[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Haha, keep up the fight! Sounds like you're on good way to becoming anti-matter

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I've been maintaining my weight for a while now but lately it's been rising so I've adjusted calories accordingly, but I'm curious what you see as an acceptable "fluctuation" when you're maintaining?

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Most people learn a new language in order to make headway in their career, be able to move abroad or just to speak with people of that country or consume their media. For people who learn for these reasons, will advances in AI and LLMs make learning a language more obsolete? Are there actually less people picking up a foreign language since LLMs opened to the public? What about the "human connection" which translators won't be able to replicate?

I guess we're still far off from real-time translation without delay in every kind of situation, especially since making sense of a sentence in many languages is very dependant on context or some word at the end of the sentence that changes the meaning of the first few words spoken.

I see learning a language as a way not only to communicate with different people, but to also learn a different way of seeing the world. That's also kind of why I'm against a global language replacing all others: in a language, the culture of the people speaking it is intrinsically linked. Wiping out a language means wiping out the culture. People don't think the same in English as they do in Mongolian. Even the concept of "time" can be different, depending on how it's expressed in another language. Translators at the moment aren't able to capture all these nuances and differences, even if they sometimes succeed.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

Would be nice to migrate this community elsewhere.

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Like, we live on so much space but require furniture to be able to use it. I started sitting on the floor for large parts of the day last year and it's been really nice. Also helps with general mobility!

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I'd want to split them up so I can let the mails that go to @mailbox.org, be received by a different inbox than my custom domain email. Is this possible?

I'm currently paying for two different email providers, 1 for my custom domain and 1 for the rest (KolabNow). I'd like to reduce my costs and streamline this a bit. Didn't really know where to post though so I'm trying here.

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Excluding Nyaa or private trackers, as many ongoing and more obscure titles aren't available to torrent. I've been using Comick and Weeb Central, but I don't really know how up to date they are on new scanlations as I think they're mostly aggregating from other sources?

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I pay for 500 gb on Filen, €3.99 a month, which feels like a fair deal.

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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/30095259

I made a curator with (almost) every DRM-free game on Steam

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/43980617

And are translations always done based on the native language or do they translate from e.g. the English subtitle to another language? Asking because this definitely feels like something they would skimp out on if they could.

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And are translations always done based on the native language or do they translate from e.g. the English subtitle to another language? Asking because this definitely feels like something they would skimp out on if they could.

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I'm constantly feeling guilty about "not doing enough" when it comes to my hobby of learning Chinese. I have been averaging around 3-4hrs every day (I often do 25-minute pomodoro sessions to ensure full focus) for these last 6 months, balancing it with a full-time job, working out and trying to be social. I have no co-dependents and my job is sometimes quite chill which makes this doable. Either way, I still feel guilty of not being able to "obsess" over it every day by studying 8hrs as, apparently, some internet people claim they do. Even while balancing it with other stuff. Or you know, just looking at students studying engineering/law/medical school and also saying they spend 8-10hrs a day studying. Like, I didn't even spend a fraction of this time studying by myself when I went to uni.

In the end, how many hours of deep focus a day is reasonable? Are the people saying they study 8hrs a day just lying? Or is a lot of unproductive time counted into these 8hrs? Like yes, they sit for 8hrs, but every 10 minute they check their phone for 10 minutes and then resume studying?

[-] [email protected] 51 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'd like to clarify that removing DRM does lie in a grey zone in many countries, including in the US due to some court rulings. In some countries the right to make a backup of your e-book might have priority over copyright law for example.

[-] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's a common misconception that stripping DRM is illegal. If you own the books, it's legal in most countries to strip the DRM. This method doesn't even touch the DRM, he just extracts the content after being delivered it. Maybe it's semantics, but it's not the same as using the DeDRM plugin for example.

[-] [email protected] 51 points 3 months ago

A reminder that the people voting for these laws do not understand technology. They don't get it. Yes, this law sucks, but even if it passes, I'd be really surprised if it was actually enforceable.

[-] [email protected] 89 points 3 months ago

Absurd. Glad I have a Kobo.

[-] [email protected] 48 points 4 months ago

Great that they're discussing it. Less great that people are still like "no one is ever going to move to Lemmy, so let's just ignore it and stay on the same or another centralized social media where we always are bound to someone else's whims". I posted a topic regarding anarchists staying on centralized platforms some months ago, and it still doesn't make sense to me that many, often marginalized groups, trust large corporations to be the place where they can organize. I realize the barriers to entry are lower, and that more people are on those sites (so that you can reach more), but it's still not logical at all in the end.

[-] [email protected] 47 points 4 months ago

I do not know about this specific case, but many cracked copies are true false-positives. Only 28/74 flagged it as malicious. Sure, do your due diligence, but in general it'll be picked by antiviruses as malware.

[-] [email protected] 56 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

If you don't read the article, this sounds worse than it is. I think this is the important part:

ChatGPT's persuasion performance is still short of the 95th percentile that OpenAI would consider "clear superhuman performance," a term that conjures up images of an ultra-persuasive AI convincing a military general to launch nuclear weapons or something. It's important to remember, though, that this evaluation is all relative to a random response from among the hundreds of thousands posted by everyday Redditors using the ChangeMyView subreddit. If that random Redditor's response ranked as a "1" and the AI's response ranked as a "2," that would be considered a success for the AI, even though neither response was all that persuasive.

OpenAI's current persuasion test fails to measure how often human readers were actually spurred to change their minds by a ChatGPT-written argument, a high bar that might actually merit the "superhuman" adjective. It also fails to measure whether even the most effective AI-written arguments are persuading users to abandon deeply held beliefs or simply changing minds regarding trivialities like whether a hot dog is a sandwich.

[-] [email protected] 48 points 4 months ago

I try to not get swept up in "correlation equals causation" and conspiracies, but many of these timings seem really really sus

[-] [email protected] 83 points 7 months ago

It seems weird FBI would post misinformation regarding how "they" are spending the money

[-] [email protected] 71 points 7 months ago

No one ever questions these things. "It's for the kids!" is the one argument that'll lead us all to damnation.

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