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@Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do .ml users get a bad rep?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm yeh that’s definitely a pressure point issue there. I guess I do self-censor somewhat in that I know the type of reception that can be expected on that topic if not following the orthodoxy so unless I’m prepared to vigorously defend something I have to say on it, then I generally don’t say much on it, wouldn’t want to go in half-cocked or try to persuade any one of anything unless I was pretty sure it was a new insightful take that might be able to ride above the fray and bridge some fundamental disagreements.

  From my perspective, it’s difficult to say how your comments exactly contravene this rule 1 as stated directly. But then you did go ahead and suggest Russia should be wiped off the map as part of your defence of why it isn’t reasonable to use corruption as a pretext to wipe another country off the map. I think suggesting that as a fait acompli conclusion and the only option was bound to raise a few eyebrows and while it doesn’t neatly explicitly fit the categories mentioned in rule 1, I guess one could say that that suggestion dances around a mixture of 3 of them. Maybe someone was trying to shoehorn the statement in to one of the existing rules as pretext.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do .ml users get a bad rep?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure I remembered it being easier, but basically if you access the Lemmy instance in question via a browser rather than an app (might work on apps too but not mine), there’s a modlog link at the bottom of the page which shows you the mod activity generally, and then on that page you can filter by user and type the name of the user who’s modlog you’d like to see.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do .ml users get a bad rep?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  When it comes up, which isn’t too often, I find I’m not really the model archetypal .ml user in outlook and have run afoul of a few people that took exception to that there, but that came in the form of angry comments about the thing I said and either the literal meaning of it or sometimes what they took it to mean, and for a forum that seems entirely appropriate. I was briefly banned from one of the communities there once too because I was accused of being a bit. Funnily enough I actually didn’t notice that and it had been overturned by the time found out there was a modlog and figured this out.

  It would be hard for me to know obviously, but based on this experience, it doesn’t seem to me that they’re particularly ban-happy, particularly not instance wide. Kind of a bummer that happened to you. I’m fairly happy basing my account there and speaking my mind when I see fit. I do pick up the prevailing winds and can accurately presume what would and wouldn’t be taken well, but I don’t generally feel a need to self-censor or worry about bans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to answer someone who accuses you of being a bot because they don't like what you have to say?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to answer someone who accuses you of being a bot because they don't like what you have to say?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you managed to rig up the LLM to operate on forums I assume that means you have control over it and are operating it on your own metal so you can probably make it swear without compunction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to answer someone who accuses you of being a bot because they don't like what you have to say?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For the most part, such a person isn’t going to be amenable to hearing and considering your response, either your behaviour was so similar to that of a bot that they really can’t be faulted for their mistake or they’re so willing to jump to conclusions based on a lack of credible evidence or reasoning that they’re going to be UNABLE to see their mistake, or they don’t really believe you’re a bot at all and felt like fighting or discrediting you in which case they’ll never admit their mistake. In all those scenarios the investment of time and attention you’d pay to just… some guy… who is wrong, intentionally or otherwise, is entirely at odds with the returns you’d ever get or chances of success.

  It can be fun sometimes to lean in to it though, that’s mostly cost free because they’ll either see you’re taking the piss out of them and conclude you’re not a robot and also just made them look stupid, or they’ll still carry on as before and look stupid for basically hysterically wailing “YOU’RE A BOT”… at a bot, an entirely futile endeavour.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do people who have bad relationship with their parents care about "insults" like "I fucked your mom last night"? Or do you just not care?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t really care and I have a GOOD relationship with my parents. I’m not really sure how this genre of insult came to be or why people don’t generally find it just kinda funny. It’s weird because unless that person personally knows either of your parents then you know for a fact that whatever they’re saying about them is entirely irrelevant and given the context where this is happening is usually one of animosity anyway, there’s no kind of base level respect that you have for the person who says these things or their opinions so no real reason to care about anything they say.

  I think maybe they’re supposed to work on the level of it being a kind of public humiliation thing in the sense that the ‘honour’ of your parents is somehow impugned but since no reasonable person can possibly take what they’re saying seriously that’s really not a major concern and if they truly did have a problem with them I rather think that’s an issue they should take up with my parents because it has nothing to do with me anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨poor⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like he’s wearing a shower cap

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The car of the guy who insists that you have a terminal case of TDS⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean they could be pretty happy, even joyful I suppose. The ideology is rooted in hatred but I do get the impression it’s rather a lot of fun for a good portion of these guys right up until they’re met with the leopard’s teeth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are physical mail generally not under surveillance? If everyone suddently ditched electronic communications and start writing letters, would governments be able to practically surveil everyone?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess you could encrypt your messages in the mail as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the name of the early-mid 2000's song that sounds like Beyonce, starts with a "dun...dun... dun DUN!" guitar part, and the singer makes this "dabudabudabu" sound?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t believe this worked lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's happened from July to September 2025 that might make people Google "Worst timeline"?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’ve been occassions here on Lemmy when people have responded to questions with AI overviews or chatGPT. They acknowledged that source for the copied text, which I thought was good, and while the answers were generally too vague and hedge betting to really be of massive help they were sometimes at least providing something of an answer to questions for which there could be a definitive or at least actionable answer. The responses were not received well, a lot of downvotes and chiding, there’s a sense that, choosing to do that showed a kind of contempt for the original poster and rest of the forum. Usually the commenter was silent after the downvotes but occasionally would defend on the grounds that they were just trying to be helpful. Assuming good intent, I could empathise, sorta, especially when there were basically no other answers being provided by anyone, though I absolutely have sympathy for the offended in that context too, it really does feel pointless and dismissive more than helpful.

  This brings us now to this specific context, on the face of it it could be a question with a definitive answer, like maybe there was an actual specific reason why that particular phrase and not just many similar constructions was being googled at that time, maybe a popular figure said it, or it appeared in some work of narrative fiction and resonated. Had that been the case and had the AI told you that and you copied it here, then providing that answer and even, perhaps to a fault, being so honest as to cite AI just for a simple statement of fact might have been helpful and laudable. However, unsurprisingly it appears to be a much vaguer and more open ended question, or at least it doesn’t seem to have a straightforward answer. That leaves only speculation and discussion, in lieu of hard facts and that’s something for which a forum is well suited. That you got an AI overview on the topic and it had no specific insight only musings makes its inclusion far more aggravating because you’re essentially outsourcing the theoretically enjoyable job of discussion and human connection, for which a forum is ostensibly for, to a machine, for no gain to anyone. I don’t know if you had genuinely good intentions of trying to be helpful, but the sense that, you didn’t have to say anything at all, yet you still felt the need to basically phone it in will inevitably rub people the wrong way. If you didn’t particularly want to engage with this topic or connect with the rest of us and didn’t even have anything useful to say either, what’s this for?

  Unlike a lot of Lemmy I don’t think it’s inherently bad to have made use of an AI overview in the initial forming of an opinion or finding information to help you contribute, but since it turned out to be a dead end, that is, it didn’t really know then simply not saying anything here was always an option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If "James Bond" is a codename, would a hypothetical female operative filling the same role receive the same codename?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, in the Bond universe a LOT of people seem to know who he is, it’s not public knowledge per se, but like it seems that all major intelligence services have heard of him and also anybody with power and connections and ill-intent.

  He kinda operates like a really weird form of special forces than a spy half the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Progress⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing is, this would just be equivalent to leaving it on at all hours, because who would join such a chat room without the intention of switching it on. Even if you joined such a chat room and had some restraint and decided to wait till the moment you thought would be most amusing, someone else would definitely just decided that it should be on now and basically the only lull would be if the number of users was relatively limited and mostly in the same timezone so everyone is sleeping.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s just that one guy and it’s kind of their whole thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How, and why, are there so many AI-generated videos of incredibly obscure/niche topics?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess that’s sort of the whole money making appeal of new AI tools, previously it didn’t make much sense to spend your time and often/usually money to make something if very few would see it, so you focussed on things that get a lot of eyeballs. Now you could more feasibly make something on kind of any topic and not even have to try very hard to do it since it’s pretty well situated. With such low costs, even a tiny return is a positive return and you can just make a lot of stuff.

  That said, I would think it still at the moment required someone to directing the tools to generate something on a given topic and it does seem pretty unlikely someone trying to pump out videos with ads on any and every topic for a few cents of revenue hoping it all adds up would be able to have conceived of the topics you’re seeing so I guess my theory falls apart there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you quickly describe Lemmy to a non-fediverse person?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It really isn’t, I had no idea what people were on about when they said that and it sidetracked me from figuring actually understanding. The analogy makes sense and seems apt, when you already understand the concept but not when you don’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you quickly describe Lemmy to a non-fediverse person?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Reddit with a slightly more community centred ownership structure so it’s a bit harder to enforce unpopular decisions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many boomers and even some gen x believe so peristently that if you dressup and show up in person anywhere you will get whatever you went there for?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They probably did have recent success with a variation on the theme. While they’re likely old enough and established enough now that they’re not having to walk around to retail businesses off the street and attempt to get a job like they did when they started out, this approach likely helped in more recent times in their career in the context of promotions or switching to a new job in their same field or at a similar level in a new field. They might have succeeded in getting that new job or promotion in large part due to their social connections and direct interface with the right people just like they’re advising you to do, except in their case it’s now at the higher level, which is probably one of the few places left where showing up at the right time, having the right manner and air about you and dressing nicely actually still makes the difference. The tactics wouldn’t work on their own, they still needed their credentials and connections and experience to get that far in the first place, but it probably helped cinch the position. Now they’re trying to give practical advice to someone just starting out and for them those tactics genuinely are still helping even if they’re not the sole factor in their success and when they cast their minds back to when they started out it helped a lot then too. With this experience in mind, in their shoes, it worked way back when, and it still works now at the higher level and the youngster you’re earnestly trying to help doesn’t have much else going for them since they’re starting out so of course they should at least do this and if everyone else is applying online then this alone will make them a memorable candidate for putting in the extra effort and place them ahead of 90% of the pack.

  In reality, it doesn’t really work that way, the processes are centralised, the people physically in the office or location don’t really handle this themselves so they don’t care what you were like to talk to or how you dressed because it’s not their decision and the way the jobs market is, the employers have the leverage and there’s way more people looking for the jobs than there are jobs so it’s not going to be practical to have them all turning up in a suit because they want to be remembered and they prefer to streamline the process rather than deal with people directly.

  I totally see why it would seem like sensible advice to someone who started working when these simple steps were a marker of basic competency and motivation and for whom it now continues to matter to this day. They’re just insulated from the way the situation has shifted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s exactly the same time I migrated. Personally, no, I haven’t noticed an uptick in that, it’s just as hostile as ever. It just about scratches the itch enough to be a functional replacement for what Reddit used to be for me though so I hang around. There’s solace in that it’s not ALL nasty, it’s just extremely likely to devolve in to that at a hair trigger and however benign or even how mundane the original topic of discussion, someone will try to clumsily make it related fascism or imperialism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sunlight special⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I tend to agree on that more flexible definition with a few core ingredients as baseline but it does seem to me that that core list needs to include at least one regional speciality item specific to the British Isles because I think that’s what the “full” part is really referring to as opposed to just a “fry up” as the other bloke suggested. I think in general in England that’s probably black pudding.

  This thinking is because that minimum combination you listed is fairly common in a few places including Australia and while I don’t speak from experience, I think with the exception of the beans if wouldn’t be a totally strange or foreign combination in America either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that seems to be the gist of the answers here, the sugar is all bundled up with other stuff that makes it both difficult to efficiently digest from the surrounding bulk and filling because of that bulk and also a bunch of water.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are podcasters/vloggers suddenly holding tiny mics?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think a good chunk of them know exactly how to correctly use the equipment and are doing it on purpose for aesthetic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone NOT steaming their Music?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a teen I used to pirate it and supplement with the very occasional cd purchase. I felt justified at the time given I did still pay at least sometimes and I couldn’t afford to otherwise. These days, it became so ubiquitous on YouTube that I just never felt the need to buy it or torrent it and the filesharing networks all kinda disappeared anyway.

  It’s not exactly ethical since I use adblockers but it’s just there, always instantly available and at zero cost. I’d never use a subscription service, I have no idea how much, if any music I would consume over a fixed period so paying a fixed monthly quantity makes no sense at all.

  I guess the issue with this is that it’s hard to discover new music. I guess it’s a little sad but really but truth be told the rate of discovery for me has been significantly curtailed since high school, I guess I was never a connoisseur or great appreciator of music so my imagination in the space was pretty limited to just whatever my friends were listening to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a drink with taste of energy drink without caffeine?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish that would happen for me. Maybe the length of time one needs to abstain needs to be longer or something. I try to avoid drinking sweet drinks because of how easily it makes you fat but I don’t enjoy them any less and my favourites never feel too sweet and often I find myself really craving a very sweet drink and it’s only by not having it in the house that I manage to avoid it.

  I guess I never really went full cold turkey, I figure I should be able to moderate the habit and only consume it on occasion which I think ends up being something like 1 to 2 glasses every 1.5 weeks on average.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cooking 😋⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t tend to check individually every time I buy just to make sure, but from what I read and on occasions where source was actually identified so that I could check, almost all the garlic sold here in Australia is from China.

  I have not really observed this phenomenon with the roots that you’re describing. Also, it’s kind of hard for me to say what particular characteristics Chinese garlic has because assuming that the garlic I’m buying really is coming from China, then it seems they grow several varieties that all gets sold as just “garlic” because in any given trip to the same supermarket you get noticeably different attributes to the size and appearance and physical characteristics of the garlic sold.

  I don’t really notice much difference in cooking with them or eating them though. Occasionally you get some much stronger flavoured ones, but it’s just the same taste but stronger rather than detectably different and often this doesn’t really seem to couple with which type they happened to sell this week. Any attributes of the garlic’s appearance that seem distinct to what’s available this week, don’t seem to reliably signal what it will taste like the next time you see those same attributes again the next time they’re on sale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are in the US, and a karen threatens to call ICE on you, what's the best course of action?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude are you serious? Attempt to debate with them? I’m not sure you really understand the scenario.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are in the US, and a karen threatens to call ICE on you, what's the best course of action?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hopefully this isn’t like, at your place of work or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How could I order a package without my parents finding it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How are you going to hide the increase in power consumption? Water too to an extent.

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

  Actually I totally forgot about it. I thought I remembered trying a 3rd but since I couldn’t remember what it was I had to exclude it from the list. I remember almost nothing of it. I think I recall liking it slightly more than KDEnlive because I seemed to just plain hate that but everything else has long since left me. I think that probably doesn’t bode well for what I might have thought of it, or maybe it means there fewer notable problems. Nevertheless at the time I definitely decided that I ever had to go FOSS, I’d look to Olive.

  Trouble is, with the FOSS offerings, I’m definitely grading on a curve. At the time absolutely nothing available FOSS stood even a chance of being useful form serious work, the lack of professional codec support already crippled most things right out the gate and the number of problems would be too big to overcome. I can’t speak from experience but I suspect that’s probably still the case even now. That said if you literally only have to edit some things together, you’re not dealing with deadlines, you don’t need a particularly collaborative workflow, you don’t have to deal with broadcast or cinema standards and you don’t have many terabyte of footage, probably almost any FOSS app would do the job well enough when you get used to it.