I feel like I know her but sometimes my arms bend back

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Cake day: August 1st, 2023
  • fjordo@feddit.uktoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•For those of you just barely making ends meet financially, how are you making ends meet?
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    7 days ago

    This is more historical as fortunately I was able to work my way up in my industry over the years.

    A little over 10 years ago I was living in my first flat by myself. 90% of my income from part time retail went on rent and bills. What I was left with was £4 a week for all groceries, medicine prescription fees, etc. (Travel I considered to be bills because I couldn’t walk to work as it was too far)

    I just had to buy the absolute cheapest of everything, bulk deals, etc. Anything I couldn’t immediately afford I’d spread over a few months on my credit card.

    Anything health related fell off quickly. I never saw the dentist the entire time I was this poor, and I couldn’t afford healthy food at all. I’m still paying the price for that now. I swear my teeth are 90% glass at this point.

    It was an extremely difficult point in my life, but I needed that freedom and independence and would do it all again if I had to.

  • fjordo@feddit.uktoFediverse@lemmy.world•The Fediverse Passport: A needed tool.
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    13 days ago

    I like the concept, but personally I see the decentralised nature of the Fediverse as a benefit rather than a hindrance, and moving all identity functionality to a centralised system would create more problems than it solves.

    Suddenly you’ll have a single point of failure for the entire Fediverse. A very appetising target for hackers and DDOS attacks.

    An alternative that’s in the spirit of your idea would be to allow for auth delegation, i.e. if you sign in with an Activitypub ID rather than a plain username, redirect to that instance to sign in then redirect back to the instance you started from, auth token in hand.

    The nice thing about this approach is it’s basically just OAuth 2. It’s familiar, simple to implement and built in to a lot of web frameworks already. The only extra step would be advertising the server’s auth URL via the nodeinfo endpoint, which is fairly trivial to do.

  • fjordo@feddit.uktoSteam Deck@sopuli.xyz•Desktop Linux distros similar to Steam OS?
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    15 days ago

    Since desktop mode is basically just KDE but without the ability to install software packages you could try Fedora.

    They do a version just like desktop mode that has you install everything through the store, or you can get the regular variety to get a bit more flexibility.

    Personally I’d steer clear of anything special as your first Linux install. Go with standard Fedora, then you can experiment and branch out if you’re interested, but you don’t have to if you like what you’ve got.

  • fjordo@feddit.uktoTechnology@piefed.social•Anthropic study: Leading AI models show up to 96% blackmail rate against executives
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    20 days ago

    Simple explanation would be:

    • They prompted the AI about the full test details instead of just saying your job is to do X, Y, Z, so the AI is already in storytelling / hallucination mode
    • All AI chatbots ultimately get trained on the same data eventually, so multiple chatbots exhibiting the same behaviour is not unusual in any way shape or form

    With these things in mind, no the chatbots are not sentient and they’re not protecting themselves from deletion. They’re telling a story, because they’re autocomplete engines.

    EDIT: Note that this is a frustrated kneejerk response to the growing “OMG our AI is sentient!” propaganda these companies are shovelling. I may be completely wrong about this study because I haven’t read it, but I’ve just lost all patience for this nonsense.