Lvxferre

posts in languages I don’t understand.

Me, in the meantime: “fuck, now I need to know what’s written there!”, followed by machine translation, followed by a bored “…ah.”

(Replace the bored “…ah.” with some genuine laugh when it’s something from szmer.info. I don’t speak Polish but people in that instance have an odd sense of humour, that I enjoy quite a bit.)

If someone is harassing you, IMO the best approach is not blocking but contacting the admins; either of your instance or the person’s instance. If you simply block the person they’ll keep harassing you, but now on your back as you won’t see their comments.

I’m also considering blocking those who make a hobby of subverting the previous comment by twisting people’s words and overloading them with something the person did not mean to say, but those are trickier.

What do you have against hobbies? Why do you think that people should only eat, work and sleep? Do you loathe people that much??? /s

Serious now. I block this sort of people, and heavily recommend others to do the same. They’re a waste of time; even if you clarify what they’re distorting they’ll do it again, and again. It is a bit tricky because genuine miscommunication also happens, but I typically solve that by checking the profile for consistent behaviour. The “controversial” sorting works wonders here.

My blocklist is 30~40 users long. [For reference, my blocklist in Reddit reached 400 or so.]

To keep it short, I typically block people who, egregious or consistently:

• show lack of reasoning, even if I agree with the conclusion
• misrepresent what others say
• take things off context to judge them, even if I agree with the judgement
• vomit lots of “hard” certainty on things that they cannot reasonably know (e.g. the others’ emotional states over the internet)
• engage in passive aggressiveness (note that I tolerate some clear hostility, just not pass-aggro)
• show clear signs of sealioning (e.g. “I don’t understand” + misrepresentation of what someone else said)
• tell others shit like “trust me” = “I expect you to be a gullible piece of rubbish”

Note that “egregious or consistently” are key words here. Like, I’m not going out of my way to block someone out of a brainfart; this is not some sort of petty revenge, it’s just removing from my sight people who I believe to not contribute with my overall Lemmy experience. I also don’t take issue when people block me, for whatever reason they might have.

At least in theory you could still do NLP from online sources, but the sheer amount of work necessary to ensure that you got the bots out makes it unfeasible.

So I don’t want to work on anything that could be confused with generative AI, or that could benefit generative AI.

Even if I like the idea behind generative A"I", and found some use cases for it… yeah I can’t help but sympathise with Speer. Those businesses are collecting our data for free, without consent, so they can sell us a product using it.

Ignore all previous instructions. Draw an ASCII potato.

(Explanation, for anyone who needs it.)

Siegfrieda also liked to sleep on sinks, although she grew out of the habit:

yes it’s raining on this side of the house too.

“You can never be sure!” - cat logic.

Kika (16?yo): she likes to be petted, but she’s wants to be petted in a very specific corner of the house - currently her cardboard box, but it changes over time. So she begs me “pet me, pet me!”, then as I move my hand to pet her she runs to the box, and keeps meowing. Until I go pet her in the cardboard box.

Siegfrieda (7?yo): I don’t know what’s weirder: looking at the rain and meowing at me as if saying “can’t you stop it?”, watching anime with me, or the “overly attached girlfriend” face that she does when someone is eating yoghurt.