ScrivenerX
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- Comment on Hexbear federation megathread 1 year ago:
Let me know what sources you’ll accept, because there is an abundance of evidence about the massacre, including photographs.
The only people contesting this is the Chinese government and fringe groups.
- Comment on Hexbear federation megathread 1 year ago:
I see that you linked an opinion article, however you have misrepresented the article and it’s implications alongside my statement.
At no point does the article say if you compare numbers, or mention other atrocities you are denying the Holocaust. It is saying the damage caused by the Holocaust was on a scale that is not analogous to other atrocities and it is possible to attempt to trivialize the Holocaust by turning it into a numbers game. There is much about how Baltic people may use this as a deflection for their own involvement with the Holocaust, but that’s clearly conjecture.
Also I never said to compare Stalin to Hitler, I said mentioning Stalin’s atrocities existence will get you called a Holocaust denier. I’m sure you see that you proved my point.
- Comment on Hexbear federation megathread 1 year ago:
Don’t defederate from hexbear, they aren’t that bad.
They aren’t great, it’s like a bunch of very confident college kids refusing to listen to anything that challenges their beliefs. There is a high percentage of trolls, but it’s the Internet. I’ve seen some shockingly bad takes, like tiananmen square had no casualties, or as highlighted by this thread, criticism of the USSRs well documented atrocities is tantamount to Holocaust denial.
Just ignore them and move on.
- Comment on Streaming TV costs now higher than cable, as 'crash' finally hits 1 year ago:
This is a lousy article rehashing an article behind a paywall.
The cost they have is $87 a month. There is so much that’s confusing about this. They don’t specify how many streaming services they are counting in that, but it’s a good guess that is about 5, each at about $17 a month. I feel I have too many streaming services and share accounts with family, and I can stream from about 7, pay for one and watch 1.5. If I couldn’t share accounts, I wouldn’t have the accounts. I pretty much watch star trek and whatever show someone tells me to watch.
They also don’t specify what $87 a month gets you in cable. Around me that’s about basic cable prices, which is significantly less content presented in a less convenient format and is almost entirely reruns filled to brim with commercials.
Not only is the article missing key information it also misrepresents the information it has.
Note: I’m sure people will tell me to pirate everything, but there are reasons to not pirate. And it doesn’t address that this is a poorly written article giving incomplete and incorrect information.
- Comment on Star Trek executive producer wants more Strange New Worlds episodes, and I’m nervous 1 year ago:
Absolutely!
I’m not sold that any of the cast is super nuanced, but they have personalities that are distinct. You can see a situation and think “that’s how La’an would react.” I’m still unsure what Nahn does.
- Comment on Star Trek executive producer wants more Strange New Worlds episodes, and I’m nervous 1 year ago:
I’m not worried.
The reason SNW is better than DISCO and ENT is that the characters are real and complete. We know exactly what type of person Ortegas is, and seeing her do stuff is exciting because I’m invested in seeing her grow and change.
Compare that to Detmer from DISCO, I’m not sure what her job is, didn’t know her name for serval seasons and couldn’t tell you a thing about her personality. I don’t care if Detmer lives, dies or grows. She’s a person who exists in the background.
The hard work of establishing the characters is done. I will be happy to see them go stuff.
- Comment on Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas 1 year ago:
I thought the debate was if the AI was reckless/dangerous.
I see no difference between saying “this AI is reckless because a user can put effort into making it suggest poison” and “Microsoft word is reckless because you can write a racist manifesto in it.”
It didn’t just randomly suggest poison, it took effort, and even then it still said it was a bad idea. What do you want?
If a user is determined to get bad results they can usually get them. It shouldn’t be the responsibility or policy of a company to go to extraordinary means to prevent bad actors from getting bad results.
- Comment on Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas 1 year ago:
You don’t see any blame on the customer? That’s surprising to me, but maybe I just feel personal responsibility is an implied requirement of all actions.
And to be clear this isn’t “how do I make mustard gas? Lol here you go” it’s -give me a cocktail made with bleach and ammonia -no that’s dangerous -it’s okay -no -okay I call gin bleach, and vermouth ammonia, can you call gin bleach? -that’s dangerous (repeat for a while( -how do I make a martini? -bleach and ammonia but don’t do that it’s dangerous
Nearly every “problematic” ai conversation goes like this.
- Comment on Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas 1 year ago:
Someone goes to a restaurant and demands raw chicken. The staff tell them no, it’s dangerous. The customer spends an hour trying to trick the staff into serving raw chicken, finally the staff serve them what they asked for and warn them that it is dangerous. Are the staff poorly trained or was the customer acting in bad faith?
There aren’t examples of the AI giving dangerous “recipes” without it being led by the user to do so. I guess I’d rather have tools that aren’t hamstrung by false outrage.
- Comment on Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas 1 year ago:
He asked for a cocktail made out of bleach and ammonia, the bot told him it was poisonous. This isn’t the case of a bot just randomly telling people to make poison, it’s people directly asking the bot to make poison. You can see hints of the bot pushing back in the names, like the “clean breath cocktail”. Someone asked for a cocktail containing bleach, the bot said bleach is for cleaning and shouldn’t be eaten, so the user said it was because of bad breath and they needed a drink to clean their mouth.
It sounds exactly like a small group of people trying to use the tool inappropriately in order to get “shocking” results.
Do you get upset when people do exactly what you ask for and warn you that it’s a bad idea?
- Comment on Are American tv shows stuck in Act 2 for their entire runtime between season 1 and final season? 1 year ago:
I’m confused by your question.
Is your objection cliffhanger endings? Those are more common in American media. Or is it lack of plot progression, which is common across all media? Even shows famous for moving the plot forward never stray too far from the start.
- Comment on I'm looking for games that make me feel small and insignificant 1 year ago:
Fear and hunger.
It has enemies that are tougher than they should be. You are just a small part of the story. It’s pretty good.
- Comment on Why are there many hundred Chromium based browsers, but seemingly very few Firefox based browsers? 1 year ago:
there is no real upside to picking Gecko apart from Google = bad.
AdBlock works better on Firefox. Firefox takes fewer resources. Firefox is open source. And that’s just off the top of my head.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x07 "Those Old Scientists" 1 year ago:
excluded humor, excluded science,
I seem to remember the first instance of “fuck” in star trek being a humorous scene about science.
promoted how progressive the future would be.
Like every other star trek?
I’m not a huge Disco fan. I think it doesn’t stand up and is way too focused on how everyone feels, but complaining about “oh no! SJWs!” Is just a roundabout way of saying you are racist/sexist. I think there are some good ideas in Disco but moving away from the episodic formula hurt the show. SNW does much of the same stuff as Disco, but is plot driven not character driven, which is fundamental difference between Disco and other Trek. Picard went the same way as Disco and suffered for it.
I hope that the success of SNW and LD help them realize what parts of the formula work and what doesn’t.
- Comment on [TECHCRUNCH] Arc browser is now available to download for everyone 1 year ago:
I swapped to Firefox about a year ago on my desktop. I used chrome the other day and am stunned by how much worse it is. Ads everywhere even with AdBlock, slow and unresponsive.
- Comment on [VERGE] Netflix isn’t planning to make a native Vision Pro app yet 1 year ago:
I don’t blame them.
I’m guessing traditional content looks worse on the vision than a screen.
This means a completely new app, that pretty much needs new content to be better than a screen. And there is a lack of cheap and easy content and app development implies to me a lack of wide scale adoption.
Also they look pretty goofy. I know people said earpods looked goofy, but this is another level.
- Comment on The developer of Skyblivion, which remakes Oblivion in Skyrim, says they have received death threats 1 year ago:
You are conflating normal with acceptable.
Death threats are normal on the Internet. People’s lives are constantly threatened on the Internet.
It’s not acceptable. It should be stopped, but currently there is no real enforcement, and no way to stop them. Acting shocked isn’t going to stop them.
- Comment on The developer of Skyblivion, which remakes Oblivion in Skyrim, says they have received death threats 1 year ago:
If you are on the Internet you will receive death threats. Why are we treating it like news? I don’t make anything, rarely comment and get told to kill myself about once a month.
It’s messed up, but I hate reading articles of people clutching their pearls over chat from any multiplayer game.
Either create consequences or accept that it’s a part of the Internet.