MagicShel

@MagicShel@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia’s Social Media Ban Is Isolating Kids With Disabilities—Just Like Critics Warned⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. I’m pretty sure for profit social media isn’t good for anyone. Adults shouldn’t use it either. But we decided long ago that you can’t stop adults from drinking or smoking weed, so adults are just mature enough to handle it or approach lies and manipulation with more skepticism, but I look around and see it’s not true.

  I feel like at least things like Lemmy and Mastodon are much easier to filter or walk away from when you aren’t in the right emotional space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Having grown up on sci-fi I always knew there would be people who reject robots and AI on a visceral level, I just thought it wouldn't be me.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What we have now is “neat.” It’s freaking amazing it can do what it does. However it is not the AI from science fiction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dr. Oz pushes AI avatars as a fix for rural health care. Not so fast, critics say⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  AI is a much better tool to help experts than replace them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[WSJ] Pentagon Used Anthropic’s Claude in Maduro Venezuela Raid⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Used how?

  Like, Claude, write up an operational plan for capturing President Maduro.?

  Or like, Claude, turn these crayon drawings into tactical plans.?

  Or like, Claude, help me find Brazil on a map.?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta patented an AI that lets you keep posting after you die⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “The highlight of my life is breaking 2k karma on a single 5 word shit comment.”

  Inspired by a “true” story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare now serves sites in Markdown to AI agents⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  MD is a nearly ideal format. I keep my personal notes and time management stuff in Obsidian using markdown. Write my blog in Markdown. AsciiDoc is nice, too, for certain use cases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta patented an AI that lets you keep posting after you die⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How much would it suck to wake up one day to find you’ve gone viral for words you never posted?

  Guess it wouldn’t matter if you only went viral with AI. Until the AI death threats start.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Practically speaking, that means that people and organisations running a Matrix server with open registration must verify the ages of users in countries which require it.

  So if I just host my account on a home server on my raspberry pi, then I don’t have to age verify? I see. And I can still invite friends and family, I just can’t open up registration to the general public? I see.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon's Ring cancels Flock partnership amid Super Bowl ad backlash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They are all over the place with their communication. I checked specifically when they first announced this partnership. And it turned out that when you share your videos with public safety, it was also being shared to Flock. And only the specific videos you choose to share. So I thought it was a big nothing before all this — just don’t share videos with public safety. I never have and never will.

  But to walk their cooperation back must mean they got significant complaints and need to do some PR. Or they tried some shit that wasn’t spelled out in their privacy statement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think on balance, the internet was a bad idea. AI is just exemplifying why. Humans are simply not meant to be globally connected. Fucking town crazies are supposed to be isolated, mocked, and shunned, not create global delusions about contrails or Jewish space lasers or flat Earth theory. Or like… white supremacy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is browser preference a personality flaw? AI job interview evaluation raises questions— AI said applicant's 'habitual' Chrome use could indicate a 'lack of adaptability' after screening interview⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate chrome and refuse to use it as a browser, but I won’t deny their dev tools are pretty good. I can get the job done in Safari and Firefox, but chrome set the standard that they are aspiring to (and maybe have caught, idk, I refuse to use it). I wouldn’t dock anyone interview points for using it — as long as their attitude toward other browsers isn’t “fuck people who use those, they are 6% of the market” (or whatever the right number is, I made that shit up).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Manfluencers’ are filming themselves trying to pick up women using smart glasses⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not at all what is implied by the thought experiment. It’s not all men, it’s a random man. And it’s not that they are dangerous, it’s about what feels riskier from a woman’s perspective.

  That’s why all the fretting over which kind of bear is missing the point. It’s not about arguing with women that they are wrong, it’s about listening to them and understanding that they have no idea whether the man is the sort that would kill them if they say or do or don’t do the right thing — but the odds are sufficient that all men must be treated like a potential threat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Manfluencers’ are filming themselves trying to pick up women using smart glasses⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Without wading into all the technicalities, could we perhaps agree that if you have to say, “what kind of bear tho’,” that we are already in troubling territory?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Manfluencers’ are filming themselves trying to pick up women using smart glasses⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you are a woman alone in the woods, would you rather come across an unknown man, or a bear? It’s a thought experiment. As a human woman, which represents a greater immanent threat?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taste the flavor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I once went to a little hole in the wall Thai restaurant on the north end of Toledo. I ordered Panang or the closest thing I could find on the menu, as is my wont. They asked how spicy I wanted it and, having had far too many Americanized “extra spicy” dishes, I said as spicy as they could.

  Now, this food was really good. But half way through the bowl, and having already drained the solitary glass of water they deigned to deliver to my table, I saw God. Which is intense for an atheist.

  I finished the whole thing. I’m not sure if I was trying to prove something to myself or to them. I never got a single drop of water after that first cup, but I ate every ice cube.

  Another time, I was in Thailand at a fancy restaurant. Eating Thai in America is different from eating it in Thailand. Different ingredients, different styles. And on the table was a small bowl of teeny peppers. I took them to be similar to pickled jalapeños, so I put a few onto my plate to mix with my food.

  They were not pickled. Or least by the time I could taste again, I detected no brine. I don’t know what they were suspended in, but I can only assume it was secreted from the glands of a hell-beast, or perhaps squeezed out of an elemental ur-pepper.

  My point is not to marvel at the myriad ways I’ve tried to kill myself with Thai food, but just to say I’ve never had a spicy shit in my life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taste the flavor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  … bruh…

  to keep us from doing stupid things with our butts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  AI PC / Copilot+ label

  Okay that sounds solvable, at least. I mean, I hate it, but it seems that a person is getting what they pay for here. Thanks for the heads up. Hopefully there will be plenty of non-AI PC / Copilot+ computers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Did Microsoft demand vendors include such a button with those specs? If not, that sounds like a vendor issue, and I’d be looking at other vendors. Either way I’m happy to use keyboards/OSs without that “feature.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Happened To WebAssembly⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with your gist but…

  JS is a really good language for building frontends.

  Disagree. I think there is an entire ecosystem built out of coping with it being an awful language. That being said, the ecosystem is pretty good at adding first class features to a third rate language and your points stand. I don’t want anything to do with JS in the back end, though NodeJS isn’t entirely awful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"A hill I'm willing to die on" is a weird phrase for what it means.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You know it’s a figure of speech, right? Sometimes you have to figure out when you can retreat from a position and when it’s too important to cede ground.

  A hill I’m willing to die on is a position you can’t or won’t surrender regardless of what you must face to hold it.

  As metaphors go, it’s one of the better ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this an opportunity to self-publish my own book for $100k per copy and be guaranteed one sale?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess we should buy more Blu-rays. But I don’t have a good space to library all of them… wait a sec… I have an idea…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The people like AI because they treat it like a search engine.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AI has a lot more surface knowledge about a lot more things than my parents ever did. I think one of the more insidious things about AI though, is that will a human you can generally tell when they are out of their depth. They grasp for words. Their speech cadence is more hesitant. Their hesitation is palpable. (I think palpable might be considered slop these days, but fuck haters it’s how I write — emdashes and all.)

  AI never gives you that hint. It’s like an autistic encyclopedia. “You want to know about the sun? I read just the book. Turns out there’s a god who pulls it across the sky every day.” And then it proceeds to gaslight you when you ask probing questions.

  (It has gotten better about this due to the advanced meta prompting behind the scenes and other improvements, but the guardrails are leaky.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World's largest particle accelerator begins warming thousands of local French residents with waste energy from the 16-mile Large Hadron Collider⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Amidala: Because they’ll gain super powers right? Right?

  Anakin: smiles

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are people out there who could utterly smash world records but no-one will never know as they haven't taken up that sport.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You cannot simply sprint into Mordor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Just Killed the "Cover for Me" Excuse: Microsoft 365 Now Tracks You in Real-Time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like a broken link.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla profit tanked 46% in 2025 | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I rode in a Tesla last week. Some of the tech is better than what I’ve experienced in other vehicles. To be fair, a lot of the controls are way worse and key functions are buried in screens and menus that are difficult to find.

  I’ll never own a Tesla, but I do hope the always on wireframe view of everything around you comes to other vehicles. It’s way easier to see pedestrians and cross traffic in a parking spot on that screen than it is the 360 camera view on our new Traverse which is only available in reverse and for a few seconds after shifting to forward.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta's latest subscription move is an attempt to offset its AI bets⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  users are presented with a clear choice between two paths

  There is a third path. Just stop being a user. Maybe that choice isn’t clear enough. Push notifications are fucking evil. I removed the app and use FB as a PWA about once every six months. I might use it more if it had content from my friends or anyone I gave a fuck about, but instead it’s all promotions and suggestions.

  Without the little red number creating FOMO on my phone, I haven’t no impulse to check it. Yet I check Lemmy several times a day. I check Bluesky every couple of days. Because every time I open them, someone I want to hear from is posting something I want to see. You should try that, Zuck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perceiving AI as a 'job killer' negatively influences attitudes towards democracy— When people perceive AI as replacing human labour, trust in democracy and political participation decline⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure I like that this headline / research seems to frame the issue as a PR problem. I don’t want to be filled with a bunch of AI slop to try to convince me that AI is not a threat to my job. I think overall I have a pretty balanced view of AI — though how many of us realize when we are unhinged — but I think it’ll eventually settle into a tool which increases efficiency, slightly reduces jobs in certain sectors just like the farm combine did, and not a lot will change overall.

  The thing negatively influencing my faith in democracy is so many of the people of the world voting for right-wing and autocratic parties. I feel like democracy has failed us in that respect. On the other hand I don’t know of a better solution. AI isn’t really involved there.

  I wonder if there isn’t a more fundamental connection between people who observe the direction of the world and those who see that corporations are falling over themselves to eliminate workers and are deeply worried that they just might succeed to the detriment of all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Deleted it. My wife then naturally sent me a DM of a thing asking if I could build it cheaper. Reinstalled to see the video, then deleted again.

  There are a lot of content creators there I enjoyed but c’est la vie.