Adderbox76

@Adderbox76@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whoa! Windows 7's market share surged, tripling in users last month⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not that I’m disagreeing with you. I’m just not agreeing with you.

  I personally think that (as unpopular an opinion as it may be) Flatpak’s largely make the choice of first distro irrelevant. The weakness in Manjaro is that you either risk using the AUR or stay on old versions of the software. Or with Mint/Ubuntu/etc… you either risk adding random repos to your sources list or you use older versions of the software.

  Either way, you run the risk of a new person mucking up their system with a bad repo or a bad aur package.

  The alternative, using flatpaks, largely solves both issues for when you need newer versions of a certain software, and are dead simple to install/remove/update, etc…

  And I say this as someone who was super skeptical of flatpak’s for a very very long time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly that.

  If I were to google how to get gum out of my child’s hair and then be directed to that same reddit post. I’d read through it and be pretty sure which were jokes and which were serious; we make such distinctions, as you say, every day without much effort.

  LLMs simply don’t have that ability. And the number of average people who just don’t get that is mind-boggling to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Ich bin ein berliner

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that any AI company thought to train their LLM on the answers of Reddit users speaks to a fundamental misunderstanding of their own product (IMO)

  LLMs aren’t programmed to give you the correct answer. They’re programmed to give you the most pervasive/popular answer on the assumption that most of the time that will also happen to be the right one.

  So when you’re getting your knowledge base from random jackasses on Reddit, where a good faith question like “What’s the best way to get get gum out of my childs hair” get’s two two good faith answers, and then a few dozen smart-ass answers that gets lots of replies and upvotes because they’re funny. Guess which one your LLM is going to use.

  People (and apparently even the creators themselves) think that an LLM is actually cognizent enough to be able to weed this out logically. But it can’t. It’s not an intelligence…it’s a knowlege agreggator. And as with any aggregator, the same rule applies

  garbage in, garbage out

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  InXile was most famously the Wasteland series, the spiritual successors to the original fallout designs (1 and 2). But they also did Tides of Numeria and Bards Tale (I think, but don’t quote me)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it true that the natural lifespan of humans is only 38 years old and we only live past that because of loads of modern medicines/technology?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No. And to be honest, it’s kind of stretching the limit of the title of the community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's official: EA is going private.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Had an EA Play so I could play NHL and FIFA, and the occasional ME Trilogy replay. Canceled it the moment the news broke about Kushner and the Saudis. Had paid for the year and was willing to sacrifice the final five months in the name of morality. But luckily they refunded me the difference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What, greedy, powerful people would do to keep and increase their power in a world that is approaching a period of increasing weather disasters? Would a post-scarcity society benefit those people?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  they view everyone around them as competition

  I agree with everything except that part.

  They view their fellow billionaires as competition. But the rest of us, they view as a generic metric called labour. We’re not competition to them, we’re a resource that is to be used, managed and minimized in order to increase their own wealth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because they’re completely different gods. The old testament is only a part of christianity because in order to gain some legitimacy for their early church, they decided that their new god must be the same dude as the the god of the people that they were living among.

  But in reality, they are very different books, written in very different times, by two very different religious cultures.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is not the definition of insanity. It's the definition of practice.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No. Practice isn’t doing the same thing over and over again.

  Practice is an iterative process where each time you fail, you learn something new and add it to the process until eventually you find a result that is different.

  You’re practicing your golf swing because you keep shanking the ball to the right. You don’t keep making the same shot over and over agin. You adjust your stance. You adjust your leg positioning. You adjust a hundred little things until you find the combination that gives you the results you want. THAT’S Practice…not just repeating the same action.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, That Great-Looking 'Star Trek: Voyager' Game Will Let You Spare Tuvix⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Because then Tuvix would still exist. And that flies in the face of all that is holy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you think of any now?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When I graduated highschool, the idea that some dinosaurs had feathers and evolved into birds was still “fringe science”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FOSS App to Edit videos ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Resolve does indeed have a proxy mode, as does Kdenlive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FOSS App to Edit videos ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes.

  There are a couple of limitations in the number of filters/effects you can use. And on Linux, the free version won’t edit MP4 natively. But the reality is you shouldn’t be editing on MP4s anyway. It’s a dreadfully inefficient format for doing actual editing as far as scrubbing through the timeline, etc… MP4 is a final product format. For editing you should be transcoding your clips into something like Apple Pro-res or DNxHD.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean “welcome” in the most generic, passive aggressive Canadian sense of the word. Shutting the door is exactly what the strength of federated/defederated social media is all about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re welcome to it.

  As far as I’m concerned, this is the entire benefit of lemmy/piefed/etc… They can have their space, and any other instance can choose not to federate with them so we aren’t forced to listen to them, unlike the alternative, where an algorithm forces them into everyone’s face.

  Rather than telling them they don’t have the right to speak, we simply have the ability to shut our window and not listen to them.

  Let them bitch at each other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FOSS App to Edit videos ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As far as “professional” goes, Kdenlive is miles and miles ahead of other FOSS programs. It’s the only one with the feature set and the development commitment to come within shouting distance of it’s proprietary competitors. It’s not quite there, of course, but it’s the only one that gets somewhat close.

  If you’re not fully militant about it having to be FOSS, Resolve is of course the GOAT on Linux.

  I’ve used Kdenlive for both personal projects and professional ones and it gets the job done admirably. But I’ve gone to DaVinci resolve when I had projects that needed more complex motion graphics rather than bringing a separate FOSS app into the mix to do it (Natron or synfig depending).

  Resolve’s strength is that it puts audio, motion graphics, editing and effects all in one program instead of having to use multiple programs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans have 400 days to save their democracy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You traded it for tiktok and other shiny things. The last nine months has proven that modern humans as a whole will go out of our way to not do a damn thing about a LOT of bad shit as long as we still have access to our ipads, smartphones and streaming services.

  Americans (and yes…Westerners in general) are so addicted to their creature comforts that we’ll excuse almost anything in order to avoid the inconvenience of not having them if we stand up and actually revolt.

  It’s utterly disgusting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans have 400 days to save their democracy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People need to get it through their head that there will BE NO MIDTERMS.

  Trump has done this much in only 9 months, and he still has another 9 to find a way to never have elections again. He’s already got his Reichstag moment with the Charlie Kirk killing. He’s already declared that democrats are going to be investigated and that “left wing violence” is the enemy. Why the fuck do people think he’s done all of that if not to pre-emptively get some bullshit excuse to “postpone” the midterms?

  Get your heads out of your asses, Americans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a word for when a bad person who got exposed for things deliberately finds "questionable" things about the person who exposed him?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Conservatism

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do guys have a haircut?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Buzz it down with no-guard clippers twice a week. Sometimes shave it complely, but not often. Trim the beard when it gets itchy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When said immigration switched from primarily being Europeans emigrating from a post WW2 Europe, and instead became primarily brown folk coming from all the countries that the U.S. itself bombed to shit.

  It’s not immigration that they hate. It’s brown immigration.

  Never forget that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump threatens tariffs on countries that ‘discriminate’ against US tech⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Free market, bitch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a Canadian, American Express most certainly exists here. A quick google search shows that it exists in the UK as well. I’m going to guess it exists in other major countries as well.

  No idea about Discover though. Barely even knew it existed at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Free as in Freedom” doesn’t mean “Free as in Beer”.

  There’s absolutely nothing wrong with a paid service using FOSS software if that’s the route they want to take. Using FOSS doesn’t mean you have to rely on donations only.

  There’s a pervasive, damaging, and limiting misunderstanding about the word “Free” that has always been a problem in the Open Source world. This notion that things that are Open Source should be “No Cost” just because the source code is readily available and anyone could technically spin their own fork of it if they had the ability to do so.

  But NO WHERE does it actually say that FREE means “Free as in Beer”.

  If you don’t like it and don’t want to sign up, more power to you. That’s your freedom of choice. And to be honest, an instance asking for a fee probably wouldn’t be very successful.

  But pretending that there is something either shady or legally or morally wrong with asking for a fee for using FOSS software is harmful to the very notion of FOSS and the upvote ratio you’re getting is a shameful example of how pervasive the whole “But GIMP/INKSCAPE/BLENDER is supposed to be free!” whining has become from users who have no clue what the FREE ifnFREE and OPEN SOURCE actually mean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Gemini is coming for your private apps. Here's how to stop it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My previous Motorola also has an e/OS/ spin. But sadly my current one does not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Gemini is coming for your private apps. Here's how to stop it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Any Google app that would have Gemini baked in has long since been disabled on my phone. I’m presuming it’s bullshit isn’t going to be able to access my Fossify Messages or Dialer or Gallery or every other app I’ve replaced and disabled, especially since I’ve also disabled the Assistant and Google Apps.

  (If I’m wrong please correct me.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids are making deepfakes of each other, and laws aren’t keeping up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure. That might end up being a socially healthy place for adults to end up.

  But it will never work that way for young teens. Their brains aren’t done baking yet. They don’t have the emotional maturity to understand that enough to be “okay with it because it’s just a fake”.

  That’s why we protect kids rather than just telling them “hey it’s okay…it’s only a fake.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids are making deepfakes of each other, and laws aren’t keeping up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not even going to begin describing all the ways that what you just said is fucked up.

  I’ll just point out that online deepfake technology is FAR more accessible to the average 13 year old to use on their peers than “porno mags” were in our day.

  You want to compare taking your 13 year old classmates photo off of Facebook, running it through an AI and in five seconds creating photo-realistic adult content featuring them, and compare that to getting your dad’s skin-mag from under his mattress when he’s not home, cutting your classmates face out of a yearbook, taping it on, then sneaking THAT into the computer lab at school so that you can photocopy it and pass it around in home room, and then putting the skin-mag BACK under the mattress before your dad finds out.

  Is that right…is THAT what you’re trying to say? Are those the two things that you’re trying say are equivalent?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Tech CEOs Spent Millions to Influence Trump and Republican Lawmakers, Attempting to Secure Billions in Tax Handouts Paid For By Ripping Health Care, Food From Families⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When a stock price is all that matters, everything gets reduced to line items on a spreadsheet. That includes humanity.