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Epicurean | Revolutionary Libertarian Socialist | #ADHD | #ASD | Firedancer | #Python, #Ansible and #Godot Enthusiast | Automation Freak | #AIHorde Creator | #Fediseer Creator | #Lemmy Instance Owner

I make #FOSS Things.

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27 Posts

Joined November 15, 2022

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https://dbzer0.com

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https://github.com/db0

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db0 @db0@hachyderm.io

· 1mo ago

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@db0/117187167309916489

Lol, of course David Gerard blocked me for pointing out his staggering hypocrisy about Hachyderm. Maybe I should use the same playbook and also spend the next 3 years bellyaching about the injustice of being blocked, make up conspiracies about the reason, and call David Gerard a "grifter" just because I can.

db0 (@db0@hachyderm.io)

That's rich, coming from a guy who defederated from an instance of thousands of users because one of their admin was a bit rude one time, then made up lies about that instance to justify himself, and then made sure his instance members couldn't see that instance debunking his lies.

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db0 @db0@hachyderm.io

· 1mo ago

What is it with the chickenshit scolds in mastodon who slide into your replies with their lies and mistruths and then block you so you can't answer? Why is it such a common phenomenon, especially from the people who have the largest moral superiority delusions?

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db0 @db0@hachyderm.io

· 1mo ago

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@complexmath/117077669696977518

Let it radicalize you.

Sean (@complexmath@hachyderm.io)

The AI bubble is temporary, but the knowledge that your boss does not value your work is forever.

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db0 @db0@hachyderm.io

· 4mo ago

I am so disappointed to see so many people I used to respect continue to lie and misrepresent just because it fits their vibes-based narrative. It's jarring because it suddenly forces me to double-check everything else these people say which I usually agree with, just in case they're once again lying to push their chosen narrative.

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db0 @db0@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Rando on mastodon: It's very bad you're doing this.
Me: We're not doing this.
Rando on mastodon: blocked.

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db0 @db0@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Lol, the chickenshit awful.systems admins slithered into my mastodon replies to scold me for...trying to correct the disinfo they're spreading. Then blocked me so I couldn't reply. The hypocrisy burns.

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db0 @db0@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@jdp23@neuromatch.social Small correction, the LLM was not even to "get confirmation on their judgement". The decision had already been locked-in. The admin was experimenting with using an LLM to summarize the user's position, so as to improve modlog readability. But even that use case was rejected.

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db0 @db0@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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@NaahraTheScaled@furry.engineer correct, the admin in question wanted to use the summary to increase the readability of the modlog, not to make a decision. The decision had already been taken when the llm was used.

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db0 @db0@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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@ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social @cyno@novo-atlantis.null.media @violetmadder@kolektiva.social Depends on how you're using them. If you know what you're doing and download the .safetensor file and use FOSS software to run them, they are literally incapable of connecting to anything. And I really know what I'm talking about here. I completely agree with you about moderation and solutionism! I am just very frustrated that I repeat again and again that we do not use LLMs for moderation and people just go like "I roll to disbelieve" and there's literally nothing I can say.

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db0 @db0@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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@ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social @cyno@novo-atlantis.null.media @violetmadder@kolektiva.social The sad truth is that I already have this criticism to heart. In fact, I try to prove this constantly with the tools and solutions I develop. You already know fediseer, but there's also our instance's radical democracy, not to mention the federation of anarchist instances we're attempting. But it's all disregarded because it's easier to get righteously upset. I don't mind getting shit because we fucked up. We owned we fucked up already and posted very clearly what our actual stance is so that we can be held in account in the future. But I really mind people spreading disinfo after we explained how it's disinfo. And it particularly hurts to see other anarchists do it and call us liars to our face without evidence.

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db0 @db0@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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@ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social @cyno@novo-atlantis.null.media @violetmadder@kolektiva.social The amount of misinfo I see randomly proliferating freely on microblogging is staggering. AnCaps? FFS!

For the record, the instance has never "embraced" stuff like ChatGPT or any corporate GenAI content or clients.

There was no grant from Nivenly. Haidra (a completely different project ecosystem from the lemmy instance) attempted to utilize Nivenly as a fiscal host, until microblogging outrage and rampart disinfo made Nivenly capitulate and throw Haidra under the bus. We've never received anything from Nivenly. They just wasted our time and money before discarding us.

The FOSS anti-CSAM tool we developed on our own, from our experience working with the AI Horde, has been shared for free, with all fediverse owners, to help them guard against CSAM attacks. We have not received a single penny for this work other than random donations.

Stop spreading random bullshit. Be better

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db0 @db0@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@jdp23@neuromatch.social @laurenshof@indieweb.social @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social @smallpatatas@gotosocial.patatas.ca @onepict@chaos.social There's plenty of awareness. it's just that this was an attempt at manufacturing outrage, based on a nothingburger, as part of a wider campaign to discredit and ostracize anarchist instances on threadiverse. Most people in the microblogging space don't realize that these hit-pieces did not come out of nowhere and the people making them have an ideological opposition to principled anti-zionists stances so they're attempting to weaponize microblogging outrage with spin and half-truths. The lack of further outrage in the threadiverse is because every such attempt has been addressed and debunked thoroughly and people can see that. Unfortunately the microblogging peeps are not plugged in to further discussions, so they continue to belabor under the half-truths they were fed originally. The worst people have managed to say against the FAF moderation is "well, maybe they could be a bit more professional about it, and they make some bad calls sometimes.", which, fair enough, but also, no shit, we're only humans....

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db0 @db0@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@sheephorse@mastodon.online Yes if you want to integrate directly with Apub, you need those endpoints. But if not, you can still use link aggregator sites like lemmy to post your articles and get comments and discussions and so on. This can also be automated externally from your site.

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db0 @db0@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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@sheephorse@mastodon.online Not necessarily. Your software/website could integrate with Apub directly if it wanted, and serve as it's own lemmy comment section, integrating directly with the network. Example https://dbzer0.com/blog/this-blog-is-now-federated-natively-to-lemmy/ > https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/31734668 The API is also open, so one can also make automation to automatically repost to dedicated communities.

This blog is now federated natively to lemmy

A Division by Zer0

This blog is now federated natively to lemmy

I've had the ActivityPub plugin active on this blog for a while now and it's been happily federating to mastodon for just as long. However it never worked on lemmy, and I always assumed it was just not set for it and was primarily focused on microblogging since lemmy was not even mentioned in the [...]

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db0 @db0@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@joshsutphin live by the algorithm, die by the algorithm

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db0 @db0@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@piefedadmin since rimu named our instance, I have to point out that they're deliberately misrepresenting what happened and I strongly urge people to look at the discussions in lemmy about it to get the whole picture. To be clear, our instance does not utilize any GenAI tools in moderation. Rimu is referring to a single manual action by one admin, using the same user access as any user on the fediverse. The action was likewise completely public.

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db0 @db0@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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@ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social @cyno@novo-atlantis.null.media @violetmadder@kolektiva.social Here is our actual stance on this matter: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/68757445 and the history of the disinfo behind it.

You keep repeating the disinfo as if it was true. We do not use LLMs, local or not in moderation. Never had. Never will. So the rest of the post is yes, discrediting to continue spreading disinfo when we explicitly explain it's. not.true.

What's funny about the inside joke? You have to ask the people who wrote it as I don't find it particularly funny either.

lemmy.dbzer0.com

I Challenge Thee

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db0 @db0@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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@ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social @cyno@novo-atlantis.null.media @violetmadder@kolektiva.social No, they did NOT use it for moderation.The moderation decision had already been taken. It was NOT used to confirm that decision either. It was an experiment to see if the LLM summary would be a good way to enhance the modlogs.

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db0 @db0@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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@ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social @cyno@novo-atlantis.null.media @violetmadder@kolektiva.social I don't think it's splitting hairs at all. It's a completely different purpose. We are NOT feeding user post histories into it. From what I understand, it was one time while testing the summary feature. Qwen is a local LLM model, it has no network activity (it cannot). The whole fediverse is scraped by LLM scrapers constantly and we posted the zionist's receipts publicly anyway. Do we need to publicly audit our whole server setup because one admin used an LLM once? This is really becoming unreasonable.

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db0 @db0@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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@ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social @cyno@novo-atlantis.null.media @violetmadder@kolektiva.social sadly I don't think I this needs to "happen again" before corpo llms and palantir shite ingest the fediverse. They're already doing it.

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db0 @db0@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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@ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social @cyno@novo-atlantis.null.media @violetmadder@kolektiva.social it wasn't an excuse for instance mods to be doing it. Just a statement of fact.

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db0 @db0@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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@helge@mas.to there's many ways of using an llm when moderating, not all of them equal. Just as there's many ways to use genai in general, not all of them equal. I'm not going to feed into an equivocation when it's not accurate. I admitted to what the admin actually did, what more do you want?

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db0 @db0@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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@sheephorse@mastodon.online why not just use lemmy /piefed?

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db0 @db0@hachyderm.io

· 35mo ago

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@TodayInTwitter@mastodon.social I hope it's per month

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db0 @db0@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@cyno@novo-atlantis.null.media @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social @violetmadder@kolektiva.social Yes, I can confirm that we do not use AI in moderation tools. Here's our full stance on the matter: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/68757445

so you tried to get money but didn’t get it, and you lament that and blame microbloggers for it. That’s much less ‘misinfo’ than not getting all the details correct.

Absolutely not! Please don't jump to conclusions. We were already getting donations before we reached out out to Nivenly. I merely wanted to use Nivenly as a FOSS fiscal host, instead of everything going to my name.

lemmy.dbzer0.com

I Challenge Thee

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db0 @db0@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@sharpcheddargoblin@reclusive.blog @jdp23@neuromatch.social @laurenshof@indieweb.social @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social @onepict@chaos.social

Well, are these admins using LLMs for moderation or not?

not

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db0 @db0@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@monokeros@tech.lgbt @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social @cyno@novo-atlantis.null.media @violetmadder@kolektiva.social We do not use LLM output as research either.

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