At least Shane grows a little.

Ha, I forgot about Nostr. That might actually be a useful application for blockchain.

He’s not a famous figure, he’s a child being exploited by his dad, and even on the page itself there’s nothing actually notable about the kid himself. It’s mostly salacious “controversy” about his gross no-name dad.

And actually encyclopaedias generally and Wikipedia particularly engage in value judgement all the time. Who is or isn’t a notable public figure, what is or isn’t a reliable source, etc.

Nothing about this child merits a Wikipedia entry. Maybe Encyclopedia Dramatica or Kiwi Farms or something else for the bottom feeders, but not a site that’s supposed to be for general human knowledge. GTFO with that.

I mean, the joke is that AI doesn’t tell you things that are meaningfully true, but rather is a machine for guessing next words to a standard of utility. And yes, lying is a good way to arbitrarily persuade people, especially if you’re unmoored to any social relation with them.

Personally I love how they found the AI could be very persuasive by lying.

If this isn’t a sign of the decline in Wikipedia I don’t know what is. Like it’s not even his channel it’s his dad’s.

Precisely.

Right. They understand it puts them in a bad light, and people they hate in a sympathetic one, so they deny it happened.

“It never happened, but if it did it was a good thing and I hope we do it again!”

Diffusion and overall brightness do make a difference as well.

Shorter wavelengths hit different though. That’s why we have blue light filtering glasses, Redshift, etc.

What was the appeal of Plex anyway?

Like shouldn’t they just be suing the customers directly for a bazillion dollars at this point?

So you’re saying you have a choice in ISPs? Sounds pretty cool.

My eternal quest to get a working desktop environment running in WSL 😭

Not to beat a dead horse since I’m sure it always comes up, but Linux Mint does literally everything I want to do on my computer, and maybe a little bit more than my work computer that runs Windows.

Which games are concerns for you? Genuinely asking.

My advice is to move your computing to an environment that opens options for you and responds to your wants and needs rather than an environment that treats you like a guinea pig to experiment on, or an actual pig to force-fed slop to.

You will never convince Microsoft that you’re tired of their slop if you keep eating it.

Not saying changing OSes is easy, but it is easier than it’s ever been, and the dividends have been worth it for me.

It depends a lot on the tattoos though. Some tattoos show forethought and patience. Other tattoos show poor decision making. It really just depends.

I mean, I hate BlueSky too, but I think the reason it’s more popular than Mastodon is that it’s more centralized and in practical terms that means it’s easier to adopt and engage with.

The biggest headache I have with Mastodon (and Lemmy, to a lesser extent) is defederation. I understand it’s the most practical thing to do sometimes, but it’s waaay overdone. Like, there needs to be a culture of only defederating as a last resort due to pratical concerns (e.g. bots I guess). Unfortunately the current culture is one where many instance admins treat defederation as a personal blocklist. I wish more admins would leave it to individual users to decide who to allow or not.