• p0ntyp00l@lemmygrad.ml
    9·
    4 days ago

    I finally got a kitty cat! :3
    I had been browsing local shelter pages for a while and my mom asked me if I had ever considered getting one. I think they feared for me since I just got my first apartment to myself and i have a history of depression and whatever. She and my dad ended up helping me with all the upfront costs. I took him home Friday and it’s been hectic cuz he’s a baby but I think it’s helped give me something to hang on to.

  • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
    7·
    7 days ago

    Instruct models are funny sometimes. I was getting Deepseek to probe my Chinese progress / grammar understanding. And sometimes it’ll do this thing where it’ll be like “write a sentence based on XYZ” and then it’ll be like “hint: [something that really gives away what I’m supposed to be doing].” Then it’ll do the exaggerated sycophantic thing when I get it right. “You absolutely nailed it!” Really not great at subtlety lol.

  • -6-6-6-@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    5·
    6 days ago

    Weird jobs. I have an offer for a postal clerk position paying 24-26 an hour in a town of 241 people in a state you normally wouldn’t think would have towns like this. Around this town, it is straight 13 miles before you get to the next populated town. The poverty rate is 16 percent. It’s also next to a national park.

    I’m wondering if it’s worth it.

    • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
      5·
      6 days ago

      As long as you can get housing and necessities figured out it might be ok. It kinda depends on how social you are. As an autistic person I like the remote living lifestyle.

      • -6-6-6-@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        Yeah, that is the thing. Would have to like cold-call people from around there to figure out rentals because there is no online postings for the entire area. Or drive five hours straight into the country just to look at the rentals

    • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
      3·
      6 days ago

      Sounds a bit like the French movie Bienvenue Chez les Ch’tis. I guess if you like solitude it will be alright.

      • -6-6-6-@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        Yeah, I get a lot of weird opportunities, people and events in my life. I should write it out more. Also, interesting movie, might watch it with my partner.

  • TabularTuxedo@lemmygrad.ml
    5·
    7 days ago

    Another day where I curse the people of the Milan Congress[1]. If it wasn’t for them, maybe Deaf people could’ve developed their own system of writing.

    It’s seriously annoying to be unable to write stuff down in Sign Language (HamNoSys and Sutton SW don’t count. They are like the IPA for Sign Languages).

    1. 1880 Congress where oral education was adopted and sign language education was banned in Deaf education ↩︎

    • lamassu@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      7·
      7 days ago

      Anubis is a bandage on the much larger issue of AI scrapers that no longer respect robots.txt. Anubis exists because hosts with limited resources have no other option to prevent these big AI hyperscalers from stealing their resources, both hardware and content.

      As the article points out, its fairly trivial now for these scrapers to bypass Anubis intentionally, however Anubis still blocks a large amount of bot traffic which is more indiscriminately scraping everything it can. A kernel maintainer wrote a piece on this recently. Their perspective is that the responsible way to scrape this data would be to clone the repo and scrape it locally, instead of attempting to load every commit, pull request, etc. via the web interface which is much less efficient.

  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmygrad.ml
    16·
    12 days ago

    Have a great week, everyone! Try to break up your bigger goals into smaller ones, this makes intimidating work more achievable.

    As always, communism will win.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    14·
    13 days ago

    Meta has reached some new lows it seems. They have an AI working to detect and ban scam accounts. If you get a new number and send out some messages to different people, you might just get banned from WhatsApp.

    I got a new number. I moved back to The Netherlands. I send some people a message with my new info. I got banned by the AI for 6 hours.

    This alone would not bother me. But you literally cannot appeal the ban. You can, but nobody sees it. It is all AI regulated. And the AI gets triggered by the most random shit. Your account might get permabanned forever with no way to way to retrieve your account and nobody to appeal to. Literally nobody working at that department at Meta.

    Signal isn’t a realistic option. Out of the hundreds of WhatsApp contacts I have, twelve have Signal. Just have to walk on egg shells now, I guess. Or face being cutoff from the social media virtually everyone here uses to communicate.

    • p0ntyp00l@lemmygrad.ml
      2·
      11 days ago

      I tried to get a Facebook account years ago because so that I could maybe find housing using it and was insta-banned for zero reason, no appeal no nothing. I deleted my first account like 10 years ago so I have no idea why. Fucking roaches.

  • Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml
    14·
    10 days ago

    The DNC is freaking out because they never expected that people would actually vote for socialists in their party.

        • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
          12·
          10 days ago

          Oh I see. Looks especially absurd. The gist of the article seems to be that dems are trying to shoot the messenger. From the look of it, somewhat-leftist Hasan is telling them “hey maybe you shouldn’t be such staunch zionists, that might go badly for you” and they’re like “gasp how dare you insinuate that being a rabid zionist could lead to anything but peace and prosperity!” Instead of going “hmm maybe he has a point, there are a lot of people who are pissed off at zionists for committing genocide on an actively ongoing basis, or, if they are geographically distant from it, offering ideological support to zionism and the israel colonization/occupation project”.

        • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
          101·
          9 days ago

          Lol. Hasan is the Democratic Party’s most loyal footsoldier. He has done more to help Democrats get elected than any DNC stooge. And this is not a compliment to Hasan, quite the opposite. Hasan keeps shilling for people who hate his guts and will never change, like an abused spouse deluding themselves that they can change their abusive partner. Just leave!

          • zedcell@lemmygrad.ml
            51·
            9 days ago

            To be fair, the Democratic party is not a party in the sense of the ‘normal’ European party democracies. The American duopoly is quite a bit different to most other “liberal democracies”. Standing as a Democrat requires running in the Primary system, not a party membership or attendance of conferences or whatever. Dem/Rep are more like wrappers over a formal two-party system like the Communist Party is the wrapper of a socialist one-party democracy.

            Minor parties fulfil a similar role in the US as they do in something like China, they have low to no access to the levers of power and never will, and are only allowed in so far as they serve no real threat to the duopoly/single party democracy.

            • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
              81·
              9 days ago

              I’ve heard that excuse before and i still don’t buy it. The duopoly won’t go away unless people stop voting for it. Leftists in the US need to let the Democratic party die.

              • RedPartisan@lemmygrad.ml
                6·
                7 days ago

                Yeah it’s bullshit. People organized independent communits parties where it was illegal to do so. Americans have no excuse, even British Trots have their own parties now.

        • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          1·
          7 days ago

          Ngl

          It may be a bit obvious from some of my recent comments but I think I may be warming up to Hasan

          At least he’s not disappointing me like the Anfal genocide apologist Hakim and Bad “faked being native Argentinian on Reddit for five years before revealing he’s actually an Australian expat” Empanada.

          Idk, I may still be in my “jaded” arc, give me time.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    13·
    11 days ago

    Have been vegan for some years now. Before that I was vegetarian for years as well. I have been so far removed from meat that I never think about it.

    Saw a truck full of pigs headed to the slaughterhouse today and it filled me with rage. Like I legit got triggered by the unexpected sight. Wanted to burn the truck down and save them, but that was impossible sadly. We need to do better.

    • DornerStan@lemmygrad.ml
      8·
      11 days ago

      I have very little hope of meaningful improvements here under capitalism, except for maybe incidental material forces that happen to drive the market to evolve. At least in the US. It’s already a [worthwhile] struggle to organize people around their own class interests let alone empathy for anyone else.

      It’s astounding that there’s really no limit as to what can be normalized.