Infynis
@Infynis@midwest.social
- Comment on Human Intelligence Sharply Declining 4 days ago:
50501 is a national protest movement here in the US. There is an individual chapter for every state. The chapter for my state has a ton of people involved in my city, and one of the things we’re doing is fostering community through events like block parties.
Block parties are not “unsanctioned” lol
I don’t know if they’re a thing in other countries, but here in the US, it’s become an official type of event. We work with the city, and close down streets to set up on the pavement, temporarily converting the road into a social space for everyone around. Local businesses come and do stalls, food trucks set up, local musicians perform, it’s great!
- Comment on Human Intelligence Sharply Declining 5 days ago:
If your community is poorly connected, help out! Host a block party, set up a book swap, there’s all kinds of options. That’s a big focus of our local 50501 community in Michigan: restoring the bonds that have been worn away over the years by capitalists.
I strongly disagree with the majority of your last post though. It sounds like you’re determined to close your eyes and ears to the people around you
- Comment on YouTube, Amazon and Meta sign up to sponsor White House Easter Egg Roll 6 days ago:
YouTube continuing to advertise to children while claiming otherwise
- Comment on Human Intelligence Sharply Declining 1 week ago:
…doesn’t it usually imply…something you have in common?
Yes. That you live in the same area. You have the same elected representatives, you use the same public services, you shop at the same stores, you live with the same stakes. That’s why people say you need to get involved in your community. Whether or not you acknowledge it, you’re part of it
- Comment on If all the money in the world can only make you look as good as elon musk or jeff bezos there is truly some things money can't buy. 1 week ago:
It’s the Emperor’s New Clothes. Their perceptions of reality are so warped, that they think they look great
- Comment on Human Intelligence Sharply Declining 1 week ago:
Interesting. Well, community is a common word lol
It’s usually used to refer, non-specifically, to people that live around you. You’ll see it in places like “community gardens” or “community centers”. The usage on the Internet is pretty recent, linguistically, obviously lol
- Comment on ‘An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force’: What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers - Aftermath 2 weeks ago:
The other people interviewed answer those questions if you keep reading
“It really weighed on the creativity of my role, and again, spat in the face of my expertise”, they say. “It wasn’t just this though; the tool itself lacks the intent, context, and limitations of what we’re doing. It doesn’t have other aspects of the project, influences, references, or personal experiences in the back of its mind, because it doesn’t have a mind. Whenever we design something for a game, it’s drawn from somewhere, influenced by other things, and filtered through our own experiences as a human. These AI ideas lose ALL of that…
“What follows from these discussions is me explaining why, usually over hours rather than minutes, that these tools have no place in a professional game development pipeline or production and actually hinder the development of visuals”, Francis says. “I also find myself explaining to them how the iteration and ‘idea’ phase of a project is where the best stuff happens, how exploring things through artistic labor is where your best ideas come to fruition, and why would we want an AI (that we don’t even own) to do that for us with art that isn’t ours to use?”
- Comment on Every time you eat, you're trusting many strangers to not have tampered with your food 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Black Mirror’s pessimism porn won’t lead us to a better future | Louis Anslow 2 weeks ago:
I don’t like Black Mirror. I think it’s generally lazy and sensational. But what this person is saying is not a valid criticism, it’s like saying the Bee Movie would have been better if there had been an extended car chase. Louis doesn’t want to improve the show, they want something else entirely.
If you want a contemporary forward-thinking scifi, check out author Becky Chambers!
- Comment on How do I securely host Jellyfin? (Part 2) 2 weeks ago:
I work for an ISP, and this is a common practice among my peers
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 2 weeks ago:
People read the subject line, assuming it’s not longer than about seven words, and then the first 30%, and last 15% of your email, in my experience. You can increase this by adding line breaks and bullets. In my experience, the best responses come from a short paragraph, followed by a couple bullet points, then a couple sentences, then your salutation/signature. I try not to write anything longer than that.
- Comment on YSK: If the frontpage constantly looks like the same 5 - 8 posts, try sorting by "Hot". 2 weeks ago:
Top - Past 6 Hours is what I prefer. Keeps it fresh, but filters out a little of the spam
- Comment on Should we boycott games with loot boxes? 2 weeks ago:
Maybe I’m just an old man now, but it’s been years since I was interested in a game with lootboxes. I think the last one I played was Overwatch, back when it originally came out
- Comment on Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York 2 weeks ago:
We have these in Lansing MI too! Part of the Satanic Panic back in the 80s involved kids playing D&D down in parts of the steam tunnels under MSU, which, I’m told, is much harder to do now unfortunately
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 weeks ago:
I have procrastinated the switch this far, I’ll be damned if my laziness gives in now! Lol
- Comment on Instagram Is Full Of Openly Available AI-Generated Child Abuse Content. 3 weeks ago:
… Meta’s security systems were unable to identify…
I think you mean incentivized to ignore
- Comment on Day 261 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 3 weeks ago:
As far as I know, that’s pretty much stuck around. I think it’s a game where you kind of need to embrace the jank
- Comment on Bernstein Posits That A 10 Percent Baseline US Tariff On Raw Semiconductors Is "Not Going To Do All That Much," But PCs, Servers, And Smartphones Are About To Get Pricier By ~40 Percent 3 weeks ago:
Now we’re going to have to go north for medicine and graphics cards
- Comment on Is it rude to reply using English under posts in a language you can’t speak? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, this is the way. It’s better to let the other person do the translating, rather than presenting maybe your ideas by using a translator. It would be like running everything you post through an AI first. Best to give as much intent as possible
- Comment on Split Keyboards Are Superior And The Reason I’m The Writer I Am Today. 4 weeks ago:
Fuck, I don’t want to be a keyboard pervert, but these are some good points
- Comment on Texas bill would make identifying as transgender a felony punishable by jail 1 month ago:
Yeah, I think it’s this. It’s cope to try to make a normal thing be seen as disgusting, so whatever actual disgusting shit they’re doing, which always seems to be pedophelia, doesn’t look so bad in contrast. It’s like a preemptive both sides
- Comment on I am at a loss on words 1 month ago:
Yeah, it took me a long time to get this, because I was too impressed by the design lol
- Comment on Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump CDC Website, Are Hosting It in Europe 1 month ago:
Data preservationists are beating back the coming dark age. They’re heroes.
- Comment on The US Is Considering a TP-Link Router Ban—Should You Worry? 1 month ago:
It looks just like the Tik Tok ban to me. Racist/Nationalist nonsense that doesn’t solve the actual underlying problem, which is lack of regulation in the US
- Comment on The US Is Considering a TP-Link Router Ban—Should You Worry? 1 month ago:
“the single greatest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
- Comment on When it's driving you crazy because you can't open the window 2 months ago:
Cropping a farside comic to poorly remove the signature is a new level of shitpost lol
- Comment on Autoplay videos are cancer to me 2 months ago:
I don’t know what app they’re from, but I’ve definitely been sent videos that are the way you described
- Comment on Morning Blast 3 months ago:
Working from home, I regularly clock in on the toilet
- Comment on Palworld Lawsuit 3 months ago:
Every game borrows from other games’ ideas and mechanics
It’s not only games, this is just straight-up how art works. Culture develops over time. Of course capitalism had to get a middleman in there lol
- Comment on AI-generated phishing emails are getting very good at targeting executives 3 months ago:
Yes, a pleb that clicked a link that brought the org to an expensive screeching halt for weeks, would have been fired