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- Comment on Blackboards were the OG dark mode 1 week ago:
I couldn’t find any reliable source, but the most convincing idea I read was to reduce contrast and glare issues between the white chalk and its background. The green would reflect more light than the black, reducing the contrast and the glare. Also, the original blackboards were made of black slate, but then they became synthetic which made it easier to change the color.
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 1 week ago:
Scarcisoft?
- Comment on Sony AI patent will see PlayStation games play themselves when players are stuck 1 week ago:
I wanted robots to do my chores but instead they are taking my job and my hobbies!
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 1 week ago:
I feel there’s some marketing conspiracy with the “office” term. It looks like they have been planning to make it disappear because it is uncool for some new marketing genius or it reduces the target markets, I guess. So they first attached a new term, 365, as a transition, and now they dropped the office while keeping the 365 so recent users can still make the link. The AI bubble was maybe just a convenient excuse to advance the plan.
- Comment on World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t know Xbox was so low compared to Playstation, no wonder there’s rumor Microsoft will drop console making.
- Comment on If you save someone's life and then you save her life again next year, how many lives did you save? 3 weeks ago:
If they caught some babies or other parasite in the meantime, you may have saved much more lives.
- Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox 4 weeks ago:
Can it survive if Firefox goes down?
- Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox 4 weeks ago:
Ladybird is an open-source web browser developed by the Ladybird Browser Initiative, a nonprofit organization focused on development of the browser.[1] It is licensed under the BSD 2-Clause License.[2] An alpha release is planned in 2026,[3][4] beta release is expected in 2027, and a stable release for general public in 2028.[5] Originally a component of SerenityOS, it is now being developed as a standalone project.[6] The initiative is funded entirely through donations, with Cloudflare, FUTO, Shopify, and 37signals among its sponsors.
Ladybird uses a new browser engine called LibWeb that is being created from scratch by the development team. Unlike SerenityOS, it will also use other open source libraries for development.[2] An ad blocking feature is planned.[7] Unlike most new web browsers, Ladybird does not rely on Chromium or Firefox and uses its own rendering engine and JavaScript engine.[8]
- Comment on Denmark wants to ban VPNs to unlock foreign, illegal streams – and experts are worried 4 weeks ago:
I think they always have used this tactic, there’s “socialist” in Nazi, they are just highly specific with who they want to socialize with.
- Comment on builder.ai has been tricking customers and investors for eight years – selling an advanced code-writing AI that, it turns out, is actually an Indian software farm employing 700 human developers 5 weeks ago:
There’s also a lot of human labor to build LLMs, I was surprised. From exploited African data labelers who have to shift through the most horrific things the web has to offer and remain traumatized for life, to highly paid domain experts who work on improving final results so it ends up looking like a simulation of them.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 1 month ago:
There was a lot of ML bullshit from the big data bubble ~ 2010 and before ChatGPT, together with all of the fuss about data scientists. But now it’s a 100 times worse.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 1 month ago:
The link doesn’t work for me.
Even if the initial intention is positive, I think this degree of dependency on external services is not realistic even if mega corps were not as bad as they are currently.
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 1 month ago:
Could be that unusual characters make the comment less readable.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Many people don’t want to get involved with PC building and just want something as convenient as a console to play their Steam games with good performance on a big screen. This can be priced quite above what a nerd would be able to build by himself with PCPartPicker.
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 1 month ago:
There are conventional definitions of the poverty line. In France, it is defined by the national institute of statistics as:
The poverty threshold is conventionally set at 60% of the population’s median standard of living. It corresponds to a disposable income of €1,288 per month for a single person and €2,705 for a couple with two children under 14 years old. www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/5759045
- Comment on The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing" 2 months ago:
I looked for the original article, abstract:
Human capital—encompassing cognitive skills and personality traits—is critical for labor market success, yet the personality component remains difficult to measure at scale. Leveraging advances in artificial intelligence and comprehensive LinkedIn data, we extract the Big 5 personality traits from facial images of 96,000 MBA graduates, and demonstrate that this novel" Photo Big 5" predicts school rank, compensation, job seniority, industry choice, job transitions, and career advancement. Using administrative records from top-tier MBA programs, we find that the Photo Big 5 exhibits only modest correlations with cognitive measures like GPA and standardized test scores, yet offers comparable incremental predictive power for labor outcomes. Unlike traditional survey-based personality measures, the Photo Big 5 is readily accessible and potentially less susceptible to manipulation, making it suitable for wide adoption in academic research and hiring processes. However, its use in labor market screening raises ethical concerns regarding statistical discrimination and individual autonomy.
The PDF is downloadable here: scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citatio…
I don’t have the time nor the expertise to read everything to understand how they take into account the bias that good looking white men with educated parents are way more likely to succeed at life.
- Comment on The people who protest against the Palestinian Genocide would be the same people who protested against the Holocaust. 2 months ago:
Resistance networks who hid and smuggled targets out of reach at the very least.
- Comment on China releases 'UBIOS' standard to replace UEFI — Huawei-backed BIOS firmware replacement charges China's domestic computing goals 2 months ago:
Does that mean I will have more choice in which surveillance agency I want to be spied by?
- Comment on eel butts 2 months ago:
I heard eels love neck kisses.
- Comment on No One Wants A $100 GTA 6, Analysts Say 2 months ago:
In before, $99 and it sells like hotcakes. The success of Apple shows people will eat the price hike given enough hype.
- Comment on Is there a community dedicated to anime where sexualization of characters is minimum and strictly no sexualization of minors (or minor looking "adults")? 3 months ago:
Faye/Cowboy Bebop to actually be on the more sexualized side.
Fair, I haven’t watched it in a long time, but by checking again I agree. At least her identity and design are clearly adult and she’s a strong core character, not just fan service. To be clear I am not in favor of zero sexuality, it’s part of human culture and it can be intelligently used for the scenario. My problem is when it becomes a creepy commercial trope that feeds social issues, especially for minor looking characters.
From what I saw, Kill La Kill crosses the border too much for me. She’s fully sexualized and she is a 17 year old minor. I don’t think the parody label dismissed the issue. It wouldn’t cost much to make her an adult, so why didn’t they? The scenario would be ruined, or the creepy commercial trope would get weaker?
I don’t know the other ones. - Submitted 3 months ago to meta@ani.social | 13 comments
- Comment on I landed in another toxic workplace after quitting a previous one. What would you do in this scenario? (Open to all suggestions) 3 months ago:
I guess your job market as a scientist is even worth than for IT engineers right now. So I would keep looking for a new job while keeping my head down at the current one until I can safely secure a new one. There’s also a possibility that your problems at 2 months will get better after 6 months once you get to know all your colleagues better.
- Comment on Deloitte will refund Australian government for AI hallucination-filled report 3 months ago:
It will keep happening, LLMs are the perfect tools for those huge meat grinding consulting companies, their industry is all about looking good, not factual quality, just like LLMs.
- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 3 months ago:
Is it sold in EU with the face collection?
- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 3 months ago:
This cannot happen in EU with the current GDPR, they would need to request and receive consent prior to collecting the face.
- Comment on Taiwan refuses to move half of U.S.-bound chip production to American shores — trade discussion to be focused on Section 232 investigation for preferential deal on semiconductors 3 months ago:
Not sure which is which, it seems to be applicable to both.
- Comment on Imgur blocks access to UK users after proposed regulatory fine 3 months ago:
If it’s like GDPR, it applies to the citizens currently residing in the country, the location of the company or servers do not matter. Now if Imgur doesn’t have anyone there, no business happening and the website is already blocked, I don’t think they have much leverage.
- Comment on geography is neat 3 months ago:
It’s the current state of confusion floating above the country.
- Comment on Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms 4 months ago:
Isn’t the phone less private than an encrypted app?