TootSweet
@TootSweet@lemmy.world
- Comment on I want a community to exist like 4chan greentext here 5 hours ago:
One could make a community named “Anon Posting” or something, lock it so only a mod can post, and then make the sole mod a bot that would post anything it got via DM (probably after automoding, rate limiting, etc) to said community.
I do think it’s a good idea for the bot to keep a log in case it gets abused for sufficiently evil purposes. One could add some extra functionality to the bot that would give identifying information about the poster to instance admins on demand (via DM), but I think instance admins would have pretty easy access to all DMs made to the bot, along with identifying information anyway. (Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong on that.)
Also, the bot could totally delete its logs and with them the identities of all posters after a while. Maybe a month?
And, of course, this wouldn’t be ironclad anonymity. But it would keep identities secret from anyone but the bot maintainer and instance admins.
Yeah, sounds like a pretty cool concept. Not volunteering to write such a bot (at least any time soon) or anything, but I support it.
- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 10 hours ago:
Roughly in order of how much I enjoy them from most to least. (Not that the later ones are bad. Just that they’re more low-key.)
Mindustry is amazing, but as I mentioned above, really really addictive. (The commercial game it’s most often compared to is Factorio.)
Then there’s Shattered Pixel Dungeon. Amazing dungeon crawler.
Endless Sky is a great space mercantile sim.
Luanti is a Minecraft clone.
Unciv is a turn-based civilization development game.
And if you’re wanting to do emulation, there’s Lemuroid. Also, EasyRPG, an engine for playing RPG Maker games like Yume Nikki. Oh, FreeDoom is a great implementation of Doom for Android.
Those are the ones that’ll keep your attention for a good long time. There are tons of much simpler games that are still fun like Frozen Bubble and Hyper Rogue. And plenty of games that I haven’t really gotten into very much but that people really seem to like Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.
Man. There are a lot now that I’m listing them out. Lol.
- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 11 hours ago:
Jesus. People get big mad about this stuff.
The problem isn’t mobile games, and it’s not console games, and it’s not PC games. It’s the profit motive and corporations and enshittification. And there’s plenty of that going on in games for mobile, console, and PC. (And, for that matter, TTRPGs. And it’s not like the 300 different collectors editions of Monopoly released every year aren’t enshittification at play.)
Addictive gotcha mechanics are shitty when they’re tied to microtransactions. Even when not tied to microtransactions, I think they can still be shitty depending on the specific circumstances, and it’s definitely wise to responsibly manage your (and/or your children’s) engagement to not cause other problems in your(/their) life. But is addictiveness in a video game inherently a bad thing? I don’t think so. All games cause dopamine squirts whether it’s Pong or a slot machine. That’s kinda the point of games. There are plenty of Open Source games out there that cause big addictive dopamine squirts. (Mindustry, anyone?) And such games aren’t made to milk whales. They’re made because someone wanted to create and play such a game.
Don’t be talking too much smack about shovelware! Low-quality games create their own vibes. Some are accidental masterpieces. Both of my favorite two YouTube gaming content creators do a lot of their content on really low-quality games. This series got me to buy Radiation Island and I had a great time playing it. And here is a great video on all the shitty official games based on the movie Avatar.
“Gaming is as much about socializing as playing” is an awesome outlook to have on gaming! Addictiveness in games can be… concerning. But sometimes particular games are the key by which your kid can be involved in peer group. I’m not saying that automatically trumps any downsides and you should let your kid spend $∞ on Fortnight skins or whatever. But I think probably in most cases a balancing act is superior to a hard “yes” or “no”.
I should probably specify that I’m admittedly an old fart who doesn’t know shit about mobile gaming. (The only mobile games I play are Open Source ones on F-Droid.) And the only modern console I have is a Switch, and I don’t have any plans to get one soon. I’ve played a lot of Breath of the Wild, though. And a fair amount of Tears of the Kingdom.
Some final thoughts:
- Open Source gaming is awesome.
- The way they’re doing anti-cheat on PC is fucked-up.
- But so is the way they lock down consoles and phones.
- Hack your games. Hack your consoles. (If you don’t hack it, you don’t own it.) Get your kids interested in hacking stuff.
- …responsibly, of course.
- Play games with your kids! (And not just the ones you want to play.)
- Comment on Bitch shape attack 13 hours ago:
Who’s going to tell them about prions?
- Comment on All hail the immortal cleanse 3 days ago:
A salamander. I see what you did there.
- Comment on The Computer-Science Bubble Is Bursting 6 days ago:
Artificial intelligence has proved to be even more valuable as a writer of computer code than as a writer of words.
I call bullshit.
- Comment on Disney's AI Paradox: Pursues OpenAI Deal While Suing Rival Firms 1 week ago:
Disney is no stranger to hypocracy of that sort. Look at them making their billions off of the public domain (Snow White, Cinderella, Aladin, The Little Mermaid, need I go on?) while lobbying heavily for longer copyright terms to keep works they made from being similarly adapted.
- Comment on devinetly organic... 1 week ago:
Nah, that’s an organizer. You’re thinking of the aircraft that flies by flapping its wings.
- Comment on You know what I'll do? 1 week ago:
What’s the deal with moths? Am I out of the loop and it’s just the new beans/stroganoff/poop-holding?
- Comment on Good luck, mom 2 weeks ago:
My grandmother was similarly god-like at the NES Dr. Mario.
- Comment on "workers" is a dehumanizing term 2 weeks ago:
I gave you an upvote.
I could see a case for using “working person” instead of “worker.” It’s definitely not the sort of thing that’s agreed to be exploitative language (yet?) though.
What I do for sure bristle at a lot more is referring to people as “resources.” Like, when planning a project, discussing how many “resources” can be “put on the project”. Definitely feels dehumanizing.
- Comment on devinetly organic... 2 weeks ago:
No, that’s a U.S. state in the north-west of the contiguous 48.
- Comment on Microsoft wants a version of USB-C that “just works” consistently across all PCs 3 weeks ago:
Obligatory:
- Comment on This guy's taillights made my day. 3 weeks ago:
So he won intentionally. ;)
- Comment on This guy's taillights made my day. 3 weeks ago:
Failing? I call that a win.
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 3 weeks ago:
“Oh, am I supposed to kiss it?”
- Comment on It turns out you can train AI models without copyrighted material 3 weeks ago:
the LLM’s dataset uses only public domain and openly licensed material.
I’m curious about the specifics of all this. Probably the most well-known “openly licensed” sort of licenses (aside from licenses specifically intended only for software) are the Creative Commons family of licenses, all of which require attribution. So then the question would become “if you’ve used any of my CC-licensed content in training this model, am I attributed somewhere?” If so, surely the list is extremely long. Or maybe Creative Commons wasn’t “openly”-enough licensed and they excluded all CC-licensed content from the training set.
Also, the public domain is definitely strongly biased toward very old content. You’d think a lot of the answers you got from that LLM would be based on some very outdated information. Maybe they specifically limited it to (or at least adjusted weights or something to make it prefer) recent materials in the public domain.
But then the article also says:
It performed about as well as Meta’s similarly sized Llama 2-7B from 2023.
On top of all this, I have to say that the LLM sphere really is just scams piled on top of scams, so it’s fairly probable either that it doesn’t perform anywhere near as well as Llama 2-7B and they’re just lying or that actually Llama 2-7B (and indeed all LLMs as well) is just total shit too.
- Comment on Seanut Putter Jandwich 4 weeks ago:
Now listen here you little shit
- Comment on I designed and made a thing! 4 weeks ago:
I never would have thought to print them at an angle like that, but thinking it through, I bet relative to other obvious-ish options, it a) improved part strength (particularly along the axes where you most need strength), b) saved a bit of material, c) improved bed adhesion. Smart move in general. I’ll have to keep that approach in mind for my own prints.
- Comment on How to fix my pants so I don't look like I have a boner when I sit down? 5 weeks ago:
I’m not sure I’ve ever worn a pair of pants that didn’t do that. That’s just something pants do. To the point that nobody is going to see that and think you’ve got a boner. (Unless you do, of course, but even then probably only if you’re in a position that wouldn’t ordinarily produce that wrinkle/bulge or your boner is visible in a different spot than that wrinkle/bulge or something.) I wouldn’t worry about it. Even if you do some fancy tailoring to address it, I think what you’ll end up with will look worse than it would if you did nothing.
- Comment on If it ain’t broke… 5 weeks ago:
He finally flipped it inside out last year.
- Comment on Bitcoin Pizza Day (May 22) 5 weeks ago:
Blockchain BS? Really?
- Comment on Heat setting magnets is bad. 5 weeks ago:
The way I’ve embedded magnets in prints in the past was to:
- Design a magnet-shaped (plus like 0.2mm of clearance) cavity into the print, but leave it completely “closed off” to where it’s “inside” the print.
- But only “closed off” by like 2 or 3 layers (I was printing at 0.2mm layer height for this particular print).
- Use “pause at layer” functionality in my slicer (I used Cura at the time) to pause just before the first layer that would “close off” that cavity.
- Start the print and when it pauses, drop the magnet into the cavity.
Yes, I was a bit nervous about the magnet potentially jumping up and sticking to some ferromagnetic metal that’s part of the print head, but that didn’t happen in my case. YMMV, I guess.
I guess theoretically it could also be the case that the heat from printing could weaken the magnet, but again, that wasn’t an issue in my case.
- Comment on Improving the Fediverse to allow it to actually take over the social media space. 1 month ago:
Then make the “one true frontpage” for Lemmy or whatever (implement ActivityPub, maybe borrowing some code from the Lemmy codebase itself, or kindof making a fork of Lemmy), and if it’s good, it’ll be used. If not, it won’t.
But then, it might well fall victim to this phenomenon:
- Comment on We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. 1 month ago:
as it gets better
Bold assumption.
- Comment on Dinner is ready 1 month ago:
I’ve never related to trypophobia at all before just now. Now I get it.
- Comment on How are Americans so outgoing and extroverted and how can I become the same? 1 month ago:
Definitely not too weird a question!
There are plenty of introverted Americans who hate how extraverted it is here. And the U.S. definitely isn’t “superior” to Germany in that way (or any other particular way.)
Also, there’s a difference between introversion, shyness, social anxiety, an avoidant and/or schizoid and/or schizotypal personality type, an avoidant attachment style, hikikomori/shutins, autism, and plenty of other sorts of socially-averse sorts of temperments. Some are “problems”, some aren’t. Given the way you’re talking about yourself, it sounds like what you’re experiencing is something you’d like to change about yourself. I do think it’s worth introspecting a bit (see what I did there?) and seeing to what extent your desire to change is internalized shame put on you by others and to what extent changing your presentation in the world would lead to a truer expression of your true self. But assuming the latter is the case…
Practice. Even if Germany is a pretty introverted place (and that’s valid – there are definitely differences regionally with regard to how introverted or extraverted the culture is) there are definitely places/events/gatherings/etc that are more expressions of extraversion than others. Immerse yourself in such events. Baby steps are fine. Start with contexts that are just a little bit more extraverted than you are if you like. And move on to more and more extraverted sorts of contexts. Also, I’d try to focus on events centered around things you hold a genuine interest in. (I, for instance, have enjoyed a lot of tabletop roleplaying games. That activity, even though it’s engaged in with others, feels much less overwhelming to me given that everyone’s focused on a common activity rather than just on “each other.”)
One more word about this. Try to avoid “masking.” That is, don’t invent a facade of extraversion to show people. It’s very cliche to say it, but: “be yourself.” I think probably ultimately if you end up “pretending to be extraverted” rather than engaging in socialization in a way you genuinely enjoy, it’s likely to do you more harm than good with regard to your goals.
Good luck!
- Comment on Is it weird to sometimes wonder wether everything you know is wrong? 1 month ago:
If it’s weird, we can be weird together.
- Comment on Every post in Ye Power Tripping Bastards 1 month ago:
Would it be a proper shitpost if nobody shat on it?
- Comment on Meditation is like drugs but better 1 month ago:
zen meditation… trying to illicit vivid imagery in the mind… it sounded like a whole lot of junk mind flailing.
See, but, this is exactly the kind of attitude I’m trying to address in my comment. People judging other people’s meditation practices. You didn’t specifically go so far (at least not explicitly) as to call it “not meditation”, but you’re still judging the practice without really understanding it. (Not that I think you should be judging it even if you did understand it.)
The practice you’re describing might have been something called “kasiṇa”. And it’s known to “illicit vivid imagery.” There are multiple kinds of kasina practices, but they originate from the Pali Canon itself in works such as the Visuddhimagga and Vimuttimagga^[ The Fire Kasina Meditation Site ]^[ Wikipedia page on Kammaṭṭhāna ].
That’s as meditation as meditation gets. If you’re going to call that “junk mind flailing”, the Buddha would like a word.
Now, I don’t know for sure kasina was what you’re describing. But it’s also beside the point. I don’t think meditators really have a leg to stand on to claim that even something like sitting quietly, eyes closed, and playing the whole original Star Wars trilogy in their head from memory is “bad meditation” or “not meditation” just because they judgmentally can’t imagine it “exercising” a “muscle”/“mental skill”/etc. (Daniel Ingram, one of the co-authors of the fire kasina site I cited earlier and a huge advocate for fire kasina as a practice, talks about using fire kasina to conjure vivid images of dragons from Lord of the Rings, kinda just because he’s a geek (and I mean that endearingly) and it’s fun. Though he’s also strongly of the opinion that kasina can lead to insight.) “Meditation” is not the sort of term that a lot of people tend to try to gatekeep, and I think that’s basically never a good thing.
