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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 BBC research shows issues with over half the answers from Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistants 5 days ago:
I’m not surprised. And I heavily recommend people to ask questions about a topic that they reliably know to those assistants; they’ll notice how much crap the bots output. Now consider that the bot is also bullshitting about the things that you don’t know.
- Comment on Birds have developed complex brains independently from mammals, studies reveal 1 week ago:
It makes sense, when you look at other amniotes.
Sure, reptiles* show some signs of intelligence. Crocodiles use tools, monitor lizards recognise human faces, etc., those are all signs of cognitive capabilities. But it’s simply not on the same level as your typical mammal or bird; it’s like comparing a strawberry to a jackfruit, you know?
And yet, if this advanced cognitive capabilities we see in birds and mammals were inherited from their common ancestor, we’d see them in reptiles too.
*by “reptiles” I mean the paraphyletic group composed of the extant members of the clade Sauropsida, minus the nested clade Aves.
- Comment on Anon finds a new way to get protein 1 week ago:
I once made chicken liver pate for my cats, as a treat. It was only chicken liver pan-fried in a bit of lard, with a bit of salt. My cats flat out refused, but it turned out delicious so I froze it into cubes for myself, and ate it across the span of two weeks.
- Comment on Anon questions their existence 1 week ago:
NPC means “nihilistic proletariat/customer” now. Prove me wrong.
- Comment on Anon is a veteran 1 week ago:
I forgot to mention, this is in South America. As far as I know, cross-gen households used to be the norm here, and mortgaging your home isn’t common, because there’s simply less social pressure to leave your parents’ home if you can’t afford a house.
- Comment on Anon is a veteran 1 week ago:
My neighbour is almost 60 and she still lives with her mum! (And when she married the husband moved with them.)
I think that it’s fine to still live with family. As long as nobody is a leech or a control freak.
- Comment on An OpenAI whistleblower was found dead in his apartment. Now his mother wants answers 1 week ago:
If a billionaire slapped someone’s face, I’d expect Forbes to narrate how the second person cruelly hurt the billionaire’s hand with their face.
- Comment on In case you didn't know 2 weeks ago:
What a bunch of muppets. I bet that they don’t even know Fermat’s last theorem!
- Comment on Is This How Reddit Ends? 3 weeks ago:
OpenAI was not the first domino, just the one that got the most attention.
Yes, that is correct. And perhaps it got the most attention because of all the ruckus Pigboy did over “his” precious data (i.e. users’) + because it made the whole thing hard to ignore.
Remember when you bought shit once and that meant you owned it?
Yeah. I was talking about this with my mum today - the chat started with my cat refusing litterboxes, then “if this was the 90s old newspapers would do the trick”, then on how you don’t really own books you buy from the internet (unlike pirated ones). But it’s the same deal with some physical goods, if someone can brick them from a distance they aren’t really yours.
[Sorry for the rambling.]
- Comment on Is This How Reddit Ends? 3 weeks ago:
Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
This process has been happening since ChatGPT was released. And it’ll only get worse.
And when are those corporations get that people hate this sort of system? Ask Clippy.
- Comment on 52-year-old 'Super Mario' supermarket in Costa Rica wins unlikely victory against the Nintendo lawyers: "He is Don Mario, he's my dad" 3 weeks ago:
For context: it’s somewhat common here in Latin America to name markets after the owner’s name; specially in smaller cities. (The city where this happened has 9k inhabitants)
It’s also common to name supermarkets “Super [something]”, to highlight that it sells general goods instead of just produce.
With that out of the way: seriously? Nintendo going after a mum-and-dad market in a small city in North America??? This only highlights that the current trademark and intellectual property laws across the world are toilet paper - they aren’t there to defend “healthy competition” or crap like that, but to ensure megacorps get their way. Screw this shit and screw Nintendo - might as well rename their company to Ninjigoku/任地獄, bloody hell.
- Comment on Put your thinking cap on for Fallacy Quiz a game that will test your reasoning skills 3 weeks ago:
Sounds like a cool premise for an educative game. I hope that it’s fun too, but usually you play this sort of game to learn, not to say “OMG I HAD A BLAST YESTERDAY PLAYING IT!”.
- Comment on Trump to tariff chips made in Taiwan, targeting TSMC 3 weeks ago:
Initially I was thinking on how this is such a blatantly bad idea. I don’t think that it’ll attract chip makers to USA, but instead send the industries relying on those chip makers to other countries. Because as the text says it takes years to build a chip factory, and those industries downstream simply won’t wait.
Then it clicked me - government debt. He might be trying to find new sources of income for the United-Statian government. They only need to last four years - if they ruin the economy later on, it is not his problem.
- Comment on Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots 3 weeks ago:
Yup, something like this - but for the honeypot, not for the legit pages.
- Comment on Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots 4 weeks ago:
This looks interesting. I’d probably combine it with model poisoning - giving each page longer chunks of text, containing bullshit claims and “grammar of slightly brokenness”; so if the data is used to train a model with, the result gets worse.
- Comment on Nintendo omits original Donkey Kong Country Returns team from the remaster’s credits 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 1 month ago:
Feathered dinos are hardcore.
- Comment on Anon visits reddit 1 month 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? 1 month 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’ 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
Factorio and Stardew Valley mashup
Okay. Sign me up.
