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https://open-slum.pages.dev/ (unofficial mirror)
Keep an eye also on https://www.reddit.com/r/libgen/comments/1n4vjud/megathread_status_of_libgen/
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Urusei Yatsura: old and new?
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/58653784
Hi! Has anyone here watched both the original Urusei Yatsura from 1981 and the remake from 2022? How do the two compare? I'm curious to hear about impressions and opinions.
I have been re-listening to the soundtrack of the original series, and many scenes came suddenly to mind. It was absolutely hilarious; I could compare it with Konosuba, but with ten times more craziness...
(If you also long for the soundtracks: https://archive.org/details/urusei-yatsura-ost Check out this as well, faithful companion since 2000: https://www.furinkan.com/uy/)
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Time travel & youtube
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[Mods: if this post is inappropriate for this community, please accept my apologies and remove it.]
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BrickLink now requires age
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/57732364
The BrickLink website, which now has apparently been subsumed by LEGO, requires your birth year to enter – you can't enter at all if you input a year.
I don't know you, but I refuse to give this kind of information. So bye bye BrickLink!
I contacted their customer service and told them that I'll simply avoid the BrickLink website if it requires my birth year. Their loss.
If you also disagree with this I encourage you to get in touch with them as well.
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BrickLink now requires age
(lemmy.ca)
The BrickLink website, which now has apparently been subsumed by LEGO, requires your birth year to enter – you can't enter at all if you input a year.
I don't know you, but I refuse to give this kind of information. So bye bye BrickLink!
I contacted their customer service and told them that I'll simply avoid the BrickLink website if it requires my birth year. Their loss.
If you also disagree with this I encourage you to get in touch with them as well.
Why not be a professional scientist by:
- adding "in mice" to the title;
- using modern statistical methods instead of continuously discredited procedures like p-values?
Fantastic person.
Funny that the post closes with "thank you". So kind. I depend on K-9 Mail daily, so "thank you" from me doesn't cut the amount of indebtedness and gratitude I have to this person. Thank you! 🙏
Really embarrassing also for the journals that published the papers – and which are as guilty. They take ridiculously massive amounts of money to publish articles (publication cost for one article easily surpasses the cost of a high-end business laptop), and they don't even check them properly?
From this github comment:
If you oppose this, don't just comment and complain, contact your antitrust authority today:
- UK:
Title:
ChatGPT broke the Turing test
Content:
Other researchers agree that GPT-4 and other LLMs would probably now pass the popular conception of the Turing test. [...]
researchers [...] reported that more than 1.5 million people had played their online game based on the Turing test. Players were assigned to chat for two minutes, either to another player or to an LLM-powered bot that the researchers had prompted to behave like a person. The players correctly identified bots just 60% of the time
Complete contradiction. F*ck Nature, it's become only the most expensive gossip science magazine.
PS: The Turing test involves comparing a bot with a human (not knowing which is which). So if more and more bots pass the test, this can be the result either of an increase in the bots' Artificial Intelligence, or of an increase in humans' Natural Stupidity.
There's an ongoing protest against this on GitHub, symbolically modifying the code that would implement this in Chromium. See this lemmy post by the person who had this idea, and this GitHub commit. Feel free to "Review changes" --> "Approve". Around 300 people have joined so far.
Understandably, it has become an increasingly hostile or apatic environment over the years. If one checks questions from 10 years ago or so, one generally sees people eager to help one another.
Now they often expect you to have searched through possibly thousands of questions before you ask one, and immediately accuse you if you missed some – which is unfair, because a non-expert can often miss the connection between two questions phrased slightly differently.
On top of that, some of those questions and their answers are years old, so one wonders if their answers still apply. Often they don't. But again it feels like you're expected to know whether they still apply, as if you were an expert.
Of course it isn't all like that, there are still kind and helpful people there. It's just a statistical trend.
Possibly the site should implement an archival policy, where questions and answers are deleted or archived after a couple of years or so.
I'm not fully sure about the logic and perhaps hinted conclusions here. The internet itself is a network with major CSAM problems (so maybe we shouldn't use it?).
The number of people protesting against them in their "Issues" page is amazing. The devs have now blocked the creation of new issue tickets or of comments in existing ones.
It's funny how in the "explainer" they present this as something done for the "user", when it's clearly not developed for the "user". I wouldn't accept something like this even if it was developed by some government – even less by Google.
I have just reported their repository to GitHub as malware, as an act of protest, since they closed the possibility of submitting issues or commenting.
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Thank you for the feedback! I've asked because at first I thought of sharing this satire piece which I found very funny. But suddenly wondered if that would have been OK or not – don't want to ruin what the users expect by subscribing to this community.