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- Comment on Mary E. Brunkow, one of this year's Nobel Prize winners in Medicine, has only 34 published papers and an H-index of 21. 2 days ago:
One I recall that rubbed me the wrong way was one of her videos on “is being trans a social fad?”
One the one side you have people claiming that it’s a socially contagious fad among the brainwashed woke who want to mutilate your innocent children. On the other side there are those saying that it’s saving the lives of minorities who’ve been forced to stay in the closet for too long. And then there are normal people, like you and I, who think both sides are crazy and could someone please summarise the facts in simple words, which is what I’m here for.
Not super fond of the “both sides are crazy” idea when one side is arguing “people should have equal access to medical care and be left to live in peace” and the other is trying to legislate the former people out of existence.
She further goes on to platform ideas like “rapid onset gender dysphoria” which is based on spurious data gathered on a “parents of trans children” forum. None of the actual studies on the subject have supported the idea at all. The science is against it, yet she’s presenting it like it’s some “other side of the coin” nuanced take, and not just utter nonsense. It’s a bit like lending credence to the idea that the Earth is flat because there’s a whole group of flat-earthers out there who believe it is.
Ultimately though, I think my main reason for avoiding her is that she just doesn’t post sources. They’re all hidden on her Patreon, and I just don’t think that’s how it should work. I know educational videos aren’t exactly scientific papers, but hiding your sources just strikes me as bad manners. If the goal is to educate and nurture an interest in a subject, why obscure the path you took to get it? It just doesn’t make sense to me, and most other channels like hers do publish their sources.
- Comment on Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World 3 days ago:
Yeah, no doubt. My mother got radicalised by Facebook over the years. It went from cute dog and cat things to “harmless” conspiracy theories (think bigfoot), culminating in fucking her with QAnon propaganda indoctrination. Last I checked up on her, there’s machine generated rubbish all over her feed. She’s beyond saving at this point. Suppose she was always primed for this kind of thing, being pro-homeopathy anti-vaccine person.
She doesn’t question the machine generated content at all, and I saw that if someone points it out, which a scarce few have done, she just justifies it with “well it could be real, this kind of thing does happen.”
At this point I don’t think it matters if this technofascism was a knowing plan, or an unfortunate series of events that by themselves seemed justifiable to the people making the decisions, but it doesn’t really matter. We’re here now. They’re not only trying, but succeeding in coercing governments and undermining democracy.
- Comment on Punch Time 3 days ago:
I’d not heard of handicapped, but I have heard of Postcode File.
- Comment on Punch Time 3 days ago:
I mean, honestly? Yeah. This isn’t how you should translate if you wish to adhere to the original material. You need to understand meaning and context in both languages. AI doesn’t grasp that on account of not grasping anything at all, and the game of telephone that the image is suggesting is completely obliterating it as well.
Example; Lipton, in an ice tea advert had an actress dance and sing, and in the middle of it, took a sip of tea and said 「美味ちい」
If you were to translate that directly, she sips the tea and says “Tasty!” or “Yummy!” which is acceptable. However, you’ve lost the double entendre of how チー (ちい) sounds like the English word tea, which is kind of relevant given what they’re advertising and so you’d lose the opportunity to make the same pun in English; “Tealicious!”
Now apply it on a larger scale and suddenly characters and stories end up diverging between the versions. Sure the overall picture might be similar but the nuance can be vastly different. I saw it all the time in Final Fantasy XIV. Sure, not all media needs that kind of meticulousness and hell, a lot of media doesn’t even care for it. People can be perfectly happy with basic, but they also don’t necessarily know what they’re missing.
Granted, sometimes you have to settle for that method of translation, because you can’t easily or appropriately convey the original intent in another language.
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 5 days ago:
Cool being able to SSH into my phone though
I thought you could do that on Android?
- Comment on BlueSky has drama so the Fedi-Marketers are waking from their slumber 6 days ago:
Be careful, you might get wooted on wafrn.
- Comment on BlueSky has drama so the Fedi-Marketers are waking from their slumber 6 days ago:
I think it’s nice. It’s torn the wings off of the Bluesky logo.
- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 6 days ago:
This is how my door works. You lift the handle to engage the bolts in the doorframe (otherwise the lock doesn’t even turn), then you can turn it either a full rotation, and pull it out. The slit will point downwards and only people with proper keys can access. If you turn it slightly more, so it’s at an angle, then it’s in “service mode” and people with service keys can also access it.
You can’t put it in service mode from the inside.
If it’s fully locked and you want access for some reason, you’ll have to call for a locksmith. Alternatively remove the entire doorframe from the wall. It’s reinforced though so that’s going to be a hassle. The door itself is some kind of thick metal. Great soundproofing.
- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 6 days ago:
That’s nuts.
Like, the landlord/maintenance people here do have a master key, but it doesn’t work unless the flat is locked from the outside and set in a particular position. If you lock it from the inside, or don’t put it in the special position, they can’t access the flat.
- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 6 days ago:
Why did a maintenance guy have access to her home?
- Comment on Advocates raise alarm over Pfas pollution from datacenters amid AI boom 1 week ago:
Musk is gassing Memphis with the generators for his Grok. So it’s not just sitting there.
They also create noise pollution, which is a problem in various places. And then there’s this.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 1 week ago:
Yeah, that’s what was subtly hinting at.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 1 week ago:
Right, they’re supposed to be best at letting you cancel their services. They could handle the traffic, I’m just sure they choose not to.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 1 week ago:
Right. Microsoft’s website is struggling. The same Microsoft whose core business model is selling server/cloud infrastructure? Yeah, I definitely believe that.
- Comment on They're coming. 1 week ago:
Crustation? Or maybe crustaceation? A process of periodical molting. Or maybe the act of using a claw-like implement?
- Comment on Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia 1 week ago:
Absolutely. It’s the same untrustworthy substanceless nonsense.
- Comment on They're coming. 1 week ago:
I love the word aviation. Makes it feel like you can nounify other animal types. Like mammation. Or you could go into subgroups, like cervidation, chiropteration, monotremation, etc.
- Comment on Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia 1 week ago:
Okay, but why? LLMs always give a response, they’re trained to give a response regardless of accuracy. This entire wall of text could be completely made up.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 1 week ago:
I miss the days when machine learning was fun. Poking together useless RNN models with a small dataset to make a digital Trump that talked about banging his daughter, end endless nipples flowing into America. Exploring the latent space between concepts.
- Comment on HÖNKHALT 2 weeks ago:
And means mallard in Swedish. Rum means room or space. Andrum also means “room to breathe” so it has this really fitting double entendre you see in some IKEA names, in the sense that it’s “space for your bird” and also “gives you room to breathe.”
- Comment on HÖNKHALT 2 weeks ago:
ANDRUM is fucking brilliant.
- Comment on HÖNKHALT 2 weeks ago:
FÅGELPÅSE or SVANVÄSKA.
- Comment on Why does Lemmy output horribly invalid HTML? 2 weeks ago:
Oh my gods I wish. I was working on a webapp some months ago and was having the weirdest issue with how things were updating. There was a hard to discern pattern to it, but eventually when I really dug into it, I realised that it was generating elements with duplicate IDs, then it all made sense.
If the browser yelled at me, at least in the dev tools, it would’ve saved me a lot of work trying to figure things out.
- Comment on Popped up quickly in one of my potted plants 3 weeks ago:
You have honeycomb in your monstera?
- Comment on Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspension 3 weeks ago:
Nice tip! Thank you!
- Comment on Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspension 3 weeks ago:
People keep saying this but I don’t understand how it works at all.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes 3 weeks ago:
Can someone find an excuse for how this behaviour is not just extremely short sighted / plain stupid?
It’s not. It works because he’s always operated like this and keeps getting away with it. People keep sucking up his garbage games so why should he change?
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing 4 weeks ago:
I don’t have bugs with Remnant, it just doesn’t perform all that well without all the AI up scaling and whatnot. I think it’s more of an optimisation problem than anything else.
I’ve a friend who experiences problems after ~40 minutes of play time though, the frame rate just tanks.
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 4 weeks ago:
But the app/widget spyware is what they want you to run.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing 4 weeks ago:
I’ve played two games (off the top of my head) that run UE5. Remnant II and Payday 3. Both have performance problems.
Remnant II is just overall poorly optimised. Payday 3 has weird random hitches. Granted they seem like they might be server side because when I get them my friend does too, almost simultaneously, and vice-versa.
