Neve8028
@Neve8028@lemm.ee
- Comment on Legendary exit for a legendary creator 10 months ago:
The closest I can find is that he just seems like such a smug asshole.
Check out Tom Scott Plus! He challenges himself a lot on that channel and pushes himself out of his comfort zone! I think it’s a great display of his humility and shows him outside of his usual role as more of a narrator on his main channel.
Some of my favorites from the plus channel are the episodes where he gives his producer a tattoo, overcomes his fear of rollercoasters, and tries to learn wrestling.
- Comment on Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads 10 months ago:
If they’re really just after data at all costs, they could easily spin up an instance that has no apparent link to threads and federate secretly. I agree with other arguments about not federating with them but idk, all these data privacy arguments against federating with threads are so dumb. If they want it, they’ll get it because getting it is so absurdly easy.
- Comment on Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads 10 months ago:
Not sure what you mean. They can already pull any public data on lemmy, as can anyone else.
- Comment on OK, so it wasn't Windows 10, but... 11 months ago:
This meme will now be my desktop image.
- Comment on They use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust. 1 year ago:
The Scots guy is a better example, imo. Someone who was trying to contribute in a positive manner but filled the wiki with complete gibberish.
- Comment on They use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust. 1 year ago:
Yeah, it’s important to remember that wikipedia, itself, isn’t a source, it’s a summary of different sources. It’s a great resource to find sources and get an overview of a topic, though.
- Comment on YouTube cracking on ad blockers. 1 year ago:
The vast majority of content uploaded is never going to make them any money. They get free content but hosting it is incredibly expensive.
- Comment on This is a repost dont upvote - u/Jarfil 1 year ago:
Nate Bargatze had a pretty good joke about the same premise:
- Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish 1 year ago:
Idk I never had issues with that. My recommendations are pretty good and relevant generally.
- Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish 1 year ago:
There’s still an enormous amount of great content on youtube. You don’t need to watch the commercial shit.
- Comment on Apple will no longer fix the $17,000 gold Apple Watch 1 year ago:
It seems like you could support backward compatibility
Good one lol. I’m sure apple will think about it haha
- Comment on Phones should have FM radio again 1 year ago:
DACs in phones these days are totally fine these days. There really isn’t any need for an external one unless you need to drive higher impedance cans. Quality-wise, they’re totally fine.
- Comment on Phones should have FM radio again 1 year ago:
No lol. It all gets converted to an analog signal to drive the headphones. There’s no difference in fidelity between 1/8" and USB-C. It’s literally the exact same signal.
- Comment on Why aren't advertisers (Microsoft, Facebook, Google) held responsible for allowing scammy adverts? 1 year ago:
As much as I don’t love advertising, it’s mainly just the big corporations that wouldn’t care about a bit of a price lift. Small businesses will be hit disproportionately.
- Comment on Apple removes app created by Andrew Tate 1 year ago:
Some censorship is good tbh.
- Comment on Google Flat-Out Refuses to Bargain With Workers, Prompting YouTube Music Strike 1 year ago:
You’ve basically said the same thing over and over about four or five times now. And been shut down on the facts of it every single time. Aren’t you getting a little tired of that?
Yes, I am getting tired. You consistently argue against the pretty inoffensive and commonly understood arguments I have made with completely irrelevant points. So I’ll say it one more time and see if it can finally sink in. If someone wants to get into making videos, they’ll go to youtube for better or for worse. I’m not arguing about the pros and cons of Google’s influence, I’m saying that the reality is that youtube has enabled a huge amount of people to monetize their video creation and build an audience in a way that other competitors haven’t caught up with. If you’re arguing that the landscape for video creation and publishing on the internet is the same as it was before youtube rose to prevalence, then you’re just dead wrong. Sorry.
Also, you do understand that youtube was more successful than vimeo before google’s acquisition, right? Their success is kind of the whole reason google backed them.
- Comment on Google Flat-Out Refuses to Bargain With Workers, Prompting YouTube Music Strike 1 year ago:
Yes, but the backing by Google turned it into a viable career path for many creators. Name a single creator who posts to vimeo as their full time job. I’m not saying that youtube’s rise in popularity was necessarily good or ethical, I’m just saying that it is objectively better for creators over the other options.
- Comment on Google Flat-Out Refuses to Bargain With Workers, Prompting YouTube Music Strike 1 year ago:
I’m not saying people didn’t share videos beforehand, but youtube created a platform that allowed people to do it more easily, be discovered more easily, and actually make a decent living through it. The internet landscape, especially in respect to influencers or content creators, is entirely different now than it was in the 90’s.
- Comment on Google Flat-Out Refuses to Bargain With Workers, Prompting YouTube Music Strike 1 year ago:
make so video posters can’t delete comments
That would be a complete trainwreck. There are already loads of spam accounts but it would be so much worse if creators couldn’t filter them out.
- Comment on Google Flat-Out Refuses to Bargain With Workers, Prompting YouTube Music Strike 1 year ago:
Creators would exist without the platform. They always have.
Not sure what you mean with this. Youtube has allowed anyone with a camera and an internet connection to put content out in the world. It was completely different back before youtube existed.
- Comment on Grisham, Martin join authors suing OpenAI: “There is nothing fair about this” 1 year ago:
Tech bros have a boner for LLM AIs. They don’t have anything to lose from the development of these AIs, so they don’t seem to understand the concerns of people who do.
On top of this, it’s becoming increasingly clear that many tech bros have never been genuinely moved by a piece of art whether it’s visual or written so they genuinely don’t understand that AI art is devoid of any real emotional impact. AI art just throws together cliches. It reminds me of that shitty AI generated conversation between Plato and Bill Gates when were so many tech bros talking about how “inspiring” it was.
Don’t get me wrong, I love these AI tools coming out but they’re so over hyped sometimes.
- Comment on Grisham, Martin join authors suing OpenAI: “There is nothing fair about this” 1 year ago:
Fair enough, I guess
- Comment on Grisham, Martin join authors suing OpenAI: “There is nothing fair about this” 1 year ago:
Why would that matter literally at all?
- Comment on OpenAI confirms that AI writing detectors don’t work 1 year ago:
Where it gets really challenging is that LLMs can take the assignment input and generate an answer that is actually more educational for the student than what they learned d in class.
That’s if the LLM is right. If you don’t know the material, you have no idea if what it’s spitting out is correct or not. That’s especially dangerous once you get to undergrad level when learning about more specialized subjects. Also, how can reading a paper be more informative than doing research and reading relevant sources? The paper is just the summary of the research.
and get a level of engagement equal to a private tutor for every student.
Eh. Even assuming it’s always 100% correct, there’s so much more value to talking to a knowledgeable human being about the subject. There’s so much more nuance to in person conversations than speaking with an AI.
Look, again, I do think that LLMs can be great resources and should be taken advantage of. Where we disagree is that I think the point of the assignment is to gain the skills to do research, analysis, and generally think critically about the material. You seem to think that the goal is to hand something in.
- Comment on OpenAI confirms that AI writing detectors don’t work 1 year ago:
It can definitely be a good tool for studying or for organizing your thoughts but it’s also easily abused. School is there to teach you how to take in and analyze information and chat AIs can basically do that for you (whether or not their analysis is correct is another story). I’ve heard a lot of people compare it to the advent of the calculator but I think that’s wrong. A calculator spits out an objective truth and will always say the same thing. Chat GPT can take your input and add analysis and context in a way that circumvents the point of the assignment which is to figure out what you personally learned.
- Comment on Mastodon is Rewinding the Clock on Social Media — in a Good Way 1 year ago:
There are plenty alternatives which is great. I think it’s just an absurd take to bash a solo dev who is working on an app as their full time job for trying to make money.
- Comment on Mastodon is Rewinding the Clock on Social Media — in a Good Way 1 year ago:
This is such an unbelievably naive take. People’s time is worth something. Relying just on donations from a small percentage of users here and there is not going to cut it for someone who is developing the software full time.
- Comment on Coming to you soon... 1 year ago:
There’s no shot youtube will be dethroned any time too. Hosting that amount of video is absurdly expensive.
- Comment on Scientists reconstruct Pink Floyd song by listening to people’s brainwaves 1 year ago:
I guess you could say that but brains are orders of magnitude more complex than any computer. Saying that they’re “simply” organic computers is a huge understatement.
- Comment on Compared to fountain pens and ballpoints, "Sharpies" are actually the least sharp pen type. 1 year ago:
It seems that the etymology isn’t on Wikipedia. I’d assume the name is in reference to sharp lines that you can write or draw with it.