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- Comment on Banana 2 days ago:
They’re completely safe what comes to Potassium-40 radioactivity! You need to eat a massive amount of them to even reach the point where you experience radiation sickness. Actually, you might experience excessive potassium toxicity levels first. (Or you might not! Human bodies are equipped to get rid of excess potassium.) Or, you know, you might experience the problems of stuffing too much stuff down your gullet. There’s only so much stuff you can fit in your stomach at one time.
- Comment on DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026 1 week ago:
I’m fed up with the streaming services, so I’m getting back to my big pile of DVDs and Blu-Ray discs.
I was randomly reminded of the “BD-Live” thing that I tried long ago. One of the most janky joyless things I had ever seen. Some marketing person had decided to do a marketing thing for movie promos and trailers and had forgotten that the thing was to be visited by actual people.
This sounds like it was cooked up by the same people. Looks like marketing people building a Thing.
- Comment on Japanese Government Calls on Sora 2 Maker OpenAI to Refrain From Copyright Infringement, Says Characters From Manga and Anime Are 'Irreplaceable Treasures' That Japan Boasts to the World 1 week ago:
Like I said, the AI companies are not on the same side. The AI companies in the fight for their own selfish reasons. They’re eventually just going to make the copyright situation even more byzantine. They also make the copyright reform/abolition people look bad.
It’s like if I say I’m an Anarchist and then I have to constantly say “well actually I don’t advocate for looting and vandalism nonsense, those dipshits don’t know shit about Anarchism”. Do you know how hard it is to advocate for more reasonable copyright policy reflecting modern times, when the current big crisis in the mind of artists and creators are the dipshit companies blatantly violating the law?
- Comment on oh no! reddit gives up on totally not NFTs! 1 week ago:
I used to use Reddit, and I remember when collectible avatars were introduced.
The experience paraphrased:
“Hey, click here to claim a free collectible avatar!” *open in new tab* “Here it is! However, you first need to set up crypto wallet—” *close tab*
- Comment on Japanese Government Calls on Sora 2 Maker OpenAI to Refrain From Copyright Infringement, Says Characters From Manga and Anime Are 'Irreplaceable Treasures' That Japan Boasts to the World 1 week ago:
AI companies are not on the side of copyright reform or abolition. They just want an exception for themselves. They very much believe in trade secrets. They probably want copyright to eventually cover the current grey areas so that they can stop pretending they give a damn about open models.
It’s not unreasonable to demand AI companies to play by the same rules as everyone else.
- Comment on International Shitpost Wednesday! 1 week ago:
Turtle robot! 🐢🤖 Cutest robots of them all. Very programmer friendly. Very artistic.
- Comment on oh no! reddit gives up on totally not NFTs! 1 week ago:
Lemmy (and Piefed) have avatars and bio, and Piefed also has the custom fields thing that Mastodon has, but not all clients show this stuff. Voyager is probably the best Lemmy/Piefed client that basically has no support for profile details.
One of the things that bug me about Fediverse is that the amount of profile features varies so much between the services and it’s kinda inconsistent too.
- Comment on Sunlight special 1 week ago:
I see no problems with cooking meals with sunlight. (…as we say here in the solarpunk instance)
However, I do see the practical limitations what comes to attempting to cook meals with sunlight in the UK. I have heard the weather is often not favourable.
- Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions 2 weeks ago:
Oh good, the current profile management is a little bit clunky. Having the option to launch random profiles wherever and whenever would be nice.
- Comment on kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel 2 weeks ago:
Astrum makes space stuff videos? I dunno, been a while.
Fireship makes videos about programming. Has series about “(Programming language/Framework) explained in 100 seconds”, for example. I think people are complaining that the channel is slipping into AI dudebroery.
Hoog is a history/explainer type channel, I think.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 3 weeks ago:
Oh yes. The Great
pathlib. The Blessedpathlib. Hallowed be it and all it does.I’m a Ruby girl. A couple of years ago I was super worried about my decision to finally start learning Python seriously. But once I ran into
pathlib, I knew for sure that everything will be fine. Take an everyday headache problem. Solve it forever. Boom. This is how standard libraries should be designed. - Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 5 weeks ago:
In the 1980s, home computers were sold like this:
“Look at these awesome games, kids! And as for your parents, uh… well, you could use the computers to… uh… I dunno… keep track of the contents of the fridge? Yeah, let’s go with that.”
Nobody ever did that. Not then, not now.
Don’t buy a smart fridge, it’s a scam
- Comment on EuLeR iS nOT a PHySicIST 5 weeks ago:
An old bit of wisdom: “Most scientific concepts are named after the second person to discover them”
- Comment on How many hands long do they get? 5 weeks ago:
Easiest way to avoid formatting the list is to put a backslash before the dot:
12345\. Blah blah...This was a common problem in Reddit in NaNoWriMo when people posted their daily wordcounts and what they had been doing.
- Comment on Sweet dreams are made of these? 5 weeks ago:
Chud: “There are some who seem to be ignorant of my ancestry. As I have subtly hinted for some time, the answer should be very clear: very European.”
Europeans: “…We’re kindly requesting you should never set foot on our beautiful continent. Thank you.”
- Comment on Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site” 5 weeks ago:
Limiting the power mod reach is a good thing, but still, this will break Reddit. Ordinary users will not be lining up to step in as small time moderators. Especially if Reddit Inc is going to remove them if they do anything they don’t like.
Reddit Inc will just go “what the hell, we’ll throw more AI shit in the Automoderator. It’s not like it’ll do worse than the current arbitrary quagmire of moderation rules - or maybe it will be, who can tell the difference anyway”.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Well, whoever right-wing funnyboy made the original never went to school, so how would they even know?
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 5 weeks ago:
There aren’t that many Premium™ Gamers®, and trying to pretend that that is, like, a legitimate target demographic to pander to is just sad, folks.
(The funniest gamer influencer backlash I’ve seen lately was against some YouTuber who blew ~$2K on gaming desk and a chair and called it a “minimalist” setup. People at large rightfully went “are you shitting me”.)
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 1 month ago:
I use inverted Y look with pad controls. Because that makes so much more sense. (Normal mouse look is fine)
I like how many new games show accessibility settings on start but it’s still rare for them to have both subtitle settings and invert Y right there. And always a celebration when they are.
Games that don’t even let you invert Y are hella silly. I’m so glad Xbox lets you force the invert. Gotta figure out if you can do that in Windows/Linux.
- Comment on Children's reviews of a mobile app. 1 month ago:
After watching the video I linked in the desc, I actually was, like, “why the hell don’t public broadcasters just hire this guy (and other people like him) and just have them do public art lessons for kids forever?”…well, I guess American public broadcasting isn’t exactly in its golden age right now and I don’t think it will be in the current administration.
- Comment on Children's reviews of a mobile app. 1 month ago:
Or, in this case, children thinking “oh, I’ll give them a 5 star rating, because they probably won’t read bad reviews, but they’ll be sure to read the good reviews. But joke’s on them, the good review is actually a bad review!” (…however, Google, despite being aware that “sarcasm” has been a thing for millennia, still thinks that star ratings are very serious and factual business.)
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- Comment on Trump posted this in Truth. 1 month ago:
“Redux” is the extended cut, which has ~45 extra minutes of stuff that was cut from the original theatrical release. Some of the scenes are great, but some could have been left on the cutting room floor. “The Final Cut” is basically the definitive extended version.
- Comment on Oppression.jpg 1 month ago:
The most cyberpunk thing I’ve seen, oh, this week, I guess
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 1 month ago:
A lot of people are filming in 6K or 8K, but only because it gives them more editing leeway when the final video is delivered in 4K.
- Comment on Train your brain 1 month ago:
Yeah, well, Law and Ethics are two separate things which - very rarely these days - seem to cross each other. This is known.
- Comment on Train your brain 1 month ago:
Courts will say “no, that’s not what we meant by that” and will slap you silly.
AI companies aren’t on the side of copyright reform or abolition, they just want an exception for themselves so they can keep doing whatever they’re doing now. (And they also want more IP laws to cover the current grey areas, so they can stop pretending to give a damn about releasing publicly available data/weights)
- Comment on Everyone wants a turn 1 month ago:
Sure, there aren’t wild turtles in the Netherlands. But this call was aimed at the turtles in general, worldwide! Turtles will be able to get to the Netherlands from the nearest location. Eventually. We believe in them!
- Comment on Everyone wants a turn 1 month ago:
Aww, no turtles? Come on, turtles, you’re so much faster than snails, go have a walk and demolish that snail distance figure! 🐢
- Comment on Leaked emails link NHS data privatiser Palantir to Jeffrey Epstein 1 month ago:
Being a “thinker” isn’t exactly a high bar. A fish can do it (depending on the definition). I mean I suppose I can think, but I wouldn’t brag about it.
