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Quibblekrust

@ Quibblekrust @thelemmy.club

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  • You have a real fuckin' hard-on for CSS, don't ya?

  • What game recently hooked you on the Deck, more than on PC ?

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  • Nova Drift - Asteroids-like shooter roguelite.

  • Really useful vim tricks you've probably never seen - Bread on Penguins

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  • I'd never heard of the date command, despite her assurances it's one of the first commands I ever learned.

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  • I'm not good at programming Brainfuck, either.

  • TV Choice

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  • Good point. So TikTok only adds that junk when you download a video? I don't use the app, so I didn't know for sure, but it makes sense.

    Besides, every video site lets you download their videos if you're clever enough, and it's a very low bar. Just use yt-dlp.

    So there. That's what I'm expecting from you. Download any TikTok video you want to share using that program so it doesn't have the annoying tags and ad built into it. Or don't. I really don't care.

    I was only answering your questions. I'm not the original commenter, and I would never have posted an original comment saying anything like that. But as a person clicking links on social media, I do find Tik Tok videos are annoying. Plus it bothered me that you were equating criticism of Tik Tok with criticism of the woman who made the video. It seems (to me!) like you were saying that to make the original commenter feel bad about their comment. And that made me feel bad. It wasn't a fair thing to say. So that's why I spoke up at all.

    JOIN TIKTOK. THIS USER IS ON TIK TOK. GET ON THE PILE. JOIN THE BLOB!

    This is what I hear every time I watch a Tik Tok video. Lemmy is the only social media I use because the rest is all brain rot or worse. Hell, so is Lemmy half the time.

  • Constant "Instance of LemmyApiException" on every scroll, even the tiniest amount

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  • Awesome, thank you for the quick turnaround! This has been a app-breaking issue. Actually, it's been great. I could only scroll through the first 100 posts, and then I have to go do something else. 😂

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  • Ummmm... That Tik Tok take out the giant logo and annoying sound from every video? What else would I be suggesting? What a silly question.

    Is it not enough that the video is covered by a logo the entire time it plays? There isn't a single other video platform that adds a logo and sound like that. Just Tik Tok. It's a horrible precedent that I hope more companies do not follow.

  • Energy Fragment Building Blocks

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  • This article was "cool"? It doesn't explain anything. What the hell is a fragment? What's the math? How does a fragment have properties of both a wave and a particle? How well does fragment theory fit with the results of quantum mechanical experiments? Does it lead to any new predictions?

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  • You can be happy for the lady and for the puppies and not like the full-screen Tik Tok logo and annoying sound at the end of literally every video. They are completely separate things.

  • New quantum antenna reveals a hidden terahertz world

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  • By combining atomic electrometry with a powerful terahertz-to-light conversion technique, they achieved the first measurement of a single terahertz comb tooth—something previously impossible due to the limits of electronics and optical tools.

    Healers and homeopaths have known all about terahertz stone combs for a long time. Science needs to catch up!

  • he walkin

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  • Oh man, I need to get one of those 360° cams just for pics like this.

  • Free software has some glib naming conventions

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  • I can't believe they didn't put this one in there!

  • No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog

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  • What do you mean about data harvesting? (Other then usage telemetry)

  • No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog

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  • Yes, I see my error now. Thank you.

  • No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog

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  • There's so much repeated paranoia in this article. He makes the same weak points over and over.

    But how do you keep track of what a black box actually does when it’s turned on?

    And later,

    And yes, yes - disabling features is all well and good, but at the end of the day, if these AI features are black boxes, how are we to keep track of what they actually do?

    Why would you have to care? You turned them off. The browser is open source. You can see how it invokes the LLMs. If you turn off the features that invoke LLMs, it will not invoke LLMs. I don't get it. Where's the disconnect here? The browser is not a black box. The LLM it talks to in the cloud is a black box. If it doesn't talk to any LLM... 🤷‍♂️

    The core browsing experience should be one that fully puts the user in control, not one where you’re constantly monitoring an inscrutable system that claims to be helping you.

    Jesus... The bias in this article is extreme and repeated often. "claims to be helping"... he even said earlier that LLMs have a measurable utility. Why are they suddenly merely "claiming" to be helpful?

    Why do you have to constantly monitor something you turned off? Really? Constantly?

    Even if you can disable individual AI features, the cognitive load of monitoring an opaque system that’s supposedly working on your behalf would be overwhelming.

    "Overwhelming cognitive load". Riiight. I turned off telemetry in Firefox as soon as I installed it. I don't constantly monitor that setting. There is zero cognitive load. I'll do the same to the AI features if I don't want them. Also, again with the "supposedly working for you" or "claiming to be helpful" language. Such bias.

    They promise AI will be optional, but that promise acknowledges they’re building AI so deeply into Firefox that an opt-out mechanism becomes necessary in the first place.

    That's such terrible logic, but so is my original counterargument as pointed out by Undertaker below.

    If something has an opt-out, it has to be "so deeply" built into it? Are the current new-tab features deeply built into Firefox? Like Pocket and such? They're opt out. Are address bar completions "so deeply" integrated? They're opt out, too. Is the crash reporter "so deeply" integrated into Firefox? That's opt out!

    Hell, you could argue crash reporting is deeply integrated because maybe there are many try-catch blocks all over the code which use it, but if you're the kind of person who turned it off, does it require an "overwhelming cognitive load" to keep it off? Nonsense.

    I still don't think turning a setting off requires "overwhelming cognitive load".

    This article is a bombastic mass of paranoia and bad logic.

    If Firefox releases AI things you can't just turn off, that can be easily invoked by accident—gestures, keyboard shortcuts, or whatever—that might send page content to an LLM, then I will stop using it. Until then, I'm happy with Firefox. It will always be more up to date than the derivatives.

  • A huge helium shortage is looming — but ancient rocks in Earth's crust may be hiding massive reservoirs

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  • Not me. I switched to using hydrogen decades ago.

  • Is audiophile bullshit cheating?

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  • This is all wrong! You can't just connect the batteries like in the photo. You have to put the batteries on rose quartz! You will hear an amazing improvement! It is not good to put them next to each other, they must be in contact with the crystal!

    Content stolen from a totally serious comment on the blog post.

  • Does science reveal the absolute truth about reality?

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  • We only know what we can measure. We don't really know what an atomic nucleus looks like, for example. We can only measure what happens when another particle hits it. Between measurements, it might not even be real. We don't even know what measurement is.

    Pick your favorite quantum interpretation: Copenhagen, Broglie–Bohm, Many Worlds. We'll probably never know the truth.