KoboldCoterie
@KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
- Comment on I choose hating your job in unconventional ways. 1 week ago:
Here I started typing up a comment asking what the fuck ‘Taco noodles’ were, then I looked more closely. What the fuck, I’ve never seen taco-flavored ramen before.
- Comment on Everyone Cheering The Social Media Addiction Verdicts Against Meta Should Understand What They’re Actually Cheering For 1 week ago:
Addictive Personality Disorder is a disorder that makes sufferers more vulnerable to developing addictive behaviors, including things like gambling or social media. Does it help to frame it in a different light for you if you think of it as those companies exploiting vulnerable peoples’ disorders to extract money from them?
- Comment on Was just watching THE Newsroom Clip. Does JD still hold water? Or have we gone way past that? But in your opinion what if anything makes America great??? 1 week ago:
One thing I think most people can agree makes America great: Our national park system. We have some absolutely beautiful, expansive and unique national parks. Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon are probably the most well-known but they’re only two of 63 total that we have.
Personally, I think natural wonders are better than man-made ones, and you can say what you want about America, but I don’t know anyone who’s gone to see the Grand Canyon (for example) and hasn’t been just utterly amazed by it.
- Comment on Everyone Cheering The Social Media Addiction Verdicts Against Meta Should Understand What They’re Actually Cheering For 1 week ago:
It’s like if someone had a forum where insurrectionists were discussing how to build bombs and where they were going to use them, and the owners had an internal meeting where they said, “Hey, we’re hosting some pretty awful people, should we maybe report them or shut this down?” and the answer was, “Nah, they’re paying users, and we want their money.”
Pretty sure Section 230 wouldn’t protect them, either.
- Comment on Guys did I do it right 1 week ago:
The cost to move it when street cleaning or plowing or whatever is coming through would exceed the cost of a storage unit, I’d imagine.
- Comment on Everyone Cheering The Social Media Addiction Verdicts Against Meta Should Understand What They’re Actually Cheering For 1 week ago:
Here’s a thought experiment: imagine Instagram, but every single post is a video of paint drying. Same infinite scroll. Same autoplay. Same algorithmic recommendations. Same notification systems. Is anyone addicted? Is anyone harmed? Is anyone suing?
Of course not. Because infinite scroll is not inherently harmful. Autoplay is not inherently harmful. Algorithmic recommendations are not inherently harmful. These features only matter because of the content they deliver. The “addictive design” does nothing without the underlying user-generated content that makes people want to keep scrolling.
This feels like an awful argument to make. It’s not the presence of those things that make Meta and co so shit, it’s the fact that they provably understood the risks and the effects that their design was having, knew that it was harming people, and continued to do it anyway. I don’t care if we’re talking about a little forum run by a Grandma and Grandpa talking about their jam recipes; if they know that they’re causing harm and don’t change their behavior, they should be liable.
- Comment on How do I change my pfp? 1 week ago:
Your app might not support pfp changes, but if you log in on Web, you can do it in the profile settings page.
- Comment on Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record 3 weeks ago:
The rest of the conversation, though, was about a (mostly) exclusively American thing, relating to lobbying and legislation against Wikipedia and IA.
- Comment on Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record 3 weeks ago:
sane Americans largely take Wikipedia for granted
North America is Wikipedia’s largest funding source by a factor of more than 2. I’m not sure why you’re calling Americans out here.
Are you supposing that IA is better known in other countries than in the US? Are you basing that on anything?
- Comment on Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: AI compute as compensation 3 weeks ago:
Well, this is a fresh kind of hell…
- Comment on Battlestar Galactica showerthoughts 3 weeks ago:
Gabe of Thrones (2011 - 2019) is really just the story of how a likable mentally handicapped man acquired his disability.
- Comment on i want to play The Last Of Us except Joel's daughter un the very first part of the game is replaced by Mr Burns from The Simpsons 3 weeks ago:
Not the same character at all. The game starts with you playing as his actual daughter at the very start of the zombie crisis. She dies in the first 10 minutes of the game, then the game time-skips to the point where the rest of the game takes place. It sets up the reason Joel develops a connection with Ellie in the first place.
- Comment on Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you 4 weeks ago:
I honestly love this. I find it interesting to spot the times when games do this. I think the Mass Effect elevators was the first game I really noticed it in, but some games are really good at hiding it.
- Comment on Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you 4 weeks ago:
Already has, but loading screens are too quick now to make it worth actually doing.
- Comment on Indonesia will quit Trump's Board of Peace if it does not benefit Palestinians, Prabowo says 4 weeks ago:
Anyone who joined the board of peace expecting it to benefit anyone but Trump, or thinking it was anything other than an open invitation to bribe him, is unbelievably ignorant.
- Comment on Is there a place online to ask for Non Money donations? like books, jerseys, or whatever? kind of like go fund me or kickstarter without giving someone money kind of like a gofundme donations thing? 4 weeks ago:
Not exactly what you’re looking for I don’t think but you might check for local Freecycle groups.
- Comment on U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material 5 weeks ago:
What if it’s a collage of AI generated art pieces? Technically the artist did the same amount of work as someone making a collage of human-created things.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Just google it, I’m sure it’ll be fine.
- Comment on U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material 5 weeks ago:
I mean, you could make the same argument for paint brushes for traditional art. Or pencils. There’s a really big difference between someone using a tablet and an Undo hotkey to draw something digitally vs. someone making something with AI. One of those clearly requires a ton of skill; one does not require any.
- Comment on U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material 5 weeks ago:
I wonder what percentage has to be created by a human to be eligible for copyright. For example, if someone generates an AI image and then changes a few pixels, is that human-created? What if they over-paint 30% of the image? 50%? What if someone creates something in Photoshop from scratch, but they use Photoshop’s in-built AI driven tools to enhance it?
Either anything that uses AI in any capacity is uncopyrightable, or there has to be a line somewhere, so… Where is it?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
It’s just a video game breeding system. Like you’re trying to make the human with ideal stats by combining other humans’ stats. Funny that Real Life mimics video games like that; good thing there’s no single entity behind it, or Nintendo would sue.
- Comment on Specifically Schnauzer 5 weeks ago:
Plot twist: This is in the lobby at a Vet clinic.
- Comment on LemmyNSFW and Saidit are dead. Which Platform is next? 5 weeks ago:
That feels like a weak argument, revenge porn is a crime, so is illustrated csam.
Not everywhere. If it’s legal where the admin lives and legal where the server is hosted, you can’t really make this argument. You could make the argument that it’s morally wrong, but like… the point is that it’s a possible point of contention, and not as cut-and-dried as you suggest.
- Comment on LemmyNSFW and Saidit are dead. Which Platform is next? 5 weeks ago:
Also the ideology of a nsfw community is a straight-forward issue.
You’d think so, but like… What about disagreements over what type of content should be allowed? Should they allow AI generated stuff? Revenge porn? Illustrated art depicting minors? Specific extreme fetishes?
- Comment on UK fines Reddit $19 million for using children’s data unlawfully 5 weeks ago:
Q4 Revenue grew 70% year-over-year to $726 million. 2025 Revenue grew 69% to $2.2 billion. Q4 Net Income $252 million, 35% of revenue. Source
But that’s cool, I’m sure 19 million will teach 'em. I wonder how much they sold that data for.
- Comment on Zuckerberg’s “Fix” for Child Safety Could End Anonymous Internet Access for Everyone 1 month ago:
This, really, is what gets me about billionaires. Literally any of them could have just faded into obscurity years ago, lived a life of abject luxury and never had a single worry. Or, they could have spent like 10% of their wealth on improving things for society as a whole, and everyone would have loved them for it. But no - they all had to just focus on hoarding more and more and making things worse and worse for everyone else. It’s fucking baffling to me.
- Comment on Man Opposing Data Center Arrested for Speaking Slightly Too Long 1 month ago:
One could note that, since this man was arrested and so far none of the folks named in the Epstein files have been, they consider speaking for a few seconds past the allotted time to be a worse crime than sexually abusing children for decades.
- Comment on What comes to your mind on hearing the word 'itzretk'? 1 month ago:
It’s wrecked.
- Comment on between medicine and this, we do not honour rats enough 1 month ago:
#Hero Snot Pests
- Comment on ancient hyperfixations 1 month ago:
I initially misread that as ‘gynecological and medical history’ and it put an entirely different and quite unpleasant spin on the whole story.