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- Comment on They just don't write good fantasy like this anymore. 2 weeks ago:
It says right there. Like three times. Which isn’t suspicious at all.
- Comment on 9 Things I Find Joyful About Tech in 2024 2 weeks ago:
Please do more than just link to your website. A quick blurb of what those nine things are would be great.
If we’re gonna build the fediverse, we need content, not just a stream of links.
- Comment on I Need TPU For My Bung Hole! 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on With right-wing backing, New England offshore wind opponents gain strength 4 weeks ago:
“I’m not a denier and I’m not an acceptor,” he says. “What’s going on with our waters? It could be a plethora of issues.”
That’s a denial.
It’s really fucking sad seeing this kind of astroturfing. Actual environmentalists toil for years and don’t get this kind of platform. Then these shit bags come along and get the red carpet treatment from media.
- Comment on 360 Degrees Owl 1 month ago:
Why does the guard start as some sort of mammal and then turn into an owl when it’s attacked?
- Comment on Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry 1 month ago:
Looks like Bandcamp: npr.org/…/a-tale-of-two-ecosystems-on-bandcamp-sp…
- Comment on Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry 1 month ago:
I am also curious.
- Comment on Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry 1 month ago:
While she was working there, the Jamaican government banned asset transfers in response to sanctions imposed by the U.S. after the election of Michael Manley, a supporter of Fidel Castro. In order to return to the U.S., True would have had to either forfeit her pay or spend the money before she went home.[13] True, who by this time was trying to break into the music industry, chose to invest the money in recording a demo of “More, More, More”,
I love everything about this.
- Comment on Dull Men's Club: a place to share your dull life experiences. 2 months ago:
Posting in there would ruin it.
- Comment on STOP 2 months ago:
It’s gonna be really good
- Comment on Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said 2 months ago:
But it gets the spirit right
/s
- Comment on Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said 2 months ago:
Some examples
In this example, the speaker said, “as the um, the, her father dies not too long after he remarried….” while the program transcribes that as " It’s fine. It’s just too sensitive to tell. She does die at 65….”
In this example, the speaker said, “and after she got the telephone he began to pray” while the program transcribes that as “I feel like I’m going to fall. I feel like I’m going to fall, I feel like I’m going to fall….”
- Comment on Tesla, Warner Bros sued for using AI ripoff of iconic Blade Runner imagery, despite the producers having previously rejected any association between their iconic sci-fi movie and Musk or his companies 2 months ago:
If there were any doubts that this image was supposed to reference the Blade Runner movie, the lawsuit said, Musk “erased them” by directly referencing the movie in his comments.
“You know, I love Blade Runner, but I don’t know if we want that future,” Musk said at the event. "I believe we want that duster he’s wearing, but not the, uh, not the bleak apocalypse.”
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But producers argued that defense is “not credible” since Tesla explicitly asked to use the Blade Runner 2049 image, and there are “better” films in WBD’s library to promote Musk’s message, like the Mad Max movies.
- Comment on X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky. 2 months ago:
There’s also the stuff that “you get to know before it becomes news”, which also won’t be on Mastodon because it lacks the “gossipers” and the mass of users that is needed for having people “everywhere”
It’s not the gossipers, it’s a trending view. Mastodon doesn’t tell users about active conversations as they happen. That makes it really hard to get breaking news, because you need to be following someone who is posting about it AND you need to recognize that it’s breaking news.
Maybe that has improved in the year or two since I used Mastodon.
- Comment on X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky. 2 months ago:
Yep, same problem Lemmy has vs reddit. Only the nerdiest tech nerds got on here. Not many communities from reddit or just in general here. For example, I had to go back to reddit for a good sized general anime community.
I’ve had the same experience. I still post here because I want the platform to take off, but Lemmy doesn’t fulfill my needs.
- Comment on Google Will Pause Ads Related To Elections After Polls Close On November 5th. 2 months ago:
This will include … ads that refer to US elections, their processes or outcomes.
Google is expecting Trump and co to publicly contest the election. They’re trying to stop the ad platform from being used to spread election misinformation.
Props.
The headline does not make this clear at all.
- Comment on X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky. 2 months ago:
we’ve been seeing these “twitter’s in biiiiiiiiig trouble now!!” headlines for how many years now?
this time it’s for realsies.
yet people refuse to just delete it
Many journalists want to feel connected, and since many politicians have a presence on Twitter, they feel like they can’t. That means Twitter gets referenced way more than necessary in news stories, which feeds its popularity.
- Comment on X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky. 2 months ago:
The reasons mentioned in the article:
One reason is that it seemed tech-savvy users heavily dominated the platform, making it difficult for regular social media users to find their way and feel comfortable on the platform.
I think that’s saying the content tends to be very niche and it’s hard to find people with similar non-tech interests.
and
Users have described their timelines (and even the explore tab) as “stale” because there’s often not much interesting content to consume or engage with.
This lines up with my experience: it’s hard to find people with similar interests. Even when you do, people aren’t saying much of interest.
- Comment on Mystery creator of Bitcoin identified, new HBO documentary claims 3 months ago:
[citation needed]
- Comment on I investigated millions of tweets from the Kremlin’s ‘troll factory’ and discovered classic propaganda techniques reimagined for the social media age. 3 months ago:
I tried this with Gemini. Regardless of the number of rs in a word (zero to 3), it said two.
- Comment on Every phone call you make with just the mic near your mouth and the speaker near your ear, you are having a conversational 69 where both of you are placing your mouths next to each other's ears. 3 months ago:
Gotta keep those waves away from their delicate grey matter.
That or their phone has shitty palm detection and will unwittingly treat their face as a touch if they hold it too close.
- Comment on Is Pixel 9 worth it? (instead of Pixel 8) 3 months ago:
Check the reviews. I have a Pixel 8 Pro, and it’s good. The battery is excellent - I can usually get two days out of it (without disabling anything).
- Comment on DEF CON 32 - Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation - Cory Doctorow 3 months ago:
Kinda surprising that this comment got downvotes on this video.
- Comment on DEF CON 32 - Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation - Cory Doctorow 3 months ago:
His ideas aren’t monetizable. They’re a throwback to the golden age when tools and utilities were built for passion or need.
Now, tooling is built by for-profit corporations. It satisfies users enough that there isn’t enough room for passion projects. For-profit tooling tends to get usability right.
Look at the fediverse: it’s a workable system that users would be fine with, if more usable for-profit alternatives didn’t exist.
- Comment on [rant] I want computers to become personal again 3 months ago:
Counterpoint: before Gmail, I ran my own mail server and futzed with Mutt for a perfect email experience. It was a frustrating time sink.
Gmail came out and I now get a better end-user experience with virtually no cost of ownership. I’m comfortable with the ad-supported model. I’d prefer a low monthly fee, but not so much that it’s worth moving to Proton. Eventually, maybe I will.
I get this take, but it isn’t for me.
Now you would likely be fired if you refused to use Teams or Slack or whatever your company uses.
Why would I refuse? It’s company software running on company hardware. It isn’t my problem what the ToS is.
- Comment on [rant] I want computers to become personal again 3 months ago:
I’m not sure it’s devil’s advocate: I work with computers for 40 hours a week. There’s no way that I want to put any effort into a computer in my personal time
- Comment on Telegram has become a key tool for the Russian military. Why does Moscow continue to rely on a Dubai-based civilian messaging app? 4 months ago:
How do you market an encryption platform exclusively to criminals?
Apparently through word of mouth and suggestions by undercover agents.
innocents that downloaded this as a secure messaging system
The app wasn’t made available for download. The FBI bought a few thousand Pixels, flashed a custom ROM onto them, and then installed the messaging apps. In theory they cost thousands of dollars to buy.
It’s entirely possible some innocents used the system, but it’s unclear how selling rooted hardware to alleged criminals would induce them to commit crime.
- Comment on Telegram has become a key tool for the Russian military. Why does Moscow continue to rely on a Dubai-based civilian messaging app? 4 months ago:
Entrapment techniques like that make me sick.
What was the entrapment? The FBI sold phones to suspected criminals and monitored the conversations, didn’t they?
- Comment on Not a bad guess... 4 months ago:
I straight up do not want to see this movie.
- Comment on New Key Visual for ‘Terminator Zero’ 4 months ago:
Expectations are low, but hope is high.
