I was big into downloading before streaming services were a thing. Music streaming is one of the few services that’s totally worth my money: no hassle and I rarely have to resort to other platforms to find what I want (very different from video streaming, which totally sucks when it comes to that).
Every country that joined the EU after the 1992 Maastricht treaty has to adopt the euro. Denmark signed that treaty, UK as well, but if they rejoin, they’d more than likely be treated as a new member.
Lemmy devs expressed in an AMA that Liberapay is the preferred method of donation.
Check out the Law of One for some funky spiritual stuff. There might be something in there that makes sense of this reality for you.
It knocked my shoes off
Definitely dead here.
It’s bought by Avast. I immediately uninstalled it when I learned about the news. No way that they don’t want get a return on investment by e.g. selling your data.
Consent-o-matic is better (actually sets the minimum amount of cookies) and is developed by university employees, whom I trust more.
One you don’t wanna join ;) (Google). I’m still on the free tier of what’s now Workspace and intent to move, but I’m dreading the work that comes with it.
A year or so ago Google almost killed the free tier (look up gsuite legacy if you want to know more). Back then I prepared to move away and settled on Zoho as my replacement, but in the end Google responded to the community’s backlash and kept the free tier free for personal use (although there are some other restrictions put in place, so eventually a move is inevitable). Zoho might also give you the features you want.
Did not know about that seeder. Super useful tool! Thanks for sharing.
I use my own domain and have support for aliases and also have a catch all. No need to selfhost for that.
I would not recommend running your own email server. Major email providers like gmail only accept email from servers that have all kinds of measures in place to make them as trustworthy as possible. That’s hard and probably not possible on a home internet connection.
Filtering incoming spam is also a pain in the ass.
It’s nice as an exercise to learn how email works, but I would not rely on it.
Thanks for the hard work. I’ve cancelled my Patreon and switched to Liberapay.
Consumer mindset and thinking of people first and foremost is brought to you by capitalism.
We’re not consumers, we’re people. Social animals that enjoy living in groups. Owning shit isn’t something that makes us inherently happy. Just look at how other apes live. Just think about the things that make you happy.
Endless consumption is a blight. It’s killing our habitat. It’s killing us.
Correct, it’s not just regurgitating words, it’s predicting which token comes next. A token is sometimes a whole word, but for longer ones it’s part of a word (and some other rules that define how tokenization works).
How it knows which token comes next is why the current generation of LLMs is so impressive. It seems to have learned the rules the underpin our languages, to the point that it seems to even understand the content. It doesn’t just know the grammer rules (without anyone telling it, it just learned the patterns), it also knows which words belong to each other in which context.
It’s your prompt + some preset other context (e.g. that it is an OpenAI LLM) that creates that context. So being able to predict a token correctly is one part, the other is having a good context. This is why prompt engineering quickly became a thing. This is also why supporting bigger contexts is another thing (but a larger context requires way more processing power, so there’s a trade-off there).
It’s btw not just the trained model + context that gives you the output of ChatGPT. I’m pretty sure there are layers before and after, possibly using other ML models, that filter content or make it more fit for processing. This is why you can’t ask it how to make bombs, even though those recipes are in its training set and it very likely can create a recipe based on that.
Looks like it does: https://chat.openai.com/share/1b487711-c1be-468a-877b-98091449b55e
I asked it to translate ‘meeting agreements’ to Dutch and it came up with the word ‘bijeenkomstafspraken’, which is a valid but very uncommon Dutch word (I’m native Dutch and don’t think I’ve seen it before). If I throw it into google with quotes around it, the first page is results with ‘bijeenkomst afspraken’, where ‘afspraken’ is used as the past tense of ‘afspreken’ (to agree) instead of as its noun (agreements).
It btw also suggested ‘vergaderafspraken’ as a translation, which is a way more common word.
ChatGPT speaks other languages. It’s actually a really good translator.
I just asked it to describe an organization using UK English and it indeed used ‘organisation’ instead (didn’t check for other words).
I exclusively use Lemmy via voyager.
Markdown is notoriously understandized, so there are lots of unofficial extensions. This is a major downside of markdown, as you cannot trust a renderer to properly show the formatting beyond the basics.
It’s still really nice, because of two great features:
If I would guess, then it has to do with making long lines fit in a window without requiring horizontal scrolling.
Markdown is used a lot in the context of software development. Software code is usually accompanied by a readme, detailing what it does, how to setup your environment for development, how to contribute, etc.
The defacto standard is to write this in markdown. Since it’s written in a software development program (an IDE), you don’t have text wrapping, meaning lines continue when they don’t fit in the window. This is because otherwise the code becomes unreadable. Most code can also be kept to fairly short lines, normally not requiring any horizontal scrolling. However, a long sentence in a readme will easily become much longer than a line of code. So being able to break a line anywhere without having an actual line break in your rendered output is super useful for that.
This is btw how html also behaves. Markdown gets rendered to html.
Have you seen how meta does business?! Talk about a straight up evil corporation.
They don’t know how to play nice. They have no interest in playing nice. They’re out to make as much money, whatever it takes. They either buy their competitors or try to kill them. The fediverse is not for sale and we need to keep a healthy distance so they don’t get a chance to kill us.
Do not federate with meta.
I can strongly recommend the SponsorBlock extention (also available in revanched).