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Yes but this is an anti-meme community

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Yeah easy to miss. They're great I love them,

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But the handrails won't be giving off UV light, they've just been treated with them. UV light doesn't linger on a surface

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You're right, I should've looked at your name first haha

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I think so

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It's not a copy-paste when it has well-placed shadows

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Colemak claims to not remove QWERTY proficiency, but I think that's wrong.

I use Colemak at work and QWERTY at home. That way I keep my proficiency at both. I also game on my PC and I can't be bothered to edit the keybindings for every single game I play

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Strong opinions on what? I don't see anything

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We'll give you three minutes back, as they say on Teams meetings!

I don't think this is enough evidence to show they use Teams. At work we say "zoom calls" and use Google Meet. It could very well be someone's catch-all term for video call meetings in general

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Because it's an AI generated photo

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A few tells

  • fridge in the yard?
  • snowman is too perfect
  • not enough snow to make said snowman
  • asymmetrical townhouse (different windows, etc.)

But the biggest giveaway

  • the bricks on the house are of inconsistent sizes. Sometimes they are too long, sometimes too short. If you zoom in it becomes apparent (easiest to see on the right half of the house)
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emotional incest from my mother

I'm guessing that's a typo but I'm not sure what you were trying to type O_O

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AI generated cat photo :( was going to share this with my poker buddies until I noticed.

The white poker chip inserts are all fucked.

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Unfortunate that they used an AI image to represent it though. It's added another horn to the triceritops

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You may be partaking in revenge bedtime procrastination

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It's an old meme format from before AI image generation

EDIT: I'm wrong, it's actually newer than I remembered (2024)

Cooked Dog / Dog Closing His Eyes

It's not clear where the image originates from

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AI slop photo no pls

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Or many people who don't like it have already blocked the people who post them frequently

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This is setting off my AI-slop alarm

  • the top two and bottom two are in strikingly similar possess with similar angles and framing
  • why are there extra mascara appliers on the right for the top two? (I've never used mascara so I might just be ignorant of this)
  • each mascara applier tip is slightly different, so it's not just the same one photoshopped in multiple times
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All tortoises are turtles but not all turtles are tortoises

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Australian tortoises aren't tortoises. Australian turtles are commonly mistaken for tortoises (as they sometimes come onto land) and so get incorrectly called that sometimes.

Where did you learn that that's only an American thing? I don't live in America. I'd be interested to learn more if you're right, but I can't find anything to support your claim

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Just checking you know what community this was posted in?

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I've heard the idea that an addiction becomes an addiction once it starts negatively impacting your life.

i.e. missing scheduled events, getting angry at people when you can't have it, lying to others about it, etc.

But I am not a licensed anything so hopefully someone else who knows what they're actually talking about also answers

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It's almost certainly an AI generated image

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The workers wear hats. I'm guessing he means one of those

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Call the police. Then realise the TV is off, and you're seeing yourself reflected in the black screen holding a banana to your ear. Write down "I am awake" in your journal again

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That's not the same as the post's photo, though. Did someone redraw it in more detail, or did someone put it through an AI image generator to look like that?

11.37%. Now we're talking. ( www.zdnet.com )

In StatCounter's latest US numbers, which cover through October, Linux shows up as only 3.49%. But if you look closer, "unknown" accounts for 4.21%. Allow me to make an educated guess here: I suspect those unknown desktops are actually running Linux. What else could it be? FreeBSD? Unix? OS/2? Unlikely. ...

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I wouldn't count ChromeOS as Linux. That's like counting all Android phones as Linux or something

Some of yall on the fediverse owe him one of these

cross-posted from: ...

"Cowbee apology form" with check-box options: The haters convinced me he was bad, I didn't read the actual thread, I miss Reddit, I don't know how much MoG love fascism, I was jealous of Hexbear influence gains, Mercury was in retrograde. Bottom check-box is labeled "I will hereby respect Cowbee and I will NOT talk down in the future fist-ballot Hall of Famer."
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Using "they" for a singular person has been used since at least the 14th century, so there's no need to feel uncomfortable with it. I highly recommend reading the Wikipedia page on Singular they, which touches on its history.

A similar example is "you." "You" used to be only a plural, with "thou" being the singular, but over time it fell out of fashion and now "you" can be used as singular or plural, like how "they" can be singular or plural.

Singular "they" was criticised by some people hundreds of years after it started being used. But language cannot be prescribed; it is determined by how people use it.

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Oh that makes sense, sorry I misunderstood!

Yep, they/them/theirs is used in the same place as he/him/his or she/her/hers. It/it/its should not be used for people unless someone explicitly says those are their preferred pronouns. "It" is typically used for objects and non-human animals, so it could be seen as rude to refer to a human as "it." If unsure, use they/them.

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It's "whet your appetite" in case anyone was interested. But the misspelling is probably part of the meme

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I loved the episodes about coin flipping and tying shoes!

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Yeah I was reading about the editing guidelines and they have a principle that surprised me at first:

Verifiability, not truth.

Basically, you could edit an article with information you know is true (like your bedrooms or fireplaces), but truth is not the criteria that edits get tested upon. It must be verifiable by a source.

Pretty cool that you didn't just give up and actually got the local newspaper to interview you! That's awesome!

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Came to ask the same thing.

Once you've been to Cambodia, you'll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands.

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Have you tried Helium Browser?

I haven't used it myself as I use Firefox, but it looks promising. If I had to use Chrome on my device I'd try this one. It is still in beta technically, though

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I read a bit of Anna's article and if I remember correctly there are something like 256 million tracks on Spotify. Mind you this includes things like white noise tracks.

But 86 million tracks represent 99.6% of listens or something like that. Most tracks don't get played much if at all

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I'm confused — GPUs main function is to be able to do lot's of calculations in parallel, vs a CPU which does one thing at a time (simplistically).

GPUs aren't only used solely for video, it's just that graphics are an excellent use case for this type of processing.

So I don't think AI companies are buying GPUs for video output and more because they can process lots of training calculations in parallel. Like how bitcoin miners use GPUs even though there's no video involved in that

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I suspect it's not a lack of playtesters that's the problem, but harsh deadlines and crunch. That type of environment leads to tech debt to get things working fast, which leads to hard-to-manage code, which leads to bugs...

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I also thought toggles were unnecessary, but then I read something that changed my mind.

Toggles have an immediate effect, whereas checkboxes don't.

For example, a light/dark mode setting. You could use a checkbox, but users have become used to the above behaviour, and so a toggle may be more appropriate.

Checkboxes, therefore, are more of a form element.

Personally, I'd still be fine with just checkboxes, but that design intention is something I hadn't known but makes sense after I heard it

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    any word that starts with T and ends with T

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    Cars are a really good analogy. I'm going to steal that.

    Some people want a trusty Toyota Carolla. Boring as hell but gets you where you need to go.

    And some people want sports cars that they spend time pimping and tuning to their heart's desire

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    Damn I liked those websites. I didn't use them all the time but they were very very handy when I forgot my personal card

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    AI

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    I think it is AI

    • The rightmost jumping frog is missing a foot
    • Some of the fediverse frogs are sitting on lilypads on the water, others are just sitting magically on the water
    • One of the bottom right frogs is sitting on a lilypad that morphs into grass
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    EDIT: oh I think I initially misunderstood you. You mean you don't see a connection between Omarchy and the project, not that you didn't see why the commenter included it in their list. You probably know the following already anyway. If you don't, now you know!

    Omarchy is created by a far/alt-right white nationalist guy who doesn't like London anymore because there are too many brown people and who praises Tommy Robinson. And transphobic, but that's not surprising given the previous sentence.

    (Note that in his article he says "native Brits," when the statistics he links says "white Brits." So he doesn't consider people of colour born in Britain to be "native Brits,", but doesn't want to outright say it. I wonder why.)

    How do I learn to "like" AI for work?

    My company is strongly pushing AI. There are lot of experiments, demos, and effort from decently smart people about integrating it into our workflows. There are some impressive victories that have been made with AI tooling producing some things fast. I am not in denial about this. And the SE department is tracking improved ...

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    One aspect that analogy doesn't work for is hammers and cars weren't built with the mass theft of intellectual property, they aren't being leveraged to put people out of jobs, and they aren't the driving force for building insane numbers of data centres that increase power bills for locals and ravage their water supply.

    It's not necessarily the pure usage of AI that I don't like, as much as what has been and is being used to create it.

    Cars have their own problems of course, and cause more issues with the direct use of them than what went into building them.

    I read someone leave a different comment where they said something like "If human meat was the healthiest, least environmentally damaging, and cheapest food, they still wouldn't eat it." In this case AI doesn't really match those benefits anyway

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    I like Mullvad browser

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    Upvoting because I saw this earlier but it was a .webp so I couldn't easily share it but this is a .jpeg so I can, thank you!