Kichae
@Kichae@kbin.social
- Comment on Jaysus... 11 months ago:
Me, noticing Riker: "I don't get it. Why is Abraham Lincoln here?"
Me, finally noticing Picard: "KILL IT WITH FIRE!"
- Comment on Transparent Wood Could Soon Find Uses In Smartphone Screens, Insulated Windows 11 months ago:
Honestly, I'd take a woody window to replace the clear glass overlooking the scenic parking lot outside literally any of the apartments I've ever lived in.
- Comment on Walmart, Costco and other companies rethink self-checkout, some stores removing them 11 months ago:
Self checkouts tend to have a hand scanner too
I'm going to guess that this is regional or vendor specific, because I've literally never seen a self-checkout with a hand scanner. And if I ever did, I would expect it to transform into a broken, dangling cable within a few months.
- Comment on Walmart, Costco and other companies rethink self-checkout, some stores removing them 11 months ago:
Meanwhile, stores all but stop manning existing checkouts, forcing everyone to line up to check out their own stuff.
- Comment on Amazon exec says it’s time for RTO: ‘I don’t have data to back it up, but I know it’s better’ 11 months ago:
In business, all data are vanity metrics. If they make you look good, you slap that shit on everything; if they make you look bad, you "don't have it".
It's just that sometimes you can use negative data to make decisions that look good to those above you, and sometimes you know that you can't.
- Comment on Star Citizen Just Had its Biggest Crowdfunding Day Ever With $3.5 Million in 24 Hours 11 months ago:
I think I've reached the point where no one will be able to convince me that Star Citizen is not a money laundering front.
- Comment on The New York Times tried to block the Internet Archive: another reason to value the latter 1 year ago:
their value comes from them being relevant
The news's value should be to society, though, not shareholders?
- Comment on I guess I'll die 1 year ago:
* Player rolls a 1
GM: "You experience bin."
- Comment on Elon Musk under investigation by US agency for $44bn takeover of Twitter 1 year ago:
He was "forced" to buy because he, uh, signed a contract saying he would. I'm sorry, but "voluntarily signed a purchase agreement" is only "forcing" if you believe people above a certain wealth level can do whatever the fuck they want with impunity.
He could have backed out and paid the fine he agreed to pay in the case he backed out, but he didn't want to do that, either.
- Comment on I want to get off Mr. Bones' Wild Ride 1 year ago:
Being able to identify the characters might help some, but otherwise no. It's a two part capsule episode
- Comment on Let your dreams be memes 1 year ago:
No. Especially if you have work experience, doing a MA or an MSc will be taken for the career pivoting skills development you sell it as.
Don't do a PhD, though, unless you're specifically trying to get into a job that looks for them. That is, unless you specifically want to do the PhD for the sake of doing it. A lot of employers see it the same way a retail employer sees a BSc - a sign that you're a flight risk.
- Comment on Taste the glory 1 year ago:
- Comment on Taste the glory 1 year ago:
Are you trying to erase Odo?
- Comment on Now we know why Elon said he liked Star Trek 1 year ago:
No idea, but the realGulDukat Twitter account is actibe on Mastodon: @realGulDukat
- Comment on amazing 1 year ago:
You wouldn't be so smug, with all your fancy shmancy hydrogen atoms, if we had ever found Nemesis!
- Comment on Jeff Geerling: "Raspberry Pi 5: Everything you need to know" 1 year ago:
Everything I need to know about the new Raspberry Pi: https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/09/rpi_maker_in_residence_police/
- Comment on We need a new Explore-Feed (similar to Mastodon), which consolidates the All- and Local-Feed 1 year ago:
Honestly, the problem with discovery is not that there are not enough posts in a single timeline. Merging local and global feeds makes discoverability worse on Lemmy and kbin, not better, because the timelines display posts, while the space is organized by communities. This means that smaller or niche communities just drown seas of posts from large or highly active ones.
If you want a real "exploration" timeline, you need one that limits the number of posts from any given community. And that still seems like it's well served by local/global splits, because the website you join should be meaningful.
We do not need, nor should we want, a network of "dumb terminal" Fediverse sites. We should be aiming for the local stream to be the big selling point for any given instance, with the ability to interact with remote communities being a value-add. A merged timeline kills local identity, and tells users that their hosting website is a 2nd class citizen in the Fediverse.
- Comment on We all look great now. Very uniform-ready. 1 year ago:
Yeah, 4/12 in my astro classes was definitely a significantly better ratio than the same 4 out of 80 in my general physics classes.
- Comment on Meta and Salesforce are looking to rehire some workers they just laid off. It's putting those people in an awkward spot. 1 year ago:
“Laid off” has always been a euphemism for “fired.”
Not in communities where seasonal labour is a significant part of the local economy. There, 'laid off' often comes with the implicit "temporary" modifier.
- Comment on It would be less dramatic though 1 year ago:
Time to go watch Junkball videos all morning.
- Comment on All your favorite Cyberpunk 2077 mods are disabled in Phantom Liberty, CDPR says 1 year ago:
Especially when they can just type in a provocative prompt and get 500 words of generic rage bait in a second.
- Comment on VR still makes 40-70% of players want to throw up, and that's a huge problem for the companies behind it 1 year ago:
VR is Guitar Hero if Guitar Hero was $500.
- Comment on VR still makes 40-70% of players want to throw up, and that's a huge problem for the companies behind it 1 year ago:
VR continues to make more sense as an arcade-like attraction than as a consumer product.
Except for the part where I would have to wear a headset that 5000 other people have also worn. (And except for the VR sickness that, it turns out, I'm very sensitive to).
- Comment on Meta and Salesforce are looking to rehire some workers they just laid off. It's putting those people in an awkward spot. 1 year ago:
“If you want me back, you value me,” Sucher told Insider.
Wow, I know business schools are filled with out of touch simps for the ownership class, but I still wasn't prepared for this line.
Like, what was the message that was sent with the layoff? And how does it colour the interpretation of everything else?
- Comment on Goodbye for now 1 year ago:
Glad to hear the explosion has been contained and that you can stand down red alert.
- Comment on Unity backtracks, no runtime fee for <$1mil or for games on current/old versions 1 year ago:
They don't need good will, unfortunately. They just need devs to not abandon it for Unreal or some other engine, and the cost/benefits calculation on that is going to be made by short sighted people on a project-by-project basis.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I guess, but it also puts a lot of pressure on those small ones to be indistinguishable from the big ones, by having people treating them like they're the same place.
I don't think Lemmy scales the same way that Mastodon does. I don't think this topic-based community forum model translates to federation the same way the individual-based microblogging space does. It's a more complex space, with more layers to manage. It's often mode or admin driven, whereas microblogs are entirely about average user behaviour.
I don't think it replicates Reddit the same way that it replicates Twitter. I think the mental model just doesn't fit the tech.
Like, yeah, letting users make personalized community lists is one thing, and I get the appeal, but it ends up functioning very differently in a space where multiple communities can have the same handle, you know? I can lump 5 different gaming subreddits together into a single stream, and be totally and intuitively aware that they're different. They have different names, and they present differently, with different stylings, when you actually click through to a post. Without those signals, though, empowering users to lump communities together only has benefits to smaller communities if those communities are looking to grow for growth's sake.
Mastodon has done a great disservice to its admins and users by trying to mask the federated nature of the fediverse. By trying to sell 'Mastodon' as a space in and of itself. By trying to make the actual website you're using invisible. I don't think we benefit from that in any way. Indeed, I think it's only the platform developers who benefit, by making their product the only thing people really see. But the individual websites that make up these networks of social networks are entities in and of themselves. They're like neighbourhoods, or towns. They have their own infrastructure, their own residents, their own characters, and their own needs. Treating them as interchangeable or invisible, ultimately, I feel, stymies the actual potential of the space.
Because this isn't Reddit. It doesn't work like Reddit. It can't try to be "Reddit, but ____", because it fails at the first word. The way forward is in recognizing that, and trying to figure out what this new space really is.
And one of the things it is is not one space.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
community discoverability, [...], and moderation tools
Those are big. But so is the lack of smooth interoperability with Mastodon. There's a large population using Mastodon right now that could be participating in threaded discussions here, who are just totally blind to the space, and those that do engage have a super jankey experience.
And on top of that, it's also a super jankey experience on the Lemmy end when Mastodon users engage.
Hopefully things get better on that front once Mastodon has implemented groups.
not being able to group communities together
I honestly see this being a continued expectation to be a bigger issue. Two communities with the same name on different servers could be very different spaces. Giving users the ability to group them together homogenizes them in a way that is likely bad for the ecosystem overall.
Like, it's fine to have federated or merged communities, but I think that power needs to be in mods and/or admins hands, not end users.
- Comment on Machine Learning is when machine learns, stupid. 1 year ago:
The current boom is an embarrassingly parallel task meeting an architecture designed to run that kind of task.
Plus organizations outside of the FAANGs having hit critical mass on data that's actually useful for mass comparison multiple correlation analyses, and data as a service platforms making things seem sexier to management in those organizations.
- Comment on AI-focused tech firms locked in ‘race to the bottom’, warns MIT professor 1 year ago:
Right. So, the actual danger here is... Search engines?
