Flamekebab

@Flamekebab@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video game PEGI age-ratings are changing in Europe from June. Four new categories added to tackle elements of addictive design, unmonitored online communication and loot boxes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As the parent of a tiny child this is great to see. I couldn’t give less of a shit about violent contents in games and ratings based on that sort of unproven rubbish. However games that deliberately implement dark patterns are literally designed to be dangerously manipulative and that I want to be able to make informed decisions about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wealth Taxes Are Pointless While Tax Havens Exist⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess we’ll just have to continue doing nothing and see if things improve.

  Or perhaps by establishing the principle in law we can then build on it to take various measures to combat the problem. A solution doesn’t need to be perfect to be better than ignoring the problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨South Devon farmers design proposal for UK’s first Basic Income for Farmers pilot⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The notion that farming is supposed to be profitable is wild to me. The idea should be that we put money in and get food out. Wanting to also get money out is insane to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump: 'I am not happy with the UK'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Best news I’ve heard all day. I’d be more ashamed of us than usual if he was pleased with us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deprived Areas Have 70% More Vape Shops, Bookies and Takeaways⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What is it with people and fucking high streets?

  Neoliberalism killed them along with loads of other things. Unless someone feels like doing something about that then it’s just nostalgic wistfulness. Propping them up in some way doesn’t fix the system and too many arseholes made enough money to undermine our democracies to let things change.

  Also fuck Reform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Average house price tops £300,000 for first time, says Halifax⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think with some additional flood defence it’d be fine but I’d expect the price to reflect that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Average house price tops £300,000 for first time, says Halifax⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m reminded of a place near me that’s on a flood plain. It’s been on the market for ages. They seem perplexed as to why it’s not been snapped up for their ridiculous asking price.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘You’d be ashamed to bring someone here’: The struggling billionaire-owned high street that shows Reform’s road to No 10⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It does amuse me that there was such a push for neoliberal capitalism and then it’s shocked Pikachu face all ’round when loads of businesses models don’t fit the infinite growth approach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK proposes forcing Google to let publishers opt out of AI summaries⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Could we have the same for YouTube videos? I don’t want your stupid summaries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Immich 2.5 Released With Free Up Space, Web Backups⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice! I’ll update my container and give it a go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New study: No-alcohol and low-alcohol beers, and dry pubs, are on the rise⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not tastier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ex-Tory Home Secretary Braverman defects to Reform UK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that like moving from the compost to the landfill?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wildlife cam setups?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmmm, an RPi with a camera might well work. The problem there is more the amount of work I’d need to do - I haven’t got that kind of time right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wildlife cam setups?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  An honest answer that it’s not currently easily doable is in and of itself useful.

  This is a “nice to have”. I figured I’d ask preemptively so that I didn’t go down a blind alley. Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wildlife cam setups?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I would be buying. The cam I borrowed wouldn’t fit the setup I want, I just mentioned it because I want that functionality but without the hassle of pulling the SD card.

  So far it doesn’t sound like what I want exists, unfortunately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wildlife cam setups?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That essentially boils down to “build your own solution”, which under my current circumstances amounts to “don’t do it”. Not that I lack the skill or will but the spare time and energy I have is used on my baby daughter. I can’t justify rabbit holing on something like this.

  It’s why I created this thread - to see if there’s a software and hardware combo that solves this with minimal additional work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wildlife cam setups?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  WiFi would be easily sufficient. We’re talking a distance of 10m from my router, tops.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wildlife cam setups?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I borrowed a camera - it’s not the one I would be using for this.

  That’s why I’m asking. I haven’t bought anything yet and don’t want to get the wrong thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wildlife cam setups?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That would be possible, yep.

• Wildlife cam setups?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rockstar still hasn't offered a convincing reason for firing over 30 GTA 6 developers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the thing though - I find that what it saves me in time writing it costs me in reviewing. I hate reviewing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rockstar still hasn't offered a convincing reason for firing over 30 GTA 6 developers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If so, is it any good?

  I imagine if one writes janky spaghetti then it’s easy to think that LLMs will result in redundancy. My experience is that they’re like having an over-enthusiastic junior who doesn’t learn. Useful when one can’t be bothered to write something with very limited scope but is quickly out of their depth on anything involved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rockstar still hasn't offered a convincing reason for firing over 30 GTA 6 developers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So you think that 90-100% of programming jobs WON’T be replaced by AI within a decade?

  Stop, stop, I can’t breathe!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 539 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This really hammers home how naff the rats in Dishonored were. They’re slightly prettier than these but with eleven years of additional technological progress my expectations were a smidge higher.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meetings⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I tend to find them useful for taking nebulous, multi-faceted situations and turning them into a better understanding of what’s going on and then determining actual actions.

  As in “different customers want us to do different things, some of which overlap, some of which take ages, some of which are quick, some of which take a load of work to even understand, and who have we got ready to tackle this stuff?”

  The meeting takes a while and melts everyone’s brains by the end, but the result isn’t loads more long meetings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK university degree no longer ‘passport to social mobility’, says King’s vice-chancellor⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t realise that the Department of Obvious was still being funded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love science⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s ISS rule 34 content, after all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If she loves it, why does she want to do less of it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How open are you about yourself to others online in general?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty open. I’ve been using the internet this way for about 25 years and to date it’s never been a problem. I’ve got clothes with my handle across the shoulders, etc. so it’s not a secret who I am. I try not to be too specific about some stuff that I don’t feel are mine to talk about, or that might be professionally problematic (I don’t really talk about my current employment anyway - I’m not ashamed of it, it’s just not very interesting and doesn’t particularly define me so it’s not very relevant).

  In various online communities over the years I’ve been one of the biggest fish so I’m occasionally recognised which varies between flattering and a little uncomfortable (usually in terms of " You clearly want something so what is it you want me to do/not do or wish I had done/hadn’t done?” but with socially awkward pleasantries). This has resulted in someone trying to use an FAQ I wrote to argue against me, not realising - meaning I effectively had to dust off the old “don’t you know who I am‽” type of response (albeit minus the diva overtones).

  In the past the odd person has been a bit stalky and then been surprised when this information doesn’t intimidate me (I recall a particularly memorable one being “I know what you look like” to which my response was a photo of me with a shocked face). I do care what other people think but disapproval doesn’t bother me all that much. I try to be true to myself so when confronted there’s nothing to use against me - there’s no cognitive dissonance (so if I was an arsehole, no, I meant to be, it wasn’t an accident, it’s what I felt was an honest response to the situation).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm disappointed to the max⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can only tell the difference when I see the two together!