Dreaming_Novaling
@Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip
Heyo! Just another random who’s moving over from centralized social media to the Fediverse. Mastodon wasn’t too bad but I love anything like Reddit!
Games, anime, Japanese, food, and music are my loves. Fanfic beats food tho, I can read for hours instead!
- Comment on Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs 6 days ago:
Yeah no, sometimes you need screen sharing in the “chatting app”
A lot of university clubs are on Discord, and my cyber club does tutorials and labs on the weekends where the leader screen-shares. It’s nice because you can see the video in real time and ask questions whenever, rather than watching a pre-recorded video and having to hope you have no issues while following along.
I mean, this is literally why Zoom blew up so much during COVID. Real-time learning works more than asynchronous learning for a lot of people.
- Comment on Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets 1 week ago:
Considering Signal has been subpoenaed several times and proven in court the only thing they can give the feds is:
- Do you have an account with Signal? (Registered Phone #)
- When did you make the account?
- When did you last connect to the service?
I don’t think it’d be in their best interest to lie to the feds 6 times. You can quite literally read the subpoena for yourself, such as the most recent one in August 2024, which is only 2 pages long.
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 1 week ago:
Additional note: check if the VPN does DNS or not. If not then use something like NextDNS, or get a VPN (Proton, Mullvad) that does do DNS servers. Plus they usually include better ad-blocking.
- Comment on ICE tries to kidnap random food delivery driver off the street. He jukes them on a foldable bike. 1 week ago:
Okay if GTA is like this then I totally understand now. The way they turned around like pathetic NPCs 😂
- Comment on Spotify is finally taking steps to address its AI slop and clone problem 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, everyone has slapped AI on everything and it sucks. What’s unfortunate is Krypton’s v6 (2022) editions include some AI voicebanks that are apparently mid, they make stuff sound more natural but don’t help tuning that much. The singers were properly paid, but outsiders aren’t gonna know that and will assume, “oh it’s just like all the other techbro nonsense.”
Basically anything pre-2022 is fine historically, Krypton literally didn’t have AI voice banks anyway and everyone in the fandom already knew you had to put effort into making a song with a Vocaloid, as they’re literally synths. But now more and more people are discovering the fandom without knowing the history, and if the first thing they see is “Look, we have AI now!”, not realizing that it’s only for naturalization/minor tuning and not “make me a song”, they’ll just throw it in the same pile.
- Comment on Spotify is finally taking steps to address its AI slop and clone problem 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I really wonder where Synth V created songs will fall under this rule, cause even though the VAs were paid and it still requires good tuning, they’re technically AI… Maybe the older songs and the new popular songs will be fine due to having recognition, but any new small time producers are gonna suffer if they’ve got boys doing the checking.
I don’t use Spotify, but I assume they do know Vocaloid (and Miku) exists right? At least YT music has a recommended playlist for vocaloid songs anyway.
- Comment on The horrors of aging 2 weeks ago:
I know I can’t judge very much with my post history, but… OP, are you good? You’ve got a lot of horny posting (the asklemmy NSFW posts) and boomer-esque “women ☕” posts going on.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 2 weeks ago:
G instead of D for me, because while I love Asian food, they also have a lot of spicy-sweet foods, and I hate spicy-sweet. Just do sweet, or just do spicy, but don’t mix them in one. I hate sweet heat, there’s few dishes that can make me like it. I also don’t love a lot of tropical fruits and Asian fruits, I’m a basic bitch. But Tex-Mex all day? I can live with that, plus some Creole and soul food? Set for life. I will miss Asian food though… Curry, ramen, Kung Pao, lumpia…
- Comment on LinkedIn will soon train AI models with data from European users 2 weeks ago:
I’m American, so we’re probably doing worse shit, but this shit is exactly why I hate how hard my professors push for us to be on LinkedIn. Besides it being Facebook but for hustle bros and shitty managers, the company itself doesn’t give a shit about it’s users and their privacy.
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 3 weeks ago:
Okay, not nearly the same, but I swear to god KH changes the fucking axis, target, and menu buttons each game, and my ass was fucking tired of it. So if a game changed inputs every save/startup I’d probably cry.
- Comment on Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus 4 weeks ago:
I laughed in actual horror before I realized it was The Onion. Like I would’ve fully believed it for a sec. Media literacy is important kiddos, read more than a headline!
- Comment on Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse 4 weeks ago:
Look ma, my instance is being threatened!
Ok but fr, MS please don’t shut down cyberplace.social I just switched to there like a few months ago.
- Comment on Don't gas people 4 weeks ago:
God any video of a person trying to escape something with the Springtrap audio playing in the background is guaranteed to kill me with laughter 😂
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Yep, another comment in this post has the screenshot of the Tumblr thread
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I was like, “is this joking about the Tumblr color theory post?” and saw this and went yup.
- Comment on Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodes 5 weeks ago:
Hosting your own media library is awesome, just don’t try and bullshit people by pretending that you’re better than Spotify because they pay their artists poorly when you’re stealing from the artists yourself.
This in general when people talk about piracy. It’s great, and sometimes almost needed in cases where companies are making it impossible for people to access the media they want. But stop making it sound like you’re doing the creator a favor by pirating.
“Oh I pirated this musicians music, BUT I’m giving them exposure!1!1! Spotify and YT only pay them .0000001 cents per view!1!1”
Sure, they get almost no money via streaming, but at least they get SOME money over time. People who listen, like, and comment on their songs on social media gives them more exposure then you ripping the song for fucking free and MAYBE (not guaranteed for some of you) telling a friend or two about it. Priating contributes nothing to the (albeit evil) algorithm. Like it’s the dumbest moral argument/excuse people seem to bring up to defend themselves. Artists do deserve to be paid or recognized in some sort of way. Either stream or buy on bandcamp to support artists. Exposure means nothing when the bills aren’t paid.
I hate Google, but I know I don’t have the means to buy every single album from the many artists I listen to, so I’ll stick with them for now until I start making a plan on how I wanna go about buying their music and streaming it at home.
- Comment on It can be made quickly and efficiently, even by people without skills or talent 5 weeks ago:
We don’t want your kind around here. Out there fraternizing and praising those dirty, electric sucking clankers! Git now, git!
- Comment on TIL about Android Translation Layer (ATL), a way to port Android apps to Linux Mobile 5 weeks ago:
I don’t use official streaming apps, I basically pirate everything on a Fire stick TV. Idk if anyone has reported issues with them on GOS. Some of my banking apps work, others don’t. I just do the ones that don’t work online in browser instead, I feel like it shouldn’t be a problem tbh.
If you need tap to pay/Google wallet then you unfortunately can’t use GOS due to not being approved by Google or smth. Like SafetyNet issues or smth.
- Comment on TIL about Android Translation Layer (ATL), a way to port Android apps to Linux Mobile 5 weeks ago:
I’ve heard, which would be mega awesome when it does come out. Maybe I wouldn’t have to fight RCS so hard lol. Unfortunately this Pixel 8a I used is only a year old, so getting a new phone in 1-2 years seems like a waste. But if Google goes nuclear in a few years, it’s either Graphene hardware, Linux phone, or dummy…
I refuse to go back to Apple, and I didn’t come to GrapheneOS just to go back to stock Android.
- Comment on TIL about Android Translation Layer (ATL), a way to port Android apps to Linux Mobile 5 weeks ago:
Was just gonna say this. I’m currently using GrapheneOS and am concerned about how long my pixel 8a will last with Google being such assholes. But if this app can solve the issue of not having android, then I’d definitely switch to a Linux phone (with further research of course).
- Comment on Chrome increases its overwhelming market share, now over 70% 5 weeks ago:
It’s bullshit but I’m too tired to fight it sometimes. Especially for college, I don’t want teachers bitching at me for a test glitching or a textbook link not working, so I just use ungoogled Chromium as a replacement. I use Librewolf for personal browsing which is more likely to break shit + uBlock, so I’d have to make a whole nother profile for school that has reduced security and disable most of uBlock to do my work. But to go through all those hoops is tiring.
Schools are just forcing people to give up their privacy, especially since you know non-techy students aren’t gonna do stuff like have a separate profile for their school and private browsing, so now Google knows all their shit. Plus Firefox has become the “green bubble shaming” of browsers I guess, cause I’ve had several friends and randos tease me and make it seem like FF is obsolete or something and, “why not use Edge or Chrome?” 🙄
- Comment on Bluesky now platform of choice for science community 5 weeks ago:
Glad to know I’m not the only one 😭
- Comment on I just learned this existed 1 month ago:
Let it be AI for my sake. Please.
- Comment on I'm ready for spooky 1 month ago:
Not all of us live in a place that actually gets snow when it gets cold. So you stay indoors cause you have fuck else to do, and the lack of sunshine just makes the seasonal depression that much spicier. Yeah you can bundle up, but like, if there’s nothing to do then why bother going out?
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 1 month ago:
Started using Google Docs around 4th/5th grade. I’m a Sophomore in college now…
Still like Google online collaboration more than Microsoft online collaboration, so it’s still dogshit after 20 years…
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 1 month ago:
/ per year
- Comment on Study links TikTok scrolling to poor study focus: Just five minutes of scrolling the social app made college students less focused 1 month ago:
Fuck my ass opens Voyager sometimes when I don’t wanna work and I’ll literally say to myself “lock in” or “I’m so not focused.” I’m still a million years better than my Tiktok addicted cousins at least…
So yeah not surprised but I hate that I see myself in this.
- Comment on Day 402 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
Yeah I love watching them and really wanna get into them (P4AU, Guilty Gear, Street Fighter, etc.), plus their soundtracks are banger. But I fucking suck at fighting games and the only one I ever tolerated was the soloplayer Pokken Tournament campaign. I honestly got bored of both 3DS and Wii U smash as a child very quickly, and to this day I feel bad for the money wasted.
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 1 month ago:
Alice is only a princess in Kingdom Hearts lore.
Meanwhile Ariel just chills in her world in KH1. Really wonder why they made that choice.
- Comment on Day 402 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
Lol I know what a Thwomp is, I was more so noting the fact that the pic is missing a fourth player, so I just was thinking about fighting game crossovers in general.