i_am_not_a_robot
@i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk
Avatar is a lemming in bed because this account wasn’t intended to be used except for creating communities… and then my instance announced it was closing.
Fedia: @chris@fedia.io
Mastodon: @confusedbunny@oldbytes.space
- Comment on In the United States; is it illegal to use a single serve wrapped slice of Kraft cheese as a postcard? 2 days ago:
See W. Reginald Bray
- Comment on 'People have been eating chocolate digestives wrong for 100 years' 5 days ago:
For the record, that’s exactly what I used to do as a child. It’s only recently-ish that I’ve started eating them upside-down - and that’s mainly to stop getting chocolatey fingers.
- Submitted 5 days ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 7 comments
- Comment on Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety 1 week ago:
Just as a point of interest, it doesn’t work properly in the Android version of Firefox. Use Chrome.
- Comment on When Nintendo games were affordable 1 week ago:
Guessing it’s the sales tax? Most countries will price things with tax included, not add it on afterwards.
- Submitted 1 week ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 9 comments
- Comment on Okay, who had Trump loyalty pins for Apocalyptic-Bingo this Sunday? Games just getting started, stay tuned! 2 weeks ago:
Soon it’ll be a legal requirement to have a picture up of him in your house or workspace, which you must stop to revere once an hour.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 2 comments
- Comment on Universal theme park for Bedfordshire confirmed by Starmer 2 weeks ago:
Wixams station has been on the cards since that was developed, and it’s only recently got the go ahead. That argument has been raging for a long time.
Universal is rather newer.
- Comment on Universal theme park for Bedfordshire confirmed by Starmer 2 weeks ago:
Only since the end of 2023.
- Comment on Universal theme park for Bedfordshire confirmed by Starmer 2 weeks ago:
Yes, it’s being bulldozed to make way for it.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 25 comments
- Comment on I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre 3 weeks ago:
Her advice to anyone planning to travel to the US is simply not to go. “First, because of the danger of what could happen to you. And, secondly, do you really want to give your money to this country right now?”
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org | 2 comments
- Comment on Trump says U.S. will 'get Greenland,' military force may not be needed but not ruled out 4 weeks ago:
WW3 here we come.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 7 comments
- Comment on how tf do you warm up plates? 4 weeks ago:
If you have a grill directly above the oven, put them in there whilst the oven is on. They’ll warm up nicely.
- Comment on Why don’t wireless connections (WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.) use anything between 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz? 5 weeks ago:
Here’s a massive list of the UK allocations: static.ofcom.org.uk/static/spectrum/fat.html
- Comment on Do you have a favorite Game and Watch game? 5 weeks ago:
I have one of the original Zelda ones. I played it loads, but it’s the only one I have/had.
- Comment on Bookwyrm.social, BookBrainz, OpenLibrary, etc. 1 month ago:
I’ve been using Bookwyrm since I learnt about it - not long after I joined Mastodon. Migrated my GoodReads history over. @chris@wyrms.de if you want to follow!
- Comment on SymbOS 4.0 release 1 month ago:
It’s basically a Windows 95 style OS on 8-bit hardware.
I’ve been running the preview on my Next since it was available. It’s very impressive.
- Comment on You knew it was coming: Google begins testing AI-only search results | This version of Google won't show you the 10 blue links at all—Gemini completely takes over the results in AI Mode 1 month ago:
Then you have to check those answers, so you need to search for an authoritative source anyway… which means you need a regular search engine. At that point you may as well have used the search engine on the first place.
If Google does this, you’ll need to find an alternative search engine to check Google against… so you may as well just switch to a different search engine in the first place.
There are things that LLMs are good at, being a search engine isn’t one of them. Although I have asked searchy type questions and got some interesting links back which I probably wouldn’t have found on a normal web search with the terms I was using, so they can be useful as a supplementary search tool. I’d rather that than it just giving the answers, which then need to be fact checked elsewhere.
- Comment on You knew it was coming: Google begins testing AI-only search results | This version of Google won't show you the 10 blue links at all—Gemini completely takes over the results in AI Mode 1 month ago:
Hmm, in theory I don’t have a problem with an AI telling me the answer to my question or whatever I’m searching for - but this isn’t a web search. If I’m actually searching for a particular page or context, then I want to be able to do that.
These are two entirely different things, and if Google goes down this route they aren’t a search engine anymore - they are an LLM provider.
- Submitted 1 month ago to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org | 3 comments
- Comment on Why does most religion talk about their GOD being male? Especially Christains and Muslims. Is there a prominent female god that as big as the other two that I am missing? 2 months ago:
Greek, Roman, Norse gods had a mix of male and female, although I think “head god” was still male.
In Hindu there is also a mix, although I’m not sure if they are all equal or one is in charge.
Shinto has animal gods (I’m again unsure if there is a particular “head god” or whether they are male or female, but at least it probably isn’t “a man”).
- Comment on Daily Bunnies - a mirror of Will Quinn's daily bunnies 2 months ago:
Done!
- Submitted 2 months ago to newcommunities@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on Kamiya Critiques Wii Version of Okami | Retro Gaming News 24/7 2 months ago:
Oh, that sucks. Surely they could have added the Wii-specific credits afterwards and kept the original video. I’ve seen that sort of thing done many times.
- Comment on Kamiya Critiques Wii Version of Okami | Retro Gaming News 24/7 2 months ago:
That’s interesting. I’ve only played the Wii version but I don’t recall anybody saying anything was missing at the time. In fact, using the Wiimote to do the paint strokes was hailed as an improvement (having not played the original, I can’t even envisage how doing the strokes with an analogue stick would work)
- Comment on Is there a Lemmy community for finding Lemmy communities? 5 months ago:
As well as the ones that have already been mentioned, you can also check out !lemmydirectory@lemmy.dbzer0.com which is in the process of being updated.