zarkanian
@zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots 1 week ago:
Additionally additionally, as it says in the article, reddit sells its content to OpenAI, and in order to do that, they need it to be organic. If you feed AI output back info AI, it makes the output worse, not better. So, there’s another financial incentive to ensure that the people talking on reddit are actually human.
- Comment on PewDiePie: I installed Linux (so should you) 1 week ago:
I haven’t had any issues with webcams or conference software (Jitsi, Zoom, and Discord).
- Comment on I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down. I just didn’t expect them to be such losers 1 week ago:
Where are you getting that statistic from?
- Comment on I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down. I just didn’t expect them to be such losers 1 week ago:
People expect the villains to be cool, because that’s how they’re portrayed in movies.
- Comment on I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down. I just didn’t expect them to be such losers 1 week ago:
And they all think by having more money and being more popular will fulfill that human need.
If that was all it was, then I’d feel sorry for them. No, they’re trying to fulfill that need by being Great Men of History with Mighty Plans, but their Mighty Plans are all terrible, because they’re horrible people.
- Comment on People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies 1 week ago:
The Illuminati were real, too. That doesn’t mean that they’re still around and controlling the world, though.
- Comment on A Deadly Love Affair with a Chatbot. Sewell Setzer was a happy child - before he fell in love with an AI chatbot and took his own life at 14. 1 week ago:
Yes, I’m sure you’ll be able to convince kids that the new thing is bad because you say so, especially if you compare it to the antiquated mascot of a legacy word processor.
- Comment on A Deadly Love Affair with a Chatbot. Sewell Setzer was a happy child - before he fell in love with an AI chatbot and took his own life at 14. 1 week ago:
Comparative religions classes have value. It’s important to gain understanding into other people’s beliefs and to be able to compare and contrast them. If you’re only learning about one religion…not so much. Especially if it’s the religion you were brought up in.
Going to church, on the other hand, is no substitute at all. You’re just being indoctrinated, full stop.
- Comment on All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding | by Dan Fabulich | Apr, 2025 1 week ago:
CSS and JavaScript is going to disappear? Get real.
- Comment on Chances for the fediverse? Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves 2 weeks ago:
None of those have anything to do with accessibility.
- Comment on Chances for the fediverse? Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves 2 weeks ago:
Which accessibility best practices does Mastodon break?
- Comment on List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs 2 weeks ago:
It’s called HTML5.
- Comment on Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows" 2 weeks ago:
His Hyprland setup looks cool if you’re into that sorta thing but it’s just not what users just switching to mint, fedora, whatever might be looking for.
What got me back into Linux was seeing the unixporn screenshots on image boards. Chrome pulls people in.
- Comment on Most Americans see Trump as "dangerous dictator," poll says 2 weeks ago:
A majority of Americans say President Trump is a “dangerous dictator” who poses a threat to democracy and believe he’s overstepped his authority by actions such as the mass firing of federal employees, a new survey says.
Really? That’s the first example that came to mind? Not deporting people, with zero due process, to a concentration camp in El Salvador?
- Comment on PewDiePie: I installed Linux (so should you) 2 weeks ago:
Try job hunting without a Windows machine. Good luck!
I don’t have any problem job hunting on a Linux box. Why would that matter?
- Comment on PewDiePie: I installed Linux (so should you) 2 weeks ago:
Your edge case is not indicative of a larger trend.
- Comment on Your Phone Isn’t Eavesdropping on You to Show You Ads (It’s Worse Than That) 2 weeks ago:
Which part didn’t make sense?
- Comment on Elon Musk's Social Platform X has filed a lawsuit agains Minnesota, challenging a law banning political deepfakes 2 weeks ago:
He lives in your head rent-free
What a freeloader! He should pay up.
- Comment on Google, X and Facebook Are Modern-Day Tobacco Companies 2 weeks ago:
Most companies aren’t peddling a toxic product like cigarettes (or social media).
- Comment on ‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw 2 weeks ago:
So, you have friends who are as stupid as an AI. Got it. What’s your point?
- Comment on ‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw 2 weeks ago:
Well, you know what they say: you can’t buy enough penguins to hide your grandma’s house.
- Comment on How your showerhead and fridge got roped into the culture wars 2 weeks ago:
How is it not? Showerheads and refrigerators are technology.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I wonder how Scribus is doing these days.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, whenever I hear people complaining about ads, I’m like “You guys are seeing ads?!”
I could understand if you needed to be some 1337 hacker to block ads, but uBlock is one of the easiest extensions I’ve ever used. You just set it and forget it. There’s zero configuration you need to do.
Of course, if there’s some ad that slips past, then you need to do some hacking, but that almost never happens nowadays.
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 3 weeks ago:
What’s the story with the Turkish protesters?
- Comment on This is real 3 weeks ago:
I don’t see how this attempt to speed-run a dictatorship is going to work well for them. You’re supposed to turn up the heat slowly, so the frog doesn’t notice that they’re boiling until it’s too late.
- Comment on This is real 3 weeks ago:
I’m sure that’s what they think.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 3 weeks ago:
That’s funny. I have no problem drawing circles in GIMP.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 3 weeks ago:
People learned on Photoshop, and then they’re upset because GIMP does things differently. I guarantee you if somebody had learned on GIMP first, it would be the other way around.
There’s nothing intuitive about Photoshop. If you pick it up with zero knowledge and try to do anything, you can’t. You have to take a class to learn how to use it, same as GIMP.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 3 weeks ago:
Sorry, Joplin is a nightmare. I want something that stores Markdown in flat files, not a database with changing versions where one version of the db doesn’t work in another version.
I tried to port the database over from another system, but the new version of Joplin wouldn’t read from the old version’s database, and it would corrupt the database when I tried to open it. What a crock of shit. I had to figure out how to dump the data from the tables using sqlite.
I use nb now instead. It is a bit wonky because it uses NodeJS, but you can view and edit files in a web browser, and it saves each entry as a .md file, which is the sane and rational way to do it. So, if nb ever fucks off, I have all my work in a directory of Markdown files, not some broken-ass sqlite database.