Vlyn

@Vlyn@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So many expensive homes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, show me how to not get into debt and be able to afford both land and a house. People usually don’t have half a million+ lying around burning a hole in their pockets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Almost all remote-work news is negative now but was positive in the beginning of the pandemic. Have you noticed this or am I going crazy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That easy, beginning of the pandemic: Companies panic that all their employees would call in sick. Or some even die (not that they’d care, but a lot of companies have a bus factor of one). So remote work gets tolerated or praised, everything works great.

  Now the pandemic is “over”, it’s safe to go back into the office. Companies have massive real estate costs, so they want to put their employees back into the office. Besides middle managers being afraid of their jobs as they seem to have become useless if they can’t look over your shoulder and micromanage you.

  It’s never about facts, it’s always what the companies and managers want in the moment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happens to my account is the instance I'm using so happens to shut down? Do I lose the account or is there a way to "transfer" it to a different instance.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Without knowing the actual implementation:

  I’d wager comments are preserved and don’t get cleaned up over time. Because if content gets deleted the instance has to federate the deletion to other instances to clean everything up (like an event system). If the instance just vanishes there would be no deletion request happening.

  If deletion was automatic when an instance goes down we’d have already lost thousands of comments due to the outages lately :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happens to my account is the instance I'm using so happens to shut down? Do I lose the account or is there a way to "transfer" it to a different instance.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the case when an instance just straight up shuts down, right?

  But if a user deletes their comment this also gets propagated to other instances. Do instance admins have a nuke button to initiate a delete for all content?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why must it be this way? (but also I'd like shark please)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s an interesting thought!

  Like Asian earwax is super dry and flaky, while European earwax looks like yellow green toxic goop.

  So you have different genes and on top of that different diets (I had Indian neighbors once, you could smell the curry in the entire hallway of the building 24/7. But they obviously use a ton of spices when cooking).

  As a central European Caucasian guy I personally start to smell really bad without deodorant just after a day or so. No matter how often I shower or what I eat. I also tried to switch to deodorant without aluminum and that didn’t work out at all :-/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why must it be this way? (but also I'd like shark please)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ever left the house? You’ll change your opinion right quick when you’re behind a random guy in the grocery store and you get a strong whiff of sour milk that has been out in the sun for a week.

  Thank god for deodorant (and regular showers).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a way to hide porn from my All feed without hiding all NSFW content?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Same here, I started with lemmy.ml and that was nice (as lemmynsfw.com was defederated). But their random slur filter was too annoying, especially when the rest of the fediverse sees the actual words.

  So I switched to lemmy.world, but I probably already have 50+ NSFW communities in my block filter and they keep coming :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much did photography "stole" painter jobs ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You only get good quality if you use the right model, the right keywords, the right negative prompt, the right settings, … and then it can still be pure luck.

  If you see a high quality AI image that actually looks good (not just parts of it, but the whole composition) then someone probably spent hours with fine-tuning and someone else spent weeks to customize the model.

  And even if you’re good at that, you’ll never get exactly the image you had in your mind. Especially as most models are heavily biased (You can create a portrait of a busty beautiful woman, but the second one you create probably has a very similar face).

  This might get better relatively fast, but right now AI art is not a replacement for good artists. Especially if you need more than one image with consistency between them.

  It’s more like a superpowered Photoshop where you can mess around with and get cool results, just that instead of filters or a magic stamp you generate the entire image.

  Super cool tech, but of course artists feel threatened. Except the popular ones who already drown in commissions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much did photography "stole" painter jobs ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You forgot a massive step in-between: Digital art / Photoshop.

  Which already vastly sped up art creation and made it easier (when you can just use special brushes instead of having to spend hours doing a pattern by hand).

  And even though it’s a lot easier, you still need artists to produce proper products. Good artists and designers will keep their jobs in the foreseeable future, while more simple one-shot works can be done by AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much did photography "stole" painter jobs ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you have a basic understanding how AI works then this argument doesn’t hold much water.

  Let’s take the human approach: I’m going to look at all the works of popular painters to learn their styles. Then I grab my painting tools and create similar works.

  No credit there, I still used all those other works as input and created by own based on them.

  With AI it’s the same, just in a much bigger capacity. If you ask AI to redraw the Mona Lisa you won’t get a 1:1 copy out, because the original doesn’t exist in the trained model, it’s just statistics.

  Same as if you tell a human to recreate the painting, no matter how good they are, they’ll never be able to perfectly reproduce the original work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a reply to an ongoing email conversation land in spam?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah well, I have plenty of uses for my salary. Though I’m a software developer, so that’s more like ITish.

  I also run my own mail server with a self-learning spam filter, so I know how easy it is to mess that one up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a reply to an ongoing email conversation land in spam?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Best case: This achieves absolutely nothing.

  Worst case: Your ‘temporary’ email account gets banned for spamming (new account, first email sent is marked as spam by receiver). Then your original email account is banned too for ban evasion (same IP, same browser fingerprint, they know it’s you).

  Just don’t mess with the spam filters on a server that doesn’t belong to you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a reply to an ongoing email conversation land in spam?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely NEVER mark anything from an online email provider you want to keep as spam. They use shared systems, it’s not just spam for you, but potentially for everyone on that email provider. That’s one way to protect people from receiving spam, 100 users marked that same newsletter email as spam? Alright, the newsletter will go to the spam folder for the next 20k users.

  If you mark legitimate emails as spam for fun you’re fucking up the system (and give the sender a massive headache if suddenly every @gmail.com receiver puts their emails into the spam folder).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FTC withdraws its in-house challenge to Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Knowing the companies involved this is a positive change.

  Activision Blizzard is a toxic dump. My hope is Microsoft throws out Activision management and cleans things up.

  It literally can’t get worse than it is right now.