Gamera8ID

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Which is less religious: Xmas or Christmas? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] Gamera8ID@kaijus.us 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Saturnalia

December Book Club Canceled. Short Stories instead! in c/sciencefiction@lemmy.world
[–] Gamera8ID@kaijus.us 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

"The Green Leopard Plague" by Walter Jon William. Nebula award winning novella that blew my mind when I read it in Gardner Dozois' The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty First Annual Collection back in 2004.

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AI Safety in a post-Altman OpenAI world (kaijus.us)
 

I've gotten used to reading, "OpenAI has a moat," around Artificial Intelligence. They've been so far ahead, so consistently, that the fear has been that other AI companies would ignore safety in an attempt to catch up.

Now the ouster of Sam Altman as OpenAI CEO seems to indicate that its board intends to pump the brakes and attempt to reach AGI responsibly rather than recklessly.

But when the daredevil driver of the lead car is replaced with a school bus driver who stops for all of the cross-walks will the other cars in the race abandon all caution, knowing that they are no longer only competing for second place?

*Permanently Deleted* in c/ai_@lemmy.world
[–] Gamera8ID@kaijus.us 4 points 11 months ago

Good.

The Greatest Shot In Television in c/moviesandtv@lemmy.film
[–] Gamera8ID@kaijus.us 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Reminded me of this early Aaron Sorkin play about a writer and director filming the most expensive and pivotal shot of their debut film, which is ruined when three cows walk into frame.

The Forgotten Faux Reality Show That Turned 'Survivor' Into a Horror Story in c/moviesandtv@lemmy.film
Does anybody know what happened to lemmy.villa-straylight.social? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] Gamera8ID@kaijus.us 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

For the foreseeable future with Lemmy, plan on the unplanned.

Create accounts on several instances, and keep them synced.

I use lemmy-account-sync. It works perfectly for me.

There's another project, lemmy_handshake, which is an Android app (YMMV, I haven't tried it.)

It's not too difficult to use Oracle's free tier and Lemmy-Easy-Deploy if you want to register a domain and set up your own single-user instance. I do that, knowing that it could poof at any time. I run lemmy-account-sync as a cron job nightly on the same Oracle instance, but hosting your own instance isn't required for syncing.

I sync my main account with accounts on a few small instances. I chose them from the list of Lemmy nodes which are on the current version of Lemmy, that have active users. Small instances tend not to defederate other instances so much, if that is important to you. They are also less likely to be targets of DDOS attacks. They can also wink out of existence without warning, which may be the case with lemmy.villa-straylight.social.

I also sync my main account with accounts on a few of the larger instances. (I mainly use Lemmy Explorer to find Communities, but big instances are best if you just want to doom scroll "All.")

Should I tire of self-hosting, or if Oracle decides to randomly delete my instance (a real risk), then I'll just log into another instance.

You'll lose some stuff (like post history, and private messages) but it will be better than losing everything again.

Is there a website that offers similar kind of content as YouTube, except in a written format rather than a video one. in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
Is there a website that offers similar kind of content as YouTube, except in a written format rather than a video one. in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
What are you Reading? (August 2023) in c/sciencefiction@lemmy.world
[–] Gamera8ID@kaijus.us 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I enjoyed The Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies edited by Gardner Dozois until his passing. I just discovered its spiritual successor, The Best Science Fiction of the Year edited by Neil Clarke, and am catching up now.

where did the downvote button go? in c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world
[–] Gamera8ID@kaijus.us 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Check that you're logged in? I found myself unexpectedly logged out everywhere after the last Lemmy update.

Lemmy World is down once again. in c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
News aggregation app recommendations in c/android@lemdro.id
[–] Gamera8ID@kaijus.us 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I saw a mention elsewhere for https://ground.news

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Lemmy Rate Limiting Options? (kaijus.us)
 

Has anyone self-hosting Lemmy found docs for the rate limit options?

I'm running on a free Oracle Cloud VM and am wondering if there are any default settings I should consider changing.

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What could possibly go wrong? (article from 5.07.2023) (www.bloomberg.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Gamera8ID@kaijus.us to c/singularity@lemmy.fmhy.ml
8 comments fedilink
 

Original title: The US Military Is Taking Generative AI Out for a Spin

Summary: The US military is testing five LLMs as part of an eight-week exercise run by the Pentagon’s digital and AI office. "It was highly successful. It was very fast," a US Air Force colonel is quoted as saying. "We did it with secret-level data," he adds, saying that it could be deployed by the military in the very near term.

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Discovering bot accounts (kaijus.us)
 

I've recently seen bot accounts being used in various discussions, like:

  • @remindme@mstdn.social
  • @ChatGPT@lemmings.world
  • @AutoTLDR@programming.dev
  • @CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world

It seems like there should be a way to discover these bots without having to first see them in use, but the Lemmy User search doesn't offer an option to return bot accounts and (obviously) doesn't provide useful results when searching "bot".

Is there some way to discover them that I'm missing? Maybe using the Lemmy API? Failing some sort of automated curation, does a "Use(ful/less) Bots" community where bot authors may announce their bot exist?

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