How much research is being written by large language models?
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Comment on I find myself intimidated by the Bear community in ~lgbt
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Comment on What is a value or belief you have that is extremely outside the norm? in ~talk
Gaywallet Link ParentYes but we live today, not twenty years in the future, let alone fifty. I think it's perfectly reasonable to see what the world is today and see how in many ways it's not getting better and in...Yes but we live today, not twenty years in the future, let alone fifty. I think it's perfectly reasonable to see what the world is today and see how in many ways it's not getting better and in some ways we might be quite close to the end of humanity. It's okay to look at that and think 'it's not moral to bring new life into this'. I certainly don't think it's moral because I know how tough my life has been and how fucked up humanity can be.
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Comment on What is a value or belief you have that is extremely outside the norm? in ~talk
Gaywallet Link ParentIn more homogenous societies it's typically replaced by a social marker rather than a physical one; caste systems are a good example of this.That function would just be replaced by some other identifiable physical marker. Eye color, height, ear size, whatever.
In more homogenous societies it's typically replaced by a social marker rather than a physical one; caste systems are a good example of this.
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Comment on What is a value or belief you have that is extremely outside the norm? in ~talk
Gaywallet Link ParentWhy even entertain an idea so divorced from reality as to be akin to trying to imagine a universe without gravity? It's not going to happen in our lifetimes, or the lifetimes of anyone soon should...Would you feel differently about this if you knew your kid was going to have a happy, stress-free life without any of this garbage?
Why even entertain an idea so divorced from reality as to be akin to trying to imagine a universe without gravity? It's not going to happen in our lifetimes, or the lifetimes of anyone soon should our species manage to not entirely wipe itself out through the destruction of our planet or through war.
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Comment on What is a value or belief you have that is extremely outside the norm? in ~talk
Gaywallet Link ParentI understand what you're saying and I'm happy for you, but I really don't like when people frame non-monogamy as a relationship in which you can't cheat. You absolutely can cheat! Cheating is...I understand what you're saying and I'm happy for you, but I really don't like when people frame non-monogamy as a relationship in which you can't cheat. You absolutely can cheat! Cheating is about dishonesty. Even poly folks can cheat.
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Comment on What is a value or belief you have that is extremely outside the norm? in ~talk
Gaywallet Link ParentI think it's a bit more complicated than that. I'm sexually attracted to plenty of people I will never have sex with. Attraction isn't the only part of the equation here. I also really don't like...I think it's a bit more complicated than that. I'm sexually attracted to plenty of people I will never have sex with. Attraction isn't the only part of the equation here. I also really don't like the idea of "identifying" people at a young age - this kind of mentality is how racist, sexist, and other bigotry has been justified for ages. We "identified" that natives in America were "uncivilized" and forced them to adhere to our mindset. I could absolutely see any sort of child identification program being used as a shield to commit bigoted acts towards individuals because of their characteristics (ethnicity, sex, gender, sexuality, etc). I also think that a child is much more malleable than they are given credit for here and the idea that being a pedophile is deterministic in some fashion is just not something that sits right with me.
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Comment on What was it like choosing your own name? in ~lgbt
Gaywallet Link ParentJust gonna chime in that going by Sparky is dope and you should do it. But of course I say that as someone who is very attracted to the idea of having a name that breaks typical human norms as a...Just gonna chime in that going by Sparky is dope and you should do it. But of course I say that as someone who is very attracted to the idea of having a name that breaks typical human norms as a way to make people rethink what a name even is and be more playful.
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Comment on What was it like choosing your own name? in ~lgbt
Gaywallet LinkMy deadname is extremely common. Even before I knew I wanted a new name, I always hated it for that reason. The number of times I've heard my prior name called in public places was an annoyance,...My deadname is extremely common. Even before I knew I wanted a new name, I always hated it for that reason. The number of times I've heard my prior name called in public places was an annoyance, but also it meant it was a semi-regular name - characters in movies, names in songs, etc. I never enjoyed that.
When I came to the realization that I wanted to change my name, it was influenced by a few factors. First and foremost, I wanted my name to be short. Part of that was that I knew short names were easier for people to remember, and part of that is there's literally research on this which shows you get promoted more, paid more, etc. Past that point I knew that I wanted my name to be cute. So I started looking through websites and books and papers for lists of names - baby names, adult names, I didn't particularly care. I started a list of all the short/cute names that spoke to me. Most didn't, but at some point I had a list of about 10-15 names, with the thought that I would eventually be going through this list to try/choose one. But one day I ran across my name, Sigi, in a book and just knew immediately that it was the name. It was short and cute, different/rare enough to avoid confusion and something that's easy to pronounce in a lot of languages (although people often get confused as to whether it's pronounced like ziggy or sidgi, which I really don't understand - for the record it's a German name and closer to the former). It also happened to be a shortening of both a masculine and a feminine name (Siegfried and Sieglinde) which fit the agender/non-binary mold as a little bonus.
However, for basically the entire time I've been going by Sigi I've also socially been going by Bunny. It took a few years of being called both for me to realize that Bunny is the name I prefer. So in the last two or so years I've been work-shopping a bunch of different variations on my name to include Bunny in my name. I've realized that introducing myself as Bunny and pushing people socially towards that name seems to resolve a lot of it, so I might just make that my last name. But I also like the idea of being more playful with my name, and breaking the mold of names by naming myself something like "Bunny Bun Bun" because the idea of challenging norms even in my name is a really fun space that I enjoy. I also just find it really amusing because I'm on a few papers and regularly get published and having a silly legal name means there will be hard science with a silly name on it.
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Comment on California says restaurants must bake all of their add-on fees into menu prices in ~finance
Gaywallet Link ParentA lot of it is city or state mandated. Not to shift blame off corporations for tacking on fees like processing fees (looking at you online ticket sales), but it's pretty hard to fight when the...A lot of it is city or state mandated. Not to shift blame off corporations for tacking on fees like processing fees (looking at you online ticket sales), but it's pretty hard to fight when the government is mandating it - it's easy to make the claim that hey look, the government mandates fees like this, why can't we do things the same way?
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The disinformation machine: How susceptible are we to AI propaganda?
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Comment on A variety of beginner home server questions in ~comp
Gaywallet LinkTo address your questions: You can configure your router to use your pihole as the DNS server. This will block the majority of ads to your devices, but likely not all of them. This is because some...To address your questions:
- You can configure your router to use your pihole as the DNS server. This will block the majority of ads to your devices, but likely not all of them. This is because some devices will send outbound requests on port 53 to defined DNS servers and bypassing your defined network DNS. The parts you're seeing online about needing to set up your device between the internet and your devices are methods to block outbound port 53 requests. The right router and custom firmware can stop this if you care enough about it. You could have your NAS do this, but I would highly suggest you do not put your NAS direct to the internet and instead have a router manage this.
- Synology will likely have plenty of out of the box tools to help with this. If they don't, someone's likely dockerized whatever software you need and you can run a container on your NAS or server to accomplish this and you don't need to really understand networking.
- Wifi + hdmi sticks is your solution here. Firestick, chromecast, roku, whatever will serve your media to your display easily. To do this you need to run plex (or another media server) on your NAS/server but it's pretty easy to set up, as it's basically just another docker container that you configure/run.
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Enzymes open new path to universal donor blood
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Safer Sunscreen: Stanford researchers explore novel approach to sustainable sun protection
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Comment on The tech baron seeking to “ethnically cleanse” San Francisco in ~life
Gaywallet LinkReds, blues, and grays? Gray pride parade? This boy is absolutely unhinged. What is it with tech moguls and being 13 year old boys at heart? I mean I know a lot of it is having access to way too...Reds, blues, and grays? Gray pride parade? This boy is absolutely unhinged. What is it with tech moguls and being 13 year old boys at heart? I mean I know a lot of it is having access to way too much capital and being surrounded by yes men, but is there more to it than that? Is it because tech is so populated by bros and heavily insulated? Even as someone who lives in SF and has spent most of their life in silicon valley it confuses me.
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Net neutrality is back as US FCC votes to regulate internet providers
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Comment on How GM tricked millions of drivers into being spied on (including me) (gifted link) in ~transport
Gaywallet LinkWe are so overdue for some basic regulation on what information can be bought or sold about people, or at the very least a consumer-readable notice or warning which describes all the information...We are so overdue for some basic regulation on what information can be bought or sold about people, or at the very least a consumer-readable notice or warning which describes all the information that's being collected and allowing the consumer to opt-out of the collection of specific elements at any point in time. The ability to have them delete information they have collected about you or to refuse to let them share that information with anyone else would be nice too. You know, basic GDPR kind of stuff.
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Comment on I don't think I'm 'grokking' how the fediverse works. (Or at least, how following federated accounts works) in ~tech
Gaywallet LinkLemmy and Mastodon both use activity pub in the back end, but are very different platforms. The former is basically a stand-in reddit replacement and the latter a twitter one. Following a lemmy...Lemmy and Mastodon both use activity pub in the back end, but are very different platforms. The former is basically a stand-in reddit replacement and the latter a twitter one. Following a lemmy community on mastodon won't work as nicely as you might expect, as the platforms don't use exactly the same pieces of information in exactly the same ways - since functionality is different some pieces of information get lost or ignored.
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Comment on Detransition is gender liberation, too - Here's to never being satisfied and forever changing in ~lgbt
Gaywallet Link ParentHello friend 😄💜 It took me a long time to adopt the labels that I have, and a lot had to do with the lack of representation I saw. Agender is a pretty rare label, and I ran into a vanishingly...Hello friend 😄💜
It took me a long time to adopt the labels that I have, and a lot had to do with the lack of representation I saw. Agender is a pretty rare label, and I ran into a vanishingly small number of people who used the label so it was really hard for me to know what it was meant to represent! I agree that sharing our perspectives are freeing and important to others, which this article made me think a bit about. Regardless of how difficult it may be for others to understand or accept my lived experience, it might also help others like myself, years ago, who are looking to understand themselves or find representation out there that matches, at least on some level, their own experience.
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Comment on Detransition is gender liberation, too - Here's to never being satisfied and forever changing in ~lgbt
Gaywallet Link ParentThank you so much for sharing this experience. I really wish stories like yours weren't so hard for so many others to hear, because they are important stories, especially for people who might be...Thank you so much for sharing this experience. I really wish stories like yours weren't so hard for so many others to hear, because they are important stories, especially for people who might be going through similar doubts or issues.
You and @smoontjes are both experiencing imposter syndrome. Your anxiety is making you question whether the space is for you, and you are hesitant to join the space because you are worried you are going to disrupt things. There are absolutely people who are going to enter these spaces and disrupt from time to time, but not a single one of them is worried about disrupting things. The forethought and anxiety you have because you wish to respect the space is more than any organizer could ask for.
These spaces are almost always designed with some amount of inclusion in mind. After all, being queer is an extremely diverse thing! Even when you're thinking about two bears at a bear party, they probably have vastly different backgrounds, they can have intersectional identities (different race different ethnicity different culture hell even different sexuality) that they bring with them, and most of these spaces are explicitly inclusive for a reason - bears have friends and they might want to bring their friends along to the thing they enjoy!
I know a lot of it is both of your anxieties getting in the way, but I would highly encourage both of you to challenge your assumptions about these communities. I think you'd be surprised at how diverse queer spaces can be, and how even among a group that seems like a lot of partiers there will be plenty of folks who aren't, and even among those who do party- instagram is just a slice of one's life, not it's entirety. I can't tell you how many people have been intimidated by my instagram or my dating profiles (which often feature a lot of event photos because I'm wearing the most interesting outfits there) but the reality is that I'm a nerd and the bulk of my time is spent at home or in smaller settings with others. Challenge your assumptions and go. Even if you validate your assumptions for that night go again to a different event and see if that assumption continues to hold - not everyone can make it to every event every night, and you deserve to experience what the community has to offer.