That’s a really savvy insight! To expand this analogy further, it’s like your phone or computer gives you a free chicken nugget from a small container attached to the side of the device anytime you search for anything at all. It’s room temperature and often spoiled, it’s your choice whether you eat it or not, but you’re going to get it either way. As such you cannot easily choose to avoid chicken in hopes that that will disincentivize further chicken slaughter.
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tankfox@midwest.socialto Games@lemmy.world•'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you'English1·9 days agoAfter what they did to my boy claptrap they can eat it. It’s obvious that the voice acting department is going to go out of the way to deservedly sabotage this series until it finally gives up.
tankfox@midwest.socialto Technology@lemmy.world•Nepal bans social media(Facebook, X, Reddit, Mastodon, Discord, Signal, YouTube and more) for failing to register with the government; Only 7 to be open(Viber, TikTok, Telegram and more)English3·20 days agoModern laws rarely if ever have anything to do with what they claim to be changing. Just figure out where the graft is flowing and that’s your answer. There’s no graft to be had with mastodon because nobody is making any money there so at first it’s simply ignored unless it annoys someone in Nepal’s government. If an instance suddenly started getting popular and making money in Nepal then it gets on their radar and they have to start paying bribes to continue operating just like the big guys, and there will be no room at all for a ‘medium guy’ who makes a little profit but not enough to comply with the requirements of corruption.
tankfox@midwest.socialto Steam Deck@sopuli.xyz•New rumor suggests Valve's Steam Deck 2 is much further away than we thoughtEnglish6·27 days agoWhat’s really cool is that in a lot of cases you can just load up the game on steam in linux and it just downloads and uses the same proton layers that the deck does. I run arch and in my testing so far it works, hampered by the fact that my test box is a very old a10 amd apu
tankfox@midwest.socialto politics @lemmy.world•DNC Votes Down Resolution Calling for Israeli Arms Embargo to Halt US Complicity in Gaza GenocideEnglish8·29 days agoThe turds already inside the DNC forcefully eject anyone with a chance of being liberal. By the time I have a voice my choices are curated into irrelevancy.
tankfox@midwest.socialto politics @lemmy.world•Gavin Newsom surges in 2028 presidential primary pollEnglish21·1 month agoThere are no other options to choose from if we want aggressive responses that the bullies in charge will respect and respond to. Newstrom is it. Perfect being the enemy of good is the typical democrat excuse to sit on hands and do nothing.
Maybe the democratic party can realize what makes the people jump and put a better person in charge of that particular weapon, but that’s not going to happen because the democratic party has no leader at all. I’ve worked in departments that didn’t have a manager and there was a long gap before one was appointed, people tend to just continue doing what they were doing while they had a manager, and if anything changes it isn’t their problem and eventually the entire process breaks down to a bunch of people drinking coffee and arguing about who should be doing what.
tankfox@midwest.socialto politics @lemmy.world•Gavin Newsom surges in 2028 presidential primary pollEnglish51·1 month agoHe won’t, they don’t have any dirt on him
go back in time and look it up in 2015 before the web wa[ENTER YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS TO SUBSCRIBE AND READ THE REST OF THIS POST]*
tankfox@midwest.socialto Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interfaceEnglish11·1 month agoto be honest that’s exactly why I’m on arch and not ubuntu or cntos. Ironically it was gpt that helped me get it set up and it would have had a lot more trouble without it, but now that the job is done I don’t want it hanging around in the OS like ‘hey buddy squeaking past ya gettn a beer’
tankfox@midwest.socialto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•If I invented a shirt that caused cameras to be damaged when filmed/photographed, would I be committing a crime by wearing the shirt at events with cameras?English51·1 month agoRick and Morty did this once, Rick simply put on a hat with a QR code that made a robot army recognize him as a high level commander.
A few days ago I read a short story,
comp.basilisk.faq
by David Langford, which sketched a world in which specific images could irreversibly crash the brain, leading to a full scale worldwide ban on images on the internet and many other places as well. The story postulated hundreds of potential info-hazards with many of them simple enough to be applied via stencil and spray paint. Two of them are branch families of the Mandelbrot set ‘and no we won’t tell you where, do not look’Other examples;
- Snow Crash — Neal Stephenson
- Blit — David Langford
- The Atrocity Archives — Charles Stross
- Doctor Who — “Blink” / “The Time of the Doctor”
- SCP Foundation — SCP-096
- SCP-7387 (“The Mathematician’s Grin”)
“Keep your eyes peeled or we’ll peel them for you wholesale!”
tankfox@midwest.socialto Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interfaceEnglish5·1 month agoI installed arch recently, and the steam client was pretty easy to install. What really shocked me is that all the stuff that works fine on my steam deck also works fine in arch, so that’s nice
tankfox@midwest.socialto politics @lemmy.world•Convicted Felon Trump Lies About Crime Rate In D.C., Deploys TroopsEnglish2·1 month agoHey, you know what? It worked. Kids stopped being shot. Isn’t that the goal? Any means necessary? It was effective. Extremely small class sizes, distributed learning, it works and people don’t die anymore.
Instead of making any positive changes the school system just said, ‘glad that’s over, get back to the old system immediately you little scamps!’ Gotta save money after all!
There is a solution, y’all don’t like it. Gun owners know there’s another solution now, one that doesn’t make them give up their investment to solve a problem they will never be involved in.
I will not be affected by whining about this problem when a proven alternative solution exists. Especially since the proven effective solution only burdens the actual people involved in the actual problem; all of us terrible parents and all of our horrible little children.
tankfox@midwest.socialto politics @lemmy.world•Convicted Felon Trump Lies About Crime Rate In D.C., Deploys TroopsEnglish1·1 month agoThat’s so pithy and reductive! And it suits your goals by only burdening gun owners and nobody else! And is false and wrong besides as whether you like it or not canada and europe have both firearms and better schools.
tankfox@midwest.socialto politics @lemmy.world•Convicted Felon Trump Lies About Crime Rate In D.C., Deploys TroopsEnglish11·1 month agoYou know what fully ended school shootings? The pandemic lockdown. We know what causes school shootings; schools are an underfunded nightmare pressure cooker half a step away from the prison system. We know how to fix it, change the system. Since we rushed back to the system that causes the shootings as quickly as we could, I guess you could absolutely say they died for nothing and will continue to die for nothing, probably until there are no more humans left to die for nothing.
and turn the harvest rate up, I MEAN WAY UP
tankfox@midwest.socialto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•When one earbud decides to not charge and I need to remove it from the case and put it back. And I even sometimes don't realize that...English1·2 months agoabout the same as the last pair of $7 wired earbuds did; good enough.
tankfox@midwest.socialto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•When one earbud decides to not charge and I need to remove it from the case and put it back. And I even sometimes don't realize that...English31·2 months agoMy man I got a set of wireless earbuds for ten bucks at a hardware store. How much less could wired ones cost? A banana?
I’m literally arguing a point that someone made, then the comment was deleted. I think you’re projecting an inability to follow things onto me when really it’s a struggle that you’re coping with yourself.
Reflexively hating all landlords is a symptom of not understanding how things work and, probably more importantly, a burning desire not to understand a goddamn thing.
If you directly ask for cuil levels things get weird fast. It understands cuil and is very willing to play along. One could say it plays to the strengths of the LLM directly!