Not familiar with it specifically, but… if you want privacy using LLMs, run local models on your own computer. Anything else is just asking for a rug pull eventually – regardless of the intentions of whoever set up the service originally.

(or so I was told)

(Besides Anime)

It’s pretty much entirely because anime (and adjacent content). You can’t exclude that and expect a coherent answer.

People learn languages when they have a cultural reason to do so – such as engaging with media in that language or wanting to interact with people who speak it (for business/relationships/diplomacy/whatever).

Hollywood movies and rock-and-roll were big drivers that pushed people to learn English last century. Programming and the internet probably pushed a bunch of people to learn it in the last ~20 years. K-Pop and K-Drama have been drivers for learning Korean recently. German was one of the major languages (along with French) for math and science before WWI – but was overtaken by English after that. You get the picture, I hope.

If the US continues on its current path, maybe in a few decades all the new research papers coming out will be in Chinese instead and everyone will learn Mandarin to discuss new tech. 🤷️

I’m aware that it exists but I don’t know how to use it, or really why I’d want to. The few times I’ve tried to check it out, I’ve run into a sign up wall before I could see anything. (Why the fuck would I want to register on a server to chat when I have no idea who’s on it or what they’re even chatting about there!?) On top of that, there’s the complications of federated software – which server? which client? etc – and the comparisons to Discord (which I dislike) really don’t help either…

My impression of it so far is that I’d rather people just post here for anything that’s supposed to be public.

I just picked up Satisfactory on sale and will probably give it a try later this week.

If I can’t go on Amazon and buy a copy for sale at any price, I’m of the opinion that I’m justified in pirating it – and I have put my money where my mouth is on that point.

Edit: to be clear, I’m talking about commercially produced films and tv shows; I’d look elsewhere for e.g. games

I think it’s ethically justifiable to pirate media that has been abandoned by its creators; without such action, media would become lost.

Legally, it’s not ok until it goes out of copyright, but if the company that has the rights to a work isn’t even selling it, it’d be rather weird for them to bother wasting money pursuing a claim against you.

I’d rather like to see the laws changed so that what feels ethical and what is legal are in alignment with each other again, but I don’t expect sanity on that front to show up during my lifetime…

Could it have been a mistake and they were supposed to reveal an N for ING but didn’t?

Antennas on Misskey are a way to filter posts based on certain conditions. (e.g. include/exclude certain keywords, tags, etc.)

As I understand it, users can set up multiple antennas and tune them to select for messages they care about, and you get a timeline for each one.

I think the upvote/downvote system and karma systems popularized by reddit, etc. are largely failed attempts at mitigating the effects of the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.

If I were to set up a new social network today, I’d look towards antenna systems instead for inspiration on how to design it. That said, I haven’t spent much time on Misskey and that kind of thing probably has its own issues that I don’t know about.

145F = ~62.78C

No. Asimov’s laws were created as rules for making interesting fiction about robots – instead of the crappy “monster goes on a rampage” style stories that were prevalent before that. The whole point of them is to be insufficient so that you have something to write a story about!

I’m not sure if people burned out from over-saturation or got shouted out by the haters, but yeah, it definitely got quiet.

There’s still a bunch of us with nuanced opinions about AI on here though (e.g. over in !localllama@sh.itjust.works) even if the haters are the loudest faction on Lemmy at large at the moment.

Oh hey. There’s a name I haven’t seen in a while. Welcome back!

Or a strong odour break my sense of smell?

I’ve accidentally knocked out my sense of smell with a bathroom cleaner before. Not enough ventilation while I was scrubbing things, I guess. Came back later in the day, thankfully, but was quite disturbing. I don’t recommend it.

Can a really strong flavour break my taste buds?

Not sure exactly about that, but there are compounds that will mess with your sense of taste significantly. e.g. there’s a fruit that makes sour things taste sweet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synsepalum_dulcificum

Do you feel like trying to DIY something?

If so, like I said take a look at YOLO and other object detection models, or try using a small VLM like gemma-4-E2B-it-qat-q4_0-gguf – which ought to be able to fit on your graphics card – and pass it an image and a simple question like “Is there a person in this image? YES or NO. No extra text.” when a simpler process like a motion detector light triggers.

If not, that’s probably as far as I can help.

Either way, good luck!

Hmm. That sounds on par in terms of features with the AXIS cams I’ve encountered before. Does the camera have a web ui? (If so, maybe try poke at it through that.)

What exactly do you mean by “doesn’t work the best”? (Slow?) If it’s trying to do “AI detection” on the desktop itself from a desktop app then it’s possible that it doesn’t know how to use your GPU effectively, maybe? (ARC is still relatively unusual.)

What camera are you using? Some security cameras (e.g. AXIS) already have built-in detectors that you can use directly on board – I’m not sure on the quality since I never used it myself, but worth a try before you pay someone else if you’ve already got it…

There’s also open weight models for object detection. YOLO models can find people in images easily, though you’ll need some heuristics to avoid drowning in false positive alerts. VLMs like Qwen or Gemma are more heavy-weight but you can give them an image or short video clip + natural language description of what you’re looking for and have them make a judgement before escalating to a human; the usual LLM caveats obviously apply. That’s just the kind of DIY stuff I’d do though.

I’m not broke, but not especially. I don’t drink or smoke or go out to eat any more. No kids. No pets. Basically no social life… So, I’ve got a little extra cash for hobbies. 🤷️