with no originality.

    That bell curve represents something but it isn’t IQ.





  • Yes, I know the point is that the president said the troops were unarmed. However, I just want to deflate the shock factor of 57,000 rounds.

    57,000 rounds could be a lot of it could be a little. If the 1st Special Forces Brigade has about 1000 members with probably only 800 or so preparing for a bad scenario, that is about 65-100 rounds per soldier. That is just… standard.

    It’s also expected that military forces are going to use multiple weapon types and each one of those needs a usable amount of ammunition. It just inflates the numbers much more.

    I just wanted to put scale around what is probably just a minimum amount of ammunition. What is interesting is how much more stuff is needed to support troops like that. You need food, water, gear, medical supplies, etc… and my point is that military logistics is crazy, even with small deployments.


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    Everything else aside, my biggest gripes are with service control. Instead of just “service” they had to invent a new name that was super close to an existing function (systemctl vs sysctl) and reverse the switch order. (service sshd stop vs systemctl stop sshd.service)

    Besides that, I absolutely hate that all the service configs are not in a standard location. Well, you get things like sshd.conf which are still in etc, but the systemctl configs are who knows where.

    There are more important things to hate on with systemd, but I went for the superficial this time and I absolutely hate service management with systemd now.


  • Its probably more accurate for me to say that I think there is a gradient of people between instances. Using politics as an example, and without details, people seem to gravitate to instances where they are with like-minded folk. Combine that with local or global filter preferences, and echo chambers start to form on a per-instance basis. Communities of higher interest will likely be on the users home instance, after all.

    But yeah, I am fairly sure most of us browse /all and see content from all over Lemmy. We still mix and mingle, but are still lightly bound by our own filter preferences. See above paragraph.)

    (I am not trying to dictate hard rules of behavior, btw. Lemmy is too diverse for anything definitive.)

    Personally, I try to only block specific communities and not entire instances. That has seemed to keep my personal feeds fairly open.


  • Lemmy is a perfect replacement for Reddit because it’s not Reddit. The feed was curated and not as organic as the voting system made it seem. As time passed, it became more of an algorithmic engine for dopamine extraction. Sure, I had some great times there, but times change.

    Lemmy is not a perfect copy, but it is a healthier replacement in some ways. Separate instances do amplify echo chambers, but, they mildly serve to keep different groups separated. Some personality types are just not compatible and that is OK. We still have common spaces and can still be civil, mostly.

    For now, there isn’t as much room here for business. Sure, we have plenty of porn but this platform isn’t as easy to exploit for money as Reddit was. No centralized advertising structure is awesome, IMHO. (Some clients still leverage ads, but I don’t use them.)