I love the original patientgamers subreddit so I was stoked to find this community. And because lemmy seems to have a more knowledgeable crowd any topic I posted here had great engagement and discussions, despite the small community. I am too busy to be a mod but maybe I can help by sparking this discussion: what would be needed...
I‘m on another patient gamers sub, and the games sub on lemmy.world.
Heh, fair enough.
I had no idea about the ones you mentioned lol
If you hit lemmyverse.net, they’ve got a “search all instances by communities by name” feature, which I think is probably currently the most-realistic way to find communities across all of the Threadiverse.
Note that their kbin indexing isn’t great – you need to explicitly choose “kbin magazines” from the upper-right hamburger menu; it doesn’t combine kbin and lemmy results. And they don’t currently index at least kbin.social, which is the largest kbin instance.
The biggest weakness of Lemmy IMO is how fractured communities can become due to very similar subs on different instances
Agreed, and also why I think Lemmy will never progress past a niche audience despite being capable of doing so. It’d be nice if there was a feature that allowed instances to merge all like-named communities into a singular one. I know cross posting was meant to help address the problem, but that’s a manual process that falls quite short in resolving the core issue.
I don’t think it’s that fundamental. I mean, Reddit has one shared namespace for subreddit names, but that doesn’t mean that everyone has to use one keyword. Like, you have /r/guns and /r/firearms, stuff like that. Nothing merges those.
And even for /r/patientgamers, there’s overlap. Like, /r/patientgamers probably has a fair bit of overlap with /r/retrogaming (note: !retrogaming and !retrogaming exist) and /r/truegaming.
I do think that making lemmyverse.net’s search feature or something similar that spans multiple instances to help people find communities across many instances more easily would help, and putting support for that in clients. The Threadiverse model of having an instance not index communities until someone on an instance subscribes helps scalability, but if the main way to search for communities only searches communities that an instance knows about, it kind of kills discoverability for users.
In regard to Reddit having the same problem, I agree it does to an extent. But like you said, it only allows for synonyms or alternate wording for the same topic in a subreddit’s name. On Lemmy, since instances are different, the fractured communities can be named the exact same thing. Most casual users are not going to realize this and think that the one community they’re in is not active when on another instance, the other like-named community might have grown and is now quite active since they initially setup their subscriptions. They’ll never know unless they happen to run another search and see the alternate community’s user count.
Maybe I’m wrong and it isn’t a big deal. But I do agree that searching and indexing would be a great step in helping discoverability.
There’s some site that’s designed just to use a bot account on various major instances to subscribe a new community. It waits until there are something like 10 regular users subscribed, then unsubscribes. You could just plonk in a community name and have it do so. That helps discoverability but kind of clashes with the whole intended scalability decision in lemmy/kbin/etc design not to slurp in content from all communities out there.
I think this is the github project page, but someone was running an instance of it.
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Man, I can’t even find the instance that someone was running, which does kind of maybe highlight the need for a central “Threadiverse wiki” that links to all this stuff. fediverse.observer, lemmyverse.net, fedidb.org, join-lemmy.org, etc. There’s some other tool that someone made to measure post federation latency, so you could see what instances are overloaded or not working. There are a ton of useful tools out there, but no central hub. I keep finding them when someone links to them on the Threadiverse and then never being able to find them again.
My own home instance, lemmy.today, has always had a request in the sidebar asking people to subscribe to a bunch of communities so that they become visible to the instance, which seems like kind of an awkward workaround for discoverability:
🥹 Make sure to join a lot of remote communities to get a good feed going. How to do that is explained here.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !open
Usually you would have a second DNS resolver configured in /etc/resolv.conf (or whatever name resolution config system you are using, resolvconf, systemd-networkd, etc). The system will fall back to this resolver if the first resolver fails to respond (and/or replies NXDOMAIN, I’m not sure. The exact order and fallback conditions may vary depending on which system you use). This can be another dnsmasq instance, a public DNS resolver, your ISP’s resolver, etc. This allows at least basic DNS resolution to work before your dnsmasq instance comes back up.
I would also add automatic monitoring for dnsmasq (either check that the service/container is running, or check the TCP connection to port 53, or check that DNS resolution is working for a known domain, etc)
<p>A recent study has found that scientific citations generated by ChatGPT often do not correspond to real academic work. The study, published in the Canadian Psychological Association’s <em><a href="https://cpa.ca/students/mindpad/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mind Pad</a></em>, found that “false citation rates” across various psychology subfields ranged from 6% to 60%. Surprisingly, these fabricated citations feature elements such as legitimate researchers’ names and properly formatted digital object identifiers (DOIs), which could easily mislead both students and researchers.</p>
<p>ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence language model developed by OpenAI, which is capable of generating human-like text based on the input it receives. As a part of the larger GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) series, ChatGPT has been trained on a vast amount of text data, allowing it to generate coherent responses across various topics. This capability, however, also presents certain challenges, especially in contexts that require high accuracy and reliability, such as academic writing.</p>
<p>As AI tools like ChatGPT become more accessible and widely used, there is a growing concern about their implications for academic integrity. Specifically, the tool’s ability to “hallucinate” information — generate plausible but non-existent citations — poses a significant risk.</p>
<p>“Initially, I was interested in finding ways of identifying ChatGPT usage in student work that I was grading. When ChatGPT was released, I noticed more and more students talking about using ChatGPT and how to use it without being caught,” explained study author <a href="https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=1Ii5mYMAAAAJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jordan MacDonald</a>, a PhD student in Experimental Psychology at the University of New Brunswick–Saint John.</p>
<p>“I took this as a challenge and started having ChatGPT prepare me papers on various topics to see what, if any, errors were produced consistently. That was when I noticed that a lot of the references that ChatGPT cited did not actually exist.”</p>
<p>“Hallucinated citations are easy to spot because they often contain real authors, journals, proper issue/volume numbers that match up with the date of publication, and DOIs that appear legitimate. However, when you examine hallucinated citations more closely, you will find that they are referring to work that does not exist.”</p>
<p>“The only alternative to a large language model generating these citations is that someone manually collected real authors, real journal names (along with issue and volume numbers), made up a fake title, and then constructed a fake DOI (which have a specific format and usually look like this: 10.1177/03057356211030985). The work it would take to pull together a fake citation would exceed the work it would take to just find a real one and do the work yourself.”</p>
<p>To investigate the accuracy of citations generated by artificial intelligence, MacDonald tasked ChatGPT 3.5 with generating 50 citations for six psychological subfields — religion, animal, social, clinical, personality, and neuropsychology — totaling 300 citations.</p>
<p>The authenticity of these citations was verified by checking their digital object identifiers (DOIs) against actual publications. If a DOI did not lead to a real document, it was marked as a hallucinated citation. MacDonald further scrutinized a random selection of both hallucinated and legitimate citations to investigate discrepancies in detail.</p>
<p>MacDonald found that a total of 32.3% of the 300 citations generated by ChatGPT were hallucinated. Despite being fabricated, these hallucinated citations were constructed with elements that appeared legitimate — such as real authors who are recognized in their respective fields, properly formatted DOIs, and references to legitimate peer-reviewed journals.</p>
<p>Hallucinated citations varied by subfield. For instance, ChatGPT only hallucinated three citations related to neuropsychology but hallucinated 30 citations related to psychology of religion research.</p>
<p>Interestingly, even when citations included legitimate DOIs that correctly redirected to real articles, MacDonald’s closer inspection often revealed mismatches. The cited articles did not always correspond with the titles, authors, or subjects provided by ChatGPT. For example, a DOI might lead to a genuine article on a completely different topic than the one ChatGPT described.</p>
<p>“The degree of hallucination surprised me,” MacDonald told PsyPost. “Almost every single citation had hallucinated elements or were just entirely fake, but ChatGPT would offer summaries of this fake research that was convincing and well worded.”</p>
<p>“As ChatGPT becomes more refined, I imagine this error will become less common, but as far as I am aware, citation and information hallucination is a tricky beast to tackle when developing language models. At the very least, hallucinated citations are both easy to identify and a likely indicator of ChatGPT (or other large language model) usage.”</p>
<p>Additionally, MacDonald observed that ChatGPT could accurately summarize scholarly articles if provided with correct and complete references by the user. However, left to its own devices, the model frequently “hallucinated” both the content and context of the citations.</p>
<p>“I think many people are both concerned and excited for the potential upsides and downsides to ChatGPT,” MacDonald said. “One of the upsides is that ChatGPT can be used by those who are well educated in a given field to do very topical literature scans. Someone who knows their field well may be able to use ChatGPT in an advantageous way, while also being able to catch errors.</p>
<p>“The downside, and the other end of that same stick, is that students and the general population might use ChatGPT to provide them with information on a topic while lacking the knowledge of said topic to be able to identify false or misleading information.”</p>
<p>“ChatGPT and other large language models definitely have many benefits but are clearly still in their infancy,” MacDonald explained. “I think the average person should be very cautious about using ChatGPT in the same way that they should be cautious about getting a cancer diagnosis from Dr. Google.”</p>
<p>“I think that educators should know that invalid references appear to be a reasonable way to identify AI-generated work <em>but</em> it is not a smoking gun, either. Students may use ChatGPT to help with an initial literature search and then write a paper on their own. The degree of wrongdoing may vary.”</p>
<p>As with all research, the study has some caveats to consider. The study’s scope was limited to one version of ChatGPT and a specific set of psychology subfields, and the nature of AI development means newer versions of ChatGPT may not exhibit the same patterns of hallucinated citations.</p>
<p>“ChatGPT is evolving and my findings may not be accurate to the same extent in future versions,” MacDonald noted, adding that “this is not my main field of research but I intend on continuing to find ways to identify plagiarism or academic misconduct using ChatGPT or other large language models. I hope to see these models trained in a way that can prevent students from abusing them.”</p>
<p>The study, “<a href="https://cpa.ca/docs/File/Students/MindPad/MindPad_Winter2023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dude, Where’s My Citations? ChatGPT’s Hallucination of Citations</a>,” was published in the Winter 2023 issue of <em>Mind Pad</em>.</p>
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !garudalinux
Hello! Im Trying out peertube and have some unanswered questions. Iv been having some troubles figuring out how to use that platform. One problem is that it takes much time to find an instance with open registration. But its Ok, not a big problem....
Well…At least i have a better understanding of what NCD is. Im going to go back to only stumbling in and lurking when you pop up on the main page, and i fail to read the instance name. But uh good luck with that
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !retrogaming
That’s absolutely correct, and something to keep in mind in case you’re already stressed out with work or lacking free time.
Nowadays, after the initial setup, tools like Sonarr rarely give me trouble - but once I a while I’ll have to sit down and resolve a conflict with file naming, for instance. Or when series have weird releases like animes breaking naming conventions for seasons.
A new motion has accused the elected prosecutor in Elkhart, Indiana, of misconduct, alleging she presented contradictory versions of the truth against two men in connection with a shooting that occurred more than 20 years ago....
There has been a huge wave of spam accounts recently, and I recognize some of the names on this list. Of course these accounts gets banned quickly.
Getting a fake email address is really easy, so I don’t think it makes any difference whatsoever. On fastmail which im using, I can even create fake ones with a click on a button. It’s built into the service to have different emails for different sites.
Having closed signups will not stop any spam accounts. It just adds a delay between registration and being able to log in. There is no way to know if it’s a spam account or not before they sign in. Of course, some of the names in the list makes it obvious, but they just change to ordinary sounding names then.
I think it’s frustrating for new users to have to wait for a random time period to get accepted, specially when it serves no purpose. I’m not going to be any wiser if I approve the registration now or 12 hours later.
Or am I wrong? I haven’t been a troll myself but seems like I would just spend 30 mins to make accounts in random instances and then fire off my bot a few hours later or on the day after.
How do you know which accounts are spam accounts before they even started posting?
If the spammers and trolls manage to make you defederate from Lemmy.today, they will pick another instance. And every defederation will continue to make the fediverse smaller and more centralized. Sooner or later, small instances may even stop accepting new users for fear of being defederated from the larger network.
I would like to stop having these spam accounts and trolls on the instance. I could add email verification but it won’t make a difference and just make it more annoying for new users. I really don’t want to punish them for what trolls and spammers are doing.
But sure, I prefer it to defederation. So if you think it makes a difference, I could add it just as a sign of good faith. But it’s really a pointless gesture.
If the spirit of the fediverse is to spread everything across small instances, then i think it would be really important to make communities, especially niche communities, easier to discover across instances. Since it is not planned to crawl federated instances community catalog, i think instance admins, or maybe even the lemmy...
Even with the disabled instances, communities that get added onto there reach a much larger section of people than external community browsers do as casual users that just check the site once a day or something and don’t pay attention to external sites can still stumble on them without knowing the federate site exists or needing to know explicit community names
Ideally more instances would get added onto there but its still fine like this. Been getting some nice interactions and starting activity on new programming.dev communities
“It’s absurd that we live in a society where people feel the urge to tell me to greet them with ‘sallam alleykum’”.
There's already a huge difference between what happened and your example here. Your example is "people saying you must do X" . What happens when it comes to gender is people asking, "please do not do X".
They're not saying you must refer to them as, for instance, she/her, but rather asking that you do not refer to them as he/him/they/them/whatever. You're free to just not use pronouns to refer to them at all if that suits you better - you can refer to them by name instead. You're left with plenty of options and only a handful of restrictions.
Your example, on the other hand, is completely restrictive; you must take this single course of action, and there are no alternatives.
For what it's worth, I do think we're in a fairly transitional stage (ha) of how we as society deal with transgenderism. I think people being made to change their pronouns in order to feel comfortable is silly. Not because those people are silly - they're just doing what they can to feel comfortable with the restrictions society has placed on them - but because society and language are silly.
Why do we refer to people by gender at times when it's completely irrelevant? Someone having a penis, or male hormones, or whatever other "masculine qualities", is irrelevant 99% of the time when I refer to them as he/him. If I say, "Donald Trump? Yeah, he's a corrupt idiot," then why does him having a penis have any bearing on the language I use there?
And why do we have such gendered roles in society? Why can't men just wear dresses and make-up and link the colour pink and still identify as men? Why can't women cut their hair short and wear baggy clothes and like engineering projects and lifting weights at the gym and still identify as women? I guarantee that if we could remove all those kinds of gender associations, you'd see a lot less trans people.
People transition because who they are and what they like, and what society says they have to be (based on their gender) are at odds with each other, and it's literally easier for them to change gender in order to be allowed to be themselves than to change society. Being trans isn't some kind of personal failing; it's a failure of society to accommodate people who deviate even slightly from its rigid roles and expectations.
The ideal future, such as I see it, is for there to be no trans people because no-one feels a need to transition - they can just feel comfortable and accepted as they are. But until then, you need to recognise that there's a societal issue and stop being a part of it. It takes such a small amount of effort on your part to use the pronouns someone requests, or to avoid using pronouns at all, and it makes such a huge difference to them to be gendered properly. So just be a decent, respectful person and accommodate their wishes and stop making their life worse.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !artshare
I was having a conversation elsewhere about funkywhale being used to share copyright protected content and in that conversation I ended up reading about the US DMCA Safe Harbor’s requirements.
It requires you to have a designated person with their name registered with the copyright office to be considered a safe harbor.
As I said, it is not impossible to move away from gh compared to many other cases in other industries, just that it is more difficult than necessary because vendor-lockin is allowed.
If vendor-lockin was illegal, companies had more incentives to use established or create new standards to facilitate simpler migration between software stacks, without changing the external interface.
For instance allowing your own DNS name to be used as the repo/project basepath instead of enforcing github.com, Allowing comments, reviews, issues and pull requests via email or other federated services, instead of enforcing github accounts to do so, providing documented, stable and full-featured APIs for every component of their software, so that it is easy to migrate and pick and choose different components of their while stack from possible different vendors, …
There are so many ways that would improve the migration situation, while also providing more ways for other ideas to compete on a level playing field. If a bright engineer has an idea for improving one component from github, they should not be required to write a whole separate platform first.
I used to work with a Greek guy called Argyros Argyros - cool guy, but suspect he was an outlier. Named after his dad, so certainly some people are named that way. Icelandic for instance would traditionally use “Given Name” “Patronym from father” - Magnus Magnusson was quite famous in the UK; Björk Guðmundsdóttir might be the most famous internationally, but she’s not a “double”. There’s quite a few cultures - Hungarian, Chinese, Japanese, … - that write their names as “Family Name” “Given Name” as opposed to the other way around, if that’s what you mean?
I swear, every time most of the time I see someone being particularly rude, ignorant, and inappropriate on a post (usually political in origin, or they swing it to being political) I click on their profile and see it has been created that same day....
The Modlog is (or should be, in theory) accessible on any Lemmy/Kbin instance. However, it is on an instance by instance basis whether the Modlog shows full information for each moderator action. Like you said, some instances will only show “mod” but others will provide the names.
To be honest, I haven’t been looking at the Fediverse a whole lot lately, so I can’t recommend which ones are the best and most transparent. At one point in time, the Lemmy.world Modlog did provide full info but it seems that they have changed that in recent months.
There is no direct equivalent, system32 is just a collection of libraries, exes, and confs.
Some of what others have said is accurate, but to explain a bit further:
Longer explanation:
::: spoiler spoiler
system32 is just some folder name the MS engineers came up back in the day.
Linux on the other hand has many distros, many different contributors, and generally just encourages a .. better .. separation for types of files, imho
The linux filesystem is well defined if you are inclined to research more about it.
Understanding the core principals will make understanding virtually everything else about "linux" easier, imho.
/lib - Somewhat self-explanatory, holds libraries, lots of things put their libs here, including linux kernel modules, /lib/modules/*, similar to system32's function of holding critical libraries
/etc - Configuration lives here, generally speaking, /etc/<application name> can point you in the right direction, typically requires super-user (root) to edit
/usr - "User installed" software, which can be a murky definition in today's world, but lots of stuff ends up here for installed software, manuals, icon files, executables
Bonus:
/opt - A special location, generally third-party, bundled-style software likes to use this, Java for instance, but historically some admins use it as the "company location", meaning internally developed software would live there.
/srv - Largely subjective, but myself and others I know use it for partitions that are outside the primary disk, for instance we use /srv/db for database volumes, /srv/www for web-data volumes, /srv/Media for large-file storage, etc, etc
For completeness:
/home - You'll find your user directories here, personally, this is my directory I backup, I don't carry much more with me on most systems.
/var - "Variable data", basically meaning any data that will likely grow over time, eg: /var/log
How to revitalize this sub?
I love the original patientgamers subreddit so I was stoked to find this community. And because lemmy seems to have a more knowledgeable crowd any topic I posted here had great engagement and discussions, despite the small community. I am too busy to be a mod but maybe I can help by sparking this discussion: what would be needed...
Leap Micro 6 Enters Alpha Stage (discuss.tchncs.de)
The openSUSE project is excited to announce that Leap Micro 6 is in its alpha development stage....
Running DNS server in Docker
Hi everyone,...
Nothing like that "new distro" feel (lemm.ee)
Concern about peertube and P2P
Hello! Im Trying out peertube and have some unanswered questions. Iv been having some troubles figuring out how to use that platform. One problem is that it takes much time to find an instance with open registration. But its Ok, not a big problem....
How to NCD (A casual's guide) (sh.itjust.works)
(This is a repost of an older Reddit thread)...
Wesnoth on the miyoo mini plus. (cdn.masto.host)
cross-posted from: social.rootaccess.org/users/…/112260307417804344...
Roku suffered another data breach, this time affecting 576,000 accounts (www.engadget.com)
The Chief Prosecutor in Elkhart, Indiana, Is Accused of Misconduct for Making Contradictory Allegations (www.propublica.org)
A new motion has accused the elected prosecutor in Elkhart, Indiana, of misconduct, alleging she presented contradictory versions of the truth against two men in connection with a shooting that occurred more than 20 years ago....
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Discoverability of communities across instances
If the spirit of the fediverse is to spread everything across small instances, then i think it would be really important to make communities, especially niche communities, easier to discover across instances. Since it is not planned to crawl federated instances community catalog, i think instance admins, or maybe even the lemmy...
These mods on their power-trips really need to stop
I just got banned from [email protected], which seems to be the biggest Linux community out there....
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IFTAS release a guide to help instance admins comply with the Digital Services Act (about.iftas.org)
unsure why we are surprised lol (lemmy.cafe)
GitHub Is Not Open Source, A Rant (listed.to)
When a real user uses the app (lemmy.ml)
Does anyone else notice an uptick of extreme troll accounts?
I swear, every time most of the time I see someone being particularly rude, ignorant, and inappropriate on a post (usually political in origin, or they swing it to being political) I click on their profile and see it has been created that same day....
Noob Question Thread: Ask Any Questions About Linux!
I thought I’ll make this thread for all of you out there who have questions but are afraid to ask them. This is your chance!...