Photuris
@Photuris@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Radio transmissions 1 week ago:
I unironically love Latinisation (and Greekification).
“Crabification” would have worked just fine to express this idea, but “carcinisation” sounds so scientific and erudite.
People dog on English, but I think it’s really cool how we have other ancient source languages to pull from to coin “smart” words when needed. And when you dig into the etymology of the “fancy” word, it adds texture, layers, history, and extra context to the whole thing.
Ok, that was a tangent. Carry on.
- Comment on Played (and finished) Call of Duty WWII Single Player. I have mixed feelings. 1 week ago:
Fair. I am old though.
- Comment on Played (and finished) Call of Duty WWII Single Player. I have mixed feelings. 1 week ago:
COD WWII is my favorite multiplayer ever.
It’s easy to hop on to. The scoreboard is legible and relatively simple. The players in the lobbies have always been a little bit on the older side compared to other Call of Duty games, and they’re just there to have fun. When they use their mics, they’re riffing and teasing without taking it too seriously, or getting too nasty.
The lobbies are far less crowded nowadays, but they’re still active.
I don’t want to play any other multiplayer game anymore. This is the one. I’m locked in.
Yes I’m old.
- Comment on Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash 1 week ago:
There are also external AI tools that do this just fine.
But imagine these tools generating summaries of summaries.
- Comment on There should be a universal standard indicator for whether a comment chain should be read top-to-bottom or bottom-to-top 2 weeks ago:
Microsoft Outlook started this stupid shit.
Before then, emails (and Usenet posts) were always appended to the bottom, and good netiquette required one to intentionally quote the specific germane lines from the previous message and respond to them inline, point-by-point, for brevity, conciseness, and context, just as God intended.
- Comment on Real reasons people do not have the number of children they want revealed in new report 2 weeks ago:
Automation is going to chew up jobs faster than new ones are created, too.
Reduce the value of white collar labor, and white collar workers will flood to the blue collar trades, drastically reducing pay there as well.
Not a suitable environment for growing large families.
- Comment on Most American headline 2 weeks ago:
Dude, a guy named Constantine literally started this modern Christiandom train rolling with his “Hey guys, I just met Jesus, and he told me I should be in charge now. So, I’m king, ordained by heaven, and we’ll enforce this new order with lots of violence.”
And he and his successors then proceeded to conquer territory, and then mint coins depicting a soldier holding a cross and smashing the head of his enemy under his boot. In hoc signo vinces.
And thus Christian imperialism, conquest, subjugation, and terror has marched along ever since. Lest ye forget the Crusades and the Inquisistion, for example.
Yes, there’s beauty and kindness in the Christian tradition as well. But let’s not pretend that it was all huggy-bunches-of-love until Calvinism showed up.
- Comment on IT’S THE FEDS! 3 weeks ago:
Land of the Free.
- Comment on The Copilot Delusion 4 weeks ago:
Healthcare is, sadly, tied to employment here in the US. That’s why the distinction between “full-time” and “part-time.”
I cannot go part time for that reason (even if it were an option in our industry to begin with).
I’d much rather be able to scale up and down my work hours, as needed (given life circumstances, current money needs, energy levels, etc.). But that’s a pipe dream.
- Comment on The Copilot Delusion 4 weeks ago:
I want to do this, too, but computers is how I earn money.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I hate it here in the South.
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 5 weeks ago:
It would help if I’d actually read the article.
A full night’s sleep, and I’m rethinking my comment. I was hasty.
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 5 weeks ago:
Ok, so, apparently, I don’t know what I’m talking about. I did watch one YouTube video though, and suddenly I felt like an expert on China.
- Comment on Experts Alarmed as ChatGPT Users Developing Bizarre Delusions 1 month ago:
The internet was a mistake
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 1 month ago:
Stock up on old physical books
- Comment on End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending 1 month ago:
It’s more than that. They want training data for their LLMs. With enough training data, they can train these models to do office knowledge work themselves, removing the need to employ cubicle drones at all.
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model 1 month ago:
Ok that’s cool
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model 1 month ago:
I have high hopes
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model 1 month ago:
If only we can somehow figure out how to bring back something like the web of the ’90s
- Comment on 'Starter homes' cost at least $1 million in over 200 U.S. cities, Zillow data finds 1 month ago:
That’s where the jobs are.
Not much for good paying work in podunk towns.
- Comment on Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads 1 month ago:
Cool, I’m done with Perplexity.
- Comment on A group of top economists is circulating a letter that says Trump's tariffs have 'no basis in economic reality' 2 months ago:
Trump supporters don’t read, dude.
- Comment on A group of top economists is circulating a letter that says Trump's tariffs have 'no basis in economic reality' 2 months ago:
Another strongly-worded letter will show ‘em.
- Comment on Abuse 2025 is a modern port of the original game from 1995/1996, updated to run on modern systems and with new features like high-resolution graphics, controller support, and more. 2 months ago:
Buried memory unlocked
- Comment on Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market 2 months ago:
Good.
- Comment on 390 Million Faces: Clearview AI's Secret $750,000 Attempt To Buy Your Mugshot 2 months ago:
And we don’t even use them effectively to protect our rights.
- Comment on Birth control: US scientists develop world’s 1st male contraceptive pill 2 months ago:
Cool, I just won’t touch my wife ever again, thanks for the advice.
- Comment on Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service 2 months ago:
I have fond memories of self-hosting a qmail setup for a long time, then eventually migrating to a postfix configuration, back in the day.
Keeping up with spam filtering finally did me in.
- Comment on Birth control: US scientists develop world’s 1st male contraceptive pill 2 months ago:
Vasalgel is a better, proven, effective, safe, and easily reversible option.
Why hasn’t it been approved yet?
- Comment on Your Doctor's Screen Time Is Hobbling Health Care. 2 months ago:
In this particular use case, no. The LLM not only transcribes, but it summarizes, drafts, and categorizes as well (ICD-10 codes, cross-referencing medical history, etc.).
Very useful for overworked and under-resourced healthcare workers.