harmbugler
@harmbugler@piefed.social
- Comment on Skier narrowly avoids a crevasse 10 hours ago:
Keep your eyes open, or… don’t ski on a fucking glacier??
- Comment on ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users 3 days ago:
Here’s what I mean, in an excerpt from the Internet Manipulation section of Wikipedia’s article on Disinformation.
Internet manipulation is the use of online digital technologies, including algorithms, social bots, and automated scripts, for commercial, social, military, or political purposes. Internet and social media manipulation are the prime vehicles for spreading disinformation due to the importance of digital platforms for media consumption and everyday communication. When employed for political purposes, internet manipulation may be used to steer public opinion, polarise citizens, circulate conspiracy theories, and silence political dissidents.
That’s everybody’s business.
While we may weigh up the pros and cons of these tools, it’s a start to recognise that there are significant social risks here that shouldn’t be dismissed out of hand.
- Comment on ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users 3 days ago:
Others are using it on us. Can you understand why we prefer it stays down?
- Comment on ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users 3 days ago:
Tell the people using it ON us to stop then.
- Comment on Replace your boss ... before they replace you 4 days ago:
Johnson, it’s perfect. Fire me immediately.
- Comment on Couple from Kazakhstan allegedly used hidden camera and earpieces to win $1.18m from Sydney’s Crown casino 5 days ago:
Excellent, a chance to tell people about the Eudaemons, who “beat roulette using a concealed computer, with the ulterior motive of using the money made from roulette to fund a scientific community.”
- Comment on DRAM prices are spiking, but I don't trust the industry's reasons why 6 days ago:
Still working on my backlog of 10 year old games…
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 1 week ago:
And if it’s as he says, and eventually all games get labeled that way, what’s his problem with that? Man just doesn’t want to compete.
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 1 week ago:
What Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain teaches you is to draw how an object does look. I’m probably a 4 on the scale and can draw because of this book. One of the memorable techniques is to take a photograph, turn ti upside down and draw it that way. Then, turn your drawing upside and see what you got. By making the image a bit confusing, you can focus on the lines and shading your eyes see, and not ‘a man in a chair’ your mind sees.
- Comment on Every time I see this headline, I think (hope?) I hallucinated the last 24.5 years 1 week ago:
Can we go back and party like it’s 1999
- Comment on Where childhood goes to wait for its shift to start. 1 week ago:
Haha dumb kids, at least MY play screen has Excel on it
- Comment on Zork I, Zork II and Zork III are now officially open source 2 weeks ago:
Nice! Would love to see Zork Zero opened as well.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 2 weeks ago:
FWIW that’s the same as Windows.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 2 weeks ago:
As a chaos monkey, I haven’t broken this atomic distro in a few years. It usually takes me less than a year to completely break my distro’s package system (or something equally important, but it’s usually the packages).
- Comment on iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots." 2 weeks ago:
If one came with Valetudo pre-installed (or installation was officially supported), I would be very interested.
- Comment on Austrian Ministry Kicks Out Microsoft in Favor of Nextcloud 5 weeks ago:
You think Nextcloud is a linux desktop app?
Anyway, https://nextcloud.com/partners/
- Comment on Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like 5 weeks ago:
Good luck when they all have screens :(
- Comment on Austrian Ministry Kicks Out Microsoft in Favor of Nextcloud 5 weeks ago:
You mean support that can be provided not by a single incumbent, but by multiple companies and you can choose the one you prefer?
- Comment on If only 5 weeks ago:
This to wholesome to make a comment like: Learn to DJ and unlock your non-profit potential.
- Comment on Space is beautiful 5 weeks ago:
You can already do this with the light bent around black holes, it’s just a bit hard to make out the image… make sure you wipe down your black hole with a damp cloth, you don’t want a smudgey black hole
- Comment on US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment 5 weeks ago:
You already know they didn’t ask permission.
- Comment on CNC 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Oh no my harvest is too bountiful 1 month ago:
I don’t think the nuclear engineer wants the furries to know about ‘little nut’
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 1 month ago:
You can use Bazzite to code just fine. The great thing about OS like Bazzite is it’s so easy to switch to many other atomic/immutable distros. You’re not locked in. You can just ‘rebase’ it to Aurora with a command, which is the development focused version by the same team.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X calls for delay in Australia’s child social media ban citing ‘serious concerns’ about policy’s lawfulness 2 months ago:
Sadly, because he bought a megaphone. But Albo has shown a semblance of backbone when it comes to America, so there’s hope.
- Comment on Why do some gamers invert their controls? Scientists now have answers, but they’re not what you think 2 months ago:
Well, put your hand on your head like you would a mouse. If you push forward what happens? You look down. There’s no “correct” way here.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
This is a good insight that has wide application. For example in the context of investing: every portfolio is always fully invested, even 100% cash which runs the risk of not meeting the investor’s goals.
However it’s not always true in all contexts. For example in formal games, there may be a no-risk path to victory for you, where every move can be dominant. In this sense there is no risk in taking those dominant moves to win the game.
- Comment on Due to the bystander effect its highly unlikely any stranger would help you if you got attacked in a public space 2 months ago:
There are also plenty of counterexamples of helpful, sometimes even brave, bystanders.
- Comment on everyone talks about chip bags being 50% wasted space but no one talks about creamed corn cans being 50% wasted space 2 months ago:
Maybe creamed corn is different where you are, but the creamed part is a sauce that goes with the corn. It's meant to be eaten with the corn and not supposed to be discarded, so I don't know why you're straining it.
- Comment on everyone talks about chip bags being 50% wasted space but no one talks about creamed corn cans being 50% wasted space 2 months ago:
Why are you straining it? It's like saying your bottle of fresh orange juice has hardly any pulp after you strain it.