Wiz

@Wiz@midwest.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  PeerTube is also a Fediverse service, and does the longer form videos, like YouTube. It mostly works fine; it just lacks content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, you’re being negative about an alpha release of someone’s hard work without checking it out first?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that there's a better index than the BMI to measure obesity called the Body Roundness Index⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Especially if he lives in a vacuum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosted alternative to Spotify⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sad to hear this news.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re not wrong!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My point was, I think they would both be pommes frites.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How to the French tell the difference between fried apples and fried potatoes?

  Maybe context.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Black is what happens when the class clown doesn't become depressed and instead becomes even more of a clown⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Jack Black, 18 Charisma Bard

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone here play the Super Star Trek terminal game?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not since about 1988. Thanks for the memory!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Brave’s CEO is so anti-gay, he dished out 4-figure checks to fight gayness.

  I’m not a fan of that, and Brave has issues with being Chromium-based, like Vivaldi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can I do with US$10K that is a good investment?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Does beer come with that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After a year of operation, Switzerland's government closes its Mastodon instance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Bluesky seems to work better as an alternative.

  Until they run out of VC money.

  Then the enshittification happens, to pay the bills.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Empires fall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wasn’t that Mitt Romney and Trump’s Secretary of the Treasury? (I forget his name.) But I remember him looking like a Bond villain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you consider making a sandwich to be "cooking?"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hot German potato salad is a thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you consider making a sandwich to be "cooking?"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s always an xkcd for every forum thread topic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s the most overhyped tech trend right now?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I just looked. Do they not ship to the U.S.?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Better system for WHOM? Tech-bros that want to steal my content as their own?

  I’m a writer, performing artist, designer, and illustrator. I have thought about copyright quite a bit. I have released some of my stuff into the public domain, as well as the Creative Commons. If you want to use my work, you may - according to the licenses that I provide.

  I also think copyright law is way out of whack. It should go back to - at most - life of author. This “life of author plus 95 years” is ridiculous. I lament that so much great work is being lost or forgotten because of the oppressive copyright laws - especially in the area of computer software.

  But tech-bros that want my work to train their LLMs - they can fuck right off. There are legal thresholds that constitute “fair use” - Is it used for an academic purpose? Is it used for a non-profit use? Is the portion that is being used a small part or the whole thing? LLM software fail all of these tests.

  They can slurp up the entirety of Wikipedia, and they do. But they are not satisfied with the free stuff. But they want my artistic creations, too, without asking. And they want to sell something based on my work, making money off of my work, without asking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You sound like someone who has not tried to make an artistic creation for profit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Picture⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not my goddamned planet monkey-boy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The things is, they can have scads of free stuff that is not copyrighted. But they are greedy and want copyrighted stuff, too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm the developer of WalkScape, the RuneScape inspired fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL. We're now accepting more people to the Closed Beta!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ooh, I can’t wait to play! This looks awesome!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Climate scientists flee Twitter as hostility surges⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, and…

  You can follow (and use) hashtags of topics you like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banning TikTok Won’t Keep Your Data Safe | Pompous billionaires, authoritarian regimes, and opaque oligarchs are hoarding our data. Only an alternative online ecosystem will stop them.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t the guy that developed Pixelfed working on a short-form video platform? That would be better than TikTok I would think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is bringing annoying Windows 11 Start menu ads to Windows 10⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s keeping me running Microsoft? A collection of Steam games that I love. Do they work on Linux now?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is bringing annoying Windows 11 Start menu ads to Windows 10⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry for your situation. That sucks, and I empathize. I hope you have found physical and mental healing.

  That being said, there are different levels of abusive relationships. I can see where that poster could compare Microsoft to a gaslighting relationship where a partner says they are doing something for you, but it’s always about themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is Lemmy better than Reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I found your comment just now, and it’s awesome! 😎👍

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flipboard is going to let you follow fediverse accounts right inside the app⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I kinda like it. It’s sort of a self-curated magazine. It takes a while to get it tweaked for my personal preferences.

  So, in my opinion, it’s a little like Lemmy, but focused more on the links than the conversation around them. Also, much more glossy and polished than Lemmy.

  It’s worth checking out, and I’m quite happy that they seem to be gradually adding Fediverse support.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that some Lemmy apps and web interfaces allow you to filter keywords⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dammit! I was just about to do that, but it’s illegal!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that some Lemmy apps and web interfaces allow you to filter keywords⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there any way to not view or collapse posts that are rated below a certain threshold? I’m not sure how the collapse/show logic works in Lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes but how many giraffes, laid end-to-end?