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TheDailyBurble

@TheDailyBurble@mastodon.social

Cabbidges from Twitter. Interested in gamedev, traditional art, digital art (particularly environmental and lighting) news, current affairs, and a bunch of other random stuff.
It meee!!

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rodhilton, to random
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There's so much that GenAI can do and so many threat vectors it creators, I'm not sure people fully appreciate how utterly broken it's going to make the internet.

Think about how many web sites you use where all they do is provide a place for human beings to upload things, and show them to you next to an ad.

Every forum, every social media, every search engine, SO, Quora, they're all just places that slurp up human-submitted content.

AI can now generate all that content. They're all cooked.

TheDailyBurble,
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@rodhilton Seems the way it's going.

TheDailyBurble, to random
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Windows11 has decided FOR me that it's time I get a new printer by not recognising my admittedly not up to date printer. I don't think they should decide that, nor waste my time by me hunting for a driver on the increasingly unreliable web. Assuming Windows 11 even "allows" me to install such a thing.

It runs fine, this old printer off an equally ancient eee. One flash drive to transfer the file and we're done.

TheDailyBurble,
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@paul Oh I'll buy a brother when the time comes, if it's still reliable. The olde one is fine though and I don't mind if it can't call home anymore.

TheDailyBurble,
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@paul I managed to print using my eee (good grief), and until I've dealt with the things I needed to print and copy documents for, that's how this is going to work. But yes, I tried to manually add my printer, however I think I may have to manually download a driver for it and hope that the driver is compatible with Windows11 before I have a hope of getting that working. Right now, I just don't have the time.

Alas the cliff must hanger a bit longer

dangillmor, to random
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The solar storm is interfering with some tractors' GPS capabilities. https://www.404media.co/r/15913771?m=ea6b4c29-f97b-4025-aaeb-1d01a70b3b30

TheDailyBurble,
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@dangillmor Remarkable that it has done so little damage, given it has at times been stronger than forecast.

ai6yr, to random
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Happy Guilted Into Buy Flowers-And-Chocolate Day, And Maybe Stand In An Endless Line For A Horribly Crowded Brunch Day for those that celebrate!

(hint: if you truly want to celebrate your mother, do what we always did for my mom, and do the buffet the week BEFORE or the week AFTER, when the buffet is better and you don't have crowds; I also used to go to the chocolate/flower stores the DAY AFTER and had gotten flowers for 90% off and chocolates for 50-75% off... 😉

TheDailyBurble,
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@ai6yr I'm happy with a Happy Mother's Day and a big hug tbh. Some stuff is too big to be shovelled into consumerism and all the things you need to say are for all the days, not just one. Love is way to big for a mug or a bunch of flowers or a meal.

GottaLaff, (edited ) to random
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Via Gavin Newsom:

What Donald Trump’s version of “quite well” means (Image below.):

Biden-Harris HQ:

Embedded video:

: They tried to cancel Roe v. Wade for many years. We did it. It’s working out quite well, actually

TheDailyBurble,
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@GottaLaff That's far too young and better hope there's no damage. Barbaric.

w7voa, to random
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Headline of the Day from the NY Times:
R.F.K. Jr. Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm in His Brain
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/us/rfk-jr-brain-health-memory-loss.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

TheDailyBurble,
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@w7voa And apparently it ate part of the brain, which isn't in the headline.

jwildeboer, to fediverse
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When I joined the via my own Mastodon instance back in 2018 (and with an identi.ca, status.net, pump.io history going far back), I never thought of it as a Twitter, Facebook etc alternative. I saw it as a new planet. A fresh approach to build a real social network. I still look at it that way. I want to explore new possibilities. Try new things. Escape the gravity well of the "old", centralised networks. Find a better orbit. That is why I block threads.net on my instance.

TheDailyBurble,
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@jwildeboer
hmm. Tempted to join your instance, but might be a bit enclosed for me.

TheDailyBurble, to random
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The people who lost grandparents and parents in the pandemic are expected to keep their grief private and to themselves, but like all the big scars this will sit. And before anyone starts, | also worry about all the other horrible things going on.

thejapantimes, to worldnews
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The West’s strategic overreach vis-a-vis Russia is not only alienating much of the rest of the world, but also providing a windfall for its real rival, China. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2024/05/07/world/west-hastening-its-decline/ #commentary #worldnews #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #china #chinarussiarelations #defense

TheDailyBurble,
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@thejapantimes Europe doesn't fancy being plundered, it's not that hard to figure out.

juergen_hubert, to Germany
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Old pagan symbols can sometimes appear in new and unexpected places.

@germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/old-new-gods-28137976

TheDailyBurble,
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@juergen_hubert @germany @folklore
I looked for that but couldn't find a photo nor image, nor mention, which makes me wonder who wouldn't want it seen or known. Gadesbush looks like an interesting place though.

TheDailyBurble,
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@juergen_hubert @germany @folklore
Alas I am not close enough to go and see, was such an interesting story too!

TheDailyBurble, to random
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Ms A Level 50's economics:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/06/rachel-reeves-tories-gaslighting-economy-labour

jeffjarvis, to random
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Well, OK, boomers:
(WSJ)

TheDailyBurble,
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@jeffjarvis The idea is not to hear them because they aren't there, not because they became silent and creepy.

TheDailyBurble, to random
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Imagine opening your window and not hearing a car. Or going out for a walk and not hearing a car. Or sitting in a restaurant and not hearing a car. Or basically doing anything and not hearing a freaking car.

lauren, to random
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Am I the only one suddenly finding the obnoxious "Help me write" choice at the top of common right-click Chrome context menus where the incredibly useful "Undo" choice used to be? No more UNDO? HUH?

By the way, Google, I already damned well know how to write, and there's a snowball's chance in Hell of my letting your "AI" write anything for me.

TheDailyBurble,
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@lauren I still wonder why AI is so fixated on taking over creative work. It can't really, humans connect to things to be creative, and output is what happens. But it's an AI fixation to try and usurp that process.

thegamerstavern, to privacy
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Gee thank you for giving so much value in my privacy.

This. 👏🏻
Is. 👏🏻
Ridiculous. 👏🏻

You and your 1422 partners can go to...
Data economy is pure shite.

TheDailyBurble,
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@elcrest @thegamerstavern

Windows 11 is just endless trying to get me to agree to stuff I don't need or want.

Also I haven't installed anything on the C: drive but every day another 1 GB goes missing. What's that all about?

Binder, to random
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The more often you say “if you know, you know,” the less often that I know. You know?

TheDailyBurble,
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@Binder Ah darn that's another little saying nobody will fondly remember me for. Shoot. I hope "don't mess with snakes and diseases" fares better. Not for my own posterity, but because it's pretty solid advice.

TheDailyBurble, to random
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I'm being encouraged to sit and draw in a garden. This is probably the closest I get to heaven on the earthly plane btw.

ai6yr, to privacy
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Windows 11: "Did you know you can use Face Authentication?"

Me: (checks to make sure the masking tape over the camera is still in place)

(corporate machine... my personal machines are almost all Linux now)

TheDailyBurble,
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@ai6yr
So far my experience of it is saying, no, you can't have this, no you can't have that. And nag nag nag. No I don't want office whatever, no I don't care about your cloud, no I don't want copilot. It's not really an operating system anymore. It's just a sales piece of bollox.

TheDailyBurble,
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@rye @ai6yr
It wants rent. I'm studiously avoiding paying rent. I don't even want Windows11 and didn't buy it. It's an interim machine I have to cope with. I've wasted so much time trawling through the nags and bloats.
Peak 2024 garbage.

Green_Footballs, to random
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Trump keeps recycling this “argument” again and again without ever apparently realizing he’s saying that Joe Biden could throw him into a deep dark dungeon and keep him there and Trump would have no escape.

It’s another case of: either Trump’s that dumb or he thinks all his marks are that dumb.

TheDailyBurble,
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@Green_Footballs Headlines, headlines, headlines - he'll say the earth is made of balloons if it gets him a bit more publicity which gets him a bit closer to power. Or pertend to look at a solar eclipse without proper safeguards, or any of the other junk he comes up with that keeps him in the news so people with their votes at least recognise he exists.

caseynewton, to random
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From the US to Europe, the news just keeps getting worse for TikTok — and the company's plan to reward users for scrolling isn't helping https://www.platformer.news/tiktok-ban-house-vote-senate-lite-eu/

TheDailyBurble,
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@caseynewton
Might be more a bunch of freeloaders are horrified people should be rewarded for their time and attention. This might be a crude implementation but omg what if that caught on! Shock horror! Actually paying people? Entire economies would crumble!

sundogplanets, (edited ) to random
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Quick poll: off the top of your head, without searching online, do you know what "Kessler Syndrome" is?

TheDailyBurble,
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I'm still trying to find out how this new AMD Radeon machine needs an Nvidia driver update app.
Looks like anyone with ideas got stuck in the reply guy box and not saying a word. Or possibly nobody knows, or possibly people know but aren't saying. I got past binary options oooh must be 30 years ago.

Again, I wish search engines worked. Wasn't so long ago that they did. Mibs 2 years ago?

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