Dæmon S.

@shads@lemy.lol @asklemmy@lemmy.ml

LOL! It’s a funny thing from us Brazilians: whenever we see/hear mentions of either Brazil and/or unique national/regional Brazilian aspects, we tend to get this ecstatic feeling of “Brazil mentioned”. Glad you people enjoyed it! 😄

@shads@lemy.lol @asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Brazilian Portuguese: “Por gentileza, empilhe as cadeiras ao final do dia”.

If colloquial or more informal translations are desired:
- “Empilhar as cadeiras não faz cair a mão” (roughly “you won’t lose your hands if you take the time to stack the chairs”)
- “ô mossss, empilhascadêra fazenofavô?” (A very informal transcription from “Mineiro” (people from the state of Minas Gerais) accent for “Hey girl/boy, [can you] stack the chairs, doing [everyone] a favor [please]?”

@LadyButterfly@reddthat.com @nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

There’s an eccentric hypothesis I thought of: maybe people used the fossils alongside the surrounding stones for buildings, without ever noticing the fossil. This makes me wonder how many ancient constructions, from simple huts all the way to entire castles and fortresses, contain fossils as stones.

And this doesn’t even seem to be limited to fossils: if we jump to Neolithic onwards, then fast-forward all the way to contemporaneity, some of the artifacts from back then (e.g. figurines such as Venus figurines, clay tablets, vases, papyri, petroglyphs, etc) likely ended up as part of buildings. Maybe those artifacts ended up unwillingly torn apart and ground by heavy machinery (e.g. backhoes, other earthmoving machinery, mining machinery and drilling machinery for petroleum wells, although these often involves prospecting, etc).

The artifact doesn’t even need to be that old: I once saw a news story about someone who used a “hammer” for decades before discovering it was actually a WWII grenade.

@shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works @lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

Quotting my own microblogging post from minutes ago when I learned about the death:

Year’s 2026. Chuck Norris, yes, that Chuck Norris, just died. Chuck Norris, the Chuck Norris, died, could you imagine it? Yeah, welcome to 2026. It’s still March… Miss 2020 already? You should!

Person was a fash, but to me art isn’t the artist, so when it comes to the fictional , “invincible” character, it’s quite a symbolical death… Are y’all ready for the remaining of 2026? It sure gonna be M.A.D. (not just “mad”)!

@rabiezaater@piefed.social @nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

generating ideas

LLMs don’t generate ideas, stricto sensu. They do, and I find it useful for esoteric (gnosis through chaos magick) purposes, output names and words unbeknownst to the user (this is how I, as an ESL person, learned some words I didn’t know before).

But if we consider hard determinism, do we as biological automatons, though?

learn to code

As someone who codes since my childhood, I wouldn’t suggest relying on LLMs for that. They could be used to output a descriptive text about some function or library, but you must know LLMs are statistical machines, the output text is a chain of “which token is the most probable next?”, an auto-completing only slightly “better” than, say, Gboard’s auto-complete. They “hallucinate” precisely because they rely on statistics and randomness.

Again: extremely useful as an “Ouija board”, not very useful for blindly relying for learning something, definitely not reliable for “vibe coding”.

Wanna learn how to code? Do the Elliot Alderson (Mr. Robot TV series) approach: find an existing “Hello world” project/source-code, tinker with it, change things here and there, try to compile/run, Google the exception that the compiler/interpreter thrown at you, change more things, break things, then fix the things you broke… This is exactly how I did. Let go of any hurry and you’ll likely going to master it eventually.

d&d […] I need a character […] it makes it up quick

Yes, this is one of the use cases where LLMs can thrive, as a dice with hundreds of billions of sides.

You may want to roll real dices, convert the number into the respective letter (A=1,B=2,…) then append it as a source of real entropy, because the randomness you get from LLMs is likely to be pseudorandom.

Ideally, you’d tune (using a RTL-SDR) to a blank radio frequency and digitize the (true noise) spectrum into ASCII, and voila: free randomness, straight from the Cosmic Womb to your computer!

get upset about AI “stealing” work with regard to code or other stuff that people willingly put out there for free for others to consume

Totally agree with you in this regard. Throughout the history, humans relied on other humans’ “ideas”. Most of the novelty stemmed from “what if I were to take this flamey thing that consumed the tree I used to sit on, and put it under this food?”, mashing up existing things. If we really were to appeal, evolution is that, merging two genetic sequences in an approximate manner while trying to replicate, still I don’t see humans accusing newborn of “stealing genetic work from their ancestors”.

definitely useful in a lot of ways, […] if […] developed on a more localized and decentralized scale

I totally agree in this regard, too.

To answer the main question: IMHO, people hate AI because it has been pushed and used by corps to further enshittify this world. I’m not Anti-AI, but I’m not pro-AI either. There can be nuance from both.

@comfy@lemmy.ml @asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Back when I used TikTok, I found some incredibly rare, interesting pitches, regarding some kind of product or service I didn’t know the existence of. Can’t really recall examples atm; it’s been a long time since I ditched TikTok, but I vaguely remember seeing some agricultural-related ads (farm machinery) which instantly led me to wonder “what the… What is this thing, how does it work?”. Of course I didn’t buy the thing, it’s just that it was interesting to learn about the existence of such a thing, even if through some annoying piece of advertisement.

Again, extremely rare situations.

@DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works @nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

Sounds like emotional blackmailing.

@Dasus@lemmy.world @starman2112@sh.itjust.works @comicstrips@lemmy.world

Lemmy is one forum with several communities.

No its not.

The feed one sees (or, well, used to see) in, say, LemmyNSFW, isn’t the same feed one sees in far-left Lemmygrad or Hexbear (especially when they were defederated from the entirety of the Fediverse due to domain ownership issues), which isn’t the same feed from right-wing/far-right/ancap instances, which isn’t the same feed from automated bridging instances (e.g. Lemmit, Bridgy or Mostr instances), which isn’t the same feed as aggregators (such as Flipboard), which isn’t the same feed ones sees in general-purpose lemmy.zip… Or in geographically-specific instances such as feddit.org, lemmy.eco.br, feddit.cl… I guess you got the point.

I’ve personally been in many of those instances, I’ve seen each of their feeds. And I promise you: they’re definitely not the same. Their contents don’t necessarily appear in other instances.

And if we include other non-Lemmy platforms (such as Misskey), the differences goes off the charts. Misskey “forums”, for example, are definitely a whole other (animesque) world. Flipboard, Wordpress blogs… They got wholly different feeds. Some of them make their way to some Lemmy instances.

In the end, it all boils down to which instances each instance federates to or defederates with.

Lemmy, and by extension the Fediverse, is but “one” monolithic thing. Ain’t “oneness” when it comes to the Fediverse: this is what Reddit is (as per your previous reply to my comment), it’s Reddit which got “one forum with several communities”, not Lemmy, definitely not Fediverse.

@Dasus@lemmy.world @comicstrips@lemmy.world

Cross-posting and making seventeen posts is quite different.

How so?
Practically speaking, it’s ends up being shown in the same way.

And, again: Fediverse has these gaps of federation. We constantly see instances choosing to defederate from others because of conundra. And people are caught in the crossfire, people who got nothing to do with such conundra, so if they need to seek like-minded people on both sides of the island where the bridges were imploded and airspace is closed until further notice, they ought to cross-post.

Call it "making "+number2English(postAmount)+" posts" or “cross-posting”, this is but a byproduct of how Fediverse is organized in different, often unconnected islands. And you happens to be standing from a quite privileged position in an island where you got this panoramic view of all those air-gapped islands.

Sure, Lemmy front-end algorithms could somehow detect duplicates in the same page (perhaps using Set or something similar) and/or group them as tree-view (that is, something like Object.groupBy(), grouping similar posts, then rendering them under an accordion element). But it doesn’t happen this way. Nonetheless, that would make an interesting suggestion or PR to the Lemmy project.

And no, no-one cross-posts in a dozen and more communities

I can’t really link one right now but I swear I recall seeing posts with a literal dozen of cross-posts. Since I use three different Lemmy instances as a guest for reading the threadiverse (because I actually use Sharkey), such examples are buried in my browsing history. But believe me: this does happen.

And anyone who does it in more than three gets blocked, because that’s spam on Lemmy.

It depends. If you’re talking of the same instance or, especially, the same community, yeah it may be seen as spam and it may lead to deletion or bans.

But we’re talking about different instances, even different platforms (Bad Jlai comics were certainly replicated across Mastodon, Misskey, PixelFed, etc). And, again, your instance happens not to defederate from many instances, hence why you get to see more of the cross-posting phenomenon from where you’re standing.

Disclaimer: I myself don’t cross-post things, I don’t even do posts (I do more comments than posts here in the threadiverse), so I got no stakes on this matter, I’m just another person in this thread trying to add something to the explanation of how Lemmy works.

@Dasus@lemmy.world @starman2112@sh.itjust.works @comicstrips@lemmy.world

By your logic you should post a news article to every single fucking news community on Lemmy

Sir, this is a Lemmy’s.
The very thing you said, it already happens: it’s called cross-posting and it’s quite common here on Lemmy. I attached a screenshot of just one example among countless others.

It’s pretty normal, and it’s not spammy IMHO: rather, it allows for different parts of Lemmy to better engage in parallel exchanges about the subject in question.

Also, Fediverse doesn’t imply everyone is federated with everyone, some instances defederated from other instances, hence why things benefit of being cross-posted.

mean dozens and dozens and dozens of the same exact fucking post on the front page

Also happens quite frequently, either… Especially, mind you, because we’ve been observing the strange phenomenon where the same situations are happening slightly differently, yet still very similarly, around the world (I just recalled a meme here in Brazil “Pode copiar, só não faz igual”, “You can copy it, just don’t make it exactly the same”).

Both social media platforms and we, the users, can’t help but to post about the slightly different-but-equal variations of the same elephants multiplying like rabbits across this large ballroom that is this Pale Blue Dot.

So if something have been behaving so spammy recently, it’s this increasingly-enshittified, damned Demiurgal world.

Hey, curate your own comments and block me instead of replying. But you didn’t

I’m not the person you’re replying to, but I’d add the following take: there’s a thing called nuance. Someone can disagree with someone but still continue to dialogue and can, mind you, agree with the same person whose other points they disagree with.

In fact, and it’s quite a meta-moment, I myself don’t fully agree with BadJlai when it comes to certain takes of theirs, particularly their straw-man on political nuance (“greenists-orangists” cartoon), but I myself like their comics and I proceed to appreciate it whenever they post a new comics, even the “greenish-orangists” cartoon I silently disagreed with, because I find their comics cleverly and nicely made, despite of any potential disagreements; this, unironically, is the very thing they seemingly mocked (and the very thing you’re subtly criticizing on your peer, too), the ability to agreeing and disagreeing and holding seemingly-dissonant views on things.

@gnu@lemmy.zip @memes@lemmy.world

To repeat a comment I just made, adapted to the things you mentioned in your reply:

As I said during other replies on this nested thread, i visualized this drawing as some sort of old VW Beetle: trunk at the front of the car, relatively small engine at the rear, rear traction. That’s why, at least to me, the locomotive principles clicked in my mind.

Having it come from the back makes no sense

Which I particularly understood as a small engine from a rear-traction locomotive… I mean, a combustion engine doesn’t need to be big, just see how old VW Beetles work with engines quite small compared to other cars.

But, okay, let’s say the drawing is “all wrong” or physically dubious. Why it “must be AI”? Do you people happen to have seen those Rube-Goldberg art pieces? Did Rube Goldberg use AI for his artworks?

Last but not the least, oh my Goddess! I can’t help but quote the meme: “boy, that escalated quickly”. It’s a meme, fellows, it’s meant to be a meme! Still we’re all fighting over details of a meme! I simply asked someone why they labelled this comics “AI slop”, then it developed into me trying to explain how my neurodivergent mind is visualizing the locomotive as some kind of VW Beetle shaped as a steam locomotive…

I should disassemble some old VW Beetle someday and make myself a locomotive quite similar to the one in the comics, just for you people to see what exactly I was visualizing when I was stubbornly explaining my perception of an Internet meme. 😅

@ohulancutash@feddit.uk

The “load”? You mean the boiler

No, I really meant the “load”, as in a loaded vehicle’s trunk.
As I said during other replies on this nested thread, i visualized this drawing as some sort of old VW Beetle: trunk at the front of the car, relatively small engine at the rear, rear traction. That’s why, at least to me, the locomotive principles clicked in my mind.

but a weird little cube thing on the back is making some sort of cloud.

Which I particularly understood as a small engine from a rear-traction locomotive… I mean, a combustion engine doesn’t need to be big, just see how old VW Beetles work with engines quite small compared to other cars.

The driving wheels need to be under the weight to provide traction

Which is the reason behind the rear traction of a VW Beetle: the engine is at the rear side.

But, okay, let’s say the drawing is “all wrong” or physically dubious. Why it “must be AI”? Do you people happen to have seen those Rube-Goldberg art pieces? Did Rube Goldberg use AI for his artworks?

Last but not the least, oh my Goddess! I can’t help but quote the meme: “boy, that escalated quickly”. It’s a meme, fellows, it’s meant to be a meme! Still we’re all fighting over details of a meme! I simply asked someone why they labelled this comics “AI slop”, then it developed into me trying to explain how my neurodivergent mind is visualizing the locomotive as some kind of VW Beetle shaped as a steam locomotive…

I should disassemble some old VW Beetle someday and make myself a locomotive quite similar to the one in the comics, just for you people to see what exactly I was visualizing when I was stubbornly explaining my perception of an Internet meme. 😅

@perviouslyiner@lemmy.world @memes@lemmy.world

The wheel linkages have to be horizontal - think about it, they need to stay the same length as both wheels rotate.

In this regard, yeah… Other angles would lead to asymmetrical traction and potential breaking of the rod due to the forces involved.

Also, why is smoke coming from the coal storage and not the engine?

What if it’s not meant to be the coal storage, while the thing we’re implying to be “the engine” at the front were, in fact, the chest/trunk? I mean, if we look at the old VW Beetle cars, the trunk is at the front, the engine is at the rear, and the engine is fairly small. It’s so small and simple it’s even possible to reuse a beetle’s engine to build things… Perhaps even a rear-traction locomotive!

@greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org @Rhaedas@fedia.io @memes@lemmy.world

“Sir, this is a meme’s”. Lol

Now, being serious, it doesn’t seemed “nonsensical” to me because I’m neurodivergent myself, while the panel in question is labeled “autistic”, so it refers to an autistic individual approaching the problem of going forward in manners that can seem very unexpected in the eyes of neurotypical individuals. The rear-mounted engine? Think of old vehicles with engine at the rear. It physically makes sense, pushing forwards rather than pulling…

“Pizza oven in the back”, it’s clearly a drawing not meant to be over detailed, hence the lack of mechanical minutiae which would better distinguish it from a… “pizza oven”.

But, again, maybe you people are right and this is AI-generated, who knows… I’m just a systematic rando looking at an atypical mechanism and thinking of ways it’d work IRL.

@SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml @memes@lemmy.world

As I mentioned in my other reply to zerodawn, when it comes to the unusual placement of the engine at the locomotive’s tail, maybe it’s a surreal (albeit it would make some sense physically speaking) way to get a traction similar to rear-traction vehicles, so the engine would be pushing forwards, rather than pulling forwards.

I just don’t get what human would put the smoke stack at the back

The label inside said panel kind of answers this: autistic individuals, who think in creative and often unexpected (unexpected in the eyes of neurotypical individuals) ways. Perhaps this is why I particularly didn’t find the locomotive physics that strange: I’m myself neurodivergent, so it’s natural for me to think of the unexpected.

@zerodawn@leaf.dance @memes@lemmy.world

Oh, right, I can see it… 🤔

However, what if the very fact that it’s meant to be a meme about autistic individuals, the kind of highly creative and intelligent person who’d build quite unexpected things in quite unexpected ways (and I mean this positively, especially because I’m (likely) AuDHD myself) would be the reason why the steam engine is “reversed” (at the tail of the locomotive, rather than at the front; the first thing I can think of is rear-traction vs front-traction vehicles, with the former ones pushing forwards rather than pulling forwards)?

I mean, at least in my mind, it would even make physical sense to have a locomotive whose engine sits on the rear end, pulling the whole mass forwards. And the connecting rods, wouldn’t it be some sort of transmission mechanism so there’d be traction at the front wheels (akin to a four-wheel traction, 4x4 vehicle)? It would make physical sense as well, having the traction shared between the rear wheels and the wheel axis sitting right under the trunk, no?

But, yeah, the fact that the load is sitting in the front, thus potentially obstructing the locomotive operator’s view… Maybe I’m being too gentle with the meme, maybe you people are right and it’s indeed AI-generated, I dunno. It’s still funny, nonetheless.

@greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org @NichEherVielleicht@feddit.org
@memes@lemmy.world

Sorry to ask but… why’s it “AI slop”? What exactly are the signs and tells? To me, it looks like a normal vectorized drawing, the kind of drawing one could expect from Krita and Inkscape. I mean, even the drawing strokes seem sharp and clear (differently from the blurry kind of outline often seen in “AI slop”).

@BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world @lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

I’m 30 (Zennial microgeneration) and the only item from the list I could directly relate to is the perceptible audible difference between baudrates, not just because I did experience dial-up Internet, but also because I tinkered with radio modulation (hands-on experience with ham radio).

As for numeric identifiers, I can recall of a few ones, but I didn’t use ICQ: things such as (if I recall correctly) ECE9D8 hex color being the specific shade of gray for window background in Windows XP, the ID of a specific Orkut community I used to participate at the time, among other numeric memories I have (many of which are buried in some kind of “locked state”, i.e. I’d need specific triggers in order to recall them, just like I’m occasionally reminded of cartoons I watched during my childhood).

In fact, my numeric and symbolic memory is particularly good. I can still clearly remember a few mnemonics from school, such as Portuguese “reficofage” (kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species) from biology classes, “sohcahtoa” (sine = opposite / hypotenuse, cosine = adjacent / hypotenuse, tangent = opposite/ adjacent) and “seno sem sono / cosseno com sono” (sine awake/vertical, cosine sleeping/horizontal) from math, AT and GC pairs also from biology, among a vast repertoire of mnemonics… without mnemonics, I remember x = (-b ± √(b² - 4ac)/2a for second degree polynomials, I remember pi = 3.1415926, I remember phi = 1.618033, I remember mol = 6.02 * 10^33, among many other constants and things… I developed my own mnemonics as well, I remember the whole Morse code and ASCII codepoints for letters and numbers, I remember some commands from Visual Basic 6, I remember some windows libraries such as user32.dll and kernel32.dll… FileSystemObject ActiveX… wow, I mean, I remember a lot of very old things… And it’s been a bit more than a decade since the school times and my Windows XP childhood.

In the eyes of the society, however, it may be quite a pointless ability in times where one can just “Google it”. Well, guess I’m still going to remember things despite Google’s existence.

@MindfulMaverick@piefed.zip @asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Humans are normally busy with all sorts of things that make them busy: working, dealing with social duties, etc. When they get some time free, they’re too exhausted to do their own research (that is, if they know how to do research, which most humans don’t), so they turn on the television (or their favourite YouTube channel) and listen to whatever the simulacrum says:

…when the radio came, and I suppose now television, anything that came through that new machine was believed. (Orson Welles)

Therefore, being able to read conspiracy theories as deeply as possible, being able to do one’s own research, being able to spend nights on books and articles, it requires one to be unemployed or, at best, having some kind of job that doesn’t drain them mentally and allows for flexible time.

Also, there’s this “Boy crying wolf” dilemma when it comes to conspiracy theories: the same places where one can discover about Bilderberg Meetings before they became officially disclosed annual event, is the same place swearing that the Earth is some kind of DVD disc ruled by extraterrestrial lizards. I used to be an avid participant of conspiracy theory communities (not 4chan, but Orkut and Telegram communities) and a conspiracy theorist myself, but these nonsensical theories were part of the reason why I departed both from conspiracy theory communities, and from christianity as well, as I began to realize how “satanic panic” was christian bigotry.

For most people, the busy and vampiric mundane life, alongside the perception of “craziness” when it comes to conspiracy theories, contributed to this boiling frog phenomenon.

But, yeah, lots of conspiracies, once theories, became fulfilled, and became integrated into the normalcy.

Maybe “ignorance is a bliss” (Cypher, The Matrix), and not knowing what will happen beforehand gives one the necessary delusions to keep their biological existence going.

Unfortunately, this is no longer my case for more than a decade. And now, with the once-conspiratorial internet ID (“age check”, now extended to OSes so, essentially, “internet ID”) helped cemented my long-standing hopelessnes… Because, now, as someone who departed from Christianity into the very opposite belief (devoted to The Dark Mother Goddess), but still surrounded by mostly christian people (and this includes potential employers, buyers and merchants), the slightest leak (purposeful and whatnot) of my real legal identity tied to my openly, mostly-occultist online activity will further cement my social ostracisation (being refused from jobs because the employers will see my online activity tied to my age check and argue that I “worship the devil” or something). But, yeah, “nothing to hide, nothing to fear”, people say…

@quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com @merci3@lemmy.world
@linuxmemes@lemmy.world

It’s possibly a “caipiroska”, a (delicious) beverage made of vodka, lemon juice and sugarcane sugar, quite similar to original “caipirinha” (which uses cachaça, alcohol distilled from sugarcane, instead of vodka). The green color may stem from the lemon, symbolically (green lemon) or literally (depending on whether the entire fruit was used to produce the beverage). Vodka is quite popular here in Brazil, although not as popular as cachaça and caipirinha.