lvxferre
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The catarrhine who invented a perpetual motion machine, by dreaming at night and devouring its own dreams through the day.
- Comment on Nintendo omits original Donkey Kong Country Returns team from the remaster’s credits 1 day ago:
It’s less vague than it looks like - they’re restricting credits to people actively involved in the development process of the specific game, with no regards to the others, even if without those others the game wouldn’t exist. It’s feigned politeness at its finest.
- Comment on Anon remembers kindergarten 6 days ago:
It was just something silly to make me drop my guard a wee bit. I was scared, and he noticed it.
- Comment on Meta Is Blocking Links to Pixelfed 6 days ago:
We don’t need to lie about it; not even by omission.
In the best case scenario, Meta is employing an automated moderation system, it’s incorrectly tagging what users share as “spam”, and can’t be arsed to fix the issue in due time - note that this was already attested at least September 2024. That’s more than enough to blame Meta.
Given Meta tells the truth, but I don’t see any reason to doubt this.
I see quite a few reasons to not trust = be gullible towards what Meta says. Starting by the fact that it’s on its best interests to silence mentions to competitors.
- Comment on Meta Is Blocking Links to Pixelfed 6 days ago:
Even if it was a honest mistake (is it? I have my doubts.), I don’t think that “we” (people in general) should give it a pass. On its best it highlights how unfair those automated systems are towards the users; plus Meta is in a position that it should be held responsible for what it does, regardless of its “intentions”.
- Comment on Meta Is Blocking Links to Pixelfed 6 days ago:
Meta be like:
“Calling LGBTQ+ people «mentally ill»? No, we can’t remove that, it would be censorship.”
“Linking to a competitor that doesn’t ? NO, YOU CAN’T DO THAT! No, we aren’t totally censoring you, we’re, uhm, you’re totally spamming! Yeah, that’s it, you’re spam!”
I think that people can - and should - capitalise on Streisand Effect against Meta.
- Comment on Anon remembers kindergarten 1 week ago:
I remember a fair bit of my early childhood:
- My older sister playing school with me. I was three or so. That’s how I learned to read.
- When my mum taught me about the “little dragons” in our bodies; basically a child-friendly way to teach how sickness works, and how our bodies deal with them.
- My 4yo birthday. It wasn’t anything special, but I remember jumping all happy across the kitchen.
- A few times that my father ruined family meal. Making my sister cry, making me cry, whining incessantly about the food, encouraging me to eat the cooked yolk that my mum would use in the dish, this kind of thing.
- My grandma pouring condensed milk over my chocolate milk, and saying “shh, don’t tell your mum”.
- Locking my grandpa’s dog inside the basement, and getting gently lectured by him, on how the dog would feel afraid and lonely.
- My ophthalmologist asking me if I wanted pineapple or strawberry-flavoured eye drops. I was six or so. (More than three decades later, he’s still the one taking care of my eyes.)
- Comment on Feelin' Festive 2 weeks ago:
Feathered dinos are hardcore.
- Comment on Anon visits reddit 2 weeks ago:
>share something as a reddit post >most replies are whining, bossing you around, or irrelevant >not a single piece of constructive criticism >not a single "thank you" >"Perhaps my tutorial is garbage?" >check people sharing great stuff >same deal >delete my post
That was years ago.
- Comment on Should you bother with... mini PCs? 3 weeks ago:
Betteridge’s Law of Headlines
It’s more like a myth than a real thing. Or rather, a pattern that is false so often that you can’t use it to guess if it’s true.
- Comment on NBC News Does Entire Piece Trying To Link CEO Shooting To ‘Violent Video Game’ 5 weeks ago:
In other words the Fediverse Canvas 2024 was a gathering of murderers. Every single person was posting violent symbols like this:
████ █▒▒▒ ██▒▒▒ █████ ████ █ █…on a more serious note. Can’t they simply that USA’s healthcare system is so fucked up that people are taking the matters into their own hands?
- Comment on Steam is adding a new default option for game updates 5 weeks ago:
And even in some more benign situations, such as when playing modded. Steam replacing a modded older version with a newer vanilla one is annoying.
- Comment on Open source projects drown in bad bug reports penned by AI 5 weeks ago:
Your and @tal@lemmy.today’s experiences are basically the same as mine. Except with translation instead of programming.
- Comment on Open source projects drown in bad bug reports penned by AI 5 weeks ago:
Larson argued that low-quality reports should be treated as if they’re malicious.
It’s refreshing and uplifting to see this sort of sanity.
- Comment on Itch.io was taken down by funko pop 5 weeks ago:
The problem is that defending against a copyright troll in the court is an expensive headache, and the copyright troll has a whole army of lawyers to prove for sure that the Moon is made of green cheese. As such, even if the target knows that it’s a bogus claim, they still comply with the troll to avoid the court.
Sending a takedown notice under DMCA that’s knowingly false is perjury, which would presumably come up at the court hearing.
In theory, yes. In practice, good luck proving that the copyright troll knew it and acted maliciously.
- Comment on Little Rocket Lab is a Factorio and Stardew Valley mashup about building a rocketship in a cute town 5 weeks ago:
Factorio and Stardew Valley mashup
Okay. Sign me up.
- Comment on Itch.io was taken down by funko pop 5 weeks ago:
[Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, nor from any country following Saxon tribal law like USA. Take what I say with a grain of salt.]
As far as I know, in theory the victim of the bogus DMCA could sue the copyright troll for damages, including attorney fees and all that stuff. In practice, it would be the same as nothing, megacorp who hired the copyright troll would make sure that the victim knows its place.
- Comment on Itch.io was taken down by funko pop 5 weeks ago:
As of now the site is already back.
The core of the problem is that there’s absolutely nothing effectively preventing companies from abusing IP claims to harass whoever they want.
At the very least, you’d expect claims being automatically dropped, when they’re coming from an assumptive party that already issued multiple confirmedly false claims; something like “you issued 100 wrong claims so we won’t listen to your 101s one, sod off”. But nah, there’s nothing like this…
As such, “your violating muh inrelactual properry, remove you’re contant now!!!” has zero cost, and a thousand benefits. Of course they’d abuse it.
The role of AI in this situation is simply to provide those companies a tool to issue more and faster claims, at the expense of an already low accuracy.
- Comment on I am not alone. 1 month ago:
Some write papers full of mental masturbation.
This guy simply skipped the “mental” part.
- Comment on SAVE THE BEES 1 month ago:
Temperatures here rarely go below 0°C, and when it does it’s often just for the night, so huddling isn’t a concern. What could be a concern would be summer overheating, but they actually put some thought on where to install those bee houses, they’re mostly shadowed by trees.
Pic related. Mind you, this is urban perimeter, around a gov building.
Image - Comment on SAVE THE BEES 1 month ago:
At least here in my city (Curitiba - somewhere in the southern cone), the city hall has been plopping beehouses across the city, all of them with native species. That has been going on for a few years, and I do noticed them far more often (they go crazy for my sage).
I feel like other places in the Americas could / should do the same.
- Comment on When did browsers start being able to remember your previous session. 1 month ago:
back in 2006
My “two decades” guess wasn’t too far from that, then.
- Comment on When did browsers start being able to remember your previous session. 1 month ago:
I remember Session Restore from Firefox 2.0 times, I think. Back then people would crash the browser on purpose to have it remember the tabs.
So I guess this sort of feature is, like, ~two decades old or so.
- Comment on European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X 1 month ago:
It’s cool to watch Twitter dying. Specially as its death is so tied to how it works - once the key actors of a blogging platform leave, the others simply follow fashion.
Does anyone want some popcorn?
- Comment on When you die, what do you want to be done with you? 1 month ago:
I’d be OK if they dismantled my for parts but it’s kind of unlikely that they’ll find something usable.
The leftover is a big… whatever. Burn it, bury it, even if I end in the pet cemetery, I’m OK with it. As long as the body doesn’t leave my city.
- Comment on AI discusses document that just says “Poopoo Peepee” 1 month ago:
I’m impressed by the voice generation. They even gave rather thick accents to the voices (heavily rhotic, tapping, the female voice uses vocal fry)…
- Comment on Brazilian's impression on the united states(i have never been there and this is based on nothing) 1 month ago:
Maps like this remind me that I suck at geography. Whoever annotated those things knows considerably more about USA than I do.
- Comment on Wait, my body's own heat is enough? Always has been. 1 month ago:
Pets? One of my cats found a nice solution for that: recruit some dumb human as her heating pillow. (The “dumb human” is me, by the way.) And when I’m not on the bed she sleeps inside a blanket folded in the shape of a pocket.
…although winter here rarely goes below 0°C, subtropical region and all that shit. If I was a bit souther I’d probably have some heaters in the bedrooms, and that’s it - there’s no reason to heat the whole house.
- Comment on If a word can have as many meanings as we assign to it. Can was assign every meaning to one word? 1 month ago:
In theory, yes. In practice, no.
To assign a meaning to a word is a social matter. You’d need to have more than just one person accepting that that word conveys that meaning.
- Comment on why is my whisky evaporating? 1 month ago:
Only if it’s lead acetate. You’d need vinegar or at least wine, not whisky.
- Comment on turned them into their final form! 1 month ago:
They evolved. Just like they would inside your body.
…in Brazil those are sold in skewers, people call them kafta. And yes, if you don’t take care while shaping them, they’ll look, well… not really appetising.
