MagicShel

@MagicShel@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do what you love⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  👋

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Y tho⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So you can hear the ‘B’ side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Ad Blocking is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned By Top German Court⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In a new lawsuit, the publisher alleged that AdBlock Plus removes ads by interfering with the “programming code of websites” which violates its exclusive rights under copyright law.

  I would respond that putting ads on my computer interferes with the programming code of my computer under my exclusive rights under copyright law. The unique combination of hardware, software, and data which comprise my computing environment belong exclusively to me.

  However I will grant non-exclusive access to my taint for the sole purpose of licking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s going to vibe code it.

  …

  …

  Fuck!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I uh… I took this as humor. Maybe I was wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Clanker-loving cogfuckers.

  “I’m off to have a clanker-wank.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  progressive gender roles

  I’m not five years old and what’s this?

  /tongue in cheek

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The worst thing about AI is the people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I dislike religion, but you’re not wrong. Interacting with one another putting on friendly faces and performing kindness and fellowship until for some it becomes real.

  For all the fakery and frauds, without that dance it’s so much harder to find the people we really connect with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A similar term “cloudborn” isn’t even dissimilar from the idea of storks delivering babies from heaven. Fuel for a science fiction book or RPG. Less so for actual humankind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bonk.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like in the moment, one would want to overdo it rather then underdo it. Particularly if the thing in its mouth is your other arm or leg.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple’s lock on iPhone browser engines gets a December deadline⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with your reasoning. I refuse to use chrome. Even at work I use it only for the sites that are non functional.

  I still think this is a good thing and hope they do keyboards next because fuck do I hate swipe typing on iPhone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s healthcare AI made up a body part — what happens when doctors don’t notice?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand why people expect AI to work this way. First, you don’t give it the most information-free prompt you possible can. Second, it would be far better at discussing a diagnosis with an expert than just pronouncing a verdict.

  It would be much better to provide as much patience demographic information as possible and then say something like:

  • “Do you see anything suspicious or abnormal about [thing]?”
  • “What are some possible causes of [unusual spot]?”
  • “I suspect [diagnosis]. Identify and explain features of this image that either confirm or don’t support that conclusion. Is there a diagnosis that fits better or is more likely?”

  Don’t rely on AI to perform the work, use it to make an expert faster or challenge them to be more accurate.

  I don’t exactly know how medical AI works, but the fact that they are discussion prompts suggests LLMs play a role here and they can’t be trusted to function without an expert user.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black Holes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Everything was hairy back in the 70’s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨get sum⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Graduated in 91. Can’t confirm first time for anyone but me and one girlfriend but I will confirm we were getting laid. I was almost 15 and she had recently turned 15. Can also confirm post virginity high school sex with another girl. I really only had two serious girlfriends in high school. I had a few other near misses but I don’t recall any others that sealed the deal off the top of my head. I wasn’t swimming in it, but I did pretty well for a nerd with self-confidence issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Go on?

  It would be a combination of InternetToughGuy, ThatHappened, and a bathroom stall?

  It would be used for “no homo” meetups?

  It would herald an era of men sharing their feelings?

  It would be covered with porn and axel grease and sound like a Harley with a rough idle?

  I have no idea where you are going with this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like this would be unconscionable if it was only employees with access to everything unencrypted. To just leave all this stuff open to the world is beyond the pale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨robot slurs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The number of times I find myself using that quote is a lot higher than you’d expect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It really works!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Now do “gif”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If Steam or someone went to crypto just to kick the processors out, that might be one thing that would actually make me look at crypto with something other than derision.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Host Your Own Bluesky PDS: A Complete Azure-Powered Guide⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then you’re just going to be at the mercy of the people that do run these things. I realize maybe my response was taken as disagreement or argument but it really wasn’t meant that way.

  As a product owner I’d want a way to contact or validate a user for customer service or service management reasons. Self service password reset, etc.

  But I’m interested in anonymity and if there were another good solution I’d be all ears. I’m not trying to defend email, just curious what mechanism could take its place. Some sort of cryptographic signature might work, though I would have to think carefully about no separate communication/ confirmation channel. I could see offering someone to use any identity of their choosing which would allow them as much anonymity and freedom of choice as they wanted. It’s an interesting challenge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Host Your Own Bluesky PDS: A Complete Azure-Powered Guide⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s all of the above at once. It’s hard to think of another identifier that hits them all.

  4093rnbgv3q09vn032

  It’s not a communication method outside of the platform it’s on. It’s also not platform agnostic if it’s your identity on a service.

  I have several email addresses that are not remotely associated with any legal identity that I could transfer to someone that took over associated projects should the need arise.

  It looks like your complaint is as a user, not the service owner? I wouldn’t run a project like that, but feel free to start one up. Lots of people would appreciate that, I’m sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Host Your Own Bluesky PDS: A Complete Azure-Powered Guide⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  • It’s a communication tool
  • It’s a unique identity
  • You can have more than one
  • It is platform agnostic
  • It’s anonymous

  That’s a fairly nice set of attributes.

  What would you propose instead? I’m not arguing or anything just genuinely curious what it would be replaced with. Maybe some kind of cryptographic identity, I guess?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't fool me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It was a joke. Until the arrival of people who didn’t know that. Much like Trump, himself

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨irresistable⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I love Douglas Adams and HHGttG probably did more to inform my politics than any other single source, and it feels completely relevant today. If anything, Adams wasn’t cynical enough when writing Zaphod.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Planck units⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You can what? You mean I can put down this bread knife and just have my house built for me? I think I’ll keep my sense of pride and accomplishment, sucker…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had that exact reaction many times at BDSM events. (Technically, that first comma needs to move one word to the left.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Producer Recommends Laid Off Workers Should Use AI To 'Help Reduce The Emotional And Cognitive Load That Comes With Job Loss'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t be that shocked. Humans make their minds up based on instinct and emotion and then justify it later. It is common for all of us to use flimsy excuses (when better ones don’t present themselves) to rationalize our ideals.

  I call out people who support the same things I do for flimsy reasons for that reason. I doubt I’m any more immune to it than anyone else, it’s just easier to spot it in others than ourselves. Shit sometimes I spot flaws in my own reasoning only when someone else gives voice to it. That’s fucking aggravating.

  That being said, it’s completely self-serving and upsetting to me because the people affected are more like me than him, and I could easily be next on the chopping block, and people like that dude will give not a single shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want to leave tech: what do I do?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Stay in it anyway because you want a 75% pay cut even less. Only put in 40 hours. Enjoy the rest of your life outside of work.

  That’s my solution, anyway. Though, I actually love tech itself, it’s the people and processes I hate, so changing industries isn’t actually a solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Producer Recommends Laid Off Workers Should Use AI To 'Help Reduce The Emotional And Cognitive Load That Comes With Job Loss'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Let them eat AI.”