with a LLM I can be open without any baggage involved, I can be more raw and honest than I would or could be with any human because the information never leaves my computer.

😐

Recently went down the rabbit hole (ok, I’m lying, I just read a Wikipedia article and one scientific study), and found out that the venomousness of the platypus has crazy implications for mammal evolution:

In spite of the rarity of venom among extant mammals, venom may be an ancestral feature among mammals, as venomous spurs akin to those of the modern platypus are found in most non-therian Mammaliaformes groups.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venomous_mammal

(The monotremes are the platypus and the echidna, which unlike the platypus isn’t venomous but still has the spurs.)

It’s fucked up that RT and similar sites with their ratings are so important for so many filmgoers. I would guess it’s because film theatre tickets have become more expensive so people are trying to be as selective as possible with what films they spend their money on.

So people listen to the “average”, go to the movies based on predigested opinions, and end up making their own filmgoing experiences, horizon and taste closer to the average as well. The risk in filmgoing is being minimised (which kind of mirrors the behaviour of the film industry so it’s not without reason that the audiences behave like that, I guess; but it still sucks).

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If you’re using Lemmy in your browser, you can click on the image and it will open in full size, which you can zoom in and it’s pretty big.

One of my family members participated in one such project, she wrote scenarios for a number of video lectures for schoolkids. It was bad, it was really fucking bad, and I could write an essay explaining why it was so, there’s a wide variety of reasons ranging across the technical, legal, administrative, etc. Just one example: you’re making a lecture about art? Yeah, go contact the copyright holders if they would be merciful enough to allow us to use the artwork in the video.

And your idea that the default approach should be that kids have no interaction with their teachers is honestly horrifying.

I tried it out and in some respects it really is excellent, but it loads more slowly than the native “new tab”. So I stick to the native one (having removed much of the default crap, of course; now it’s just a 8x4 table of my “quick links”).

I saw it on r/croatia, tbh.

As a Croat, I’m baffled we’ve reached it.

They already did something similar back in the day. I remember watching a music video some ~10 years ago where they placed an ad like five seconds before the end of the song, right at the musical climax, ruining the mood with surgical precision. I was absolutely infuriated and went off to Google wondering if there’s a way to block ads. And the rest is history.

literally 1984 😔

Any good free alternatives?

You won’t like the idea but…

That’s honestly enraging!? Such data can be greatly valuable for learners, and the native speakers’ community, and linguistics.

Wow, you have a whole account dedicated to attacking Wikipedia. That’s pathetic.

But this whole discussion was started by a highly upvoted comment that says: “But why vivaldi of all things?”, followed by the poster explaining in further detail why they don’t think it’s a good choice. That’s “dead silent”?

What browser are you talking about here?

Gotta agree here with you. Yeah theoretically maybe someone really just needs a text editor with absolutely no additional convenient features (maybe the older versions of Notepad allowing different fonts and word wrap was too much for someone as well?). But this is such an objective improvement in 95% of usecases it’s kind of ridiculous to complain about it.

Kind of, yeah. An another comment mentions Kinkade, that’s IMO creepy too. And a lot of anime has a creepy style if you’re not used to it.

It’s spontaneously pleasant to see for most people, and I believe that’s why it was favoured in the training process of the various image generators.

High tech with a 19th century sense of style? I’m sold!

Lots of people would like to “leave politics”, as they find themselves under “vicious and unethical attacks” by politicians. However, those people’s political existence was forced upon them, they didn’t want to be a “political” object, especially not in the current landscape.

Musk instead took up his political role consciously, and used it to further attack and harm many who would prefer to be left in peace. He had the luxury to activate himself, commit far worse violence upon the people than he has been subjected to by the people, and when he realises he doesn’t really like it, even though the issues he’s facing are probably comparatively trivial, he (believes he) has the luxury to return to a more secluded, safe position.

It’s really quite disgusting. And I fear he’ll get away with it. But I am at least satisfied that his story (a supposed tech guru with his marketing bullshit and his comically immature behaviour) has damaged much of the aura of the modern technocapitalist elite.