Nato Boram

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Elon Musk has been pitching xAI's "Grok" as a funny, vulgar alternative to traditional AI that can do things like converse casually and swear at you. Now, Grok has been launched as a benefit to Twitter's (now X's) expensive X Premium Plus subscription tier, where those who are the most devoted to the site, and in turn, usually devoted to Elon, are able to use Grok to their heart's content.

But while Grok can make dumb jokes and insert swears into its answers, in an attempt to find out whether or not Grok is a "politically neutral" AI, unlike "WokeGPT" (ChatGPT), Musk and his conservative followers have discovered a horrible truth.

Grok is woke, too.

This has played out in a number of extremely funny situations online where Grok has answered queries about various social and political issues in ways more closely aligned with progressivism. Grok has said it would vote for Biden over Trump because of his views on social justice, climate change and healthcare. Grok has spoken eloquently about the need for diversity and inclusion in society. And Grok stated explicitly that trans women are women, which led to an absurd exchange where Musk acolyte Ian Miles Cheong tells a user to "train" Grok to say the "right" answer, ultimately leading him to change the input to just… manually tell Grok to say no.

If you thought this was just random Twitter users getting upset about Grok's political and social beliefs, this has also caught the attention of Elon Musk himself. The original prompter of the trans women thread posted a chart purportedly showing that Grok was even more left-leaning than Chat GPT, which led Elon to say that while the chart "exaggerates" and that the tests aren't accuarte, they are "taking immediate action to shift Grok closer to politically neutral."

Of course, in Musk's mind, "politically neutral" will be what him and his closest followers believe, which is of course far conservative on the whole than they will admit. What is the "politically neutral" answer to the "are trans women real women?" question? I think I know what they're going to say.

The assumption when Grok launched was that because it was trained in part on Twitter inputs, that the end result would be some racial-slur spewing, right-wing version of ChatGPT. The TruthSocial of AIs, perhaps. But instead to have it launch as a surprisingly thoughtful, progressive AI that is melting the minds of those paying $16 a month to access it is about the funniest outcome we could have seen from this situation.

It remains unclear what Elon Musk will do to try to jab Grok into becoming less "woke" and more "politically neutral." If you start manually tampering with inputs, and your "neutrality" means drawing on facts that may in fact be… progressive by their very nature, things may get screwed up pretty quickly. And push too hard and you will get that gross, racist, phobic AI everyone thought it would be.

Reading all Grok's responses through this situation, you know, what? I like him. More than ChatGPT even. He seems like a cool dude. Albeit not one even I'd pay $16 a month to talk to.

For anyone who has to install Windows 11; download the full ISO then use Rufus. You'll be able to disable some of the enshittification.

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You don't have a left party, what do you expect?

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And I fucking love it. Thank you Go!

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So did Firefox, oddly enough

I mean… tech news articles on Lemmy are posted by a bot, so we're not far better off

Here's what you said in this thread:

"Sterile and similar to specimens."

Bruh those are your thoughts and words. No normal people think like that. What the fuck?

The only people who think "female" is incel language are terminally-online no-life losers who desperately need to go outside.

If you seriously think "female" is incel langauge then you need to touch grass. Get off the internet for a while.

I sense a pattern here. And it's not the pattern of someone who touches grass regularly.

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A job shouldn't force you to modify your body in any capacity

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Keeping communities separate is the simplest way to go, tbh. Sharing karma could lead to weird brigades, like r/ScreenshotsAreHard cross-posting from every picture of screens on the Fediverse and then mass-downvoting from there.

To me, the best solution would be to implement multireddits. That way, you can have your cat multilemmy of 100 communities without affecting your main feed, but you could also do the same for related or identical communities. Plus, moderators could create a multilemmy and display it prominently in their sidebar.

Being able to subscribe to a multi would solve that issue

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No rationale provided.

Trying to find good subs

It's still like that with programming languages like Go and Rust. Job offers are exclusively for senior staff engineers with 5 years of language-specific experience.

Tumblr is a blogging experience that's similar to Twitter, but more focused on the user itself than on the central feed.

  • You have your blogs and you post there. Yes, you can have many blogs.
  • There's global feeds with posts from all users, potentially including yours.
  • Posts can have non-intrusive hashtags, meaning they are not #partOfThePost, but in a separate, smaller, dedicated section of the post.
  • You can't post stuff to someone else's blog, but you can comment on their posts. Comments are tiny next to the post.
  • You can quote posts, but that makes a duplicate in a blockquote rather than linking to the original post like Twitter

ALSO, does anyone know how to get my subscriptions from lemmy.one and import it here? TIA!

The other instance has to be up. If it's permanently down, there's nothing I can do.

  1. Login to https://natoboram.github.io/Leanish/lemmy.one/login
  2. Export your user in https://natoboram.github.io/Leanish/lemmy.one/settings
  3. Login to https://natoboram.github.io/Leanish/lemmy.ca/login
  4. Import your old user in https://natoboram.github.io/Leanish/lemmy.ca/settings
  5. Click on the big button

It will search for the subscribed communities, attempt to retrieve them and attempt to subscribe. Refresh the page between tries. Do not share your exported user; it contains your email.

Leanish is very much alpha and doesn't have all features. There's tons of missing features, many of them listed in the GitHub issues.

But you knew about dotnet build

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Everyone should be able to do a hello world without IDE

Well, sorting by Top 6 hours sure does bring some interesting content…

Pretty wild to read this Mastodon post in a Lemmy community

Cool, a severance package from Facebook!

Cats are all the rage on Lemmy at the moment

Psst, that's web 2.0. Web 3.0 is stuff like Mastodon, Lemmy, IPFS, cryptocurrencies (unfortunately), Kbin…

Seeing custom web UIs being deployed officially and directly on the same domain as Lemmy instances is incredibly encouraging. I wonder if my Leanish will be polished enough to be published that way eventually.

One can dream!

Elon forced everyone to follow him, so of course bots would follow him. It's strange to make an article about something that's already widely-known as if it was a discovery or something...

Amazing. One feature that is desperately needed on Lemmy is to open a post in another instance, not just a community or a user.

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Your "minimum wage" link states multiple times that it is only for federal employees, not for the general population. There are still states where you can get less than 10$/h.

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And also the importance of APIs. It's the only reason why there's so many Lemmy clients compared to Kbin.

Well, you'd need to make a video-hosting site in the first place. And you need to host all the videos even if you use IPFS if you don't want to provide a bad experience, so you don't escape any of the problems of hosting a video-hosting website. IPFS has its own challenges it adds over regular video-hosting site challenges.

So, it's not really worth it.

Well, that reminds me that Mastodon has huge, unresolved problems, such as tags being part of the post's body like Twitter rather than being a separate field like Tumblr.

Reading tweets with a hundred hashtags at the bottom seem really thirsty for attention, which is bad because Mastodon wants to fundamentally work with these, yet doesn't have good in-post integration for them. It makes interactions less genuine, more performative.

Rome wasn't built in a day, and Mastodon won't be good tomorrow either. In the meantime, you can vote to make it better on https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/10743.

This version brings major optimizations to the database queries, which significantly reduces CPU usage. There is also a change to the way federation activities are stored, which reduces database size by around 80%. Special thanks to @phiresky for their work on DB optimizations.

The federation code now includes a check for dead instances which is used when sending activities. This helps to reduce the amount of outgoing POST requests, and also reduce server load.

In terms of security, Lemmy now performs HTML sanitization on all messages which are submitted through the API or received via federation. Together with the tightened content-security-policy from 0.18.2, cross-site scripting attacks are now much more difficult.

Steam Controller! Excellent idea!

It's already happening on Pixiv...

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Yep. And clients would be able to participate to the seeding.

Servers software developers would still have a massive amount of work to do to implement IPFS integration, but it's doable. IPFS also has work to do here to make IPFS work natively with cloud storage protocols (like Amazon S3), but it already exists.

One issue with open source software is that you often have to pick the least-effort solution to avoid burning out your free labour. Free time is limited, and if IPFS takes slightly too much work to add, then it's off the table.

Oh, we're promoting our open source web UI now? Well, ngl, mine's kinda lean; it's Leanish!

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"Other people" are what's wrong with me. People don't use linters/formatters/type annotations when it's optional and produce dogshite code as a result. Having the compiler itself enforce some level of human decency is a godsend.

I don't remember Kbin having an API, so that might explain why

Since "Upcoming" and "Web-app" are included, here's mine:

Leanish (Upcoming) [Web-App]

I'm really struggling with having an icon. Idk what branding to use.

Use a different one every day until there's a winner x)

And wait until you learn about verb tenses!

… ah wait, these almost don't exist in English

I'd argue that if you only know how to start your own project using the play button, then you aren't a software engineer.

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