kbal @ kbal @fedia.io

I'd appreciate it if everyone could just stop burning fossil fuels, please.

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Okay fediverse, you've been told. It has been requested that everyone on the whole network stops using #hashtags because one lemmy.world user finds it personally inconvenient the way their instance's software deals with it. I expect everyone to comply immediately.

Today I got over my aversion to TV news bullshit and watched that clip. I thought was much better than anything you'd normally see in such a context. Meslin was effective in getting his point across, despite the ridiculous doofus he was talking to, who was made to look foolish to everyone who was paying attention at that moment.

The way they (all TV news) normally distort and misrepresent things is by not inviting such people to participate at all. Bravo to the CBC for doing slightly better than the usual standard on that occasion.

Can you imagine if they actually shut down CBC radio? Never mind how many people the the polls say are "opposed" to the idea. The real question is how many old people with a radio, who still tune in every day, even those who never think much about politics, would be instantly radicalized. We do not show up in measures of "digital reach." Try it and the revolution could start sooner than you expect. It's hard to believe that even Poilievre could be that politically suicidal.

The vast majority of papers that make serious errors and draw the wrong conclusions are never retracted. The sort of people needing to be told to check whether a paper was retracted before citing it are not likely to produce much that's of value even if they do so.

It's not really anything he did, more about things he didn't do. Such as address the housing problems, do anything substantial about wealth inequality, take a stand against genocide, revive Canada's economic competitiveness, rein in the oligopolies that run the country, stop climate change, balance the budget, end all disease and hunger worldwide, and bring about lasting world peace.

People just got tired of all the empty rhetoric, and have decided that what we need is a slightly more sarcastic and bitter form of empty rhetoric as the opposition offers.

Files on your Windows disks can be accessed from Linux if you dual-boot.

People planning to migrate to Linux should probably allow themselves more than 15 minutes for the process of backing up all the things, choosing a distro, installing it, finding out what software is available, what needs to be learned, what needs to be given up, what new things are available, configuring everything, and getting used to using it.

It's a pretty big job. You've got to do it eventually though, might as well get started.

I suspect that most people are already aware that alcohol is not good for one's health.

Because otherwise, a horde of raiders in spiky leather armour will cross the radioactive wasteland, roll up to your place and rip your arms off.

CONTENT WARNING: A vertically-oriented video in a player with no volume control on Instagram involving Jordan Peterson.

Apologies if my initial comment somehow reinforced your misconception that the linked video was all about the difficulty of finding the specs for the file format.

This being c/politics I feel justified in pointing out that growing extremism among politicians probably has much more of an effect than extremism "online."

Well for one thing, there is that one obvious thing which Americans and everyone else are also unready to hear: You need to give up fossil fuels. No more coal, no more gas, no more petrol, no more diesel. Some parts of Europe like to think they're well on the way to that goal but even there for the most part you've barely begun and are moving too slowly or in the wrong direction (e.g. biofuels). The hard part cannot be put off for much longer.

The thing that's wanted is not one link to the official protocol specification document along with a dozen links to SEO-optimized AI-generated time-wasting nonsense. It's a large set of links to diverse interesting sources discussing the topic searched for and things adjacent to it. The web was never perfect, but we were much closer to that ideal ten years ago than we are today.

Someone's complaining about the war and you've come along with a pair of earplugs saying wear these, you won't even hear the bombs.

Coffee and cola are both pretty good. Are you reflexively coming to the defense of generative AI on general principle or did you actually look at those sites, the horribleness of which is exhaustively detailed in the video, and decide that they look as if they could be useful to anyone?

I have no idea about how people in the UK should react and I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding of it is that if no one involved in running your site is British, it's not hosted in the UK, and you don't have any kind of business relationships with people in the UK, you absolutely should not worry about it or take any action at all beyond making sure you don't sign any deals or offer any products for sale in that country.

They cannot legally or practically do anything to you beyond perhaps blocking access to your site somehow I suppose, and in the extremely unlikely event that they tried something crazy you'd be an international cause celebre with plenty of legal support available. Doing their dirty work for them by trying to block British IP addresses seems inadvisable.

I find it interesting as an experiment to measure how polluted the information environment is with machine-generated shit, not as an exercise in how to navigate around it.

Searching the web for "glb file format" seems a natural thing to do while listening to the first part of this video. On my favourite searx instance I had to scroll past only 7 links to LLM-generated garbage before finding a link to the actual spec. I wonder how Kagi fares in this test.