yakko
@yakko@feddit.uk
- Comment on Kids Planet ;-; 1 day ago:
My wife’s family is wild, they told my sister in law that they found her in a dumpster
- Comment on Russian foreign minister questions 'what will become of UK' and future of 'the Celts' 2 days ago:
It seems like this new PM is singing a different tune than Starmer. It’s not exactly brave to say “Brexit hasn’t worked” in 2026, but at least he’s not sticking to Lab’s anti-rejoin manifesto from a couple years ago.
- Comment on Russian foreign minister questions 'what will become of UK' and future of 'the Celts' 2 days ago:
I actually wonder how it would work out if the whole UK broke up and joined the EU separately. I don’t hate the idea.
- Comment on Do creatives maintain relevance because lay people can't edit AI generated works? 3 days ago:
That’s new to me. Given how they got the tissue and what the research is actually for, I’m slightly less worried. It’s still iffy though.
- Comment on Do creatives maintain relevance because lay people can't edit AI generated works? 3 days ago:
The fruit fly connectome? I heard about that. It’s orders of magnitude simpler than anything approaching mammalian, at least for now. Hopefully this is as far as they get with it for now. To me the immediately insidious thing is that that released it freely. Likely to normalise the mistreatment of virtual intelligences ahead of more advanced models getting uploaded.
- Comment on Do creatives maintain relevance because lay people can't edit AI generated works? 3 days ago:
They maintain relevance because people still prefer their work, for the most part. Art that was made by someone for a purpose is messy, weird, touching, and original in ways that machine generated ‘content’ never can be. Until they figure out how to make a machine neurotic, horny, and spiteful I will maintain this position.
- Comment on Russian foreign minister questions 'what will become of UK' and future of 'the Celts' 3 days ago:
I actually agree - but just because something is justified or desirable does not make it safe, either.
- Comment on Russian foreign minister questions 'what will become of UK' and future of 'the Celts' 3 days ago:
The strongest argument against any independence movement in UK or EU is just how badly Russia obviously wants it.
- Comment on - IBM, 1985 5 days ago:
Seems like a lot of religious people actually think God forbids it
- Comment on Bang! 1 week ago:
If you cut out a tumour, you’re also killing live tissue so aren’t you also cancerous hmm?
- Comment on Reddit repost bots taking over entire communities 1 week ago:
That’s what was giving me so much uncertainty in either direction, there’s always some gulf between how people act and what they say they want. You have to come at it not just from a metrics number, but with a little wisdom as well. I think sure, people upvote bots like crazy and that’s probably why Reddit doesn’t get rid of them because it helps their metrics. We don’t rely on that financial model, and bots probably do stifle genuine discussion to some degree by sheer noise:signal. I could be swayed still, but I’d need to see solid evidence to show that bots actually help communities thrive. It’s probably highly contextual as well, some types of !c probably benefit from bots more than others would, but any bots will tend to dominate an /all feed.
- Comment on Reddit repost bots taking over entire communities 1 week ago:
Quality of engagement is important, you’re right. By the time I’d written everything out I’d already mostly thought myself almost all the way to being against bots, but this makes sense. Taking your position, bots gotta go.
- Comment on Reddit repost bots taking over entire communities 1 week ago:
Pinned threads solve for perpetual topics within communities sure, but the main area where too many repost bots will do the most harm if left unchecked is when cruising all or local. People who sort by new are the lifeblood of a feed’s community, and if there’s not enough of them to boost the most valuable signals, the community won’t grow and might even shrink.
- Comment on Reddit repost bots taking over entire communities 1 week ago:
So I’m not looking for a fight, but can we have a friendly talk about the value of repost bots in the context of this medium? I just feel like yapping, so feel free to ignore if no.
Lemmy shares a format with Reddit - they’re feed aggregators. Their value proposition is having everything in one place so a community can pass judgment on it all. That’s why people hate reposts and bad faith actors, adverse or opaque sorting algorithms, and agenda-driven moderators - they directly devalue the medium. We tend to like original content, genuine sentiments and human connections, and relevant posts because those directly support the inherent value of a feed aggregator.
I’m not convinced either way about repost bots, yet. They’re clearly not genuine or original, and too many of them will tend to obscure - you know what? I got there in the end I see it now.
I could still see the value in a carefully chosen, rate-limited bot that reposts with the blessing of the moderators, but the rate and curation are important, and the rate has to take into account the number of other communities using them versus the number of active users, so it’s not trivial to decide what the right amount would be.
- Comment on Aflac Duck confirmed to have game 1 week ago:
Gilbert is still such a gift to the culture. He can live rent free in my head for as long as he likes.
- Comment on WHAT? 1 week ago:
If I can understand new kids slang without reading anything first, that’s when I’ll know the younger generation is getting dumber
- Comment on Only 25 per cent of children walk to school alone compared to 86 per cent in 1971. What went wrong? 1 week ago:
Look, you’re the one who said the problem is “stupid fucking parents”. And if the Flynn effect has reversed (not a settled finding last I checked), that means the current generation of parents are the smartest ones we’re going to get, so which is it?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
People who talk this shit are never the fans, they’re never someone who might have bought it, it’s a fools errand to even acknowledge them.
- Comment on Only 25 per cent of children walk to school alone compared to 86 per cent in 1971. What went wrong? 1 week ago:
How does “stupid parents” track when meta-analyses have shown that the Flynn effect is still being observed? Each generation has continued to be (very slightly) smarter (though IQ is inherently a flawed concept and I’m still not convinced)? I was allowed to roam free for most of my childhood, it’s true. But looking at my situation, you would not have said I was well-minded. I was raised by a distracted self-employed single artist living on the largesse of substantial child support, and I was basically feral.
Gen X tend to think of themselves as the disaffected latchkey generation, but that was my upbringing too. Walked myself to school and back, sure - but also lied about having done my homework, and spent 97% of my time doing whatever I liked without supervision or even saying where I’d be. Got into scrapes, talked to strangers, managed my own affairs. Called home when I needed something or (rarely) felt like it. The fact that I’m here now is a story about (emotional) survival, not (physical) thriving.
Others also mention cars. Cars are substantially more dangerous to children than they were thirty or fifty years ago (poorer sight-lines, increased driver height and car size all playing a part), and drivers are vastly more distracted because of phones. That’s an extremely valid concern for a parent, even if your kid doesn’t have issues with attention and self-control that put them at risk. I’ve taken pains to raise a kid who sees cars as a threat to monitor and cross roads safely, and still the second I stop hammering away at those points he’ll cross the street while staring at the ground and looking in neither direction. It’s maddening, this ADHD shit. And that’s more prevalent than ever as well!
Point being, every aging cohort tends to think everything’s Worse Now, everyone younger than them is Stupid and Doing It Wrong, and Things Were Better, and I Survived So It Must Be Safe! Never trust those instincts, they are always wrong until proven true.
- Comment on Cooking Is Fun 1 week ago:
How much for the indie animated horror short breakfast
- Comment on Feeling ‘forced out’ by Badenoch? Lib Dems conference welcomes young Tory defectors 1 week ago:
Great for those who have one that works, I just worry about letting them get too big with no overarching vision? Is that fair? Like if there’s no greenie running and the local libdem looks good I’ll be more open minded but… It doesn’t feel like a plan to run a country, ever
- Comment on UK train operator nationalised by government after 30 years of privatisation 1 week ago:
She would cotton on and stop spinning straightaway
- Comment on Feeling ‘forced out’ by Badenoch? Lib Dems conference welcomes young Tory defectors 1 week ago:
That works. I’ve been trying for a few years to figure out if they have any beliefs, or just cynical wishy-washy whateverness.
- Comment on Anon's class fails expectations 1 week ago:
Not in boost either. Alas
- Comment on Feeling ‘forced out’ by Badenoch? Lib Dems conference welcomes young Tory defectors 1 week ago:
A conservative fails to change their mind on any policy positions over the last several years and gets a hero’s welcome at another table. I don’t get it.
- Comment on Anon's class fails expectations 1 week ago:
fascism appeals to the stupidest, most brutish, hierarchy-oriented people in society
Give young teens a taste
- Comment on America misunderstood the assignment 1 week ago:
Is Welcome to Night Vale still going? Damn, that’s a blast from the past
- Comment on Who takes charge on evacuating citizens if that individual is a dual passport bearer? 2 weeks ago:
I think that person just naturally has one more option than other people. It’s a privilege to hold dual citizenship, people like us are literally “privileged”
- Comment on Anon gets in a bad mood 2 weeks ago:
You got all that from a mood swing and some self harm, huh
- Comment on Anon hates tiktok 2 weeks ago:
I seen it yeah