exodust

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by exodust 3y ago
> Fired essential workers. Obviously not since the lights are still on, and there's more features. There were too many staff before. Nobody is irreplaceable. > While attracting lawsuits for the manner of firing people. You mean t
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What about a Facebook group who wanted to talk about "toxic content", and needed to post examples? Or a group of surgeons discussing traumatic injuries needing to share reference material to others in the group with their consent?
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> "...absolutely making society worse in tangible, measurable ways." You've presented zero measurements to qualify that statement. Your personal dislike of Musk's methods have nothing to do with your wishful projectio
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by exodust 3y ago
Your post reads like the intro to an unhinged anti-Musk manifesto. Are you sure you're not taking life too seriously? When you accuse someone of "vast damage", destroying society, lies, and wishing them to fail among other th
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by exodust 3y ago
What are you talking about? What harm is he doing to others, and why are you profoundly sad rather than just regular everyday sad?
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> toxic stuff I reckon let it all in, everything, all the toxic stuff. Then provide good filtering and tools for users to control the toxicity level to their liking.
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What? You went from talking about ads to calling this site obnoxious? First of all, if you found my comment obnoxious, it's not "this site" that's obnoxious, it's this user ! My comment was mild. I find the increas
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by exodust 3y ago
> "Other platforms like Netflix..." Youtube contains endless "generative fill" content made with all the care and effort of a vending machine. Lifeless, worthless, rinse/repeat content made by content spammers. A
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> refuse to pay Interesting way to put it. Almost like refusing to pay the local thugs for "protection", and seeing the consequences of not paying get worse every year. Google increased ads on youtube to the point where it&#x27
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Sounds like you value youtube premium because of what it doesn't show more than what it does. Google: "Pay the monthly fee to avoid getting slapped in the face with a wet fish." You: "worth every penny!"
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by exodust 3y ago
Washing your hands doesn't require your hands remain soaped up as you go about your day. "Washing hands" takes a few seconds, then it's over. Your analogy doesn't work. Nobody knows you washed your hands 2 minutes a
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by exodust 3y ago
> There are no downsides to wearing a mask Except for wearing a mask, which is inherently a downside compared with not wearing a mask. Pollution. Disposable masks litter the streets and end up in waterways. When masks are mandated in gen
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by exodust 3y ago
It's not all bad, SEO help can be useful if your business lacks basic measurement, pages, titles, conversions etc. Or you have those things, but in a mess. "SEO" can branch into general site maintenace aspects I guess. Too mu
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by exodust 3y ago
> "Did you read the article?" Yes. It's about compulsive behavior. Marijuana is not begging to be smoked. It is not punishing users with cannabis-specific withdrawal symptoms. If you eat ice cream every day, that's a
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by exodust 3y ago
> "...suffering of people struggling with marijuana use..." Suffering and struggling? From the perspective of the marijuana user, suffering and struggling belongs to others, not them. This means an outsider makes the judgement
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Why does it matter if people don't immediately realize it's fake? Why are those people looking at pornographic images? For any harm to happen, the status of the image as real needs to be confirmed and sustained over time. If the v
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Exactly. The "victim" of a deepfake simply needs to say "it's fake". The burden of integrity is then on whoever is indulging the fake images, spreading them or raising questions about them. Added benefit, as you say
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by exodust 3y ago
It's obviously "better" as there is no victim. I'm guessing in many cases the addict would be satisfied with artificial images, and no longer seek real images. > " Justice Department officials who investigate chi
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by exodust 3y ago
> lives weren't upended Musk paid billions too much for Twitter. So at least a few of those real people you're worried about, are now very rich. Companies have layoffs. Are you saying the thousands of layoffs at Meta, or any o
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by exodust 3y ago
"Blast radius"? Bit dramatic. Where's the trauma normally associated with blast zones? I don't see it. Who are these "real people" you talk of? I find it interesting in this age of diversity and acceptance of d
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> exceedingly foolish. Perhaps it's not foolish. People have been leaving Twitter in a huff, slamming the door on their way out. "Twitter" was ruined according to numerous articles and memes. Rebranding might be going wit
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> UIs in movies And those little chirp sounds that go with the movie UIs. More than onKeyPress, they happen on every interface event. Text comes into view? chirp-bleep . Our real interfaces aren't that noisy. I wonder who drives th
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by exodust 3y ago
> Networks connect us. By that logic we should stop using the internet because the Taliban are on the internet.
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> "If the Taliban prefers it [Twitter], you and I and every decent person probably should not" Awful logic from the professor of Media Studies. The Taliban probably has preferred operating systems, cars, places, food, and many
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I responded to the claim that Facebook is "run well" and Twitter is "not run well since Musk". You've extended this simplistic division by implying anything that isn't basic sandwich content must be verbal tras
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All those paragraphs dedicated to "Elon - Bad Man"? > "he toys with people like Halli Thorleifsson"... Who started the public exchange with Musk in the first place. Who tweets HR questions to their employer unless the
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> AI generated art into our art pipelines I'd be interested to know where the art ends up in the game? Do you mean 2D backgrounds and billboards in-game? Or are we talking cut-scenes and menu screen art?
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But it didn't work? In yours there is no "Nexus", no smiling, no frowning, and man on right doesn't look Asian? Compared with image in Tweet, MJ failed at this task.
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by exodust 3y ago
Not all, but php is great. Using curl to talk to external APIs is so easy and then use json_decode and setcookie - all easy to toss objects and data around, readable, immediate. Yes JS has caught up mostly, but jquery... the way it looks wh
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by exodust 3y ago
You didn't like my Wordpress plugin comparison!? I'll write it better. Package clutter, maintenance, integrity, updates, all those things are spinning plates. Similar to Wordpress' needy and naggy plugin ecosystem found ther

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