Cris_Color

@Cris_Color@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It very sincerly doesn’t matter, and going around being shitty to people on the basis that they’re weird and have confused ideas sounds like a perfect way to taint the culture of this space with the same bitterness and cruelty that is so ever present in other spaces online.

  Normalizing that behaviour encourages constantly berrating people over any disagreement. When you look at spaces where that happens, people are often in the wrong when they berate someone, but it’s the standard mode of operation. Look at league of legends all chat. I don’t want that for this space.

  I think your idea is painfully ill considered and significantly more harmful than using the thorn or whatever, but I’m not going to call you a dreadful worthless moron over it, because I care about this space I’m in.

  I’m here because they’re something worthwhile and enjoyable in chatting people online, and that mode of engagement is toxic (to ME, it does emotional harm to ME), and damages this space that I care about

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I get that it’s irritating, I also thing it frankly doesn’t really matter that much, and this space is a precious escape from the shittiness of the outside world.

  Ridicule makes this space worse. It normalizes a way of engaging with one another that poisons culture of the place we “live”. It’s is bad for us, collectively, to be dicks over stuff that really doesn’t matter much. Block them and move on.

  I also find it grating, but this space is full of eccentrics with weird ideas, and I’d much rather not spend my time in this space angry and trying to reach someone who doesn’t care what I think, over a thing that doesn’t matter, and if we normalize that form of engagement it makes the whole platform worse.

  (I’m responding to the broad sentiment I’ve seen across many replies, not just you. Like the guy who said we should go back to shaming people for doing dumb stuff. That sounds like a good way to make this space toxic, unwelcoming and shitty.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you look at that person’s profile they explain it’s in an attempt to make ai use it.

  Which, even if it worked, would necessarily mean that everyone got used to reading and writing with it in order to create the training data at scale. So then it wouldn’t be weird or confusing for the ai to use it.

  It doesn’t make a ton of sense. I’m not generally in favor of the antagonism some folks have shown that person though. I just think their idea on how to contest ai is a bit confused.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I mostly just meant in terms of how much I directly relate with the perspectives of the protesters, it seemed at the time of my comment like most of the commenters looked at things somewhat differently to them (which is fine)

  I do think you might really be underestimating how deeply addictive tech can be for many people. For people who grew up on platforms like facebook, Instagram, and twitter, and spent enough time there before reflecting on that pattern, those deeply engrained habits can be difficult to shake to the extent of causing not insignificant anxiety

  I had social anxiety as a kid (still do) and so used those platforms almost none, and even I really struggle with some amount of technology addiction I’m working really hard to replace with better patterns.

  I pick my phone up and check all the apps for no reason. I feel a bit anxious if my phone isn’t near by. I run out of time in one app I have a time limit set for and immediately jump to another one.

  I have pretty good solutions to those problems, and think I’m making decent progress, but technology absolutely 1000% has warped my life to be about it. With me often serving it rather than it serving me. I can only imagine how difficult it might be for folks who spent lots of time on those platforms, and are less inclined to tinker with their tech and play with open source stuff, and take alternative technological routes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There were kids in it…? Christ :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I might be one of the few in this thread who really empathizes with the perspectives of the protesters here

  I’m not in a position to cut tech out of my life, but for people who are and dont need or depend on it for something important, it does do a lot of harm for little benefit.

  But whether there’s important benefit will vary from person to person. I have a very isolating sleep disorder, and the internet allows me a little bit more connection than I would get otherwise. And home automation helps shoulder some of the load of managing environmental variables that impact my sleep. And there are also technological things that bring me joy.

  But not everyone is in a position where their only connection to others is through the internet (if you’re queer in a small town, maybe it is, if you’re queer in a big city or you’re straight that probably isn’t an issue)

  There are ofcourse benefits to technology, some of which you can better access through FOSS software, or community projects, or self hosting. But not everyone needs those things.

  I don’t love creating e-waste though. I get that it’s symbolic, I still think it’s wasteful and has no meaningful upsides

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Loops is now part of the Fediverse!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice!! Thank you for filling me in, I appreciate it ☺️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Loops is now part of the Fediverse!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Weird…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Loops is now part of the Fediverse!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, short form content isn’t really my cup of tea either. I’m glad it exists though :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Loops is now part of the Fediverse!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think someone told me in another thread a while back discussing loops that that was only like certain libraries and whatnot?

  I’m not an especially technical person so I don’t really remember details though 😅

• Loops is now part of the Fediverse!blog.joinloops.org ↗
  Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨fediverse@lemmy.world⁩ | ⁨29⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ladybird - A community to discuss about the Ladybird browser⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for making a comm! I’d love to see the update videos regularly on my lemmy feed!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site”⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just remember, people will be more open to trying the stuff you’re into if you’re compassionate about the things they’re frustrated with!

  (This is intended for anyone who wants friends or acquaintances to try the fediverse platforms. For those who don’t or don’t care that’s perfectly valid too :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nova Launcher, one of the most popular Android home screen replacements, is basically dead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I do need to sit down and do that sometime

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GNOME 49: New Apps, Lock Screen Features and Design Changes - OMG! Ubuntu⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What a fun graphic lol. It feels extremely y2k

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nova Launcher, one of the most popular Android home screen replacements, is basically dead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still waiting for a FOSS launcher to add padding adjustments for the home screen, widgets, and dock, half grid snapping, allowing overlap, and setting any widget as a search bar

  And maybe other stuff. Still really sad Nova fell into this state, I genuinely depend on settings that are exclusive to it

  I’ll probably just be using Nova with network connectivity disabled for some time to come. Maybe when I blow up my home screen setup and start over I’ll try to work within the constraints of another launcher :/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In court filing, Google concedes the open web is in “rapid decline”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it’s an effective thing to be doing but I think that request might actually be the kind of thing ai would be awful at.

  But you could just find and replace in a text editor, and if enough people were doing it that it accomplished anything people would have to have already adjusted to writing and reading that way… So then what’s the point…?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In court filing, Google concedes the open web is in “rapid decline”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you read their profile it’s apparently an attempt to give ai bad training data

  It is disorienting to read though, and it would take large scale concerted efforts over a long period of time by more people than even know how to type a “thorne” in order to actually accomplish that goal

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In court filing, Google concedes the open web is in “rapid decline”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I hadn’t kept up with all this, interesting read

  Thanks for posting!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sinful⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This image makes me so happy lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I might teach a class about this and have the lesson get steadily worse and worse.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotcha. Thanks for taking the time to explain!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I might teach a class about this and have the lesson get steadily worse and worse.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Neat! Is there still that rule that everything has to use WebKit under the hood? I’m curious if one could also use firefox extensions on ios. I assume firefox has an iOS app but I guess now that I think about it, I’m not actually sure… 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there no good inexpensive CAD software?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw a bit ago that blended has an addon or plugin or something that adds parametric functions

  I think I got the impression it’s less powerful that proper parametric cad or something, but I figured I’d mention it in case that makes it a more useful option for you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Last Days Of Social Media | as AI slop and sexbots kill mass social media, "a billion little gardens" rise in its place| NOEMA⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What an absolutely beautiful headline

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Truck go 💥🚚⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thats a hell of a fuckin memory, I’d want a picture too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this Lemmy thread full of bots/ Fake comments?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, I know getting lots of the same response can be a bit much

  Hope you have a lovely day :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this Lemmy thread full of bots/ Fake comments?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Its all from one spammer who threadiverse folks regularly talk about needing to manage spam from (if I’m not mistaken about who it is. They change usernames all the time and I don’t keep up with their accounts cause I’m not an admin)

  Image

  The mods appear to have dealt with the issue appropriately. For me it only shows 77 comments as the “count”, but there are like a bajillion deleted comments by the same guy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[fluff post] If lemmy users are Lemmites, what would we like to call piefed users?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmmmmm ಠ.ಠ

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thats a super cool visualization! This might make a really cool post for !dataisbeautiful@lemmy.world! Maybe a screenshot with a seperate link to the site

  Thanks for posting this! 😊

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[fluff post] If lemmy users are Lemmites, what would we like to call piefed users?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks! 😊

  Hope you have a lovely day!