Peruvian_Skies
@Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on 18 hours ago:
Depends on how you want to do it: via a VPN like Tailscale, Cloudflare tunnel, etc.
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 2 days ago:
And the gratuitous association between random brand X and random hot person Y surely also serves a purpose, like subliminally telling your lizard brain that you’ll become like hot person Y, or succeed in mating with them, if you buy brand X. That explains the problem, but does nothing to make it less of a problem.
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 2 days ago:
Volume is the biggest problem, sure. Content is a close second. I was flabbergasted last time I was in the USA. Ads have barely any relation to what they’re selling.
A poster for shoes features a full-body shot of a half-naked model, the shoes barely visible with the whole poster within your visual field at once.
Ads for beer, travel agencies, clothes and antidepressant medicine, which should be illegal to advertise, by the way, are indistinguishable from each other: just a few happy 20-somethings in a nonspecific late afternoon outdoors setting.
A bunch of ads I saw I don’t even know what they were for, they just had hot young people and logos for companies I never heard of.
Several ads purporting to sell an “experience” when they were for the most mundane, use-it-on-autopilot products you’ve ever heard of. The products were so forgettable I can’t remember an actual example, but picture an ad selling you on the wonderful experience of using the new ad-supported monthly coat hanger subscription service and you’ve got it.
Ads for lawyers (something else that should be illegal) were on point though: “hey, do you want money you know you don’t deserve at all but can be argued in bad faith that you do? Hit me up”.
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 2 days ago:
Samsung is cancer.
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 2 days ago:
It works on 99% of consumers. As long as prevebting the ebshittification from stealing your data requires effort and knowledge, this will continue to be the case. Hence the arms race between enshittifiers and human beings.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
My brother in Christ, you’re the only one who even mentioned character stats.
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 3 days ago:
Specifically what evidence released by the investigation do you feel characterizes the alleged killer as left-leaning? I have not seen any such evidence.
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 4 days ago:
You should get it for free elsewhere. Don’t give this asshole your money.
- Comment on Brazilians take to the streets to celebrate Bolsonaro conviction 1 week ago:
Thanks! Hopefully things continue to go well.
- Comment on Brazilians take to the streets to celebrate Bolsonaro conviction 1 week ago:
Brazilian here. We’re pretty happy. I personally had lost all faith in our Justice system so I’m very pleasantly surprised that Tropical Trump got convicted. To my brethren up north, don’t stop fighting the good fight! There is still hope!
- Comment on DOJ plans to label trans Americans as "mentally defective" to take away their guns 2 weeks ago:
Isn’t that tacitly admitting that mentally unstable people shouldn’t have guns, and doesn’t that mean background checks?
I get that what these people ultimately want is for only cishet white men whose daddies beat them with belts to have guns but they definitely didn’t think through the implications of this move.
- Comment on DOJ does damage control as staffer admits Republicans will be redacted from Epstein files 2 weeks ago:
Wow, what a surprise.
- Comment on From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg 2 weeks ago:
You’re complainong that tooany people of the “wrong” kind are represented in media and I’m the one who lacks tolerance? Man, I thought maybe you were just ignorant but it turns out you’re actually mentally handicapped.
- Comment on From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg 2 weeks ago:
In that case I’ve already explained why you’re wrong.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 2 weeks ago:
You sweet summer child. That market is less than 0.1% of the total smartphone market and its continued existence is against the wishes of the oligopoly. Where there’s money, there is a way, but the money is working against us.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 2 weeks ago:
This is only relevant as long as someone is selling hardware with an unlockable bootloader. The scenario where that isn’t the case in a few years is unfortunately realistic.
- Comment on From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg 3 weeks ago:
You’re thinking about “documentaries”. There’s this whole other uniberse of films commonly referred to as “fiction”. Or are you upset that Hobbits are overrepresented in The Lord of the Rings, blue aliens in Avatar and people who can fly in Superman, too?
- Comment on Why do narcissists have such fragile egos? 3 weeks ago:
The reason is simple: all the main symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder involve behavior which is harmful to others.
In this, it is different from most forms of neurodivergence. Like psychopathy, it is a kind of antisocial personality disorder, in the sense that people who have it are harmful to society. Autism, ADHD, bipolar, BPD and even schizophrenia do not necessarily cause the sufferer to become harmful to others - in fact, the person afflicted with these conditions often harms themselves on an attempt not to inconvenience others, and only harms others unintentionally, while the narcissist does so intentionally and deliberately. People don’t demonize narcissists. Narcissism demonizes narcissists, and people recognize that.
- Comment on From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg 3 weeks ago:
Let me repeat myself: there is jo such thing as “overrepresentarion”. There isn’t, and shouldn’t be, a law that states that TV and movie producers have to follow census data strictly in their casting. That would be stupid.
- Comment on From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg 3 weeks ago:
No such thing.
- Comment on Have you know???. 3 weeks ago:
Very recently. And even if I never had, that’s an old argument. The human brain is capable of doing so, even if some given human never does. AI is incapable of doing so by design.
Let me explain this in a way you Americans can understand: The human brain is a gun. Even if most people just use it to pistol-whip others, it can shoot bullets. AI is a greasy cheeseburger. It will never shoot a bullet, and it’s also bad at pistol-whipping.
- Comment on Have you know???. 3 weeks ago:
Remixing isn’t innovation.
- Comment on A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In. 3 weeks ago:
What a surprise, the empathy-free text generator makes things worse when people expect it to output empathy. My condolences to the kid’s family and I hope he’s in a better place, but this sort of thing is going to happen more and more until people realize that AI chatbots only seem human-like because the human brain is so good at empathy that it projects emotions and agency onto anything, even a literal cowpile with googly eyes on top.
AI isn’t “good enough to fool us” . We’re just stupid enough to be fooled even by something as moronic as AI. What we emphadize in such a statement makes all the difference in how we handle this tech.
- Comment on US revokes visa of Brazil justice minister in Bolsonaro row 3 weeks ago:
Any Latino who goes to the USA right now (I understand calling Brasileiros Latinos is controversial for some people but in this case it applies) risks to go to Alligator Auschwitz for no good reason, so Lewandowski wasn’t going to use that visa anyway.
- Comment on From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, there’s nothing wrong with people being gay as long as they do it in secret and “normal” people don’t have to acknowledge it. /s
- Comment on Have you know???. 3 weeks ago:
Actually imagining. The fact that we have created previously unheard of tools such as the hammer, the wrench, the automobile and the profylactic condom is ample evidence that we can actually innovate, somethibg that artificial “intelligence” is ibcapable 9f doing by its very design.
- Comment on Andrew Tate sues Meta, TikTok for over $50 million for ‘deplatforming’ him 4 weeks ago:
You should though. Not for the same reasons as Tate but you definitely should be afraid of being locked in the same room as a deranged and highly aggressive baby eater who is basically always going through violent withdrawal.
- Comment on The AI-Powered PDF Marks the End of an Era 4 weeks ago:
You are completely correct. And these are all reasons why the more heavily a company relies on AI for critical applications, the more likely it will be to go bankrupt. This is inherently a self-fixing problem.
- Comment on The AI-Powered PDF Marks the End of an Era 4 weeks ago:
I firmly disagree. Once this bubble bursts, AI “features” will swiftly be removed from any software suite with a plan of remaining relevant. Everyone in the know has been painfully aware from the start that AI is a worthless technology. It’s only a matter of either the common man catching on or the industry pushing it so hard that it breaks the existing infrastructure. We’re moving firmly towards the second scenario.
- Comment on Andrew Tate sues Meta, TikTok for over $50 million for ‘deplatforming’ him 4 weeks ago:
You misspelled “rapist and sex trafficker who looks like Gollum”