luciferofastora
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- Comment on Belief 5 days ago:
I’ve started spotting more examples of goodness too, not just evil. I rather think society is polarising, with some people becoming more visibly selfish (out of desperation, I think: the more you worry about your future, the less charity you’re willing to extend) and others making a point of being nicer to counteract the negativity.
Part of that will be the influence of media. Outrage apparently sells better than kindness, and particularly where corporate influences are a factor, despair and division are useful to make the populace more pliable. If people are shit anyways, why bother trying to fix anything?
Lemmy is no saint either: It’s easy to jump to conclusions and throw accusations over what might just be genuine error or civil disagreement rather than fundamental hostility.
So instead, let’s also make a point of being nicer and more charitable to each other, and to others elsewhere. Good people aren’t gone, they’re just cowed and overshadowed. Let’s fix that, you and me and everyone else who wants a nicer world. The indifference wins if we stop, so let’s keep going!
I hope you have a nice day, a pleasen start into your year, and I hope you can find that faith in humanity again.
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 1 week ago:
Just redirects me to the start page 😕
- Comment on A swing and a miss 1 week ago:
Someone else pointed out they’re a right wing “news” account. They won’t cringe. Most likely, they got the implication but are trying to deny it.
- Comment on A swing and a miss 1 week ago:
The author is hella based.
- Comment on A swing and a miss 1 week ago:
This is one thing that irritates me about a tool I work with: It has built-in functions to calculate a median and to calculate an average, by which it means the arithmetic mean. I tend to use the median because the data I work with has severe outliers skewing the mean, but then I have to explain what that means (heh).
- Comment on Hey Grok 1 week ago:
How about “Sic Semper Tyrannis”?
- Comment on 50/50 chance this is a shit post 2 weeks ago:
I don’t want to have a garbanzo bean on me
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 3 weeks ago:
You’ll get no argument from me ;-)
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 3 weeks ago:
Well, if they wear the flag, display the Swastika, do the salute or go on about white supremacy, that’s a pretty solid hint.
A Nazi is (originally) a particular brand of fascism, but much like champagne, it has become a generic term for the whole family of ideologies. The “ur-fascist” definition by Umberto Eco, who was witness to the fascist regime of Mussolini, highlights a few key traits if fascist ideology like a cult of tradition, emphasis on machismo and action over thought, obedience over independence, contempt for pacifism and weakness and populism that leverages frustrations, conspiracy theories and fears to rally its followers against some perceived enemy.
Not every trait is fascist on its own, but neither does some movement need to tick all boxes to be fascist. There’s sure to be some grey area, but if you have people rushing to inflict violence on anyone looking differently, spurred on by a guy promising to restore some ambiguous past glory by blaming the economic and social troubles on foreigners and beating the war drums… yeah, well, eventually the indicators start piling up.
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 3 weeks ago:
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I think this is one of those cases where I ignore the providence of the image for the entertainment value.
Certainly preferable to some other AI slop people produce.
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 3 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Make me feel like a man 3 weeks ago:
I also spent two weeks as a live-in cat sitter for a friend on vacation. He’d yell at me, and when I approached him, 1/5 times he’d lead me to his bowl. The other 4, he’d walk to the couch then look at me expectantly. If I laid down, he’d hop on my chest, then flop over into my arm and start purr-snoring within a minute.
Hell Yeah
I miss him. But it’s a good pain.
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 3 weeks ago:
As protests go, I like this. More visible and tangible than sitting somewhere they’ll never go, but not really violent (at least not as violent as other things you could throw). I also liked the shoes that got lobbed at Bush for the symbolism.
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 3 weeks ago:
Cheap shot.
Not saying it doesn’t hit.
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 3 weeks ago:
An elegant meme fot a more civilised age
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 3 weeks ago:
They’re all the wrong way
Some people just want to watch the world burn
- Comment on it's friend shaped! 5 weeks ago:
It’s highly unusual
- Comment on it's friend shaped! 5 weeks ago:
go outside the environment
Isn’t that where the wrecked oil tanker is?
- Comment on Might not be efficient, but at least it... Uhhh, wait, what good does it provide again? 5 weeks ago:
That’s the typical discrepancy between “definition of technical term” and “popular expectations evoked by term”. The textbook example used to be “theory”, but I guess AI is set to replace that job too…
- Comment on Female tourist takes down phone-snatcher in Argentina 1 month ago:
Mob justice is how “that evil witch walked across my fields and now my harvest is rotten” turns into lynching innocents. If I can grab someone and accuse them of something and other people jump in on good faith that I’m being truthful, there’s a risk that they’ll end up beating up an innocent if I wasn’t.
What they should do at best is hold the other down for professional truth-finders to come sort out whether the accused actually is an asshole or whether I’m the asshole trying to frame them.
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 1 month ago:
Have tissues ready, and I’m not talking about wanking. Well, maybe that too, but mostly because they’re really good at hitting emotional beats. It’s one of two games this year that had me in tears.
The other is Goodnight Universe, which is very new and also very good, and it has a neat face tracking gimmick where some things require you to close your eyes or emote. It also works without and is still good (and you can obviously do the accompanied actions even without a cam to observe it).
- Comment on I've heard New Yorkers are devastated 1 month ago:
He’s not even in office yet and already knocking it out of the park and halfway across the city.
I just hope that trajectory continues.
- Comment on chicken mcnugget theorem 1 month ago:
I also love the way Cox put it:
A few weeks after we met, we realized that we had to write a joint paper because the combination of our last names, in the usual alphabetical order, is remarkably obscene.
That is such a lovely nerd way to put “We found the combo of our last names hilarious”
- Comment on i want to see what is in the stash 1 month ago:
The idea of having to dig through a reflog is scary too if you don’t have a confident intuition of how the refs work in the first place
- Comment on ...will continue until... 1 month ago:
Except a train needs stronger engines. You’d need a long string of carts with people attached left and right doing the pulling. You’d need less drivers though.
- Comment on On new installations, Android rebinds the power button to open up Google Assistant 1 month ago:
Plus SponsorBlock, but that’s not a Google issue. I just can’t stand hearing people say “without further ado” before “but first”. Also, skipping the extra bit at the end of music videos where you get treated to five-second-bits of other songs you didn’t ask for.
I currently don’t have the patience and spare energy to degoogle, but I admire anyone who does.
- Comment on On new installations, Android rebinds the power button to open up Google Assistant 1 month ago:
Google and languages is its own clusterfuck anyway. To this day, I don’t think it properly supports using multiple languages.
First, English YouTube titles were (often badly) auto-translated to German and I found no other option to disable it but to set my entire profile’s first language to English. Then it began translating German stuff into English instead.
Is it so hart to implement an option to say “I speak both English and German perfectly well, please stop trying to accommodate some primary language”?
Bonus: Technical terms being translated one way or the other, usually without awareness of the technical, semantic context that would require a specific translation (or none at all).
Anyway, that’s tangential.
- Comment on 3-bean soup 2 months ago:
I didn’t get along with soy milk either, but oat milk is my jam
- Comment on Please no, just stop 2 months ago:
Well, to be a little charitable, sometimes it’s text with numbers in it. I just need to figure out how best to extract the numbers from unstructured text, which is mostly tedious to validate.
Other times it’s text where there are supposed to be numbers, like the dates on invoices, which leads to really funny mixups when we look at the revenue per supplier and someone asks “Hey, we didn’t bring this supplier on until 2019, why are there revenues for 2012?” And the answer is “Because your invoice date is a manually entered text field and if you’re a quick typer, 2021 and 2012 are really close together.”
And then some times it’s questions like “How many customer service tickets do we get about X”. If X is a specific product name, odds are a simple full text search for the term gets most of them. If X is a general thing like “Office supplies” it becomes a nightmare really quickly.