Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)K

kassiopaea

@ kassiopaea @lemmy.blahaj.zone

Posts
1
Comments
52
Joined
3 yr. ago

  • NSFW Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • I can't speak for everyone but for me, I'm not going to sit down and play a game unless I can do it for at least an hour or two. Almost all of the games I have aren't the type where I can just pick something up for 15-30 minutes and not leave completely unsatisfied because I couldn't actually accomplish anything.

    As far as actually having free 1-2 hour blocks? Ha. Yeah, right. I mean, maybe after work on the rare occasion that I can put off the things I need to do for a bit and the stress about them later, keeping me from playing anything for another 2 weeks... that's the best-case scenario for working full-time and I don't even have kids.

  • Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash

    Jump

  • Human posting of AI-generated content is definitely a problem; but ultimately that's a moderation problem that can be solved, which is quite different from AI-generated content being put forward by the platform itself. There wasn't necessarily anything stopping people from doing the same thing pre-GPT, it's just easier and more prevalent now.

  • Voicemail should be banned

    Jump

  • Yeah but I get like 5 spam calls a week from "Nicole with loan processing" or "Joshua Martinez from the loan issuance department" and they always leave a voicemail that I have to delete because I tried to get a personal loan 4 months ago.

  • ‘Inhumane:’ Latinas for Trump founder condemns White House immigration crackdown

    Jump

  • Ladder pulling is a shockingly common trait among immigrants humans in general.

    FTFY

  • Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates

    Jump

  • I've always hated that. I feel like I'm seeing it less and less on newer vehicles, though, so maybe manufacturers are also realizing that it's stupid as hell.

    Or maybe it's just not worth the cost to have two different but mostly identical versions of a very expensive and highly integrated modern taillight housing for different markets.

  • Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads

    Jump

  • It wasn't just the norm for websites, it was the norm for every single kind of established platform that offered "free" content; see TV, radio, and even our goddamn public roadways.

    Apple did not create an ad platform for the iPhone when it was introduced. The iAd platform was introduced in 2010 with the iPhone 4 as "mobile ads done right" (well after Google's acquisition of AdMob in 2009, and certainly after the iPhone launch in 2007). It was subsequently shut down in 2016.

    Developers never needed to "hack" ways to put ads in mobile apps. Mobile ad platforms already existed at the time, and developers were happy to use them extensively once they realized that smartphones were becoming a truly mass-market product (just like TV advertising, imagine that).

  • Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads

    Jump

  • "I blame RCA for television ads. If they hadn't made the first mass-market television set, we wouldn't have TV ads interrupting my morning cartoons!"

    that's how you sound rn

  • Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads

    Jump

  • Well, it was the norm for websites, why would anyone expect it to not transfer over to every other conceivable platform like it has today? The fact that Apple made the first device that allowed people to put adware on a device in your pocket is pure happenstance, and I'm not even sure how true that is given the existence of Blackberry and early Windows Mobile devices.

    That said, have you ever heard of WildTangent? Because they've been around for a loooong time, and were really attractive to poor and stupid kids like me that really started using the internet circa 2005 and wanted to play computer games.

  • Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads

    Jump

  • Again, what are you basing that on? Many websites, games, etc. that had traditionally only been accessible on a desktop/laptop were already primarily using ads for monetization at that point (I should know, I was using a lot of them). Blaming Apple for simply making the first handheld devices capable of running similar software makes absolutely zero sense.

  • Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads

    Jump

  • How so? I went from Android to iPhone and one of the biggest reasons I kept it was the lack of consumer-hostile intrusive bullshit that seems to be everywhere on Google and Samsung products.

  • Trump has ordered a critically ill four-year-old Mexican girl to leave the country. She could die within days, experts say

    Jump

  • See I've always been confused by that. Isn't "the second coming of Jesus" a bad thing? I was raised in a baptist household and my family was always harping on about how we live in the end times and about different people that might be the antichrist.

  • Why God and the Bible were right about why you should have to work a 55 hour 6 day workweek

    Jump

  • That's exactly what I was thinking reading through the article... Yeah, I'm generally at my best if I spend most of the day doing stuff, with the occasional rest day. People tend to want to work and accomplish things, but when their time is consumed by what feels like meaningless drudgery on top of the other daily necessities, that's a recipe for a mental health crisis. It feels like the author is deliberately omitting the part where your "55 hours" necessarily has to include all the stuff you work on outside of work, including hobbies.

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • Wouldn't Google's crawlers respect robots.txt though? Is it naive to assume that anything would?

  • Those of you that back your vehicle into parking spots, why do you do it?

    Jump

  • You uhhh... you doing ok there bud? Need a snack or something? Seems like you could use a break from the internet for a bit.

  • Those of you that back your vehicle into parking spots, why do you do it?

    Jump

  • I'm going to guess that I'm in the minority here and say that I daily a long bed Ford F-250. It's big, it's long, and it's just generally unwieldy. Yes there are benefits to backing into a parking spot like better visibility and blah blah blah but for me it's actually more about just being able to get in and out of the parking spot. Especially in narrow parking lot aisles. Backing into a spot takes less room, because, idk, geometry. Similar to why a forklift steers with its rear wheels and that makes it more maneuverable (albeit less stable).

    Though there is also the benefit of the tailgate and bed of the vehicle being less accessible and therefore less likely for someone to just walk off with something, if there's anything back there. My mom had the tailgate stolen off her Toyota once back in the 90s. I assume she pulled forward into the parking spot.

  • Those of you that back your vehicle into parking spots, why do you do it?

    Jump

  • But I do have a big, stupid, oversized vehicle with blind spots and I can't park normally!

    I also had a Mini Cooper that I would back into parking spots for the reasons outlined in many other comments here... because "normal" isn't always better.

  • Ask A&W

    Jump

  • I went into Applebee's the other day and saw a quesadilla burger on the menu... I didn't get it because I didn't want a burger, but it did look really good.

  • Do you still have one somewhere?

    Jump

  • I have a VGA cable, a pair of RCA cables, a PS/2 to USB adapter... I haven't needed any of them in over a decade but you never know.

  • Do you still have one somewhere?

    Jump

  • You still have it or you still use it?