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  • A pet clone is like 50k, I don’t think cloning a human is technically more challenging, so 50k plus hush money?

    Not that that is necessary, you could just get anyones urine.

    I was musing with friends recently that there’s no way that there’s no billionaires with illegal clones that they pretend are regular kids already. I mean the tech bro billionaires would eat that shit up once they hear that it’s technically feasible. And Musk is the likeliest idiot to do it imo.



  • I’m super happy with my formbot Marathon IDEX, works perfectly fine with TPU (though i did have to adjust one screw guide in the extruder so it doesn’t eat the filament). it’s not very well known, since they don’t hand them out to influencers etc. The discord is pretty active and lots of helpful people there.

    made with all standard components, regular Klipper firmware, so i know i can replace parts if anything ever breaks.

    And IDEX in mirror/copy mode for printing multiple parts at twice the speed is great when you need it.



  • I wonder a bit in how far the opposite is the plan. Like Klarna recently firing support staff for AI and then wanting to hire them back, but as gig workers.

    A company laying off thousands of engineers wont be nice for the stock. Saying you’re doing it because you’ll replace them with awesome AI might even pump the stock and is an easy excuse.

    if you can the hire them back cheaper later because the job market is shit because many devs lost their job, even better.

    It just reminds of this case from the 30s where a factory owner replaced skilled workers that wanted to unionize with machines and unskilled workers. The quality was worse and they produced less in a given time, and the machines were scrapped 3 years later. But it stopped unionization dead in its tracks and skilled workers got lower salaries afterward, so it all worked out even though the machines were strictly worse.





  • sort of. Having a system that allows multiple parties, like in many European countries, certainly helps with representation and discourse. But looking at Europe, it certainly doesn’t prevent a right-wing drift towards authoritarianism. There’s sooo many other things needed for a healthy democracy, like education/literacy, strong independent institutions, unions etc.

    You can just end up with two right wing parties, an extreme and a moderate one, but the moderate one catering to the extreme positions of the extreme party (and being mostly moderate in name only), and both of them forming a majority government and drifting to authoritarianism, even if there are many parties.




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    Actually, as to your edit, the it sounds like you’re fine-tuning the model for your data, not training it from scratch. So the llm has seen english and chinese before during the initial training. Also, they represent words as vectors and what usually happens is that similiar words’ vectors are close together. So subtituting e.g. Dad for Papa looks almost the same to an llm. Same across languages. But that’s not understanding, that’s behavior that way simpler models also have.



  • waits to order stuff until there’s a few things needed

    free shipping not available anyways unless you hit minimum order of 50.-

    proceed to order 10 things at once

    each thing gets shipped in a separate package, on separate dates…

    even the 20x 1cm M3 screws that you originally needed come in a cardboard parcel, by themselves

    packages keep arriving randomly at your place for the next 5-10 days, leaving you with a pile of cardboard


  • I mean, yes, i takes some practice. I was more commenting in terms of time+effort, which imo is not that much actual time spent doing stuff compared to e.g. just making regular sourdough bread. which also takes practice if you want nice big bubbles. In my experience, getting a pretty sourdough bread with high hydradation dough actually took more practice (in terms of handling the sticky dough) than getting good croissants.

    And even the first couple of croissants turned out pretty good when i started. Not on par with bakery ones but still tasty. So it’s not like practice results need to go in the bin



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    Techies interested in privacy and fairness is just another target/focus group to be marketed to…

    But even given that every company sucks(eventually) and every ceo is an asshole. there’s something to be said about about spreading out and e.g. using proton over gmail and other google services.they might both suck, but at least if it’s spread out, there’s not one asshole ceo that controls all our stuff at once. You can’t vote with your wallet, but preventing monopolies (the natural end game of a free market) by supporting smaller alternatives can still be worthwile. Not that it solves the underlying issues, but i think it can at least slow the decay a bit.



  • Buddy Guy. the concert was pretty posh (think bankers in suits), with everyone having arranged seating, audience sitting still and quiet like at a classical music concert.

    he was like ‘fuck this, this isn’t a proper concert, my guitar is wireless, let’s stand up, go to the entry hall and jam’. so he’s just standing in the middle of the crowd and going nuts, at like 83 years of age. That was amazing.


  • One problem with reporting private messages on Lermy is, as an admin i don’t see who sent the message. I only see who reported it. And i don’t have any actlon available, other than marking the report as handled.

    with reported posts, i can ban the poster. With reported messages i’d have to ask the reporter who it was, trust their answer, search for the account manually and then i could ban. Not really efficient or fast if there ever was a spam wave.

    of course sparmers could then just register a new account on a open instance and i might need to defederates which would lead to a fractured landscape of spammy open instances and likely inactive private instances.

    there’s also not even rudimantary spam filtering in lemmy.

    The main saving grace is that Lemmy is too small to attract a ton of spam yet.

    maybe some of the above is just due my pick of clients (jerboa and the web interface), and there’s better tools? If so, i’d love to hear. But as things stand right now, there’s a lot to be desired