skisnow
@skisnow@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 3 hours ago:
It’s weirder than that, they don’t seem to have chins at all. Their heads are like perfectly round melons.
- Comment on Senate report says AI will take 97M US jobs in the next 10 years, but those numbers come from ChatGPT 9 hours ago:
I also find it interesting how whenever I’ve expressed the above sentiment either here or on the Other Place, the up/downvote ratios seem to vary massively depending on the tech-bro quotient of the group. I’m mildly surprised to see it go entirely positive in a community called “technology”.
- Comment on soda 9 hours ago:
Haven’t noticed. Are you using the right syntax? I’m not sure if ‘AND’, ‘OR’ have to be capitalized or what ahrefs.com/…/google-advanced-search-operators/
- Comment on soda 1 day ago:
As a side note fucking Googles LLM make this type of research hard by spitting fake info at you.
The web in general is fucked, since most sites less than 3 years old are now entirely written by AI. :(
- Comment on Senate report says AI will take 97M US jobs in the next 10 years, but those numbers come from ChatGPT 1 day ago:
You can tell how competent someone is at something by how good they think AI is at that thing.
- Comment on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account 1 day ago:
All Microsoft had to do to remain the most popular home and office OS in the world for decades to come, was to just not fucking suck.
- Comment on flohmarkt a federated alternative to ebay and facebook marketplace 6 days ago:
Sorry, I’m still stuck on what the limiting aspect of it is. “Operating on hundreds of pages that each have limited reach” costs next to nothing if it’s all automated with bots.
- Comment on flohmarkt a federated alternative to ebay and facebook marketplace 6 days ago:
Either I’ve not understood your point, or you’re suggesting that spammers would limit themselves to one instance?
Spam is about volume, and a 0.1% takeup rate would be a dream for a spammer.
- Comment on flohmarkt a federated alternative to ebay and facebook marketplace 6 days ago:
How does location specificity limit spam? Surely the nature of spam is it costs nothing to produce and is done en masse.
And I mean any kind of bad actor really. Spammer, scammer, or even just a griefer deciding the gum up the system for lulz.
To be clear these are genuine questions, I’m not here to shit on the project or anything. I’d love more than anything for there to be good answers to them.
- Comment on flohmarkt a federated alternative to ebay and facebook marketplace 6 days ago:
I’m not here to cheerlead for eBay, but I don’t think that’s entirely true.
- Comment on Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet 6 days ago:
The thing that baffles me on that one is that it doesn’t stand up on its own terms. None of Tesla’s tech in 2025 is ahead of its competitors, and they’ve become so toxic as a brand that most top tier engineers don’t even want to work there.
- Comment on flohmarkt a federated alternative to ebay and facebook marketplace 6 days ago:
What mechanisms are there to limit bad actors?
- Comment on New EA Owners Hoping AI Will Cut Costs And Boost Profits, It's Claimed 1 week ago:
You laugh, but AI is a pretty good fit for EA. Repeatedly churning out new iterations of the same exact thing over and over every year, with the roster changed and the art fucked about with a tiny irrelevant amount? Yup
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 1 week ago:
I’m more cynical than that, I think it’s that Kushner and the Saudis have both identified gamers as a group susceptible to be influenced by auth-right messaging, and they want a piece of that.
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 1 week ago:
It’ll be interesting seeing how the worst games company manages to find a way to become even worse.
- Comment on BREAKING NEWS: We did it, guys! 20 poptarts! 1 week ago:
So you’re just going to skim over the guy having a child bride?
- Comment on Fooling a self-driving car with mirrors on traffic cones 2 weeks ago:
The setup they describe is so highly specific that it would also fool most human drivers.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 weeks ago:
The narrative of the Pacific theater still being an intractable or unbeatable long-term conflict in 1945 was hugely overstated, and also leant heavily on racist notions of the Japanese being “brainwashed”.
Also, most wars could be ended more quickly by committing war crimes, we don’t allow it as a justification when it’s done by the losing side.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 weeks ago:
“The atomic bombings were necessary” was something we were expected to internalize as an indisputable hard fact, like gravity and oxbow lakes.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 2 weeks ago:
Obviously nobody is saying any of those things. The meaning should be obvious when read in context of the original post.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 2 weeks ago:
Fair enough, I may have been extrapolating from posts others made on the same lines.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 2 weeks ago:
the US has stolen foods
Lots of people in this thread seem to be labouring under the bizarre notion that only the US is allowed to count immigrant cuisine as their own.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 2 weeks ago:
That’s only true if you apply a definition of “from” to the US that you’re not allowing any other country to have.
- Comment on Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains. 2 weeks ago:
No.
Other people’s right to exist is not just “an opinion outside of the mainstream”.
Delete your post and don’t make anything like it again.
- Comment on Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains. 2 weeks ago:
JK Rowling wrote a whole book series about how bullying is a horrible and self-perpetuating cycle, and now spends most of her time bullying a marginalised group
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I guess it depends on whether you regard “Republicans Against Trump” as being on the Left. Trump probably does.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
The suspension of the show has been met with condemnation and praise from both sides of the political spectrum.
Who on the left is praising it? Is this deliberate bullshit by Newsweek, or just careless copyediting?
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 2 weeks ago:
I promise I’m not a bot. People really don’t seem to like it when you say you like something huh.
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 3 weeks ago:
I think it’s good for people who don’t like taking drugs because technically it’s not a drug; its mode of action doesn’t rely on altering your body chemistry. It’s more like a powerful nose flush.
- Comment on Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator 3 weeks ago:
In classic fashion they’re doing it in a way where you can choose to not have them by not using particular display options, so that they can say with a straight face that they’re not forcing ads on you. Then once this bullshit is normalized and into everyone’s homes, making it non-optional on all screens is a much smaller leap in comparison.