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- Comment on YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy 5 days ago:
The closest, at least outside of China, would be Dailymotion.
- Comment on American and British English spelling and pronunciations 1 week ago:
As a native Portuguese speaker I found it very useful when I started to learn English. And even nowadays having some form of “visual map” between English and Portuguese at least for more erudite words - which tend to be the ones that are shared between more languages - helps me write English better.
The similarities between English and German also ended up helping me learn German.
- Comment on American and British English spelling and pronunciations 1 week ago:
Going by how ortography changes have gone in other languages, I doubt it.
Besides English, if English fix its ortography it’s going to become much harder to learn for speakers of other European languages - as confusing the pronunciation rules and exceptions are, they are caused by writing things similarly to other European languages while mangling the original pronunciation.
- Comment on Government said they are b-a-a-d 1 week ago:
That’s very 2024. Now they are arresting German and Northern European immigrants too. They are also moving past “illegal” because US visas don’t actually mean a thing now - the US border control has arrested several people with valid visas already. And when people get used to this, they’ll be able to disappear anyone and claim they weren’t American citizens.
- Comment on Remember the good old days? 2 weeks ago:
Pre-industrial societies still expected children to work from young ages. And they would often switch to adult labour in their early teens.
- Comment on Having a baby? Use this one weird trick! 4 weeks ago:
No European country has unrestricted jus soli for nationality. Ireland was the last one to restrict nationality by-soil to children of long term legal residents, which is the same as Germany.
- Comment on South Carolina conducts first US firing squad execution in 15 years: ‘Barbaric’ 4 weeks ago:
But think of the
barbariansnice people that get off on seeing other people dying. - Comment on BREAKING: EA releases C&C source code under GPL3! 5 weeks ago:
You’ll still need to buy the games to get the assets legally. EA is just checking if they can offload the modernization of old games they don’t want to remake to the community to keep the revenue stream going without having to invest on it.
It’s a win-win situation if it works.
- Comment on WWJD 5 weeks ago:
It’s called parody. It’s very hard to do when talking about people that are the embodiment (and origin) of Poe’s Law, so I appreciate everyone’s effort.
- Comment on New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code. 1 month ago:
LLMs can’t do software engineering. They can do some basic coding tasks if given very precise instructions by someone that did the actual engineering work.
It’s like having a mediocre junior developer that just happens to know the syntax and standard library of every major programming language as a service.
- Comment on Google will use machine learning to estimate a user’s age 1 month ago:
But they already did that to target ads. Someone found a way to repackage an existing feature for their performance review?
- Comment on FediDB has stoped crawling until they get robots.txt support 1 month ago:
You can consent to a federation interface without consenting to having a bot crawl all your endpoints.
Just because something is available on the internet it doesn’t mean all uses are legitimate - this is effectively the same problem as AI training with stolen content.
- Comment on FediDB has stoped crawling until they get robots.txt support 1 month ago:
It’s not about the impact it’s about consent.
- Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace 2 months ago:
Do you think Flohmarkt is worse than Volkswagen?
- Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace 2 months ago:
That’s not an issue for brands. German and Chinese brands are just doing fine everywhere with the possible exception of the two countries in the world where people are not exposed to other languages.
- Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace 2 months ago:
And why should we name things for the exclusive convenience of monolingual English speakers to the detriment of everyone else?
- Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace 2 months ago:
Got it, let’s name it in mandarin then
- Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace 2 months ago:
At least most speakers of European languages will pronounce it close enough to German - though most will not do make the r in markt as hard as Germans do.
- Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace 2 months ago:
Why would English be objectively better than German?
- Comment on Meta warns that it will fire leakers in leaked memo 2 months ago:
Irony is dead and buried several layers deep.
- Comment on Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI 2 months ago:
AI in general yes. LLMs in particular, I very much doubt it.
- Comment on Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI 2 months ago:
In the same way that if you start digging a hole in northwestern Spain you are heading towards New Zealand.
- Comment on The Stars of Star Trek: Section 31 Know Why You're Nervous About the Movie 2 months ago:
There’s a very clear line between having a military and intelligence services and having a MKULTRA-era-CIA-in-space.
- Comment on The Stars of Star Trek: Section 31 Know Why You're Nervous About the Movie 2 months ago:
“The people in the Federation exist in a bubble of safety and happiness, but there are outsiders to that sphere of the Federation—surrounded by the Dominion, the Founders, the Klingons [of this era], the [Romulan secret police] Tal Shiar, that don’t have the same moral relativity that we do. They would see [the Federation] destroyed to fit their moral relativism,” Kazinsky argued. “People need to understand why people don’t like the idea [of Section 31], but it hasn’t changed the idea.”
This kind of logic implies that stooping down to barbarism is OK as long as you are hypocritical about it.
- Comment on In hindsight, "the Xindi attack" was a phase change into a much more hard-boiled season of Enterprise. 2 months ago:
You mean the “justify American war crimes after 9-11” plot?
- Comment on If Anime Doesn't Get an Oscar Nomination Next Year, Then Film Is Dead 4 months ago:
The article doesn’t that the most important point against the chances of an anime movie winning an Oscar: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is very American as at least 50% of the members are American, and even more Western-centric since most of the other members are from North America or Europe. Non American movies always have an uphill battle to win an Oscar but something that is quintessentially non-western doubly so.
- Comment on Tor needs 200 new WebTunnel bridges to fight censorship 4 months ago:
Authoritarian government:
Please install this root certificate so we can MITM all the HTTPS traffic and make sure you aren’t doing anything we wouldn’t approve. And by please we mean do it or we’ll send you to a gulag in the artic.
- Comment on relaxing bird songs 4 months ago:
Yeah, but in monkeybrainish that all translates to “no large predators in sight”.
- Comment on What do you think objectivity is, and what do you think of it? 5 months ago:
But at that point you are out of realm of arithmetics any way.
- Comment on The Vatican randomly dropped their new anime mascot and it is polarizing the internet 5 months ago:
cause i feel like i’ve seen nothing but people liking the character
Especially the rule 34 weebs.