antonim
@antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Artist sneaks AI-generated print into National Museum Cardiff gallery 1 day ago:
Unsurprisingly, it’s crap.
- Comment on To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub 2 days ago:
Stealing, as in replacing/faking who the author was?
- Comment on They even do Price Discrimination on video games now 1 week ago:
Now that you put it like that, yeah, it really is completely normal to have “discriminatory” discounts (as a student I personally regularly make use of them), and for a moment I even wondered why it would bother me at all, why I even thought it is problematic - but as you say it’s the fact that it’s covert is what’s problematic.
- Comment on They even do Price Discrimination on video games now 1 week ago:
How the fuck is this even legal?
- Comment on What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light? 2 weeks ago:
Die.
*checks video*
Die very quickly.
- Comment on Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales isn’t worried about Elon Musk’s Grokipedia: ‘Not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now’ 2 weeks ago:
Lemmy itself is a good example of this. Most of the userbase heavily disagrees with the main developers’ political opinions, yet the software works well for everyone.
- Comment on Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales isn’t worried about Elon Musk’s Grokipedia: ‘Not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now’ 2 weeks ago:
He also gave the example of a German Wiki community member who wrote a program to verify the ISBN numbers of books cited, and was able to trace notable mistakes to one person. That person ultimately confessed they had used ChatGPT to find citations for text references and the LLM “just very happily makes up books for you,” Wales said.
Well this won’t be a problem with Grokipedia, because it only uses sources that are available online as pure text (I’m pretty sure not even PDFs are used by it).
Wales thinks the public and the media often give Wikipedia too much credit. In its early days, he says, the site was never as bad as the jokes made about it. But now, he says, “We are not as good as they think we are. Of course, we are a lot better than we used to be, but there is still so much work to do.”
Amen, it’s nice to see the level-headedness.
- Comment on Biased source 2 weeks ago:
Little Little Dino the Very Big :3
- Comment on Biased source 2 weeks ago:
It’s a name of Italian origin, shortened from a name such as Bernardino, Corradino. -ino is a diminutive suffix (Bernardino = little Bernard), so Dino is etymologically a twice-diminutive name.
Doesn’t really meet the expectations set by dino-saur :D
- Comment on YSK about Wikimedia Commons - a wiki-style media repository of freely licensed files 2 weeks ago:
If you click on them, many images on Wikipedia will lead you to their parent page on Commons (click “view on Commons”). Ideally, that’s where all non-copyrighted WP files are placed (unlike those that are under copyright, which limits in how many places they can be used).
Literally the only wiki-based media repository out there.
There’s also monoskop.org (although unlike Wikimedia Commons it doesn’t seem to care about copyright law too much).
- Comment on How should Lemmy sort posts so small communities can compete? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve just tried it out on “All” and basically the entire first page is filled with one user’s posts to !visualarts@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 3 weeks ago:
As a Wikipedia editor I can comfirm - we regularly say that napalm sticking to objects in water is POV. I do it at least twice a week. I’ll try making a bot to do it automatically so I’ll have more time for holocaust denial.
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 3 weeks ago:
You can check old versions of any article by clicking ‘history’. And yeah, the standards used to be pretty low.
- Comment on Should you copy a person's accent when pronouncing their name? 1 month ago:
There’s way too many languages and dialects with way too many sounds out there for this to be practically doable. For foreign names some basic degree of approximation is desirable, but nothing more than that. In principle you shouldn’t expect or demand people to produce sounds not found in their native dialect (unless they’re actually learning the foreign language).
Besides, it’s not even odd for people not to be able to pronounce stuff according to the standard norm of their own native language, due to the dialectal variety within the same language.
As for names from within the same language, it could sound artificial and even condescending if you tried to go for a pronunciation not native to you. Bob is just Bob, no need to stress that he’s “American/British Bob”.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Charlie Kirkmemorial showing aPalantiradThis is already pretty fucking dystopian by itself, tbh
- Comment on smol 1 month ago:
:3
- Comment on Remove Nutomic from Lemmy development for transphobia - Change.org 1 month ago:
Lemmy is developed by two (2) people and asking for one of them to leave is effectively just killing the project. If you don’t like it, you can move to an alternative such as PieFed.
Personally, I can’t make myself care about this too much. It’s a doshit take (somewhat understandable considering the guy’s background), but it was publicised over a year ago, he hasn’t said this sort of crap since then, and Dessalines’ whiteknighting for Russia is IMO way more of an issue morally and politically. But at the end of the day the question is whether Lemmy works fine for you or not and whether the admins’ opinions harm your experience. I don’t think they do, Dessalines bans criticism on his turf but it’s just a handful of communities, while the devs are still providing the infrastructure for diametrically opposed views and communities.
- Comment on xkcd #3143: Question Mark 1 month ago:
When people say “question mark” out loud
- Comment on ‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops 1 month ago:
I used to be easily distracted during online lectures yet had little difficulty following live lectures. It’s a fundamentally different experience, for whatever reason.
- Comment on in sickness and in health 1 month ago:
I have no idea what “classic literature” this refers to?
- Comment on Why the video of Charlie Kirk being shot was kept on social media platforms 1 month ago:
It’s been moved to the archive but is linked on top of the talk page:
en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=&oldid=1310806… / en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…/Archive_2#Including_the_v…
- Comment on Why the video of Charlie Kirk being shot was kept on social media platforms 1 month ago:
Looks like they’ve decided against inclusion. It’s also unlikely the video meets “fair use” standards so they’d have to delete it anyway…
- Comment on Why the video of Charlie Kirk being shot was kept on social media platforms 1 month ago:
They had a whole edit war about whether it should be included and locked the article.
- Comment on Why the video of Charlie Kirk being shot was kept on social media platforms 1 month ago:
Kirk’s killer seems to have used some large calibre weapon which probably made it look so particularly brutal and bloody.
- Comment on He died doing what he loved. 1 month ago:
Yeah, you could keep usual moderators as the basis and ultimate arbiters, but it would be, at the very least, interesting to try your approach. E.g., anyone can check the mod queue and be randomly assigned to moderate a recently reported post, and to avoid abuse or mistakes it could require 2 or 3 people agreeing on how to resolve something.
- Comment on He died doing what he loved. 1 month ago:
This you?
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- Comment on Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring 2 months ago:
You wouldn’t, by any chance, provide examples of that censorship and how it can be traced to FBI/CIA?
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg, the Lawyer, Is Suing Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO 2 months ago:
Reminds me of how after WW2 people stopped calling their kids Adolf or even changed their name Adolf into something else. I mean, I’m not saying Zuckerberg is literally Hitler or something, but it sure is funnily similar.
- Comment on MAGA Puts Wikipedia in Its Crosshairs 2 months ago:
Wikipedia has been shit for a long time
it started off great and then went to hell
This becomes obviously and extremely dumb once you try to imagine how this “going to hell” actually looks like. What you’re saying is, if you opened a Wikipedia article 15 or 20 years ago, you’d find “great” content, but in the meantime that article has become “shit”. Pure nonsense.
In an another comment you say it’s bad that you have to double check the sources. But when it started, Wikipedia barely used sources at all! Just look at some random articles from the early days and see for yourself. These days an overabundance of sources could well be more of a problem for editors of big article.
There are thousands of recorded, proven cases of incorrect and malicious updates to pages on there.
Thousands? Probably tens, even hundred of thousands! You know how they’re “recorded and proven” most of the time? Through the built-in system that tracks every change since the site was created, and allows editors to check who did what, verify and reverse the bad edits.
The co-founder also said Wikipedia is “broken beyond repair”… back in 2007. Already in 2006 he founded a website that he wanted to compete with WP. Is that before or after your “went to hell” era? My impression is, the guy is just butthurt the project has grown beyond him.
As a relatively active WP editor, I agree that you absolutely shouldn’t take it for granted, and there’s a lot of absolutely frustrating crap on there, and there’s much that one would want to see fixed and improved structurally. But I really can’t tolerate this sort of nonsensical criticism.
