Vanth

@Vanth@reddthat.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman’s World launches Mini Apps 1.2, lets devs build-to-earn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Pool of $300,000 of cryptocurrency?

  A developer of a top game can expect $25,000 in the cryptocurrency?

  So they’re expecting, say, four “top” games for three weeks and then the pool is used up. Feels like a new evolution of crypto scam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Great TikTok Migration: Western Extremists Flock to RedNote.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Keep reading. It’s not saying all Westerners migrating are extremists. It says extremists, like neo-Nazis, are among the Westerners migrating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can Twitter X control journalists and politicians? The shocking revelation from Musk's Italian trustee gives pause for thought⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but as government officials. Not as shareholders. Like through a warrant or whatever official process Italy uses.

  Can I buy a few shares and get the same access? That would be insane.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta will roll out its AI chatbot with text-only features in the EU this week on WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger, nearly a year after pausing.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you know anyone who actively uses Facebook anymore? Not Instagram.

  I’m in the US, East Coast, and know no one here who does. I believe I still have one aunt, ages 55+, living in the Midwest, who still uses it. She’s very much the stereotype, she’s been sucked into believing COVID is a conspiracy, all immigrants are dog-eating rapists, and trans people are going to break in to watch her pee in her home bathroom. She represents the average US Facebook user in my mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Explicit or educational: Is Big Tech censoring women's health?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A male colleague was upset he saw a new, wrapped tampon inside another colleagues purse the other day. Like, stopped in his day to complain out loud levels of upset. When he could have just … moved along or even not peeked inside her purse sitting on her desk.

  Of course women are and still will face our very existence being censored. Men are the default, women are “other”, and always at the whim of men for just how much they will be allowed to exist in public.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Might Be Time to Admit the Great VR Experiment Has Failed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, now do AI. I feel like normal people knew VR was dead again 3+ years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will an AI Bot Decide if You Get That Job?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My company sometimes uses that too. It has your general keyword filtering on resumes, with sensitivity adjustments.

  It also has a tool to ask questions, then candidates video record themselves responding (as many retakes as they want) and the hiring manager can review their video so they aren’t bound by a mutual schedule. No AI element to that (yet) that I’m aware of, but could see the potential to screen the videos through an AI filter.

  I don’t like the video screening, personally. Neither as an applicant nor as a hiring manager. I’ve only had to use it once as hiring manager where the narrowed down by resume pool of candidates was still 70 people for only one position. I used the damn tool because I didn’t see any other way to filter it down to a number I could conceivably interview live on zoom.

  If one is down to 3-5 candidates, AI tools of any sort are inappropriate. As with all things AI, it’s a tool and not an excuse to not do the job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lenovo joins growing China exodus as manufacturers flee US tariffs — OEM moving production lines to India⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. Remind him that Kamala Harris has half Indian ancestry and he’ll be ready to colonize it right after Panama, Greenland, and Canada.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is this how extroverts function?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You know women does not equal extrovert, I hope?

  “Women be bitchy unless I am bitchy first” is just too neatly packaged for internet woman-hating bait. Is this AI or someone trying to karma-farm reddit style?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In light of recent events, here's OpenStreetMap editors discussing naming of the Gulf of Mexico⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Can we poll the community for alternate names that would enrage Trump? If it’s gonna change, let’s have fun with it.

  Gulf of Veganism and Low Cholesterol

  Gulf of Checks and Balances

  Gulf of 34 Felony Counts

  Gulf of Cheetos (let’s get those sweet advertising dollars while we’re at it)

  Gulf of Insecurity

  Kamala-Clinton Gulf

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh, do they really change names of international things when only one party says so?

  Denali/McKinely is one thing, it’s part of the US. But the Gulf of Mexico is a mix of US, Mexico, Cuba, and international waters. I wonder what they show Google Maps users who are in Mexico.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨would you buy a compact laptop that has spacebar touch sensitivity and allows you to adjust input sensitivity, giving it dual purpose (a spacebar and a mouse)+ it has integrated A5 printer in it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t remember the last time I had to print something out on dead trees. Pass.

  I already carry a mouse with me when I travel because I hate laptop touchpads. So double pass on an even smaller area of integrated touchpad/spacebar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are you brewing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I brewed NB’s Bud Light Lime clone over the holidays. Can’t wait to crack that one once the weather turns.

  I’m looking at west coast pilsner recipes for my next brew, gotta jump on the bandwagon. I’m on the East Coast so I can at least be on the leading edge of the bandwagon locally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify Wrapped 2024 controversy explained — what you need to know⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why this even calls for generative AI is beyond me. Just post my top 5 artists and top 5 songs. It’s data already available.

  Mine said my top artist is Hozier, driving my Goblincore Fantasy Forest phase. I couldn’t name a Hozier song since Take Me To Church, a song that falls into Nickelback territory for me, as in sellouts that get way too much playtime. And no idea how that turned into goblins and fantasy forests.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Better luck next time⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, that’s like another 4 hours of embroidery. Accurate, but sooooo loooong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israel using AI weapons system co-produced with Indian firm in war on Gaza⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Am I reading the techno-babble accurately?

  You would muzzle sweep your target with the trigger pressed, and it would fire as your gun is actually aimed for the most-probable strike. If off target = it doesn’t fire = bullets saved and probably better targeting because the shooter isn’t dealing with as much recoil.

  So even less training needed and even further removed from human decision making. Soldiers didn’t murder that unarmed civilian, AI did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Legal complications await if OpenAI tries to shake off control by the nonprofit that owns the rapidly growing tech company⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Missing some punctuation.

  Don’t. Be evil.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Your body, my choice:" Hate and harassment towards women spreads online⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You could have just agreed that it’s crazy how far religious zealotry [has gone].

  And you could have followed this exact same advice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Your body, my choice:" Hate and harassment towards women spreads online⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For funsies, I websearched “movement stop male circumcism” and the three top hits were articles written by or groups founded by women speaking up for men.

  I’d love to see a real effort to stop genital mutilation of all babies. When the most visible time men speak up about it though is when they insert themselves into a conversation about women, it does not build sympathy for the issue.

  I mean this sincerely. If you are at all serious about stopping the genital mutilation of babies, I suggest you rethink your strategy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But did they pinky promise?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Jewels look like they were ripped straight out of the Reddit Gold playbook⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Vertical live streams? As in camera orientation? Vert videos will have this feature and horizontal won’t? Not knowing the intricacies of the content creator world, I don’t get why vertical vs horizontal should make any difference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lab supplies⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Free pair with a purchase over $1000. I firmly believe in the existence of someone buying a pile of lab equipment for a university grant and they pocketed the undies for themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tag your lab-mates⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Toxic gas

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta is reportedly working on its own AI-powered search engine, too⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Meta wants to decrease its reliance on Google

  Ugh, get a room already. Everyone can tell those two bicker because they want to be in each other’s pants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Annoyed Redditors tanking Google Search results illustrates perils of AI scrapers | "Spreading misinformation suddenly becomes a noble goal," Redditor says.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the new WallStreetBets GameStop saga. Fine when big companies manipulate the market, bad when normal people do it on a much smaller scale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Surgeons Are Wearing The Apple Vision Pro⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not just the $3.5k cost of a headset. There are recurring costs to maintain the headsets. Even larger than that is cost of converting existing work instructions into the virtual environment and maintaining them. Plus expect push back from some workers, possibly losing some to other companies. And if it’s a union shop, expect them to use the change as leverage in next negotiations.

  I would absolutely require more money to strap a chunk of electronics to my face for 8+ hours a workday.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Surgeons Are Wearing The Apple Vision Pro⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Airbus in Toulouse has one section of a production line where work instructions, tool tips, and prints are available to the mechanics on VR headset. There are surely other industries that are further along, but in aerospace, that Airbus line is goals. I’ve seen it in an open house / show off situation. I am still skeptical how mechanics use VR headsets for 8+ hour shifts day after day.

  I’m sure they’re not as intense as video game VRs, those start giving me headache and nausea after about 45 minutes. 8+ hours seems like it would be a lot. And at 8+ hours, it’s not even just the vision/nausea, I have to assume it becomes a question about ergonomics of neck and shoulders supporting the extra weight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Large Boeing Satellite Suddenly Explodes Into Pieces⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, it is public knowledge that layoffs and furloughs are happening, so sadly, you’re not wrong.

  And they somehow enticed Kelly Ortberg out of retirement to take over as CEO. There’s the hella juicy c-suite compensation package you talked about. He was already riding golden after he maneuvered that Rockwell Collins sale/merger/whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Raise the jolly rancher⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My brother did GM a one-shot set in a brewery staffed by magical creatures once. He was trying to draw in a sister who is into homebrewing and no previous experience with TTRPG. It kinda worked, she was willing to play but then kept correcting my brother when he got brewing specific facts wrong.

  I am already a fencsitter on TTRPGs, I want to like them but find so many people wildly annoying during them. If ever I run into another intersection fo TTRPG fan and homebrewing fan, I’m out. It was so terrifically pedantic and unnecessary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Telegram is exposing their users privacy.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My younger sister (Gen Z) talks smack about my generation (millennial) overuse of emojis and this Telegram post is making me agree with her. The attempt at cutesie emojis is jarring.