Hit the lawyer, delete the gym, Facebook up

He’s just a little guy doin his best!

People often don’t know that they have a choice. It enables itself.

They already have access to mineral and oil rights in Greenland. This is literally just about the words on the map, just like Gulf of Mexico.

True. At least in that one the Bolognese didn’t already have the bucket.

If you are anxious and sad about the state of the world, that’s fine, and there are plenty of strategies for dealing with that. But think you already know that drive-by online dooming isn’t a strategy. It’s selfish and adolescent. It’s a contagion that only spreads the worst of you, not the best.

This is the juice for me. Worried about the next election? Me too! What are you going to do about it? Dooming in the comments isn’t action, and if you’re trying to get me to act, then insisting that there’s no point in any of this is a weird way to do it.

If you believe that and don’t think there are any action steps, fine. But don’t slather that despair everywhere. We don’t need it; we’ve already got enough despair. Some of us are trying to do something about it.

Have a plan, try to get people on board with it. But just insisting that everything is doomed is just as useless an online activity as insisting that everything is great.

He’s a game show host. Apparently that qualifies him for the top of the ticket.

We knew about them while they were still walking the earth. That was a willful choice, and the change represented a change in values.

Yes, signage costs money. But it also has to be replaced from time to time anyway. I don’t think there are any schools changing their name annually; they probably print new signs up memorializing tournament wins often enough that they can just get it added to an existing print run.

I’m happy to use it to memorialize someone who is long dead (like, at least a century; long enough that we can be pretty sure what kind of person they were in life), or to mark a notable feature or plant or animal in the region. Even an institution (College Park, Museum Way, High School Rd). Not everything has to be purely functional. And if the local government has to pay for the signs to be printed anyway…

Eh, maybe. I dunno. I think the actual security research was pretty much unchanged, and the money was going into application and speculation. I don’t think we got a big new message digest function, or any major elliptic curve advancements, or a more secure hashing algorithm in the entire time that was popping off. In fact I’m not even sure if it could have, since the big player in the game (Bitcoin) was already set in stone long before.

I could be wrong, though.

EDIT: Agree on the metaverse, though. I could maybe imagine some sort of benefits for people with severe physical handicaps, but even there, I’d say other assistive technologies and medical research would be a better use of the money.

I really respect this eyes-open view of degoogling/FOSS-ing. We can do a lot, but some of the all-or-nothing rhetoric on Lemmy is exhausting. Yes, sometimes living in modern society still requires us to use some non-free apps. You’ve gone far beyond what most people would do in this sort of situation, and even you have reached a point where dealing with other people or necessities of life requires you to have some Play Store apps; so you do what you can to lock them down, but accept that some things are just going to have to be less than ideal for at least a while.

They’ve gone all-in on three terrible bets in a row (crypto, metaverse, and now AI) so they’re desperate to not be wrong this time. I bet it’s going to take a big player (I mean REALLY big, something the size of Microsoft) going bankrupt for this one to pop.

Here’s one. Here’s another. Here’s a study that’s cited a lot. Here’s a Wikipedia article about a 75-year-old study.

But since I’ve read those articles and studies, I don’t expect you to change your mind.

If you bought it before it went freemium, you’re grandfathered in.

BuzzKill for Android.

PocketCasts used to be, before they went subscription.

Agreed, good catch.

For me it’s the text (too regular and perfectly-ruled to be hand lettered, but too much variance between the letterforms to be a font) and the little AI artifact on the random doohickey directly under the bottom left corner of the AI computer monitor:

Aside from that, it’s just the weight of unmotivated choices. Why is the “good” side of the image grayscale while the “bad” side is in color (a human probably would’ve done it the other way)? Why are the desks drawn slightly differently while the person, chair, and computer are drawn the same (a human would’ve probably made everything identical to better illustrate their point)? Why all the random clutter on one but not the other (if the point was to make the AI computing experience look scattered and cluttered, surely they would’ve made it more overwhelmingly cluttered, but if it was for verisimilitude they’d have put clutter on both desks)? Also, subjectively, the “AI” logo on the screen suggests a pleasant experience, not an oppressive one.

An unmotivated choice on its own isn’t necessarily an AI calling card, but enough of them together alongside one or two smoking guns can definitely make the case pretty strongly.

It’s just not as useful as the rear-facing camera on a phone or tablet. You can’t aim it easily, so it’s stuck pointing slightly downward at the surface it’s sitting on, unless you’re interested in making your screen harder to see.

Plus it’s more expensive for a feature that few people would find useful.

That’s fair, though I can definitely see a difference between CRT and HD. And between HD and 4K, for that matter, though not between 4K and 8K (at least not at normal viewing distances).

You can believe that if you like, but you’re kind of undercutting your own argument by specifically disagreeing with the facts here.