oh very interesting. i’ve been wanting to get into the details of how federation actually works, and i wanted to figure out why mastodon<->lemmy federation does often not seem to work. but i guess that’s a deep rabbit hole too!

uh i think there’s a lemmy setting to hide all bot posts (that are marked as bot posts obviously), it’s a client-side setting.

there’s no automated way to stop LLMs except trying to stop all bots (assuming they all are using the API, and the LLMs don’t communicate any self identifying metadata).

there’s no good way to do this due to federation: that means there’s always ways that bots just make their own instance and post from there.

They do not seem to be claiming it is more energy efficient, but rather that the technology has a much lower Global Warming Potential overall than currently used refrigerants.

if they start being vague like that, i’d be cautious

this article is talking about the elektrocaloric effect, not to be confused with the thermoelektric effect.

hmm, no, wait, this is yet another thing?

i did that once. it did not work as well as i had hoped. i’m still not sure why.

theoretically, the thing that should happen as europe imports more from china than it exports to china, is that there’s a net flux of currency into china, which would devalue the euro and inflate the yuan. this should increase price levels in china while also lowering them in europe, until production capabilities can shift back to europe.

renewable energy took a long time to take off because the cost of it had to fall low enough first, which can only happen through substantial subsidies, which only germany and china were willing to do. germany cancelled the project sometime around 2012 while china pulled all the way through.

IMO the best way to get rid of cars (in your own life) is to not live on the countryside.

would you like to know whether you’re speaking to an actual human on the other end of the line?

“bot speak” becomes unintelligible to humans.

at some point we will give a name of this phenomenon of internet users who are completely undecipherable for normal people … and call it autism (/hj)

It’ll be bots writing articles for bots, bots summarising them for other bots, bots commenting underneath, and bots measuring the engagement.

huh that’s weird, it’s not paywalled for me.

uhh, the bots are requesting multiple sites in parallel, not in series, so it’s difficult to say “hey look, that user moves through 5 pages per second”. instead, you’d say “hey look, there’s 5 users each crawling through 1 page per second”.

today i learned - for stuff that you learned today
showerthoughts - for stuff that you spontaneously thought of (non-political)
uhm … all the transfem communities?

oh and what makes them special: you can learn new things easily :p so it’s like “microdosing knowledge”

i’ve become convinced that it’s mostly about the birthrate. people want their kids to have many kids again, but that’s less likely if the kids are gay.

i’ve long suspected that the real reason why we can’t have a casual sleepover at our neighbor’s is because it would weaken parent’s total control and ability to pressure their children to adhere to stupid commands.

yes, and alcohol is a fungus goo

turns out that everything that’s non-vegan has been processed by something other than a plant.

(idk whether fungus are considered vegan. in case they are, even some vegan products are processed by other things.)

look i know that this gets a lot of hate but the current trajectory of “you need to prove your worth to the world to have a legitimate reason to exist” is just not sustainable. fuck all that “we support that artist”, we should be supporting the person, whether they output art or not.

the current rage against AI is 90% driven by the idea that humans need to produce output sothat we can donate to them and give them money sothat they can live. and frankly, that’s a dystopian idea in my eyes.

yeah exactly.