MDCCCLV
@MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Evidence That Humans Now Speak in a Chatbot-Influenced Dialect Is Getting Stronger 4 days ago:
Using a larger vocabulary doesn’t make you sound like an llm, it’s more about the tone.
- Comment on Evidence That Humans Now Speak in a Chatbot-Influenced Dialect Is Getting Stronger 4 days ago:
It’s not flowery though, just bland.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 4 days ago:
It’s the crimping and the precision shape that’s hard to replicate, you need a press.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 4 days ago:
You’re forgetting the crows that like shiny things
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 4 days ago:
It can be used for barter, gold had enough of a reputation that you can get anyone to trade you for it if they have an excess of something.
- Comment on U.S. consumers are so fucked up, that they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Cyber Monday 5 days ago:
They’re still in the acquire customers and market share phase and the number of providers is increasing. Increase in fees and predatory aspects comes later in the enshittification phase.
- Comment on Bread mold 1 week ago:
I’m just sad because no one will get my santaroga barrier reference, it’s just something you have to feel.
- Comment on Bread mold 1 week ago:
The sodium citrate is a good preservative and is responsible for some of that sour flavor
- Comment on Bread mold 1 week ago:
The key part is that your immune system is used to various mold and parasite infections and you’re fine, but if you become immune compromised or old then the same thing you did before can kill you. That’s why people who actually get infected with things like water born parasites are usually very old or sick.
- Comment on Gmail users warned to opt out of new feature - what we know 2 weeks ago:
It’s not ai specific. It’s literally everything including basic stuff like sorting newsletters into its own category. That’s why I said it’s all or nothing. It’s just called " smart features" and they’ve had it for a decade, long before ai became a thing. But if you decline then you decline everything. That’s how they do it. They make a huge category and if you decline then you decline everything including things that are considered pretty basic.
- Comment on Gmail users warned to opt out of new feature - what we know 3 weeks ago:
The only option is smart features, on or off. That requires Google to read the email to categorize them and do a lot of basic stuff. It doesn’t let you narrowly have more privacy on specific features. It’s all or nothing, and if you get a lot of emails then it’s hard to turn it off if you already use categories. Google always does all or nothing because they know people need some of it, same with location. It has to be precise location tracking to use things, you can’t just do rough location.
- Comment on A conundrum 2 months ago:
The 100k+ over asking was the big deal because that never made it into the housing data properly so prices looked like they were lower than they were and we don’t have accurate comparison data now
- Comment on A conundrum 2 months ago:
Very dependent on the field. A lot of jobs are concentrated in a handful of major cities, mostly very HCOL but with high salary. That’s why remote work becoming bigger partially caused the housing surge nationwide.
- Comment on Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring 2 months ago:
Asymmetric warfare basic.
- Comment on Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring 2 months ago:
No one that is an American politician will be directly financed by Russia. It would always be indirect or hidden shell companies.
- Comment on Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring 2 months ago:
Senate investigation is sadly partisan and doesn’t mean much anymore. They’ll find what they wanted to find.
- Comment on Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring 2 months ago:
Lol. I just have a writing style that I use. It can be considered eclectic with a mix of various influences. The pluralized word is a buffy “whedonesque” influence.
But the point is that Russia has been running alternative warfare efforts and cyber stuff for a long time. They stoke various movements and invent ideas and spread them with bots and shills. Basically anything that strengthens Russian imperialism and weakens or fractures NATO.
- Comment on Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring 2 months ago:
Weakening NATO is their goal.
- Comment on Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring 2 months ago:
There’s been a number of news coverages of this. It’s not like it’s the biggest operation or anything but they have been trying to plant that seed intentionally.
www.sacbee.com/news/local/article264043131.html
- Comment on Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring 2 months ago:
Lots of it is still pretty shit, but that’s what happens when you have an entry on incredibly obscure things where there’s not a lot of sources information.
- Comment on Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring 2 months ago:
California and West Coast separatism is most strongly advocated by Russian agents seeking to weaken the US.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 3 months ago:
We’re still limited by what the HDMI and DP cables can throughput so it’s not like 8k tvs are even ready. Nobody wants an 8k tv if the cables can’t even transmit full fat uncompressed signal.
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 3 months ago:
Money for elderly that can prevent them from needing very expensive nursing home care is a huge market with no limit if the product works well. Especially for Japan but really everywhere will have increasingly large cohorts of their elderly people with not enough young people to care for them.
- Comment on Why do i tip my bartender $2 per drink and per bar food order but 20% when I order food from a waitress? Am I tipping wrong? 3 months ago:
You also have a thing where the minimum wage is far below the actual market rate, the typical wage in the area, and actually making minimum wage is way less than any other job. Nobody wants 7.25 an hour unless you’re forced to.
- Comment on Why do i tip my bartender $2 per drink and per bar food order but 20% when I order food from a waitress? Am I tipping wrong? 3 months ago:
Children. Name calling isn’t something anyone else wants to see. If a weak insult is all you have to say then just ignore them.
- Comment on Debatable 3 months ago:
This type only lasts a few weeks anyway, after that it will just look uniformly short.
- Comment on 🤝🤝🤝 3 months ago:
Only if your exposure in the future is less than in the past. Otherwise it will just go back up again. And considering plastic use is going up, you would have to use air filters and avoid micro plastics as much as possible.
- Comment on Ukraine rescues soldier via drone delivery of complete e-bike 4 months ago:
The lighter ones can be 25-30 lbs.
- Comment on Ukraine rescues soldier via drone delivery of complete e-bike 4 months ago:
Simple, you just defragment the person into drone size pieces then reassemble.
- Comment on Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better world 4 months ago:
There’s no reason you couldn’t have people grow a new Internet that isn’t reliant on AWS and cloud flare and other big tech stuff, it’s just that it’s much easier to do that since it’s already there. And you still have the problems with spammers even if you try to move away from capitalism.