• 2 Posts
  • 361 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: June 11th, 2023

help-circle






  • It seems like multiple things are being conflated here and I’m not sure what the reality is because I’ve never used Plex.

    Some people claim this has something to do with Plex needing to pay for NAT traversal infrastructure. Okay, that seems sort of silly but at least there’s the excuse that their servers are involved in the streaming somehow.

    But their wording is very broad, just calling it “remote streaming.” That led me to this article on the Plex support website, which walks people through setting up port forwarding in order to enable “remote streaming”! So that excuse doesn’t really seem to hold water. What exactly is being paid for here then? How do they define what “local streaming” is?


  • As a Trek fan, I think the term “egg prime directive” itself is bad and causes miscommunication. The people who are pro-EPD seem to mostly argue the EPD is about not dictating to people what their gender is, while people who are anti-EPD say the EPD is about not mentioning the possibility that someone could be trans at all.

    Taking everyone at their word, it seems like people are interpreting the egg prime directive differently. If pro-EPD people really do think it’s okay to suggest/ask if someone has considered if they might be trans, and the only thing forbidden is explicitly dictating “you ARE trans”, I think the prime directive analogy is a bit misleading and might be part of the issue.

    The prime directive is very dogmatic at times and basically says that you can’t interact with prewarp civs period. Following the metaphor, it suggests that you aren’t allowed to talk about being trans at all with potential eggs until they crack their own egg first. Based on that, I can see where the OOP is getting their interpretation from.







  • I feel kinda like an outlier in that I never used dude/man/bro pre-transition, but now that I’m openly enby and on E I use them reflexively with my friends. For some reason it feels like an expression of my queerness now. I also have friends who call everyone “girl/sis” and that rocks too, but I don’t tend to use those words myself. My sister calls people “girliepop” and I find it delightful. I tend to wait to use any of the words with new friends before figuring out if they’re cool with it though.

    I also tend to call everyone they/them unless someone tells me what their pronouns are explicitly (or via button or something), I don’t really like gendered pronouns. It makes for a funny situation where I use they/them for basically everyone except trans people.


  • LLMs are very good at giving what seems like the right answer for the context. Whatever “rationality” jailbreak you did on it is going to bias its answers just as much as any other prompt. If you put in a prompt that talks about the importance of rationality and not being personal, it’s only natural that it would then respond that a personal tone is harmful to the user—you basically told it to believe that.