gustofwind
@gustofwind@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is Wikipedia's Volunteer Model Facing a Generational Crisis? 16 hours ago:
Download your copies of Wikipedia before it’s too late
- Comment on [deleted] 16 hours ago:
Yeah they basically just told on themselves as an unserious and/or sheltered nonparticipant in society
Essentially antisocial
- Comment on [deleted] 17 hours ago:
Or you live in real life and are affected by society
- Comment on Amazon discovered a 'high volume' of CSAM in its AI training data but isn't saying where it came from 23 hours ago:
lmaoo you have some kind of context disorder if you think Jeff bezos is a blank slate like random people on the internet or are just entirely unfamiliar with how people of his wealth and power often act
- Comment on Civilization 7's big Test of Time update that'll bring back playing as one civ for the whole game is set to drop this spring 23 hours ago:
Cool now put it 90% off or I’ll never buy it
- Comment on Firefox's AI Kill Switch Lands in Firefox Nightly, Slated for Firefox 148 1 day ago:
A few bug/glitches I noticed and performance improvements are always welcome (I don’t think running ai services and integrations will improve performance)
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
The thing inside is attempting to replicate a smile
- Comment on Danish Students Face Legal Action and Fines Over Textbook Piracy 1 day ago:
I used to email everyone in class a copy of the all the books I’d get off libgen/anna’s
Knowledge is expensive Stupidity is free
It shouldn’t be that way
- Comment on Shanghai scientists create computer chip in fiber thinner than a human hair, yet can withstand crushing force of 15.6 tons — fiber packs 100,000 transistors per centimeter 2 days ago:
Oh boy new technology to enable horrors beyond our wildest sci fi novels
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 2 days ago:
Epic is trash, simple as
- Comment on With the current situation with Tiktok, it's time for the Fedivers to rise. 3 days ago:
Yea it is
- Comment on So disappointing 3 days ago:
It’s glowing under the skin
- Comment on TRIMUI Brick Hammer, a weirdly named but beautiful handheld 3 days ago:
I don’t want to use my phone
- Comment on 3 days ago:
People do connect multiple zeros at the top
The real thing with zero is you’re supposed to use a slash across it so it’s impossible to mistake for a o or O
- Comment on Microsoft’s $440 billion wipeout, and investors angry about OpenAI’s debt, explained 3 days ago:
I can appreciate what is good and bad about it yes
Many people seem to only think it’s bad and they are simply wrong
I can only imagine you’re the later if you can’t grasp this nuance
- Comment on Is there any Fediverse project aimed at creating a safe space for kids to interact within? 3 days ago:
I’m not cishet but your problem is not social media bans its the already existent homophobic violence present in society
Enabling private communications and making true knowledge available through technology are not the same things as just letting kids post things to the public internet via systems literally invented and designed to be addictive and profit off social harm
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Yeah I think it’s a clarity thing. Numbers are often going to be the most important parts of the document (price, date, identification) and they need to be clear and differentiable from the other text.
Also older cursive was much more flamboyant than what we learned a few decades ago. Only calligraphic numbers will still look fancy, cursive writing will just slant the number and also you learn to write them perfectly consistently
Modern cursive is almost entirely just normal letters modified to have connectors (and being slanted) but there are a few weird letters like r, s, f, z which wouldn’t be connectable written normally.
So we’ve definitely been shifting to everything looking standardized anyway.
- Comment on Is there any Fediverse project aimed at creating a safe space for kids to interact within? 3 days ago:
I should have been more specific but I meant social media connectivity technologies
We don’t need public social media for any of those other things
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Just Google image cursive numbers
Not all of them are dramatically stylish but neither are all letters.
a cursive e can look mostly like a regular e too depending on the style
- Comment on Is there any Fediverse project aimed at creating a safe space for kids to interact within? 3 days ago:
I’m not sure any of those things require social media services
Especially when irl social media services for kids mostly result in interpersonal abuses and right wing fomentation (look into the discord child sex abuse and terrorism problems)
Open access to quality information does not need to be intertwined with public social media and everything we’re seeing technology do to children is harmful
- Comment on There are people out there who could utterly smash world records but no-one will never know as they haven't taken up that sport. 3 days ago:
Some records may only be capable of marginal improvement but those are still significant to break
I’m really not sure what point you’re trying to make
These are world records so the people involved absolutely care about small breakthroughs and that literally proves the human body was capable of more than we thought, even if just by a little
Who cares if it’s just by a little? We are operating at the absolute limit of performance where a small gain is actually huge
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Why did you think there aren’t cursive numbers?
- Comment on 3 days ago:
We learned numbers in cursive class
Who said they don’t include numbers
- Comment on 3 days ago:
It’s important to spell out numbers in addition to writing them when it comes to important documents and such
It helps you verify the numbers are accurate
- Comment on There are people out there who could utterly smash world records but no-one will never know as they haven't taken up that sport. 3 days ago:
Kinda but also maybe not
Records are continually broken and we do not know the limits when there is so much undiscovered talent and bodies combined w future technique and technology improvements
It’s kinda pointless to talk about but there are many genetic outliers who could dramatically push these limits but we will never know about them or get them in a position to train and try
- Comment on Is there any Fediverse project aimed at creating a safe space for kids to interact within? 3 days ago:
She’s not glued to tech bullshit and you don’t need tech bullshit to inform kids on politics
If anything having then sucked into online bullshit will dramatically reduce their political engagement and just turn them into another depressed and apathetic tech consumer
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 director agrees with No Rest for the Wicked lead that Early Access is "a positive thing" for games like their two RPGs – when it works 3 days ago:
I’ll just wait till you finish the game
I have a bajillion games to play and plenty of life left to live
Early access is mostly for the desperate and addicted consumer gamer
- Comment on There are people out there who could utterly smash world records but no-one will never know as they haven't taken up that sport. 3 days ago:
You’re correct and she is wrong, very wrong
“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould
- Comment on Microsoft’s $440 billion wipeout, and investors angry about OpenAI’s debt, explained 4 days ago:
I don’t consider myself a “proponent” of ai and I think it gives dependent and lazy people brain damage lol
But these people seem like complete contrarian Luddites who just want to insist it’s bad because they don’t like it and have seen too many negative memes about it
- Comment on Microsoft’s $440 billion wipeout, and investors angry about OpenAI’s debt, explained 4 days ago:
Tbh it’s not much different than search engines. You need to learn how to use them and when it’s appropriate to do so…it’s basically a skill issue 🤷♀️
Reminds me of when search engines first arrived and we were taught very early in school how library research works and then when to use digital academic databases vs regular search engines or just hit the books.
And yeah tech support is a great use case and you can just use the Gemini links that send you to the Reddit threads where the information came from to verify it.
I feel like if you’re minimally responsible it’s pretty hard to have AI backfire on you
