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Dear ppl - please do not repost stuff from accounts such as "amazing science", "wonders of science/nature", etc. OR posts that use these accounts as sources.
They are spoofers, stealing artwork without attribution, often misrepresenting highly photoshopped (or fully artificial) images as real and not so seldomly posting absolutely bogus explanations.
Nature is beautiful - it does not need Photoshop or wrong explanations to make it sound more sensational.
I am watching a friend livestream Elden Ring; following her fourth (near-immediate) death to Malenia (Blade of Miquella, Who Has Never Known Defeat), she declared, "If my years playing From Software games have taught me anything, it's that if you see a woman sitting by herself in a chair, just leave her alone. LEAVE WOMEN ALONE."
I love video games with positive messaging.
PSA, if someone asks you for contact info (e.g. a phone number) of someone you know, the correct response is "I can't give that to you, but I can give them yours".
It's efficient and adds no round-trips, it's privacy friendly, it's non-awkward and it's social engineering resistant. It's a universally good rule.
And the corollary, of course: Don't ask someone for another person's contact info - ask them to pass on yours.
Discord's "Username#ABCD" concept was one of the ideas I liked about the platform, and I'm sad to see them walk it back.
In my opinion, it was a decent solution for the inevitable problem of "the amount of people with Internet accounts will only ever go up", while still giving a way for people to flaunt seniority - by paying for Nitro to have an #0001 account, that is. In a business sense, that feels like a win-win-win to me: users get to have the same username even if they weren't on the Internet in 2015, seniority wannabes get to flaunt their status, and Discord gets paid.
WIth the new system, I'm worried about them seeing the same type of problem I saw on Twitter: younger nicknames start geting obvious status indicators ("John Numbers"-style) and thus have a lesser social status from the get-go...
Tech bros love to whine about "The EU cookie policy" that simply doesn't exist the way they imagine it. All these popups are the most radical way to interpret the explicit consent demanded by regulations. An ongoing provocation by the ad/tracker industry to blame their ruthless data hoarding on the EU.
in which chatgpt wastes an hour of my life
For a few days I've been emailing back and forth with an agent to schedule an apartment tour. Today we make the 20 minute drive there, and the receptionist says "oh, we don't have any units to show right now."
"But I booked a tour through an agent."
"Who'd you message?"
"Kate"
"Oh, Kate is our bot. Have you heard of ChatGPT?"
This is how I find out they use AI to schedule tours, but the AI doesn't have access to their booking info. We live in hell
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I'm a blue dragoness who loves purple.
I also love programming and fountain pens. Also might have too many domains >.>
Also go by Luna, last name to be figured out, and sadly not penned down as legal yet and won't be for a while :<
Pan, gender confused. Romantically confused, and a bit dumb.
Currently inhabit south of Siberia.
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