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blind3rdeye

@ blind3rdeye @lemm.ee

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  • Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction

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  • Right, but in the context of social media feeds, "algorithm" always refers to an algorithm for personalised content.

  • Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction

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  • Apparently it doesn't use a personalised algorithm. So I'd say the first one.

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  • I also did dual boot for 'da gamez'... but then found that I've never had to boot into Windows for any game whatsoever. It's been a few years now. So apparently I didn't need dual boot after all.

  • This is of course a feature, not a bug.

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  • There's a lot of unease about this, because some people believe everyone should just vote for the better of the two options; whereas other people believe the option needs to be good before they will vote for it.

    Americans were given a choice between two options. One option was clearly better than the other, but the poorer option won, because the better option wasn't good enough.

    It reminds me a bit of the game-theory around the game 'ultimatum'. Should we just accept whatever is offered, since it is still better than the alternative? Or should we sacrifice our meager reward to spite the person who offered an unfair split?

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  • That does sound bad. If that was my experience, I guess I might actively try to avoid them too. But as it happens, I just rarely see any hexbear stuff anyway. So the fueling of cross-instance conflicts feels unnecessary and a bit icky to me.

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  • From what I can tell, this tankie stuff is bullshit. In the years I've been here, I've seen close to zero 'tankie' content from any of these supposedly tankie instances. There's like maybe one or two people on those instances who might fit the description if you search for them. Meanwhile, literally every day there are posts spitting on these supposed tankie instances. (And actually, it's again a very small number of people complaining - but they put their crap into cute memes to get traction).

    I don't like the idea of shouting slurs at entire instances. In my view, if you hate those instances so much - just block them. Problem solved. No need to spew hate all over lemmy.

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  • Yeah, that's pretty unfair. You shouldn't have to put up with this; and it definitely is not your fault, or the fault of the instance. This "tankie instance" thing is bullshit.

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  • which is less than bsky, but more than lemmy.

    I think a lot of people get sucked into the idea that more is better. But that isn't necessarily the case. I don't think any of us really want to talk to a million different people anyway. We just want to talk to a suitable subset.

  • OpenAI hits back at DeepSeek with o3-mini reasoning model

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  • Deleting data from them might not be feasible, but there are other tactics.

    [...] trapping AI crawlers and sending them down an "infinite maze" of static files with no exit links, where they "get stuck" and "thrash around" for months, he tells users. Once trapped, the crawlers can be fed gibberish data, aka Markov babble, which is designed to poison AI models.

  • The one drawback to walking at night

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  • I'm sorry it bothers you like that.

    I personally don't feel alienated or attacked at all by the kinds of comments you are describing. When I see a comment like "men murder women", I think of it in the same kind of way comments like "humans are horrible" or "Australians are racist" or "young people have no attention span"... That is to say it describes a trend or someone's perception of a tendency but does not refer to any specific individual.

    People aren't saying these things to attack you. They are saying them to communicate their own feelings of being unsafe. And to be frank, feeling that you shouldn't go for a walk at night because it is too dangerous is a pretty serious thing which has obvious negative effects - and the concern is based in reality. It isn't just a perception problem. So we should take these comments seriously - not just complain about the people saying them.

  • Wobble Wobble

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  • I think we're past the point of humour on that one.

  • I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS - and You Should Too

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  • I use RSS for sites where I want to read every update. That typically means serial comics; dev-blogs of indie games; other infrequent blogs; and some infrequent youTube channels (I don't visit youTube other than via my RSS feeds);

    Whereas I use Lemmy and other sites for skimming and browsing, and discovering new things.

  • Pixelfed just overtook Lemmy as the 4th most used Fediverse software.

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  • I'm not sure about Lemmy, but I found this post to be a good explanation of how Pixelfed interacts with Mastodon.

    Based on what it says there, I wouldn't really expect it to play-nice with Lemmy though. We might be able to access Pixelfed posts here on Lemmy, but almost certainly not the other way around - because Pixelfed requires an image in every post.

  • Wine 10.0 Released With Native Wayland Support, Better HiDPI

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  • Wine 10.0 Released With Native Wayland Support, Better HiDPI

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  • What is Wine anyway? All I can work out is that it definitely is not an emulator... (probably it's a fermented drink made from grapes, but implemented in Linux.)

  • They just don't understand

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  • some cables can lose some signal strength after a few years of usage

    Roughly how many years are you thinking about? I've been using the same 10m ethernet cable for more than 20 years. And my expectation was that only physical wear would damage it (eg. rolling and unrolling it to deploy in a different place; possibly closing a door on it accidentally... that kind of thing).

  • Proton is dead (for me). Let's collect and discuss alternatives! ✊🛡

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  • Their official reddit account also tripled down by saying "here is our official response" (and then quoting the Mastodon post). So they've explicitly made it the company's view - not just the CEO's view.

  • There Is No Safe Word: How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.

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  • Wow. Several of the instances described are quite clearly rape; with some horrible scarring and degrading stuff through in; exploiting power-imbalance to make it possible. What I struggle to fully understand though are the text messages mentioned in the story. Gaiman argues that there was consent, and there are things said in those text messages that might support him. But the other circumstances, and the pattern of behaviour across multiple victims surely is enough to overrule that.

  • Valve dev says SteamOS isn't about killing Windows: 'If a user has a good experience on Windows, there's no problem'

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  • I assume the primary reason for Valve supporting Linux is to protect themselves against possible hostility from Microsoft. So yeah, it's a business decision to protect Valve's profits; but frankly - it's also beneficial to everyone who isn't Microsoft.

    Overall, I'm not a great fan of Steam. (And generally it's me talking down Steam; recommending itch.io and GOG; and sometimes even defending Epic against what I think are unfair attacks.) But here I'm just saying that I don't really see the negative of Valve creating Steam OS. Although I don't intend to use Steam OS, I think I'm already benefiting from the support Valve has given Linux to create Steam OS.