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lemmy.ml
I can’t understand the hate for gemini. They’re marking a line in the sand, and their site is very clear about what its purpose is: From their FAQ Why not just use a subset of HTTP and HTML? Many people are confused as to why it’s worth creating a new protocol to address perceived problems with optional, non-essential features of the web. Just because websites can track users and run CPU-hogging Javsacript and pull in useless multi-megabyte header images or even larger autoplaying videos, doesn’t mean they have to. Why not just build non-evil websites using the existing technology? Of course, this is possible. “The Gemini experience” is roughly equivalent to HTTP where the only request header is “Host” and the only response header is “Content-type” and HTML where the only tags are , , , through , and and - and the https://gemini.circumlunar.space website offers pretty much this experience. We know it can be done.
The problem is that deciding upon a strictly limited subset of HTTP and HTML, slapping a label on it and calling it a day would do almost nothing to create a clearly demarcated space where people can go to consume only that kind of content in only that kind of way. It’s impossible to know in advance whether what’s on the other side of a https:// URL will be within the subset or outside it. It’s very tedious to verify that a website claiming to use only the subset actually does, as many of the features we want to avoid are invisible (but not harmless!) to the user. It’s difficult or even impossible to deactivate support for all the unwanted features in mainstream browsers, so if somebody breaks the rules you’ll pay the consequences. Writing a dumbed down web browser which gracefully ignores all the unwanted features is much harder than writing a Gemini client from scratch. Even if you did it, you’d have a very difficult time discovering the minuscule fraction of websites it could render. Alternative, simple-by-design protocols like Gopher and Gemini create alternative, simple-by-design spaces with obvious boundaries and hard restrictions. You know for sure when you enter Geminispace, and you can know for sure and in advance when following a certain link will cause you leave it. While you’re there, you know for sure and in advance that everybody else there is playing by the same rules. You can relax and get on with your browsing, and follow links to sites you’ve never heard of before, which just popped up yesterday, and be confident that they won’t try to track you or serve you garbage because they can’t. You can do all this with a client you wrote yourself, so you know you can trust it. It’s a very different, much more liberating and much more empowering experience than trying to carve out a tiny, invisible sub-sub-sub-sub-space of the web.
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lemmy.world
First, if you’re a spaceflight fan, there’s lots to see! There are a couple (still free?) bus tours. When you get there, go ahead and schedule. You don’t want to decide to do one halfway through the day only to find out all the slots taken. There’s usually one that goes to the modern pads (those still in use) and another that goes to the historic section where many of the Mercury and Gemini flights took place. Decide which is more your interest as I don’t think you’ll have enough time to do both bus tours (plus all of the other stuff there at KSC) in one day. Tips: when you go to the Atlantis building there are two directions to go when you enter. The one you want is the long and winding ramp up (which is the left hand path from memory). The other takes you into the main room of exhibits. I won’t tell you why (unless you really want me to), but take the ramp path first. It eventually goes to that same big room with the exhibits, but you really should see it in this order long ramp first, then room of exhibits. When you reach the main room of exhibits on the ground floor don’t miss the solemn display of the remains of Shuttle Challenger and Shuttle Columbia. there is another building far into KSC called “Apollo building” or “Apollo center” can’t remember exactly. This is also accessible by a free bus short bus ride, but I believe at least one of the longer bus tours ends there anyway. Ask the staff to be sure so you don’t end up their twice. Its an awesome building, but your time is limited and there is so much to see! When you’re in the Apollo building make sure to go to a section toward the from of the Apollo V rocket where there is a set of exhibits. Behind an unassuming wall are some pieces of Apollo 1. Lunch with an astronaut! Depending on the day you go, KSC may have an optional paid feature of “Lunch with an Astronaut” I’ve done this 3 times across 3 visits and have enjoyed them all. You’ll be in a hall with a hundred or so other folks dining. The food is pretty good too. If you choose to forgo the Lunch with Astronaut paid experience, you can usually get a short presentation from them on Stage when they KSC does a Spaceflight News update (I can’t remember their name for it). Its a small theater where they give updates on current crewed spaceflight missions and they’ll usually have the Astronaut there before of after that presentation. There is an IMAX theater, and the films are usually pretty good, but they are usually accessible from other science centers and most of the other contents of KSC is not, so unless you really need to sit down in air conditioning for an hour, I’d skip this for more KSC content instead. In the left hand side of the IMAX building there is a bunch of stuff for commercial spaceflight, including flown a Cargo Dragon, a Starliner mock up, as well as a Dreamchaser mock up. Rocket garden - They free do spoken tour guides spoken tours several times a day. I really enjoyed these. Things that are skippable if you’re short on time: the IMAX movie the “shuttle experience” ride Heroes and Legends Astronaut hall of fame exhibit (its not bad, but there are much better things to spend your valuable time on) Mission to Mars (from memory its more geared toward younger visitors, but they may have updated it since last I saw) Have a great time! If you have any follow questions, I’d be happy to share my experiences. If you’re going on a launch day, thats a whole other ball of wax.
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lemmy.blahaj.zone
I like using the terminal because of 3 main reasons: I like using my keyboard I like doing multiple things in one window Verbosity I’m pretty quick with typing, but sometimes I can’t see !y mouse at first, so it’s just faster for me to type out what I want to do as long as I know the right arguments for it. My average workflow at work as me doing frequent saml logins and going between multiple kinds of databases. It’s just easier for me to run the saml cli command and then run the SQL CLI command I need instead of messing with datagrip settings and stuff. Also I recreationally run some servers and it’s just easier to ssh into the server, make the changes I need in something like nano or the redis CLI tools and then log back out. This means I’m just plain more comfortable on the terminal in certain situations like config editing, writing posts for my gemini capsule, etc. Sometimes when I run a GUI program I’ll get big loud silence and don’t know what to do. In that case I genuinely enjoy using the terminal and running an equivalent command with verbosity settings so I can see what it’s doing or not and can track down any errors. On top of those reasons, I’ve been playing with RISC-V architecture lately and, while the xorg riscv64 port is admirable, I just get better performance rn by running my RISC stuff through tty. I recognize that not everybody is going to have the same use case and workflows as me, but I’m pretty comfortable with what I’ve got 😅
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lemmygrad.ml
Completely agree. AI should be just another tool to easy the life of the workers. I’m not so sure I even like the idea of AI like ChatGPT or Deepseek or the countless others, mostly because I avoided it till now and don’t really know much about it, so I need to further investigate to actually form an opinion, tho I would be lying if I said I’m not intrigued by it. The only times I used one of these AIs have been recently to translate a few sentences with Gemini since Google already forced it on my phone. And honestly, with search engines going down the sewer, maybe Deepseek with it’s search function could be useful. One thing I can’t really understand tho is generative AI. I don’t want to sound like a Luddite, but I really can’t see the use of it. Like, it’s one thing to have a very specialized AI tool for parts of the creative process, but generating whole images and voices? Just, why? It’s depressing. You’re removing the human part of these creative works and stealing in the process just to automate it for profit or for the sake of it. I already saw some AI generated ads here in Brasil from some big companies, including Coca-cola, and it just makes me mad knowing they did it just to cut costs by not paying actors, artists, designers, etc. It’s fucked up. And not only that, but artists literally have the ability to draw, paint, sculpt, voice act, etc, whatever they want in their own style and process. Why would they want to generate their whole work for them removing themselves from the process? It just sounds completely dystopic to me.
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lemmy.world
I’m sorry this is too funny not to share 😂 this is an actual quote from the Gemini DJ “November 12, 1970. East Pakistan. The Bhola Cyclone. The deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded. Winds of 115 miles per hour. A storm surge of 33 feet. They estimate 500,000 people died. ‘It’s going down, I’m yelling timber.’ 3:33 PM. Timber by Pitbull and Ke$ha.”
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awful.systems
ChatGPT is using Grokipedia as a source, and it’s not the only AI tool to do so. Citations to Elon Musk’s AI-generated encyclopedia are starting to appear in answers from Google’s AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Gemini, too. […] When it launched, a bulk of Grokipedia’s articles were direct clones of Wikipedia, though many others reflected racist and transphobic views. For example, articles about Musk conveniently downplays his family wealth and unsavory elements of their past (like neo-Nazi and pro-Apartheid views) and the entry for “gay pornography” falsely linked the material to the worsening of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. The article on US slavery still contains a lengthy section on “ideological justifications,” including the “Shift from Necessary Evil to Positive Good.” […] “Grokipedia feels like a cosplay of credibility,” said Leigh McKenzie, director of online visibility at Semrush. “It might work inside its own bubble, but the idea that Google or OpenAI would treat something like Grokipedia as a serious, default reference layer at scale is bleak.” https://www.theverge.com/report/870910/ai-chatbots-citing-grokipedia The entire AI industry is using the Nazi CSAM machine for training data.
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lemmy.ml
I’m glad to hear you’re getting help! Hope you pull through this. I think myself and others are really wishing the best for you, please don’t be offended. As for your physics theory & code though, I must repeat what others are saying. Stop using LLMs (be it copilot or gemini), they are clouding your thoughts and blurring any original ideas you may have into an incoherent sloppy mess. Scrap your repo, clear your mind, start over. Don’t have many expectations, most (I’d guess 99%) of amateur physics theories out there turn out to be wrong. Open a markdown document in a simple editor and write down your ideas, by yourself, with no stupid computer program telling you what to think. Then take a pen and paper and try to distill your ideas into mathematical formulae, with no stupid computer program (which doesn’t have any real mathematical knowledge or rigor) making up bogus equations. Then, using that same pen and paper, try to work through a few examples of applying those formulae to specific physical situations. Start simple, don’t try to reproduce the entire universe at all scales at once, maybe start with a finite universe containing a couple of electrons and see how their interactions play out. Don’t let a stupid computer program (which can’t even perform basic arithmetic by itself) make grave mistakes. If it seems like the model works for a couple very simple examples, try to put it into code. Don’t use Rust or GPUs or even scipy for your first prototype, just write it in pure python. And for the love of all that is good, don’t use LLMs for this either. Just take your formulae from your piece of paper and translate it into python by hand, with no stupid computer program (which can’t even count the number of R’s in a word strawberry) stealing code from others and writing boilerplate instead of describing your original ideas. Don’t worry about performance for a prototype, if the results it produces are at least interesting, you can worry about optimizations later.
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lemmy.zip
Yeah the article is mostly legit points that if your contacting the chatpot in China it is harvesting your data. Just like if you contact open AI or copilot or Claude or Gemini they’re all collecting all of your data. I do find it somewhat strange that they only talk about deep-seek hosting models. It’s absolutely trivial just to download the models run locally yourself and you’re not giving any data back to them. I would think that proton would be all over that for a privacy scenario.
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feddit.org
From the article: “What is the point of text-only webpages?” you may ask, especially if you are under 30. Gemini will probably not appeal to those who use the Internet primarily for entertainment, rather than as a source of information. But many, including myself, have lamented the demise of the 1990’s Internet. We want an Internet with webpages that do not take an average 10 seconds or more to download–despite having very little user-readable content, let alone content we may actually want to read. We yearn to return to the days when we could actually find noncommercial websites with an Internet search engine. Remember the days before about 2007 when a Google search could yield millions of search results, and Google would let you access as many as you wanted? Now, we get only a few pages of results that Google thinks are worthwhile. Though I have no proof, I suspect these may be mostly websites that have paid Google for the privilege of appearing in its search results. Go ahead and call me pessimistic. Perhaps I am.
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lemmy.world
I use Gemini, which supports PDF File uploads, combined with structured outputs to generate Course Sections, Levels & Question JSON. When you upload a PDF, it first gets uploaded to a S3 Database directly from the Browser, which then sends the Filename and other data to the Server. The Server then downloads that Document from the S3 and sends it to Gemini, which then streams JSON back to the Browser. After that, the PDF is permanently deleted from the S3. Data Privacy wise, I wouldn’t upload anything sensitive since idk what Google does with PDFs uploaded to Gemini. The Prompts are in English, so the output language is English as well. However, I actually only tested it with German Lecture PDFs myself. So, yes, it probably works with any language that Gemini supports. Here is the Source Code for the core function for this feature: export async function createLevelFromDocument( { docName, apiKey, numLevels, courseSectionTitle, courseSectionDescription }: { docName: string, apiKey: string, numLevels: number, courseSectionTitle: string, courseSectionDescription: string }) { const hasCourseSection = courseSectionTitle.length > 0 && courseSectionDescription.length > 0; // Step 1: Download the PDF and get a buffer from it const blob = await downloadObject({ filename: docName, path: "/", bucketName: "documents" }); const arrayBuffer = await blob.arrayBuffer(); // Step 2: call the model and pass the PDF //const openai = createOpenAI({ apiKey: apiKey }); const gooogle = createGoogleGenerativeAI({ apiKey: apiKey }); const courseSectionsPrompt = createLevelPrompt({ hasCourseSection, title: courseSectionTitle, description: courseSectionDescription }); const isPDF = docName.endsWith(".pdf"); const content: UserContent = []; if(isPDF) { content.push(pdfUserMessage(numLevels, courseSectionsPrompt) as any); content.push(pdfAttatchment(arrayBuffer) as any); } else { const html = await blob.text(); content.push(htmlUserMessage(numLevels, courseSectionsPrompt, html) as any); } const result = await streamObject({ model: gooogle("gemini-1.5-flash"), schema: multipleLevelSchema, messages: [ { role: "user", content: content } ] }) return result; }