NoRodent
@NoRodent@lemmy.world
- Comment on The appearance of your letter spam depends on your keyboard layout. 3 months ago:
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- Comment on Facebook and Instagram’s “pay or consent” ad model violates the DMA, says the EU 4 months ago:
But I mean, it’s the same thing as this FB/IG case, no? Only worse because even if you pay, you still have ads.
- Comment on Facebook and Instagram’s “pay or consent” ad model violates the DMA, says the EU 4 months ago:
The biggest Czech website (Seznam.cz) recently changed their policy and now force you to choose between: free tier with personalised ads or paid tier with anonymous ads. Yes, you’re reading it right, even if you pay, it doesn’t get rid of ads, they just stop tracking you. I have no idea whether it’s legal but the EU should definitely take a look.
- Comment on “We Can Still Contact Technical Support in the West”: Russian weapons are being manufactured on foreign machinery — but why are they still running? 4 months ago:
Or Polish trains.
- Comment on Mr Rodgers actually was who he was 6 months ago:
How high are you rn? Also, who the fuck’s Mr Rodgers (sic)?
- Comment on It would be terrifying if it were to actually start raining men. 6 months ago:
“And wow! Hey! What’s this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like … ow … ound … round … ground! That’s it! That’s a good name – ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me?”
- Comment on Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track 6 months ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Isn’t this how it always goes with any kind of censorship? It doesn’t even matter if it’s intentional or accidental, the result is the same.
- Comment on Are we the "Cold Ones" to our dogs? 7 months ago:
Oh god, they meant Fathrenheits! I was thinking 10 degrees Celsius hotter, which sounded even more insane.
- Comment on A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions 7 months ago:
You can’t possibly have every feature on a keyboard shortcut, even just all those various formatting features in Word for example where you often have to choose something from a list of options. And even if you somehow did manage to have a shortcut for everything, you’d still only remember those you use frequently enough.
Not to mention, I’m pretty sure most of those shortcuts from 2003 still work today.
- Comment on A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions 7 months ago:
Ribbon is one of the best inventions Microsoft ever came up with and I will die on this hill. I’m old enough to remember very well the suffering when I was trying to find something in the classic menus or among the billion equal sized icons scattered across multiple toolbars in old MS Office versions. When Office 2007 came out, everything was suddenly so much easier to find, often with less clicks. I don’t see any reason why I’d need the old style menu in addition to ribbon.
- Comment on A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions 7 months ago:
Does LibreOffice finally have ribbon or does it still look like MS Office 2003? You can hate on Microsoft all your want (and I’d gladly join you in most cases) and I get the privacy concerns but the Office suite is, after all those decades, still unmatched (well maybe except Outlook).
- Comment on Al Jazeera could probably fire/replace its writers with LLMs, rebrand as AI Jazeera, and no one would immediately notice. 7 months ago:
I know what a serif is. And I’m not talking about that. I’m talking about this:
- Comment on Al Jazeera could probably fire/replace its writers with LLMs, rebrand as AI Jazeera, and no one would immediately notice. 7 months ago:
This is why I prefer sans-serif fonts that have lower case l’s with a little bend on the bottom. For example the new default font in Office (Aptos) does exactly that.
- Comment on Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works 7 months ago:
The crazy part is that your brain is doing similar processing all the time too. Ever heard of the blindspot? Your brain has literally zero data there but uses “content-aware fill” to hide it from you. Or the fact, that your eyes are constantly scanning across objects and your brain is merging them into a panorama on the fly because only a small part of your field of vision has high enough fidelity. It will also create fake “frames” (look up stopped-clock illusion) for the time your eyes are moving where you should see a blur instead. There’s more stuff like this, a lot of it manifests itself in various optical illusions. So not even our own eyes capture the “truth”. And then of course the (in)accuracy of memory when trying to recall what we’ve seen, that’s an entirely different can of worms.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
*Laughs in Firefox*
- Comment on xkcd #2907: Schwa 8 months ago:
As a non-native speaker, I was kinda confused at first by this comic because in my head the vowels definitely didn’t sound all the same. But I personally consider pronunciation of vowels in English to be one of the greatest mysteries in the universe, so no wonder.
- Comment on Google to shut down Keen, its experimental Pinterest-like social media platform 8 months ago:
I know they make shoes.
- Comment on 10 years ago, a person would be insulted for filming a video in portrait instead of landscape. Now, old landscape videos are being cropped and resized to fit in a portrait player. 8 months ago:
I mean, that idea isn’t mine, nor new: youtu.be/dechvhb0Meo?t=87
- Comment on 10 years ago, a person would be insulted for filming a video in portrait instead of landscape. Now, old landscape videos are being cropped and resized to fit in a portrait player. 8 months ago:
If they start building vertical cinemas, that’s when we lose.
- Comment on If frozen embryos are considered as children, then it must be acceptable to freeze children. 8 months ago:
Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is great. If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate.
- Comment on The job applicants shut out by AI: ‘The interviewer sounded like Siri’ 8 months ago:
They also should not harm a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
- Comment on Reddit has a new AI training deal to sell user content 8 months ago:
I mean, there’s /r/SubSimulatorGPT2 that’s been running for years… Although that one was at least hilarious to read because at that stage the AI was in the sweet spot of being simultaneously coherent while making total lapses in logic.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 8 months ago:
Then I guess it’s only in some countries. I’ve seen articles saying it wasn’t available in Europe as a whole but maybe that’s old news.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 8 months ago:
I’m just glad Copilot isn’t available in Europe.
- Comment on Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here. 9 months ago:
I mean yeah, but on the other hand with hydrogen you have much more control over when and where you use the electricity. You can transport it by pipes or by trucks/ships without overwhelming the electric grid.
- Comment on Skyrocketing bluesky engagement since opening to the public 9 months ago:
Goodbye Bluesky
- Comment on xkcd #2891: Log Cabin 9 months ago:
The “No nesting” rule should apparently apply not only to just model rail but also to log cabins.
- Comment on Spotify paid users hit 236M, but losing money, amid Apple battle 9 months ago:
Which is great when you already have established bands and albums you want to listen to. Not so great for discovering new music and genres which is where Spotify really shines for me.
- Comment on Google Search is losing its 'cached' web page feature 9 months ago:
By they way, I just found out that they removed the button, but typing “cache:” into Google still redirects you to the cached version (if it exists). But who knows for how long.
