CombatWombat
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CombatWombat@feddit.onlineto
Technology@lemmy.world•AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia ArticlesEnglish
5·6 days agoThere’s a capital strike on, and you can’t simply withhold capital or else it is put to use elsewhere so it has to be employed for enshittification.
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Technology@lemmy.world•AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia ArticlesEnglish
8·6 days agoIf you used Google Translate previously for translations, they’ve switched out the backend for Gemini. Most of the existing translation tools have been destroyed and replaced with LLMs already.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Is there such a thing as "megathreads" in the Fediverse? I'm asking because of current events, as many posts are repetitive and the discussion is therefore inconsistent.English
2·10 days agoIf you create a new community and start up megathreads for big news events, people can vote with their feet (so to speak). Folks who don’t like them can keep posting to their communities, and folks who do can join yours. I like a megathread for folks who have a take on an event, but don’t care to read the particular article they’re commenting under — I totally get it can be tedious to read a bajillion articles on the same event just to participate in the conversation, but it’s also annoying for those of us who are interested in discussing the contents of a specific article. Megathreads seem like a good compromise that can make everyone happy, so long as you understand that your thread will not prevent other kinds of posts in other communities.
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Programming@programming.dev•Looking for a Q&A community that isn't as restrictive as StackOverflowEnglish
14·11 days agoThere’s a lot of people who come to fedi looking for this spot — maybe it makes sense to see if programming.dev is willing to host such a community?
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•What do programmers and dentists have in common?English
13·13 days agoThey both have to be careful about bites (bytes)?
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Technology@lemmy.world•FBI Got Grok to Hand Over Prompts Used to Create Nonconsensual PornEnglish
3·14 days agoI’m not as quick as you. I got most of the way through article and was still wondering why X would expose a database of historical prompts to an llm for querying by law enforcement.
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Technology@lemmy.world•FBI Got Grok to Hand Over Prompts Used to Create Nonconsensual PornEnglish
2·14 days agoI mean, most llm makers work pretty hard to conceal the system prompt, and I have no idea why XAi would give Grok access to a database of historical prompts. LLMs don’t have memories by default, and their inability to learn from past experiences is kind of a big stumbling point for a lot of folks. You can ask, but I doubt you’re likely to get anything other than a confabulation.
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Technology@lemmy.world•FBI Got Grok to Hand Over Prompts Used to Create Nonconsensual PornEnglish
10·14 days agoI think I like the draft headline better, despite it’s clunkiness.
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Technology@lemmy.world•FBI Got Grok to Hand Over Prompts Used to Create Nonconsensual PornEnglish
3·14 days agoPeople commenting after only reading the headline and not the article is exactly the behavior I find irritating and distasteful about headline-related complaints.
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Technology@lemmy.world•FBI Got Grok to Hand Over Prompts Used to Create Nonconsensual PornEnglish
131·14 days agoI’m usually against complaints about poor headlines, but this one is completely factually incorrect? The FBI didn’t interact with Grok here literally at all? They issued a search warrant to X to get their logs?
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Programming@programming.dev•Vibe Coding Has a Security Problem Nobody Wants to Talk AboutEnglish
50·16 days agoRead the diffs. Not all of them.
How do you write this whole article and come to the conclusion you can merge unread diffs?
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Technology@lemmy.world•Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive linksEnglish
132·17 days agoAny good archiver will check for an archived copy before making a request, and batch requests. This was very different than the attack you’re imagining — if you opened any archive.today page, it would poll a developer’s personal blog, regardless of whether you were interacting with content from that blog.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive linksEnglish
933·17 days agoUnfortunately, they’ve allegedly modified the contents of some archived articles, so even though they may do better to archive, nothing archived is of any value because it cannot be trusted.
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History Memes@piefed.social•Men have lost our sense of style 😔English
7·18 days agoWe stan bisexual icon Cary Grant
It does more to handle client-side rendering than archive.org, so there are pages that could be rendered by today that were not archivable by org. Also, because of differing usage patterns, it has archives of pages that org didn’t, and even for pages that org does have, at times org doesn’t.
Deeply saddening. Archive.today was a great resource, and stored a vast repository of human knowledge. As the internet turns to slop, we need sites that preserve the history of the web more than ever, and it’s very disappointing that the team at archive.today has failed us so profoundly in our hour of greatest need.
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Good News Everyone@piefed.social•Heated Rivalry TV drama sparks wave of new ice hockey fansEnglish
10·20 days agoI think it’ll be interesting to see how this plays out in the NHL. There’s been a trend in recent years of players (especially Russian players) refusing to wear the Pride jerseys for Pride night, and the NHL has mostly let them do it. Hopefully, this influx of new pro-lgbt fans will put pressure on the league to stop canceling the games to accommodate them.
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Technology@lemmy.world•About the search for a Discord alternative, an article about Matrix versus XMPPEnglish
21·25 days agoA good article, but as a millennial, I was completely unprepared for the 2 psychic damage I took from this sentence:
Even based boomerware like IRC has to play second fiddle to them.





Uh-oh, seems like trouble in paradise:
Hope you get everything up and running again — keyboard vagabond is awesome.