DeceasedPassenger

@DeceasedPassenger@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you have cut off mainstream music streaming, how do you discover new music or artists and songs like what you're listening frequently?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed, for the features included the premium is genuinely worth it. Much better company to give money to than spotify.

  The UI has lagged behind a bit but there are firefox and chrome extensions to improve/customize the web experience to a pretty decent extent. I do wish they could get their shit together with the placement of stations on mobile. Still as you said it consistently finds new music. When I try to look at a song’s “radio” on spotify, it gets me angry 0-100 real quick. Why? Well I ran a small experiment.

  I started by going to a song radio playlist. From there, go to the radio playlist of the first song. Now add every one of those songs to another playlist. Back up, go to the next song radio, repeat while excluding duplicates, for 10 songs.

  Each of the radio stations had about 180 songs. So the final playlist would hopefully have in the neighborhood of 500, accounting for duplicate overlap. But how many songs did I actually end up with? 195. The recommendation algo is not designed for discovery it’s designed for comfort and familiarity at every angle. And i hate it.

  Sorry this turned into a spotify rant aha I just needed to share that experiment after seeing my own results.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the Fediverse stalling?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I browse lemmy exclusively, as a result of distaste for corporatization. Personally I have no reason to leave and I doubt I will anytime soon. I don’t have any particular niches that I’m a part of, so the only thing that would cause me to leave is if the feed dried up. I usually open lemmy in the morning and scroll All - top 12h. I get an hour or so of scrolling before I reach posts with sub-10 votes. And that’s all I really need. I’ll be here until I can’t do that anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ahem, well well⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s why I specifically try to avoid saying that, and instead say “important question”. Almost always interchangeable, gets the point across, and you don’t sound like a subservient AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A very curious situation indeed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Immediately kill myself as quick as possible. That’s genuinely one of my worst fears is being entered by a bug. I have an obsessive habit of wiping the inside/underneath the lip of the toilet every time I use it just in case there could be a spider. There has never been a spider. Yet I’m compelled to do it every single time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you have cut off mainstream music streaming, how do you discover new music or artists and songs like what you're listening frequently?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t seen anyone mention Pandora but it’s still around. I kept using it even when I was paying for spotify. Over and over again Pandora has played new (to me) artists that have really caught my ear. I listen to a lot of different things and it’s been responsible for probably 50% over the last 15 years that I’ve been using it. The ads are less invasive than spotify and can be easily removed with uBlock origin in the web player. Can’t recommend it highly enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taekwondo player alleges gang-rape by priest, others inside Kanpur ashram. A national-level Taekwondo player has alleged that she was gang-raped inside an ashram located right next to a police station⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve noticed the same exact thing. Makes me wonder if there could be some kind of difference in reporting, like how florida’s laws led to the florida man/woman trope.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ed Sheer-enough⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Seriously. It’s peak reddit behavior. Part of what made lemmy feel like such a breath of fresh air when I migrated was the distinct lack of karma-farm-esque posts. I’m unfortunately speaking in the past tense now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can now format text in Windows 11's Notepad⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s interesting how similar patterns arise in different areas of capitalism. For instance, cars. A Toyota Rav4 used to be significantly smaller and less complex. Same with countless other models throughout the decades. And same with notepad here. More bloated and complex, jack of all trades and master of none. Erasing distinctions between toolsets, ultimate convenience with everything at your fingertips, etc etc. Convenience at the price of a logical workflow, with no thought given as to why the tools were in different places to begin with. It’s like the ultimate purpose of capitalism is to increase entropy to maximum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I arrived at that point a few years ago. You’re in for a world of discovery. As an fps fan myself I highly recommend Ultrakill. There’s a demo so you don’t have to commit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's play this game again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They are hollow, only a couple millimeters thick. They melt in less than a minute.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's play this game again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The deletion is absolute (all atoms, creates a true void), and infinite in size vertically. Your first use of this power results in massive tectonic shifts and (admittedly low-key) global chaos.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's play this game again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone within 100 meters feels an urge to look in your direction as soon as you think about using your power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What could go wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Your point is not only valid but also significant, and I feel stands in addition, not contradiction, to my point. These people now have something to continuously bounce ideas off; a conversational partner that never says no. A perpetual yes-man. The models are heavily biased towards the positive simply by nature of what they are, predicting what comes next. You (may or may not) know how in improv acting there’s a saying called “yes, and” which serves to keep things always moving forward. These models exist in this state, in perpetuity.

  Previously, people who have ideas such as these will experience near-universal rejection from those around them (if they don’t have charisma in which case they start a cult) which results in a (relatively, imo) small number of extreme cases. I fear the presence of such a perpetual yes-man will only accelerate all kinds of damage that can emerge from nonsensical thinking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What could go wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Totally fair point but I really don’t know if that’s true. A decent number of mainstream delusions have the side effect of creating community and bringing people together, other negative aspects notwithstanding. The delusions referenced in the article are more akin to acute psychosis, as the individual becomes isolated, nobody to share delusions with but the chatbot.

  With traditional mainstream delusions, there also exists a relatively clear path out, with corresponding communities. ExJW, ExChristian, etc. People are able to help others escape that particular in-group when they’re familiar with how it works. But how do you deprogram someone when they’ve been programmed with gibberish? It’s like reverse engineering a black box. This is scaring me as I write it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Meanwhile I unveil a plan to continue not giving a goddamn cent to J Bozo. Ever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it weird to juggle in the park?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Weird as in outside of the norm? Sure, just a bit. Weird as in dangerous or creepy? Not in the slightest. If I were out for a walk and saw someone juggling at the park, that would make me happy. I wish I felt as comfortable to do things outside.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Really Who watch it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Haven’t you heard, I’m Sakamoto” is a 10/10 example of the good kind, imo. Hilariously overpowered teenager in a normal ass highschool. Feels like it was definitely written to satirize those over-the-top power dynamics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your prof is incredibly turned on by your hot hairy pits and needs you to tone it down so he can educate properly, lmao. That’s my guess (best explanation for hairiness comment)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And because you deserve it, here's one from the top shelf⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Making a good Overly Cropped is like a fine art. To crop a piece that leaves the reader wanting more is to create a story and a mystery. Great stuff.