Wiz
@Wiz@midwest.social
- Comment on Mastodon and Pixelfed got a short mention on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver 6 days ago:
“Email is hard!”
- Comment on Sounds crazy but... maybe you shouldn't delete Facebook just yet 1 week ago:
I realize that Mastodon doesn’t track birthdays for security reasons, but it would be nice to have a “special day” that popped up in friends’ news feeds. It’s probably the nicest feature of FB, to get birthday wishes from friends.
- Comment on Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
They sign up on AOL or Yahoo Mail or Gmail. Or get an email address through their ISP.
“Here’s your address.” They use it.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
“Wah wah it’s so hard to pick a server!”
JUST LIKE EMAIL YOU NITWIT!
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 3 weeks ago:
It looks like my Pinewood Derby car that I made in Cub Scouts!
- 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 3 months 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 4 months 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 4 months ago:
Especially if he lives in a vacuum.
- Comment on Selfhosted alternative to Spotify 4 months 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? 4 months 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? 4 months 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 months 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 months ago:
Jack Black, 18 Charisma Bard
- Comment on Anyone here play the Super Star Trek terminal game? 4 months 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 4 months 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? 5 months ago:
Does beer come with that?
- Comment on After a year of operation, Switzerland's government closes its Mastodon instance 5 months 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 5 months 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?" 5 months ago:
Hot German potato salad is a thing.
- Comment on Would you consider making a sandwich to be "cooking?" 5 months ago:
There’s always an xkcd for every forum thread topic.
- Comment on What’s the most overhyped tech trend right now? 5 months 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 5 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 5 months ago:
You sound like someone who has not tried to make an artistic creation for profit.
- Comment on Picture 5 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 5 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! 5 months ago:
Ooh, I can’t wait to play! This looks awesome!
- Comment on Climate scientists flee Twitter as hostility surges 5 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. 5 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 6 months ago:
What’s keeping me running Microsoft? A collection of Steam games that I love. Do they work on Linux now?