flkiwi

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by flkiwi 1y ago
Sure. Taking that perspective even begins to explain some things, like a lot of the pointless me-too developments (short form videos?) Facebook has been implementing for years: if they dilute the product by incorporating others' ideas,
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by flkiwi 1y ago
> FB actually has a friend's feed which gets relatively little usage Because everything about the Facebook user interface discourages its use. What if, and I know this is craaaaazy, the friend feed was just the feed? Facebook was gr
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by flkiwi 1y ago
It's astonishing to read this and see not only Zuckerberg but also the article itself present this as something that happened to Facebook/Meta rather than something driven by Facebook/Meta to satisfy Wall Street. Social med
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by flkiwi 1y ago
I'm old enough in Internet years to have ample experience with many of the Reddit-originating cultural touchpoints like poop knife. God help me, my Internet culture goes back beyond, uh, citrus parties. I joined Reddit (again) to get h
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by flkiwi 1y ago
Can I just tell you? I rejoined Reddit a couple of years ago, and (I cannot believe I'm about to type this) it is, generally speaking, a positive experience filled with people who are generally not terribly toxic, and the toxic people
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by flkiwi 1y ago
I'm distinctly happier since I ditched Facebook and Twitter. It's not a radical change, because the world kinda sucks in general. And I'm a little sad that a few of my older family members are effectively invisible since they
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by flkiwi 1y ago
After looking in vain for a browser-based Logseq (i.e., the way logseq used to be before APP EVERYTHING!!! began the downward spiral -- the next version won't even use markdown files), I've gone full Leeroy Jenkins on Silverbullet
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by flkiwi 2y ago
They did though. The studio engaged in tremendous amounts of work and created good will, in addition to their specific creative works. Their visual style is tied up in that good will. Use of the visual style for profit without consent is,
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by flkiwi 2y ago
That is "artists should be grateful to work for exposure" on a grand scale.
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by flkiwi 2y ago
A friend who is heavily inked has gone on at length to me about understanding skin elasticity--particularly how it changes over a lifetime--as well as the way joints and muscles change and distort visual lines, etc. It sure seems like a ski
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by flkiwi 2y ago
Oh, no, I wasn't taking issue with what you said, just reacting that, yes, it's not editing the same image but redrawing from scratch every time, BUT it's doing a much better job of that, with some understanding of the contex
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by flkiwi 2y ago
The problem with that is that people aren't asking for AI generated images in the style of Raven from Topeka with an Etsy shop. They're asking for Ghibli. So the people whose livelihoods are most directly impacted are (assuming th
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by flkiwi 2y ago
Given the time commitment and network of basic biological, anatomical, and health knowledge required, that doesn't strike me as an insane price, assuming an artist who is able to create the requested art.
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by flkiwi 2y ago
BUT it's doing a stunningly better job replicating previous scenes than it did before. I asked it just now for a selfie of two biker buddies on a Nevada highway, but one is a quokka and one is a hyrax. It did it. Then I asked for the s
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by flkiwi 2y ago
Apropos of little (with apologies), it's remarkable how much less I loathe people since I nuked my Facebook account. I hadn't even been a regular user for years, but walking away--which involved changing my password to something I
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by flkiwi 2y ago
There was, at the time, some sort of issue with the flake. So, really, I couldn't get it running with flakes. I should really try it again.
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by flkiwi 2y ago
I tried to use niri, but I couldn't get it working on NixOS. That is almost certainly user error on my part, but, as a devoted paperwm user in my gnome days, I'm very much on board with what niri is offering. And since this is a d
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by flkiwi 2y ago
One of the most important skills a lawyer can have is being able to comprehend highly complex topics in a very short time with minimal information to a reasonable level of confidence that they can advise genuine subject matter experts (expe
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by flkiwi 2y ago
I found myself watching an episode of diggnation a couple of months ago. It wasn't as funny as I remember, but, man, those were simpler times.
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by flkiwi 2y ago
I was less focused on his NFT/crypto phase as on his faddishness. He just sort of grabs after whatever is in the headlines.
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by flkiwi 2y ago
Given Kevin Rose's web3 turn, I don't have high hopes.
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by flkiwi 2y ago
I was expecting something much dumber than this. I don't mean the idea or the execution. I mean what was being executed. If someone tells me they're going to tell the time "in corporate", I'm expecting inefficiency
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by flkiwi 2y ago
Because they've been too busy chasing the AI fad.
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by flkiwi 2y ago
I'm not a developer, but I use Zed for a lot of things that would be ripe for "AI" application in the current bubble. I, however, have exactly zero use for AI in those cases, and will reconsider any application that pushes AI
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by flkiwi 2y ago
It's just about the best Internet-related money I spend. I get fast, quality results on a service that doesn't obviously bend over backwards to monetize me. Ironic, in a way. I thought it was spendy at first, and now I can't
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by flkiwi 2y ago
I always feel like I'm imposing, and I have to remind myself that there are people who are eager to hear what I have to say. I try to set up my issue reports with appropriate background, and I always volunteer to, for example, submit a
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by flkiwi 2y ago
The CNN article I just skimmed about this has a very interesting science communication issue. It notes that originally the solid inner core rotated faster than the rest of the planet, but that in 2010 it rotated slower than the rest of the
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by flkiwi 2y ago
River is very good but a niche in a niche. Telling that ive been using hyprland though. Part of the problem with all of them is less the wm and more knowing what parts you need. Not so much bars as portals. I'm vaguely surprised hyprla
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by flkiwi 2y ago
I just downgraded my O365 subscription to remove Copilot. I went to (web version) my account settings, subscriptions, manage, and canceled my sub, which then gave me the option to select a Classic edition without Outlook. It's the sa
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by flkiwi 2y ago
Imagine my surprise clicking the link and seeing a Wordpress installation screen.

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