mfed1122

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Asking if people could spot the antichrist has always seemed paradoxical to me. Isn’t the antichrist’s defining thing that he will deceive people into following him? Lost cause imo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doubting Your Favorite Web Search Engine⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hrrmm. Webrings it is. But also, the search engine problem seems like one calling out for a creative solution. I’ll try to look into it some more I guess. Maybe there’s a way that you could distribute which peer indexes which sites. I would even be fine sharing some local processing power when I browse to run a local page ranking that then gets shared with peers…maybe it could be done in a way where attributes of the page are measured by prevalence and then the relative positive or negative weighting of those attributes could be adjusted per-user.

  Hope it’s not annoying for me to spitball ideas in random Lemmy comments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doubting Your Favorite Web Search Engine⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Never heard of Kagi before, article convinced me I don’t wanna use it anyways…lol.

  Wasn’t the original Google search algorithm published in a research paper? Maybe someone with more domain knowledge than I could help me understand this: is there any obstacle to starting a search engine today that just works like that? No AI, no login, no crazy business…just something nice and rudimentary. I do understand all the ways that system could be gamed, but given Google/Bing etc.'s dominance, I feel like a smaller search engine doesn’t really need to worry about people trying to game it’s algorithm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Birds of peace ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  ADHD brain is multi-threading

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Birds of peace ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I like how this style of writing seems to honestly reflect internal deep-level thought processes. It feels like debugging into the assembly level of consciousness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I am always very proud to say I am a bad driver for this very reason. I am a very bad driver. But I am a better than average bias-recognizer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do what you love⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is PURE speculation, but I feel like this could be caused by the only people who feel comfortable getting a philosophy degree are wealthy connected people. I know a lot of people from my high school that have stereotypical “be poor forever” degrees and are doing great - but if you knew them in high school, you’d know that they had millionaire parents. All the poor kids went for safer degrees because they knew they’d need money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New project, new energy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I have had some luck with this I suppose. Like taking a break for the 1 year plan to do a little 1 week side quest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New project, new energy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My first thought was “but all my projects are so big it’ll be years before I can do another one”, which is making me think my problem is project scope. But then, since I’m into solo game dev, there’s only so much scope reduction I can do…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI arrests US gymnastics academy coach accused of sexually abusing young girls on child porn charges⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I normally hate to engage with this sort of content because, like, many obvious reasons and non obvious ones. But sometimes curiosity gets the better of me. And this quote:

  "Gardner would ask girls if they were sexually active and call them “idiots, sluts, and whores.” "

  I just…why is this particular form of creepiness so common? I see this a LOT on horny Internet communities like shudders NexusMods (I remember back when Skyrim mods weren’t all weird coomer garbage…) and also in a lot of the Reddit “jack off to celebrities” communities. Before you ask “y r u looking at these” - my friend and I have the (admittedly strange) pastime of finding and perusing these communities to basically laugh at their members and rage bait each other. Probably not the best use of time but it hit the spot in college. Anyways. It’s like people get a boner just by calling someone a slut, and it always strikes me as such a deranged maneuver. And what really interests me is that it’s usually coupled with a judgemental tone, you know? Like, fuck me, dude. Do you want them to be a slut or not? On the one hand you’re jacking off to calling this person a slut, but on the other hand you seem to legitimately hate sluts. It’s always struck me as such a foreign and disturbed sexual trait that I just can’t wrap my mind around. And I’m a pretty damn kinky and creative person. I mean, of course I get it, it’s like it’s hot that they’re slutty but you judge it on a “moral” level. But it just seems that such a kink would self-dissolve under the slightest bit of analysis. Like if nobody was a slut then that would put an end to your fun now wouldn’t it? The hypocrisy of that kind of garbage just drives me mad (Reminding myself of that Norm MacDonald hypocrisy joke here). I know you’re not supposed to kink shame, and I guess it’s not the kink of calling someone slutty I’m shaming here, but the hypocritical pairing of it with legitimately non-sexual dislike of sluttiness. It’s just soooo trashy. Of course it boils down to the dumbest monkey brain mentality imaginable: “I want everyone to be slutty for me but not for anyone else”. Such nasty egoism.

  Anyways, what a stupid and silly thing for me to hone in on among the much worse things this guy has done, maybe even poor taste of me to go on this tangent but I’ve already written my essay so whatcha gonna do. But I think it’s interesting to note. It certainly supports my long-standing feelings that these people who get off on slut-hating have serious issues and should be avoided. Red-flag kink for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New project, new energy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Truest thing ever. I TRULY need to overcome this because, not to sound un-humble or anything, but I (and probably everyone else who has this tendency) am totally capable of creating and finishing some pretty awesome stuff. But if I keep going like this, I’ll never finish anything…I know the shitpost comm isn’t maybe the most fitting spot for this discussion, but, like…does anyone have any advice?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How I Hacked McDonald's (Their Security Contact Was Harder to Find Than Their Secret Sauce Recipe) | bobdahacker⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Really incredible. This is what I imagined hacking stopped being like in 1995. I applaud Bob for having the inner fortitude to not just exploit them for infinite nuggies. The fact someone got fired for it probably contributes to why the security is so bad, corporations truly don’t deserve white hat hackers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The two types of people⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “I Transformed Into An Invisible Tiger And Began Killing Billionaires” - A cat-and-mouse Death Note style detective anime about a college freshman communist tech nerd who miraculously gains the ability to transform into an invisible tiger and uses his leet Linux hacking skills to track down billionaire targets. At first the supernatural crimes are easy to carry out, but the billionaires soon start to develop bunkers and defense systems against the mysterious threat. But when the killer discovers that a prodigy medical genius has acquired the same power, and intends to unveil their research on it to earn a Nobel Prize - that’s when things really start to get complicated.

  DM me for my Venmo info for any royalties thank you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me too.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a great example in support of something I often think about. We see our consciousness as “me” and as “the thing in charge” of the body, but really it’s more of an ancillary subprocess that the body runs for its own benefit. It’s just a special subprocess that does its job best when it mistakenly thinks of itself as being the boss of the body.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | Surveillance Company Flock Now Using AI to Report Us to Police if it Thinks Our Movement Patterns Are “Suspicious”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even amidst all the other insane news, this stands out as a remarkable and even surprisingly bad leap forward. It’s not like I consented, like when people put trackers in their car for insurance discounts. I’m literally just going out into public, and that gives a company the right to record and analyze me and my car and report me to the police? I don’t even get the chance to sign up to opt-out, which even that would be fucked up? And of course the algorithms could be anything - going to gay bars, going to libraries, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | Surveillance Company Flock Now Using AI to Report Us to Police if it Thinks Our Movement Patterns Are “Suspicious”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It really does feel like a lazy too-on-the-nose name from a sci-fi dystopia writer who REALLY wants to make sure you get the point that the company is evil. It just sounds creepy without even getting into the obvious connotations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hope you like math⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “i do not give a single fuck” implies an additive identity fuck, and “I don’t give two fucks” implies a multiplicative identity fuck. That’s a start at least!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do neurotypicals like AI slop?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As others have pointed out, I don’t think you have solid evidence to suspect that this is a neurotypical vs ADHD thing. Personally I think it’s just a matter of poor taste. The sad truth is most people cannot appreciate good art, and the only reason why most works of art are as high quality as they are is because artists make them, and artists do appreciate good art and have high standards. From the artists point of view, their piece needs to meet criteria X, Y, Z, etc. to be a good satisfying piece. But from the point of view of the tasteless plebian masses, it probably only needs to meet criteria X. I first noticed this when I saw that almost every highly upvoted artwork on Reddit years ago was a really hyper realistic pencil drawing, usually of a pretty girl. Most people don’t appreciate form, composition, subtle meanings, abstraction, etc. Those things require more thinking and are therefore too difficult for many people to engage with. Instead, “how hard does this seem to make” and “how much do I like this at first glance” become the proxy standards used by tasteless lazy people to judge art, and hence the “best” art by those standards is a super realistic pencil drawing of a pretty woman became “zomg I thought this was a photo!!!” and “I couldn’t do this in a million years!!! So impressive!!!” As if the point of art is just to flex on people? But it gets worse, because even when people decide to half-ass their ingestion of art by flattening it down to a single dimension of “how realistic is it”, again, because people aren’t artists and have never even tried to engage in art (and this I actually don’t hold against them, unlike their prior laziness), they don’t have a trained eye. So sometimes you’ll see just a mediocre pencil drawing of a pretty girl, and people with less art skills will be like “wow 10/10 it’s perfect!!!”, but people with art skills will be able to notice things like “well if the shadow on the neck is like that the shadow on the nose should be going the other way, you mixed up your light sources”, or “the perspective is off on the angle of the eyes here”. Sometimes these improvements would be subconsciously picked up by the masses, but many times not. Often the subtleties that make an artwork go from mediocre to amazing are lost on the masses. As a result, the masses are equally satisfied with poor quality AI-generated images as they are with high quality human-generated images.

  TLDR; The lack of media literacy among many people strikes again

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for taking the time to put those resources together for me.

  That’s absolutely crazy, my goodness… Some people really are insane when it comes to sex. It reminds me a bit of how you can show soft penises in American TV to some extent without it being considered pornographic, but hard penises are pornographic. But this labia issue makes even less sense than that, because it doesn’t depend on arousal. What a backwards situation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Never heard about this, what are you referring to?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We need zines to be a bigger thing again

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As an American, I'm offended at AliExpress' portrayal of my people.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s so dainty 🥺 yeah, far from the norm here I’m ashamed to say

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As an American, I'm offended at AliExpress' portrayal of my people.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That would probably be a “small” at most fast food drive thrus here. Also, nobody orders a small unless they’re on a “diet”. Generally everyone gets a large, which looks like this here: www.gettyimages.com/detail/…/145545668

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, Mickey7? Stop posting this shitty boomer Facebook humor that is neither accurate nor funny. I understand this is likely a bot account, but maybe whoever manages it will see: We aren’t falling for it. Save your electricity and go post this trash on Reddit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As an American, I'm offended at AliExpress' portrayal of my people.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All joking aside, the cup really is too small and the burger really is too lettucey to look authentically American, 100% seriously

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please fix this site - Pay so the site gets fixed⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Really missed an opportunity to have an element greater than 100% of the screen width causing horizontal scroll into an empty white space to the right of the page

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sounded great when I was young⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cease posting

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨coping⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely there is, but unfortunately the solution to CP is having moderators who can delete content, and that alone is enough to cause all the problems with moderators. It seems largely intractable to me. The only thing I could see maybe working is some system where moderators can be removed by community vote, but then you rely on systems preventing fake accounts from being created or account age to stop those votes from being botted, etc… I just don’t see how to technically solve the problem of moderators having power to delete things. It’s the classic issue of who watches the watchmen. Humanity has never had a great solution to this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨coping⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is that if you actually have no or insufficient moderation then people just start using the site to post child pornography. And then you visiting what used to be a site you like becomes basically illegal and dangerous, not to mention potentially traumatizing. I’m not exaggerating, there was a small game fan forum site I used to love along with many others, but someone caught on to the fact it was run by just one guy and kept signing up with fake accounts and posting child porn or links to it. Luckily I had already fallen off using the site by then, but one of my Internet friends who still visited it kept me updated on the drama. First everyone normal stopped visiting. Then it eventually got so bad the owner had to shut down the site.

  People lack imagination when it comes to what will happen with no moderation. It quickly becomes horrible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dolph is prime human⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I, too, spent longer than I ever should have thinking about this. My first thought was, they’re just using it in a linguistic sense, so it doesn’t matter that the exponent would have to be something very small to go from 1 qualification to 4. But then I thought, hm, I guess since there’s only 1 qualification for Bill, no exponent would be enough. But then I realized that grammatically the value in question is “qualification” and not “number of degrees”. The number of degrees is merely standing in as a heuristic proxy to illustrate qualification. This “qualification” scale makes the most the most sense if it’s between 0 and 1, representing percentiles or qualification. Therefore, the exponent applied to Bill’s qualifications must also be between 0 and 1 in order to increase the value to Lundgren’s. For a moment I thought this was the nail in the coffin for the original text, but of course the word “more” there again refers to the qualification, not to the exponent itself. This interpretation has the nice benefit that no matter what the exponent is, we always get a qualification value between 0 and 1. Hence I can conclude this is the only viable headcanon for this post.