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 I implore you to stop using the drake meme template 1 day ago:
What is this other template called?
- Comment on it's so fluffy 5 days ago:
For people that actually want something like that, check out !taneggs@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Study Featuring AI-Generated Giant Rat Penis Retracted, Journal Apologizes 1 week ago:
Generative AI “anatomy” diagrams gross me out almost every time. It has a similar effect as those old trypophobia images
- Comment on Why is sharpedo blocked in image searches on DuckDuckGo and Bing, but not Google? 1 week ago:
So interestingly, slight misspellings will show the pokemon with a “Showing results for Sharpedo”, but if you click on that link the results will disappear. I also can’t find any other blocked examples with different made up words.
It’s weird, like it has been manually blocked
- Comment on Every decision led him to this point 1 week ago:
The video I found is from Twitter and some people avoid it, so I left in the description
I’ll reorder it though
- Comment on Every decision led him to this point 1 week ago:
I looked up “robot kicks man” and found this
digitaltrends.com/…/humanoid-robot-teleoperator-k…
The process of training humanoid robots can take various forms. Unitree’s G1 robot for example, is trained partly through teleoperation whereby a human operator wears a motion-capture suit or uses controllers to perform particular movements or entire tasks, with the robot mirroring the movements in real time.
But teleoperation clearly carries some risks, especially if you get too close to the robot you’re training.
But the teleoperator then turns slightly to perform a big kick. Unfortunately for the teleoperator, the robot, mimicking his movements, performs the same kick, catching the guy right where it hurts.
He drops to the ground, letting out a yelp of pain as he falls. Of course, the robot falls to the ground too. If it’d been equipped with speech capabilities, we’d have likely heard a yelp, as well.
The video:
- Comment on Apparently your hobbies becomes less interesting if you're forced to do them all the time? Who knew? 3 weeks ago:
lol TIL
🐈️🔥🔥🔥
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- Comment on What browser(s) should I use? 5 weeks ago:
If you add three back ticks (`/``) to the beginning and end of the list, it will format as a code block
browser.ml.enable browser.ml.chat.enabled browser.ml.chat.menu browser.ml.chat.page browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled browser.ml.pageAssist.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled extensions.ml.enabled browser.search.visualSearch.featureGate
- Comment on Stick 1 month ago:
- Comment on Mastodon CEO steps down with €1M payout and a deep sigh 1 month ago:
The articles I’ve seen say that it was for the past 10 years of work, some amount of which was unpaid
techcrunch.com/…/mastodon-ceo-steps-down-as-the-s…
With the revamp, Mastodon has the potential to expand its business, product, and mission, without being dependent on a single person’s leadership. It will also give Rochko a break, as he’s been singularly focused on Mastodon for the past 10 years.
Going forward, Rochko will continue contributing to Mastodon as an adviser. He has also been compensated with a one-time payment of €1 million, given that he took less than a fair market salary over the years while building Mastodon.
I don’t have insight into the decision making process that went into deciding on that amount, maybe it’s less than what he should have been compensated for, maybe it’s more. But it sounds like they reached that decision amicably
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Maybe they had trouble hitting that atom, and decided to surround with many other U-235 atom before trying the splits
- Comment on Everything has a bit of overlap 2 months ago:
programming of physics joke
Yes
- Comment on Is there a ranking showing how popular different hobbies are by country? 2 months ago:
I think since hobbies are nebulous and hard to compare against each other, you would need to find a study specifically looking at that. Even then, you would only get information on the specific hobbies they looked at.
Maybe you can try looking for data for specific hobbies instead of comparing them against each other? You can probably find rates of books, music, etc.
- Comment on If you lose your memories, are "you" dead? If a close relative/friend lose their memories, are they still "your relative/friend"? What the hell even is memory? How sentimental are you about memories? 2 months ago:
This sounds more like a ship of Theseus style question
Is the person with amnesia still the same “person”. I assume the question would also need to enforce the type/extent of the amnesia
- Submitted 3 months ago to videos@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on What happened near Spokane in BeaconDB? 3 months ago:
In case the tags don’t work from Piefed, I’ll try as well
- Comment on What happened near Spokane in BeaconDB? 3 months ago:
It’s a project that’s compiling a map of wifi/cell tower/bluetooth locations for location services. GPS doesn’t work well in some cases (indoors, remote locations, areas with tall buildings) and so big companies have built similar databases to get accurate location information, but those ones are proprietary / private. This project is intended to be a public / openly licensed version of that, while also
- Comment on Ants Trapped For Years in a Soviet Nuclear Bunker Survived in The Most Horrifying Way 3 months ago:
Wow that was a cool read, especially the ending
Although luckily for this colony, they no longer have to turn on their own: In 2016, researchers installed a wooden boardwalk (below) in the bunker, connecting the ventilation pipe to the ground. Within four months, nearly all the trapped ants had deserted the bunker floor.
Now, when any ants are unfortunate enough to fall into the dark chamber, they don’t have to resort to cannibalism. They can just calmly walk the plank, all the way home.
I wonder if the ants have an understanding of what’s down in the hole, since now they can visit without dying there. Some ants “grieve”, and this colony was confirmed to have grave areas down in the former hole colony, but maybe they have no reason to wander down there?
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- Comment on how come Lemmy show more upvoted posts further down the thread instead of at the top? 3 months ago:
join-lemmy.org/docs/…/03-votes-and-ranking.html
Here is an explanation for each sorting type. It sounds like you’re looking for “Top”. I personally prefer Scaled so that I get some content from the small communities I’m subscribed to
- Comment on LinkedIn set to start to train its AI on member profiles 3 months ago:
This link should take you to the settings page where you can turn it off: www.linkedin.com/…/data-for-ai-improvement
See also this page for other privacy settings: www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/…/privacy
- Comment on LinkedIn set to start to train its AI on member profiles 3 months ago:
The AI tool that I saw on there was to give users advice on “how to make your profile better”. The tips were generic garbage, so maybe after they train the AI on member profiles, the tips can be even more generic garbage.
- Submitted 3 months ago to videos@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on [META] Community discussion regarding AI & clickbait 3 months ago:
Thanks for posting this discussion, I agree with the general consensus from the edit.
Thumbnails are annoying to deal with, and I had trouble the few times when I tried to address it in my own posts. It’s a lot more work to pull a different thumbnail and replace the autogenerated one, especially if you’re on mobile and just want to share something quickly. Still, if someone is posting low effort spam/clickbait often, I’d agree with a mod telling them to knock it off
- Comment on Between Codeberg, Forgejo, Gitea, etc., which do you prefer and why? 3 months ago:
Thanks, I’ve edited the title accordingly
- Submitted 3 months ago to [deleted] | 15 comments
- Comment on If you had to buy a new TV, what brand would you get? 3 months ago:
This is very detailed and helpful, thank you
Which soundbar or AV system did you end up going with?
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- Comment on 'Almost like science fiction': European ant is the first known animal to clone members of another species 3 months ago:
Neat!
The workers in Iberian harvester ant (Messor ibericus) colonies are all hybrids, with queens needing to mate with males from a distantly related species, Messor structor, to keep the colony functioning. But researchers found that some Iberian harvester ant populations have no M. structor colonies nearby.
“That was very, very abnormal. I mean, it was kind of a paradox,” study co-author Jonathan Romiguier, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Montpellier, told Live Science. The team initially believed there was a sampling issue, but they went on to find 69 regions where this was the case.
In setting out to resolve this paradox, Romiguier and his team found that queen Iberian harvester ants also lay eggs containing male M. structor ants, with these males ultimately fathering the workers. This discovery, published Sept. 3 in the journal Nature, is the first time any animal has been recorded producing offspring from another species as part of their normal life cycle.
“In the early stages, it was kind of a joke in the team,” Romiguier said. “But the more we got results, the more it became a hypothesis and not a joke anymore.”
