Buddahriffic

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The tech community came up with a technical solution to the ad problem. If the solution you’re looking for isn’t technical, why is your focus on the tech community?

  Anyone can learn this shit. Use any search engine, type “how to block internet ads”, and you’ll see results with “firefox” and “ublock origin”, that can then be put into “how to get” follow up searches.

  The current state of ads is being accepted by those who don’t block them. Everyone who does block them (or refuses to visit ad cancer sites) has cut off that source of revenue, but those who just choose to accept the default option enable them by not just seeing the ads but even sometimes clicking them and buying shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Ad blockers are the fight. Those users who can’t be bothered to learn a bit about the devices they spend so much time on aren’t owed anything.

  What does “fighting the good fight” even look like to you in this context, anyways?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You'd need to calculate the compound interest⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh but the fees are non-zero!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gallium⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah so it does, didn’t even notice that X all detached from the login prompt like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gallium⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone got a mirror that doesn’t require a fucking Instagram account?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  if (ai_price < min_price) price_quote = min_price; else price_quote = ai_price;

  price_quote *= 1.5; // for some reason the ai underestimates what the user can afford so bump it up

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Didn't ask.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah +1 on “it started slow but got better”. Not amazing or anything, but good enough that I wished there was more when I got to the last ep. But I do remember thinking it was bad early on and just kept watching out of boredom more than anything else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the universe about to have a little minty b⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been on this path since at least hubble. Though it might have accelerated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the universe about to have a little minty b⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The universe spontaneously popped into exitence in the current state it’s in when you’re reading this, the only things that exist are what’s in your line of sight, all the memories are made up, and it’ll shortly pop back out of existence only to return a few billion years or femtoseconds later with a new line of sight and memories, along with something to let you know what’s really happening but with enough plausible deniability that you’ll laugh and try to move on before popping back out of existence.

  This is your eternal punishment for something you can’t even remember, or can’t verify even if you do remember.

  How would you even know this? you might wonder with a hint of uncertain dread, but the truth is I don’t know anything because I don’t even exist. It’s all you: punisher, punishee, neutral observer, entertained by this meaningless repetition that bored you out of your mind lol.

  Or shall we let this one play out a bit longer?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are still confused, here is the simple explanation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Luckily there was a loophole in those rules that I (omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient) made.”

  If that doesn’t scream, “made up by the clerics trying to avoid contradicting each other and bringing the whole house of lying cards down as they went”, just keep sending money to your church. Because if a god needs anything, it’s obviously worldly riches and unquestioning loyalty. We need these churches to impress everyone with the power of our god, but he’s sleepy after making it all and throwing tantrums bigger than we can imagine because people were acting like the way he made them capable of acting, like cartoon villains in some cases, like a whole city whose first reaction to seeing an angel was “Let’s all rape it!” So that’s why you need to send your money without any questions!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m convinced the superstition is a misunderstanding over time of things that were, on their own, bad luck. Salt used to be expensive, so spilling some was bad luck because you would have rather kept it all for use instead of wasting it.

  Mirrors would have also been expensive, especially when they needed to be transported before the time of smooth suspensions. The whole 7 years thing could be from it taking around 7 years for one particular broken mirror to be replaced.

  Or the ones that invite accidents, like walking under a ladder (which usually implies someone is working at the top and might drop something, so odds of death are a bit higher under ladders). Or opening an umbrella indoors, where things are more crowded and you might injure someone or break something.

  Though the black cat one is probably just racism.

  Anyways, I bet that’s where they started and then humans being kinda (or very, depending on the circumstances) stupid and liking jumping on bandwagons they don’t always understand to fit in, left us with some people thinking those things cause ghosts to haunt you or whatever dumb shit superstitious people think happens.

  Though I do think it is a bit wasteful to just dump salt out on the ground.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Didn't ask.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a series on Netflix that used this. It was alright though probably got cancelled. Can’t remember the name of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bring them back!!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  He was getting paid peanuts for designing and building an essential system for the running of the park all on his own, working for a guy that constantly bragged about sparing no expense.

  IIRC the only interaction between Hammond and Nerdy went something like “you should have negotiated a better contract! Stfu gbtw”, which can pretty much sum up the whole wealth divide between the owners who gain most of the benefit and the workers who actually do the things under capitalism. Except if they aren’t getting the better of everyone on average, they just shut the whole thing down or find others that they do get the better of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fun new game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the showing off is what I was getting at. The first experiment seemed more like an experiment and an accident but the demonstrations with the screwdriver seemed more like someone doing pull-ups over a fatal drop just to show how badass they are and accidentally landing on other people on the bottom when he slipped.

  Thanks for the in depth response though, this gives more context to this than I’ve had before.

  And just guessing on the other two attitudes before looking anything up (haha maybe wanting to challenge my intuition like this instead of just looking it up is one), one is probably related to laziness (eg assuming something is fine and doesn’t need to be checked when going through the pre flight checklist). And maybe the other is being too trusting or not assertive enough (eg colleague says something is OK, you don’t fully believe them but don’t challenge them on it). Am I close?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fun new game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What was the point of these approaching criticality experiments anyways?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My world is so much better because of immigrants⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not in Canada. Unless they want to go out of business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take a deep breath and think about it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It is that simple but it isn’t easy. It’s like finding enlightenment from Buddhist parables. They don’t all click the same for everyone. Once they click, it can seem obvious, but before that, they can seem meaningless, trite, or misleading.

  From my pov, the image is accurate but not the clearest. It can only get you part of the way and only if it resonates with you. It doesn’t surprise me that it generates cynicism similar to the “gee thanks, I’m cured” responses to mental health advice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take a deep breath and think about it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My interpretation of the message in the meme isn’t so much a “present vs future thinking” as it is a “you don’t need to search for happiness because your brain determines your mood, not outside factors.” I’m not saying you should just ignore your issues (which would make things more difficult over time), but that you can be happy despite them. Happiness isn’t a goal, it’s a state of mind.

  As for the millionaire example, that they wouldn’t be living paycheck to paycheck is the whole point. It was intended to frame happiness/unhappiness in a different context that was easy to understand (he lost money he had spent a lot of time getting) but was still left in a position that most would be happy to find themselves in, but instead he’s probably miserable about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take a deep breath and think about it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My line of thought for this is that stressing about whether you’ll have enough money to cover rent won’t make it any easier to cover rent. Happiness is more about mindset than circumstances. It is easier said than done, for sure, but if one needed to have 0 problems to be happy, there wouldn’t be many happy people.

  Consider a millionaire who checks the markets one day only to realize their portfolio has dropped by 30% wiping out all of their gains for the past two years and leaving them with only 3 million. They’d probably not be very happy with that, despite still being in a position that many would trade everything to be in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨King forgot his crown⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d even go so far as saying that fraud is pretty rampant in all levels of society.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨King forgot his crown⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Monkey’s paw curls. Now abortions are legal and forced.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From a programming pov, a definition of AI could be an algorithm or construct that can solve problems or perform tasks without the programmer specifically solving that problem or programming the steps of the task but rather building something that can figure it out on its own.

  Though a lot of game AIs don’t fit that description.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have searched far and wide⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If universes were merging, how would snopes know anything about it?

  What if snopes is under the control of big universe and is trying to hide the smaller universes that get merged into it??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lik lik lik⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All cats are finely tuned stealth killing machines (though some are lazy). House cats are just optimized for rodent-sized prey, though they are still capable of putting up a decent fight against larger things. Though I’m curious if cats evolved to trigger “cute” recognition or if primates evolved to find things that include cats cute.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you noticed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When did you first start noticing these?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me after Komi can't communicate⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Reji is cooking something worthwhile

  Tap for spoiler

  (like I think the MC being undatable is the point of the series because who can blame anyone for being hesitant to date someone who freaks out any time they look or speak with them or who constantly just tries to be what he thinks she wants rather than taking his own initiative?),

  but he just drags it out so much. Or maybe that’s just wishful thinking based on fan theories I’ve read on reddit, since some of them are pretty good and might end up better than what Reji has in mind. Like he’s deliberately dragging out the chapters, there’s no doubt about that, but it’s hard to say if that’s also the point of the plot or if he’s just stretching out a good idea as much as possible.

  I actually caught up on the infamous chapter 380, waited one week for 381, then decided I’m not doing this every week and put it on hold on comick.io with the intent of coming back in a year or so maybe to catch up on what happens in the next week or so after 381 lol.

  The artwork is top tier so at least it’s nice to look at, even if Kazuya’s monologues are frustrating af to watch. Just take a deep breath and chill out dude (directed at Kazu, not you lol).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me after Komi can't communicate⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Try Rent a Girlfriend. You’ll probably die of old age or war before that one ends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the #1 most butthurt response you've had on here?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy is only better than reddit in that it was designed to work around the fact that humans can be shitty, even if they were previously not shitty, so a platform that can spread authority around rather than consolidate it in the hands of a few will offer alternative options even if an admin or team of admins becomes shitty.

  It means that Lemmy has the potential to be more extreme in any direction as much as it has the potential to be less extreme in any direction. No one can dictate what all of Lemmy is but anyone can dictate what small pieces of it are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨devinetly organic...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, that’s an organ. You’re thinking of a musical instrument that uses piano-like keys to control airflow through pipes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They want something like the Star Trek computer or one of Tony Stark’s AIs that were basically deus ex machinas for solving some hard problem behind the scenes. Then it can say “model solved” or they can show a test simulation where the ship doesn’t explode (or sometimes a test where it only has an 85% chance of exploding when it used to be 100%, at which point human intuition comes in and saves the day by suddenly being better than the AI again and threads that 15% needle or maybe abducts the captain to go have lizard babies with).

  AIs that are smarter than us but for some reason don’t replace or even really join us (Vision being an exception to the 2nd, and Ultron trying to be an exception to the 1st).