Zacryon
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- Comment on Dear Faith II 29 minutes ago:
Not using colors in scientific writing is discarding a valuable information channel and therefore inefficient. When you are already limited in the allowed word count, this can speed up conveying information and reduce cognitive strain on readers (and possibly yourself). So it’s a win-win.
This should not end in chaos though, where colours are more confusing than helpful.
The times when we had to print out each and every single page on a crappy black/white office printer are luckily becoming more and more a thing of the past. So even this is no longer a good reason to not use colours.
- Comment on AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year 1 week ago:
It’s nice how AI datacenters step by step swallow virtually all available hardware resources to provide digital services to users who won’t be able to use those services due to the lack of available hardware.
- Comment on Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's Zionist Bar Problem 1 week ago:
if anything the defamation was coming from emopunker, declaring people upvoting the thread […] as ‘the same person’
Fair point.
I am on the fence about the ‘snark comm’ ordeal. I think such communities are – to some degree – meaningful for a critical discourse. Imo, one should be allowed to point out and criticise users, communities, whole instances.
Then again, this should not make someone a target for harassment.
From my pov, it’s a question of balancing interests here: civilised criticism is important and should be allowed. Especially in such public spaces. Denying this due to a hazard of making them a target for people who see this as a ‘call to action’ would suffocate such discussions completely. So I’d address the harassers and sanction them, instead of people who merely point things out they find suspicious, as in this case.
So unless Emopunker directly incited the harassment or did it themselves, I’d lean towards: “yeah, somewhat uncool to throw such accusations in the room without further proof, but that doesn’t make them the culprit”.
- Comment on Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's Zionist Bar Problem 1 week ago:
Basing this on a temporal chain of events alone is weak. I’ll give you, that there might be a connection: names listed -> harassment started.
That does not mean that Emopunker is responsible though. Could have been another user. Could have been you for all I know. Could also have happened for other reasons. And, there is still the possibility that it might have no connection to this at all.
You’ll need to provide some stronger evidence, otherwise I’ll take this as baseless accusations and, possibly, a defamation attempt.
Feel free to deliver, especially since you seem to be observing this. I’d like to know whether an admin on the instance I am using is harassing people.
- Comment on Elder Scrolls 6 Is Powered By New Version Of Creation Engine 1 week ago:
Shit, don’t got much time left to finally play through Skyrim.
- Comment on Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's Zionist Bar Problem 1 week ago:
I followed your link. It shows a comment you made, yet with another link to a comment by Emopunker@feddit.org. And you claim that they harass people. The comment by Emopunker shows a screenshot where three usernames are listed that share similarities. Emopunker says that they have the suspicion that the shown users are the same person with alt accounts.
In conclusion: I wonder whether you forgot to attach some context, because based on this alone I don’t see anything that support your claims.
- Comment on YSK you can poison your personal data to fight against surveillance capitalism. 2 weeks ago:
Nope. It just started another arms race.
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 2 weeks ago:
Stoat (formerly Revolt), is a strong FOSS competitor with a Discord-like feeling stoat.chat github.com/stoatchat
- Comment on This kid gets it 4 weeks ago:
There are already a few that have a name in that direction.
- Comment on Scientists have confirmed that a 26ft tall, tree-trunk-shaped organism, first discovered in Scotland in 1843, isn't a fungus or plant, but an entirely distinct evolutionary branch of life 5 weeks ago:
About 7,9248 m
- Comment on Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI 1 month ago:
To be fair, capitalism is inherently incompatible with advancements in robotics and AI. Doesn’t mean the technology is destroying the economics and society. The eco-societal system was already broken to begin with.
- Comment on Self-Care 1 month ago:
I really need to do this. Will be a fun day at work.
- Comment on really makes you think 1 month ago:
Different waters taste differently. Tap water taste differs from region to region. Bottled water tastes differently between brands and also compared to tap water. This is also caused by varying amounts of minerals.
If you think your sense of taste works fine, but can not tell taste differences in water, try making direct comparisons. Take some bottled water and some tap water (if it is safe for drinking whereever you live). Then take a sip, focus on the taste. Try making out differences. Repeat a couple of times.
If you still can’t make out any differences and you weren’t impatient, it might be worth training your sense of taste first, because water does have a flavour. - Comment on I love science 1 month ago:
Do what fills your heart and belly.
- Comment on G-Assist is ‘real’: NVIDIA unveils NitroGen, open-source AI model that can play 1000+ games for you 2 months ago:
Apart from games, where this can also be used for more capabable and behaviourally more “interesting” NPCs (including computer opponents or teammates), the used techniques can be transferred to robotics. Quite a cool architecture.
- Comment on The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is 100.00% decompiled 2 months ago:
Important
This repository does not contain any game assets or assembly whatsoever. An existing copy of the game is required.
This project itself is not, and will not, produce a port, to PC or any other platform. It is a decompilation of the original game code, which can be compiled back into a binary identical to the original.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 2 months ago:
“Kill switch” is a bit dramatic. It’s an on or off toggle. Would be funny though to call every toggle a kill switch. “Yeah, using the kill switch on GPU acceleration may help with rendering on some systems.”
“Use the kill switch for preventing Firefox of starting a new session without restoring the old tabs.”
“Kill all of your browser data upon exiting Firefox by enabling the kill switch.”
“Make Firefox your default browser by enabling the ‘set as default browser kill switch’.”
Extended to other UI interaction classes: “You don’t like English? Kill it by using the battle royale language selector to choose only the one language you like.”
- Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox 2 months ago:
I do as long as it stays open source.
- Comment on xkcd #3182: Telescope Types 2 months ago:
www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/…/3182:_Telescope_Types
I missed some puns as it seems. E.g. the comoving or proper distances in gravitational lenses.
- Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox 2 months ago:
- Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox 2 months ago:
Yes. But we will have to see whether it’s opt-in or opt-out. This can make quite a significant difference.
- Comment on The Sensory Biology of Plants 2 months ago:
Just a little nitpick: vegans are omnivores too. Afaik, being omnivorous describes the biological ability to digest plant matter and meat (and fungi ). Voluntarily restricting ones diet for whatever reason does not remove this ability.
- Comment on Crews Walk Out on Nashville Tunnel, Claiming Boring Company Failed to Pay Workers and Snubbed OSHA Concerns 2 months ago:
Has someone considered that they might have been bored? /j
- Comment on Insulin 2 months ago:
Naive question from a european: Aren’t there companies on the market who can offer a cheaper price and therefore beat greedy competitors?
- Comment on eleven 3 months ago:
Skyrim was released on the 11.11.2011. I still haven’t played through. It’s about time.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 4 months ago:
The logic behind the voice controls sounds pretty questionable, but it’s supposedly backed by data showing that users spend billions of minutes talking in Microsoft Team meetings, according to Mehdi — so they’re already used to talking on the computer, right?
Do they really reason like this? Oh my. That’s stupid. And here I was thinking Microsoft employs clever people.
- Comment on one bright second 4 months ago:
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Don’t worry. We’re working on AI powered humanoid robots that will replace natural human connection.
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 4 months ago:
This is in beta, not available for all users and you can also disable it easily: support.ecosia.org/article/994-ai-overviews
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 4 months ago:
As far as I know they are using Bing. They’ve started building their own search index last year in a partnership with Qwant.
