cragsand

@cragsand@universeodon.com

VR, RP and science nerd
I play in #NeonDivide, an episodic #RP #LARP in #VR

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#VRChat #VRRP #GoldenGator #TheGoldenGator #Twitch #Roleplay #TTRPG #DnD #VirtualReality #Sweden ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช

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cragsand, to neondivide
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Sketch by Braverend ๐Ÿ’™
https://linktr.ee/braverend

cragsand, to Discord
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Last chance to play these great chiptune beats before shuts down their publicly accessible CDN. :catjam:

A collection of classic demoscene chiptune beats I remasted in
I lowered instrument amplitude to remove peaking, increase and added various VST effects for enhanced stereo. Enjoy :BlobhajHeart:

Open this playlist in to stream in 24kbit lossless from Discords servers: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/420493544474542081/1194995330752729118/Crags_Chiptune_Remasters_Playlist_from_Discord-V3.m3u

cragsand, (edited ) to blender
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This indie game is looking interesting. It's like or . A virtual tabletop but entirely in virtual reality.

I can't help to think how nice it would be if had a toolbox or inventory system built inside it like this. Then you'd already have access to a vast library of avatars and maps and a platform that most roleplayers are already familiar with. Building in & .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT1kvSXP5dA

cragsand, to sweden
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Happy new year from Sweden! ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿฅ‚:toot:

modacitylife, to random

Merry Christmas from the โ€œgezelligโ€ streets of Delft.

People walk and cycle after dark on the car-free streets of the medieval center of Delft decorated with holiday lights overhead and in the trees.
People walk and cycle after dark on the car-free streets of the medieval center of Delft decorated with holiday lights overhead and in the trees.
People walk and cycle after dark on the car-free streets of the medieval center of Delft decorated with holiday lights overhead and in the trees.

wikipedia, to Wikipedia
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The -language has gone "dark" in solidarity with Palestinians, calling for peace and an end to the war. Articles can be read but not edited for the next 24 hours.

https://ar.wikipedia.org

"This action stems from the community's sense of moral duty to combat injustice. Wikipedia communities have previously stood up for human rights such as by protesting legal travesties like SOPA and PIPA or by showing solidarity with Ukrainians following Russia's invasion of their country."

cragsand, to bluesky
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Wait a minute...

rooster, to random
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Myers-Briggs? Oh you mean business school horoscopes

cragsand, to Twitch
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VRChat with Twitch CEO Dan Clancy

Meme highlight of Twitch CEO Dan Clancy visiting Rob Roflgator in VRChat to discuss the new Twitch TOS and get a first impression of what virtual reality is all about ๐Ÿ˜…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqQSQQS0uT8
Full VOD: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2011747913

parismarx, (edited ) to tech
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As Hyperloop One shuts down, we need to remember that the Hyperloop was never meant to be built.

Elon Muskโ€™s goal was never to transform transportation for the masses, but to stop or delay high-speed rail from reaching North America. Sadly, he succeeded โ€” and we all lost as a result. While the rest of the world moved forward, the US remains stuck in the past.

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/the-hyperloop-was-always-a-scam

#tech #transport #transportation #train #hyperloop #elonmusk

cragsand,
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@parismarx Capitalizing on buzzwords like "pods" or "vacuum tunnels", he played the pipers flute to captivate the techbros.

Whats really needed is a public transportation of trains, trams and buses that's publicly managed with subcontractors, not a corporation with monopoly. A system that gets priority over all car traffic that people can rely on to just work.

Like red blood cells transporting oxygen in a body, not the blood clot that is induced demand car traffic.

cragsand, (edited ) to brainfood
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Exposing the scam of color blindness "correcting" glasses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QQtOv2PlOE
A great documentary that reveal poor science papers, unsubstantiated claims and conflict of interest with the authors. The companies selling them use unethical marketing with undisclosed sponsorships of social media influencers.

cragsand, (edited ) to Meme
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Happy flat fuck Friday ๐ŸŠ
And very merry Christmas holidays ๐ŸŽ„๐ŸŽ…

No gators daily here (yet) so reposting
(Song by pigdeons)

mastodonmigration, to random
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How about giving some Mastodon for the holidays!

Even if you support your instance, Mastodon core development needs your help too >>> https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors

Mastodon core team member & CTO @renchap has a message out this evening: https://oisaur.com/@renchap/111614485022791205

"The amount of funding Mastodon got this year is probably less than the salary for one of the top engineers working on Threads... we want to focus on getting more money in 2024 so we can hire more people and iterate more quickly on Mastodon."

cragsand, to threads
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Uh oh... open the floodgates? :AAAAAA:

cragsand, to Twitch
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This is a bit concerning especially for streamers. It may be a good idea to learn a habit of muting your mic when entering passwords in the future.

Science paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01074
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2166661/ai-recognises-passwords-by-the-sound-of-typing.html

18+ cragsand, to random
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Actually... it's just an animated emoji :KEKW:

Every Mastodon server can add their own custom emotes and anyone can add them into their username.

You do this by putting the name of the emote between colons :example:
To get a list of all custom emotes on your server, open a new message, click the emoji and copy the text.

There is a verification system too, but you tie it to your domain name. Follow the guide in settings!

cragsand, (edited ) to fediverse
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BlueSkys official account just highlighted a community developer project to bridge it with

early on decided not to go with the open standard in favor of implementating features like account migration. Planning to start federating next year, they've made some decisions I'm skeptical about.

Many servers will likely decide against bridging, having different values regarding privacy and data collection. What do you think?
https://atproto.com/blog/feature-bridgyfed

Gargron, to theyogscast
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The @yogscast officially opens in about 20 minutes with the Jingle Cats streamโ€”festive cat videos with Lewis and Simon. The charity fundraiser on jinglejam.tiltify.com will launch at the same time.

https://www.twitch.tv/yogscast

rolle, to mastodon
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It seems my ideas about Mastodon layout have been receiving some love: Re-think the overall layout design to more natural direction https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/27102

taylorlorenz, to random
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Been a heavy user of all the Twitter alternatives for a minute now and I gotta say Mastodon is my favorite. There are definitely some features Iโ€™d like to see here (like quote posts and a DM inbox), but the community on Mastodon seems to have the best vibe and there are so many smart techies that itโ€™s been the most helpful for finding sources.

MrLee,
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@taylorlorenz
Did you see this excellent video about Mastodon and Fediverse? I don't feel like the broader public get what's going on here.

https://urbanists.video/w/n7xyeV1kbW8mUKr4ncchhs

cragsand, to vr
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Great video review from Thrillseeker testing the official Slime VR full-body trackers

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QaJhDCtGlBY

cragsand, to Twitch
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Outsourcing moderation entirely to AI, while it may save some money, is not a good idea... full article below.

1500 votes! Thank you all for your support! ๐Ÿ’œ
The more of you who lend your voices, the more you show that this is a real issue that is worth correcting!

Looks like my article regarding this got some traction and votes!
Thanks to streamer @PaymoneyWubby for bringing attention to it.

https://twitch.uservoice.com/forums/951706-moderation/suggestions/47475527-global-ai-automod-does-not-understand-context

cragsand,
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Here it is: "Spirit AI" using "proactive" technology.

I fear this has backfired to instead mean presumed guilt until proven innocent. Makes me think of Minority Report. The road to hell is paved with good intentions and all that I guess.

From a 2022 Twitch blog post:
https://safety.twitch.tv/s/article/An-Update-on-Our-Work-to-Stamp-out-Targeted-Hate?language=en_US

cragsand,

@cragsand
Discussion regarding Twitch moderation AI spread to Reddit where I clarified some questions that arose:

Since this global AI AutoMod remains an undocumented "feature" of Twitch chat from a while back a lot of the conclusions I've listed in the thread are based on deduction from watching active chatters get suspended and tell their stories on Discord and social media.

Most can luckily get their account reinstated after appealing but it relies on having an actual human look at the timestamp of the VOD and take their time to figure out what actually happened as well as get the complete context of what was going on on stream when it occurred. I've seen many apologies from Twitch moderation sent in emails after appealing, but if you get unbanned, an apology or stay banned seems mostly random.

Being banned like this will also make it much less likely that you want to participate and joke around in chat in the future, leading to a much worse chatting experience.

I see some discussions are arguing that all AI flagged moderation events are actually reviewed by humans (but poorly) and this is a possibility. Because of the lack of transparency from Twitch regarding how this works it's very difficult to know for sure how these reviews are done. A manual report in combination with an AI flag is almost certainly a ban. One thing is sure though, and that is that too much power is given to AI to judge in these cases.

Seeing as permanent suspensions from accounts who have had active paying subscriptions for YEARS on Twitch can be dished out in seconds, either those reviewing are doing a lousy job, or its mostly done by AI. Even worse, if those reviewing are underpaid workers who get paid by "number of cases solved per hour" there is little incentive for them to take their time to gather more context when reviewing.

It's likely that if Twitch gets called out for doing this, they have little incentive to admit it as it may even be in violation of consumer regulations in some countries. Getting a response that they "Will oversee their internal protocol for reviewing" may be enough of a win which results in them actually turning this off. Since there is no transparency we can't really know for sure.

A similar thing happened on YouTube at the start of 2023, where they went through all old videos speech-to-text transcripts and issues strikes retroactively. It got a lot of old channels to disappear, especially those with hours of VOD content where something could get picked up and flagged by AI. For the communities I'm engaged in, it meant relying less on YouTube for saving Twitch VODs. It was brought up by MoistCritical about a year ago since it also affected monetization of old videos.

cragsand, (edited )
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Thank you everyone who helped bring attention to this!
But looks like it was shut down by Twitch.

They misinterpreted the whole thing, perhaps intentionally. AI is being used to flag/ban without considering context and I hope that this is reconsidered.

"Twitch Global AI AutoMod does not understand context."

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