otter
@otter@lemmy.ca
I live in Canada on the west-coast. I waddled onto the beach and stole found a computer that I could use.
- Comment on Whippersnappers 16 hours ago:
I got a book in school that taught me about AskJeeves
I’m not that old, the book was very out of date
- Comment on Gonna plaster this flier around town. What funny bullshit should I put in the QR code for the RSVP? 5 days ago:
This page maybe?
- Comment on Gonna plaster this flier around town. What funny bullshit should I put in the QR code for the RSVP? 5 days ago:
In that case, don’t put a date on the flyer, but put a date on the website.
That way people can think that they missed it. Bonus points if you pick a date that’s unreasonably far into the past.
- Comment on delivering sound advice 5 days ago:
Serious answer on a non serious post: scar tissue
A temporary injury is recoverable, but persistent injury causes the liver to lay down scar tissue. Eventually that scar tissue will limit the liver’s ability to do work
- Comment on And it's not unsettling at all 1 week ago:
Also
- the shape of our various teeth serve important purposes
- teeth move slightly when you bite and chew in order to compensate for the forces
- teeth move around as your jaw changes shape when growing up
- Comment on Am I a bad person for instantly thinking sexual thoughts when I seen this ad promoting Christianity? 2 weeks ago:
I thought this post was going to be about the “missionaries in your area”, as a reference to the “hot singles in your area” ads
- Comment on Milk? Pshaw! Toast? Scoff! Behold and weep... 2 weeks ago:
That’s where my mind went, I was surprised with how “normal” it felt
- Comment on They say you can't hear images. 2 weeks ago:
IMO the title cards would have worked better, this makes it seem like you’re supposed to hear the sound that the vehicles made
Also, was Air Wolf that popular? I would say MacGyver is a lot more well known. I’m judging that based on other pop culture that has referenced the shows above (ex. Community, etc).
MacGyver is popular enough that some people use it to describe when something is juryrigged/improvised. They might even understand it better than those alternate definitions
- Comment on How can I spot and avoid AI videos? 2 weeks ago:
Do you know if there are limits to movement, expression etc that are tells for the realistic video?
With how many different models there are, I don’t think there is any standard to look for
- Comment on Remember to vote! Have you already? We did. 2 weeks ago:
@zeejoo@thelemmy.club
Going through and downvoting unrelated content on a user’s profile is seen as harassment and vote manipulation. Doing that repeatedly will result bans
- Comment on How can I spot and avoid AI videos? 2 weeks ago:
I find that I can’t catch AI more easily if I’ve seen what it can output.
For example, the older videos used to use generative AI on the images and videos themselves, which made it easier to spot those.
Some newer videos are made with the “agentic” tools that have access to various scripts and animation libraries, which come out looking very polished and visually identical to human produced ones. For those, I find that the AI will put unnecessary “work”, into the irrelevant parts of the visualizations. Some of the libraries and fonts are more popular than others, so you might notice some tells that way.
For an example to the second category, check out the recent videos from this channel, which has AI generated “music videos”
- Comment on "It’s time to come back to Firefox. The Internet you loved is still here." - Firefox brings together people from famous internet memes in the 2000s in a new marketing push 2 weeks ago:
That’s true for a hard fork, not a downstream fork
Most of these other browsers are downstream forks. I’m not aware of any popular/reputable hard forks of Firefox
- Comment on "It’s time to come back to Firefox. The Internet you loved is still here." - Firefox brings together people from famous internet memes in the 2000s in a new marketing push 2 weeks ago:
I’m using one of those, it still depends on Firefox being around
- Comment on "It’s time to come back to Firefox. The Internet you loved is still here." - Firefox brings together people from famous internet memes in the 2000s in a new marketing push 2 weeks ago:
While Firefox alone doesn’t transport you to that internet, I think the point is that browsers like Firefox are one of the pieces that makes up that older experience. Fediverse being another, I would say a lot of us are here because we prefer this style of social media.
They have improved the intentionality of the AI features, I wish they had it opt-out and easily configurable from the start. I moved to Zen a while back (which still relies on Firefox pushing out updates)
- Comment on "It’s time to come back to Firefox. The Internet you loved is still here." - Firefox brings together people from famous internet memes in the 2000s in a new marketing push 2 weeks ago:
I also think some outreach is important, especially if they can get that through memes instead of paying Facebook/Google.
Having more people using Firefox instead of Google chrome is a good thing. If nothing else, websites will have more of an incentive to make sure websites work on non-chromium browsers.
And hey, if a few of those new users donate to the project, they can be less reliant on Google and sponsored content
- "It’s time to come back to Firefox. The Internet you loved is still here." - Firefox brings together people from famous internet memes in the 2000s in a new marketing pushm.youtube.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to videos@lemmy.world | 65 comments
- Comment on what is final price 2 weeks ago:
The seller isn’t necessarily being weird, “sofa-cum-bed”/“sofa-come-bed”/“sofa-co-bed” is actually how people refer to it in some places.
urbanladder.com/…/5-types-of-sofa-cum-bed-that-ev…
I think it comes from the Latin for “with”, something that is also present in the terms for some historical academic distinctions
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_honors
summa cum laude (/ˈsuːmə/), meaning “with highest praise”, typically awarded to graduates in the top 1%, 2%, or 5% of their class, depending on the institution. Some institutions either do not award the summa cum laude distinction or award it only in extraordinary circumstances
- Comment on Remember to vote! Have you already? 2 weeks ago:
Yes that’s the format for linking to other communities, which most apps will render nicely. You can also link to users with the @ symbol: @otter@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Remember to vote! Have you already? 2 weeks ago:
Here it is !ontario@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Remember to vote! Have you already? We did. 2 weeks ago:
No need to call, we’ll take a look at that user’s activity
It’s very clearly against the rules to be doing stuff like that.
- Comment on Remember to vote! Have you already? We did. 2 weeks ago:
If you give everyone burnout, they will tune it out or start blocking it outright. Either let people have some reprieve from it, or they will take steps to get it.
Also, a large part of Lemmy is not from the US and has very little ability to affect anything there.
- Comment on Remember to vote! Have you already? 2 weeks ago:
This applies to everyone by the way, including people who live elsewhere
- Comment on [Meta] Lemmy (not PieFed) changed to a Private Instance 2 weeks ago:
Do you want to give Anubis a try? That has helped our instances avoid the bots
- Comment on Rotund 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on It's an old one but I'll just leave this here 3 weeks ago:
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- Comment on A riddle you must answer 3 weeks ago:
“Do you have any games on your phone?”
- Comment on Why do we need legal genders at all? 4 weeks ago:
That’s fair, and it was a poor example on my part.
If one treatment is much better, then yes that one would be preferred. Generally when there are two treatments being weighed, both will have consequences (else one would obviously be better).
My point was that knowing things about a person, outside of their physical biology, can get better outcomes. It should never be REQUIRED for the patient to share it, but we should educate medical staff about their community so that they can use that information when it is helpful.
Some other examples, that aren’t specific to gender
- knowing what pronouns to use would make the patient trust the provider more and feel more comfortable
- if you know the patients literacy level or knowledge of medical terminology, you can adjust your explanations
- if the patient belongs to a group that might have an aversion to a particular treatment, you know to either spend more time explaining it or to let them know another option is available
- if you know the patient is poor, then you might take that into account when recommending treatments. Even in publicly funded health systems, the lifestyle recommendations might not apply to every person
At the same time, the person shouldn’t be making assumptions based on someone falling into a particular group, and they should confirm whatever it is they are checking for.
IMO, knowing about gender is less important in places where it doesn’t carry as much cultural weight. As another example, if someone identifies as a woman in a culture where they don’t want to be alone with a male figure, knowing their identity might remind the staff to bring someone else who identifies as a woman into the exam room.
- Comment on Why do we need legal genders at all? 4 weeks ago:
Gender, and other factors that aren’t as “medically relevant”, might still be helpful if it helps the staff pick between two treatment options. The patient’s comfort and happiness can affect their overall wellbeing.
Say someone grows up in a culture where their gender (or some cultural group the person can belong to) usually has long hair. A particular treatment may have two options:
- shave the head
- something that doesn’t involve shaving the head
Knowing what gender (or other group) the person belongs to might inform their decision.
Note, this is about why medical staff might want to know about gender identity and not the original question of how many we should have.
- Comment on IYKYK 4 weeks ago:
What does the pear lapel pin refer to? I haven’t seen that before