cygnus
@cygnus@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Instagram Caught Hiding Posts That Say "Immigrants Make the Country Great" 1 week ago:
Those who use Instagram will keep using it and forget all about this within 24 hours.
- Comment on Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia' 1 week ago:
Those homophones have reeked havoc for too long!
- Comment on My petty gripe: forced software updates just make everything worse 1 week ago:
I’m sure all those enterprise clients are positively champing at the bit to switch to Linux 🙄 Can I have a conversation about computers here without it being about Linux? And I say this as somebody who uses Linux full-time on all their computers.
- Comment on My petty gripe: forced software updates just make everything worse 1 week ago:
includes a much broader library of softwate than Microsoft has ever maintained.
This is true, but isn’t what I was referring to. The problem MS are facing is not what they themselves have built, but the huge number of apps that other businesses have built over the years which prevent MS from rewriting or deprecating many parts of the bloated zombie that is now Windows.
- Comment on My petty gripe: forced software updates just make everything worse 1 week ago:
All software is either shit to begin with or becomes shit when it gets big enough. If a Linux distro were forced to maintain as much legacy cruft as Windows it would be shit too.
- Comment on X plans to show ads in Grok chatbot's answers 3 weeks ago:
Nah, it’ll be the usual crypto and supplement scams that already pollute Twitter, Truth Social, etc.
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 3 weeks ago:
They do know how to monetize it. API access generated $1Billion in 2023.
And all that $1B revenue cost them was a $5B loss! www.wheresyoured.at/howmuchmoney/
- Comment on Helion Secures Land and Begins Building on the Site of World’s First Fusion Power Plant 4 weeks ago:
Per the Reuters article they already have a test reactor but, like everybody else, haven’t figured out how to produce more electricity than it consumes. I’m not sure why they’re jumping ahead to building a new facility when they don’t yet have a working product, but I hope it isn’t just to collect subsidies.
- Comment on Helion Secures Land and Begins Building on the Site of World’s First Fusion Power Plant 4 weeks ago:
I want to believe
- Comment on The Substack app sent a push notification promoting a Nazi newsletter to several users. 4 weeks ago:
Lemmy is more like Reddit than Substack. Ghost would be the Substack equivalent.
- Comment on US condemns French inquiry into Elon Musk's social media platform X/Twitter. 4 weeks ago:
Pretending there are none - that it’s a society without in-groups, with social mobility.
- Comment on US condemns French inquiry into Elon Musk's social media platform X/Twitter. 4 weeks ago:
Name what?
- Comment on US condemns French inquiry into Elon Musk's social media platform X/Twitter. 4 weeks ago:
Every state or social group has its shibboleths - the American one is just to performatively pretend they don’t have any.
- Comment on EU Gives Platforms 12 Months to Deploy 'Strict' Age Verification 5 weeks ago:
I hate that they get to label this a “hack”. It was sheer negligence - they stored these images in an unsecured bucket.
- Comment on I self hosted a World of Warcraft server. 1 month ago:
Oh wow, thanks for the recommendation. This looks perfect.
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 month ago:
Thanks for taking the time to explain - that does make a lot of sense, if you coisider being trans or gay a learned/chosen behaviour. That hadn’t crossed my mind, which is why the premise seemed impossible to me. The difference, of course, between being gay and being a gambler is that nobody is born a gambler, therefore the comparison doesn’t really hold up. That’s why I used the creationism example: Carbon-14 is what it is. LGBT people are who they are. They didn’t choose to be that way any more that C-14 chose its decay rate. I suppose that doesn’t matter all that much in practice - if more people thought like you rather than being homo- or transphobic, the world would undoubtedly be a better place than it is.
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 month ago:
I also believe gay marriage goes against God’s plan
I support same sex marriage (my church doesn’t) because I believe in freedom of choice
I applaud you for supporting same-sex marriage, but - apologies if this sounds like I’m picking on you, I’m really not - this is like a young-earth creationist who agrees that radiocarbon dating is accurate. I don’t understand how these mutually-exclusive thoughts can happily coexist in your mind. I wish we could discuss this over a drink because I’m very intrigued by whatever epictemic process led you there
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 month ago:
he supported the bill to ban gay marriage and that’s terrible,
but I’ve also heard that he left his politics at the door and treated everyone with respect, including the LGBT people at Mozilla
How on earth can you reconcile these two statements? “I respect you so much I’ll pass a law to make you illegal”?
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 month ago:
Not really. Mandarin for example has different characters for “he” and “she”, but they are homophones so you can’t tell who’s who in spoken language. Hungarian doesn’t have gendered pronouns and Finnish doesn’t either (actually, now that I think of it, that may be where you borrowed yours - isn’t it “hen” too?)
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 month ago:
Thanks for the context - I still intensely dislike the “political” reaction, but people can learn and change. I also don’t like that Canadian arch-jackass Tobi Lutke is a major supporter of the project; he’s a bit like Brendan Eich. I’ll reserve judgment until the browser launches. I’ll definitely be keeping an eye on it.
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 month ago:
Interesting, thanks for the correction! I thought it was a medieval form that stuck around.
Masculine being the default was the case for English (and French) too, but not anymore, and certainly not by implying anything other than the masculine is “political”.
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 month ago:
I’m hoping it’s a cultural misunderstanding due to his Swedish background.
Jag pratar inte Svenska but I know enough that it has gendered pronouns just like English. Actually, it’s better than English in that it preserved the neuter singular pronoun (which used to be “thou” in English)
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 month ago:
You don’t consider it rather exclusionary to imply that only men use computers?
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 month ago:
There was a pull request to change “he” to “they” somewhere in the code and the dev refused, saying people should leave “their politics” out of it. I wouldn’t say it’s transphobic specifically - it may also be misogynistic. Either way, it doesn’t look good.
- Comment on What Does a Post-Google Internet Look Like 1 month ago:
Ah yes, the Volvo S90 and VW Passat, definitely SUVs. Even Google’s screenshots show 40% garbage.
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 1 month ago:
These 2023 stats have Chromebook sales at only ~25M units globally, so this is probably the second scenarion, people decommissioning Windows computers and using the phone and/or tablet instead. canalys.com/…/global-tablet-market-share-Q2-2023
- Comment on No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites 2 months ago:
That’s almost worse. I don’t want to install 5000 NPM packages to generate 2 basic-ass pages.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Drops Off Passengers in Middle of Intersection… Handpicked Riders Say the “Performance Was Great” 2 months ago:
This has always been Uber’s goal, it’s why they’ve shovelled literally billions into self-driving research.
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 2 months ago:
All’s fair in love and war.
- Comment on OpenAI supremo Sam Altman says he 'doesn't know how' he would have taken care of his baby without the help of ChatGPT 2 months ago:
This is a good thing, because it’s unlikely ChatGPT would suggest he molest his child as he did to his sister.