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- Comment on Why are podcasters/vloggers suddenly holding tiny mics? 3 days ago:
- Comment on Works every time 3 days ago:
Do I have to ask them? Can I just wait to see if they bring it up? Or at least text them?
- Comment on I've been alive for the entire narrative of the internet and it's crazy to think any of the newer generations will be able to sort it all out for themselves. 4 days ago:
“Wait, explain how Neopets was Scientology again?”
“What was the purpose of the hamster dance?"
Geocities?
- Comment on Unifying the Fediverse 4 days ago:
Facebook attempts to be an all-in-one everything platform for messaging, photos, video, events, marketplace, news, etc. It is a bloated, incoherent mess.
Most people actually prefer dedicated apps for different activities, with each app being better suited to the individual task.
- Comment on YouTube wants me to sign in to prove I'm not a bot and to "protect the community". Yet Google has bots crawling all over for their AI. 4 days ago:
I report dozens of bot accounts on meta every month (actually slowed a bit recently). 80-90% of the time they take no action and leave the account up.
- Comment on How long can someone physically walk for? 5 days ago:
The Appalachian Trail is about 2000 miles and a lot if people walk that. Worth a Google search. There are documentaries, memoirs, plenty of before/after photos, etc.
- Comment on Wikimedia Signs Statement Supporting Digital Rights of Memory Institutions - Internet Archive Europe 5 days ago:
We can hope
- Wikimedia Signs Statement Supporting Digital Rights of Memory Institutions - Internet Archive Europewww.internetarchive.eu ↗Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds 1 week ago:
The fact that helium is such a rare, irreplaceable, and scientifically useful material makes it wild to me that we use it to fill kids’ party balloons.
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 1 week ago:
Also remember that we only had diagnostic tools for adult autism beginning in the 1980s.
The rise of autism diagnosis does not necessarily equal a rise in autism.
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 1 week ago:
Lies, damn lies, and statistics.
- Comment on How do you introduce the Fediverse to other people? 1 week ago:
It’s also a good idea to share content without additional context whenever possible. Just send them a link to an interesting post. The more people get used to seeing interesting content on Lemmy, Masto, etc., the more likely they are to think it’s not “weird” and maybe make an account to comment on something.
- Comment on How do you introduce the Fediverse to other people? 1 week ago:
“Imagine if social media were run by the people who use it instead of corporations selling ads through engagement at all costs.”
- Comment on Religious texts contributed to the em-dashes that chatbots use. 2 weeks ago:
Maybe it’s changed, but my experience with OCR is that it is not great at detecting nuances of punctuation.
- Comment on Religious texts contributed to the em-dashes that chatbots use. 2 weeks ago:
Well, maybe a little. Em dashes and en dashes are pretty standard (and editorially enforced) in newspapers and academic journals. By length, every religious text is eclipsed by news and journal media on a daily basis.
- Comment on I baked eye ball cookies for Halloween 2 weeks ago:
You used too much milk
- Comment on Mom!!!! Can we pls??? 2 weeks ago:
“No, honey we have superfluids at home.”
The superfluid at home: A grainy still image of superfluid helium
- Comment on Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator 2 weeks ago:
Those morph suits from A Scanner Darkly are looking less and less unhinged lately
- Comment on How to download Google Takeout zips? 2 weeks ago:
Also, you will need to do some preprocessing of your files before importing to immich. Something like this to fix the metadata. I can’t remember which one I used, because there are a few out there.
- Comment on How to download Google Takeout zips? 2 weeks ago:
Well, you won’t like it. If you have very fast internet and a managed downloader, then you may be able to get all of the files. Google seems to throttle the speeds to make large takeouts almost impossible to download in the limited time allowed.
For this size of download, your best option is to get a subscription to a compatible service (Dropbox, etc.) To transfer the files, which will happen much more quickly than downloading yourself. Then download the files from that service at your leisure, and then cancel the service.
It’s pretty backwards, but it’s really the best option for large takeouts (over 5 gigs or so).
- Comment on I AM NOT A TOY 2 weeks ago:
It’s not even October yet
- Comment on The song that never ends announces what it is in the first line, then expects us to believe some people started singing it without knowing what it was 2 weeks ago:
Perhaps they did not fully appreciate the implications of their actions. Much as Oppenheimer observed upon the completion if his life’s peak effort, perhaps the people truly did not know what it was.
I am become irk.
- Comment on xkcd #3142: -Style Pizza 2 weeks ago:
Can Elon hurry up and put a chip in my brain so I can erase this knowledge?
- Comment on Self hosted calendar 2 weeks ago:
I’ve found radicale more stable in my implementation, but both are very good and are pretty similar to use.
If you already have NextCloud/OwnCloud it would be a good to use the Calendar that is already built in, but it doesn’t make sense to install those for a calendar when there are better options available.
- Comment on Mastodon is bringing quote posts to the fediverse 3 weeks ago:
FWIW this was always an ideological choice, not a technical one. Masto users saw how quote-posts were used on other platforms to generate harassment, doxxing, dogpiling, etc. and chose not to include the feature. It’s hard to say whether it has had a cooling effect on those, but it seems like most people on Masto consider the benefits to outweigh the costs.
- Comment on Microsoft ends OpenAI exclusivity in Office, adds rival Anthropic 3 weeks ago:
I can see a use case when it comes to search - like you said. If the question is relatively trivial and slightly obscure then a LLM summary is probably adequate (maybe problematic for other reasons).
But this is being marketed in Productivity software! I really and genuinely want to understand why it seems so popular.
- Comment on Microsoft ends OpenAI exclusivity in Office, adds rival Anthropic 3 weeks ago:
That has sorta been my experience so far. LLMs are great at producing output as long as the quality of the output doesn’t really matter. Maybe there are a lot more tasks than I realize where this is the case - in my work there are not many.
- Comment on Microsoft ends OpenAI exclusivity in Office, adds rival Anthropic 3 weeks ago:
What are people actually using AI for in office programs? I spend almost all day working on email, documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Every time in the past that I have tried to use AI tools, it has either failed to perform the task, done it poorly/incorrectly, or taken longer than using traditional tools (requiring multiple prompts, editing and correcting, etc.)
Am I just a dinosaur? Are there people who really use these tools productively?
- Comment on Activity Pub: Can I join a PeerTube or Mastodon server using a Lemmy account? 3 weeks ago:
Also a Mastodon user can follow a Lemmy user.
The replies will federate but not the threads. So for example, the Mastodon user will get notifications about replies to their comments and the Lemmy user will get notifications of the Mastodon user. However, the two users will see the conversion displayed quite differently, especially if there are more than two users in the conversion.
- Comment on First Time Self Hoster- Need help with Radicale 3 weeks ago:
I set up mine through docker and it works great. I’ve switched from other CalDAV / CardDAV hosts and it really is the most stable and reliable.
