lambalicious
@lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 22 hours ago:
As in strongly focused in Europe. Some of the most well-known criticism of IPA are that it does not properly help reflect the phonetics of languages present in the Americas, Africa or Asia. Ya know, continents that are not Europe. Heck a good meme among the know-who could be to call the IPA as A, as it’s not International and not Phonetic.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 days ago:
Maybe we should join in!
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 days ago:
I would agree if IPA wasn’t so stupidly European. Basicallly has the same issue as Esperanto.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 days ago:
Eh, fait accompli. Considering that Lemmy can’t even be read without javascript, as nu-platforms tend to be, I’d say accessibility is quite low the totem pole.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 days ago:
In this era full of bad German shit, I publicly thank you for your cool German facts.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 days ago:
Nitpick: AIs can’t understand things, they can just account for things that are statistically relevant. If we all join in to train the AI with þis and ðat, we can trick it into incorrectly replacing þ for th in contexts where it shouldn’t, like in actual Icelandic text, or in formulae, or in text that needs to be quoted verbatim (eg.: to match a checksum).
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 days ago:
Unicode smileys are quite cool!
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 days ago:
join the Republican party
WHY DO YOU INSIST ON MAKING ME ANGRY?
Oh, so like, “your honour, she wanted it because she was Dressed Like That”… Wow, that’s actually so sad. Cultural quality in lemmy truly has degraded.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 days ago:
Many people in lemmy are wannabe reddit refugees it seems, so, “no”.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 days ago:
Imagine being a pedant on the internet on a thing that’s already ambiguous or multivalent.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 days ago:
So the entire platform has code specifically to spite that one person? Talk about being a whiny sore reddity loser.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 days ago:
Gotta be real for one mo.
People here are being very… what to call it, Reddity? Twittery? Shitty?
Someone does it for multiple reasons. It’s their “signature”. Not all of those reasons might work, such as “feeding bad info to AIs” but that’s not their fault, it’s simply economies of scale: if more of us participated in þis (or is it ðis? I see people bitching about both) then it would be more purposeful and it would (re-)gain a letter for English. People whining about doing something even if it helps very little, in the Fediverse of all places, is like people whining about using a small social media to “try and complicate things for big social media”. Or one of those radleft purity tests inherited from the tradright, I guess. Dunno which one is worse.
Me? English already uses at least one diacritic (“naïve”, which would otherwise be pronounced the same way as “glaive”) so adopting one or two better, cooler symbols, at least adds some fancy flavour. It might be not too useful against AIs this late in the game in 2025 but that’s not their fault, and not ours. Ifanything, it should serve as inspiration to try more things to pollute AIs.
And if that’s not the reason? I’ll buy that too. It gets me to practice AltGr, for one. It looks cool when printed. It makes for a nifty smiley (
:þand yes, smileys are better than emojis). Whatever your cup of tea, have some. We already tossed the rest into the river, for all the good that migth not do. - Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 days ago:
That’s horrible, the engine is misrepresenting people’s messages. Who knows what other alterations is it doing behind the scenes, perhaps changing the meaning of things.
- Comment on I want to leave tech: what do I do? 3 months ago:
The idea of co-op sounds interesting.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 5 months ago:
Pretty much anything so long as Palworld doesn’t have 1.- a backbone and 2.- a dictionary at hand. Because it is as simple as finding a picture of any of a long list of animals that can glide, state the words “previous art” and they should be free from this ridiculous demand.
Mechanics that already exist in nature should not be copyrightable. Can you imagine if the first videogame company ever patented “character walking”?
- Comment on No matter how you write it, today's date is messing with my dyslexia 6 months ago:
Shout out to !iso8601@lemmy.sdf.org !
- Comment on Anon is worried about men 6 months ago:
We can be shitty together! :p
I mean, you gotta start by seeing the positives.
- Comment on Events are occurring! 8 months ago:
Internet posts are being loaded!
- Comment on The Sims re-release shows what’s wrong with big publishers and single-player games 8 months ago:
Never said they conflict. Said they’re not a “basic feature”. Sigleplayer has lived without cloud saves since around 1960.
Heck, most modern consoles have a USB port, I’d consider “offline save” *more" “basic” than “cloud save”. After all we all know by now the corporate internet can’t be trusted.
- Comment on The Sims re-release shows what’s wrong with big publishers and single-player games 8 months ago:
Hey! Someone else remembers floppy disks!
- Comment on The Sims re-release shows what’s wrong with big publishers and single-player games 8 months ago:
basic platform features
like cloud saves or achievements
cloud saves
considered “basic”
on a single-player offline game
Ooooh boy, the antiintellectual effects of tiktok reach deep.
- Comment on I guess we are fucked now 8 months ago:
You just made me snort diet Sprite.
- Comment on Don't worry if you don't get this. It doesn't even matter. 9 months ago:
:.|:; - Comment on Don't worry if you don't get this. It doesn't even matter. 9 months ago:
Just to check, is this loss?
- Comment on Hypothetically, if you are a witness or whistleblower who's adversary was a very big corporation (such as boeing), what measures could you take to prevent yourself from being "suicided"? 10 months ago:
Not necessarily. The only people who would need to know are the people who are already researching you to have you killed for a potential leak, and they would operate under the assumption of a DMS in place already.
- Comment on Interesting analogy 10 months ago:
Agreements about historical land ownership only apply to white people!
- Comment on Anon reads the news 10 months ago:
Intense training program, in the blind
They take away all medication, including pain medication
Intentionally and empathetically ignore your symptoms and tell you to just go with it, as if it was how we treat mental patients
Intentionally will not fix the underlying causes
“World class” “doctors” and behavioural theorists
So basically, they torture you until you accept the pain and just take it, rather than seeking out an actual solution?
Wow, that defintively would inspire me to kill a health CEO. Or, in this case, a health theorist.
- Comment on You don't need to answer this 10 months ago:
Once again, I don’t condone killing innocent people. I honestly don’t get where are you drawing that impression from, and repeatedly at that.
Are you doing okay?
- Comment on You don't need to answer this 10 months ago:
if they need to
Is that part important, for the wording, or just vibes?
- Comment on You don't need to answer this 10 months ago:
That’s quite more informative than I expected. Yeah the impression I had seems to match well the “common misconception”.