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Bingo.

All the dev work is in the app.

I just wish I could systematically prevent myself from making any mistake lol, or like anyone from making the first mistake.

…I guess we theoretically could, via a Lemmy or Piefed PR, heh.

As an example, we could implement an opt-in feature that pops-up community rules before one is allowed to post. Kinda like Discord, but less obnoxious.

That’s one reason why I like this place. If something about the site’s UX design in problematic, there’s somewhere to go to get it improved. With any corporate social media, your only assurance is that it will get worse with time.

That’s kinda the idea behind moderation.

It’s why it’s best done in small communites, as the narrow context narrows the scope of the arbitrary judgement.

I’m not trying to grandstand. My issue is with these presumptions:

like if the mods want to auto-ban everyone who doesn’t personally verify with them their womanhood, that’s their business. but expecting people to self-police their gender is a dumb expectation.

They’re not checking you at the door. They aren’t auto banning anyone. They very politely point out the sidebar to a few posters, then request them to stay quiet; that’s the extent of it.

…If you don’t make an issue of that, it’s not an issue.

if you want a private exclusive type of space… then make it private and exclusive. that way you can control who views and interacts with the event and even hire security to keep the ‘wrong’ people out.

But this is unrealistic, as then they wouldn’t get nearly as much participation in the space. It’s a public gathering spot, by choice.

Again, my specific problem is with commenters that are shown the rules by the mods, yet willingly choose to ignore them.

Just because you think rules are unrealistic does not give you a right to ignore them once asked. That’s how every community here works. Yet they seem to get tons of posters carrying that bad attitude, with that same line of argument.

That’s what makes me bristle. Respecting community rules (once known) is basic human civility, and people are perfectly capable of ‘self-policing’ that. I do not like the rejection of that + the policing of others in its place.

Wandering in, missing the rule sign, getting corrected, and apologizing is fine. I’ve done it; the mods there couldn’t have been nicer about it. It’s not an ideal system, no, but it works well enough; it’s the mods shouldering that burden more than anything.

…The problem is when the guys are corrected, yet keep talking anyway. Which I see happen a lot.

There is no excuse for that.

Is the best behavior to block any community you don’t or can’t participate in? I personally don’t love that behavior because I like seeing what everyone is discussing in threads, but that’s a reasonable solution.

I feel extremely mixed about this, yeah. I feel weird even talking about it.

I personally don’t love that behavior because I like seeing what everyone is discussing in threads, but that’s a reasonable solution.

The women’s space… doesn’t prohibit lurking? On one hand, the community is public, and I’m curious about the perspective in the discussions. I’m interested in understanding them so I can be a more respectful person myself.

I upvote their posts so they get more exposure.

…But I don’t want to violate their privacy either. Blocking is reasonable. Right now, I just upvote them but don’t enter the threads.

Obviously my current strat is just reading the community before posting (like not commenting negatively about Star Gate getting a new season in the star gate community as an example that happened today lol).

Read the room, yeah.

IMO TV fandoms shouldn’t worship their material. Negative discussion is allowed, otherwise the space gets toxic.

In fact, this kinda happened to one of my personal fandom spaces, /r/thelastairbender: among other things, they idolize ATLA (the original series) like a diety, to the point where anything different (including other material like Korra or the Netflix adaption) is demonized. Deeper stuff like the novels, fanfics or speculative lore is not welcome either.

That sucks. It’s all too common; the Star Wars fandom (for instance) is notorious for it. And its why some negativity and ‘outsider perspectives’ should be welcomed in such spaces.

The women’s space is different though. It’s basically a shelter from the shit this group puts up with IRL and online, so being more sensitive makes sense.

To correct your ‘public park’ analogy, the space is public. Anyone can wander in. But it has clear signs posted at the only entrance saying its a space for women to speak, please be quiet, otherwise.

Missing the sign and apologizing is understandable.

But but if you wander in and knowingly violate that rule by electing to speak up, that is no one’s fault but yours.

personally i have a dick but i don’t really identify as being a ‘man’. nor do identify as being a ‘woman’. i’m just a person. so am i therefore allowed to commentate? or is the mods who determine my sex/gender status, regardless of how i perceive myself?

…A primary reason for that rule is basically “don’t be a dick about this being a women’s only space, please.”

If you feel you qualify as a woman to speak in the space, go for it! That’s the idea. That’s the spirit of the rule. But you specifically say "nor do [I] identify as being a ‘woman’. "

Making an issue out of it is precisely what is unwanted. So is trying to blame the space for your deliberate choice.

I don’t get why this is so hard to grasp. It’s simple.

That’s community’s mods are super nice. Probably too nice TBH.

…But yeah. Follow community rules, or post elsewhere. What is so hard about that?

Okay. Just because it was proved doesn’t mean they agree.

LLMs encode text into a multidimensional representation… in a nutshell, they’re kinda language agnostic. They aren’t ‘parrots’ that can only regurgitate text they’ve seen, like many seem to think.

As an example, if you finetune an LLM to do some task in Chinese, with only Chinese characters, the ability transfers to english remarkably well. Or Japanese, if it knows Japanese. Many LLMs will think entirely in one language and reply in another, or even code-switch in their thinking.

…Just because it was explained doesn’t mean they agree.

Sounds about right :(

Stellaris was like that early in its life, too.

provides a way for micro transactions to pay out mod developers.

No.

Absolutely not.

I’m sorry, I like the idea of mod devs earning incomes, but this just opens the door to too much drama, attention farming, infighting, and trouble. Every paid mod I’ve ever seen is a hot mess that cooperates with zero other mods.

Mods should all be Apache licensed, free, with prominant support/donation links and maybe paid cosmetic features. Or a DLC/update sponsored by the dev, if they want to go that big.

The poor state of Stellaris QA is incredible.

It feels like one of those friends you adore, with a constantly relapsing, and worsening, drug habit.

The price fixing part is an issue, but they don’t technically do any illegal price fixing. They just say they don’t want to see your game cheaper elsewhere - you can drop prices elsewhere AND on Steam though.

I mean, if Amazon or Walmart tell a supplier “we’re doubling our cut, but you can’t price any lower in cheaper stores. Don’t like it? We will drop your brand and ruin you,” people scream bloody murder.

…Because that’s exactly what Amazon and Walmart do! It’s awful, and it’s not okay if Valve does it either.

EGS is a victim of Sweeney’s absolutely massive ego, but still, I think they’d have gotten a lot more business if every game on there was 20% cheaper. No one can compete with Steam on software features at this point, so it’s either niche angles (like GoG being DRM free), discount stores (eg key resellers), or ‘1st’ party discount shops like EGS could be.

They should be reigned in as a monopoly. That’s how it’s fixed. Nothing drastic either, just stop Valve from (say) dictating prices outside their platform, and do the same for Amazon and Walmart while they’re at it.

Uh, simple.

Clear your chat history, and see if it remembers anything.

LLMs are, by current defitions, static. They’re like clones you take out of cryostasis every time you hit enter; nothing you say has an impact on them. Meanwhile, the ‘memory’ and thinking of a true AGI are not seperable; it has a state that changes with time, and everything it experiences impacts its output.

…There are a ton of other differences. Transformers models trained with glorified linear regression are about a million miles away from AGI, but this one thing is an easy one to test right now. It’d work as an LLM vs human test too.

The ‘Steam is a pseudo monopoly’ thread was NOT like this. It was a bunch of commenters simping for Valve and Gabe, even here on Lemmy.

…Which is why they can charge 30%, and Gabe has a few mega yachts.

Could it perhaps be, I don’t know, the entire rest of the world calling out China’s own genocides?

And no, the US has no leg to stand on when it comes to stamping out ethnic groups, especially Muslims. So?

Yeah. I would massively emphasize this too.

Don’t mess around.

Especially don’t mess around with AUR. Discrete apps and such are fine, but AUR ‘tweaks’ that mess with the system are asking for trouble, as they have no guarantee of staying in sync with base Arch packages.

Ease of use.

I’ve run the same CachyOS partition for 2 (3?) years, and I don’t do a freaking thing to it anymore. No fixes, no tweaking. It just works.

…Because the tweaks and rapid updates are constantly coming down the pipe for me. I pay attention to them and any errors, but it’s all just done for me! Whenever I run into an issue, a system update fixes it 90% of the time, and if it doesn’t it’s either coming or my own stupid mistake.

On Ubuntu and some other “slow” distros I was constantly:

• Fighting bugs in old packages

• Fighting and maintaining all the manual fixes for them

• Fighting the system which does not like me rolling packages forward.

• And breaking all that for a major system update, instead of incremental ones where breakage is (as it turns out) more manageable.

• I’d often be consulting the Arch wiki, but it wasn’t really applicable to my system.

I could go on and on, but it was miserable and high maintenance.

I avoided Fedora because of the 3rd party Nvidia support, given how much trouble I already had with Nvidia.

…It seems like a misconception that it’s always “a la carte” too. The big distros like Endeavor and Cachy and such pick the subsystems for you. And there are big application groups like KDE that install a bunch of stuff at once.