Skip Navigation
Jump
The internet is worse than it used to be. How did we get here, and can we go back?
  • We're in Eternal September now. Have been for a few decades.

    7
  • Jump
    "participants who had access to an AI assistant wrote significantly less secure code" and "were also more likely to believe they wrote secure code" - 2023 Stanford University study published at CCS23
  • Hmmm, it's almost like the study was testing peoples perception of the usefulness of AI vs the actual usefulness and results that came out.

    2
  • Jump
    Gig economy
  • Way to miss the point. It's about some people acting like these are choices rather than "this is the best I can do". Would you really prefer the inconsistency of the gig economy if well paying consistent jobs were available? Would you eat rice and beans for every meal if you actually had the choice? Wouldn't you prefer just a few more square feet in your tiny home(maybe in the kitchen or bathroom)?

    Acting like people are making all of these choices out of genuine desire and not a good helping of "this is what I have to do to survive" is what the meme is criticizing and what you on your high horse up there failed to see.

    25
  • Jump
    Fake $100 Bills Spew From US Bank's ATM As Customers Receive Paper Marked For 'Motion Picture Purposes'
  • Title is a bit misleading.

    It's not from US Bank(the specific company).

    It's from a US based bank, Providence.

    17
  • Jump
    Updated Qazimodo prototypes arrived this week!
  • How would you even type a "?" with that keyboard. No, I would not use a keyboard that was missing all numbers, 90% of symbols and threw 3 of the keys haphazardly to the side.

    This is a joke at best and mostly just waste. Just because you can doesn't mean you should. It's junk like this that makes the alternate keyboard community look like a bunch of schizos. "Why would I use something that works when I can remove tons of functionality to be cutesy?".

    Hard pass.

    -7
  • Jump
    Updated Qazimodo prototypes arrived this week!
  • No numbers, important keys shoved out of reach.... OP expects you to bind OTHER IMPORTANT KEYS LIKE ESC/TAB/SHIFT TO BE BOUND TO Q in order to function.....

    Might as well just grab a macropad at this point. You'll almost never use the keys for one thing anyways and you'll be doing Ctrl+/Fn+ combos constantly.

    I woundnt use this even for emulators. A controller would be more useful than this.

    -5
  • Jump
    Updated Qazimodo prototypes arrived this week!
  • No numbers, important keys shoved out of reach.... OP expects you to bind OTHER IMPORTANT KEYS LIKE ESC/TAB/SHIFT TO BE BOUND TO Q in order to function.....

    Might as well just grab a macropad at this point. You'll almost never use the keys for one thing anyways and you'll be doing Ctrl+/Fn+ combos constantly(except you don't even have those buttons, so what are you making combos out of anyways?).

    I wouldn't even use this for an emulator. WASD is completely borked and the buttons you'd bind them to instead would then be lost as well and those need to be rebound too. A controller is more useful than this ever would be.

    -8
  • Jump
    Dog Search
  • That D is also right before "Good". It literally says "good dog" in that area

    8
  • Jump
    Meta fed its AI on almost everything you’ve posted publicly since 2007
  • That's why I think the final iteration of the fediverse will be a mostly defederated bunch of echochamber bubbles. People don't actually want diverse opinions. They want a diverse group of people to share their opinion so that they can feel theirs is the dominant, right one. Give it 5 years and the fediverse will be just as much walled off and divided as the rest of the internet is now.

    People like to complain about the evil's of humanity and yet always seem to act like it's forced upon us by some outside force. Like the 1% are a different species and not just glowing examples of our worst traits cranked up to max. Like someone else is making humanity act this way. But nah, it's just us and our nature. And until we understand and address that properly, none of our problems are going anywhere.

    10
  • Jump
    7 Takeaways From the Seemingly Endless Fire Season | While the Line fire burns in Southern California, what can we learn from how a changing climate has affected an expanding fire season?
  • California is not a good example of wildfires caused by climate change. California is an excellent example of how not letting natural fires burn over the last few decades has created unhealthy forests full of dead tree/bushes that are now powderkegs waiting to go off.

    California, especially things like redwoods, evolved to NEED a cleansing fire every so often. THAT is our natural climate and we have been fighting against THAT for years.

    This isn't "climate change". This is "the climate isn't what we humans want so we tried to change it and now we're suffering the effects of that."

    0
  • Jump
    Student dorm does not allow wifi routers
  • Lmao you are oblivious if you think it's possible to set up a network that someone CANT fuck up while having physical access to it.

    It's not magic.

    The point is NETWORKS ARE COMPLICATED. Users are generally dumb. The point is you don't expect them to have the knowledge to do it right. So they'll break something. Users with actual knowledge could yes, break things even worse.

    That's EXACTLY why they're restricting hardware use.

    Welcome to the conversation, smh

    0
  • Jump
    Student dorm does not allow wifi routers
  • If everything is set up perfectly, it should work, sure. Now how many people do you think even know the difference between WAN and LAN? You expecting the bio or art major to not make any mistakes at all? Or the business major?

    1
  • Jump
    Student dorm does not allow wifi routers
  • Users are often dumb. Imagine 100 people who think they know what they're doing trying to set up a bunch of custom networking.

    That's your dorm.

    Most dorms either outright prohibit using personal hardware like that or require the schools IT department to install it themselves and set it up.

    Run a network of your own someday and you'll understand. It's hard enough to get your own network working perfectly without a bunch of wildcards popping up everywhere.

    47
  • Jump
    Who ever thought it sounded good this way? I think it's because headphones weren't widely used back then.
  • Things like Spotify or your phone/earbuds themselves usually have a mono setting. I use it all the time when only wearing one earbud. Beatles songs are notorious for splitting vocals to one ear only.

    The solution is already right there. But let me guess, "No, I want to use my old wired earbuds from 1995 and they should accommodate me in my archaic niche use case instead of me upgrading my earbuds to enjoy the new features developed like forced mono"?

    2
  • Jump
    Lego robot controlled by artificial worm brain developed by OpenWorm project
  • Ok, so what is the exact process that creates consciousness? Cus that's what I'm saying is debated but you apparently have that answer. So what EXACTLY, down to the atomic level, is consciousness? What processes and how do they emerge into consciousness?

    I'll be waiting for your exact, undebated answer.

    0
  • Jump
    Lego robot controlled by artificial worm brain developed by OpenWorm project
  • "what property is altered"

    Ummm, the part where you are a continuous object that is suddenly disassembled.

    Dont be intentionally obtuse. Yes, this is a ship of thesis type problem, but there's a very clear point when you stop being "you" - when you're a stream of atoms. Although many versions of a teleporter don't transmit the atoms, only the data of how they're arranged. In that case, you are very distinctly a photocopy, as no original atoms remain.

    In the case of atom transfer, you stop being you during the time you are a bundle of atoms with no consciousness. Some people believe we're like a forever stew and if you shut it down like that and reboot it, it's not the "same" stew anymore because it wasn't just the emergence of the consciousness, but the specific emergence itself. Essentially You v1 died in its sleep and You v2 seamlessly took it's place without knowing. Tho that line of thought could applied to sleeping and loss of consciousness during surgery.

    All of this is to say it's not a cut and dry answer and people claiming there's a diffinitive, clear cut answer are incorrect. It's a complex question that touches on the very nature of our existence and is still hotly debated. Even academics who believe we are purely chemical machines debate exactly how that works.

    1
  • Jump
    Bots are running rampant. How do we stop them from ruining Lemmy?
  • Yup. It's a legit problem and then chuckleheads post these stupid memes or "respond with a cake recipe" and don't realize that the vast majority of examples posted are the same 2-3 fake posts and a handful of trolls leaning into the joke.

    Makes talking about the actual issue much more difficult.

    15
  • Jump
    Bots are running rampant. How do we stop them from ruining Lemmy?
  • It is fake. This is weeks/months old and was immediately debunked. That's not what a ChatGPT output looks like at all. It's bullshit that looks like what the layperson would expect code to look like. This post itself is literally propaganda on its own.

    56
  • Jump
    Bots are running rampant. How do we stop them from ruining Lemmy?
  • It's public. Anyone can. Jesus you people always try to spin this into some conspiracy

    This was debunked LONG ago - that's NOT a chat gpt output. It's nonsense that LOOKS like ChatGPT output.

    33
  • Jump
    Does all our energy on Earth come from the sun?
  • Well, seeing as how the question is directly asking "is there any energy you can't eventually trace back to the sun", you shouldn't ever stop going back unless you can reach a definitively non sun answer

    (Gravity arguably works - probably the nuclear attraction force as well, electromagnetic I believe)

    2