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  • taiyang@lemmy.worldtoFediverse@lemmy.worldSome thoughts after 3 years on Lemmy
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    21 hours ago

    I was curious about the posts mentioned so I took a look at your history and can kinda see why. The Linux one didn’t make too much sense to me but people were generally nice to you, although understandable skeptical since you’re talking about hardware not working. Honestly you had a bit of a meltdown in that thread, which I think contributed more to the down votes than the initial opinion (like you said, text brings out a worse version of yourself).

    The political ones, I mostly pieced together genecide denial (?) which has generally been very unpopular here. To be fair, that was more than a year ago, although what was unpopular then has aged even worse, what with people in Europe getting arrested for pro-Palastinian views and such.

    I’m not saying the behavior of mods and such were justified, of course, just… y’know, two sides of the story. You’re in the right to express your views and seek discussion, but others have an equal right to call you out on it-- especially if you get defensive and rude over polite, reasonable responses.

    But that’s just my two cents. I only ever comment, and I’ve had moments with people being rude or misunderstanding my intent. It happens, as social media is just that way.



  • Things that pop out to me:

    1. The Internet was made for porn, both in users and less defederating.
    2. The main blocks really are mostly the Triad (grad, hexbear and ml) which I get. I personally don’t mind tankies despite the instance I’m on, but they can sometimes echo Russian propaganda that’s demonstrably false. Communism as a concept is ok, though.

    The Beehaw thing predates me, I heard they’re nice people, though. I also agree with the sentiment that more fringe groups and random porn might scare away newbies, so I get why things are the way they are.






  • Sometimes I like teaching, sometimes I don’t. I think it’s usually a net positive, but since ChatGPT became a thing it’s becoming a bit of a burden. Either I’m worried about them cheating or I’m noticing each semester the students get worse at thinking for themselves, or both.

    It’s a fairly open enrollment university so there’s a pretty low bar for base knowledge and scholarly ability but like… this is something else. I have successfully taught statistics to a 6th grade drop out single mom from Mexico through motivation and patience, but now a 19 year old fresh out of American high school fails the basic logic required of the course and argues when I give them an F over it. Something is very wrong lately and I’m hating it lately.

    So I guess the answer is I used to love it and now loathe it? We’ll see next month…










  • I don’t think the truth is going to factor in, but my father has been outsourcing his thinking to Gemini lately and in that case it’s fairly straightforward: they have a profile on him as a moderate Democrat, so it suggests anyone with that tag. It likely isn’t going to fact check that tags, though.

    But back to truth: it will pull top search results which very much can be gamed, just like pre-LLM days. That means a false story pushed on a candidate is popular, it’ll default to that and could mislead a voter. That, and of course whatever weights the owner of that LLM sets (although, that is much more subtle than other commenters let on; a weight generally isn’t absolutely, it simply tips things so like, Democratic Socialists won’t magically get recommended MAGA but conservative independents will based on higher values set to conservative tags like immigration views).