One meaning of the verb ‘troll’ is to misrepresent reality to provoke some sort of reaction. Usually the desired reaction is related to frustration or confusion, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be.
Like, there were certainly things that were worth a bunch of points on Game of Trolls that were less connected to making people angry than to getting them to believe you.
I don’t like so called smartphones (flashy devices to mine your data and other reasons) but my regular no touchscreen phone’s microphone is no longer working as it should, making conversations difficult....
That depends on what you want out of them. If you want to minimize the amount of stuff you’re carrying around as your top priority, sure, phones are great. But if you want ease of use for a specific task without unwanted interference? They’re not always the best.
Like, if I were doing any sort of meaningful photography, I’d want my actual camera. It’s easier to shoot with, it allows for more control, and no notifications or phone calls are going to suddenly interrupt a shot.
When it comes to a music player, it’s mostly good, but what if I want to keep listening to music while doing other stuff on my phone, or while talking to someone? Phones are pretty bad at that sort of multitasking. There are certain websites I can’t read while listening to spotify, because something completely inaudible takes over the sound channel as soon as I load the page.
As to making phone calls? The number of dropped calls or calls with one-way audio is absolutely absurd, and not something I ever ran into on older dumb phones.
Convenience ultimately depends on use case. It is nice to always have some kind of camera on me, even if it’s kind of a half assed one. Ditto to a computer, a music player, and a phone. But they’re definitely not more convenient to use.
There’s a reason dials, macropads, tablets, midi devices, and things like that are popular. It’s usually a lot easier to control physical stuff sitting in front of you than it is to interface with some abstracted UI. Like, typing is so bad on phones that it spurred the creation of contemporary AI.
apparently this is in response to a few threads on Reddit flaming Starfield—in general, it’s been rather interesting to see Bethesda take what i can only describe as a “try to debate Starfield to popularity” approach with the game’s skeptics in the past month or two. not entirely sure it’s a winning strategy,...
Sounds like a terrible business model that deserves the problems it runs into. If a company doesn’t prioritize the quality of its offerings, why should anyone give them a cent?
I have to ask, when you say getting offended for the silliest of things, can you give a couple examples? People definitely sometimes get offended over really silly things, but people also tend to dismiss it as silly when they themselves are being legitimately offensive and just not really taking it seriously enough to consider it.
I wonder if it’ll get to a point where some of the world leaders still backing Israel financially and with munitions actually have to do something. Like, is there any amount of cruelty and atrocity at this point that they won’t fund? Does it literally have to get all the way to concentration camps? Overt industrialized systematic genocide? Where’s their line?
I drive a cab. I definitely fall into the category of people whose lives could be significantly upgraded for $5k. Some of the people I drive around are so much better off financially than me that that concept isn’t something that would ever even occur to them, while some of them are in much tougher positions. For where I am financially, I’m pretty lucky. I’ve got cheap rent that hasn’t gone up in over a decade and a reliable vehicle that I didn’t have to pay for. If things go bad I have family that can help a bit, but at the moment I operate on very little. I know people who bring in more but have way more going out and have to make huge sacrifices because of it.
But like, the majority of the people I pick up really don’t have it easy. Most don’t have vehicles, so that’s a pretty big filter in the direction of poverty in the US, but that financial category is very much built into and intended by the system and people seem to be totally fine with it. I can only assume that’s the case, given that we have suburban neighborhoods full of people with enough throw-away money to completely elevate nearby destitute neighborhoods but it doesn’t happen. And this is in Massachusetts, where we have some half-decent social services.
But, like, it’s bad. Look at it this way. The next time you go run some errands, try to pay attention to the people who are ringing you up, getting your food, all of that. Think of the sheer quantity of people working in positions that you interact with every single day in service jobs. For the most part, all of them are making no more than a few dollars above minimum wage. Most are probably within 2 dollars of it.
Wherever the average American’s at financially, there’s a lot more that those who are well off could be doing to make it better. Like, maybe instead of new marble countertops, give someone that life transforming $5k. Because it is absolutely the morally correct move, and your distressed reaction is absolutely the correct reaction.
I was trying to do a memory test to see how far back 3.5 could recall information from previous prompts, but it really doesn’t seem to like making pseudorandom seeds. 😆
Because it literally will. It just clunks out when they get long. The point isn’t their randomness, though. The point is for gpt to be able to forget them.
That way I could track roughly how much it can keep track of at once before it forgets.
I find the irregular aspects of it make it easier to read without getting lost or transposing things, while looking a lot more stylish than comic sans or the like.
I haven’t had much luck with it writing stuff from scratch, but it does a great job of helping with debugging and figuring out why complex equations are doing what they’re doing.
I put together a pretty complex shader recently, and gpt 3.5 did a great job of helping me figure out why it wasn’t doing quite what I wanted.
I wouldn’t trust it to code anything without my input, but it’s great for advice and explanations and certain kinds of problem solving. Just don’t assume it has the right answer, you still have to do the work
I definitely get that. I do think it’s a little different, though, because every single human being has been a child, while no human has been a car. We tend to have opinions on education because the prevailing wisdom often failed us during our own school years.
I don’t think that it’s totally unreasonable to expect some amount of input by other people who’ve been through the education system.
Another player who was at the table during the incident sent me this meme after the problem player in question (they had a history) left the group chat....
If you’re so annoyed with just having to hear about it, imagine how shitty it must be to walk out into the world and deal with discrimination. Not just, like, people asking you to think about someone else, but people treating you like you’re not even human.
I feel like this style of leaving closed or abandoned threads like this up is… not great.
The front page is slow enough when it’s just Beehaw that one post like this really kinda sticks out. I feel like as a smaller community it might be better when something like this happens to like, delete the thread after a certain length of time so it doesn’t show up at all.
Students were required to address ‘whiteness’ and describe what the term ‘white’ means, as well as explain how they ‘navigate race’ in their daily lives.
This is honestly the realization we really, really need to have as a species. It kind of feels like the lesson a lot of what we’ve seen this year has driven home, and it’s something I’ve started hearing echoed, so maybe we’re starting to get there.
This whole obsession with everything needing to constantly expand is absolutely destroying us, our environment, and everything good that we make.
It’s like someone hearing someone complaining about a slum lord and pointing them to a company that gives out free parcels of land with free trailers on them. It’s not usually, like, a mansion, but it’ll do.
If growing algae is effective at anything, why do it in a small sealed tank in the middle of a street? Most of the oxygen we breathe is produced in the ocean, regardless of where we personally are. Why would we need to stand vaguely near a rather sealed looking algae tank? If simply growing algae is effective for oxygen replenishment and carbon capture, surely we’d be better off simply growing massive ponds of it away from city centers? Like, out in the open?
It seems like green-washing bullshit to me.
Trees provide a lot more than oxygen. They provide shade, habitation for animals, and psychological well-being for humans. Dirty fish tanks don’t provide any of those things.
People are seriously in this thread complaining about roots like they’re a reason to replace trees with algae boxes. Getting some big plant-based NFT cryptobro carbon-credit nonsense vibes.
That’s what it’s sneakily implying, though. The point is exactly to get people who glance at the headline to correlate poverty and transness and then go click on the article to examine this injustice. Then you’re meant to come in in the comments and say ‘hey, it didn’t say that’ as a gotcha that’s literally built into the article.
This isn’t news, it’s guerilla theater.
Reduced to its lowest common denominator the actual headline should be ‘poor people outnumber rich people’, but that wouldn’t get any clicks.
I assume that many headlines are clickbait bullshit, because they are more often than not. You can point out that I’m wrong without being an ass about it.
Honestly not what I’d expect interacting with businesses as a customer. It feels to me like there are a lot of places where there should be some sort of training or guidance on interacting with trans customers and there just isn’t.
Pharmacies especially seem to do a pretty terrible job with literally just the most basic accommodations. I couldn’t get a flu shot that I’d scheduled recently literally because the pharmacy tech was so uncomfortable about talking to me that it took like 20 minutes for them to whisper to their coworker about me and put a and b together rather than just asking me. Even then, she couldn’t figure out how to put me down as female to match the consent form I’d signed at home and they literally sent me away.
Half the time I call any call center i get repeatedly misge dered, no matter how politely or insistently I correct them.
If anything it seems like bigger businesses are worse about it.
Right, but there’s a difference between not being able to adequately respond to a unique situation and not having any training for a fairly common recurring situation. Pharmacies around here service thousands of people, and they’re where any trans people on HRT are getting their hormones. People may tend to cluster toward pharmacies where they have an easier time (I certainly do at this point), but it’s still going to be a fairly regular occurrence for them to be dealing with trans people.
A company the size of Walgreens, in this instance, has no excuse. If a heartless union buster like Starbucks can manage some basic training on how to not be completely flummoxed and unprepared for the existence of trans people, a critical point of contact for trans people like a pharmacy can do the same.
Im missing a lot of charm that w2 and first starcraft games had, and i did not see any open engine recreations, nor clones that lived to this day. With warcraft 3 i only ever finished half of the game, by the time sc2 came out, i was already too old to even bother trying.
If you’ve never played Dune 2 or Dune 2000 or whatever other iterations and remakes of the Dune RTS series, I strongly recommend it. It seems like a lot of Warcraft’s DNA comes from Dune.
Yeah, seems like. Like when I was a kid and I played Dune 2, then played Warcraft a few years later, the one seemed to inherit most of its ideas from the other.
But I didn’t like go look up the dates or exhaustively check that no other game came up with the format first. I know the first Age of Empires is somewhere vaguely in that same time span too, but I’m not certain of the order.
Paywalled, but the little bit before that is tiring. Gotta put that bolded ‘Israel has a right to defend itself’ lip-service to genocide before anything else can be said, huh? Tell me again how the perpetrator of apartheid is defending itself against members of the population it’s pushed into an overcrowded open-air prison by bombing them into oblivion.
Whether or not you want someone to use your likeness isn’t necessarily just a matter of money. You can’t just wave dollar bills at any objection and assume everything’s going to be okay. Some things are more important than a few bucks.
I mean, in the instance of legal use of a likeness outside of maybe some fair use cases, the technology doesn’t necessarily dictate that its own use is legitimate in all use cases. Some people independently training a model for private use may be harder or impossible to do anything about, but there’s definitely precedent for going after someone for profiting from your likeness without your consent.
There may be some grounds where the sort of fair use that parody enjoys could apply to AI or the use of AI-derived likenesses, but I wouldn’t expect people’s rights to their own likeness to evaporate overnight unless copyright goes with them in some broader sense.
The current controversy within SAG over whether to sign even a deal on a per-project basis for scanning actors seems like a pretty good indicator that the standards on this are far from ironed out.
When it comes to training models, I do think it’s unrealistic to limit the use of materials that are readily and legitimately available on the internet for free. But straight up using AI to copy a likeness for profit is very different.
I’m not sure whether it would be political suicide for Biden to criticize Israel going into an election, but he sure seems to think so.
I wonder if he’d have anything else to say if this were his second term rather than his first. Or like, if Trump were firmly in prison and disqualified from election.
There’s a huge difference between saying ‘antibiotics are available OTC’ and ‘topical antibiotics are available OTC’. One is misleading clickbait nonsense, the other is true.
Yeah, I don’t see it. Jezebel was mostly pop journalism with an at times dubiously feminist leaning. To prop them up not only as a valuable news source but ‘one of the last remaining feminist institutions’ is just silly. There are better, much more rigorous feminist news sources out there that aren’t focused exclusively on click-bait and outrage fuel.
What? No. You pay your internet service provider for internet service that they provide. You don’t pay them to use what you already own. If you have an ink cartridge in your printer the ink and the printer belong to you already.
New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion (medium.com)
Cross posted from: lemmy.world/post/9762996
Question about phones: Am I overreacting?
I don’t like so called smartphones (flashy devices to mine your data and other reasons) but my regular no touchscreen phone’s microphone is no longer working as it should, making conversations difficult....
Eels (beehaw.org)
‘Almost nobody left’ of D&D team that helped get Baldur’s Gate 3 off the ground, says Larian CEO (www.polygon.com)
Starfield design lead says players are "disconnected" from how games are actually made: "Don't fool yourself into thinking you know why it is the way it is" (www.gamesradar.com)
apparently this is in response to a few threads on Reddit flaming Starfield—in general, it’s been rather interesting to see Bethesda take what i can only describe as a “try to debate Starfield to popularity” approach with the game’s skeptics in the past month or two. not entirely sure it’s a winning strategy,...
Biden says Netanyahu must change, Israel losing global support (www.reuters.com)
Supreme Court shoots down a Conversion Therapist's Challenge to Law Banning Conversion Therapy - The New York Times (www.nytimes.com)
Even the SC didn’t want to put up with his nonsense.
Is there any FOSS video editing software for mobile?
How do you deal with a close friend circle becoming toxic ?
I apologize in advance if posts like this are not welcome here....
Video of Palestinians stripped, forced to sit outside by IDF soldiers raises ire (abcnews.go.com)
How poor is the average American?
I’ve been watching a few American TV shows and it blows my mind that they put up with such atrocious working terms and conditions....
Chat GPT Did NOT Like My Memory Test (beehaw.org)
I was trying to do a memory test to see how far back 3.5 could recall information from previous prompts, but it really doesn’t seem to like making pseudorandom seeds. 😆
Had this conversation with someone who chose to no longer be at my table after meeting a blind NPC (files.catbox.moe)
Another player who was at the table during the incident sent me this meme after the problem player in question (they had a history) left the group chat....
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Ohio State University health sciences course requires students to engage with ‘White Privilege Knapsack’ (nypost.com)
Students were required to address ‘whiteness’ and describe what the term ‘white’ means, as well as explain how they ‘navigate race’ in their daily lives.
HP misreads room, awkwardly brags about its “less hated” printers (arstechnica.com)
TC on open source evangelists (lemmy.ml)
[email protected] - Oh my gosh I just figured it out....
US senator claims Google and Apple reveal push notification data to foreign govs (www.theregister.com)
Just about every Windows and Linux device vulnerable to new LogoFAIL firmware attack (arstechnica.com)
alternative to trees (feddit.de)
Trans people are more likely to come from poorer backgrounds, study finds (www.thepinknews.com)
New research has revealed trans people are more likely to come from poorer backgrounds and have worse mental health.
Record-breaking number of businesses showing real LGBTQ+ allyship, figures show (www.thepinknews.com)
New data shows a record-breaking number of businesses are displaying true LGBTQ+ allyship to their employees.
Efforts to block LGBTQ+ issues in schools are finally backfiring, new report says (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Conservatives went from blocking "critical race theory" to supporting "Don't Say Gay" laws, but it's not going so well for them...
Warcraft 2 / Starcraft type games ( or clones, or engine recreations )
Im missing a lot of charm that w2 and first starcraft games had, and i did not see any open engine recreations, nor clones that lived to this day. With warcraft 3 i only ever finished half of the game, by the time sc2 came out, i was already too old to even bother trying.
Evernote is about to seriously limit its plan for free users (www.theverge.com)
You wanted a multipolar world? You got chaos. [Edit: Do Hamas represent Palestinians?] (paulmasonnews.medium.com)
Paywall bypass:...
AI is modeling David Attenborough and the filmmaker isn’t happy (www.androidpolice.com)
U.S. President Biden says "Gaza and the West Bank should be reunited under single government" and "extremist violence against Palestinians in the West Bank must stop" (feddit.de)
Cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/5830159...
Commentary: We face a world potentially running out of antibiotics (www.channelnewsasia.com)
The death of Jezebel is the end of an era of feminism. We’re worse off without it (www.theguardian.com)
HP Printrule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)