Boiglenoight
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- Comment on JPEG-XL Image Support Returns To Latest Chrome / Chromium Code 3 days ago:
Can someone ELI5? I read the article. 🙃
- Comment on Leaked Windows 11 Feature Shows Copilot Moving Into File Explorer 3 days ago:
To the top. History is repeating itself.
- Comment on The singular they is actually such a natural part of the English language, the people complaining about it almost certainly use it without noticing 3 days ago:
They don’t now what they talkin bout
- Comment on Jensen Huang says relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has "done a lot of damage" 4 days ago:
Damn tootin.
- Comment on Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI 4 days ago:
According to Huang, considering the potential existential risks of unleashing AI on society may do more harm than good. “It’s not helpful. It’s not helpful to people. It’s not helpful to the industry. It’s not helpful to society. It’s not helpful to the governments,” he said. He particularly took issue with other people in the industry going to the government and asking for regulation and mandatory safeguards. “You have to ask yourself, you know, what is the purpose of that narrative and what are their intentions,” he asked rhetorically. “Why are they talking to governments about these things to create regulations to suffocate startups?”
You don’t have to ask yourself that because it’s common sense. He’s being disingenuous about AI’s potential to harm society, and stating the intent is to suffocate startups…they’re not making a new instant messaging client. I want to smack him upside the head.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 5 days ago:
- Comment on Discord in discussions of going Public Trading, economics expert discusses how that might change things 5 days ago:
ICQ
- Comment on we need more users 5 days ago:
Which wasn’t the case early on, from my experience. Instead, when Lemmy had its first big boom it was filled with people looking for a non-toxic, real conversation. I still find that to be the case in replies, but my front page tends to be filled with stories where commenters are dissimilar to Reddit, less intellectual responses and more edgy hyperbole.
Seriously though, the people responding to political posts with thinly veiled calls to harm or kill political leaders need to be banned on the spot. Absolutely intolerable.
- Comment on we need more users 5 days ago:
I’ve seen a rise in calls to violence. This is not cool.
- Comment on we need more users 6 days ago:
I could not find Jerboa in the App Store. I use Voyager. We need Lemmy.
- Comment on we need more users 1 week ago:
I’m happy to promote it. I tried to get a few non-technical people to check it out. They felt it was too complicated. I’ve shared it with tech friends and coworkers who use Reddit. They’re aware of Lemmy to varying degrees, and are not enthused about moving to another platform despite hating Reddit.
I think it’s because despite Lemmy being a great alternative, it is more complicated and lacks the user base that users of other social media platforms have.
Bluesky is marginally more complicated than Twitter, but compared to Mastodon it is user friendly. Bluesky worked to create a dedicated, easy to use app that most users use.
Bluesky existed for a while before experiencing explosive growth. This occurred during moments of controversy with X. Bluesky capitalized on these moments, with champions on both platforms that led their followers to change, and there were mechanisms in place to bootstrap a user’s feed with the followers and topics that they had in the other place.
I think Lemmy needs to follow this model. There needs to be a Lemmy app that has a user experience as similar as possible with the Reddit app. It also needs champions that have main stream recognition (George Takei, Mark Hamill, etc.) that can be willing to make noise about switching from Reddit to Lemmy when the next controversy occurs. Repeat with more and more promotion by this evangelists, and Lemmy could grow.
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 1 week ago:
Lucky.
I’ve been subject to enterprise Microsoft products for so long.
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 1 week ago:
We’re…never going to say any of that. It’s Microsoft 365, or 365 for short. Even that sounds stupid. Office is what people understand, 365 always requires explaining.
MS is so exhausting.
- Comment on Does smelling your food while you cook it make it taste bland? 1 week ago:
After preparing the meal, step outside for five minutes. Come back in, eat. Food will taste closer to having it prepared for you.
- Comment on YSK the Venezuelans community in the US is not representative of Venezuelans as a whole. 1 week ago:
Channel 5 News needs to get on a plane.
- Comment on How does Chuck Schumer still have a job? 1 week ago:
This is, sadly, how it seems to be. Both he and Hakeem Jeffries seem to obstruct real opposition from the Democratic Party against Trump and the Right in any meaningful way.
- Comment on Being afraid of vaccines is literally childish behavior. 2 weeks ago:
I disagree. While it’s frustrating that people believe politicians and talk show hosts over scientists, it’s reasonable to fear something you don’t understand. What’s immature is a lack of critical thinking which much of the population seems to exhibit by choosing to listen to others or, in doing fact finding, allow for confirmation bias.
This statement is not helpful. If we’re looking to increase the number of people getting vaccinated, shame or embarrassment will likely lower that number further. People have a fear of making the wrong decision. If you share with them that you’ve been vaccinated and leave it at that, that’s someone real who has contradicted the narrative they subscribe to. If they respect you as a role model, they may change their behavior.
- Comment on NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions 3 weeks ago:
I can’t recall why, but I was tired of 3DFX. I think they had a monopoly on 3D acceleration or something, and at the time OpenGL seemed like the way to go. An unknown company called Nvidia released a card called the Riva TNT and it contributed to OpenGL becoming widely supported as well as ending 3DFX’s once deserved dominance.
Nvidia kept hitting it out of the park, creating iterations of cards that made it worthwhile to upgrade every several years. I think the competition from ATI (now AMD) may have kept them from falling into the same rut as 3DFX, and as gamers we’ve enjoyed the result of that relationship with good cards from both.
Today…Nvidia has grown into something that had shed its reason for being. It’s crazy to see their logo in business news top stories. What they’re doing, contributing to a tech development that is so far out front of government oversight that could protect people from the consequences, I see them more as a threat to society than anything else. It’s crazy.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Conversations either continue or they don’t. You shouldn’t be hard on yourself. If someone says something that makes you want to say or ask something else, great. If not, that’s fine too.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I enjoy Lemmy because I tend to get a response. Despite the higher pop at Reddit, I often go ignored. It’s not unusual to have a back and forth chat with another commenter in a given thread here.
- Comment on No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships" 4 months ago:
I love NMS for what it is. A sandbox. Some people don’t like playing in one. That’s fine.
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 5 months ago:
Are we still doing phrasing also thank god they’re not coming for the ultra violence and graphic scenes of bodily dismemberment
- Comment on Google Will Pause Ads Related To Elections After Polls Close On November 5th. 1 year ago:
Thanks. I was wondering—isn’t this backwards. It is! It’s backwards as all get out.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
But is it filled with the people that many want to follow and interact with? Twitter was popular for this reason, and people will tolerate being advertised to and sold on if it recreates that experience.
I had brief conversations on Twitter with Ice-T and John Carmack. Twitter’s nature enabled that remarkable connection. Could it happen on Mastodon? Absolutely, but those celebrities and geniuses need to embrace it. If it’s Bluesky, it’s better than X if only for a time.
- Comment on Threads of Time - Official Announcement Trailer | TGS 2024 1 year ago:
SHUT THE FUCK UP, DONNY
