carotte

@carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arts & STEM⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  its also on phone keyboards, at least on iphone, you can hold the dash key and select the long dash: —

  same for the ellipsis, which a lot of people cite as a proof something was written with AI, but iphones (and other phones too, probably) insert them automatically when you type 3 dots…

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

  and you’re the only one claiming ryedaft was “complaining about an entire group of people based on sexuality”

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

  “heteronormative” doesn’t mean “it’s the fault of straight people” are you serious

  if you don’t know a word, you can just look it up yknow

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon updates terms of service to ban AI model training on user data⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  this reminds me of the Hippocratic License, which comes with a bunch of modules restricting the use of software based on ethical considerations (for example, there’s a module forbidding the use by police, and another one forbidding the use by any institution on the BDS list)

  i think the FSF, in their eternal and unchallengeable wisdom (/s), also declared that it wasn’t foss

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suggestion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  and someone who makes good memes, they would certainly be an icon!

  we should give them a name that reflects that… LOLicon perhaps? an icon of the LOL!

  embarrassing confession

  for way too long i genuinely thought that’s what “lolicon” meant… ;-;

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster: Meta's AI App ‘Discover’ Feed Publicly Exposes Private Chats Without Users Knowing.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  id rather be using whatsapp, honestly

  it’s not good either, obviously, but messenger still collects a buttload more data

  (and iirc whatsapp encrypts both group chats and DMs, on messenger it’s only DMs)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster: Meta's AI App ‘Discover’ Feed Publicly Exposes Private Chats Without Users Knowing.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  imagine being the person forced to use FB messenger because your friends are on it and won’t bother installing anything else

  i am that person 😖

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Slavic engineering gone too far?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  i think it is, look at the knobs on the top of the washing machine. they’re nonsensical

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT "Absolutely Wrecked" at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think people in the replies acting fake surprised are missing the point.

  it is important news, because many people see LLMs as black boxes of superintelligence (almost as if that’s what they’re being marketed as!)

  you and i know that’s bullshit, but the students asking chatgpt to solve their math homework instead of using wolfram alpha doesn’t.

  so yes, it is important to demonstrate that this “artificial intelligence” is so much not an intelligence that it’s getting beaten by 1979 software on 1977 hardware

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG One-Click Mods | New era of modding begins⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  they already do! (sorta)

  if you buy games through heroic, the heroic devs get a percentage of the sale

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

  no, I don’t think we need & more often than we need 1

  and for accents, the canadian french qwerty keyboard handles them just fine; é (by far the most common accented letter) has its own key, all the other use dedicated dead keys. it works well!

  and you can write accented uppercase letters using the CF qwerty, on azerty you need a combination with AltGr for that (because using just shift types the numbers…)

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

  oh god what horror that layout is

  you need shift to type numbers???

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

  could have happened on a french canadian qwerty keyboard: ! is shift-1, and " is shift-2

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Undertale will be 10 years old in 3 months⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  depends on your time zone, it most of the world it comes out wednesday (aka, as i write this, tomorrow where i am, or even today if you live east of the atlantic!)

  (the switch 2 version comes out at 00:00 on thursday no matter the time zone tho)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  in the west too our phones spy on us but everyone knows, everyone thinks it’s bad, and yet nobody cares

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hope i don't get downvoted for this⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  personally, it’s kinda hard to say? i have felt romantic attraction exactly once in my life, so i know i’m not fully aromantic, but also it’s only happened once so i’m probably on the aro spectrum somewhere

  but yes, there are many people who are asexual but who still feel romantic attraction to others

  (and of course, not all attraction is sexual or romantic, there is also aesthetic attraction for example (literally just when you find people pretty), which i do feel, my meme was pretty reductive all things considered, but then again it’s just a meme)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hope i don't get downvoted for this⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A drawing of Sonic the Hedgehog praying in a grassy plains, with text saying “Thank you God for not making me attracted” followed by text that has been scribbled out

  (i am asexual)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨George Floyd Murdered (2020) On this day in 2020, a Minneapolis cop murdered George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes. Floyd's death became the catalyst for protests around...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  it doesn’t feel respectful to call this a shitpost, but it’s still good to share

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In 2025, Apple still makes it hard to play your own MP3s, so I wrote my own app⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i don’t think there’s anything like that on linux sadly

  personally i just use the VLC mobile app (yes, this exists!) to play my local music collection. it’s surprisingly good, and you can even send music to it from your computer to your phone wirelessly!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wishing for this kind of world⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  trans people: i am trans
  society: ok
  society: omg winston overwatch
  winston: overwatch

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where my oxygen enjoyers at?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  big fan of oxygen tho, i have to say, not a big fan of that atomic mass. i think we need to give a neutron to those ^15^O to make it a nice, round 16

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How I view others in social media⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  maybe it’s just that I hang around good parts of the internet now, but i saw that “no one:” format so much more back then

  i still see it sometimes now, but around 2018 it was everywhere

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How I view others in social media⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “no one: absolutely no one: not a single soul: character: punchline”

  going back to 2018-era youtube comment sections is painful

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie Dev Who Pulled Game From Xbox In Solidarity With Palestinian-Led BDS Hopes Others Will Do The Same⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  you missed the Hopes Others Will Do The Same part.

  they’re pulling their game as part of the larger BDS boycott. the point is to put pressure on complicit companies (in this case microsoft) for them to stop working with israel

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨28 years later, Lego Island's lost source code has been rediscovered – but the fans who spent nearly two years painstakingly decompiling it by hand "can't have it"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  yea, for historical preservation purposes, having the original source code will always be better

  but in practice, what we have now is good enough to do basically anything you’d want the source code for

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨28 years later, Lego Island's lost source code has been rediscovered – but the fans who spent nearly two years painstakingly decompiling it by hand "can't have it"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  to clarify: the decompilation is done. so we have the source code, one way or another.

  (well, it’s not completely done since it doesn’t compile to the exact same binary, but it’s very close - just go watch the video OP linked, it’s good)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨French culture⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  french politics

  have you seen french politics? like actually?

  i know that when compared to the US it may as well be a socialist utopia but french politics are awful. france is one of the countries most responsible for imperialism and colonialism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mouse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  wait till you learn about gorilla gorilla gorilla!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't be Evil⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  remember that sonic thread?