Wildmimic
@Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus
- Comment on Annon relfects on W doing it for the love of the game 13 hours ago:
Family of Secrets -> Oil depletion allowance -> Quartz -> Piezoelectricity -> Ultrasound -> Lazzaro Spallanzani -> List of Catholic clergy scientists -> Lorenzo Albacete -> Catholic University of America -> Charles Coughlin
Thanks for the rabbit hole! I now know more about a whole deal of subjects, starting with a political theme, gliding over taxing of natural resources, physical phenomena, priest scientists, history of how we found out that bats don’t fly by sight, finding out that there were priest scientists in my lifetime, the information that there is an catholic university in the US and landing on the wiki page of a antisemitic radio priest during the time of WW2 (funnily enough tying back into the radio grade quartz that is a valid resource for the Oil depletion allowance).
- Comment on Little Surprise 🎥 2 days ago:
Internal monologue switches to “I’m an Idiot Sandwich.”
- Comment on Little Surprise 🎥 2 days ago:
Damn, even if it plays while the shit hits the fan it would be pretty helpful - i’m not the best at reading social cues.
- Comment on there is another 4 days ago:
“Minus zero” redirects here; not to be confused with Godzilla Minus Zero.
Well thanks Wikipedia!
- Comment on When using rsync to backup my /home folder to an external 1TB SSD, I run out of space, how?? 4 days ago:
A second possibility is the deduplication feature of BTRFS. If you made copies of files on your SSD, they only take up space there when changing something - thats how i keep 5 differently modded Cyberpunk 2077 installations on my drive while only taking up a fraction of space that would be needed - I wouldn’t be able to copy this drive 1:1 onto a different filesystem.
- Comment on Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy 5 days ago:
Atari 7800 Game Devs knew what’s up lol
- Comment on Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy 5 days ago:
Same here, only exception: Baldurs Gate 3, because i loved the mindset of the devs and i knew from their prior games that they deliver quality.
- Comment on Do you ever feel guilty for trying to sign up for government assistance programs? 6 days ago:
Government assistance is simply the replacement for what society took from you, the option to sustain yourself by foraging. Society as a whole decided that they WANT people to not starve on the street. Get what you deserve.
- Comment on JD Vance visits Milan, Italy 1 week ago:
I had the same impulse when seeing that convoy. I think there should be enough stuff from the war in ex-yugoslavia floating around, and with the current political climate there shouldn’t be an issue finding 50-100 people to place on rooftops.
- Comment on What is up with the trend of naming pets after food? 1 week ago:
OUR KITTIES COULD BE SISTERS! :-)
- Comment on Australians banned social media. Now they are worried about teenagers going outside with e-bikes 1 week ago:
The issue is more that they sell 500-1000W ebikes that are not specced for road usage, only for riding on private ground - and then hand them to teenagers. As so often, the parents are the issue, not the teens. As so often, everyone will pay the price for it through stricter regulation.
- Comment on Nova Launcher unashamedly inserts malware ads into your home screen now. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s not that it’s hard to learn, but it’s simply a completely different concept. The tutorial videos were a great help!
- Comment on Nova Launcher unashamedly inserts malware ads into your home screen now. 2 weeks ago:
I really like Niagara tho, it’s real smooth to use and can look great. But it’s something you have to adapt to, it’s a completely different workflow.
- Comment on Anon wants to talk about video games 2 weeks ago:
I play literally anything, but with an increased rate of Single Player FPS, Twin-Stick Roguelite, Bullet Heavens,ARPGS and Roguelikes. Currently my main fixation is The King is Watching, I haven’t the issue that i only play specific games, but i can’t finish any of them -.- It’s like i have a fear of coming into a situation where i fail, damn anxiety.
- Comment on Poor Jeremy 3 weeks ago:
Depends on the type of snail, there are male, female, hermaphroditic and parthenogenetic types. Since they wrote “his reproductive organs”, Jeremy is probably a hermaphroditic snail.
- Comment on Retail stores still selling the same overpriced junk since at least 2019 and even pretending it's on sale 4 weeks ago:
Not even a real hard drive, but an eMMC with a horrendous I/O speed, plus that low performance CPU paired with 4 GB Ram and the windows 11.. I’m sure that thing needs 30 minutes get to the desktop - if you keep your autostart cleanl
- Comment on Cant Decide 🤖 4 weeks ago:
Like i said in another answer, maybe that loss of confidence in the authenticity of what we see online has a positive effect in the future where people start rejecting what they see on the web as the truth and start believing in what authoritative people say again; i hope they start listening to their doctors, teachers and scientists again instead of grifters and con-men. In that case anonymous social media will find itself dead in the water, with media using verified and authenticated profiles winning out.
It might cause the combined stupidity - that made things like qanon possible - to fall apart into the small splinter cells of town idiots they were before.
- Comment on Cant Decide 🤖 4 weeks ago:
That’s an age-old problem, just scaled up. There has always been misinformation in social media (and before that in every bar). In the US it’s especially bad, mostly because the GOP profits directly from misinfo and has done as much damage as possible to the education system to ensure it stays that way. That’s also the reason there wont be any legislation regarding labeling of AI content (which is preferrable, but not enforceable even today) coming from your continent in the next few decades, sorry :-(
That might still be a “good” thing. More people than before become aware that what they see in social media is not reality, but entertainment that might or might not be real. It could lead to a general rejection of the notion that SM shows the truth.
But all in all it is still of no importance if it’s imagery to give cozy feelings because of cute animals like in the meme. An entertaining story does not have to be true to be entertaining, and in the same vein a cute pet image doesn’t have to depict a real pet to be cute.
- Comment on Cant Decide 🤖 4 weeks ago:
If someone tells me a entertaining story that connects with me emotionally, it’s not so much important if the story is true per se, it’s important that it’s told well. The storyteller might have invented the whole thing or based it on something similar and modified/exaggerated it, but that doesn’t take away from the story. If i tell myself a story it wouldn’t be satisfying either (if i’m not worldbuilding or an author, where the satisfaction has other sources).
It’s an interesting thought and would explain why people react so intensely. I for my part was very quickly picking up on the fakeness of facebook - when i was riled up during the arabian spring in Libya, i realized that i get easily emotionally manipulated by the served content, which made me quit.
Nowadays i know much better how to verify information that’s important to me; a dogs picture licking a cat which makes her purr will always emotionally positive for me, because a) it doesn’t matter outside of my satisfaction, just like the well told story, and b) i can’t check it for authenticity either way, so i do not care about authenticity.
- Comment on Cant Decide 🤖 4 weeks ago:
I’d say its less removed - the person reenacting is acting on his own interpretation of what happened, while the generated images are the distilled versions of real people winning the lottery.
Also, like I said, life is much easier accepting that not everything that i can emotionally connect to has to be authentic. I can very much connect to the notion that there are happy pets out there even if i see a drawing of a happy pet.
- Comment on Cant Decide 🤖 4 weeks ago:
The information that there are happy dogs out there doing happy dog things isn’t wrong tho, regardless of how many images of happy dogs are real or fake.
- Comment on Cant Decide 🤖 4 weeks ago:
It’s pretty simple: if it’s not important, who tf cares if it’s AI or not. If it’s important, there normally is a way to verify if the portrayed information is authentic because it will be important for others too (the info is the important part, not even if the medium where you got the info from is real or not). Life is easier this way, and important info should have been verified before AI too.
- Comment on The right FUCKING time to get TWO ram sticks damaged 1 month ago:
Even DDR4 went from ~50€/2x16gb module to 180€ - utterly insane
- Comment on Evidence 1 month ago:
I’m living in Vienna, having grown up in this city. I can assure you that while the city has grown, it actually put a lot of effort into primarily increasing population density instead of growing into the countryside (well, they have expanded too, but not by much in comparison to the population growth). The extra heat does not come from more concrete here - Vienna is one of the greenest large cities in Europe, and with lots of forest surrounding the west and the river going through it is a pretty privileged situation overall. Also, this year for example i can count the amount of days below 0°C on one hand - i haven’t seen ice in any meaningful amount. All together i’d say our temperature window has shifted by around 10°C upwards since the late 80.
- Comment on Evidence 1 month ago:
I’m not sure you aren’t talking with Mark V. Shaney
- Comment on Evidence 1 month ago:
i’m mid 40s in central europe and can clearly remember that summers were around 32°C max in my childhood, last 2 years we had 40°C. I can remember winter being a lot colder, regulary freezing the Danube river for extended periods, allowing skating - these times it’s a bad idea stepping on the thin ice that never freezes over completely. And i can clearly remember huge amounts of insects, making a mess of the windshield when driving - nowadays the windshield nearly stays clean. The boomers are lying to themselves, because the truth is too hard to acknowledge.
- Comment on Evidence 1 month ago:
where does this come from?
- Comment on 94.3° F 1 month ago:
only by 2 degrees, i don’t think it’s worth the blood loss
- Comment on Shout out to the NYE shift at all the Emergency Departments around the world. 1 month ago:
1 and 3 do look fixable if they can reconnect enough blood vessels fast enough before the tissue dies, depends on how fast they got to the hospital
- Comment on 94.3° F 1 month ago:
Human external skin temp is around 32°C on the hands, so i’d say 34,6°C for the cats butthole sounds about right
