HarkMahlberg

HarkMahlberg, 3 months ago to random

Frieren is an enigma to me. It lacks the humor and jokes of a comedy, it lacks the drama and tension of a tragedy, it lacks the warmth and affection of a slice of life, and it lacks the majesty and wonder of a fantasy epic. It spends too much time on repetitive, formulaic Monster of the Week chapters to take seriously, and too much time in overcomplicated Shonen battle arcs to snuggle up to. It's distant, transient, and vacant.

The heady premise, the characters, the world, the themes, the slice of life moments, the dramatic battle moments, all these things work individually, but the whole is somehow worth less than the sum of its parts.

Madhouse's animation tho 👍

#frieren #manga

Reddit’s IPO Filing Shows Lots Of Losses After Nearly 20 Years (www.forbes.com)

Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models (arxiv preprint) (arxiv.org)

Abstract:...

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[Opinion piece] Starfield Killed My Hype For The Elder Scrolls 6 (www.thegamer.com)

Valve Goes Hard: Steam Deck OLED Review & Benchmarks vs. ASUS ROG Ally Z1 Extreme, Deck LCD (www.youtube.com)

mapache, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to fediverse

I made this meme for a post in another social network, and I will throw it here.

#Fediverse #Memes #Monsterdon

@memes

Bluesky federation goes live (bsky.social)

HarkMahlberg, 3 months ago

Put simply, yeah. lemm.ee can communicate with lemmy.world, and kbin.social, and mastodon.social, as they're all "federated" with each other (like a federation of nation-states).

In the future you might see bsky.social and bsky.io and bsky.jp etc etc, and they'll be able to talk amongst themselves, but they won't be able to talk Lemmy or kbin or Mastodon.

HarkMahlberg, 3 months ago

This is the same criticism that was made of cryptocurrency's claim to fame regarding decentralization, consensus, and resilience to authoritarian takeover.

"If you take all these different parts of your identity, all the games you play, all the things you buy, all the groups you join, and stick them into one system, that's a central system. It doesn't matter how many servers that system spans, you've pooled all that data in one place."

And ultimately we can make the same criticism of the Fediverse itself. It's nice that there are different platforms, different instances, different communities... but it's still just one entity at the end of the day. This is especially apparent with the spam wave we just saw. Misskey, Mastodon, Lemmy, even kbin was not invulnerable. You don't need to attack them individually, you can attack them all at once, and then they will naturally spread your attack to other instances for you.

HarkMahlberg, 3 months ago

Venture Capital

HarkMahlberg, 3 months ago

None? I don't debate that Blue Sky is corporate-owned while Bitcoin and the Fediverse aren't. Rather, I'm saying the thing they all have in common is that they like to think of themselves as "decentralized" federations of independent systems and users, but in reality they are all "centralized" systems with shared weaknesses. This is the "ideological contradiction" I thought you were referring to.

Google pauses Image Generation in Gemini (newshint.in)

HarkMahlberg, 3 months ago

Gonna shill for kbin's UI just a bit. I like how it handles cross-posted threads.

HarkMahlberg, 3 months ago

Super bowl ads don't mean anything. The crypto world also ran ads before/at the super bowl, look how they're doing now.

Air Canada had to shut down their AI chatbot because it was making up refund policies and costing them money.

New Hampshire is pissed that someone used an AI Biden voice to spread voter disinformation.

If it's not already there, AI is quickly approaching the FO phase of FAFO.

HarkMahlberg, 3 months ago

Poor Duolingo. Once upon a time I used it to learn Japanese, but by the time I could start reading kanji and noticed that duolingo was still constructing sentences entirely out of hiragana, I knew I had outgrown it and moved on to Anki.

Using AI to learn a new language has to be incredibly frustrating - you can either tell where's messing up, or you can't tell at all and then you learn incorrect information..

Unvaccinated Florida kids exposed to measles can skip quarantine, officials say (arstechnica.com)

On Tuesday, nearly 20 percent of the school's 1,067 students were reportedly absent.

‘Ruining my career’: calls grow for Japan to change law on married surnames (www.theguardian.com)

Japan is the only country in the world that requires spouses to use the same name, but after decades of inaction, appetite for change is building

Police arrest LockBit ransomware members, release decryptor in global crackdown (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

shoq, 3 months ago to random

Good morning. Waiting on the anesthesiologist. I'll see y'all on the on the flip side. With a shiny new $70,000 toe.

tveskov, 3 months ago to random Danish

Feeling old yet?

Vudu’s name is changing to “Fandango at Home” (www.theverge.com)

thor, 3 months ago to random

🥔

Controversial benchmarking website goes behind paywall — Userbenchmark now requires a $10 monthly subscription (www.tomshardware.com)