KoboldCoterie
@KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
- Comment on What one Finnish church learned from creating a service almost entirely with AI. 21 hours ago:
fancy version of piano
The organ? Or did the church you visited have something else?
- Comment on How do you feel about someone taking the coins people tossed into a fountain or other public waterworks display for "wishes?" 3 days ago:
I’d much rather someone who actually needs the money enough to pick up small change to take them than for them to just sit there. If someone’s desperate enough to fish coins out of a fountain for a few dollars, they can absolutely have them.
- Comment on Prime Video begins an AI dubbing pilot program on licensed movies and series. 3 days ago:
I’m convinced that the problem with AI isn’t its existence or uses, it’s just that we don’t have UBI to go along with it. It’s the obvious step, but we’re skipping it because capitalism. I don’t think anyone would care if all of the menial jobs were done by AI, as long as they didn’t need those jobs for basic necessities.
- Comment on Prime Video begins an AI dubbing pilot program on licensed movies and series. 3 days ago:
Is that actually what this is about, though? The article specifically says:
Prime Video will begin offering AI-aided dubbing on licensed movies and series that would not have been dubbed otherwise.
Obviously they might be misrepresenting the situation, but it doesn’t sound like “They were previously having employees do this and are switching to using AI”; it sounds like “This was not previously being done at all and is now being done by AI”.
- Comment on US | Firing squad could become Idaho’s main execution method if governor signs bill 3 days ago:
There’s a few choice people who I wouldn’t mind preserving it for, just for a little while, though there’s a more appropriate method than a firing squad, and they don’t live in Idaho.
- Comment on When Lemmy got named did no one think that the "lemming" association might alienate people? 3 days ago:
Well, I’m sold!
- Comment on Prime Video begins an AI dubbing pilot program on licensed movies and series. 4 days ago:
I guess AI is really gonna replace a lot of people jobs by the end of 2025…
I’m kind of torn on this. On one hand, if this starts getting used instead of traditional dubbing with an actual translator, that sucks. I’m sure the quality won’t be as good, at least initially, and the whole “AI taking jobs” thing sucks. (If we had UBI, it wouldn’t be an issue at all, for the record.)
On the other hand, if it’s used to add dubs to shows that didn’t have them at all / would not have had them at all, that seems like a fine use for AI. I don’t know.
- Comment on Is it a red flag if a potential employer rushes you? 4 days ago:
It’s time sensitive - she needs someone to fill this position right now. If it’s so time sensitive, she might be willing to pay more than she normally would to get someone to do so.
- Comment on Is it a red flag if a potential employer rushes you? 4 days ago:
Sounds to me like she put her cards on the table and gave you a nice bargaining chip when it comes time to discuss compensation.
- Comment on Does 'attempted murder' require a viable method? 6 days ago:
I mean, it’s not like it’s a serious question for which I need a specific answer. Folks have been replying with answers from various jurisdictions, which is great - all interesting!
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- Comment on Is this green or blue? 6 days ago:
The RGB value for this color seems to be:
(0,122,133)
As such, it is slightly more blue than green, if that helps you win your argument. If not, you can just say it’s “bluegreen” and only be half wrong.
- Comment on nuked from orbit 2 weeks ago:
Brad Wentworth? Is that you?
- Comment on stylish 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure what’s better: The alligator wearing the hat, the conservation instructor seemingly grabbing its tail to stop it, or the alligator just not giving a shit and carrying on with its day.
- Comment on nuked from orbit 2 weeks ago:
Dude should just delete his account in a form of internet Harakiri at that point.
- Comment on YSK that scientifically and zoologically, there's no such thing as alpha males, and a human "alpha male" personality is a transgender identity/gender performance 3 weeks ago:
They had two wolves inside of them and the experience left them feeling weirdly aroused and it scared them a little.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
It does, though, because not every instance federates with every other instance. If someone is coming from Reddit, and they interact with a set of specific subs there, and they want to interact with the analogue communities here, they don’t want to join an instance like, for example Beehaw, that has very strict federation policies, or (probably) .ml or lemmygrad, where they’ll be exposed to stigma they weren’t aware of going in and which might not apply to them.
A list of servers with very open federation could solve this problem in theory, assuming new users knew to reference it, but that might not be what they want, either.
The invite code idea is actually solid, I think, assuming they’re handed out to people who have things in common with the target userbase of the instance, and not arbitrarily.
There’s also some instances that hold united views on specific topics, for example blahaj with trans rights, and someone arbitrarily choosing that instance that doesn’t hold those same views might feel that they don’t fit in.
Obviously anyone can just choose a new instance and move, but for a new user coming in, that’s a ‘quit moment’ in many cases. Giving an invite code to someone that leads them to an instance that at least broadly fits what they’re interested in could help solve for this.
- Comment on Wikipedia Prepares for 'Increase in Threats' to US Editors From Musk and His Allies 3 weeks ago:
As a Venezuelan, I give y’all Americans the Welcome to the Authoritarian Countries club!
I want to get off Mr. Bones’ Wild Ride. :(
- Comment on Humans are notoriously hard to kill on purpose but laughably easy to kill by accident. 4 weeks ago:
This is a great example of survivorship bias! Someone surviving those types of events is a very rare occurrence, so when it happens, it’s noteworthy and the word gets around. You don’t hear about all of the times those things happen and the person doesn’t survive (or at least, you don’t hear about them as prevalently.) Similarly, when someone stumbles on a curb and survives, it’s not news, but when someone stumbles and dies, it is!
- Comment on Do you like the Mastodon approach of consistent branding for different instances? 4 weeks ago:
Something like many Reddit subs do with the snoo, where they took a common, recognizable icon and customized it for their instance would have worked well if there was a similar icon for instances to latch onto, but we’re past that point now.
- Comment on Palworld Lawsuit 2 months ago:
Even if there weren’t a million examples of prior art, the fact that patents on game mechanics are even allowed is just awful for the industry as a whole, and we as players should absolutely rail against this. Every game borrows from other games’ ideas and mechanics - I’d bet money that there hasn’t been a single fully “original” game in 20+ years. If companies are allowed to patent every little mechanic (even ones they didn’t come up with), the industry as a whole will just become impossible to operate in.
- Comment on I never realized this 2 months ago:
My wife and I actually did this, sort of. Not a completely new name, but we took her grandmother’s name, rather than either of ours. Or, her great grandfather’s name, I suppose.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 2 months ago:
But instead of giving up, we should be trying to fix these issues.
Genuine question - how long do you think we should try to fix the issues before coming to the conclusion that they can’t be fixed through conventional means? Do you think we should resort to nonconventional resolutions at all, if the conventional ones cease to function or don’t yield results? If not, why not?
- Comment on *Everyone liked that* 2 months ago:
it is literally illegal for a CEO to do the right thing if it will cost shareholders
Source?
- Comment on You know what would be cool? If all those (job name) simulator games could all be joined. 3 months ago:
The only downside is that the participants need to be familiar enough with their chosen game to do a randomizer which means roping in casual players is difficult.
Casual players can be fine with some games. Some actually become easier with Archipelago (e.g. Noita, Risk of Rain 2) since you’re getting meta-progression between runs that normally wouldn’t be there. Others though are especially punishing for new players (Doom comes to mind - you have to be pretty intimately familiar with the levels. There’s keys hidden in secret areas sometimes, for example, and ammo can be very scarce.)
- Comment on your mom falls significantly faster than g 4 months ago:
When you carry a ton of feathers, you also have to carry the weight of what you did to those poor birds…
- Comment on Having $270 billion dollars and spending the bulk of your time trying to make more money is like weighing 900 pounds and thinking "ooh, I bet I can get to 1000". 4 months ago:
There’s no real difference between $213 billion and $270 billion when it comes to buying power. Both are effectively unlimited. Both could buy small countries if they wanted to. But there sure is a difference when it comes to ego, because when we talk about it, we’re always treating it like a great thing to be the richest person in the world, instead of sociopathy.
- Comment on Having $270 billion dollars and spending the bulk of your time trying to make more money is like weighing 900 pounds and thinking "ooh, I bet I can get to 1000". 4 months ago:
As long as we keep treating wealth like a scoreboard, this will continue. If we collectively demonized people with unreasonable wealth, ostracized them from society, and stopped glorifying it and treating them like celebrities because of it, we might be in a better spot.
- Comment on Discord's Most Important Legal Battle... Involves Piracy 4 months ago:
You’re the hero the internet needs.
- Comment on Denuvo respond to their rep for tanking games - "I'm a gamer myself, and therefore I know what I'm talking about" 4 months ago:
Yeah, and at that point I’ll also just wait for a 50% off sale, whereas I would otherwise have been a day 1 purchase.
I feel like this happens a lot, honestly - there’ll be a game I’m really excited for, and either it’s got some shitty DRM, or it’s a timed Epic exclusive, or whatever else, and then a few months later when I could be playing it, I’ve mentally moved on to other things and I end up just buying it much later on deep sale if at all.
There’s a lot of games coming out all the time; if I get past that initial hype period around launch without buying a thing, it’s 50% or more off, or I won’t buy it at all.