Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

@ClaudetteK It seems that they're currently wanting to figure out why my calcium levels suddenly spiked so hard, to make sure that there's not an underlying hidden issue at play

@dragonarchitect Something that may be worth trying: white tea or even green tea, both of those tend to have relatively little bitterness by themselves, and a more sweet/sour-y flavour. With green tea make sure to let the water cool for a bit before brewing, green tea + boiling hot water = very bitter tea.

@afewbugs @b_cavello Right. That's why I was trying to draw a distinction earlier between that deference to a certifying body vs. learning from the established practices! I certainly think that a lot can be learned from existing practices, even if I don't trust the certifying bodies to have people's best interests in mind, and that a lot *should* be learned from them.

I do feel somewhat qualified to speak on this because I've already been providing informal therapy on an ad-hoc basis in the past, with good results, and have learned a lot from diving into the existing practices. Psychology is somewhat of a special interest that's morphed into a form of activism for me, and I'm also pretty familiar with all the ways in which it can go wrong.

That certainly doesn't mean I'm an expert on everything, and there are problems and topics I absolutely won't touch because I don't know enough about them to know where all the 'mines' are, but I do feel that there's a lot of room for mutual therapy as long as those risks are recognized, especially in currently underserved communities.

(The reason for asking the original question is that I'm looking into making this a bit more of a publicly-offered thing, and also training others on how to provide it, to start up building a different kind of mutual support network that's currently either highly dependent on the state or just completely missing)

@travissouthard Re: creators, that makes sense, though I also suspect it'll cause people to bounce off because they don't know where to start. Perhaps a text along the lines of "at the time of writing in 2024, some good places to look are [...], but this can change over time, keep an eye out on your favourite social media platform"? That communicates the impermanence of the recommendations while still providing a pointer.

Regarding the exploitation, I often point people at https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/ for LLM things as a first read, though there are many such documented cases for different companies (and for the type of generative AI that this site seems aimed at, that may not be the best example?). I recall there being a site that compiles documentation of abuses in the AI industry, but can't recall the URL unfortunately.

@ari IIRC those registers used to have really specific purposes in the memory segmentation era (for which the names are abbreviations) and then over time, I believe also related to the change in memory model to paging, those registers got repurposed as general-purpose registers but their names never got changed