nightshade

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[–] nightshade@hexbear.net 58 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

If this keeps up we might get a Part 3 to this meme.

[–] nightshade@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I'm pretty sure some of the newer ChatGPT-like products (the consumer-facing interface, not the raw LLM) do in fact do this. They try to detect certain types of inputs (i.e. math problems or requesting the current weather) and convert it to an API request to some other service and return the result instead of a LLM output. Frankly it comes across to me as an attempt to make the "AI" seem smarter than it really is by covering up its weaknesses.

[–] nightshade@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I refuse to believe anyone actually likes this. Nobody could possibly fall for this abomination just because the houses technically meet the bare minimum for being a waterfront property, right?

R-right?

[–] nightshade@hexbear.net 47 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Getting revenge after his mother wasted all of their savings on the Trump NFTs.

[–] nightshade@hexbear.net 43 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Robots with small and intricate parts, especially those working in dirty environments, famously never need cleaning or maintenance.

[–] nightshade@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago

And he says he “wouldn’t even think about” buying again from luxury brands like “Burberry or Louis Vuitton”.

You live in the country that probably manufactured them in the first place. You can buy a knock-off which is just as good for a fraction of the cost.

[–] nightshade@hexbear.net 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Kamala calling Trump a landlord heartbreaking

[–] nightshade@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago

I thought the one on the right was Pence and I was confused because I thought he had fallen out of favor (until I realized that it was RFK).

[–] nightshade@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There was an article a while back about hospitals run by Catholic organizations that would ban doctors from offering services that violate religious rules (i.e. abortion and contraception), even if the doctors do not personally hold those beliefs. While it's probably not the case with all Catholic-coded hospitals, it's still something to be aware of. They may also pressure non-Catholic hospitals into accepting these rules as they formed mergers with them, so it's a potential issue even for hospitals that don't seem like it.

I have never heard of a muslim, hindu or buddhist hospital in "the west" though these of course exist elsewhere.

Jewish hospitals in the US were founded in large part because many other hospitals would refuse to employ Jewish doctors or treat Jewish patients in the past. I would imagine that there aren't hospitals specifically for other religions in the US because they are an even smaller minority and there hasn't been an explicit need to the same extent.

[–] nightshade@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

I remember some hysteria being spread about pro-Palestinian protesters wearing face masks, hence the rhetoric around "criminal" and "dangerous" people wearing masks to conceal their identity (given that left-wing college students are more likely to wear them for health reasons anyways). Probably not the main reason but I think there's an element of that.

[–] nightshade@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Extremely critical support to the engineers who made US warships touchscreen-controlled.

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[–] nightshade@hexbear.net 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

how many players are using an adblocker enough to make an impact?

Given the context in which Modrinth was created, it's likely that their userbase is significantly more likely than average to use adblockers.

The contextThe largest host for Minecraft mods is Curseforge, which hosts effectively all Minecraft mods. They intend for you to download mods and modpacks through their ad-infested launcher, and part of the ad revenue is used to pay the mod creator per-download. However, there was an alternate open-source launcher, MultiMC, that used the Curseforge API to download mods without having to see ads. Even aside from that, MultiMC was better than Curseforge in effectively every way.

Some time ago, Curseforge announced plans to step up the ads on their launcher even more and block MultiMC from using their API to try to force users to use their launcher. This sparked a lot of backlash because their launcher was obviously much worse than MultiMC. Modrinth had been around before this, but it gained a lot of popularity in the wake of this incident because people wanted to move away from Curseforge. Modrinth was open-source and allowed mods to be downloaded through MultiMC, which gave people the impression that it was more trustworthy than Curseforge.

However, they had promised from the start that they would have payments to mod creators as well through "ethical ads" on their website. This is a problem for them because their userbase (both mod creators and players) is mostly made of people angry at Curseforge, and thus more likely to be free/open-source software enthusiasts and anti-advertising. That being said, their website is still a lot nicer than Curseforge and they don't push ads as aggressively.

Because Modrinth is still relatively small and payments to mod creators only started recently, the vast majority of mods are still only available on Curseforge. However, Curseforge's protection measures were pretty easily bypassed and PrismMC (the successor to MultiMC) is capable of downloading off Curseforge anyways.


 
 

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