SorteKanin
@SorteKanin@feddit.dk
- Comment on How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mom told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering? 4 days ago:
Tinnitus has no cure and is generally a permanent condition, so my guess is yes.
- Comment on YSK: How to perfectly seal a bag of chips (or anything similar) without any clips or ties. 5 days ago:
The video posted elsewhere in the thread explained it well
- Comment on YSK: How to perfectly seal a bag of chips (or anything similar) without any clips or ties. 5 days ago:
I don’t get 4 to 5
- Comment on The problem of cross-community posting 1 week ago:
This kinda erodes cultural differences between different communities though. Different communities may have very different approaches on how to talk about a post. I feel like this approach just leads to monoculturism.
- Comment on The problem of cross-community posting 1 week ago:
Finally someone who gets it. This “problem” is in fact a total non-issue. Different groups talk about the same thing all the time. This is good, not bad.
- Comment on The problem of cross-community posting 1 week ago:
the conversations should be combined
Disagree. As OP points out, there is value in separating the discussions as well.
- Comment on YSK: you can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" header 2 weeks ago:
The real stupid thing here is that a header has to be added to disable reactions. Why didn’t Microsoft just use a header to enable them? I mean make it opt in instead of opt out. Then they can use that header in all their Outlook shit and everyone else can go on with their day not worrying about it. So stupid, but not sure what I expected from Microsoft.
- Comment on OneShot, a game where the 4th wall isn't broken but simply doesn't exist 3 weeks ago:
I tried it but wasn’t impressed. It was kinda too slow paced for me and a bit too “artsy”, not sure how else to describe it. I can see how some may like it but it was not for me.
- Comment on Why do so many hand dryers not dry hands? Am I doing something wrong? 4 weeks ago:
- Shake hands thoroughly after washing to minimise excess water.
- Move hands together as if you’re applying soap while using the dryer. This keeps the water evenly distributed on your hands, to maximise evaporation.
- Comment on Am I getting this right? The vibe of different lemmy instances 4 weeks ago:
As much as “instance drama” can be a bit tiring, I think it might be an inevitable outcome and shouldn’t necessarily be seen as completely bad. My thinking is that instance drama would not occur if all the instances were similar, and that would be bad. As it is, there are actually differences among the instances and that’s good - some disagreements due to those differences is inevitable.
Now, it would be good if we could agree to disagree and still be friends… but that also moves into the paradox of tolerance. But I would say most instances have nothing strongly against each other, despite any differences in moderation or rules or approach. The Pareto principle applies too… probably 20% of the instances are responsible for 80% of the drama. If you don’t like the drama, try avoiding those 20% of instances 😅.
- Comment on Are there video media (e.g TV shows, Movies, anime, video games, youtube videos, etc...) with a majority of the dialogue in an fictional language? 5 weeks ago:
Would recommend Case of the Golden Idol for a similar detective vibe.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 5 weeks ago:
Ah yes, finally a break from this incessant combat to catch a weird fish.
(Speaking of Hades)
- Comment on Ludonarrative Harmony: what makes games unique as a medium 5 weeks ago:
Outer Wilds is another example of “gameplay” that makes sense in the overarching story of the game.
I won’t spoil anything and don’t look anything up. Don’t even read the description on the steam page.
Just play Outer Wilds, go in blind and thank me later.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 5 weeks ago:
if you transfer resources to them
I get what you’re saying here and mostly agree, but just want to point out that you are transferring a resource - your labour. So it is a bit more nuanced than this.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 5 weeks ago:
I doubt they knowingly sponsored a project based on the developers’ political ideologies
But now they should know right? But the response makes it clear they don’t really care. They want to include everyone in the “big tent”, which clearly runs afoul of the paradox of tolerance. I am not a fan of their response.
- Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 1 month ago:
Source: I’m some guy on the Internet. You can trust me.
With the amount of AI slop out there, in this day and age this is actually a surprisingly high level of trust.
- Comment on Unifying the Fediverse 1 month ago:
It sounds like that would require unifying the architecture of all fediverse platforms, which nobody is interested in and very much goes against the point (decentralization). Right now all of these platforms are written independently, with unique architectures and different programming languages.
Suffice to say that, while it’s a nice thought, what you’re proposing is not really realistic, nor is it actually desired.
- Comment on Unifying the Fediverse 1 month ago:
Matrix is not part of the fediverse, so that’s kind of a special case and doesn’t work the same at all as the rest.
What you describe sounds very simplified, but let me assure you that there is nothing simple about this problem (I say that as a software engineer that has studied ActivityPub, the protocol underlying the fediverse).
- Comment on Unifying the Fediverse 1 month ago:
It feels like they could all be part of one unified platform.
They are. It’s called the fediverse.
There’s no reason why any of these software options couldn’t support all the same stuff, as you say. But so far they have chosen not to.
Maybe another option will come along one day that supports more of it at once.
- Comment on The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games 1 month ago:
How comes movies aren’t like this? I feel like there are so few movies but so many games.
- Comment on What's your favourite menu music in a game? 1 month ago:
I think A Hat in Time deserves a mention!
- Comment on On the relevance of upvotes in relation to quality and discussion 1 month ago:
This is like requiring people to read a specific text book before they vote in real life elections. I hope you can see the problem with that.
- Comment on On the relevance of upvotes in relation to quality and discussion 1 month ago:
Wait, you’re going to federate whether a user clicked on a link between instances?
That seems kinda too far. I would not want other instances to know what I have or have not clicked. That’s a level of surveillance I’m not comfortable with and I fear how that data might be abused.
- Comment on On the relevance of upvotes in relation to quality and discussion 1 month ago:
How would you know for remote users?
- Comment on On the relevance of upvotes in relation to quality and discussion 1 month ago:
Let’s apply quality control on upvotes, so any post can get only 20 upvotes till it gets a specific amount of comments then the limit could be pumped up to 40 upvotes till it gets more comments, etc…
Ultimately this is just limiting ways that people can vote. Voting is the democratic way to sort posts. I don’t think you can limit without ultimately influencing the system in unintended bad ways, since that will restrict how people can vote. Just let people vote.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 2 months ago:
in the order they were last bumped
This does not work at all. There are many threads being participated in all the time on all kinds of communities. If we did it this way, we would get a new set of posts on the front page every time you refresh, simply because 20 comments had been posted in 20 threads that just happen to be the newest comments. This model of last bump only works if activity is fairly low.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 2 months ago:
You are intended to moderate via votes. But I hope you don’t feel that something you disagree with needs to be “moderated”. Other people are allowed to disagree with you, it doesn’t require moderation.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 2 months ago:
Why would I want to promote a point of view I don’t agree with?
Because you also wouldn’t like those that disagree with you to essentially censor you. I.e. the golden rule, do unto others as you would have them do to you. If you don’t want to be censored because of your personal opinion, maybe don’t do the same to others either.
Now a downvote is not really “censorship”, but still, I would say you should still have respect for an opinion that is different from your own (provided it’s not a completely unreasonable opinion). That respect should be enough to prevent you from downvoting such an opinion, I feel.
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 2 months ago:
The idea is that eventually they would stop scraping you cause the data is bad or huge. But it’s a long term thing, it doesn’t help in the moment.
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 2 months ago:
A low power AI actually seems like a good way to generate a ton of believable - but bad - data that can be used to fight the bad AI’s.
Even “high power” AIs would produce bad data. It’s currently well known that feeding AI data to an AI model decreases model quality and if repeated, it just becomes worse and worse. So yea, this is definitely viable.