SnotFlickerman
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- Comment on If you were born after 1990, you've never had this experience 12 hours ago:
that’s because the existence of diet rite is parody enough itself
- Comment on MONOMOON | Reveal Teaser Trailer 13 hours ago:
You control a character with the keyboard and a tiny moon with your mouse (it will also be playable with a controller). Explore a small open world and uncover secrets and mechanics hiding right under your nose. Use the moon to manipulate creatures and the environment and explore a tiny open world. Curiosity, knowledge, and discovery of game mechanics are the primary ways to progress.
From the announcement in /r/godot on reddit.
- Comment on Time to pluralize titles. 23 hours ago:
…Monty Pythons Flying Circus!
- Comment on Time to pluralize titles. 1 day ago:
Babes
- Comment on Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way. 1 day ago:
This is why when the whole media world rushed to protect him when he came out of the closet as gay was total and utter bullshit. He wasn’t brave and he doesn’t give one hot damn about the gay community clearly.
- Comment on One Angry Man 2 days ago:
That’s cheating!
- Comment on One Angry Man 2 days ago:
The Goonie
- Comment on Big tech legal action 3 days ago:
Why would there be? They massively profit off of its existence.
Only barely 3% of the Desktop OS market share is Linux.
Something like 80-90% of corporate servers are Linux.
Sometimes I think Open Source is unintentionally the largest transfer of wealth generated by volunteers from the working class to the wealthy in history. The corporations get off the shelf software they can run for free and they don’t have to pay a license for and they make money using it.
- Comment on W.a.m.d.i.i. 3 days ago:
With a spoon in them.
- Comment on The Terrifying Theory of Stupidity – Dietrich Bonhoeffer 3 days ago:
What practical steps you can take to stay intellectually independent in today’s information-saturated world
“Listening to our YouTube channel and what we have to say is the first step to intellectual independence because we’re obviously correct, you know?”
Not knocking the video, just it’s always so strange to me that it’s presented this way.
“In this video we will tell you how to think for yourself, as long as you follow our guidance you will be making your own decisions!”
Sure, Jan.
- Comment on Spooky 3 days ago:
They’re so annoying!
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? It's self hosting Sunday! 4 days ago:
I use it just for myself mostly to look at my listening habits. When I was younger I used last.fm to find new artists and talk to people who had similar interests and took their suggestions. These days its just to keep a log of my music listening.
Also, I have noticed a pattern of listening to less music for myself and being a lot more deferential to my partners when I am in a relationship over when I am single. This year is 20 years since I started using last.fm and part of my goal this year is to listen to more music than I have listened to yearly over the past 20 years. 2005 was my highest listening year ever, and while I’m not on pace to break that record, I’m on place to come close to it and shatter every other year in between.
Anyway, that’s just a me thing, it’s helped me feel like myself again, re-embracing really enjoying music in a way I have not over the past 16 years of being with two different partners (one for 2 years, another for 13 years). It’s like a celebration of 20 years of loving music and coming back into my own and becoming more me again, and less codependent on others and letting them drive the music.
- Comment on Tasks.md 3.0.0 release 5 days ago:
What about actually self hosting on a local server?
- Comment on The look you have when you realize you've made the greatest alien movie of all time 5 days ago:
Right, because Ice Cube was already in the best alien movie of all time, Ghosts of Mars.
- Comment on The look you have when you realize you've made the greatest alien movie of all time 5 days ago:
Context?
- Comment on What will the AI revolution mean for the global south? 5 days ago:
More contractual gig work less direct employment.
They’re going to Mechanical Turk this shit the whole way.
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? It's self hosting Sunday! 5 days ago:
You’re gonna break my OCD brain.
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? It's self hosting Sunday! 5 days ago:
Recently set up a Maloja container and a Multi-scrobbler container so I can finally ditch last.fm!
- Comment on Y'ALL GOT ANY OF THEM HALLOPINERS 1 week ago:
Oh no, rage bait posts have come to real life.
- Comment on Don't say I didn't warn you 1 week ago:
- Comment on Honk 1 week ago:
The Honkler
- Comment on The worst thing about Linux is its users 1 week ago:
The problem is no matter how badly we want that to be true, Linux just still is not stable enough or user friendly enough for the average user. Unless you’re ready to be a system admin full-time for someone you’re giving a Linux device to, it’s pointless. Even the simple ones like Mint? It’s too much for my elderly mom, she gets lost too easily.
I want people to switch to Linux too, but this is exactly why this comic is dead-accurate, because it’s just not ready for average users and likely won’t be anytime soon. Why? Because Linux gives you control, and giving you control is actually demanding of your time and energy and effort. People like Windows or macOS because they don’t have to expend time, energy, and effort, it just “works” well enough for them to use it passively.
There are worse things in the world than regular people not being able to handle Linux.
- Comment on FBI uses facial recognition technology, online photos to identify and arrest ICE Portland protester 1 week ago:
Always wear non-descript long-sleeve black shirts. Loose fitting and easily moved in black pants. Non-descript black face-mask. Non-descript black safety sunglasses. Make sure tattoos or other identifying marks are covered. If you can, the best option is to thrift these options and buy them with cash.
- Comment on I tried Servo, the undercover web browser engine made with Rust 1 week ago:
How I imagine this browser engine works.
- Comment on AI Chatbots Remain Overconfident — Even When They’re Wrong: Large Language Models appear to be unaware of their own mistakes, prompting concerns about common uses for AI chatbots. 1 week ago:
Oh good, so that means we can just replace the C-suite with LLMs then, right? Right?
- Comment on AI Chatbots Remain Overconfident — Even When They’re Wrong: Large Language Models appear to be unaware of their own mistakes, prompting concerns about common uses for AI chatbots. 1 week ago:
Interesting talk but the number of times he completely dismisses the entire field of linguists kind of makes me think he’s being disingenuous about his familiarity with it.
For one, I think he is dismissing holotes, the concept of “wholeness.” That when you cut something apart to it’s individual parts, you lose something about the bigger picture. This deconstruction of language misses the larger picture of the human body as a whole, and how every part of us, from our assemblage of organs down to our DNA, impact how we interact with and understand the world. He may have a great definition of understanding but it still sounds (to me) like it’s potentially missing aspects of human/animal biologically based understanding.
For example, I have cancer, and about six months before I was diagnosed, I had begun to get more chronically depressed than usual. I felt hopeless and I didn’t know why. Surprisingly, that’s actually a symptom of my cancer. What understanding did I have that changed how I felt inside and how I understood the things around me? Suddenly I felt different about words and ideas, but nothing had changed externally, something had change internally. The connections in my neural network had adjusted, the feelings and associations with words and ideas was different, but I hadn’t done anything to make that adjustment. No learning or understanding had happened. I had a mutation in my DNA that made that adjustment for me.
Further, I think he’s deeply misunderstanding (possibly intentionally?) what linguists like Chomsky are saying when they say humans are born with language. They mean that we are born with a genetic blueprint to understand language. Just like animals are born with a genetic blueprint to do things they were never trained to do. Many animals are born and almost immediately stand up to walk. This is the same principle. There are innate biologically ingrained understandings that help us along the path to understanding.
Anyway, interesting talk, but I immediately am skeptical of anyone who wholly dismisses an entire field of thought so casually.
- Comment on AI Chatbots Remain Overconfident — Even When They’re Wrong: Large Language Models appear to be unaware of their own mistakes, prompting concerns about common uses for AI chatbots. 1 week ago:
That’s because they aren’t “aware” of anything.
- Comment on asmr 1 week ago:
Marques looking for the Ramna 1/2 version.
- Comment on What a fantastic deal 1 week ago:
What in the meth?
- Comment on On Tuesday afternoon, ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists 1 week ago:
and Devil Worship
also said “Hail Satan.”
Look, let’s leave Satan out of this. He’s got enough troubles already with his new relationship and all.
