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Would be a real shame if dramatards remembered their purpose and did a heckin raid.

Very easy to create an account if you don't have one.

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@garlicdoors @Grassmaxxxing-user @SlackerNews

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More ai booba
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Yes Avg slackernews user
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BMW introduces new heated seat subscription in UK
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:#marseyhesright:

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It's starting to make the rounds, and some twitterists are getting angry about it.

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SubShit Losing, Shows Why Investors Are Inferior Intellects

For those of you who are yet unfamiliar, an Investor is a person whose soul has collapsed into a black hole, rendering them functionally unable to think or respond like a normal human. They are exceedingly dangerous and they rule the lives of every person with a job. As they prefer to work through intermediaries, you are unlikely to meet them directly. (Even their intermediaries can be deeply unsettling. Have you ever seen the end result of a mind scooped out of the skull of a twenty-year-old man? They prefer their servitors young enough to believe stupid things when they wish to deceive you.)

But we live in a world of moral greys, certainly some are faced with the difficult task of societal resource allocation.

What's offensive about Investors is they don't understand the degree to which the desire for profits warps their worldview and their business models.

Witness: Substack. A wordpress clone. See the problem Substack tries to solve is a real problem. The solution they came up with is optimized for making money. These are comical absurdities.

Take the comments system. They understood that they needed niche politics, they understood niche politics thrives on communities. Their comment system is utter trash. They just didn't get it right.

Take the talent acquisition. In theory 'get a bunch of niche writers on your platform by paying them' is a good strategy. In practice when anyone intelligent can get their own domain running any of a number of blog software, the only people who want to write there are 1) political laymen, which is to say, wackadoodles, 2) tech bros with uninteresting opinions, and 3) a small subset of good writers who nevertheless saturate the readership of substack quickly.

Substack isn't a good enough blogging platform to let you use your own domain and if you did you would just use other, better software. Readers have no loyalty to substack.

The bottom line is: why pay money to Investors instead of the content creator?

Substack inserts itself as a middleman no one wanted, creates a product as that middleman inferior to the competition, and will ultimately want more of a cut of these authors' livelihoods than the value they offer in the form of that readership.

I've tried to like their platform but just couldn't get away from the fact that Wordpress's free offering works better and allows payments with the flip of a switch.

And all of this is without getting into the fact that if you write for money you're probably being scammed. Write for free: it's the only way you know you're not colonized.

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redid the css a lil bit

sorry if i broke things not sorry i need to finish the rewrite of rdrama.net's frontend someday because its shit to theme

trying to make it look more like hackernews... how did i do?

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Generating Children's Stories Using GPT-3 and DALL·E :marseyplugged:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/16841360558649683.webp

A whole new world of AI awaits

Imagine being 5 years old, dreaming of new adventures for Pikachu and Aladdin, and turning those tales into a cartoon right in front of your eyes... (Perhaps even with you as the main character!) What kinds of new storybook experiences could GPT-3 and DALL-E enable?

My own kindergartener, Noah, loves new bedtime stories, so let's find out.

GPT-3 Story Generation


First, I asked Noah what story he wanted. In his slightly paraphrased words: "I want a story about Ash and Pikachu commanding an army of Pokemon. They're attacking Team Rocket and enemy Pokemon from the land and ocean."

I then asked GPT-3 to flesh out the story:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/16841360566981559.webp

GPT-3 fleshes out a story about Ash and Pikachu vs. Team Rocket

It was a dark and stormy night, and Ash and Pikachu were leading their army of Pokemon into battle against Team Rocket and their enemy Pokemon. From the land came the sound of thundering footsteps and from the sea came the sound of crashing waves. The two sides met in the middle of the battlefield, and the battle began.

Pikachu and his army of electric-type Pokemon struck first, blasting the enemy with powerful thunderbolts. Team Rocket's Pokemon were no match for the might of Pikachu and his friends, and they soon began to retreat.

But the enemy Pokemon from the sea were not so easily defeated. They launched a counterattack with water-type moves, drenching Ash and Pikachu's army.

But Ash and Pikachu would not give up. They rallied their troops and fought back with everything they had. In the end, they emerged victorious, and the enemy was defeated.

Roald Dahl, watch out.

DALL-E Illustrations


Next, DALL-E generated visuals for the story. Inputting the raw sentences themselves didn't work so well, so I tweaked them to improve the illustrations.

Here's the storybook!

It was a dark and stormy night, and Ash and Pikachu were leading their army of Pokemon into battle against Team Rocket and their enemy Pokemon.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/16841360575073438.webp

https://i.rdrama.net/images/16841360582283018.webp

https://i.rdrama.net/images/16841360591004183.webp

From the land came the sound of thundering footsteps and from the sea came the sound of crashing waves.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/168413605984588.webp

The two sides met in the middle of the battlefield, and the battle began.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/16841360607020705.webp

Pikachu and his army of electric-type Pokemon struck first, blasting the enemy with powerful thunderbolts.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1684136061473206.webp

Team Rocket's Pokemon were no match for the might of Pikachu and his friends, and they soon began to retreat.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/16841360623988726.webp

‍**But the enemy Pokemon from the sea were not so easily defeated. They launched a counterattack with water-type moves, drenching Ash and Pikachu's army.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1684136063141579.webp

But Ash and Pikachu would not give up. They rallied their troops and fought back with everything they had.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/16841360645688007.webp

In the end, they emerged victorious, and the enemy was defeated.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1684136065480567.webp

https://i.rdrama.net/images/16841360661590343.webp

What a time to be a child.

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Starting July 13, Valorant will begin listening and recording in-game voice communication with the goal of training a language model to help it identify toxic chat. This system will only work in North American/English-only servers. The goal is to launch the language model later this year in an effort to clamp down on toxicity in the first-person shooter.

Like in any first person shooter that lets players talk to each other, the voice chat in Riot Games’ Valorant can be toxic. It’s also incredibly hard to moderate. When someone drops a racial slur in text chat, a clear log is maintained that mods can look through later. But the processing and storage power required to do the same for voice chat just isn’t possible. “Voice chat abuse is significantly harder to detect compared to text (and often involves a more manual process),” Riot Games said in a February 2022 blog post.

Riot first indicated it would do something about abusive voice chat in February 2022. “Last year Riot updated its Privacy Notice and Terms of Service to allow us to record and evaluate voice comms when a report for disruptive behavior is submitted, starting with Valorant,” it said at the time. “Please note that this will be an initial attempt at piloting a new idea leveraging brand new tech that is being developed, so the feature may take some time to bake and become an effective tool to use in our arsenal. We’ll update you with concrete plans about how it’ll work well before we start collecting voice data in any form.”

Now we know what that brand-new tech is: some kind of language model that automatically detects toxic voice chat and stores it for later evaluation. The updated terms of service applied to all of Riot’s games, but it said its current plan was to use Valorant to test the software solution before rolling it out to other games.

The ability to detect keywords from live conversations is not new, however. Federal and state governments have been using similar systems to monitor phone calls from prisons and jails for at least several years—sometimes with the ability to automatically disconnect and report calls when certain words or phrases are detected.

Riot Games did not share details of the language model and did not immediately respond to Motherboard’s request for comment. According to a post announcing the training of the language model, this is all part of “a larger effort to combat disruptive behavior,” that will allow Riot Games to “record and evaluate in-game voice communications when a report for that type of behavior is submitted.”

The updated terms of service had some more specifics. “When a player submits a report for disruptive or offensive behavior in voice comms, the relevant audio data will be stored in your account’s registered region and evaluated to see if our behavior agreement was violated,” the TOS said. “If a violation is detected, we’ll take action. After the data has been made available to the player in violation (and is no longer needed for reviews) the data will be deleted, similar to how we currently handle text-based chat reports. If no violation is detected, or if no report is filed in a timely manner, the data will be deleted.”

Riot Games said it would only “monitor” voice chats if a report had been submitted. “We won’t actively monitor your live game comms. We’ll only potentially listen to and review voice logs when disruptive voice behavior is reported,” it said in a Q&A about the changes. That is still monitoring, though, even if it’s not active. What this probably means is that a human won’t listen to it unless there’s a report—but that doesn’t mean a computer isn’t always listening.

The only way to avoid this, Riot Games said, was to not use its in-game voice chat systems. Monitoring starts on July 13. “Voice evaluation during this period will not be used for disruptive behavior reports,” Riot Games said in the post announcing the project. “This is brand new tech and there will for sure be growing pains. But the promise of a safer and more inclusive environment for everyone who chooses to play is worth it.”

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Yandex open sources 100B GPT-like model :marseysaluteussr::marseyrussiaglow:

PSA: Yandex is a multi-billion Moscow based company, finances the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine, and is one of the main Kremlin's tool in spreading propaganda and suppressing dissent.

:#soyjaktalking:

YaLM 100B is a GPT-like neural network for generating and processing text. It can be used freely by developers and researchers from all over the world.

The model leverages 100 billion parameters. It took 65 days to train the model on a cluster of 800 A100 graphics cards and 1.7 TB of online texts, books, and countless other sources in both English and Russian.

Training details and best practices on acceleration and stabilizations can be found on Medium (English) and Habr (Russian) articles.

Make sure to have 200GB of free disk space before downloading weights. The model (code is based on microsoft/DeepSpeedExamples/Megatron-LM-v1.1.5-ZeRO3) is supposed to run on multiple GPUs with tensor parallelism. It was tested on 4 (A100 80g) and 8 (V100 32g) GPUs, but is able to work with different configurations with ≈200GB of GPU memory in total which divide weight dimensions correctly (e.g. 16, 64, 128).

https://github.com/yandex/YaLM-100B

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31846593

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tl:dr I'm to r-slurred to understand this but you will probably be affected by this

Orange forum

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Technology: where did it all go wrong?

It was always bad, there just used to be cause for hope.

The tech world has always been cursed.

Do you remember when official rumor spread through the Tech World that "Don't be evil" was part of some corporate minutes somewhere in Google-land?

Did you buy the propaganda? Did you believe Google would be a force for good?

I didn't but only because I read enough about corporations to know they were essentially the living arm of the devil we know. Yes I mean to say the corporation is the means by which the devil drives us to destruction; can you dispute me?

The things that companies put in their internal slideshows are aspirational. The reliable fact is that the corporation would leech the life from everything it touched.

Do the math, you end up here, not surprised that Google has since become this dystopic felbeast let loose upon the world like something between a Titan and a divine force. The offensive thing about Google is that it attempts to become god by approximating omniscience. This is a barbaric temptation to which they have succumbed. Understandable, very human.

But what I mean is still: the corporations claim to be God already, why then do people fret about an AI God? It makes no sense.

Anyway a whole bunch of new rich people were minted out of Google. They entered the long game. This is the end of a round in the long game.

I wonder how they did?

I wonder how many companies are worthless?

A lot. The reaper comes.

It's not a bad system, these tides. As these systems go. Capitalism has its soft side. (It also has teeth. True capitalism has never been tried. If we're lucky they won't bail the things out this time, though of course they will. Let the corporations succumb to flame. It's the American way.)

By the time middle america hears about the stock market, that's the easy money entering the casino, heats it up nice and good. At this point the smart players in the long game make their exit or place their bets. The losers become poor. It's a fun game!

Anyway just here to pour another one out for hope. Because back then while Google was already BigCo, you still had Wikipedia and Twitter was doin something fancy in the Middle East. Our generation had entered the workforce and it was time to make things work the way they should.

To believe in a brighter, more free future that the Internet would bring us.

:#marseysigh:

This, the misery of age in the age of mass misery, commodify cacophany is military-industrial complex at work, our allies get the best guns...

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TLDR nothing really changes except piracy becoming legal in the country.

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Kiwicel waxes poetic about JDownloader2. :marseynerd3: :marseykiwityping:

They are prohibited by law from adding functionality to download DRM protected content :marseysoyjak:


:marseynerd3typing: :marseynerd3typing: :marseynerd3typing:

And that's not the scope of the software. The scope of the software is to make it easier and faster to download shit from the web, not to specifically download shit protected by Widevine. If you assumed that JD2 is a piracy program you're a fricking r-slur. Plus, it's pretty clear that JD devs would absolutely love to add such functionality to their software, but because they are from a country with draconian laws they cannot do so, and to move to a freer country just to appease a few users that want to download shit from a few websites with DRM is just stupid.

JDownloader2 is great for many other things, including downloading pirated content. For example, you know those shitty download sites with multiple fake download buttons, waiting times and other bullshit like that? JDownloader2 is there so that you paste in a link, it figures out the right download link for you, and if there is a captcha, it'll automatically click it for you so it's as painless as possible.

One complaint I have is that in the recent years all those sites are getting protected by Matthew Princess and JD2 still hasn't figured out how to bypass Cuckflare's cockblock with shared browser cookies or something like that, so a lot of sites no longer really work in JD2.

However, another fantastic use for JD2 is the ability to add accounts and to do inline downloading. You can add a Google account and do 20 simultaneous inline downloads of a file from Google Drive that needs an account to download.

Or, and this is my favorite function, you know how Internet Archive is a safe haven for software piracy because of their DMCA exemption? And how their download speeds are painfully slow? And how their torrents are useless as they never contain all the files and no one ever uses them? And how some collections require you to have an account and direct download anyway?

With JDownloader2 it's actually feasible to grab shit from there by direct download, because you can add your IA account to JD2 to access those login only collections, and then you can start an inline download, so if normally you have that horrendous download speed of 700Kbps, now you have that, but multiplied by 20 times, so you can hit 14Mbps download speeds. Now it takes a few minutes to download a multi-gigabyte ISO instead of a few hours, because you're simultaneously downloading it 20 times. You could try and bop this up even further with advanced options, but JD2 limits it to 20 by default to not overly stress various servers when people use the software out of the box.

There are also other useful functions of JD2, like scanning links so you can grab all the images from a website with a gallery to easily batch download those, or the aforementioned YouTube downloader that's a good way to download and archive YouTube videos if you're a BIPOC, fear the command line and therefore cannot use yt-dlp like a white man, or you're just lazy. But JDownloader2 is not all-encompassing, and yeah, for different sites you'll want different tools, maybe even purpose written.

That is not to say that JDownloader2 is shit and gay because jewish chads and g*rmans and hurr durr they do not appease to my neurodivergent standards. It's irreplaceable for many things, but there are also many things that other software does better or simply do something that cannot be done in JD2. I still use it for inline downloading large files because I don't know other downloaders that let me do so and use site credentials to bypass login restrictions.

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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman and other top executives and board members late Wednesday disclosed share sales, just a week after the social network had in its initial public offering. RDDT stock fell early Thursday.

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman sold 500,000 shares on Monday at an average $32.30 price, receiving $16.15 million. CFO Vollero Andrew sold 71,765 Reddit shares for $2.318 million. Chief Operating Officer Jennifer Wong sold 514,000 shares for $16.602 million.

Chief Technology Officer Christopher Slowe sold 185,000 shares for $5.975 million. Chief Accounting Officer Michelle Reynolds sold 3,033 RDDT shares for $97,966. Board member David Habiger sold 3,000 shares for $102,000.

All told, that's $41.245 million worth of Reddit shares sold.

At least some Reddit share sales by CEO Huffman and other key officers was expected.

Reddit Stock

Reddit stock fell 4.5% to 55.15 early Thursday. Shares tumbled 11.3% to 57.75 on Wednesday. Reddit hit a record 74.90 intraday Tuesday.

The RDDT IPO priced at 34 a share on March 20, at the top of the expected range.

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