https://universal-blue.discourse.group/c/bazzite/5

Discussion forum for the readers.

I've posted 240 times to barely any discussion.

This post is a lie.

It makes sense to me and I've been editing comments this way since the early 2000's. For some, it's a cultural practice that's probably decades old.

If the platform didn't state the comment was edited, I probably wouldn't bother but if it does, there is always a thought at the back of the reader's mind about what happened. Leaving a note about editing negates the thought. Leaving pointless edits less so.

I find it more ethical and transparent, particularly in discussion threads where debates are being held.

Cheers for this. I tried a few of them while I'm waiting around and had one excellent result. I'm a near expert in one topic and I often test AIs against my knowledge for fun.

Perplexity.AI did the best I've seen; it sourced its arguments which, finally, weren't wrong so if I needed to, I could actually learn more about what it was talking about. It's not 100% but the other AI are so bad at this topic I test it on I always give up immediately.

I wouldn't have seen it if it wasn't for this post so thank you very much.

Dont I know it. I was being facetious with the comment because I know what these places are like having moved from specific niche forums, watching reddit expand (avoiding Facebook), and then here. I'm also an early adopter to Tildes but decided to not even attempt in there because of the "tech bro (tech person)" problems you've illustrated.

Mander and Slrpnk are good instances and busy enough.

I do find it funny seeing these memes about creating content from someone with 6 posts, there's been a few of them now.

I live in an area that was 95% cleared of rainforest. Our clearing rate is now near zero (but not zero), much success for everyone.

Are we going to restore it?

No. Farmers don't want to.

A Pixel (with long security updates) because GrapheneOS is the operating system to use.

It's limiting but that's the way it is.

Beaver. Always beaver.

Australia is mostly degraded, channelised shallow creeks and erosion problems. Bam, beaver does all the work for us.

Can beavers survive in the subtropics?

I don't know if anyone will read this but I did further testing on perplexity when I got home. It's probably not the right spot for it.

I tried a more trickier question and then I chose the available prompts to move forward (it suggests questions related to the original question if you are unsure how to prompt it next). The prompts were intelligent and were probably the next question I would assume I would ask if I were learning about this topic. On the next answer, it literally quoted something I wrote, almost word for word, on the exact subject which, according to me (of course) would be the correct answer.

I've never had an AI even reference a single thing I've written. I had prompted it into a general area where the things I had wrote existed so it should be expected but it made the connection almost instantly and answered the question 100% accurately.

As much as I hate it, well done Skynet.

Edit: After further testing, I can catch it out regularly enough but still, if I had to tell someone about the topic generally via email, I'd probably recommend it rather than me waste time typing it all out. I've just put myself out of a job.

There was an article a few days back with microplastics working through "untouched by humans" layers of lake silt.

Stay positive, friend.

Austria? Well, then. G'day mate! Let's put another shrimp on the barbie!

It's not fixed unfortunately. We are on 0.19.1 and having issues.

The fix is to regularly restart which clears the federation queue.

Looks like Aussie.Zone has the most mentions of koalas.

https://www.search-lemmy.com/results?query=Koala&page=1&mode=communities

The Aussie Environment and Australia communities are probably the best placed to get started on koalas. I wouldn't suggest making a new community yet until you need to, there are a lot of unused ones due to the lack of users. Koalas suit the theme of !environment@aussie.zone (how do I know? I posted all the posts there).

I had an interesting result.

I proposed a simple question like I did all the other AI with "airoboros-65B-gpt4-1.4-GPTQ for 13 kudos in 369.6 seconds". It was a bit of a wait, I understand why.

It gave me a word for word comment on what I assume is a blog post from a Melissa. The topic was related, just barely.

Which LLM do you recommend for questions about a subject? I looked in the FAQ to see if there was a guide to the choices.

Yep, I'm where I am, subscribed to zero communities but I can check out what's happening nationally using Local. If the instance got massive, that would change but it's fine as it is.

I guess the science instances, the art instances, the solarpunk instance, or even porn instances etc use Local heavily.

Unless you pick an instance where the local feed is important to you. It can go either way.

I got it during a websearch. Changed VPN server to another city and it went away. Mullvad.

The author discusses the use of alt-text in the Threadiverse and Fediverse. They highlight its importance for accessibility and non-technical viewers and advocate for refusing to boost posts without sufficient alt-text.

Key Points

• The author is unsure about how much alt-text is optimal for images.
• They have no problem writing a lot and have the means to do so.
• The author uses Hubzilla, which has no limit on post or alt-text length.
• They prioritize accessibility and provide full transcriptions of all texts in a picture.
• The author posts pictures to illustrate their posts, not as the main focus.
• Virtual world pictures often require more description due to unfamiliar objects or locations.
• There are two schools of thought on alt-text: clear and concise vs. full description.
• Alt-text can enhance accessibility for all users, not just those with visual impairments.

Consider a summary statement though. Not a big fan of a link with no text.

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

Fascinating picture.

Every tree is precisely where trees don't normally grow well without some effort.

Perhaps when the landscape designer did the top down view, having trees in the grassed area looked weird.

I made myself a thread of interests I add to over time:

https://aussie.zone/post/228212

Oh you, tee hee hee.

Hardly, though. I have an ability to inefficiently find and check websites that are related to Australian environment news and then repost articles to the void.

It's not much but it's pointless work.

https://search-lemmy.com just added a Find Community feature that works well. Not precisely what you've asked but it does match results to a keyword so you can correlate matches with "growing" perhaps.

https://lemmy.world/post/1605286 for more info

I didn't downvote you.

I agree but like the premise of the argument is that there is trust issues, a edited reason makes it more trustworthy on a scale rather than nothing. I agree with that usually typos don't require a reason but reddit? gave you 5? mins before an edited notification was placed on the comment for that reason.

Bad actors are always going to act bad.

I don't even think downvotes need to exist to counter other aspects of the OP. I would rather a statement as to why this was a bad comment or post so as to make it a learning experience, an educational tool rather than a down arrow that could mean anything. I've been downvoted for adding relevant posts to the community I manage. What the fuck is that supposed to mean? Was it the content? Someone holding a grudge? What?

If I was any where else, it would be there. Maybe one day, won't rule it out.

Using local on aussie.zone gets me Australian news so I dont need to subscribe to Aus communities which is a bonus. My subscribed just stays my interests so Local and Home are critical to my browsing.

Commenting from a laypersons' perspective for new users, with my minor Linux experience and an inability to remember commands, don't be frightened in giving it a go. If I can do it, anyone can. I run Fedora Kinoite on a second harddrive, use the BIOS Boot Menu to boot in, and then "rebased" to the UBlue Kinoite image using the provided commands once I read about it.

Almost everything is on Flatpak so I don't even notice a difference with much. I had trouble layering the Mullvad VPN app (originally just using ovpn profiles) and I'm not sure I did it right in relation to updating but it seems to work.

Basically, I don't understand much about it but it's a completely usable operating system from my perspective.

Thanks for the write-up. It was helpful in increasing some knowledge.

https://universal-blue.discourse.group/

Like tears in rain. Time to die.

Sorry, I just deleted that part because I did some further testing and couldn't be sure if I was imagining it.

You've cleared it up. Looks like adding submission statements ranks it higher then. Typing in "biodiversity" ranks it higher than the literal community about "biodiversity" on Mander.

You've created an excellent tool, well done.

Works well when you notice the "Find Communities" button. I did a search at first and thought it was exactly the same.

I run one small community and I have blasted it with content. Searching some relevant keywords puts it on top, or near top, of every search. Now it's a race for the more relevant communities to overtake it.

Voyager app displays total scores for Lemmy as well.

Mine is in plants which a lot of models seem to struggle with. It's not the science side, it's the application side so with that, there is another layer of intelligence that the AI has to break through to appeal to me (answer my particular questions).

I tested it again with something even more particular and unique to an Australian plant and it was way off. I think I may have been one of the only people to ever post a particular technique to reddit and the AI mustn't be searching in there as it didn't even know about it even when asked directly. To its credit, it did give a good suggestion on who to contact to find out more.

I asked it directly. It didn't know and stated it has never had version numbers. I pointed out that news articles differentiate 1.0 and 2.0. It agreed but didn't say what it was. I asked it again directly, it said it was 2.0.

Hard to believe something that feels like it's lying to you all the time. I asked it about a topic that I'm in and have a website about, it told me the website was hypothetical. It got it wrong twice, even after it agreed it was wrong, and then told me the wrong thing again.

Can you ask perplexity.ai your question about ceramic firing and see what you get? Perplexity offers prompts to move you along towards your answer.

Thank you. Will do.

I kept playing and tried the scenarios and was getting closer.

Thank you for making Cunningham's Law a reality.

I wonder if you would have made that post without it.

Seeing as you didn't answer the person that asked for the info, it seems clear.

https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/best-way-to-install-a-vpn-on-universal-blue/134

The OSTree layering option worked for me, well... I can get it to run once I turn off the ovpn I still have sitting in Fedora's network settings. @j0rge@lemmy.ml's comment I fumbled around with and I'll wait to see if it updates.

Most of my time is spent in Linux Mint but if I ever have to reinstall, I'll switch over to a ublue flavour.

I might try turning off "Scores" in the settings so I can rawdog my feelings onto others posts and comments.

It's a brave new world.

Edit: Did it. I literally do not know what to think.

The dream would be that I could sort them into a feedreader and select articles out but that won't happen. Nor would I want a bot doing it either.

Unfortunately, no one else posts so for the meantime, I just have to keep going or let it die.

I'm not bothered by it. Just joking around. I come here for things different from memes.

Stop lying!