Yoga
@Yoga@lemmy.ca
- Comment on are there bots that downvote every comment users have? 5 days ago:
Block them?
- Comment on are there bots that downvote every comment users have? 5 days ago:
Whether I downvoted something is public record but when I googled how to find posts that I liked previously I couldn’t find anything lol
- Comment on 4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere 1 week ago:
Everything—from X to Facebook to YouTube—now sort of feels like 4chan. Which makes you wonder why it even needed to still exist.
Dude it’s absolutely WILD how Facebook manages to be so toxic when people have their full name, a picture of them and whatever personal details they’re dumb enough to put as public.
- Comment on Here the fuck we go again 1 week ago:
Tmodloader is basically official for Terraria at this point, no?
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 1 week ago:
Average user:
“Wait how do I get cryptocurrency with my key?”
- Comment on Cops are deploying AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters” 1 week ago:
This is a lot less scary than it sounds when you read that it’s accomplished nothing (0 arrests from interviewed police depts) and sounds like this:
Your parents around? Or you getting some awesome alone time,” a text from the adult says.
“Js chillin by myself, man. My momz @ work n my dadz outta town. So itz jus me n my vid games. 🎮,” Jason, the AI-generated child, responds.
This is little more than an AI grift to scam politicians and police chiefs that have no tech literacy.
- Comment on Take Action: Defend the Internet Archive 1 week ago:
It’s a frontend for an email list builder
- Comment on Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program 2 weeks ago:
Imagine being one of the tech billionaires who Trump bankrolled and he does this- basically handing out wrenches for people to throw.
- Comment on How one man created 6 million Wikipedia articles, and why he stopped 2 weeks ago:
He cited one “ridiculous” example where entries went wrong. In the submission for Telekinesis, the description was written in neither Scots nor English and read: “Telekinesis es a form of movnig ebjocts with yor maind.”
I’m sorry but even for a 12 year old that’s comedically stupid.
- Comment on How one man created 6 million Wikipedia articles, and why he stopped 2 weeks ago:
This whole thing is just so incomprehensiblely stupid and real world usage numbers prove it:
According to Wikimedia Statistics, Cebuano Wikipedia currently reels in tens of thousands of page views from the Philippines each month.
English Wikipedia, meanwhile, gets more than 100 million Filipino viewers per month.
If people wanted AN AUTOMATED TRANSLATION they could just go to the English page and use one of the many free page translation tools that exist. Who even asked him to do this? Or is it just more white saviour complex?
- Comment on Infinite Monkey Theorem 2 weeks ago:
The reference:
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 2 weeks ago:
There is nothing gayer sounding than the description of hetero sex from a redpiller.
If vaginas are gross to you… Maybe you should stay away from them. 🤷♂️
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 3 weeks ago:
I think torrenting a copy of Photoshop would be faster than drawing a circle in GIMP
- Comment on Did ChatGPT come up with Trump’s tariff rate formula? AI chatbots ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok all return the same formula for reciprocal tariff calculations, several X users claim. 3 weeks ago:
“News outlet” is a huge stretch. It’s a crypto currency blog pretending to be news.
- Comment on Musk threatens to sic the government on people ‘pushing’ Tesla ‘propaganda’ 4 weeks ago:
As protests against Tesla continue to grow, Elon Musk is threatening to “go after” the people who say or post anything negative about the company — which he labels “propaganda.”
Propagandist labels criticism ‘propaganda’. Where have we seen this one before?
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 4 weeks ago:
The human operators are there for when the AI gets softlocked in a situation where it doesn’t know what to do and just sits there, not for regular driving.
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 4 weeks ago:
It doesn’t even need to be a side quest, just a second screen activity lol
They’ll do it for pennies an hour for 12 hours a day.
- Comment on I present my girlfriend's daughter. 4 weeks ago:
Autocorrect only works when you use the enter or spacebar. Sending a one word message is just asking for it
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 4 weeks ago:
The system will only scale if there are enough desperate poor people. Otherwise it quickly become too expensive.
You can also get MMORPG players to do it for pennies per hour for in-game currency or membership. RuneScape players would gladly control 5 ‘autonomous’ cars if it meant that they could level up their farming level for free.
The game is basically designed to be an incredibly time consuming skinner box that takes minimal skill and effort in order to maximize membership fees.
- Comment on DoorDash and Klarna partner to offer buy now, pay later for takeout. 5 weeks ago:
Not only can you get a private taxi for your burrito but you can get it on a payment plan…
- Comment on Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains 5 weeks ago:
Gotta love loading a mobile webpage and 20% of it is readable text and the rest is advertising.
- Comment on Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains 5 weeks ago:
Ads are attractive to many users because they have a simple option for universal opt out (adblocking) at the cost of everyone who isn’t a Freerider.
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 5 weeks ago:
This is not true, protests have a measurable impact and the defeatist nonsense of “there’s no point in trying” is exactly what enemies of democracy want.
- Comment on Pockets 1 month ago:
I saw this meme and I was wondering given Lemmy demographics how it was so highly upvoted… Turns out it’s just the funny birds lol
A meme on the dread of finding a dress you like then searching it for pockets becoming increasingly desperate before disappointedly putting it back might not have done so well.
- Comment on This speaks for itself 1 month ago:
If you think conviction rates are an indicator of how bad the problem is, you’ve got it backwards. I’d recommend using this as a branching off point.
nsvrc.org/…/publications_nsvrc_factsheet_media-pa…
I won’t be continuing conversation further.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’m not on Matrix but it appears there are 18 people on the server.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Friendica has an address of a grocery store outside of Toronto that she supposedly works at.
Would be funny to call and ask for her.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Just got it an hour or so ago.
Can someone explain the con?
- Comment on Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system. 1 month ago:
If we were to assume that everyone would just wait until the 15th to do all their amazon orders that they waited a week for then I would agree it’s symbolic.
For many, this will be what happens, but for some, they will find an alternative. Then maybe in the future they chose that alternative too. It’s about gradual progress towards better alternatives. For you, maybe finding ways to make your work less reliant on those things would help. Or if that’s not possible maybe working somewhere else that doesn’t make you sacrifice your values.
As an example, one person choosing to educate themselves on animal welfare might not have much effect today, or tomorrow, or even next week. But after years, even small changes can mean the elimination of suffering for dozens or hundreds of lives.
- Comment on Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system. 1 month ago:
I don’t think advocating people do nothing while vaguely gesturing at doing more while offering no alternatives or next steps is meaningful action.