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- Comment on Make me feel like a man 15 hours ago:
I can read some of it. The text on the front of his jacket says “tsingtao”. Hope this helps!
- Comment on My Religion 1 day ago:
🤔 I understand this more like “Don’t practice the religion as a way to show off. For example, don’t make a YouTube/TikTok/whatever video giving a homeless man $100. Just give the guy $100 and STFU about it. Also, stop posting prayers in comment sections on social media, you look silly.”
I’m not a bible guy though, so idk
- Comment on Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads. 2 days ago:
Ugh. Everything in this thread is totally feasible and probably reasonably accurate.
I miss the old days when I could love tech, and got excited about new tech. It has gotten so sleazy.
- Comment on Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads. 3 days ago:
Well yeah, it’s a fridge with a spacious screen and an Internet connection in the 2020s. Of course they’d capitalize on all that advertising real-estate. And of course they’d wait until after people have had them for a while. They’re unsurprisingly shameless.
I’d be curious to know what kind of data it’s collecting to optimize those ads.
- Comment on The President of the United States of America 6 days ago:
Maybe we’ll consider electing someone who isn’t a senior citizen, next time. Three terms of the two oldest presidents in US history seems like enough.
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 1 week ago:
American tech companies created algorithms that happen to boost videos and news articles of fringe/extreme occurrences that take place here. The mainstream news networks also prioritize content like that, for the same reason: It’s very profitable. Boring news/content just doesn’t make much money.
People who have never visited the US seem to have a very distorted understanding of what everyday life is like here. We display a pretty embarrassing caricature of our country for the world to see.
And to make things even more embarrassing, we made our government ridiculous, and made our politics become pop culture (yet also very tribal) over the last ~15 years.
- Comment on Well, when you frame it like that it sounds absurd. But yes. 2 weeks ago:
He pays them?
- Comment on Feeling that groove 2 weeks ago:
It’s also interesting that it has made somewhat of a comeback after some newer technologies have faded away
- Comment on Someone should put the 63 actual humans who are still MAGA on suicide watch after this past several days. 2 weeks ago:
Ohhh I see. I suppose it’s all about the setting. For some reason I was imagining people wearing them like a fashion statement or something 🤦🏻♂️
- Comment on Someone should put the 63 actual humans who are still MAGA on suicide watch after this past several days. 2 weeks ago:
🤔 I don’t think I’ve seen a bandage on anyone’s ear in my area (at least not in any recent years), and there’s no shortage of MAGA people here. Where was this happening? It sounds like it would have been funny lol
- Comment on I hate it when people use pictures showing the condiments only on top of a hot dog. 3 weeks ago:
lmao
- Comment on I've heard New Yorkers are devastated 3 weeks ago:
🤔 I wouldn’t guess that “commies” are the demographic that would go to a Kid Rock show
- Comment on Bacon 3 weeks ago:
How did the pig use the dog?
- Comment on So sad to see a really old guy driving an expensive sports car 4 weeks ago:
Why sad?
- Comment on During the lead up to the Holocaust did the N... regime just kidnap people who they even thought were Jews? Kind of like ICE is doing to citizens today? 5 weeks ago:
I’m genuinely curious: Why censor the word “Nazi”?
- Comment on During the lead up to the Holocaust did the N... regime just kidnap people who they even thought were Jews? Kind of like ICE is doing to citizens today? 5 weeks ago:
No, but it has some of the same letters
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 5 weeks ago:
These guys right here, officer
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 5 weeks ago:
Welp, there’s my cursed upvote of the day.
- Comment on Just up the production quality and they'll love it, Trust me bro 👍 5 weeks ago:
Thanks for censoring the word “n•des” so it’s family friendly
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 1 month ago:
Ohhh a bread vending machine. That makes a lot more sense than what I was thinking lol
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 1 month ago:
we only have a bread machine now, no shops of any kind.
“We” meaning your village? Your village no longer has shops, but somehow shares a bread machine? Or am I totally misunderstanding this?
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 month ago:
Đere’s no escaping us, broðer.
Here’s
gemma3:12b-it-qat, the tiniest LLM I run on my home server.Though, any LLM is overkill for this, of course. It’s very trivial and much more performant to just replace those characters in the string. Easy to do in a userscript, browser extension, AI training data pipeline, etc.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 month ago:
It wouldn’t surprise me if the thorns get filtered/corrected in the pipeline before even being used as training data — maybe even by another LLM.
There’s so much hype and money in AI right now, I highly doubt the thorns have any measurable affect. It’s such a trivial problem to solve.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 1 month ago:
I almost agree with this, but I prefer just one more advancement over this: the thermostat kind. I like to just set the temperature so I don’t have to keep adjusting it.
Nothing fancy, no touchscreen bs, just simple knobs. I was perfectly happy with the thermostat feature in my old 1997 Pontiac Grand Prix GT.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 1 month ago:
The image processing happens locally in the web browser.
Not to imply that hosting the static assets to power that (JS and WebAssembly binaries) is free, but it’s definitely much cheaper than the compute resources that would be required to do the heavy lifting server-side.
(Still worth paying for or allowing ads though. Photopea clearly took a lot of work to build)
- Comment on We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things. 2 months ago:
THIS. I don’t install social networking apps on my phone (except for Voyager, somewhat recently, if that counts). I tend to find these conversations somewhat hard to follow, because it seems like different people use different versions of the same word… Or maybe the definitions evolve too quickly for those who don’t follow it very closely. Idk, I haven’t really narrowed it down yet.
But yeah… I honestly don’t really know how to identify a fascist. I think it has something to do with right-wing authoritarianism, but I’m not sure I’ve personally met any right-wing authoritarians, so I’m probably missing something.
And yes, I have attempted to look it up. The results were not very helpful. I assume it’s similar to looking up what Nazis were – quite different from how people use the word now.
Thank you for understanding “normal people.” 🙈
- Comment on State of federation in git forges 2 months ago:
This kinda sounds similar to how things worked before GitHub, when people just emailed their git patches. Some OSS projects still work that way.
- Comment on It's only funny when I do it 2 months ago:
Unpopular opinion: Memes like this just further divide the two sides.
Obviously both sides have crazy, inhumane people on the fringes. But most normal people, regardless of political leaning, did not laugh about any of those three deaths.
- Comment on leading ai company 3 months ago:
To me, that just looks like “move fast and break things” taken to an extreme level. Quantity ≠ quality. Honestly, I think it kinda makes the other companies look better, in terms of software quality.
(I’m going solely by the chart though; I have not installed any of these apps)
- Comment on Big Balls Clapped 3 months ago:
This is probably a dumb question, but I’m always out of the loop: What exactly did this guy (or kid? He looks like he could be in his teens) do to piss everyone off?
I try not to ask questions that could easily be Googled, but I’d rather not search for “big balls.”
