potoo22

@potoo22@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers from the University of Zurich secret unethical experiment deployed AI-generated comments on Reddit to study how AI could be used to change views.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Unethical, but insightful. The bot took on fake identities and made up lies that strike at people’s emotions to change their views. Unethical because it can manipulate real people (or other bot accounts) using made up facts or scenarios. Insightful because other bots are already doing this; they’re just not disclosing it. There are more ethnical ways to run this study. This was just the cheap and easy way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord confirms it's moving toward 'becoming a public company' as it hires a former Activision executive as its new CEO⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Step One: Provide an exceptional but unprofitable service.

  Step Two: Drive out all competition because business model is unprofitable. Become the only service users want and become invested into.

  Step Three: Enshitify to show the model can be profitable to investors. Users will not leave because they are already invested and competition is not strong.

  Step Four: Go public, while continuing to Enshitify.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why walk, when you can ride?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not gonna play the “carry all the groceries in one trip” game greater than 100 yards (1 football field (514 bananas))

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Powell sees tariffs raising inflation and says Fed will wait before further rate moves⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That seems reasonable. It’s also possible for both high inflation and high unemployment. In that case he’d be like ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Satisfactory now has controller support, so there’s no excuse for your bad lines⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still waiting for the stable release. Mostly because I’m not prepared to lose another 200-300 hours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Satisfactory now has controller support, so there’s no excuse for your bad lines⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was worried about this. The game has so many hotkeys, I have no idea how a controller would handle them. Lots of contextual button mappings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Volkswagen ID. EVERY1 is an affordable EV for the masses⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Mazda’s Laputa translates to “the bitch” in Spanish.

  There’s also Ford’s Probe…

  But yeah ID.EVERY1 is a mediocre name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do tell!!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But, without any thrust, they would stay in orbit for years. Eventually, if in low orbit, their space suit will collide with enough stray atoms, it’ll lose enough speed to fall back to earth and incinerate in the atmosphere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Come one come all, it's time to unblock !conservative@lemmy.world and bring your best memes of conservatives!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s hard for me not to engage with their opinions. Like “no, that’s not how that works,” “There’s more to it than that,” “there are several things wrong with what you said.” There’s no point trying to argue on the Internet, but some of there comments make me angry. I especially hate when they support something just to “own them libs” like that takes priority over peoples’ well-being.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GARBAGEOLOGY⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It says garbage patch, not dumpster fire

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the democrats actually doing to help?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The “reasonable” moderate Democrats are hoping to win votes with: “We’ll undo a few Republican initiatives and put our friends in offices, but otherwise keep everything the same.” Can’t imagine why that isn’t getting them votes. In 2024 they ran out of Republican initiatives to undo and their platform was just: keep our friends in office and keep everything else the same. If they had other planned initiatives, few people picked up on them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It works for anything⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The nuance that makes this false is that the water will eventually get bored and seek another job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  (Lego Batman voice) “Alfred, get me some Al-fried eggs this morning. And make sure you make a smiley face with bacon.”

  OP: “Right away, sir”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gulf of Make a Report to Apple⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Google and Apple have different versions of maps depending on what your country recognizes.
  For example, it will shows territories claimed by China as part of China for Chinese IP addresses, but may show them as independent territories for other countries that recognize them as such.