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brbposting
joined 2 years ago
You’re aight if you don’t click the disambiguation link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_it_forward
I think we can keep Pay It Forward, I don’t think I knew it was a film much less an abuser-starring film.
The concept is old, but the particular phrase may have been coined by Lily Hardy Hammond in her 1916 book In the Garden of Delight. Robert Heinlein's 1951 novel Between Planets helped popularize the phrase.
You’re a moron.
Made some good underlying points in there, said this business-tech degree holder. Guess things got a little heated in the moment?
Not bad to have a chance to borrow a ~~Disney~~ Lucas gif though 🙂 Am interested in responding to some of your thoughts.
I’m like @[email protected] on the no-blocking-ever front.
None of us want Lemmy to be a Nazi bar, right? So if we see a Nazi on here and all of us block them today, they can circlejerk in a comment tomorrow and a newly registered user will see no one downvoted them or called them out.*
As a privileged person, I feel an obligation not to block anyone, and even feel I’m abdicating my duty a little by not browsing logged out sometimes to make sure Nazis can’t block me and spread hate without counterpoints lodged against them.
*would a “widely-blocked user” tag help? Not if they create a new account after every other post, & scummy users could mitigate by proactively blocking using “SJW user” lists, but it’s an idea
Are you running something special?
It would be interesting to display the flag followed by the country code in a parenthetical.
Hehe yes indeed now that you mention it!
Nice. Though my car can’t be in constant communication with a cell tower or anything (too creepy) so IDK what the next vehicle I’ll buy will be.
Probably time to stop talking like this? Transformed, reimagining, deeply integrating—and the breathlessness. ok next, marketing
I do imagine in a world of verifiably ethical, open source, local software, the choice to click five times in one tool or another would be viewed all but equally.
“Ethical” being probably the most important descriptor there. A local open source tool that only siphoned up public domain art from consenting artists? Why would that be a big deal?
Meanwhile if you hear that spirited away guy say he hates AI and then you see his art imitated by it, that’s certainly going to rub many folks the wrong way.
Raised a question:
How much longer until it requires a forensics team to determine whether a meme was handmade or of synthetic origin?
Well we can kinda only go when the signal is accompanied by another indication like slowing and or beginning to turn - “never trust a signal” eh?
Shoutout to our hard-working maintainers, first of all.
Wanted to open a space for the community to discuss this aspect of marketing/identity.
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Reavers wouldn't touch DuckDuckGo, it's half dead. Which SearXNG instance do you use?
(sh.itjust.works)
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Two horizontally stitched screenshots comparing a search for “Reavers GIF” on DuckDuckGo and Google in Safari iOS (private tabs). DDG presented zero Firefly/Serenity relevant results while Google found them exclusively.
Hopefully a privacy-focused yet fast instance for US West Coast cheapskates who probably should pony up for Kagi, buttttttttttt
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Incredible progress on Bing AI over the past 19 months: totally won't summarize (fake) webpages it can't read and hallucinate about dinosaur playgrounds
(sh.itjust.works)
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A user asks Bing/Copilot chat to summarize an invented article:
[User]
summarize
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/29/us/dinosaurs-found-roaming-playground.html
Copilot
The article from The New York Times reports a surprising and amusing incident where life-sized dinosaur replicas were found roaming a playground in a small town. These realistic models, part of a local museum's exhibit, were accidentally released due to a security malfunction. The sight of dinosaurs in the playground caused quite a stir among the residents, especially the children, who were both thrilled and startled. The museum has since apologized and retrieved the dinosaurs, ensuring such an incident won't happen again. The event has sparked a lot of local interest and laughter, turning into a memorable story for the community[1].
Note this is problematic for a number of reasons including someone who wants to summarize a real article/thread won’t be informed an accurate summary may be impossible.
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Taylor Swift on the red carpet with this text superimposed:
As the bulbs flash, I can't help but think of cyberwar - When the arcing death of electric transformers will light the night, leaving our nation in darkness.
- Taylor Swift
Edit:
Credit: Swift on Security
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Horizontally stitched screenshots showing a Google Meet call on the iPhone where the microphone mute icon is highlighted in active mute status while the lock screen displays a mute icon which is not selected and inactive.
Always been this way for months. ~~IIRC, the lock screen mute button is nonfunctional.~~ Mute functionality detailed here.
Latest Versions: iOS 17.6.1, Google Meet 260.0
I should report this bug to Google and not Apple, right?
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Four-panel comic featuring characters from the popular comic "Calvin and Hobbes" by Bill Watterson, and a cow from “The Far Side” by Gary Larson.
Panel 1: "WHAT JOKE WOULD YOU LIKE TONIGHT? WE CAN READ ANYTHING EXCEPT..." "COW TOOLS?"
Panel 2: "NO! NO COW TOOLS TONIGHT! WE'VE READ THAT JOKE A MILLION TIMES!" "I WANT COW TOOLS!"
Panel 3: "LOOK, YOU KNOW HOW THE JOKE GOES! YOU'VE MEMORIZED THE WHOLE THING! IT'S THE SAME JOKE EVERY DAY!" "I WANT COW TOOLS!"
Panel 4: (No text, just an image showing the characters and a cow)
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Social media post above an image of a t-shirt:
“Guess you could call this shirt...
...a crop top”
“T-shirt that reads "I [heart] local corn" with the heart shape printed with yellow corn kernels”
Apple lets you do this with ebooks, then you turn off iCloud sync thinking it’ll just keep all the local copies you just individually downloaded…
nah deletes ‘em all