Hey, sorry for going dark, I lost my hardware 2FA key and couldn’t log in for ages, just found it again!

Unfortunately I never got a clear answer from the reddit mods about whether I could sync user posts or not (there’s only one guy doing most of the work and he had to take a break which was fair enough), and they ended up reopening the subreddit anyway.

So no plans to sync for now, and this community is kinda dead for now unless people start posting themselves. It’s hard to get content if no one is here, and it’s hard to get people if there’s no content.

Using the Political Compass is a bit of a strange way to conduct research. I do think it is important to identify biases of course, but at some point you have to look at the bigger picture and realise why the bias exists.

In order to swing ChatGPT more to the right (if you want to balance it at neutral in the end), you’d have to inject it with more racism, anti-science conspiracy and American Christian views - none of which are particularly pleasant.

Do we want a LLM that limits facts about COVID-19 so that those who view it as a conspiracy feel validated?

Do we want it to respond that homosexual people don’t exist? Or even to say “I can’t give a response to this that remains politically neutral”?

Or if someone asks how old the earth is, do we want it to reply with “about 3000 years old”?

Or to contest climate change?

Do we want to sacrifice accuracy in favour of neutrality just because one party has a denial stance on these topics?

Detractors like Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx, who is chairwoman of the House Education and Workforce Committee, have called the relief an abuse of taxpayer money.

“The Biden administration’s blatantly political attempt to circumvent the Supreme Court is shameful. The Biden administration is trampling the rule of law, hurting borrowers, and abusing taxpayers to chase headlines," she said in a statement when the policy was announced last month.

Her daughter owns Grandfather Mountain Nursery, which Virginia Foxx used to own with her husband from 1976-2004.

Grandfather Mountain Nursery was forgiven $25,161 worth of PPP loans in December 2020.

Obviously it’s not an “abuse of taxpayer money” when your own family and generational business can benefit from it.

from __future__ import braces

Give it a go

Probably not so surprising given its 8/9 years old at this stage. Hard enough for this sort of project to get off the ground in the first place let alone supporting nearly 10 year old hardware (despite the ongoing popularity of the 10 series, it is old).

Same, I have a shortcut set up on my phone that shuts down my computer when I get in my car just because I know it won’t stay asleep otherwise

It’s actually ridiculous how often you’ll put Windows to sleep, and half a second later it turns itself back on.

You’re joking right?

An entirely volunteer run, open-source project scraping by on donations is going to have billable lawyers ready to go up against Twitter for this?

According to whois, it was created just after midday on 24/07/23.

It has 256kbps AAC, which is the same as Spotify (in the web browser anyway - I think the Spotify apps do 320kbps)