LesserAbe

@LesserAbe@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open Source Power⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for sharing. Although I’m an enthusiastic open source user, I haven’t written any code of significance, so I’m not aware: has anyone made a license where use is restricted to individuals and democratically controlled organizations? I’m picturing that would allow for some degree of profit motive while encouraging things like worker co-ops and excluding venture capital controlled entities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robot rescues Ukrainian soldier trapped 33 days behind Russian lines, navigating minefields and mortar strikes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty cool. Does make me wonder functionally if the robot part actually increases the odds of success, or if it just means fewer people put at risk. Because it both came under fire and hit a mine. But maybe because it’s smaller it was less likely to be detected than a crewed vehicle? Maybe it would have been hit more or more fatally if it was larger?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky experiments with dislikes and 'social proximity' to improve conversations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I did read it. Here’s the company post that the article references and links to.

  The social proximity thing is about replies to posts. Since replies are often a mix of people I follow and people I don’t, I think it could be helpful to prioritize replies from people who are connected to those I already follow.

  They say the dislike button will apply to “Discover and other feeds” which is a little less relevant to me because I don’t use discover. Maybe I’d check it out more if it was better.

  It would still be important to me that I have my unfiltered feed of posts by everyone I follow in chronological order. The post by Bluesky doesn’t indicate they’re changing that.

  Even so, if they were actually altering that feed, my understanding is that you can switch to a different front end which uses whatever ordering/display logic you prefer. Catch of course being someone has to have created and maintained such a front end, and many people will just stick with the default option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky experiments with dislikes and 'social proximity' to improve conversations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not here to tell you that their motives are pure. But I don’t see how a dislike button or social proximity are enshittification. And I don’t see how it’s tighter reliance on their control.

  Is Lemmy having the ability to downvote enshittification? That’s what drew me to Reddit and now to Lemmy. It pushes less useful/interesting content down and brings better content to the front (generally)

  Is showing you posts from people connected to people connected to you enshittification? That’s a feature I genuinely like about LinkedIn. I’ve seen posts from people I know but wasn’t connected to yet. I’ve seen pictures from events I attended but uploaded but people I don’t know personally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky experiments with dislikes and 'social proximity' to improve conversations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know, I could see that improving the experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did Thanos, with the power of all the infinity stones, never think to try doubling the amount of resources in the world?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because the only way Marvel movies know how to ratchet up the stakes is having more and more people die.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Photographer combines family faces together to show genetic similarities⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for sharing this link!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When this aired, it was a joke.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know OP’s intent but there is a genre of porn where the one person isn’t into it, but it’s not rape. It would be like them playing a video game or washing dishes and being indifferent/unresponsive to the other person having sex with them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it called linux phone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry friend, but if someone is asking a question, telling them to read about it rather than provide the meat of the answer doesn’t seem too helpful.

  You’re under no obligation to explain anything to anyone, but if you’re going to take the time to respond why not elaborate?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do guys have a haircut?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t get my hair cut that frequently, but to each their own. This was downvoted to zero when I found it, I like to imagine one of the “six months” or “never” guys were responsible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do guys have a haircut?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I used to go to a place where they’d schedule me out based on three weeks, which I liked better, but now this new place leaves it to me to remember and schedule myself. I don’t remember, so it’s closer to 4-5 weeks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never get a tattoo when you are drunk⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I worked with a guy who let his friend tattoo him while they were both on LSD. It wasn’t as long as this, I think it was just one word but it was in this style handwriting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kick faces possible $49 M fine after French streamer Jean Pormanove dies on air⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is helpful, thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand the segment of people who were excited to come up with a new slur for AI. Plus it’s not even effective. It doesn’t make sense, doesn’t bite. Computers don’t clank, not even robots clank anymore. Are we in Battlestar Galactica or something

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sounds like a plan⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it would have worked better if the comment wasn’t prefaced with “it’s cute you think” which is inherently insulting.

  The meme is already self deprecating, like “haha things aren’t looking good for me” so they’re aware of the situation. It’s just heaping an insult and bad news on someone who already is experiencing a negative outlook.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨F*ck off Arnie, you're out of your element!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you mean the redistricting in Texas? That’s why the Dem reps left the state, because they know they would lose the vote, but if they deny “quorum” (aka that there’s enough people to hold a session of the legislature) then a vote can’t be held.

  This same thing actually happened in Texas back in 2003, but the Dems caved that time. Article: talkingpointsmemo.com/…/texas-redistricting-quoru…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨F*ck off Arnie, you're out of your element!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The people we send to Congress have to answer to voters. We’ve seen how little resistance elites and organizations have put up, even ones ostensibly on our side.

  “Our” representatives who come from gerrymandered districts will owe their seat to party leaders, not the voters. So they will cater to those leaders, not voters.

  Would they take some actions which counter Trump? Yes. Will they take drastic actions to actually prevent further fascist advances? Probably not. Because most Democratic leaders are out of touch and answer to big donors. They’re not going to pack the supreme court, they’re not going to make DC a state, etc.

  I’m a little sympathetic to Newsom’s talk about a referendum vote on having gerrymandered districts only for five years. But I think if he moves ahead with that it should be tied explicitly to what Texas does. If Texas passes their crooked map then the California map is revised too, otherwise nothing happens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨F*ck off Arnie, you're out of your element!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t seen any news about Arnold commenting on this situation, can you share?

  That said, I’m a socialist, I’ve been campaigning against gerrymandering in my state since 2016, and I think blue states getting rid of their independent redistricting commissions (if they have them) is a really bad idea.

  Yes, the situation is terrible, and I’m glad the Texas Dems fled to prevent quorum. I think extreme measures are called for. I also think they should be extreme measures that increase democratic rule, not reduce it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not just the US. It’s pretty much every country with a high standard of living.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, but we could have the same number of people while being ecologically sustainable. The problem seems like more one of distribution and technology, not total number of people. And besides, what’s the alternative? So I think it’s ok to say it’s a good thing the population outlook is downward while recognizing we’ve still got problems

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I could be mistaken but based on recent demographic trends I don’t think people are talking about overpopulation much these days. Seems to be a trend that industrialized countries population goes down. China is looking at falling below replacement rate. Of course there’s the argument that we already have too many people, but if everyone starts going down then hey problem solved

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Besides what the other commenter replied, with Trump there’s a special value in controlling his agenda because often the last person he talks to will have the most sway. There have been stories about his appointees taking advantage of a rival appointee being away or in a meeting, and getting Trump to issue an order or even just tweet a position on something so it’s harder to walk back when someone else gets his ear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone have one of these?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think what the other commenter was getting at is you can access a cellular connection (wireless) in a land line format

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone have one of these?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think what the other commenter was getting at is you can access a cellular connection (wireless) in a land line format

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨garden faries⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good thing I can take personal credit for all these plants. Sort of like how I helped my local sports team win the championship.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨garden faries⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And potatoes and corn!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨garden faries⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wasn’t familiar, they’re beautiful birds! That said, I read that they feed while perched, while I think the defining feature of hummingbirds is they feed while hovering. thisweekinpalestine.com/the-palestine-sunbird/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's rude to show AI output to people⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a good post.

  Thinking about it some more, I don’t necessarily mind if someone said “I googled it and…” then provides some self generated summary of what they found which is relevant to the discussion.

  I wouldn’t mind if someone did the same with an LLM response. But just like I don’t want to read a copy and paste of chatgpt results I don’t want to read someone copy/pasting search results with no human analysis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Besides the other commenter highlighting the specific nature of the linked study, I will say I’m generally doing technical queries where if the answer is wrong, it’s apparent because the AI suggestion doesn’t work. Think “how do I change this setting” or “what’s wrong with the syntax in this line of code”. If I try the AI’s advice and it doesn’t work, then I ask again or try something else.

  I would be more concerned about subjects where I don’t have any domain knowledge whatsoever, and not working on a specific application of knowledge, because then it could be a long while before I realize the response was wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the suggestion. I did check with them, unfortunately it didn’t work, I think because our window wasn’t in their line of sight. Guy said he’d talked to other people in my building before.