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  • DABDA@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Top DuckDuckGo Image Result for "Morse code chart". It gets worse the longer I look at it.English
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    6 months ago

    DDG’s description of that feature:

    If you don’t want AI-generated images to show up in DuckDuckGo image search results, you can filter them out a few different ways:

    1. Anytime you’re viewing image search results in the Images tab on DuckDuckGo search, you can click the AI images filter and select Hide to reload results without AI-generated content.
    2. Alternatively, open Search Settings > General or Search Settings > AI Features and turn on Hide AI-Generated Images.
    3. Finally, if you want a search experience without AI-generated images, without Search Assist answers, and without Duck.ai prompts and entry points, start your searches on noai.duckduckgo.com instead of duckduckgo.com.

    How does DuckDuckGo filter out AI-generated images in search results?

    We rely on publicly available lists to filter out AI-generated content, like those provided by uBlockOrigin & uBlacklist Huge AI Blocklist, an open-source blocklist, manually curated by project contributors.

    These lists are not exhaustive, but our aim with the “AI images” filter is to filter out as much AI-generated content as possible.

    I run Firefox on Linux Mint with uBlockOrigin and uMatrix addons (with modified settings) so I can’t speak to the universality of my results, but it seems like DDG is pretty loose with how it categorizes and displays info.

    1. With AI images set to hide on first search for “morse code chart” I get the following: Hide

    2. Toggling the AI image setting to show instantly changes the results and displays these: Show (instant)

    3. Without additional changes, just clicking the search button again slightly changes the results: show (re-search)

    4. Toggling the AI image setting back to hide again instantly changes the results to: Hide (instant)

    5. Re-running the search as is returns the same results as #1.

    I’ve also previously had horrible luck getting the date filters to work when trying to use a bookmarklet style shortcut to add the dates as parameters in the address bar (they’re just completely ignored when a search is run that way for me), and as of ~2 days ago the date range just didn’t seem to work at all. I was trying to find a human authored post/article about the difference between opossums and possums and using a date range of 1950–2015 was still ONLY returning results post-2023 and they were all wordy slop.

  • DABDA@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•People like thisEnglish
    151·
    8 months ago

    Sticking my neck out a bit to share my general views and habits on voting to maybe add some other things to consider.

    My general mindset is that each community sets rules on posts and comments, and that ideally only appropriate things should then be posted. So I typically only think to upvote stuff when there’s an even greater than normal amount of effort or thought put into something, or to counteract dogpile downvotes to an appropriate post/comment.

    Say I’m browsing a motorcycle community and one user posts a meme about bikes, and someone else poses a story about learning to ride; if my preference is for text posts instead of images I could just upvote the story post and not the meme, but both posts are related to the community and belong there. I could upvote both (and by extension all posts) but then what’s the difference if everything is +1 or +0? If memes are disallowed, I can downvote and report the post to push it down to hopefully keep others from having to see it or encourage them to post their own.

    I will also downvote nearly 100% of extremely low-effort pointless comments like “THIS”, “lol”, URL shortened or amp/tracking including links without context etc. A post in another language but marked as English I will also downvote, foreign language communities/instances I just block. I block most meme and shitpost style communities so I’m not looking to vote police what other people enjoy, but doing this stuff in science/news/hobby/etc. communities is inappropriate.

    So that’s generally how I behave on Lemmy (and previously on Reddit) - I’m generally more “on the lookout” for bad content, and not looking to boost things that belong here. I don’t rely on voting to maintain my feed, my block lists are also enormous.

    A more semi-recent phenomenon is accounts spam posting a bunch of (relevant) links and then self-deleting - I can’t block that account to hide their posts, but as I’m scrolling through my feed I will downvote every single post they made regardless of its quality etc. I’m not going to rehash arguments about whether their behavior is acceptable or not (“they are posting relevant stuff, who cares if they’re acting in bad faith!”) but since there’s generally 2-3 of those accounts per day spam posting junk that’s a lot of downvotes from me to a lot of different communities including some I’m not subscribed to. I’m not going to bother reporting every single post, and until there’s a method to easily directly report a user I’m not going to bother trying that anymore.

    Just wanted to put that out there that there might be other legitimate users that have wildly disproportionate voting numbers and that it might not be malicious or careless in nature. I don’t know if Lemmy ignores them like Reddit (supposedly?) does, but I’ve never mass voted from a user’s history. It’s only from comments and posts that were presented to me during my normal browsing.

  • DABDA@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•How A Blast From The PastEnglish
    9·
    10 months ago

    as my system chases it’s tale in a silicon frenzy

    Nice proofreading, Lazlow J.

    I’m just a bit too young to have been part of the BBS scene, but I’ve certainly done plenty of Windows re-installs. I had a friend that would wipe his Windows 98SE drive every two weeks or so, whether or not there was any instability. I recently stumbled across an old backup of some screenshots and found one where I was apparently proud of the 31 day system uptime. Best part of the transition to NT based Windows was definitely the near complete elimination of BSoDs. Kinda blocked out the bad memories of random lockups and blue screens just being an expected part of daily computing life.

    fdisk, format, reinstall
    doo-dah, doo-dah

    To be somewhat close to on-topic with self-hosting, the oldest service I have fond memories of running was a small Hotline server.

  • DABDA@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoLinux Gaming@lemmy.world•Should I buy an Alienware X51 r2 for 100$?English
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    10 months ago

    If nothing else, you should easily be able to determine the amount of RAM by watching during POST (might need to press esc/tab/etc. if there’s just a fullscreen logo or something) or by entering the BIOS/UEFI (check mfg site for specific button, but usually delete or an F-key).

    Depending on the friend’s willingness and aptitude there’s also the option of booting a live linux environment with a flash drive (or disc) and using its tools to profile all the detected hardware.

  • DABDA@lemmy.dbzer0.comto3DPrinting@lemmy.world•Tips for TPU?English
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    1 year ago

    When I first got the printer and was learning I used glue sticks to help with adhesion and just got sick of dealing with the residue and reapplying it - so now I intend on never using them at all if possible. I have 2 of the printers, one just for PLA and has a smooth PEI sheet, the other for PETG/TPU and just the regular textured mat that came with it. I usually don’t need to swap between filament types a bunch so when I’ve got some prints that need TPU it only takes a couple minutes to apply the tape and then I can just leave it on for as long as I want and not think about it. I also use the wide blue tape (can’t remember if it’s 2.5 or 3") so it’s only a couple rows to put on.