A server isn’t necessarily all that meaningfully different from Joe’s laptop, it’s just that Joe’s laptop isn’t exactly practical for running big things. My website runs on a real server, but it doesn’t really act much different from a computer I have in my living room when I remotely log into it, I can access all the same files, run all the same software if I wanted to.

Federated is just jargon for “the posts and comments from here will display over there too because my computer knows yours exists and runs the same software and the software does the legwork of meshing all of that shit together with mine”

An instance is literally just someone’s computer with the software running. All your stuff lives on someone’s computer. Different computers can talk to one another to allow people who put their stuff on those computers to see each other’s stuff (federate) or they decide not to, like cutting off a computer with a lot of batshit insane people (defederate). They’re running the same software so the language is the same. Like your stuff lives on lemmy.today, I don’t know where and who owns that computer, while my stuff lives on sopuli.xyz, which is a computer that is owned by some random Finn, but those computers talk to one another, so we get to talk to one another.

You’re clearly not Russian

Thanks for recognizing this. Yes, most people in russia aren’t “russian”, they have just been assimilated into the amorphous imperial identity.

nor have lived in Russia for any considerate amount of time

Oh wow, something new to learn about myself I guess. Thanks for sharing your wisdom.

It’s trivial to get LLMs to act against the instructions

I was born in russia, and the current behavior of russia is downstream of the political system that is dominant in russia, which itself is downstream of the russian culture (the sum total of the ideas in people’s heads and their interplay). Things got this way because russian people let things get this way. https://vasily.cc/blog/the-russian-template/

There is a lot more that goes into it than just being correct. 18000 waters may have been the actual order, because somebody decided to screw with the machine. A human who isn’t terminally autistic would reliably interpret that as a joke and would simply refuse to punch that in. The LLM will likely do what a human tells it to do, since it has no contextual awareness, it only has the system prompt and whatever interaction with the user it had so far.

My pleasure! Always good to hear it resonates, and I’m not just screaming into the void.

That “if” is doing so much work there

It’s all a theater play with them, they’re dumb but only in a very myopic understanding of intelligence. They’d managed not just to outwit, but to run circles around half the population of the US.

On the bright side, his family might get a solid chunk of dough instead of an abusive husband/father. If they’re lucky, that is