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Fine

Me, mostly.

If you don’t mind paying for podcasts you have options. If you don’t want to do that I’m not sure what else you can expect.

Too many people are ignorant of this.

I have a belief (not based in law, just my personal feeling) that once you post something in a conversation in a public forum, you no longer have any natural right to control it. By posting it in a conversation on the public internet, you have, in a practical sense, waved any right to control it. That is a part of a conversation that belongs to the public, and you gave your comment away freely. It is public record. You cannot demand that it be forgotten or erased any more than I can demand that something I said to my friends yesterday be forgotten and erased.

If I hosted a forum, I would make it clear that this is the policy, and I would not allow people to delete comments that they posted. Edits would be allowed, but the history would be available. Deletions would only ever happen if I was legally compelled.

This all gets complicated if someone posts private information about a third party. I would rapidly delete such posts and ban such users. The third party never consented to anything, so it’s not the same.

I have some sympathy for these people, but some don’t seem to realize that Microsoft is not going to be upset over them leaving. They are not valuable to Microsoft as users. If they are unable or unwilling to pay now, Microsoft wants them gone. They are being shown the door. Making a post about deleting your copilot+ subscription or whatever is like bragging about being kicked out of a nightclub.

Beast is more attractive as a beast than as a pretty boy human. That’s my unsolicited opinion, and you have to be nice to me because it’s pride month.

For what it’s worth, I’m with you. /s is for cowards! YOLO that shit 😎

Yeah, I do not use it for browsing in general, but I consider the Ungoogled Chromium flatpak to be a necessary tool. It is what it is.

Nah, I like the style in the new remake too. Not enough to afford a Switch 2, though, so I’m not really helping I guess.

I love the 3DS 3D effect. I had that shit on 100% of the time, and have missed it dearly.

I love retro gaming so much, and there are way more than enough games out there from decades past to last a lifetime. (This, of course, depends on continued availability of this library via unofficial channels.)

There also are a vast quantity of newer indie games which don’t require high end hardware. I’d love to see a renewed interest in smaller scale projects.

It’s more than enough some types, but I agree, probably not the average lemmy user. I’m happy enough with their search results to pay for a higher tier.

Yeah, I hear you. There’s really no practical difference between saying 174cm and 17.4dm I think from the American perspective where 6ft is a sort of benchmark for adult male height, so psychologically that 6 looms large. CMs obviously work fine, but I’m trained to see the bigger 17 as a sort of benchmark/goal. None of that is healthy or rational, though.

Maybe it’s easier to say “Oh, they’re 17dm” or “15dm” and get a general sense for the height of a person. When you need to get precise, it’s not useful.

I get that. I wouldn’t publish the code anywhere until an alpha is more or less ready and pretty well tested, and yes, I understand the importance of making sure it behaves in an expected, performant and pro-social manner with the existing compatible fediverse apps.

I’m not too worried about it, but thanks for your genuine concern about my reputation. ;) Since I’m the one writing the code, I’m more worried about the quality of that, if anything.

For what it’s worth, I’ve been working on (yet another) ActivityPub based micro blogging application and LLMs have been enormously helpful and so far as I can tell, correct. Often it cites the AP specs and its extensions, as well as specific implementations from existing major AP apps. It can show me expected outputs, what responses from my app should look like in response to different requests from other servers, and quickly give context for features like Mastodon’s shared inbox. I’m not having it simply generate code, but I think I’m still moving way faster than I otherwise could. I don’t recall it ever giving me incorrect information.

It’s the first time I’ve used an LLM as a tool this way, and I’m pretty impressed with it. I’m using the assistant made available through Kagi.

Well to be fair, it’s more than satisfactory for gooning. I’ve heard.

This is kind-of a non-sequitur to begin with, but we should not be burning oil to make energy— it’s stupid. We should stop doing that as fast as is possible, and the culture war element mentioned by the person you’re replying to is a obstacle that needs to be dealt with. As you’re keen to point out, it’s useful for manufacturing many vitally important things, so no longer setting it on fire is the only sane move. (Among many other reasons.)

The word “standard,” meaning “level of quality” or “rule” evolved from the physical battle flag on a pole, as in “standard bearer.” So for things like standardized lengths of measurement, you could say “we follow the king’s standard for what a foot is,” which was a metaphor for following the king’s rule on what that length was. That further stretched into a level of quality or conduct that needed to be achieved.

This might be obvious to some, but I only recently realized. A standard was originally a flag on a poll, meant to be visible across a battlefield as a direction for all to follow.

I love that game (so far) but haven’t had much to do with the fandom. It’s the type of property that has what become “comfort characters” for large numbers of people, and their conceptions of what these characters are like become really important to some, so I can easily imagine heated disputes.

I never thought “you know, Ralsei might be transgender,” but it wouldn’t blow my mind. I’m not sure he’s said anything so far that indicates that he’s preoccupied with gender much. (I’m saying “he” because I’m pretty sure the game does, while consistently using “they” for Kris.) But there are still a few chapters to go!

Right, I almost, and probably should have, mentioned that. They use a different, parallel system that is also not available to the kind of alternative devices people on this site are interested in.