Notices by Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social)

@skinnylatte I imagined your cat just sitting calmly and then you start to take a bite and her head just swerves instantly locking eyes like a scene out of a horror movie.

Be safe!

@nixCraft MS Paint.

@RickiTarr Truth is stranger than fiction, right?

Or, lately, I see a lot of people saying "real life is a The Onion article."

@futurebird @justafrog @clayote I used to use AliExpress a lot back in the day when I actually bought stuff. I prefer Amazon for anything I may potentially have to send back (which lately is a lot since I'm down to more essentials only) but other than the really long wait time on AliExpress and the fact sometimes USPS would require a signature (which means if I'm not standing at the door when they drive up they mark it as not deliverable and I have to go in to the post office in person to get it) I couldn't say they ever gave me any troubles (not entirely their fault, but I did wish they wouldn't mark them as requiring a signature...)

They never did any identity theft or anything. I don't even think they sold my email address, though it's hard to be sure.

@Polychrome So... very... many... cats...

I LOVE THIS!

@kaia @Error I think it gets a more direct route to the CPU than some other PCI-E devices if I'm not mistaken. The directional arrow might be a bit misleading too.

@Laukidh YES! Thank you!

At least until recently you could override their "ignore what the user typed and search something else instead" behavior by using quotes, but lately even that is slipping...

@tek @catsalad I didn't actually say "never" 😁

I'm not saying you can't game on one at all, but it's definitely not built for gaming and in numerous ways will be a problem if you want to do gaming. And that's not even getting into issues like the lack of decent GPU (big no-no for serious gaming) and the nearly negative upgradeability path. (If I need a new GPU I don't have to buy a whole computer. I buy a GPU. I'll admit some components can be trickier -- new CPU can sometimes mean MB and RAM too -- but, it's still not a whole computer.)

@catsalad @tek Apple and. "Gaming PC" can't go in the same sentence.

@tek I've been messing around with a few options as a gamer myself. It's tricky. Nothing is quite 100%. For the best results I recommend something Arch based. I've gone back and forth and among the *buntu distros I'd recommend Mint for stability but for gaming with all the bells and whistles actually working, something Arch-based seems like the best way to go.

I liked Manjaro best as a good starter to learn the ins and outs. It has a lot of Just Works(tm) going for it right out of the box. Wayland and everything Just Works. I don't quite 100% trust the company and it sounds like they're leaning towards doing opt-out telemetry soon (or already?) which is a Very Bad Sign(tm). But it's a good start to learn Arch and then, from there, just go to Arch itself once you know it well.

@cavyherd @VampiresAndRobots @futurebird 99.999% sure it is.

Synthetic training ultimately results in a breakdown of a model in a generation or two. They need non-synthetic input. And what better way than to mass deploy a system where users identify the outputs so they don't have to.

Except it's still pretty synthetic. We're being fed some pretty poorly made results and we don't understand our instructions. (Should I click this one? Will it count against me if I click it?) And of course they're low resolution too, which makes it that much harder for us to even determine what they are even supposed to be.

So I guess the good news is we're giving it at least some bad data. 😁

@cavyherd @VampiresAndRobots @futurebird This gives me an idea for a new type of image compression and very possibly the worst even imaginable: store images as a seed, prompt, and model hash. You could make a huge image something like a kilobyte. And impossible to 100% reproduce. (The ultimate low quality JPEG, lol.) Plus it would require draining a lake somewhere and cutting power to several houses to show the image. But, all in the name of science or something.

EDIT: to be clear, this was a joke post.

@originlbookgirl @skinnylatte I don't think it's right or fair to completely separate online and offline realities. It's true that they are very different indeed and each of the major issues you've highlighted are a massive problem online, but there are exceptions, however rare they might be. (Admittedly all too rare.) Some people have legitimately made actual real friendships online. (Again admittedly all too rare. But not zero.)

I really believe it can happen. Maybe that's just wishful thinking, but I just think that it doesn't have to always be toxicity and vitriol. I truly believe there are some rare exceptions out there.

I've known a few people online I would have called genuine friends. I had to give up on the last one because of politics, not other things in fact.

That moment when you find out that tracking on the Web is so bad now that sites actually use the size of your browser's window as a possible mechanism to track you by.

What have we become as a species that this is where we are?

#Privacy #Tracking

@Em0nM4stodon I wish I could understand how we seem to have learned, as a society, to default to just giving up and use the known bad thing when it offers a slightly easier path than the thing that is overall better. Yeah it sucks that the good t hing is harder.

If presented with two paths and one goes up a hill but the other is down, people will take the downhill even if it means stepping on spikes the entire way down.

The ultimate irony is most of the harder paths start to become easier and easier the more people tread them...

@mcc The problem, IMO, lies in the differences of the nature of the enshittification.

Mastodon has issues with interfaces, details of exactly how federation does, etc etc. Things that at least theoretically can be fixed someday. Many may not be. Absolutely! But at least there's possibility.

In comparison, Bluesky is probably already doing bad things like gathering and selling user data and is going to eventually start participating in willful user manipulation just as its predecessors have done. It's inherent into its very design and nature that it must eventually do this. That's a different sort of problem and it's not going to be fixed because it is built in by design. The only questions are how long until it goes too far and how dangerous will it get. (Not looking good.)

@AzulCrescent I miss back when there weren't really DLCs but instead you got expansion packs. Because they were so separated they had to be basically a whole game in themselves. You spent 1/4th the cost of the game and got maybe 1/2th of the content of the game new with extras that carried over into other things.

But on the subject of DLCs, remember Dragon Age? I always felt like that was the peak of the current system. At that moment they really slammed it home how bad it had gotten. You step out after this epic prologue and you're ready to try to save the world, then suddenly some random dude runs up, demands you save his family because your parents owed him or something, but first you have to pay real money, so here's a clickable link.

Like they just gave up all pretense.

@internetarchive @brewsterkahle You people are doing a service to all of humanity. I didn't even realize how much no longer even existed on the Web without the Internet Archive until it went down. So much was lost to time without it. I think a lot of people truly don't realize just how much no longer exists out there anywhere else.

@solidsanek Can't go wrong with a wad of cash.

What?

:HoloTongue:

@mcc I feel like using python -m is redundant and unnecessary since the scripts are in the path anyway, but it doesn't explain that issue. Is it possible python3 is pointing to a different binary that maybe uses a different path?