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csydas commented on FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies thelibre.news/foss-infras... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

QuadrupleA · 5 months ago

Isn't this just poor, sloppy crawler implementation? You shouldn't need to fetch a repo more than once to add it to a training set.

csydas · 5 months ago

You are correct it's poor and sloppy, but it's not "just" that. It's a lack of concern over the effects of their poor/sloppy crawler implementation.

The poor implementation is not really relevant, it's companies deciding they own the internet and can take whatever they want, let everyone else deal with the consequences. The companies do not care what the impact of their ai non-sense is..

csydas commented on Facebook Marketplace is keeping young people on the platform cnbc.com/2025/03/08/how-f... · Posted by u/owendarko

csydas · 6 months ago

> Marketplace isn’t a major direct revenue source, but it keeps users engaged.

> “It’s one of the least monetized parts of Facebook,” said Enberg. “But it brings in engagement, which advertisers value.”

> Meta relies on ads for over 97% of its $164.5 billion revenue in 2024.

Facebook's spin in the article was delusional as expected for a big tech business, but I'm surprised they let this little nugget of truth slip out, and somehow managed to not learn anything from the fact that a huge demographic engages _more_ with the part of the site that gets the least monetization focus.

csydas commented on In SSRI withdrawal, brain zaps go from overlooked symptom to center stage (2023) psychiatrist.com/news/bra... · Posted by u/RicoElectrico

mmsc · a year ago

>Physicians were initially unaware or dismissive of brain zaps due to limited information and a focus on downplaying the addictive nature of antidepressants.

I don't know why. It's a pretty well-known effect of fucking with your serotonin levels. Someone I know took about 4g of MDMA over a 4-day period and what followed was about 2 weeks of these "brain zaps", sleep paralysis with demons in the room (feeling like you are laying in bed with a demon coming towards you but you physically cannot move). This stuff has been known about for decades but unable to be researched due to the US' drug laws. Those brain zaps are apparently like just doing whatever you're doing, when BAM, it feels like an electric shock has gone through your head into the back of your eyes.

csydas · a year ago

I think some other posters already commented, but I wouldn't put too much stock in the MDMA being MDMA -- I use MDMA pretty frequently and never had brain zaps from it, but when I was on sertraline and quit without tapering off, I definitely had the brain zaps being described, and I still get them almost 15 years after discontinuing sertraline.

MDMA depending on where you are and what you got can be quite a few things, it's why test kits are important. It's not to say that MDMA cannot cause brain zaps, but given that we know that MDMA is usually cut with a lot of filler/other drugs without the user knowing, I would acknowledge it could do it, but would always have doubt it was actually the MDMA due to the knowledge that whatever the users who experienced brain zaps took likely had many other drugs/substances in it. In the current political climate surrounding drugs, I'm not even sure how a study could effectively be done correctly.

Which is unfortunate because brain zaps really suck and withdrawal from SSRIs is pretty rough. I easily get into addictive substances, and have successfully stopped use on quite a few pretty heavy things, and they didn't come close to the withdrawals from SSRIs for me. This is personal experience of course, and likely many other factors in my life helped with my stopping some recreational drugs without hugely adverse affects, but SSRIs just nothing helped and at the time (2010-2015), I really couldn't find any reliable information online or from doctors about the brain zaps.

I'm glad to read this article because it's great to see that there is attention to this and more focus on the side effects of SSRIs. SSRIs definitely can help many people, but it is pretty intense drug and the withdrawal is nasty for quite a few people.

csydas commented on Baseline pupil size related to cognitive ability in proper lighting conditions sciencedirect.com/science... · Posted by u/Teever

csydas · a year ago

Maybe I am just not familiar enough with the subject to get the point, but this article doesn't really seem to focus on their actual claim but instead it's about explaining why no one else could reproduce their findings?

I'm also still very confused on what the actual relationship is purported to be, at least based on this article. How did they determine cognitive ability here?

I'm extremely wary of claims like the title, especially this one, as it seems like something children on a playground would say and use to bully each other, and certainly I imagine that many people will use it to justify being awful to others that are perceived to be "lesser" because of the rather outrageous title of the article, the article which I still really don't get how they're even making these connections to draw such a conclusion.

csydas commented on Another Climate Truth Bomb shojiwax.com/2024/01/28/a... · Posted by u/mathgenius

csydas · a year ago

Maybe the link should be changed directly to the video it discusses?

The article is purely a link to this YouTube video: https://youtu.be/4S9sDyooxf4

The article itself as I read it doesn't really contribute or expand the concepts in the video and instead is a call to action (not defined) as it assumes you've watched the video, basically I'm just not confident the article contributes anything to the subject its presenting.

csydas commented on Why you shouldn't parse the output of ls(1) mywiki.wooledge.org/Parsi... · Posted by u/susam

0xml · a year ago

That's why I kind of like PowerShell, object-oriented instead of string-oriented

csydas · a year ago

I get what you’re saying but the other weird limitations of powershell as well as microsoft’s strangely abusive security relationship with powershell makes it a non-starter for me, or at least makes me hesitate a ton before putting effort into a ps script since even in the same AD orgs which in theory have the same gpos applied across all machines, it’s a crapshoot if the ps script will even execute without having to trick windows into allowing it to run. object oriented nature of ps is also a curse as much as blessing as simple text parsing or iterating over files on a system are very slow compared to bash, never minding that from my experience it’s a crapshoot on how well a given ps module handles strings and how that will be reflected in the script.

(e.g., one company’s ps module doesn’t handle square brackets ][ well and for an inexplicable reason the normal ps escaping does not work as advertised, requiring more backticks than usual and a different number depending on if you “” or ‘’ the input string. As best i can tell its joint fault of ps bug and poor module design but had no luck convincing the vendor to adjust their design because “it will break existing scripts”, which is a valid concern but it also means writing automation for their product is a headache since you’re going to see ][ in production environments as is a visually obvious delimiter when humans are reading it)

csydas commented on White space killed an enterprise app (2019) uxdesign.cc/how-white-spa... · Posted by u/tosh

chasing · a year ago

Because not talking to users and then implementing a drastic change they don’t like sounds like a rookie move? Although, as I kind of allude to, I also place a lot of blame on management: Employees will make mistakes. Big ones. That’s life. A company needs to be structured so there are checks before those mistakes go out into the wild.

But, yes: Senior designers can also make mistakes. I’d argue they make less glaringly obvious mistakes, but humans will human.

csydas · a year ago

while i get what you’re saying i also know many senior devs who swim in dogma of their own creation, finding some trend they personally aspire to and enforcing it religiously. i think the relative experience of a dev is not a clue for me on if they are going to do research on what the end users actually need.

csydas commented on The Luddite's Guide to Defending Cash (2023) asomo.co/p/the-luddites-g... · Posted by u/t0bia_s

hcfman · a year ago

So how do you deal with more than 10,000 euros cash in the EU ? In the EU if you can’t account for your cash and it’s over a certain amount, I think 10,000 euros but it might be as low as 2000 euros, then the government can just take it all off you.

Perfect accounting ? Keeping bank receipts? Videoing you whole waking life?

csydas · a year ago

I honestly have no idea what you're talking about unless you're meaning about immigrating with more than 10,000€ worth of physical currency? I went through immigrating to EU recently and the declaration was as simple as signing a statement that I am able to show records of how I got the money if required by the country I was moving to, and one of the examples was as simple as bank statements showing you had an income that supported you having such money.

I don't think you're talking about this, so maybe you can link to a government site with the relevant law you're discussing? It's pretty trivial to demonstrate it in most cases, and I think even a paper ledger is enough for most situations.

csydas commented on Ad agency boss owned two Ferraris but wouldn't buy a real server theregister.com/2024/03/1... · Posted by u/CHB0403085482

averageRoyalty · a year ago

It's actually spent more years as a self hosted only application than as an online only one.

csydas · a year ago

Yeah on premises share point is absolutely still a thing. it’s not as common as i get it as microsoft wants you to migrate to share point online and at least clients i talked to said they did the migration because of licensing pressure from microsoft but i cannot comment on that personally.

Share point is just MSSQL in the backend and while setting up share point is mostly a simple affair with clicking through the wizards, managing it can get complex for the inexperienced since there’s a lot going on for on premises. the allure of a quick and easy self hosted share point site vanishes pretty fast once the reality of protecting it and keeping it running hits.

csydas commented on Akira Toriyama has died noisypixel.net/dragon-bal... · Posted by u/gaoryrt

nvarsj · a year ago

> Dragon ball was definitely the show that popularized Japanese animation in the west.

Highly debateable. Saint Seiya was huge in other parts of the world, for example. Also, Sailor Moon and Pokemon - both were arguably larger than DB. For me, it was Robotech/Macross.

But yeah, DB (DBZ in particular) was hugely popular in the 90s, with Cartoon Network showing it basically over and over. And remains one of the best of its genre.

csydas · a year ago

I think it's not such a useful debate. All of the early anime that was popular early on outside of Japan was undoubtedly influential and important part of the popularity of anime outside of the US, but Dragonball Z really had a special spot in that it had pretty large mainstream appeal and aired during normal afternoon blocks on American TV -- while Sailor Moon was known when I was growing up, I remember it being on early morning (06:00) cartoon blocks, so it was kind of out of the way. That isn't to diminish the influence of Sailor Moon, Saint Seiya, etc, but at least in the United States DBZ was a cartoon you talked about at school because "everyone" watched it and was waiting for the rest to be translated and dubbed.

I think that's mostly what the GP meant, and I would agree it was quite significant in this regard.