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AFKBRBChocolate

@AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world

Yet another refugee who washed up on the shore after the great Reddit disaster of 2023

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AFKBRBChocolate ,

Does that animation make anyone else motion sick?

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Obviously some kind of symbolism, but not sure what. I did some searching, but not finding anything.

Can someone ID this comic strip? (lemmy.world)

Some time ago, I pulled this sticker off our old fridge before we got rid of it and put it onto my PC's side panel (don't ask me why, I guess I thought it looked cool). I don't exactly know where it came from or who put it there, although I suspect it was put there by a Australian relative that was visiting us a long time ago...

AFKBRBChocolate ,

It does look like his style.

AFKBRBChocolate ,

Man, I love Kliban

AFKBRBChocolate ,

I had a number of his collections and used to keep them in the bathroom for people before everyone had phones.

AFKBRBChocolate ,

Really interesting video. I can imagine playing an MMORPG where you get around by actually walking and running. Suddenly the biggest computer geeks would be super fit.

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Kind of a shame that the pandemic was so soon after. I wonder how much it affected the game's popularity.

AFKBRBChocolate ,

That's a shame. I never played it. My kid did/does, but rarely.

AFKBRBChocolate ,

That's actually pretty cool. I'd like to see them use it to make a building.

AFKBRBChocolate ,

No, I get it, I just think it would be cool to build a structure that way. You'd have to fill in the gaps, but people made lots of buildings like that once upon a time.

AFKBRBChocolate ,

Your morning will be going worse if you click that link.

AFKBRBChocolate , (edited )

It is for sure phishing. Discover isn't going to send you an email like that. Even loading the graphics was a bad idea.

Edit: apparently I stand corrected. I've gotten security alerts from my credit card companies before, but never with a link like that, and never saying something like "dark web." Sorry to hear it

AFKBRBChocolate ,

Okay, I made an edit. Like I said there, the alerts I've gotten have never had links for the reasons you mentioned - they say things like "call the number on the back of your card."

AFKBRBChocolate ,

See my edit - apparently I was wrong. My credit card companies never put a link on security alerts, and they've said they never will, so that customers know alerts with links are bogus. They always say to call the number on the card or login to your account, without providing a number or link. Discover must work differently.

AFKBRBChocolate ,

That sucks. I made an edit.

AFKBRBChocolate ,

I made an edit - weird that their alert has a link.

AFKBRBChocolate ,

Looks like it was too close to the heating element/flame

AFKBRBChocolate ,

I'm sure this is an unpopular opinion, but I kind of get this one. Unlimited data on your phone is constrained a bit because it's your phone. If you make your phone a hotspot and the whole family is using it to watch videos and stuff (and not paying for their own data plan), that's a pretty big difference to the infrastructure needs.

AFKBRBChocolate ,

Yeah, it's unlimited for you on your phone, and they have estimates and ranges for what that amounts to for people that they use to determine pricing. But if not it's not just you and your phone, but multiple people with multiple uses, those estimates aren't sufficient.

AFKBRBChocolate ,

People thinking LLMs should be even serviceable at chess didn't understand LLMs. They really aren't problem solving applications. They're optimized for making responses to questions that look like what a response should look like, not for being accurate. That's really clear if you ask them for mathematical proofs. They will generate proofs that look like the right sort of thing, but they won't be correct unless they have the specific proof in their training data.

AFKBRBChocolate ,

Agreed, it's good to have these kinds of articles so people get a better feel for what tools like this are and aren't.

AFKBRBChocolate ,

Pretty much the same thing as the "juice cocktails" they have in the juice isle that are fruit juice and sugar water. "Made with real fruit juice!" (like ten percent).

AFKBRBChocolate ,

Yeah, apparently the chicken in there is a hundred percent real, even if only two percent of the product is chicken.

AFKBRBChocolate ,

Yeah, have to stay away from the "cocktails" and stick with 100% juice. On the other hand, even most of those have a lot of apple, pear, and grape juice added, which are all very, very sweet. There's more sugar in apple juice than in soda, it's just the kind of sugar that's different.

AFKBRBChocolate ,

Understandable, though I'm not sure there's any agreement that fructose is healthier than sucrose.

AFKBRBChocolate ,

The article at least implies there were changes between the time you could buy and the time they were shipping.

AFKBRBChocolate ,

The way it said:

The product became ‘Basecamp’ and was released for sale shortly after Tesla revealed the production version of the truck last year. It already seemed to be a lot less attractive design at that point. Now, Tesla has started shipping, or rather installing, the Basecamp for early Cybertruck owners.

(Emphasis mine) made me think it got worse after the design changes at sale time, but maybe I misinterpreted it.

AFKBRBChocolate ,

Got it, thanks!

You guys should check out the reddit clone I've been working on (matrix.gvid.tv)

It's sort of a different concept. Posts and users also have position in addition to age and score. The sorting algorithm gives you complete control over how much to weight each one. It's like if new and hot existed on a continuous spectrum. It's sort of like what Aaron Swartz initially wanted to do with Reddit where what you...

AFKBRBChocolate ,

So many of us came here from Reddit because we felt burned by them, and the whole monolithic architecture feels like it risks getting corporatized. I came to a federated place because it seems much less likely to have that happen. Not really interested in that model currently.

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Where I am (US), Amazon's anti-competition practices make it pretty hard for other companies to be cheaper. If Amazon doesn't think they're getting the best price, they can drop you, and so many people shop exclusively on Amazon that that can be a death knell. Which is part of the reason to stop shopping there.

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Plus their search algorithm, which used to be amazing, now pushes so much crap because the companies pay them to be at the top that the results are horrible now.

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And not only are there a lot of crappy products with inflated scores because fake reviews, there are also a lot of good products with low scores because of fake negative reviews but competitors. The reviews are pretty much useless now.

AFKBRBChocolate ,

My 2023 sonata has up for back and down for forward, which I don't hate. It also has a separate up/down switch for the volume though, not right and left like OP's.

AFKBRBChocolate ,

Ever noticed how stuff left out in the sun gets bleached out and doesn't last very long? Imagine leaving your carpet and all your furniture out in the sun. UV light is very hard on stuff.

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