ToucanLoucan

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by ToucanLoucan 1mo ago
> If I cut my leg off with a chainsaw, am I addicted to the chainsaw? If you repeatedly willingly do so despite the harm, then yes.
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by ToucanLoucan 1mo ago
> What I meant to say was, the standard for when we call something addictive is more hazy than that. If you as a person engage with a product to a degree where it causes demonstrable, measurable harm to yourself or your life, you are add
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by ToucanLoucan 1mo ago
It’s become clear to me that any company acquired by Microsoft should be avoided. All software dev is hard. Software dev within a huge organization is damned hard. And Microsoft is SO HUGE and has so much infighting and finger pointing go
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by ToucanLoucan 1mo ago
> The overall goal with these kinds of projects should be to maintain parity between the citizenry and people in positions of power. Oh for sure, I'm not disagreeing with the principle being discussed, I'm saying in our current
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by ToucanLoucan 1mo ago
I mean they don't hide much anymore. Our current admin is simply awash in corruption, and nothing happens because a majority of lawmakers are also in on it, getting rich, and just aren't required to do anything. Our police rob and
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
Would add this is not exclusive to large corporations either. My smaller employer is also struggling hard because leadership simply cannot prioritize. Everything is either not being worked on or is the highest priority which in practice jus
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
> There are also a lot of folk remedies that have been disproven as medicine. They too were ‘common sense.’ "You know what they call alternative medicine that works? Medicine." - Tim Minchin
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
> If it is all relative, then how is she determining that someone has good or bad taste? Is there anything between moral relativism and mathematical proof? Social proof. Everyone has taste and everyone's taste in a given space is i
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
Oh yeah for sure, I'm not suggesting the fine is bad, I'm suggesting it's insufficient. I want to "yes and" this, not replace it. Fine them, and incentivize change for them and all other businesses in the space. F
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
> You dont need deeper understanding of knowledge for everything. Ask Grandma whether she needs a chemical engineering degree to bake apple pie. You've clearly never baked before. Baking is a chemical science. You have to adjust t
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
Maybe so but DuPont continues to pollute the world even today. I'm happy this fine happened. I hope it gets enforced, though in the current political climate I too have severe doubts it will be. Even so though, and even if this lawsuit
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
You should. Emotional truths get people killed and buildings burned just as effectively as real ones. Arguably even more effectively than real ones.
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
As I said: > You can disagree with all of these points, and give rational, logical arguments to them. And most of them I would agree with you! But just because YOU don't think there's a problem, doesn't mean people don&#x2
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
This is the emotional truth that a lot of people are just not seeing. It takes so long to build trust. It takes seconds to obliterate it. And big tech as a whole has been obliterating it's trust for like... a decade now. You can't
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
Right, which is why my suggestion is that we skip fines, because they demonstrably don't work, and we go directly to: you, $executive_at_facebook, have participated in the distribution of CSAM and will now be prosecuted. Make that the
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
Oh yeah, wasn't meaning to imply we didn't agree. I'm just expanding on your point.
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
> The eternal question of tech platforms - should we be responsible for what users post? I would never say a platform has to be responsible for what a user posts, and to be clear, I mean either a user of the platform, or a user of the
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
> but as Wired notes, it relies on "automated tools" as part of the process, which may have been how the more than 50 ads TTP discovered made it through. Again, and again, and again, these technologies have proven ineffective
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
> It's just that just as with "digital CD music is quantized and sounds worse than analog" got exposed as nonsense, the same way "I can tell it's AI and that's why I don't like it" will also not st
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
Seconding this. Incredibly useful feature, especially on sites who's JavaScript is constantly jerking the DOM and/or scroller around. So fucking annoying. It's frankly wild how many of my favorite tools for Internet browsing
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
Why would they? What's your recourse as a consumer if they fuck up your hardware? In the extremely unlikely event you manage to get it in front of a Court, they could point to the 3 other ad networks also present on the same page, and
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
I do deeply enjoy that apparently among gen-Alpha, it's a common thing to say when someone says something really stupid, or makes something of poor quality, to call it "AI." The kids are alright.
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
> The biggest mistake is thinking that your aesthetics are "correct". Good thing I didn't say that then. > You make it a personal slight when you espouse, that your aesthetic preferences are universal and then farther m
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
It's hard to articulate this stuff, and especially hard to explain it to the AI infatuated among us because they don't really want to understand why people dislike the tooling they're obsessed with. AI is good at many things,
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
And the Steam version is distinctly better to boot. The XBox Store version last I tried just straight up didn't work. Microsoft's gaming division was in an absolute shambles and that was before they gutted it.
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
*with the implied framing being that China has somehow done this and is responsible, letting those actually responsible, largely the same people who own corpo rags like the New Yorker, off the hook entirely. I refuse to believe this is a co
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
The mass media loves to talk about ANYTHING besides the ongoing decay of the west, largely facilitated by it's own ineptitude at the game it designed. We're losing because we outsourced everything for short term gains and have let
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
> The problem is, your employer doesn’t care whether your brain is creating new neurons and connections. They care about productivity and profit. Which is why businesses, tech and otherwise, are falling apart constantly unless they achie
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
Power management still sucks on Linux AND windows for that matter. Ridiculous how every other UX is just left to rot, it’s like no one else even tries besides Apple.
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by ToucanLoucan 2mo ago
Valid pushback! That said going through the MIT study quickly (and I may be wrong, feel free to correct me further) it doesn't seem to include CO2 from overseas shipping of materials and/or finished vehicles, and it also only seem

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