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- Comment on Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group 1 week ago:
I’d be excited if I stumbled upon an artist that I like, and they’d accept some private payment method (maybe Monero or something) for their music in a lossless format.
I suppose that applies to any digital content format. It’s a shame that privacy has become such a low priority.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 1 week ago:
I’m not a game dev, so I can’t really answer your question. My comment was only pointing out that this will discourage other studios from disclosing their use of AI during development.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 1 week ago:
I suppose this is a warning to any companies who were thinking about disclosing their uses of AI for placeholders
- Comment on Attitudes 2 weeks ago:
I was able to pursue a career from my favorite hobby. It took a lot of hard work to get there without the usual academic qualifications (university/college degree), but once I finally got hired for a full-time position, it was a dream job for me. I would have done a lot of it for free if it didn’t cost money to live. I’m also very lucky that my hobby happens to pay well.
Since then, a bigger company acquired my employer. I still like my job (mostly), but I don’t love it yet. I’m required to delegate a lot of the work, which I used to love and take pride in, to AI. I’m gradually getting better at using AI effectively and efficiently, so maybe I can find joy in using, eventually.
- Comment on THIS is a real test of how old you are. If you score 20 your future is short 2 weeks ago:
I got all 20, but I never used vinyl records until just a few years ago
- Comment on The problems Mothers have to deal with 2 weeks ago:
A blonde-haired baby from Bethlehem. He really was a miracle! 😆
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 2 weeks ago:
If you leave a spoon in the jar the same way, is the opening too small for ants to get in?
In my area of the world, we have ants that are small enough to get in with either tool propping the lid open
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I just realized something: When I search for something in Lemmy and get zero results, I sometimes go to Reddit and search there.
It would probably be better to make a new post in Lemmy about the thing I’m searching for. It would add content to Lemmy, and the content would be newer and fresher than the Reddit results that are sometimes 10+ years old.
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 3 weeks ago:
Have you considered immunotherapy (“allergy shots”)? That was life-changing for me
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 3 weeks ago:
I can read some of it. The text on the front of his jacket says “tsingtao”. Hope this helps!
- Comment on My Religion 4 weeks ago:
🤔 I understand this more like “Don’t practice the religion as a way to show off. For example, don’t make a YouTube/TikTok/whatever video giving a homeless man $100. Just give the guy $100 and STFU about it. Also, stop posting prayers in comment sections on social media, you look silly.”
I’m not a bible guy though, so idk
- Comment on Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, good point. Owners of Samsung “smart” refrigerators started seeing ads on them recently.
I’m sure there was some sort of legal terms that users had to agree to to enable that, but it still feels like a scam. Some amount of those fridge owners would not have bought the fridge if they knew there would be ads on it at any point in time.
- Comment on Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline 4 weeks ago:
I wish companies would at least offer a “no data collecting/selling” price option. Like, how much would they make from selling my data? Just give me the option to pay that extra amount so I can buy a vacuum without thinking about how it’s spying on me.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 4 weeks ago:
My phone recently offered to summarize a text message for me. I’m talking about SMS, the messaging system that already has a character limit.
Also, when I last checked the weather in my area, there was an AI summary. It was an entire sentence or two, and offered zero additional details over what was already visually indicated by the raincloud icon and the number representing the temperature.
I’m looking forward to installing GrapheneOS when their support for my phone stabilizes.
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 4 weeks ago:
I mean places that don’t care about any laws at all. Places that might only be accessible on the dark web, etc. There’s terrible stuff out there
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 4 weeks ago:
🤔 I’m not sure that lawmakers really understand what they’re up against. If most VPN locations all eventually require government ID for porn, then some people will likely seek porn from places/networks that are… Less legitimate.
- Comment on The President of the United States of America 4 weeks ago:
Maybe we’ll consider electing someone who isn’t a senior citizen, next time. Three terms of the two oldest presidents in US history seems like enough.
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 5 weeks ago:
American tech companies created algorithms that happen to boost videos and news articles of fringe/extreme occurrences that take place here. The mainstream news networks also prioritize content like that, for the same reason: It’s very profitable. Boring news/content just doesn’t make much money.
People who have never visited the US seem to have a very distorted understanding of what everyday life is like here. We display a pretty embarrassing caricature of our country for the world to see.
And to make things even more embarrassing, we made our government ridiculous, and made our politics become pop culture (yet also very tribal) over the last ~15 years.
- Comment on Well, when you frame it like that it sounds absurd. But yes. 5 weeks ago:
He pays them?
- Comment on Feeling that groove 1 month ago:
It’s also interesting that it has made somewhat of a comeback after some newer technologies have faded away
- Comment on Someone should put the 63 actual humans who are still MAGA on suicide watch after this past several days. 1 month ago:
Ohhh I see. I suppose it’s all about the setting. For some reason I was imagining people wearing them like a fashion statement or something 🤦🏻♂️
- Comment on Someone should put the 63 actual humans who are still MAGA on suicide watch after this past several days. 1 month ago:
🤔 I don’t think I’ve seen a bandage on anyone’s ear in my area (at least not in any recent years), and there’s no shortage of MAGA people here. Where was this happening? It sounds like it would have been funny lol
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 month ago:
If you’ve never used the terminal before, how do you know what to type?
Start pushing buttons. Start typing things, try pressing tab variously. Look up guides, introductions, help.
Sure, but my point is: I don’t think I’ve never seen a terminal present those instructions when you open it. Unless it’s immediately shown in some MOTD or something, the average user isn’t going to take the time to figure it out if they don’t have to.
If my grandmother wanted to draft a letter on her computer, she’d use something that looks more like Notepad and less like Vi.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 month ago:
Eh, I think it’s just about ease of use and discovery. When you open a terminal, it just shows a blinking cursor. If you’ve never used the terminal before, how do you know what to type?
In a graphical desktop environment, you see icons, menus, etc. If you open a GUI application, you usually see buttons and things to click, and maybe even some guidance on how to use the app.
A lot of people just want to use their computer without too much of a learning curve. Most people are not powerusers.
- Comment on I hate it when people use pictures showing the condiments only on top of a hot dog. 1 month ago:
lmao
- Comment on I've heard New Yorkers are devastated 1 month ago:
🤔 I wouldn’t guess that “commies” are the demographic that would go to a Kid Rock show
- Comment on Bacon 1 month ago:
How did the pig use the dog?
- Comment on Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage — delays forcing rapid transition to QLC SSDs 1 month ago:
Why? And which coins are good?
- Comment on Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race 1 month ago:
How would a surveillance state even prevent that?
- Comment on So sad to see a really old guy driving an expensive sports car 1 month ago:
Why sad?