I still think it’s a decent entry choice. I won’t touch it myself anymore, personally, but Canonical is still better than Microslop. That bar is set so low that even snap can clear it.

The post accurately copies the article’s headline without editorialising.

The article itself is shit though.

Internally: “YESYESYESYESYESYESYES”

Externally: “Cool, let me know if you need any help”

are the posting hours normal?

Hey, no judging my sleep schedule arbitrary times when biological necessity triumphs over all the fun things I could do while awake!

Serious reply:

On the individual level we can maybe fortify against the reasons that might make someone want to extract that value.

On the collective level, we should do something about the mechanisms that incentivise that malicious extraction of value in the first place, but that’s a whole different beast…

Being a principled conscious consumer makes you a less likely target for advertisement

Agreed, though we should also stress that “less likely” or “unlikely” doesn’t mean “never” and that we’re not immune against being influenced by ads. That’s a point I’ve seen people in my social circles overlook or blatantly ignore when pointed out, hence me emphasising it.

media literacy

This is probably one of the most critical deficits in general. Even with the best intentions, people make mistakes and it’s critical to be aware of and able to compensate that.

Unfortunately, be selective with your trust.

Same as media literacy, I feel like this is a point that would apply even in a world where we’re all humans arguing in good faith: Others may have a different, perhaps limited or flawed perspective, or just make mistakes — just as you yourself may overlook things or genuinely have blind spots — so we should consider whose voice we give weight in any given matter.

On the flipside, we may need to accept that our own voice might not be the ideal one to comment on something. And finally, we need to separate those issues of perspective and error from our worth as persons, so that admitting error isn’t a shame, but a mark of wisdom.

Be authentic and genuine

That’s the arms race we’re currently running, isn’t it? Developers of bots put effort into making them appear authentic—I overheard someone mention that their newest model included an extra filter to “screw up” some things people have come to consider indicators of machine-generated texts, such as these dashes that are mostly used in particular kinds of formal writing and look out of place elsewhere.

If at all, people tend to just use a hyphen instead - it’s usually more convenient to type (unless you’ve got a typographic compulsion to go that extra step because that just looks wrong). And so the dev in question made their model use less dashes and replace the rest with hyphens to make the text look more authentic.

I wanted to spew when I heard that, but that’s beside the point.

So basically, we’d have to constantly be running away from the bots’ writing style to set ourselves apart, even as they constantly chase our style to blend in. Our best weapon would be the creative intuition to find a way of phrasing things other humans will understand but bots won’t (immediately) be able to imitate.

Being creative on demand isn’t exactly a viable solution, at least not individually, and coordinating on the internet is like harding lolcats, but maybe we can work together to carve out some space for humanity.

I think CloudFlare is the direct result of the enshitififcation of development work.

I think it’s also a symptom of assholes fucking it up for everyone. You wouldn’t need the DoS-protections or security tools if there were no attackers.

Don’t know a solution for that, unfortunately. I think you have a point about inadequate development work, but I’m not sure it’s the whole puzzle.

Suddenly yanking it out might cause a lot of stuff to collapse, but at least some parts would still be able to operate without it in the long term. Maybe one of the blocks in the upper two stacks?

I sometimes wonder how prevalent bots are on Lemmy. On one hand, the barrier for entry might be lower / the effectiveness of bans harder to gauge. On the other, I’d think we’re a smaller target, less attractive as a target.

Either way, the potential to accuse dissenters of being bots or paid actors is a symptom of the general toxicity and slop spilling all over the internet these days. A (comparatively) few people can erode fundamental assumptions and trust. Ten years ago, I would’ve been repulsed by the idea of dehumanising conversational opponents that way (which may have been just me being more naive), but today I can’t really fault anyone.

In terms of risk assessment (value÷effort), I’m inclined to think something with the reach of Ex-Twitter or reddit would be a more lucrative target, and most people here actually are people—people I disagree with, maybe, but still a human on the other side of the screen. Given the niche appeal, the audience here may overall be more eccentric and argumentative, so it’s easy to mistake genuine users for propaganda bots instead of just people with strong convictions.

But I hate that the question is a relevant one in the first place.

Punk ain’t no religious cult
Punk means thinking for yourself
You ain’t hardcore when you spike your hair
When a jock still lives inside your head

Nazi punks, Nazi punks, Nazi punks: fuck off!
Nazi punks, Nazi punks, Nazi punks: fuck off!

– Dead Kennedys

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But also, what’s wrong with having any of those things?

Nothing. I’d take more good games instead of fewer hyperrealistic ones, if I had to choose, but those features themselves aren’t anything bad.

The compulsion that every game has to have them, that’s what’s annoying, particularly when it comes at the price of putting developers under pressure.

I’d argue it’s better to have those things with less developer crunch.

If we are to have them at all, yes, less crunch is better.

We don’t need children to form “attachments” to video game franchises. That just breeds loyalty to corporations.

The loyalty to corporations is a bad thing, absolutely, but I can also see how forming attachments can be nice. I very much enjoy my attachments to various movie or game franchises.

The shitty part is that these franchises are linked to corporations. I like Star Wars, but fuck Disney.

We need games that are developed with love and care by developers who treat their employees and customers humanely. Whatever that looks like, we want that.

Absolutely. Grand games should get the time and care they warrant. Commercial pressure is poisoning game development and has been for way too long already.

I sympathise with your username. I’ve picked up a habit of using dashes too, but because LLMs are apparently trained on the same writing style that I’m compulsively imitating, that habit tends to be mistaken as an identifier for LLM-slop—an understandable confusion, given that most people don’t casually use it, but I tend to fall into linguistic patterns with little regard for the context I’m writing in. I’ll accidentally use informalities in professional writing as well, but whereas I’ll make an effort to correct my tone in professional contexts, I just can’t be arsed to apply the same diligence in a casual one.

Assigned Male At Birth

When used in the context of gender dysphoria, it emphasises that the gender the person is dysphoric about isn’t a fixed trait (“born male”) but rather a property that has been assigned to them and can be rectified. It also conveniently avoids mentioning physical traits and sidesteps the complexity of Intersex people that don’t neatly fit the male/female dichotomy but usually get assigned one or the other anyway.

And finally, it’s just a convenient and pronounceable shorthand.

Its counterpart is AFAB, Assigned Female At Birth. Neither has anything to do with ACAB.

I feel like we ought to expand that traditional quote about the last fish being caught, the last tree being cut and all: When the last emotion is commodified, you will realise that you can’t buy happiness.

a super giga 1000€ license for more than 16 Core CPUs

Year of the Linux Desktop! Any day now… any day… huffs copium

The fuck are you on about? We’re heavily critical of laws, capitalism, censorship and all. We’re critical of imperialism in all forms too, whether Russian, Chinese, US or Israeli. We know the reasons, and we’re not happy about it. Our meme community (ich_iel, originally a German twin of me_irl) is left-leaning enough that its sister community (wir_iel, literally we_irl) for communist memes is more of a subset than an actually separate community.

The instance owners just don’t wanna be held criminally liable for shit people post on it, so they take down comments that call for the death of Israel or otherwise become offensive beyond reasonable doubt. They’re volunteers providing a platform for discussion, information and memes.

What would you have the admins / mods do instead?

I mean, if you’re trying to avoid legal prosecution shutting down your instance, it’s pretty reasonable to, you know, obey the laws of the country you live in.

I heard one guy talk about the importance of cable shielding and connector material and shit once, but the ones I actually know just talk about the other hardware (speakers, mixing pults, lots of terms I couldn’t recite).

Recovering AMAB?

Presumably because most end users are in deep with the “if you do nothing wrong, you have nothing to worry about” crowd

I agree with other comments that this is probably an Executive issue. Decision-makers operating with missing information can make misinformed decisions. Whether or not end users actually are in that crowd is less relevant than whether the people making such decisions think the users are in that crowd.

In a game-theory framing, it’s a game with incomplete information. What you assume about others, including what you assume about their assumptions, influences your decisions. The sheer amount of players makes it a lot harder to model or predict.

Your initial comment above came off as hostile to UX designers, which is why I felt the need to reply.

Nah, I’m married to one. I just share her grief over grifters wearing the title without actually doing the job well and giving the whole guild a bad name.

Incidentally, that might also be why I’m so aware of the distinction (on paper) between the responsibilities. As you say, the actual job is usually fused from both responsibilities, which makes sense because it skips a step between UX analysis and UI design.