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PixelProf

@ PixelProf @lemmy.ca

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  • Every generation has some product/ingredient that they didn’t know was dangerous at the time: tobacco, lead, asbestos, etc. What is that item for this generation?

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  • Conversely, if smart watches with accurate health monitoring become cheap and commonplace it might drastically improve health outcomes by motivating people to see doctor's when needed for subtle heart issues that would otherwise go unchecked.

  • Addictive

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  • I'll just add that routine is in itself a major challenge - for me, I don't have routines as much as I have laying things out in a way that reminds me to do things regularly. For my meds, I just take it once in the morning, but the one routine I try my best to maintain is flipping the pill bottle upside down. If it's upside down, there's a high chance I either took it, or forgot to flip it before bed, but it's a visual reminder so that I don't need to actively remember to take them on routine, but if I see the pill bottle in a state, I know what action to take.

    That's probably one of the hardest things I've seen family members try to understand. I'm not trying to imply anything about you, this is just a related example, but I've had family members see my ADHD family members as just being lazy or intentionally ignoring things, or thinking they're just selfish or whatever. The problem is, even if it's beneficial, a part of ADHD is not having control over where your memory and focus is being put. You may want something, but that doesn't mean you'll sustain attention or effort to achieve it, and conversely you may place it in places you really don't care about to a very consuming degree...

  • I found this rare gem in my PC

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  • "Where did you learn this skill?" "The olde rules prevent me from discussing this further."

  • I found this rare gem in my PC

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  • Foul Bachelorette Frog caused some real uncomfortable and eye opening ruckus for a lot of folks.

  • Reddit enrages users again by ditching thank-you coins and awards

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  • I think it would be a great system to easily donate to instance hosts if it was supported as an instance opt-in feature.

  • Careful, you might bump into the fourth wall

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  • My bones are tingling.

  • Got any games on your phone?

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  • My cat loves watching Kingdom on the TV, what s cutie

  • let him cook

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  • In Canada, we play this game where we complain that all employees (aside from "contract workers" in gig work) make minimum wage and don't live off of tips like our American counterparts, then someone complains that minimum wage still isn't livable so tips are still important, then someone retorts that this only means everyone in minimum wage needs tipping or nobody needs tipping, which usually ends up in a lot of poop being slinged around until you get guilted into tipping before receiving any service.

  • Folder

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  • This mouse? Believe it or not, file.

  • Modern life is so tied with smartphones living without it is increasingly becoming harder

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  • I'm at least happy to see some decent, really cheap (<$100 CAD) smart phones popping up that are competent enough to work with, but it's still such a single point of failure for so many aspects of life right now. Not even not having a phone, but a dead battery (and inability to swap it out with a backup like you used to), spontaneously breaking, losing cell service at an inopportune time to access your virtual tickets and things.

    I don't mind smart phones, but the single point of failure for so much is really not good.

  • Modern life is so tied with smartphones living without it is increasingly becoming harder

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  • Interesting - I've been thinking about trying to decentralize lately, and been having fun collecting my data from sites to analyze my own behaviours in data and build unique recommendation engines for myself and was recently thinking about trying to build a crawler and DIY search engine for myself. Any tips/pitfalls on getting started with that?

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    AI to translate single images to 3D game engine assets

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  • I might be crazy, but I'm wondering if we'll bypass this in the long run and generate 2D frames of 3D scenes. Either having a game be low-poly grayboxed and then each frame is generated by an AI doing image-to-image to render it out in different styles, or maybe outright "hallucinating" a game and it's mechanics directly to rendered 2D frames.

    For example, your game doesn't have a physics engine, but it does have parameters to guide the game engine's "dream" of what happens when the player presses the jump button to produce reproducible actions.

  • Does it feel like the fediverse is exclusively used by older tech nerds?

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  • Yeah, I think framing it similar to the old days might help, but I could be wrong. Like, you aren't signing up for (just to web-equivalent) PHP Fusion or something, you're signing up for your gaming clan's forum, or your roleplay group, or your Canadian phreak BB. The difference with Lemmy is just that you also indirectly sign up to receive content from a lot of other places using the same protocol.

    IMO, I think the framing/abstraction will make or break the future of the paradigm for mainstream consumption. Not to get into another repeat of the EEE discussion, but assuming nothing nefarious from something like Threads, that would mean people start an account there and then find a niche group with their friends to go hang out on instead.

    I also have to push back against the pushback against the paradigm going mainstream, because again IMO a move back toward decentralized platforms is really important for the future of the internet and quite frankly the global economy.

    Just editing to expand, but I think maybe there's a problem in framing Lemmy or Mastodon as communities in themselves, because it really conflicts with the model of instancing and email that is being used to describe them.

  • Does it feel like the fediverse is exclusively used by older tech nerds?

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  • Same! If you know of any online courses suitable for postsecondary students looking to build tech skills I would appreciate it, otherwise I might need to try getting a duty reallocation for a bit to put time into building one.

  • Does it feel like the fediverse is exclusively used by older tech nerds?

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  • I agree with this, but we'd need to draw lines in the analogy. For example, my CS students struggle with downloading and installing a program and don't know how to locate find files that they've saved in a text editor. We'd be concerned if the people driving didn't know where their turn signal was, hah.

    A lot of students grew up using Chromebooks as their primary computer, so they're largely limited to app stores and web browsers.

  • Second largest Lemmy instance preemptively un-friends Facebook

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  • I think the main fear would be that a few really cool communities naturally spark up, even if they're niche, and could long term create that fracture when you have to choose between keeping with that community (and any corporate backed extensions) or not.

  • I get why all the sites are getting shittier (interest rates etc etc) -- but why are they all getting shittier in the same shitty dumb way?

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  • There's the points others have made about the business model - for a long time, the "momentum" oriented approach was essentially a Ponzi scheme where investors would invest in a business that would take the risk of major losses so that they could destroy all competition in a space, then eventually, turn a profit by changing their tactics in user-unfriendly ways long down the line since you have the monopoly.

    For this particular issue, though, I think we're seeing the Rotten Tomatoes effect en masse. If you want to make something bold and impressive, you need something people love or hate - not something between. With Rotten Tomatoes as an example, it's binary - Positive or Negative. This incentivizes movie production to produce things that are not controversial, just things that people won't strongly dislike.

    With centralized platforms, the product models stopped being about providing high quality products and began valuing time spent on the platform. Produce a website/platform that most people are okay with and the majority aren't extremely opposed to. This means it won't do anything bold, but it does mean you'll pick up a critical mass and become the dominant force, as you're appealing to the majority.

    In a content-driven economy, whoever has the users and the content rides that positive feedback loop to monopolies. More users = more content = more users.

    Algorithms get worse because they're appealing to "Good Enough". If it gets bold and suggests something that you might either love or hate, then you might hate it and leave the site for a bit, but if everything is good enough, you'll stick around. Web design gets blander because things get familiar, and especially after the start of Facebook, we learned that people really choose familiarity over novelty. Movies, TV, and Music get blander because they are now driven by the same platform economics where sticking around on the platform is valued more than appreciating the content of the platform.