lvxferre
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The catarrhine who invented a perpetual motion machine, by dreaming at night and devouring its own dreams through the day.
- Comment on Lexispell is a roguelike word game where strategy meets physics 5 days ago:
That sounds fun. I hope the game is moddable, so you can use other languages with it too. (Let’s say my ability to quickly remember English words is less than stellar.)
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 6 days ago:
0.25 mL of lemon juice is probably too much already.
She’s doing the maths for the concentration of citric acid in lemon juice through the formula C(acid) = 10^(-pH). That works fine for a strong acid, because you can be pretty sure all that acid in the solution is dissociated, and thus lowering its pH… but citric acid is weak - and weak acids don’t dissociate properly in already acidic conditions.
This means there’s probably way more acid in that solution than the pH makes you believe, but that acid will react once you raise the pH, by mixing the lemon juice into the water.
(I don’t blame her for using the strong acid maths. It’s already enough to convey her point, plus the maths for weak acids is a bloody pain.)
- Comment on Archaeologists Discover the World's Oldest Paintings—Made Long Before Humans Existed, and Eerily Sophisticated 1 week ago:
The title is a trainwreck but, basically: the art predates Homo sapiens sapiens reaching those regions.
- Comment on I spent 18 months training generative AI – here’s what I learned 1 week ago:
Both letters in “AI” are bullshit. Most of us know about the “I”; the text is about the “A”.
- Comment on The age verification effect: adult site traffic plummets, VPN use soars 1 week ago:
I wonder if that isn’t exactly the goal behind all this shit.
- Comment on Bluesky experiments with dislikes and 'social proximity' to improve conversations 1 week ago:
#3 would probably not work in a microblog service due to the structure, but the other two could be easily ported. I could see them popping up in Mastodon, for example; but Bluesky? Not really - it doesn’t want to empower users, it wants to herd them.
- Comment on Bluesky experiments with dislikes and 'social proximity' to improve conversations 1 week ago:
I should’ve made the sarcasm more obvious; my bad. (“Still a better love story than Twilight” kind of implies something is still bad or unremarkable; it’s like saying “wow, this meal tastes better than shit”.)
Yes, the Fediverse is genuinely good. And better than both Bluesky and Twitter.
- Comment on Bluesky experiments with dislikes and 'social proximity' to improve conversations 1 week ago:
Charitably, these tweaks sound like another way Bluesky is trying to give users more control over what they see on the platform, in the same way it does with things like notifications. Less charitably, you could read the “social neighborhood” concept as a way to entrench users in their “filter bubble” rather than address larger moderation issues.
Potentially both simultaneously.
I think that a few key factors would be:
- will the algo deciding who’s in your “social neighbourhood” be publicly available? Or is it a matter of “trust me = be gullible trash”?
- which will be the rules deciding it? Poor rules can backfire really bad, encouraging mob mentality instead.
- are they going to address the poor moderation of their own platform, regardless of the above?
Either way the prospect is good. Still a better love story than Twitterlight.
- Comment on A rant on left-wing online infighting 1 week ago:
I hear ya. In fact your rant overlaps quite a bit with my own rants against witch hunters (people who screech, bash, or try to denounce someone else, online and in the open, with little to no grounds to do so).
I know this is not every or most interactions on Lemmy, but…
…but it’s like biting into something rotten: the foul taste lingers for a while, no matter how much good food you have afterwards.
- Comment on Paradox apologise for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2's new Halloween gear initially only being a treat for fresh saves 1 week ago:
As I often say: Paradox is the hipsters’ Electronic Arts. It sees you as cattle ready to be milked (through DLCs), its QA resembles used toilet paper, and it loooves some corporate apologies that sound a lot like “Who’s some gullible trash? You are! Yes, you are! Good customer!” Just like EA does, except they handle niche games.
That said the bug doesn’t look that bad, given it’s only cosmetics.
- Comment on The oldest Minecraft server, MinecraftOnline, is being shut down by Microsoft 1 week ago:
While I do criticise MinecraftOnline policies regarding free speech as short-sighted, enabling hate, and making the world overall a worse place, this is the minor issue here. The major issue is that you got a corporation bossing you around on what you can/can’t do with the copy of the game you bought, including dictating which servers you’re allowed to use it with.
Don’t get me wrong - my issue aren’t the “I wanna spam slurs lol” braindead trash being silenced, it’s that Microsoft has that power. And it will use that power to silence things you might want to say, even when moral and reasonable to do so.
Remember: if crushing puppies is profitable, you’re bound to have corporations crushing them, and then silencing people who defend puppies as “anti-puppy-crushing terrorists”. Specially given we’re dealing with Microsoft, that is in hot beds with fascists (including Zionists).
- Comment on The oldest Minecraft server, MinecraftOnline, is being shut down by Microsoft 1 week ago:
Disregard the binary “free speech” label. Focus on “freedom of speech” instead, since it’s easier to see what goes on with it.
Nobody has full freedom of speech, but you can have more or less of it. It is desirable, and you want to maximise the freedom of speech of everyone.
There’s a catch, though: sometimes enabling more freedom of speech to certain actors means you’re removing freedom of speech from other actors - by forcing the later to leave, by silencing them, by preventing them from reaching a willing audience, etc.
With that in mind:
It’s become really hard to tell what something like this actually means. Does free speech mean [being able to speak out against authoritarian power structures]¹? Or does it mean [throwing slurs and hatred around]²?
It’s both. However:
- #1 is about giving more freedom of speech to a lot of people who barely have some
- #2 is about giving a few individuals freedom of speech and silencing the target of their slurs and hatred
So if you want to maximise freedom of speech, you need to allow #1 and disallow #2. Or like you correctly said, it makes #1 worth defending and #2 reasonable to limit.
The fact that they just typify it as having a free speech policy without qualifying what that means makes my skeptical.
They qualify it in the wiki, and it includes #2:
[…] You will not be banned for anything you say, aside from spamming. This includes but is not limited to: // Swearing; // Personal attacks; // Racial or cultural insults; // Asking to be banned.
Intentionally being insulting or offensive will be treated as an open invitation to PvP, and as such will not be protected by rules against PvP “bullying”, since you will be considered to have invited it. So long as you continue being offensive, other players are free to respond with PvP.
- Comment on Civilization VII set for a big change to allow you to play as one civ continuously 2 weeks ago:
The game is unreasonably expensive, and bundled with malware (DRM). Both issues can be fixed by pirating it, but… frankly? I don’t think it’s even worth pirating it.
Check the Steam reviews. Bad interface, the ages system undermines the premise of the game, shallow diplomacy, AI is easy to manipulate, and apparently released in a broken/incomplete state. Whoever made this game doesn’t play the series, and it shows.
- Comment on [Episode] My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero’s • Ansatsusha de Aru Ore no Status ga Yuusha yori mo Akiraka ni Tsuyoi no da ga - Episode 4 discussion 2 weeks ago:
Surprisingly wholesome episode given naughty elves, sibling fights, and the overall edgy aesthetic of the series.
- Comment on ISP tricked customers about fiber optics being used in their internet service, German court rules — 'full fiber' customers found to have 'last mile' copper connections 3 weeks ago:
For those that aren’t sure if you have fiber, the fiber will literally run into your “modem” (your Optical Network Terminal or ONT) and it will be incredibly clear that you have fiber. The wire is incredibly thin and they will warn you about bending it too much.
And if the connector breaks, you can’t simply fix it at home like you would do with copper. You’ll spend an internet-less weekend until the technician fixes it.
Source: got this shit happening with me this month. On a lighter side the work piled up disappeared real fast!
- Comment on [Episode] Campfire Cooking in Another World with my Absurd Skill Season 2 • Tondemo Skill de Isekai Hourou Meshi 2 - Episode 3 discussion 3 weeks ago:
Fenrir: “Dungeon nao?” MC: “Nope!”
Dora-chan: “Dungeon nao?” MC: “Nope!”
Sui: “Dungeon nao?” MC: “Yes, yes. Dungeon now.”That’s blatantly preferential treatment!
- Comment on Study proves being rude to AI chatbots gets better results than being nice 3 weeks ago:
I’m surprised the best strategy wasn’t the neutral prompt, due to removal of any fluff.
- Comment on ChatGPT has the same personality flaws as some of the dumbest people I know 4 weeks ago:
At least you got a nice example of the third paragraph.
- Comment on Nobody Has Ever Wanted Your Website to Do This 4 weeks ago:
They sell their soul to Satan.
Just kidding. They sell something that exists (their data) to something worse (megacorporations) - by installing one “lol app lmao haha” after another.
- Comment on ChatGPT has the same personality flaws as some of the dumbest people I know 4 weeks ago:
Being pedantic, a sycophant, 2deep4u and bird-brained annoy me. But the one that hits me the hardest is that it makes shit up. I call people like this “assumers”, and I genuinely think they’re worse than malicious but smart people; I actively try to remove them from my life.
ChatGPT’s output is the same - you can’t simply trust it for anything you won’t either review manually, or where mistakes wouldn’t matter that much.
- Comment on Is there a community dedicated to anime where sexualization of characters is minimum and strictly no sexualization of minors (or minor looking "adults")? 4 weeks ago:
Like others, I don’t know about a comm but I’ll rec a few series. Biased towards isekai because it’s what I often watch.
You’re likely to enjoy:
- Sousou no Frieren (Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End)
- Mairimashita! Iruma-kun (Welcome to Demon School Iruma-kun!)
- Saihate no Paladin (The Paladin of the End)
If bored, check those:
- Rozen Maiden
- Spy x Family note there is some fanservice for the assassin, but she’s adult, adult-looking, and it’s mostly legs
- Log Horizon
- Akuyaku Reijou Tensei Oji-san (From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad’s Been Reincarnated!)
- Youjo Senki (The Saga of Tanya the Evil)
- Otome Game no Hametsu Flag shika Nai Akuyaku Reijou ni Tensei shiteshimatta… (IDR the English name, people call it “Bakarina” or “Hamefura” anyway)
- Isekai Mokushiroku Mynoghra (note: Atou dresses in a rather showy way, but that’s it.)
- Comment on We're The Only Ones With Chins - And We Don't Know Why | PBS Eons [13:46] 4 weeks ago:
Pretty much, but what is being selected for is also interesting. Perhaps it isn’t the chin itself, but the resonance and its effect on our voices.
- Comment on Punch Time 4 weeks ago:
One of my favourite instances of adaptation got to be Ted Woolsey’s “son of a submariner! They’ll pay for this…”, for the English localisation of Final Fantasy III / VI.
In the game, Kefka (the villain) is saying this as the heroes escape him, but the original only says “ヒーーー くっそー！このかりは必ず返しますよ!”; literally “heeee shit! I will definitively return this debt” or similar. However:
- That “ヒーーー” interjection has no meaning on its own. It’s only there to highlight the character’s emotional state. It could be safely removed, without loss of meaning.
- くそ / 糞 kuso “crap! shit!” is vulgar, but by no means as vulgar as English “shit”. Specially given the 90s, and this game being marketed to kids. But it means the villain is being rude towards the heroes (makes sense, right).
So, translating it as simply “hey you!” or similar would mutilate the original, by removing the rudeness. But at the same time, Woolsey couldn’t use “shit” or “crap” or similar. So he looked at the context:
- Kefka is crazy, and the way he uses Japanese in the original is odd. For example, he uses the pronoun “ぼくちん” bokuchin to refer to himself, as if he was a kid - and yet he’s a court mage of an empire dammit. (It’s a bit deeper than that, but let’s focus.)
- a bit before Kefka says this, there’s a city in the desert also fleeing Kefka - by going underground instead, as if it was some sort of “sand submarine”.
So Woolsey went with “son of a submariner!”, something he likely made up on the spot. And you know what? It’s perfect - it’s completely on-character for Kefka to insult people in such a weird way.
- Comment on Punch Time 4 weeks ago:
It’s a bit more complicated: if you’re dealing with the sounds it’s transcription, if you’re converting from writing system into another it’s transliteration.
So for example, what you did is transliteration. But if you were to record some Japanese guy speaking and wrote it down (in kanji+kana, Latin, or even IPA), it would be transcription.
- Comment on We're The Only Ones With Chins - And We Don't Know Why | PBS Eons [13:46] 5 weeks ago:
My guess is that it has to do with language. More specifically, it helps higher pitched sounds to resonate louder and more distinctively from other sounds.
- Comment on It definitely wasn't me 😶 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on [Episode] May I Ask for One Final Thing? • Saigo ni Hitotsu dake Onegai Shite mo Yoroshii Deshou ka - Episode 1 discussion 5 weeks ago:
Fuck yeah. The manga series is awesome, and at least the first ep did it justice.
The “dance” scene was beautiful.
- Comment on Windows 7 marketshare jumps to nearly 10% as Windows 10 enters final weeks of support 5 weeks ago:
I think I get it. For a lot of people, the situation is probably like this:
Basically “since both W7 and W10 are now unsupported, might as well stick to W7, I like it better.”
- Comment on Nearly a third of all gaming PCs are still running Windows 10, even as Microsoft prepare to kill it 5 weeks ago:
This: gentle support and help works way better than soapboxing.
- Comment on Microsoft moves to the uncanny valley with creepy Copilot avatars that stare at you and say your name 1 month ago:
Even then. I bet the first thing you see is those portraits in a weird mix of corporate “art” and realistic style.
