Murdoc
@Murdoc@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Dr. Oz pushes AI avatars as a fix for rural health care. Not so fast, critics say 2 days ago:
Exactly. Except it would be more like the one Tom and Harry designed. And not holographic.
- Comment on Meta patented an AI that lets you keep posting after you die 3 days ago:
And Caprica, and Limitless (the tv show, not the movie). Probably others. (Even a Babylon 5 episode was related, but more fantasy than sci-fi.)
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 1 week ago:
Forums can and do go down or get deleted, there’s nothing inherent to it that makes it stay any longer then discord messages.
You’re comparing apples to vegetables here. Sure, forums can go down, but not all of them do. Take Reddit, it’s been around a long time and many people use it for troubleshooting. As for discoverability, a lot of the time when I do a web search for a problem, it points to one or more discussions on Reddit. And that’s just one example.
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 1 week ago:
I just signed up yesterday, and yeah, it took almost a day to get my verification, but it worked. And the rest seems to work fine.
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 1 week ago:
I just signed up yesterday, and yeah, it took almost a day to get my verification, but it worked. I haven’t seen any extremism yet, but I’m still new. I’ll look into the development thing.
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 1 week ago:
It’s not easier, just faster, and that’s only if someone who can answer your question happens to be on at the same time you are. Asynchronous communication does not require that, and has the added bonus of keeping the solution easily available for others to find by themselves rather than taking up someone’s time. So it is far more efficient. If you can’t find the answer to your problem after trying and genuinely need a solution right away, that is what live support is for.
And I think that a big part of why so many have moved their support to discord is the long standing (and annoying) habit of people trying to use only one tool for everything. Sure, you can use a hammer on a screw, but it’s not a good idea.
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 1 week ago:
I signed up yesterday and just got my verification a little while ago. I hear that they’re being swamped right now. I wonder why? 🤔
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 1 week ago:
Stoat?
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 1 week ago:
First they came for…
- Comment on Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users 1 week ago:
It’s not dead, it’s just pining for the fjords.
- Comment on This legendary Nokia phone is being brought back to life in 2026 1 week ago:
The battery in mine exploded! By which I mean I found it one day with a big outward bulge in the back. Years after I stopped using it, but still I can’t use it for this now. 😭
- Comment on Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder 1 week ago:
I was not upset, I was just trying to clarify my position, and get clarity on yours. Normal discussion stuff. I understand if you don’t have the energy/interest to continue though, since I still don’t understand your position nor do you understand mine.
- Comment on It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines 1 week ago:
Well, automation under our current system, yes.
- Comment on Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder 1 week ago:
“Categorize experience”? That kinda sounds like that generalization I was talking about, which is not what this is here. It’s a simple matter of “people in this group have a higher likelihood of exhibiting this behavior than people of other groups”. Simple observation. It’s not saying that only people in this group exhibit it, or even that all people in this group exhibit it. Just that more do. It’s not even necessarily claiming direct causation. Maybe people in that group have experiences that make them more likely to exhibit that behavior, so that would make it environmental. But the cause is another discussion.
As for “look for problems at an individual rather than systemic level”, I’m afraid that I don’t know what you mean here. I wasn’t talking about any problems. Are you referring to the injustices themselves maybe? Because that’s a whole other discussion too. I’m talking about psychology, not politics or economics. (And while it’s not relevant, yes, I am acting on it, and far more systemically than most people.)
- Comment on Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder 1 week ago:
I wasn’t trying to dismiss anything. Just pointing out that it’s a commonly observed trait in ADHD people. It’s a scientific perspective to notice that people with certain neurologies tend to exhibit certain behaviors more often than people with other neurologies. It’s not stigmatizing unless you are both generalizing and value judging.
- Comment on Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder 1 week ago:
That’s me too, an effect of Justice Sensitivity, a common trait among both ADHD and autistic people. Before I knew that I was both, I used to tell people that I was allergic to advertising, to convey my feelings about it.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Tesla ending Models S and X production, converting Fremont factory lines to make Optimus robots 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads 8 months ago:
Look under your chair… It’s an ad!!
- Comment on Why was there a pro-Hitler, Holocaust-denying ad on X? 11 months ago:
There are limits to free speech just like there are limits to other freedoms. For example: “The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins.” IOW where harm is done. So the question becomes do messages like this cause harm? IANAL, but I believe that it would qualify as hate speech, which is widely considered to cause harm.
