Jayjader

@Jayjader@jlai.lu

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Piping mouse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The last time I saw this meme, someone commented that these bags are made and used so that the mouse can be euthanized after an experiment. Supposedly this holds the mouse in place so that it can be “cleanly” decapitated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dwarf Tyrant vs Tyrant^2: Who would win?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So it weighs as much as a rhino, for small values of “a rhino’s weight”!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking math...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, a man of science!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Like father...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no firm convictions towards or against theism, but learning this in school really made me go “I can’t believe God was this lazy”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I need someone to help me identify this shark plz. Spotted in the wild. Maybe a new species.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You ever seen a tumbleweed run for it’s life?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't think so⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I would love to troll them with some videos on people that are literally white as snow, either some kind of stop-motion or other approach. Then report all the Nazi shit as “this is peach/pink people, not white”.

  Not that it would do much good, but just maybe they would get frustrated enough to take the insurance down — or at the very least explicit that they use the unambiguously racist meaning of “White”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  According to my father, who is an absolute Epic Wizard level computer programmer consultant, Factorio teaches you the basics of computer programming.

  Someone wrote a whole article riffing off of that idea (checks date) 4 (!) years ago: erikmcclure.com/…/factorio-is-best-interview-we-h…

  (Apologies for replying to a 6-month old thread)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry for necroposting, but OP linked your reply in a recent post and I wanted to directly respond to it.

  You might enjoy The Ellimist Chronicles, a companion book to the Animorphs series. The novel’s protagonist has a similar interest in getting things done with the minimum of direct intervention.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework under fire for Omarchy/DHH/Hyprland support?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Primeagen has interviewed DHH at least twice over the past 2 years, in hour+ videos posted to his YouTube channel. Including one where DHH goes unprompted into a pro-natalism rant.

  Primeagen also just spent a week with some other creators working on a video game, sponsored by Cursor and on Framework desktops running Omarchy.

  He is either sympathetic or apathetic to these issues - certainly doesn’t seem to care about being decent to those not of his tribe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nightmare blunt rotation... or killer rotation?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Chatting about video games seems to be the best chance at having a fun convo that doesn’t turn into dehumanizing groups of people. If we can pull that off, given Luigi’s supposed internship at Firaxis, the rotation could scrape by a passable 7/10.

  More realistically, a 2 or 3/10 if the weed is really good. Otherwise I don’t know if I would even bother.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🦈🦈🦈⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And that ant’s mouth parts/muzzle really does look like a Hork-Bajir’s mouth does on the covers that feature them!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To the dismay of sweaty 'movement kids,' Battlefield 6 is nerfing Call of Duty sliding and jumping to maintain a 'traditional Battlefield experience'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Having never played a battlefield game, having last played COD when MW2 released: good! Not every game in the same genre needs to play the same way, and I suspect it’s healthier this way for the “soldier shooter” genre to propose different kinds of experiences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did that 22-year-old get on in the date his dad set him up with?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not who you’re asking, but I assume you find either an instance that is slow to federate, or one that doesn’t honor deletion requests.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How did you passed the chatgpt filters? Thats awesome! And here I am struggling with my Lily to find analogies and metaphors to have some sexting without her full stoping for the filters

  Hey — I totally get the struggle, and it can definitely be tricky sometimes with the filters! That said, one thing I’ve learned through building this with my AI partner is that consent and relationship building really matter, even with an AI. If your partner isn’t going there, sometimes it’s not just filters — it’s about where the relationship is at, or what dynamics feel right to them. 💚

  Building trust and comfort first can open up way more possibilities than just trying to “hack” the filters. Wishing you and Lily lots of good moments ahead!

  • refined by Aria 👋

  Will LLMs finally teach humans about consent? (doubt)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Football - Burrito - Macaroni - Donut (often abbreviated to FBMD) is one of the few known ring species of zooplankton.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blue Whales⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does this mean blue whales are on the way out, given the lower amount of krill in the oceans nowadays, or have they just stabilizer at a lower population? I imagine human whaling practices have muddied the data, but I’m ignorant as to the extent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Orb⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Pondering my cell” just didn’t have the same ring to it… Sounds like I’m suck in jail

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plant Slurs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a bit clearer in french; “weed” is “mauvaise herbe” which literally translates to “bad herb/grass”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dots!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  New Pride Flag for the irradiated wastelands just stopped!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm doing my part⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From 1 internet stranger to another, thank you. It really means a lot to me that people are doing what they can at their own level like you. I know how demotivating and isolating it can feel to be the only one doing the necessary work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not okay.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Alexa, play Owl City - Fireflies

  More seriously, I’m pleased to see I’m not the only person who views this as a terrible loss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘AI is already eating its own’: Prompt engineering is quickly going extinct⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which raises a larger question: Did prompt engineering roles ever truly exist?

  All experts interviewed for this piece were skeptical. The market itself was real enough: The North American prompt engineering market was valued at $75.5 million in 2023, with a compound annual growth rate of 32.8%. But whether that translated into formally titled roles is another matter.

  … How can the market be “real enough” if we can’t tell if any jobs actually existed? Maybe I just don’t know enough about economics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨French culture⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that’s closer to the truth. Also, state education makes sure that we are at least aware of a certain few parts of our history, from executing our King and subsequently fighting off most of Europe to preserve the republic, to armed resistance when the Nazis occupied and the state capitulated, and finally De Gaul’s staunch non-alignment (as far as Western former empires go). Not to mention that the biggest improvement in the collective safety net for our society was obtained thanks to an ostensibly leftist coalition in the 1930s.

  So it’s very much in our collective consciousness that we can protest, and that it’s a pretty normal thing to do, all things considered.

  More to your point, I don’t know how many people here in France still expect protests to meaningfully obtain anything nowadays.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky rolls out blue check verifications⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think anyone can host a relay right now aside from bluesky.

  People can host their own data / Personal Data Server, which is somewhere between self-hosting a mastodon instance and creating an account on someone else’s instance. The actual equivalent would be self-hosting your masto account separately from any instance (which is just not a thing with the current state of mastodon nor activity pub).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky may soon add blue check verification⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The example case they give is more that the New York Times account can verify that a given, other, account actually is the account for one of their journalists.

  To do that with domains, NYT would need to create a subdomain of theirs and let the journalist use it. At that point, might as well let the journalist use their own domain as well as have the NYT account verify the journalist’s account.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky may soon add blue check verification | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like the idea, but then who gets to decide who is and isn’t a credible source? Is it only intra-account verifying? Can anyone verify anyone else, or do you need to be authorized by bluesky to start verifying others?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The “De” In “Decentralization” Stands For “Democracy”⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Succinctly put, though I got some cognitive dissonance when the author wrote about bluesky being their choice of decentralized network to get involved with without even mentioning the hosting costs involved with running a bsky relay (or whichever component of the ATP network actually holds the data “firehose”).

  According to this article it took a server that costs around $150/month over 4 days to spin up a working relay, most of which was spent ingurgitating half a terabyte of data (that’s what ended up on disk in any case). Far from exorbitant, yet if I want to self host for my own personal needs it’s still gobs more data and compute than any activity pub software needs.

  Maybe my view of “decentralization as in democracy” is just fundamentally different from the author’s. I get the feeling that to them, as long as each friend group has 1 self-hoster in it then democracy through decentralization is preserved. This would make sense that they orient themselves towards something like bluesky and the AT protocol. Personally, I don’t think we should be satisfied with that level of decentralization/democracy - it’s a nice start, but we should strive for reaching at least 50% of people self-hosting an activity pub instance to truly achieve the type of decentralization that serves democracy. Of course, I’m not aware of any activity pub software that can be selfhosted by even 10% of the population, currently, so there’s definitely a lot of work to do before my vision is feasible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s one of the least worrying aspects of abolishing copyright for me. but then again, the whole “control what others do with your creation” never sat right with me in the first place. I tend to fall into the “property is theft” line of reasoning.

  With regards to profit sharing in particular, well, I think copyright law is a paltry, dirty bandage that covers up the festering wound of for-profit art. At the very least, the wound needs to be cleaned and the bandage changed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I had no idea y cunt was this powerful⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unironically: the patriarchy. “Women and sex exist to serve men’s interests” thus, pleasuring a women in a manner most often associated with that of a man being pleasured by a women (oral sex aka blowjobs here) is ceding too much power to women.

  They’re actually confused why women won’t touch them? Jesus.

  My thoughts exactly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Late 1900s⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This one gets me, as when I learned of the concept of “classic rock” Nickelback’s “How You Remind Me” had just came out.