Yet I can’t shake the frustration that we (collectively speaking as Ukraine’s allies) let it come to this.

Definitely. It shouldn’t have come to this. Here we are though, all we can do is push for more support. Make some noise.

I mean…and I’m not disagreeing with you here. They’re facing a manpower issue. And prison should be a way to reform criminals as opposed to punish them. Obviously this is a massively broad statement, and a wild generalisation. There’s absolutely people who aren’t going to be safe to reintegrate with society, but there should be appropriate mental health systems in place for these people.
They are excluding murderers, rapists, pedophiles, traitors and drug traffickers. Leaving final say with judges as to who gets a pardon in exchange for literally putting their life on the line in defence of their home. I’m totally fine with this.
Is there a chance that someone truly irredeemable slips through and does more damage after this is over? Sure. But some of them would be up for release eventually, and might do exactly the same.
Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

So THAT’S why he didn’t want to get security clearance?

I assume they meant in that group.

Well…if he didn’t, then the enemy couldn’t possibly be both unstoppable and incredibly weak at the same time.

New Girl. It’s literally just the title being said in a musical lilt, with an instrumental stab. Done in 5 seconds.

Even if the petition falls short of the 40% it’s a strong message. Absolutely worth doing regardless of the outcome.

Oh he’ll be hard on Trump all right. Beyond having an eminently punchable face, I have it from a very reliable source that _pp is an absolutely vicious power bottom. He’s gonna say so many mean things to Trump!

"This is the kind of connection that we’ve been able to reestablish (with Russia) through a simple word called communication, which many people would say I shouldn’t have had because Putin is a bad guy. I don’t regard Putin as a bad guy," Witkoff added.

Nooooo…you don’t say!

“This might be the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen,” right-wing commentator Richard Hanania.

HA!

Betteridge’s law of headlines is an adage that states: “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”

because why else would you go to a whole other post to “prove a point” about downvoting?
It wasn’t you (you claim)

I do claim. I have an alt, didn’t downvote you there either. Was just pointing out that you were also making assumptions. And it’s all comments in the same thread, hardly me going to an entirely different post to prove a point.

We will not get the benefits of Generative AI if we don’t 1. deal with the problems that are coming from it, and 2. Stop trying to shoehorn it into everything. And that’s the discussion that’s happening here.

I agree. And while I personally feel like there’s already room for it in some people’s workflow, it is very clearly problematic in many ways. As I had pointed out in my first comment.

I’m not going to even try to justify to you what I said in this post or that one because I honestly don’t think you care.

I do actually! Might be hard to believe, but I reacted the way I did because I felt your first comment was reductive, and intentionally trying to invalidate and derail my comment without actually adding anything to the discussion. That made me angry because I want a discussion. Not because I want to be right, and fuck you for thinking differently.

If you’re willing to talk about your views and opinions, I’d be happy to continue talking. If you’re just going to assume I don’t care, and don’t want to hear what other people think…then just block me and move on. 👍

Seems kinda neat, would be nice if it had more than just Ontario available right now.

Edit: so looks like even though Canada and Ontario are the only clickable options, the Canada wide option has ridings for the whole(?) country

Edit²: ridings aren’t currently up to date

and here you are, downvoting my valid point

Wasn’t me actually.

valid point

You weren’t really making a point in line with what I was saying.

regardless of whether we view it as a reliable information source, that’s what it is being marketed as and results like this harm both the population using it, and the people who have found good uses for it. And no, I don’t actually agree that it’s good for creative processes as assistance tools and a lot of that has to do with how you view the creative process and how I view it differently. Any other tool at the very least has a known quantity of what went into it and Generative AI does not have that benefit and therefore is problematic.

This is a really valid point, and if you had taken the time to actually write this out in your first comment, instead of “Tell that to the guy that was expecting factual information from a hallucination generator!” I wouldn’t have reacted the way I did. And we’d be having a constructive conversation right now. Instead you made a snide remark, seemingly (personal opinion here, I probably can’t read minds) intending it as an invalidation of what I was saying, and then being smug about my taking offence to you not contributing to the conversation and instead being kind of a dick.

🥵🥵🥵💦

Ok? If you read what I said, you’ll see that I’m not talking about using ChatGPT as an information source. I strongly believe that using LLMs as a search tool is incredibly stupid…for exactly reasons like it being so very confident when relaying inaccurate or completely fictional information.
What I was trying to say, and I get that I may not have communicated that very well, was that Generative Machine Learning Algorithms might find a niche as creative process assistant tools. Not as a way to search for publicly available information on your neighbour or boss or partner. Not as a way to search for case law while researching the defence of your client in a lawsuit. And it should never be relied on to give accurate information about what colour the sky is, or the best ways to make a custard using gasoline.

Does that clarify things a bit? Or do you want to carry on using an LLM in a way that has been shown to be unreliable, at best, as some sort of gotcha…when I wasn’t talking about that as a viable use case?

Oh, and it also hallucinates.

This is arguably a feature depending on how you use it. I’m absolutely not an AI acolyte. It’s highly problematic in every step. Resource usage. Training using illegally obtained information. This wouldn’t necessarily be an issue if people who aren’t tech broligarchs weren’t routinely getting their lives destroyed for this, and if the people creating the material being used for training also weren’t being fucked…just capitalism things I guess. Attempts by capitalists to cut workers out of the cost/profit equation.

If you’re using AI to make music, images or video… you’re depending on those hallucinations.
I run a Stable Diffusion model on my laptop. It’s kinda neat. I don’t make things for a profit, and now that I’ve played with it a bit I’ll likely delete it soon. I think there’s room for people to locally host their own models, preferably trained with legally acquired data, to be used as a tool to assist with the creative process. The current monetisation model for AI is fuckin criminal…

Just to note, using a rag as a stopper is not recommended. Using a bottle with a standard stopper, screw cap or swing over latching style cap is ideal. A rag isn’t going to be great for keeping the contents inside the bottle, regardless of how it’s twisted or stuffed into the neck and mouth of the bottle. A more practical method is to have filled bottles, capped and sealed as well as possible, with a dry rag tied around the neck. When ready to deploy, take the bottle, dip/spray/soak the rag with accelerant, light, then throw.

The last thing anyone wants is to throw a napalm Molotov and end up splattering themselves and everyone around them, and between them and the target, with burning napalm…

And that’s pretty much always been the case.

Since you tagged @realitista@lemm.ee I’ll do the same so they see my counter…argument?

In it’s first release(2017) it was 50.3MB.

In Nov, 2024, it was 340MB. Oct, 2024, 327MB

6th Jan, 2024: 266MB
24th Oct, 2023: 229MB
21st Oct, 2023: 180MB
30th Jul, 2023: 214MB
23rd Jun, 2023: 196MB

This is a very active project, things are added constantly, then optimised or tweaked or removed. Going through the releases it looks like their install packages get bigger over the span of a few months, then through optimisation gets shrunk down again. The above numbers are only for the windows full install package, but all their different packages have a very similar pattern of bloat followed by trimming. I don’t see how this is weird at all.

What about this is actually concerning for you?

Yep!

See point #2. Hand written notes can be kept as is, one thing that’s not mentioned in that link is that Joplin can also use OCR to change handwriting to typed.