Sludgehammer

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Judge dismisses criminal charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 8 points 13 hours ago

One down, thousands to go.

Help awaits citrus industry, if regulators get out of the way | Opinion in c/science@lemmy.world
[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

It's an opinion piece on genetic engineering and gene editing. I figured that would qualify it as "civil discussion" about science.

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Help awaits citrus industry, if regulators get out of the way | Opinion (www.sun-sentinel.com)
US orders travelers on Air Force One to throw away gifts, pins, and burner phones after China trip in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I mean "The Thing" wasn't detected for seven years. It's always possible to miss a listening device.

Play classic WoW offline on the deck with NPC players in c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

I dunno, while (most of the time) I liked chatting with people in MMORPGs when it came to quests or raids it really quickly broke down. It always seemed to end up being a game of "Oh Bob's gonna be here in fifteen minutes we just gotta wait" or "Fred's just fucked up his role and now we're looking at a party wipe".

IMO as a chat room most MMORPG's work fine, or as a casual hang out with friends they're fine too. But when you get to "You need 10+ people to do this dungeon" they really stopped being fun.

Forget draftkings, bitcoin, or polymarket. Those are for spudless smooth-brains in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Better then Latveria. In Latveria there is no potato, only DOOM!

Rudy Giuliani is pursuing healthcare through 9/11 program, lawyer says in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 29 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I might be mixing up my right wing assholes, but didn't Giuliani oppose medical care for 9/11 emergency responders?

Tucker Carlson Claims Hanging Out With Trump Feels Like ‘Smoking Hash’ — Possibly Because of His ‘Supernatural’ Powers in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

So... Tucker Carlson knows what smoking hash feels like?

Pete Hegseth is now bringing his wife to Pentagon meetings: report in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I dunno, given how horny George Washington was he might want someones trophy wife around for... reasons.

Rudy Giuliani hospitalized in critical condition: Spokesperson in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

The nice thing about getting old is that you get to watch the assholes you despise die off... without even having to lift a finger.

A common misconception in c/funny@sh.itjust.works
[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 49 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Honestly... I like it.

61 Candidates for CA Governor in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

?

Steyer is part of "the rich".

China opens tariff-free trade to nearly all African countries in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

China's politicians are no fools, they can see the US just snubbed a good chunk of Africa with it's tariffs and the abrupt cut off of USAID. Now they're swooping in grab up all the power and influence the Trump administration spurned.

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Nvidia CEO Says AI Will Be a Permanent Micromanaging Boss Who Never Stops Nagging You (futurism.com)
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He made beer that’s also a vaccine. Now controversy is brewing (www.sciencenews.org)
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PH scientists push for healthier, climate-resilient rice varieties (www.gmanetwork.com)
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After ‘humiliating’ raid, Burkina Faso halts ‘gene drive’ project to fight malaria (www.science.org)
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Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-fold (www.sciencedaily.com)
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Wouldn't a madlib generator be superior to a Markov chain for "poisoning" LLMs? (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Sludgehammer@lemmy.world to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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So firstly sorry if this isn't a appropriate post for this community, but I had a shower thought a few days back.

LLM's have gotten sufficiently advanced that they can usually detect Markov (or randomly) generated text even when it's fed into the front end. As such, it seems likely that most "AI" companies either have or will have some sort of pre-screening pass to "clean" the raw data crawled from the internet. Heck, I'm sure they're filtering the data with a AI detection algorithm too.

However, there was this conspiracy parody site a while back called "Verified Facts". The sites down now and something that wanted to install a Firefox extension, so don't go there. Luckily there are many instances of pages still on archive.org to get an idea for what sort of stuff it generated. And I was thinking, this is some (mostly) grammatically correct, constantly on point drivel that would probably bypass both Markov and AI detectors.

So it seems like if you were going to make an "AI tar pit" you'd get much better results with one that tricks the AI into ingesting auto generated Madlib pages filled out with a list of randomly picked words.

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RFK Jr. defends $500M cut for mRNA vaccines with pseudoscience gobbledygook (arstechnica.com)
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US attorney for DC accuses Wikipedia of ‘propaganda’, threatens non-profit status (www.nzherald.co.nz)
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So there's a new homebrew app for Streetpasses over the internet. (gbatemp.net)
 

Since there is no thread about this on Lemmy, I figured I may as well make one in case someone hadn't heard about it.

Anyway, a new app called Netpass has been released that allows Streetpass over the internet. The app is still kinda rough, a few games like Tomodachi Life have a minor bugs, but for the most part it works almost exactly like if you conventionally streetpassed someone.

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What's up with all the $99 games with a 95+% discount on Steam? (lemmy.world)
 

So I was browsing SteamDB.info looking at the various games on sale when I noticed there were a bunch of games (usually from the publisher Hede, but there's quite a few others) listed as having a discount in the high nineties, yet still costing in the neighborhood of 30-50 dollars. Even odder when I go to the game's Steam, it's not listed as being on sale and costs the... "normal" price of $99.99.

I'm just wondering A) What the scam is here, B) How a SteamDB.info is getting $99.99 dollar game as costing 30-ish dollars when it's 97% off but at the same time it's apparently not actually on sale?

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