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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate Wireless devices.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine say that and then last 2-4 more hours, depending on whether you disable ANC. It helps that the battery lasts around 20 hours in total though. So I do actually think it’s useful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  100%, furries get way too much hate. Especially considering how chill they’re usually are.

  Though honestly unless your pfp betrays some insane political affiliation it shouldn’t have relevance on how you see someones reply. I know this is a shitpost but people do that for real. I think my favorite are the xitter boomers dismissing people because their avatar isn’t a selfie and they don’t using their real names.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perfect revenge⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t even get why. The person that did this for real has been posted about plenty, and there are pictures, so why not just use the real one? The AI generated one is also so much less funny than the real one bc it’s not just a painting of exactly what’s behind the fence

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a shocker!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not trash talk at all though. And even ignoring the language itself, trash talk is towards your opponents (where still most people don’t get how to do it in a non-obnoxious way, i.e. someone spamming ez after they win a game isn’t trash talk it’s being annoying). Most of the really bad flame happens towards teammates because everyone needs to blame someone else.

  Irl sports get by just fine without people constantly being pieces of shit, I dunno why it’s so hard to apply that to online games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a shocker!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That and it’s easier to make genuine connections with regulars. Nowadays for that you have to go out of your way to join a community discord or similar because nearly all multiplayer games are built to play with your existing friends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need a keyboard with a dedicated "slop" button⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But conservatives reacting to the word “pronouns” isn’t at all about systemic oppression? It’s about the immediate brain off that follows to instantly rant about “woke” or whatever, even if e.g. someone mentioned pronouns in a grammar context. It’s a stupid reaction born from opposition to a perceived “woke mind virus” (or equivalent).

  Similarly, some people read “AI” and immediately think whatever follows is worthless garbage. Which, even ignoring that not everything labeled AI is always ML, is a stupid reaction born from opposition to the LLM (and general genAI) hype.

  Sure, the “woke mind virus” is pure delusion, and I, too, want to throw up from the genAI hype every time someone mentions “AI” or “ChatGPT”, but AI isn’t even well defined and even ML has plenty of useful applications.

  It’s the same anti-intellectual “I hate the things I associate with this word so anyone not hating on the word is stupid” while disregarding what the word actually means in the given context.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess the closest we might be getting anytime soon then is the digital euro. Which is supposed to end its preparation phase soon, and, in spite of being government issued, promises to be private (not like ccs are remotely private anyway, so nothing lost at least).

  As always there’s some risk of it getting changed to allow tracking later down the line, but if done correctly it could still be a big improvement over the current situation for EU citizens. If it’s successful, maybe other governments will look into similar programs.

  I feel like ideally the digital euro project would work with GNU Taler since the goals seem to align, with the main difference being that the digital euro would be government backed. I don’t have high hopes since governments always fuck this up somehow, but I guess in the best timeline the EU is that champion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone above linked GNU Taler which seems to go in the right direction, but I’m not sure how mature it is yet. It specifically claims to not be a new currency, so hopefully the speculation part won’t be an issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Collective Shout Purge Sees Horror Games In Crosshairs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  According to the statement someone else linked now, they will ask devs about whether they comply with the payment processors’ terms, and it sounds like those processors will otherwise be unavailable. They just had to blanket remove like this for now because they don’t actually have sufficient knowledge about all the games’ content.

  We’ll see what will happen, and if it turns out devs are getting screwed in the long run, someone will fill the new market niche anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA on privuhcy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Youtube has the video ID as a query parameter, to use the most obvious example…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨egg⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dunno, the joke becomes obvious if you check the link, and the link being “diaphragm (birth control)” is effectively the joke indicator. The comment works as a joke all on its own, it’s not a setup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⚡️👇👇👇⚡️⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  More like an ok conductor, but yea that’s what I meant with the blood (and whatever other ways water exists in our body). Though even pure water is more conductive than air by orders or magnitude.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⚡️👇👇👇⚡️⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just out of pedantry: Water has terrible conductivity. Blood is less terrible though and in any case air is far worse than either, so point stands

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨King forgot his crown⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re technically voluntary but also socially expected. I’m not sure about birthday gifts in particular but Japan is a country where if you go on holiday somewhere you’re expected to bring a gift for each of your coworkers, and people will think worse of you for not doing that. I’d be kind of surprised if omitting birthday gifts for your romantic partner without prior agreement is a real option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why all Parents do this XD⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea I think if my parents did this I’d instantly have lost all trust in them after it came off (well at least if they didnt tell me right after that they were joking). I never was quite that sensitive to dirt on me, but in general what apparently worked best is just explaining the why, which is probably pretty common for autistic kids.

  Anyway I just wanted to say as someone whos also on the spectrum I appreciate you actually respecting your sons issues as valid instead of thinking the reaction is unreasonable and he should suck it up, which is sadly all too common.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corporations are saving the planet!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m only complaining about all the people that apparently regularly lost bottle caps. I don’t think that has happened to me ever… Not the end of the world and if it reduces litter I’ll deal with it but I curse these people every time one of the new caps is being annoying to screw back on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta wins artificial intelligence copyright case in blow to authors⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there’s a blurry line here where you can easily train an LLM to just regurgitate the source material by overfitting, and at what point is it “transformative enough”? I think there’s little doubt that current flagship models usually are transformative enough, but that doesn’t apply to everything using the same technology - even though this case will be used as precedence for all of that.

  There’s also another issue in that while safeguards are generally in place, without them llms would be very capable of quoting entire pages at least of popular books. And jailbreaking llms isn’t exactly unheard of. They also at least used to really like just verbatim repeating news articles on obscure topics.

  What I’m mainly getting at is that LLMs can be transformative, but they also can plagiarize. Much like any human could. The question is then, if training LLMs on copyrighted data is allowed, will the company be held accountable when their LLM does plagiarize, the same way a person would be? Or would the better decision be to prohibit training on copyrighted data because actually transforming it meaningfully can not be guaranteed, and copyright holders actually finding these violations is very hard?

  Though idk the case details, if the argument was purely focused on using the material to produce the model, rather than including the ultimate step of outputting text to anyone who asks, it was probably doomed to fail from the start and the decision makes perfect sense. And it doesn’t seem too unlikely to happen because realizing this requires the lawyer making the case to actually understand what training an LLM does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a tragedeigh⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Similarly, I’m not 100% sure about this but afaik the + got commonly added before the IA, and I really dislike adding anything specific after a generalized “everyone who feels part of it” because doing that delegitimizes that the + actually means everyone. Though it also does suck if people feel excluded otherwise.

  I’ve seen queer used to refer to the whole community though, but I think LGBT(+whichever addendums) has just been around for so long it’s most people’s goto, plus “queer” used to be a slur.

  In my head it’s just “people not conforming to the majority group for sex or gender related reasons” and then I write whatever my brain decides is the term in that moment. Usually LGBTQ+.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let delivery drivers keep their⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm, as someone relatively deep into lgbtq issues (particularly trans issues), I’d say the term itself is perhaps a bit misleading. The way I understand it and see it used is that it’s about heterosexuality and also gender norms within that traditional heterosexual relationship. In that sense (to directly relate to the post) a dominant woman in a relationship with a submissive man would actually go against heteronormativity.

  On second thought I guess I can see the relation though, in the sense that the traditional “man is dominant in a hetero relationship” combined with the fact that by default most men probably mostly top could make someone see “topping is considered dominant” to reinforce those traditional relationship norms. Still feels very overreactive by the original commenter but eh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let delivery drivers keep their⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Heteronormative != heterosexual

  I fail to see any issue with the post (like fucking everyone associates topping with dom that doesn’t mean it has to be, and the image works), but it’s decidedly a complaint about social norms rather than a group.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proof that fashion is cyclical, even in nature.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If humans are any indicator, they might also be doing things because they think it’s an advantage but actually does nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God is a girl 🎶⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s how it started. Nightcore were 2 DJs that did speed up mixes of songs, then nightcore became its own thing. www.discogs.com/artist/4533340-Nightcore

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've got something special for you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s great in mobas where skills are universally referred to by their default binding on qwerty (since most layouts have qwer on those keys). So sometimes unaware french people talk about their a and z skills and everyone else is just confused

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gemini will now automatically summarize your long emails unless you opt out⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Get your own domain and use it for mail routing to whichever email service of your choice. Afaik gmail offers this, and so does probably any other decent email provider. That way if a provider turns to shit, you just need to set up with a different one, but don’t have to change any accounts.

  Downside: you will have to pay for that domain for the rest of your life (or change all accounts again)

  I’ve been meaning to do this for a while, maybe I’ll finally do it now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT’S THE FEDS!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you mean Kinder Joy that’s a different product that we have in europe as well

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So far for me the game has done a great job of having recognizable landmarks at least. I might not always know where I am, but I’ll frequently come across something that orients me again.

  I despise being lost in video games, but claire obscure has been fine because I never feel like I get lost for too long. Just long enough to appreciate the gorgeous and very weird world I’m in.

  I still sometimes wish there was a map but it would probably be a net negative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Many countries have restrictions on what you can and cannot post (hate speech being a common one). Turkey in particular has been moving towards autocracy over the last decade or so, so I wouldn’t be surprised (to be clear this is speculation feel free to correct me) if it had restrictions on lgbt issues or political dissent or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t stay in my ass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk man “exclusionary” is literally part of terf I don’t think there’s much ambiguity there. Fuck terfs though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord going public. Plz help a future refugee.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the major draws of discord is the fact that they host the servers for you, for free. Anyone can make an account, click a button, and have a discord server.

  Afaik matrix does allow this (haven’t used it personally) but it’s something where I am a bit worried about hosting costs if it reaches a large scale. (Also unsure about how the matrix protocol works precisely, but if defederation is a thing which I feel like it has to be, I can see it leading to huge pains since discords use case is often about being part of a specific communitu, as opposed to twitter or reddit. Being unable to join a groip or see some messsges because of federation issues would be a major headache).