kat_angstrom
@kat_angstrom@lemmy.world
- Comment on Zuckerberg disses closed-source AI competitors as trying to 'create God' 2 days ago:
Hear hear
- Comment on Apple Intelligence won't launch in EU in 2024 due to antitrust regulation, company says 1 week ago:
More sugar
- Comment on Indie games using retro graphics 1 week ago:
I got 30hrs out of Animal Well and enjoyed every moment of it :)
- Comment on Wasps 1 week ago:
I have some Goldenrod plants in the backyard where every summer a few hundred 5-banded Wasps congregate. The males mob a few plants to show themselves off, covering every leaf and branch and stem until they’re weighing the whole plant down, while the females buzz about checking out the dudes to decide who to mare with.
I’m grateful to support that colony; they’ve been on and around the neighborhood longer than I have, and honestly, they’re pretty chill. They’re not going to attack unless you do first, and they’re pollinators.
And for those people who view a mob of several hundred wasps on a single plant as being “gross”, just chill. They got a right to life like we do <3
- Comment on Slack has been scanning your messages to train its AI models 1 month ago:
Always have been, apparently
- Comment on Like magic 1 month ago:
Pffft, joke’s on you, I read that in less than 1 second
- Comment on ‘Quantum internet’ demonstration in cities is most advanced yet 1 month ago:
Great deal. Thanks, marketing!
- Comment on Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds 1 month ago:
Most of the VPs in my local Corpo are all politicians. They speak in buzzwords and value hearing themselves speak over hearing any feedback from people lower than them in the hierarchy. The disconnection between upper management and everyone else is greater than it’s ever been and it’s only getting worse.
- Comment on welcome to the flavor quadrant 1 month ago:
Thanks, I hate it
- Comment on Head of PR at China's biggest search engine Baidu apologised after her comments glorifying a work-till-you-drop culture sparked public outcry 1 month ago:
To flex your wealth and feel superior to others, apparently
- Comment on Bruh, take a break already 1 month ago:
Is… Is this a true story?
- Comment on Google employees question execs over 'decline in morale' after blowout earnings 1 month ago:
If it’s like a lot of other tech companies, likely this was posted in a questions thread during a large meeting, and while everyone can see the questions being posed, Execs pick and choose which questions they’re interested in answering, ignoring the ones they don’t like. It’s a good way of determining employee morale while avoiding all accountability.
- Comment on For 'Cheap' Labour, Google Fires Its Entire Python Team: Report 1 month ago:
But what percentage of fake birds are real fake birds?
- Comment on Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths 2 months ago:
I’ve never heard of anyone screaming because they had to scan their own groceries at a self-checkout. Is this a common thing?
- Comment on Just got texted a job offer. You guys think it's legit? 2 months ago:
I reached out to The Guild of Restaurant Evaluators to ask, and they told me it was a trade secret. But then when I asked the Restaurant Evaluators Guild, they told me it’s for “legal” reasons. But they put “legal” in quotes. The Evaluators Agency told me it was because nobody trusts 21 year olds, but let’s face it, of the “big 3”, nobody trusts The Evaluators Agency compared to the other two.
- Comment on Just got texted a job offer. You guys think it's legit? 2 months ago:
Yup, it’s a little known secret of our economy that roughly 15% of the populace makes over $10,000 a month evaluating restaurants, aka, eating at them and filing reports.
Those reports are essential for us all, and I for one have been perpetually grateful for the knowledge I have gleaned from them.
- Comment on Reptilians are REAL. They attach to your Lower Chakras and harvest Loosh Energy from you. They hate humans and see them as cattle to be enslaved, exploited, and recycled. 2 months ago:
Hey now, there is plenty of evidence that Chakras exist. For example, people and the books that they write say Chakras exist. Also, vague esoteric traditions. Also, both of those things. I think that should settle it satisfactorily, amirite?
/s in case nobody could tell. :P
- Comment on Looking Back at When Star Trek Made Its Own Galaxy's Edge 2 months ago:
All good, I’m an ancestor to Riker.
Source: Alaska
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 2 months ago:
For consumers, “enshitification” is a reminder of how things get worse. For companies, apparently it’s a delightfully new lower bar to aspire to. This is some Darkest Timeline kinda BS
- Comment on Why is living with your parents considered a bad thing? 4 months ago:
Because they’re racist cult members and visits are awkward enough let alone living there. Might just be me tho
- Comment on Moaned 4 months ago:
Why not Wickana?
- Comment on Social media algorithms ‘amplifying misogynistic content’ 4 months ago:
Worth it for them, for short term profits. Good thing nobody is considering the net effect this has on society or political discourse.
- Comment on Social media algorithms ‘amplifying misogynistic content’ 4 months ago:
When outrage is the prime driver of engagement it’s going to push some people right off the platform entirely, and the ones who stay are psychologically worse off for it.
- Comment on Artists are making creative companies apologize for using AI 5 months ago:
Yes and No. That Wacom Dragon legitimately looks awful; its tail a messed up, nonsensical mess. I think the problem isn’t as much just “AI art” as it is “awful art”, because if a human had made it, it would have been absolutely better; it would have made sense at the very least. Instead you have middle managers trying to cut corners and the end result is an insult to creative workers everywhere; and the managers and marketers who approved this said “meh, good enough” and didn’t even try.
That’s the most insidious part of AI Art used in marketing, a race to the bottom in terms of quality that leads to crap being thrown in consumers faces because creative, knowledgable people aren’t being included in the conversation.
- Comment on Amazon lays off 500 Twitch employees, hundreds more at MGM and Prime Video 5 months ago:
“As you all know, we have worked hard over the last year to run our business as sustainably as possible. Unfortunately, we still have work to do to rightsize our company and I regret having to share that we are taking the painful step to reduce our headcount by just over 500 people across Twitch,” Clancy wrote.
Cripes I hate corporate newspeak. “Rightsize” isn’t a word, and I hope I never encounter it again.
- Comment on Polling Canada: "How much did you pay attention to the Government of Canada signing the Treaty of Algeron?" 5 months ago:
As a Canadian, I am experiencing certain emotions in regards to this news.
- Comment on Hope this helps. 6 months ago:
It definitely helps. You are helpful. I am feeling helped. Thank you for your helping us all.
- Comment on Charlie Stross on Mastodon: What is Star Trek? Wrong answers only, please! 6 months ago:
It’s a rather famous hike up in Yukon, Canada, where you have to travel on foot through a twenty mile-long canyon, to emerge at night into a bowl-shaped canyon bowl that has an incredible view of the northern sky, and if you count them all, you can see over one million stars. You know, if it’s not cloudy. But then you have to march twenty miles back, in the dark, or you have to camp out in the bowl canyon, where (quite famously) there are no good spots to camp because of all the rocks and no flat spots big enough for tents or sleeping, and the bottom of the bowl is an icy swamp.
- Comment on Computer, make art 6 months ago:
I see no falling walls. :(
- Comment on Halley's Comet begins its return journey to Earth Saturday 6 months ago:
Oh weird. I heard the same thing about 6 weeks ago, either there’s some imprecision in the measurement or poor reporting