FinalBoy1975 @ FinalBoy1975 @lemmy.world

Usually, my own thoughts are the only ones that matter to me. The exception

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I upvoted you, but I let the asshat you replied to unvoted. I mean, come on. This person is clueless.

Your post would be more interesting if you stated what file you were downloading. You're downloading it from the megathread? The megathread provides links to places from which you may download things. It does not provide things for you to download, usually. That's why you need to be more specific. I think it's funny how you produced a comment stream that directs you to linux. Like, if your question is legit, ain't no way you can handle linux. LOL.

I wasted my Sega Genesis non-life on this game so many hours you would just call me a loser. The console was my mom's, so when I went away to college I didn't have it with me. Every vacation I returned home, I'd just play this and see if I could get a billion points. My mom had the game genie, so she beat it artificially. I refuse the genie. You can find this game anywhere. It was not popular back in the day. It's one of those cheap games you got at K-Mart for whatever, maybe a couple dollars. It's definitely like The Adventures of Lolo was. A cheap ass game. Not one of the titles that was overpriced and cool kids arcade category. It was a cheapy game. One of the first of its kind, along with the Lolo games. No sooner it was released, it was in the bargain bin at the cheapy department store.

So, your software would go to the link provided (if there's a link provided) and scan the text of the article for language that sounds biased. This is an interesting exercise in computer programming, but it wouldn't be useful. Imagine the biased reaction of the user that wants or does not want the article to be judged "biased" by a computer program. I could just hear people muttering to themselves, "damn algorithm." This is something software is getting better at, but it's still not reliable. Take, for example, some software from my field: The kind that detects plagiarism. When I get student papers, I have to scan them through the plagiarism detector. After that, I have to inspect the ones that were flagged as "potential plagiarism." I've had to use this type of software for over a decade, and it's still problematic. I've had situations in which I found the plagiarism and the software did not. I've had countless situations in which the software found plagiarism but there was no plagiarism. So, I don't know, your goals as a computer scientist are lofty. Still, I want you to keep your bias detecting software away from my reading in my day to day. Anyway, human beings either have the reading skills and knowledge about where to get the facts from or they do not. If they are ignorant enough to require a computer program to judge for them, they will question the software's judgment, anyway, whether it's right or wrong. Why? Everybody's got an agenda.