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Will the world ever stop being anti-intellectual?
  • I somewhat agree. The world isn’t black and white. And as a society we are very much still untwined with our primitive groupthink.

    The world is very complex.

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    Apple makes three arguments for lack of 10x optical zoom on iPhone 15 Pro Max
  • I think there’s value in providing 10x even apart from photography. I think 10x would also open up for capabilities beyond just simple everyday photography.

    That said if the aperture suffers, then that’s a good enough reason to avoid it for now.

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    Striking actor Stephen Fry says his voice was stolen from the Harry Potter audiobooks and replicated by AI
  • Do you have a reference for the 5secs of audio? And what would the quality of the ai be? I mean it would have to infer a lot of training just given 5 seconds of audio.

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    Is anyone else having trouble giving up Reddit due to content?
  • I’ve gotten around it by just getting more into reading. It’s also healthier and more enjoyable.

    That said I sometimes visit Reddit to see more obscure topics or to get first hand research. That said the user interface is so horrible I usually don’t stick around anymore. I just can’t get over how horrible the interface is and it’s a genuine reason for why I can’t use the site as much anymore.

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    [Feature Request] Move away from a monolithic backend
  • That makes sense. But sounds like the lemmy or fediverse standard itself needs some enhancements. For your email example, usually when you send an email and it doesn’t exist you get an error back usually saying the email doesn’t exist or was not delivered or something. Which is different than “please check your internet” or something.

    I just feel things of this nature could be handled better. Though I’m not sure exactly where in the stack the enhancement lies.

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  • Love the native swift app as well as the Apollo-like look and feel. However, I still feel that a lot of these lemmy apps (including this one), still seem modeled on a monolithic backend. Which isn't the case with the fediverse.

    For example, if a kbin or lemmy.world instance is down then I get a singular networking error ("Error sending request, please check your internet"; or something like that). If there was a way to show an instance as offline and gracefully communicate that to the user, that would improve the experience quite a bit!

    And its also difficult to check which community I should check more often then others. For example, I'm subscribed to at least two games communities. But one has 51 people online with 1200 posts and the other has 250 online with 460 posts. Checking whose online is probably not the best way to gauge community health, but Memmy does that and its better then nothing. "Nothing" being the word for what it is right now.

    So it would be nice to move the UI away from a monolithic reddit like client and more into a fediverse multi-serviced backend. Starting with these two issues I've noticed.

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    US govt is in possession of UFOs and non-human bodies, ex-intelligence official tells Congress
  • I can’t speak for everyone but when I was younger (and a lot less confident) I got a job at the DoD and couldn’t get it because I couldn’t get through the polygraph. Background check (talked to everyone I have ever engaged with) was fine but I was way too unconfident / insecure to pass the polygraph. They say the polygraph is a lie detector test. It isn’t. It’s a nervousness detector test. And you lie if you're nervous.

    For ts clearance it also needs to be renewed every few years. Which means going through the motions again:

    Some skids may make it through. But it would be surprising if there is a ufo cult running the DoD in the leadership. Which is why this should be investigated.

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    US govt is in possession of UFOs and non-human bodies, ex-intelligence official tells Congress
  • Yeah but he said that under oath and will go to prison if he’s found to be lying. This is a bit different from schoolyard hearsay.

    I like how Rubio put it. Either we have crazy people in the DoD or we don’t and something else is going on. Either way it should be investigated.

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    Kevin Spacey cleared of sexually assaulting four men
  • Not guilty means not guilty. Thats kind of how our justice system works.

    It’s a bit more reliable than a pitchfork mob on social media looking to fulfill their confirmation bias on someone that actually could be innocent.

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    Kevin Spacey cleared of sexually assaulting four men
  • I didn’t look into it, but I’d say a court/jury declaring him as not-guilty is a bit more reliable than a bunch of pitchfork hungry folks on social media.

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    Joey for Reddit went down today
  • Also for the fact that they lie through their teeth and can’t even give the decency of honest business.

    Why the fuck would we trust these idiots with our data/hard work?

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    The Last Hope on Nintendo Switch - The Worst Game We've Ever Reviewed
  • He kinda made it seem like this is below shovelware and is almost like a total scam.

    Reused graphical/sound unity assets and 18 minutes of gameplay…. The main point is why is Nintendo allowing this on their store.

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    For this who aren’t aware, Memmy for lemmy is now available in the app store [iOS]
  • It’s definitely not as responsive and has a slightly laggy feel to it. I mean it looks and runs great for a webapp. But it just isn’t as good as a native app.

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