Lvxferre [he/him]

The catarrhine who invented a perpetual motion machine, by dreaming at night and devouring its own dreams through the day.

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Cake day: January 12th, 2024
  • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyztoFediLore + Fedidrama@lemmy.ca•DB0 the admin of DIVISIONsBYZERO learns why hexbear is defederated from all the respectable instances
    91·
    2 days ago

    Fuck neoliberalism. I might not like those kids giving thumbs up to authoritarianism but they’re less worse than neolib, it’s like comparing elephant shit with cat shit.

    That said: a few Hexbear users are fairly reasonable, but plenty of them remind me 11yos. Specially in groups. db0 threw the bait, in a humour community for anarchists… and they all ate the bait, with malagueta sauce. No, wait, Scorpion Trinidad sauce. While screaming “I CAN STAND THE HEAT!” amidst their torrential tears.

    Eventually the thing gets old, db0 gets bored and tells them to disengage.

    It was funny that the nanny - who was supposed to take care of the kids - was there too. And he’s another 11yo! He forgot to edit his comment and say EDIT WOW THANKS FOR THE GOLD KIND STRANGER! They might’ve left Reddit, but they still behave more like redditors than like decent people. Also, I saw a neoliberal Anglo supremacist there. Full of gullibleness. He still didn’t think on the purpose of this utterance. And yes, I’m still laughing my arse off that muppet.

    I’m almost sure db0 knows why those kids are mostly defederated. And the reason his instance doesn’t do it is because, good or bad, they’re left-wing presence in the fediverse.

    Hexbear users who might take offence with my comment are encouraged to address their complains about their precious feelings being violated to this form.

  • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyztoCanvas@toast.ooo•[2025] Canvas Group Finder / Templates
    31·
    3 days ago
    1. Group name: Parabellum.
    2. Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#parabellum-canvas:matrix.org
    3. template URL: N/A, see note.
    4. Fun fact: named after Caesar’s “si uis pacem, para bellum” (if you want peace, prepare for war).

    NOTE: the group’s goal is to coordinate attacks against the largest country flag in the canvas, whichever it is. Void, random doodling, etc. is welcome.

    further info, including channel rules.

    Channel rules:

    1. Be a reasonable and decent human being. (e.g. no bigotry)
    2. No divisive off-topic or NSFW content.
    3. No fragmenting the movement from the inside: apology to large country flags, JAQing off, sealioning, etc. This will be strictly enforced.
    4. No cheating, doxxing, or encouragement of.
    5. Have fun.

    The target is always the biggest country flag. Drawings in the flag are disregarded; only width x height counts. In the case of a tie, the leftmost flag takes precedence. Focus preferably on most iconic features of the flag.

    Observers are welcome, as long as they follow the rules. You’re also free to join the group even if you belong to another group, just make sure there’s no conflict of interest.

    Q-and-A

    Q1: Why would I join it?
    A: Reasons are up to the individual. We don’t need to share the same motivation, only the goal.

    Q2: What constitutes a large or small flag?
    A: Up to debate but we don’t need to set this line up, since we’re picking on the largest one anyway.

    Q3: What about the trans flag? Or the anarchist one?
    A: Not country flags, we’re leaving them alone.

    Q4: What about drawings that are not part of the flag, but associated with it?
    A: Leave them alone, and focus on the flag itself. And in the case the flag is built into a bigger drawing, focus on the elements of the flag, not of the rest of the drawing.

    Q5: Vandalism is wrong!
    A: Not a question, but whatever. This sort of online canvas is not just cooperation, but also competition. Also, people actually concerned about vandalism in the canvas know that the main source of said vandalism are large country flags.

    Q6: If u dun liek it, than y u dun fuck off teh gaem?
    A: No. People who want to get rid of large flags have as much right to organise themselves towards their common goal as you have to organise your flag. Deal with it.

    Q7: as someone working on a large flag, I ask u, can u stop doin that?
    Q8: excuuuuuse me, do you know that I’m entitled to have you listen to my defence of large flags?
    Q9: ackshyually is this harassment?
    No.

    Q10: why do you hate [insert population]?
    A: Our target is decided based on canvas area, not personal feelings towards the subjects of the government associated with that flag.

    Q11: instead of fighting us, why don’t you join us to build our MONUMENT?
    A: I do monuments like this every day. In my bathroom, just after #2.

  • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyztoPiracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•They don't want people to pirate, but this is the service they want people to pay for.English
    27·
    4 days ago

    I don’t see what the problem is with using AI for translations. if the translations are good enough and cheap enough, they should be used.

    Because machine translations for any large chunk of text are consistently awful: they don’t get references right, they often miss the point of the original utterance, they ignore cultural context, so goes on. It’s like wiping your arse with an old sock - sure, you could do it in a pinch, but you definitively don’t want to do it regularly!

    Verbose example, using Portuguese to English

    I’ll give you an example, using PT→EN because I don’t speak JP. Let’s say Alice tells Bob “ma’ tu é uma nota de três pila, né?” (literally: “bu[t] you’re a three bucks bill, isn’t it?”) . A human translator will immediately notice a few things:

    • It’s an informal and regional register. If Alice typically uses this register, it’s part of her characterisation; else, it register shift is noteworthy. Either way, it’s meaningful.
    • There’s an idiom there; “nota de três pila” (three bucks bill). It conveys some[thing/one] is blatantly false.
    • There’s a rhetorical question, worded like an accusation. The scene dictates how it should be interpreted.

    So depending on the context, the translator might translate this as “ain’t ya full of shit…”, or perhaps “wow, you’re as fake as Monopoly money, arentcha?”. Now, check how chatbots do it:

    • GPT-4o mini: “But you’re a three-buck note, right?”
    • Llama 4 Scout: “But you are a three-dollar bill, aren’t you?”; or “You’re a three-dollar bill, right?” (it offers both alternatives)

    Both miss the mark. If you talk about three dollar bills in English, lots of people associate it with gay people, creating an association that simply does not exist in the original. The extremely informal and regional register is gone, as well as the accusatory tone.

    With Claude shitting this pile of idiocy, that I had to screenshot because otherwise people wouldn’t believe me:


    [This is wrong on so many levels I don’t… I don’t even…]

    This is what you get for AI translations between two IE languages in the same Sprachbund, that’ll often do things in a similar way. It gets way worse for Japanese → English - because they’re languages from different families, different cultures, that didn’t historically interact that much. It’s like the dumb shit above, multiplied by ten.

    If they’re not good enough, another business can offer better translations as a differentiator.

    That “business” is called watching pirated anime with fan subs, made by people who genuinely enjoy anime and want others to enjoy it too.

  • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyztoGaming@lemmy.zip•Nintendo faces legal action over ability to brick Switch 2s whenever they wantEnglish
    3·
    5 days ago

    In both cases you have businesses using the lack of legal representation to avoid following local laws. But that’s it; everything else is quite different.

    • Xitter - blocked after orders of the federal court, because there was a legal representative but he was explicitly removed to avoid following the court decisions.
    • Nintendo - a state customer protection organ is requesting legal representation, to address violations of customer laws. Nintendo assigned a temporary representative, to handle this specific issue.

    I don’t think Procon organs have the power to ban the sales of an imported good within their states. But even if they do, note that this would only apply to the state (in this case São Paulo). Plus Nintendo is being considerably more tactful than that braindead idiot called Musk.

  • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyztoScience Memes@mander.xyz•Converting numbers is easyEnglish
    9·
    6 days ago

    22 yards in a chain

    What. I had to websearch this because it sounds too silly, but apparently it’s true.

    But, really, even if it used saner numbers (like 12:3:24:8:3), it still feels nothing like a “metric dozenal” would look like. It’s missing the two things the metric system did right:

    1. All prefixes are unit-agnostic, like they were numbers. For example you can plop “kilo” = 10³ on weight (kilogram), length (kilometre), volume (kilolitre), energy, (kilojoule), etc.
    2. All prefixes must be an integer power of the base. For example you could make a 10⁸ prefix, even if there’s none, and it would be OK; but you can’t make, say, a 10^(2.447) = 300 one.
  • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyztoGaming@lemmy.zip•Nintendo faces legal action over ability to brick Switch 2s whenever they wantEnglish
    5·
    6 days ago

    Procon-SP is a state customer protection organ. It’s more like “São Paulo’s watchdog” than “Brazil’s watchdog”. However since the state in question is populous and has relatively high purchasing power per capita, typically megacorpos beeline towards it anyway.

    I’ll coarsely translate here the news from Procon-SP’s site. Emphasis mine in all cases, as I want to highlight something.

    Translation

    Procon-SP notified Nintendo to request changes in clauses deemed abusive, present in contracts made with Brazilian customers. The main complain involves the unilateral and unjustified cancellation of service subscriptions.

    This showed a wider problem: Nintendo lacks formal representation in Brazil. This absence hinders conflict intermediation and the conduct of customer protecting organisations.

    To handle this case, Procon-SP had to contact the headquarters of the business in USA. Only then the business named a law office in Brazil, but solely to handle the relevant clause.

    The absence of formal representation in the country is an important warning to customers. Without such legal presence, the protection predicted by the Customers’ Defence Code is limited.

    “The existence of legal representation within Brazil needs to be one of the criteria [potential customers] take into account to decide their purchases, specially so for digital services or foreign platforms”, says Álvaro Camilo (Procon-SP’s Service and Orientation director). “Without such groundwork, Procon organs cannot act in full power, given different countries have different laws”.

    This precaution applies both to abusive clauses and common problems, such as delivery delay or service failure. When the business is not registered in Brazil, often there is no way to sue it.

    In the last years, the number of purchases in international sites grew sharply in the country. However many of those platforms conduct businesses with no local judicial link.

    Even for smaller purchases, there’s a real risk: the customer gets no goods, no answer, no support. Procon-SP recommends to be extra careful, doubly so for sites handling fashion, electronics, and accessory items.

    Before purchasing something, it’s essential to verify if [a business] has CNPJ [i.e. it’s considered a legal entity in Brazil], a real address in Brazil, and support channels; those pieces of info are fundamental so Procon-SP can act in case of problems.

    Nintendo informed that’ll analyse the request from the organ, and that it’ll answer it within 20 days. Until then, Procon-SP recommends customers should report irregularities through the site www.procon.sp.gov.br.

    See the bolded parts? São Paulo’s Procon is basically telling people “Don’t buy stuff from Nintendo, it’s an irregular business in Brazil.”

  • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyztoScience Memes@mander.xyz•Converting numbers is easyEnglish
    30·
    6 days ago

    Metric “dozenalisation” would be perfectly viable, and metric-dozenal units would still look nothing like USA units.

    I’ll use length for the example. All of them in base 10, just for clarity. (Also the name of the units would be different, but I’m not changing them for this example.)

    • metric-decimal: 10⁻³ km = 10⁻² hm = 10⁻¹ dam = 10⁰m = 10¹dm = 10²cm = 10³mm
    • metric-dozenal: 12⁻³ km = 12⁻²hm = 12⁻¹ dam = 12⁰m = 12¹dm = 12²cm = 12³mm
    • USA units: 1/1760mi = 1yd = 3ft = 3*12 in = 3*12*6 P = 3*12*6*12 p

    Are you noticing what the USA units do? They don’t stick to a base.

  • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyztoScience Memes@mander.xyz•Converting numbers is easyEnglish
    261·
    6 days ago

    People are focusing on the Excel part, I’ll focus on the maths.

    I wish our societies picked base-12 instead of base-10. Divisions in base-12 give you repeating digits less often, and being able to split exactly by 3, 6, 9 and 12₁₀=10₁₂ is far more useful than doing it for 5 and 10₁₀=A₁₂.

    Plus 4chan would stop arguing if 0.999… = 1. It would argue instead if 0.BBB… = 1.

  • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyztoScience@mander.xyz•Wild orcas have been trying to feed people, new research shows
    27·
    7 days ago

    I don’t blame the orcas - have you seen a human? Those things are, like, 1/3 of the size of an orca; they’re clearly malnourished, some good ol’ seal meat will fix’em up real good!

    Serious now. I think it’s interesting how they’re interacting cooperatively, with an animal of a different species. And it isn’t like either side domesticated the other (unlike, say, humans vs. dogs and cats); they don’t even live in the same environments, at most you have some humans doing short trips into the sea and that’s it.

    “What I think in a sense is more impressive is that humans basically give no credit to any other creature for having a mind,” Safina said. Yet many other creatures, including orcas, understand implicitly that humans have minds. “So they understand us, and give us more credit there, they seem to comprehend the world better than we do, in our self-imposed estrangement.”

    I feel like this is a step beyond theory of mind already.

  • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyztoManga@ani.social•[DISC] Reincarnated as the Mastermind Behind the Story - Chapter 31English
    3·
    7 days ago

    This series looks fun, right up my alley. BRB, binge reading all 31 chapters.

    EDIT - on the series:

    It reminds me “My Death Flags Show No Sign of Ending”: boy reincarnates as a game villain but avoids being one. However unlike Harold, Len isn’t forced into a certain path.

    I don’t like the whole maken ex machina thing - he seems to develop a new demon sword skill “conveniently” when he needs it the most. The author could’ve handled this better, I think. Still, better than having him start even more powerful right off the bat.

    On the other hand, I love how the romance with Lydia is developing; sure, it’s slow, but it’s innocent and heartwarming. The two senpai adventurers are also bro tier, it’s refreshing to see them watching out for newbies instead of picking on them.

    I’m not sure on the way they handled Chronoa? Okay, having him protect someone who’s extremely powerful is cute, but we (readers) already knew she was a big shot right off the bat.

    HE STOLE YERKQU’S HORSE!

    On ch31: oh boy, Fiona is a rival for Lycia, isn’t she? Including mutual acknowledgement of each other’s strengths. … …I’m still on Team Lycia though.

    The monsters being of different species hints a stampede. But I don’t know if this story will handle it this way.

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