Havatra

@Havatra@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  His Japan & family vlogs are also really chill - he has become much more chill and proper. If you remember him from when he got big on YouTube 10 - 15 years ago, he was a completely different person!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry that you had to go through that, and I must emphasize that I do not wish to “let” anyone be exposed to this. However, I remain unconvinced that it’s “more common than I think”. The amount of sexual assault that women are exposed to is unfortunately far, far more common, and a bigger problem that should take precedence in being dealt with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t take my word for it; look it up. But here, I’ll save you some time by spending my own:

  worldmetrics.org/false-rape-allegations-statistic…

  statista.com/…/reported-forcible-rape-cases-in-th…

  www.cdc.gov/nisvs/…/sexualviolence-brief.pdf

  Say out of 140 000 reports of rape in one year, 4% are false. That leaves us with 5600 false accusations. And according to the survey shown by CDC, there’s an estimated 1.4 million women raped in 12 months.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Here: www.cdc.gov/nisvs/…/sexualviolence-brief.pdf

  Men have so much less reason to fear compared to women. This is not saying they have nothing to fear, but the measures taken by uber is an attempt to protect those who are MUCH more prone to sexual assault and harassment.

  The fear of accusations is not covered in this survey, nevertheless, if men feel fearful of accusations, imagine what women feel when they fear actually being sexually assaulted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It might be considered sexist, depending on who you ask.

  The amount of males being falsely accused of sexual assault is much lower than the amount of females being exposed to sexual assault. Hence why there has been provided a measure for women at this scale, and not for men.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Second school strike takes place in Germany: “The rich want war, the youth want a future” : Peoples Dispatch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Reading this makes me proud of the youth that stand up against war and the aggressive use of military force and resources.

  I hope this has the desired effect, and I support them in their raised voices, hoping the 8th if May will be profound.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: 'It turned out to be a tougher one': Trump says he was wrong about ending war in Ukraine⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand, what is YSK about this? This is US politics, and doesn’t provide any good content related to this community as far as I can tell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A remote code execution vulnerability has been found in Microslop Notepad⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  An attacker could trick a user into clicking a malicious link inside a Markdown file opened in Notepad, causing the application to launch unverified protocols that load and execute remote files.

  “launching unverified protocols” - does that mean the network fetching is done by the Notepad app, and Notepad doesn’t open the browser for this…? If so, bloody hell, Microsoft…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If someone tells you "you support socialism, yet you use products of capitalism", what would you say?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Only a sith deals in absolutes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: Payday developer Starbreeze is making more layoffs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering how they completely messed up the launch of Payday 3, and then furthermore saying since (among other things) that they’d work on including an offline mode, only to decide after about 20 months that they’re not gonna do it after all due to “it wasn’t a feasible route for us” (Steam news) proves to me that they’re only thinking about the money, not the player. And fortunately, as with most companies who focus purely on the money, they get dumped by the userbase for it, as evident in the other comment here.

  An article about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't be a lurker, they said. (introduction post)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A warm welcome, fellow fediverse surfer!

  I see @Demigodrick@lemmy.zip has already been here to welcome you (that guy is legendary!), and he creates these awesome monthly update posts for Lemmy.zip and piefed.zip where he provides some cool insight into how the instances are doing, like traffic, scraping stats, storage space status, and more!

  As for communities, there are plenty good ones for someone like you who like Linux and FOSS. I recommend just searching for those keywords and take a look at their content. The various instances and communities are run by very diverse people, and some may be more to your liking than not. I recommend engaging with both those you agree with and disagree with for a healthy mix of discussion.

  Some of my personal favorites are !programmer_humor@programming.dev and !technology@lemmy.zip.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How open are you about yourself to others online in general?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m quite transparent, and have been exposed to doxxing before, unfortunately, with random packages appearing on my doorstep and such. Still, I keep being perhaps a bit too naive, as being cynical would make my internet presence quite a lot more demanding of me.

  I own my actions in life, including mistakes and failures. I don’t let it weigh me down, nor feel ashamed of who I was. So threatening me with shame is fortunately quite ineffective.

  I have no issues speaking my mind on emotional topics like death, war, and politics, which naturally makes some people despise me. That is their problem however, not mine, as I believe communication is key, even among enemies.

  I feel like I’ve found a balance that works well for me, but if needed, I have the knowledge to change my ways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨High levels of ‘forever chemical’ found in cereal products across Europe – study⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No mention of which products, and no link to the study…?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Artist sneaks AI-generated print into National Museum Cardiff gallery⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  An artist sneaked an AI-generated print on to a gallery wall (…)

  Isn’t it “snuck”, and not “sneaked”?

  Anyhow, I’d agree with both parties: AI generated art can be considered a form of art, but not in the same league. Just like you have people who perform sports with “artificial enhancers” are separated from the naturals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia urges AI companies to use its paid API, and stop scraping⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wikipedia (or the Wikimedia Foundation) is mostly driven by donations and volunteers, unlike Reddit…

  Also, scraping every page on Wikipedia is incredibly heavy, especially compared to things like downloading a compressed copy of the entire site through torrents.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The end of merch culture is upon us with an official Death Stranding exoskeleton⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I must admit, this is quite cool! I doubt I’ll be buying it, as I have no particular need for this kind of mobility enhancement, but I’m sure there are plenty of people who could greatly benefit from equipment like this. This collaboration has the potential to greatly boost sales, which down the road will mean more money and effort being put into this technology becoming more widely available.

  And imagine getting this thing as part of your Collector’s Edition!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yupp! I probably should’ve specified that I’ve seen the use in English, but it is indeed still in use in Icelandic! It stems from Old Norse, as a rune, iirc. Icelandic is the closest we have to Old Norse in today’s used languages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with the personalizing! I have a friend who wasn’t very good in English, so he masked it with leetspeak, and now that has simply become his style. It’s a bit of a hurdle getting used to it, but it’s rather intuitive, fortunately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for chiming in!

  I’m indeed curious whether it actually has an effect on the training, although my gut tells me that it’s very negligible.

  Tbf, I can agree that the use of þ and/or ð could possibly make the written language a bit easier to translate into spoken (clear distinction between voiced and unvoiced). However, there are worse things about the English language that probably could need some addressing first, like thou, tough, though, thought, and thorough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, in that sense! I think it’s about is inefficient as the other reason honestly. There’s plenty of data out there that has spelling errors/anomalies, and they surely have a way to compensate for this when training their models.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is my thought as well: There’s plenty of data out there that have spelling errors/anomalies, and they surely have a way to compensate for that when training.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Spot on the user I saw it from just now! Must be quite the active user then, as I keep bumping into comments using this character…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, makes sense, kinda. Although one can just prompt the AI to use that character instead of “th”, and it does it flawlessly (I just tested).

• Why are people using the "þ" character?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to separate self-worth from Achievements and External Validation?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Though the process is also something that is subject to external validation?

  Say I’m learning to drive, but I keep failing the test. The goal/achievement is the end result; driver’s license. However my process of getting to that goal is sub-par compared to others, or “the average”. I’m stuck in the process itself, having many more lessons than others, but I have no apparent reason to struggle? Isn’t that infuriating?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to separate self-worth from Achievements and External Validation?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have to disagree a bit with the efficacy of this method.

  I myself have been told that I’m very understanding for people who try and learn something new, or do something I already know how to. However when the roles are switched, I can’t help but to hold myself to a higher standard than I hold others, and I end up pissing on myself for having such a hard time doing something others seem to have such an easy time with. Personal example is learning a language: I’m such a slow learner, still being A1 after three years, while I have a friend who got to B1 in 9 months. And I keep thinking things like “why do I struggle so much retaining this simple information? I must be putting a weak effort into this…”, while my friends are like “Keep going! You’re doing great!”. I can’t help but consider it mocking, like “aw, it’s adorable that you try so hard, and are still a noob!”, even though that is something neither of us actually think.

  It works well as a form of motivation though, albeit slightly toxic.

  I try to compare myself with my previous self, but that I find near-impossible, for some reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Both of these games are very well made, but they both cater to a special type of gamer.
  Elden Ring being incredibly well designed as an introduction to souls-likes, it still has the mechanics and difficulty like most of From Software’s games, with slight variation. If you’re not a gamer who likes overcoming a challenge, the game is likely not for you.

  Death Stranding I think is quite the unique game, but much thanks to its weirdness. It has a lot of curious elements to it, but its incredibly story heavy. With different difficulty options you can make it a very casual experience, but it can be quite slow at times still. If you don’t like several dozen hours of cutscenes, the game might not be for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | Pentagon to limit journalists’ access unless they agree not to publish certain information⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  [Defense Department] information must be approved for public release by an appropriate authorizing official before it is released, even if it is unclassified

  This is ambiguous, and can be applied to any and all information acquired through the Defense Department.

  Officials indicated the move was needed because any unauthorized disclosure “poses a security risk that could damage the national security of the United States and place [Defense Department] personnel in jeopardy.

  Isn’t this exactly what constitutes the need for information to be classified?

  So ultimately, what is the purpose of letting journalists in at all? To give a false sense of transparency?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Were both parties cheated on?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it results in a basis of good values later in life, I’d say it’s definitely worth the time of OP.
  However, it’s arguable whether making a post on Lemmy is the right way to get feedback on rights and wrongs, although I’m positively surprised by the comments here being so understanding and constructive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let Google know what you think about their proposed restrictions on sideloading Android apps. - Android developer verification requirements [Feedback Form]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You seem to look at it quite pessimistically imho, but I’ll try and counter ;-)

  developers won’t support a third platform

  We’re not talking about a vastly different ecosystem. Probably Android-derived (which is open-source), very likely Linux derived. So compatibility is not going to be a huge issue, hence developing not hard. Developers will usually follow where user demand goes, not the other way around.

  nor will customers move to a platform that doesn’t have the big apps that they need

  Most of the big apps today have a smaller equivalent, check AlternativeTo.net.

  Doubling your market share is easy when your market share is so low.

  Generally true, but we’re talking a growth of millions of users a year. Millions of people is no small number. 5% of the US’ traffic are from Linux desktops, according to StatCounter (here’s an article with many links).

  Nope, not in the tens of millions

  You’re correct wrt. gaming, as 2.89% of 157 million active monthly users is about 4.55 million, which is not a small number either.  If you look at Linux desktop users in the US however, we’re talking over 5% of 347 million, which is 17.35 million users in the US alone, which is also not a small number. It’s more than the population of Greece and Bulgaria combined.

  Purely because of the steam deck (wrt. Steam Linux users growth)

  Do you have numbers? I can’t find any official numbers of active users on the Steam Deck, but there are estimations of 3+ million devices sold. I feel like I keep seeing posts of people who move over to Bazzite and similar distros these days for the sake of playing games, but nevertheless, both of these factors weigh in, and are steadily increasing the adaptation of Linux systems.

  without [kernel level anti-cheat] it will never take off because the overwhelmingly most played games all have kernel level anti-cheat.

  This is denying the antecedent. The amount of games, and money in games, without KLAC is plenty substantial to make a difference in the approach of both developers and DRMs, further increasing ease of adaptation by users. Do not undermine nor underestimate the potential of marginalities.