T156 @ T156 @lemmy.world

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Ah, that's unfortunate, but understandable.

Cover letter's being a bastard, and I'm all the more annoyed that when my brain gets stuck on something, it absolutely wants to get that thing done before moving on to something else.

Admittedly, the Witching Hour's probably not the best time for it, but there unfortunately aren't much by way of good alternatives.

Particularly with the modding scene. You can't exactly do a randomiser with the cartridge.

Although part of the difficulty is that if you're coming from a centralised place like Reddit, Fediverse takes a bit to wrap your head around. Lemmy had a whole issue going for a while, where people logically flocked to the largest instance that they could find, possibly out of the misunderstanding that you had to pick and choose an instance.

There have always been people like that, it's just more noticeable now because the numbers are larger.

People still use MySpace and Digg, and there are people on Bluesky, Mastodon, here, etc.

I left Twitter for much the same reasons. All the replies are basically unusable now, because bots just pay to get put at the top of the sorting algorithm, and it's now full of bait and spam, since the website formerly known as Twitter now pays for engagement, since that apparently worked out well for Quora (!).

They're doing a Bradbury, in a way, kind of like Tumblr and Steam. Everyone else is shooting themselves in the foot.

Although the quality has noticeably decreased. The number of bots has shot up a ridiculous amount.

Lemmy is nice, but the content on it is quite niche. If you want something less tech-oriented, you're generally out of luck, for example.

Went bouldering. Great fun, but I apparently wore myself out enough that I can barely move my fingers, which is not good for my ability to type.

Mine is that they wanted it to stand out, compared to all the other phones with flat screens at the time, especially with all the design clones.

You would look at it and go "oh that phone looks funny, must be a Samsung".

If you can somehow lick a gas, more power to you.

It'd be a bit unreliable, though. Not everyone has the same reaction to the same thing, nor do they express it in a similar way.

Someone might think a snake or a spider is cute, whereas another would want to incinerate it on the spot. A third might be concerned because they seem to be injured, etc.

Not to mention that image recognition/emotional analysis has been an ongoing field of research for some time. Making the link is not overly difficult.

You can still turn it off. Not much they can do about your turning it off at the wall.

It wasn't that long ago that "smart mirrors" were en vogue, which was just a display with a reflective coating.

Although I think that they generally fell out of fashion because people don't want a contraption for their mirror that they have to plug in and set up.

I actually prefer TNG's settling down with a Poker game, and Picard joining in with a "I didn't know why I didn't do this before". Mainly because it still feels like they've not left their time, whereas the camping scene could be anytime from the start of the second millennium.

The only way it could be better is if the show opened with a Poker game.

And it doesn't preclude the company just deciding your product is no longer worth supporting/going bankrupt.

It might have been fine and seemingly trustworthy to begin with, and then it stops, a few years down the line.

That is a different kind of machine learning model, though.

You can't just plug in your pathology images into their multimodal generative models, and expect it to pop out something usable.

And those image recognition models aren't something OpenAI is currently working on, iirc.