antonim
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- Comment on Lemmy Politics 6 days ago:
Well, db0 isn’t strictly anarchist, I joined because it’s a pro-piracy instance (and also have no essential problems with the other important positions of the instance, i.e. anarchism and being pro-AI). So it’s unavoidable that some non-anarchists join as well. I’ve seen some - but still very few - db0 users who do come off as tankies. Either way even if there was more of them it still makes no sense to me why the above user would find it relevant to shit on db0 in this thread.
- Comment on Google Revisits JPEG XL in Chromium After Earlier Removal 6 days ago:
Now it’s updated, you’re human again :)
- Comment on Lemmy Politics 1 week ago:
It’s not a very funny shitpost, if that’s the case.
- Comment on Lemmy Politics 1 week ago:
Tf does db0 even have to do with this? Are you ok?
- Comment on Lemmy Politics 1 week ago:
Where can I call women sl*ts and wh#res when they disagree with me on opinion?
Where can I call men bitch*s, when they try to correct me?
Where do femcels, Andrew Tates and wizards talk here?
Strong “14-year-old discovers /b/” vibes there.
- Comment on Google Revisits JPEG XL in Chromium After Earlier Removal 1 week ago:
Hmm, you’re still marked as a bot on my end. Maybe it takes a while to update.
- Comment on Google Revisits JPEG XL in Chromium After Earlier Removal 1 week ago:
My impression is that for ordinary non-power users it was supported from the start (i.e. the commonplace image viewers and editors could open it), it just felt annoying at first because it seemed forced upon the user.
- Comment on Zork I, Zork II and Zork III are now officially open source 1 week ago:
IIRC, I used to do it in Excel. It was GRUEsome and I didn’t get very far.
- Comment on Calling all Dickheads! 1 week ago:
This sort of advice would be more useful 200 pages ago… but anyway it’s always good to search for an annotated edition. I read Norton critical edition,* it was really good, had diagrams showing what the different parts of the boat are called, a glossary, supplementary essays, and throughout the text all sorts of footnotes (some of them maybe too explicitly interpretative, but oh well). But I believe even the slightly more modest but still seriously prepared editions such as Oxford World Classics would do the job.
* a critical edition means the editors didn’t just reproduce an existing text, but worked off the most “original” materials available, such as the first edition or the author’s own manuscripts
- Comment on Calling all Dickheads! 1 week ago:
Writing? Queequeg-Ishmael yaoi shows up on Google Images, this stuff is way outside just dark corners.
- Comment on Calling all Dickheads! 1 week ago:
Squeeze! squeeze! squeeze! all the morning long; I squeezed that sperm till I myself almost melted into it; I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me; and I found myself unwittingly squeezing my co-laborers’ hands in it, mistaking their hands for the gentle globules. Such an abounding, affectionate, friendly, loving feeling did this avocation beget; that at last I was continually squeezing their hands, and looking up into their eyes sentimentally; as much as to say,—Oh! my dear fellow beings, why should we longer cherish any social acerbities, or know the slightest ill-humor or envy! Come; let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness.
- Comment on Calling all Dickheads! 1 week ago:
Yes. It’s probably my favourite book ever. No need for it to be a page-turner if each page is interesting by itself.
- Comment on Anti-AI communities might be helping AI 2 weeks ago:
Changed it, a bit long now but I guess it’s ok?
- Comment on Anti-AI communities might be helping AI 2 weeks ago:
☝️🤓
- Comment on Anti-AI communities might be helping AI 2 weeks ago:
Well, I didn’t say it would lead to anything good. I’m not an accelerationist and wouldn’t like to be one.
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- Comment on Artist sneaks AI-generated print into National Museum Cardiff gallery 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Stealing, as in replacing/faking who the author was?
- Comment on They even do Price Discrimination on video games now 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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? 5 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’ 5 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’ 5 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 5 weeks ago:
Little Little Dino the Very Big :3
- Comment on Biased source 5 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 5 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? 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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? 2 months 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”.