luciferofastora

@luciferofastora@feddit.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You never know who you're arguing with⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For one, it shouldn’t matter whether the other person who’s bad at the game is a kid, a senior, impaired, a noob, a busy adult or just someone who enjoys that game without putting in the effort to become really good at it: If you’re insulting someone over a game, you should sort out your priorities. I used to do that, because I was a miserable knobhead, but it really doesn’t make the game more enjoyable and made me even more miserable.

  But secondly, it’s particularly bad with kids. Yes, life can be unpleasant, and learning to deal with other people’s disapproval is important, but there has to be a better way to ease them into that.

  (Beating down on the impaired is also fucked up, obviously. Life has dealt them a shit hand already, so how about making an effort to include them instead? I promise, it’s more mutually enjoyable. Few good things are as infectious as the joy of someone used to being shut out with superficial pity. That’s not relevant to the topic, but I felt it’s worth mentioning.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That fix has a lot of side effects that might break something. Unless you’re intimately familiar with their setup and use case, destructive solutions aren’t a safe recommendation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds: "The AI Slop Issue Is *NOT* Going To Be Solved With Documentation"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can see why people would attempt to abuse a bug bounty program for easy price money, but that’s just another case of greedy people fucking over everyone else by pissing on whatever trust and assumptions of good faith people might still extend to one another.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Newer AI Coding Assistants Are Failing in Insidious Ways⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Unexpected in the same way as you don’t expect leopards to eat your face…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PFP Evolution⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That, or just a general abbreviation. If doesn’t have to be a specific form of abbreviation.

  Radar (Radio Detection And Ranging) also isn’t a strict initialism, or it would be called RDAR.

  Phrases like etc. (et cetera), & co. (company), vs. (versus), are also generally abbreviations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PFP Evolution⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Abbreviations don’t strictly have to follow any specific logic, they just need to be understood. What you’re describing is an initialism, where you just take the first letters.

  My best guess for pfp is that it’s an initialism of the first three syllables because the fourth is unintuitive, three letters was common enough back in the day of BBS and pfp was recognisable enough, while pp is fairly ambiguous. Someone started abbreviating it like this, people picked up on it, and by the time I was old enough to engage with English message boards it was the norm already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PFP Evolution⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That would be the initialism, yes, but pfp isn’t an initialism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PFP Evolution⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  ProFile Picture

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give me some good ones⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Most people like to feel like they’re better than most. Mediocrity is an insult to them.

  Blessed are the simpletons that never realise or just don’t give a fuck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My apartment building gives me free water but I pay for electricity. What if I run the faucet nonstop and rig up a hydro turbine in my bathtub to generate my power from it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To the people their arbitrage would harm because it would result in the landlord ending the free water provision. If you abuse a good thing, even the most good-natured people eventually get fed up and stop providing it, to the detriment of those who used it fairly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Deepfakes Are Impersonating Pastors to Try to Scam Their Congregations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My aunt already falls for every religious scam under the sun. Donate for this good cause here, help build a church there, God told me to do whatever and I need some assistance…

  Religion is one hell of a drug and I’m not surprised that a community convinced of their divine protection would contain enough gullible victims to make it worth the effort. They might not all be that stupid, but it’s like MMOs: some whales are enough to make it profitable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's so fluffy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  hamsterdance.io is shilling a meme cryptocurrency though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In my opinion, there are two ways to deal with that (well, three, but the third is “shrug and find something else to do”):

  Playing on easiest difficulty makes the combat a non-issue, little more than set dressing, and allows you to focus on story and exploration. The combat would still bore you, but at least it would be over quicker.

  Playing on the second hardest difficulty makes combat challenging enough to scratch the same itch as Dark Souls et al. do for me, but that’s obviously a matter of personal taste. Full on Deathmarch is even better for that, but I’m not convinced it’s a good idea for a first playthrough.

  If neither works for you, shame, but it can’t be helped.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Belief⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve started spotting more examples of goodness too, not just evil. I rather think society is polarising, with some people becoming more visibly selfish (out of desperation, I think: the more you worry about your future, the less charity you’re willing to extend) and others making a point of being nicer to counteract the negativity.

  Part of that will be the influence of media. Outrage apparently sells better than kindness, and particularly where corporate influences are a factor, despair and division are useful to make the populace more pliable. If people are shit anyways, why bother trying to fix anything?

  Lemmy is no saint either: It’s easy to jump to conclusions and throw accusations over what might just be genuine error or civil disagreement rather than fundamental hostility.

  So instead, let’s also make a point of being nicer and more charitable to each other, and to others elsewhere. Good people aren’t gone, they’re just cowed and overshadowed. Let’s fix that, you and me and everyone else who wants a nicer world. The indifference wins if we stop, so let’s keep going!

  I hope you have a nice day, a pleasen start into your year, and I hope you can find that faith in humanity again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have an idea ☝️⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just redirects me to the start page 😕

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Admitting fault is good, offering a way to fix it is better. We should applaud that that recognise, admit and want to remedy their mistake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A swing and a miss⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone else pointed out they’re a right wing “news” account. They won’t cringe. Most likely, they got the implication but are trying to deny it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A swing and a miss⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The author is hella based.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A swing and a miss⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is one thing that irritates me about a tool I work with: It has built-in functions to calculate a median and to calculate an average, by which it means the arithmetic mean. I tend to use the median because the data I work with has severe outliers skewing the mean, but then I have to explain what that means (heh).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey Grok⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How about “Sic Semper Tyrannis”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Invasive, deceptive, and unlawful’: Texas says your TV is tracking you illegally, and is suing to stop the dreaded Automatic Content Recognition⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, once they’re a state-sanctioned invader, it’s not longer illegal

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT Is The Most Blocked Bot And .Christmas Is The Most Dangerous Domain⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And tomato does not belong in a fruit salad

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨50/50 chance this is a shit post⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t want to have a garbanzo bean on me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo... This is happening on Imgur⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ll get no argument from me ;-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo... This is happening on Imgur⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, if they wear the flag, display the Swastika, do the salute or go on about white supremacy, that’s a pretty solid hint.

  A Nazi is (originally) a particular brand of fascism, but much like champagne, it has become a generic term for the whole family of ideologies. The “ur-fascist” definition by Umberto Eco, who was witness to the fascist regime of Mussolini, highlights a few key traits if fascist ideology like a cult of tradition, emphasis on machismo and action over thought, obedience over independence, contempt for pacifism and weakness and populism that leverages frustrations, conspiracy theories and fears to rally its followers against some perceived enemy.

  Not every trait is fascist on its own, but neither does some movement need to tick all boxes to be fascist. There’s sure to be some grey area, but if you have people rushing to inflict violence on anyone looking differently, spurred on by a guy promising to restore some ambiguous past glory by blaming the economic and social troubles on foreigners and beating the war drums… yeah, well, eventually the indicators start piling up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make me feel like a man⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make me feel like a man⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this is one of those cases where I ignore the providence of the image for the entertainment value.

  Certainly preferable to some other AI slop people produce.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make me feel like a man⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make me feel like a man⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I also spent two weeks as a live-in cat sitter for a friend on vacation. He’d yell at me, and when I approached him, 1/5 times he’d lead me to his bowl. The other 4, he’d walk to the couch then look at me expectantly. If I laid down, he’d hop on my chest, then flop over into my arm and start purr-snoring within a minute.

  Hell Yeah

  I miss him. But it’s a good pain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make me feel like a man⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As protests go, I like this. More visible and tangible than sitting somewhere they’ll never go, but not really violent (at least not as violent as other things you could throw). I also liked the shoes that got lobbed at Bush for the symbolism.