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- Comment on My name is graphito and I'm a conclusion shopaholic 1 day ago:
I wonder how much the reasonably common “being assigned this stance to write about” assignments play a role in this.
I went to meaningfully above average schools by a lot of metrics, including spending, and I still did way more “persuasive writing” assignments where I was handed a conclusion than ones where I was free to draw my own and justify it. So I was literally taught to do this and basically had to unlearn it.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like simps 1 day ago:
Getting a date might be easy.
Is getting a date with someone who wants to do more than have sex with them a time or two?
- Comment on Cloudflare automatically fixes Polyfill.io for free sites 6 days ago:
Unfortunately, that worry came true on June 25, 2024 as the polyfill.io service was being used to inject nefarious code that, under certain circumstances, redirected users to other websites.
We have taken the exceptional step of using our ability to modify HTML on the fly to replace references to the polyfill.io CDN in our customers’ websites with links to our own, safe, mirror created back in February.
Cloudflare proxies millions of websites, and a large portion of these sites are on our free plan. Free plan customers tend to have simpler applications while not having the resources to update and react quickly to security concerns. We therefore decided to turn on the feature by default for sites on our free plan, as the likelihood of causing issues is reduced while also helping keep safe a very large portion of applications using polyfill.io.
Paid plan customers, on the other hand, have more complex applications and react quicker to security notices. We are confident that most paid customers using polyfill.io and Cloudflare will appreciate the ability to virtually patch the issue with a single click, while controlling when to do so.
This is a pretty good response IMO. An acknowledgment that intercepting and changing sites like that on the fly is an exceptional measure and not a desirable path, the recognition that advanced users want the extra control of not having the decision made for them, and the probably correct recognition that less advanced users are going to be a massive liability to the internet at large if they don’t intervene.
- Comment on Photographers Push Back on Facebook's 'Made with AI' Labels Triggered by Adobe Metadata. Do you agree “‘AI was used in this image’ is completely different than ‘Made with AI’”? 1 week ago:
This isn’t really Facebook. This is Adobe not drawing a distinction between smart pattern recognition for backgrounds/textures and real image generation of primary content.
- Comment on I was explaining to my daughter about the differences between Gimp and Photoshop and saw that Adobe had a page that claimed to compare the two. It never compares the two. It barely mentions Gimp. 1 week ago:
Gimp’s UX is a trainwreck. “Approachable tools” is the key bit there.
I don’t use photoshop. Fuck subscription horseshit. I use affinity. But Gimp having capability is fine, but it has a super high barrier to entry because the design is so bad.
- Comment on "Weird Al" Yankovic - Real or Cake? 2 months ago:
Damn.
Even seeing that it’s obviously longer, that illusion is convincing.