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[incognitopolls]

Hypothetical scenario: someone is on Ao3, looking for fanfiction to read. This person only speaks/reads English, and they set the language filter to only show fics written in English.

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[prokopetz]

Honestly, the thing that really burns my ass about mobile web design these days isn't even the bloated ads – it's the pages where there's nowhere that's safe to touch to scroll because every single pixel is a clickable hotspot that whisks you away to somewhere else, including the text. I truly believe the owners of websites that do this should die.

[10001gecs]

one 100 word email written with ai costs roughly one bottle of water to produce. the discussion of whether or not using ai for work is lazy becomes a non issue when you understand there is no ethical way to use it regardless of your intentions or your personal capabilities for the task at hand

with all due respect, this isnt true. *training* generative ai takes a ton of power, but actually using it takes about as much energy as a google search (with image generation being slightly more expensive). we can talk about resource costs when averaged over the amount of work that any model does, but its unhelpful to put a smokescreen over that fact. when you approach it like an issue of scale (i.e. "training ai is bad for the environment, we should think better about where we deploy it/boycott it/otherwise organize abt this) it has power as a movement. but otherwise it becomes a personal choice, moralizing "you personally are harming the environment by using chatgpt" which is not really effective messaging. and that in turn drives the sort of "you are stupid/evil for using ai" rhetoric that i hate. my point is not whether or not using ai is immoral (i mean, i dont think it is, but beyond that). its that the most common arguments against it from ostensible progressives end up just being reactionary

i like this quote a little more- its perfectly fine to have reservations about the current state of gen ai, but its not just going to go away.

[uncanny-tranny]

This might seem like an "old man yells at cloud" situation, but it's just wild growing up and being told how dangerous distracted driving is - how, at highway speeds, you can traverse the length of a football field (100 yards, 91 meters) in a matter of seconds - how one split second sending a text while driving could result in a potential fatal crash, and then getting on the road as a driver and being surrounded by billboards. Their entire purpose is to catch one's attention, so they're lining major roads, which tend to be highways. How is it that you're told how important it is to never be distracted while driving, but still being advertised to?

At best, this type of advertising is an eyesore to pedestrians and motorists and a general waste of electricity to light it, and at worst, it is an active danger considering they are there to advertise and therefore, must catch people's attention.

I'm not even against advertising in theory, but this particular mode bothers me so much and I hate how pervasive it is - especially in large cities or highways.

[transmascgarfield]

liminal spaces / backrooms stamps and userboxes !! ✮ free to use ꩜ self indulgent

[valtsv]

What's the one Quora about the guy who found weed in his infant's room?

[great-and-small]

Wait. Crows really vote to make group decisions or did you make a joke I didn't get?

Well I was about to say yes and link the article but apparently I misremembered the study and it was actually on Jackdaws, which are in the corvid family but not technically crows. Embarrassing!

If you have been on the internet too long like I have, you’ll know that this is actually a hilarious mistake for me to have made because there was a huge drama on reddit like a decade ago that revolved around a biologist specifically ranting about the difference between jackdaws and crows, which spawned a memorable copypasta that was all anyone would post whenever these birds came up for like a year. I still see it from time to time especially in my bio circles.

That’s not really relevant but it’s just kinda funny. Take-home point; I am stupid but corvids are smart 😅

[devilsskettle]

“everyone is so stupid nowadays, no media literacy, no reading comprehension, no attention spans, etc etc etc” and yet no one thinks that they themselves are stupid….. no one ever wants to admit when they’re wrong……. something to think about

[unzip-your-guts]

I'm going to go off for a minute about the whole tumblr shutting down thing

I see a lot of people talking about how "no one wants to pay for tumblr premium and that's [part of] the reason tumblr is going under" and I'd like to address this specifically.

I remember when Tumblr announced they had badges, a shop, blaze, and premium people were really excited! Including me! We could pay to keep the lights on and maybe this meant we could get porn back! Tumblr generally wouldn't have to be beholden to "advertiser friendly" standards that not only affected nsfw creators but also a lot of just openly queer people on this site whose only crime was existing.

Then, Tumblr didn't keep their end of the bargain. The big visible issue at the time was transfems were being banned from the platform. Did you all forget Matt Mullenweg's harassment campaign against predestrogen? Remember how he FOLLOWED HER TO TWITTER and CONTINUED TO HARRASS HER after she left tumlbr?

Remember all the trans women talking about how they didn't feel safe on tumblr anymore? What about the sex workers who got banned for sharing sfw promos of their content? Or the artists who spoke up when Tumblr stole their work for their merch without asking?

We didn't choose not to give Tumblr money because "hehe tumblr anticapitalist". We chose not to give money to Tumblr and by extension Automatic because even when people were eagerly giving them money Tumblr and Automatic showed complete disregard for the same users they were asking to pay to keep this platform running. We made an informed decision to not give money to a platform that refused to put its users first.

Tl;dr: Tumblr's user base was perfectly happy to pay to keep the lights on until it became obvious Automatic and Tumblr didn't respect it's users enough to keep up their end of the bargain. The founder harassed predestrogen (who was a well known transfem user) off of the site, sexworkers being sfw were banned, and artist's work was stolen and used without their permission for merch. Automatic doesn't respect the users they asked for help.

Obligatory don't harrass staff regarding this, all of this is representative of a problem with Automatic, not the people who work for them and I imagine the meager team working on Tumblr is doing their best with the few tools they have.

[thisischeri]

Setting up Windows 95, Microsoft, August 24 1995

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[sillysiluriforme]

Do churches in Paris get an increase in worshippers before hawkmoth's evil plan reveal?

It'll be funny if following hawkmoth's reveal a priest got akumatised because of ppl leaving the church post reveal

(love love love LOVE what you guys are doing here like this au scratches my brain in just the right way it's in insane, if my country's currency wasn't so ass I would definitely sign up for the ko-fi)

Thank you !! The pope has locked himself in his office and won’t come out for love or money

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[prokopetz]

A fun part of being deep into web UI development is starting to be able to tell by feel which specific tools a given site is using.

A not-so-fun part is the concomitant awareness of just how much of the public-facing Internet depends on Javascript libraries that haven't been maintained since 2012.

[lindwur-fr]

Neopets Users: Half of the website is bungled and sitting on top of 90's spaghetti code that is circumvented by having about 50% of the pages to load in the old website format, we can't change our Usernames since they act as our User IDs that are inexorably tied to our accounts, and the only way we can get some apparel is through a loot box that costs real money, sometimes upwards of 10 bucks for a 25% chance of getting what we want. That's ok tho, my favorite neopet has a custom outfit that looks really nice :] Sucks when the clothing that costs realass money doesn't show up on my pet though. I hope they fix that soon

Flight Rising Users: If the staff releases one more dragon breed with 4 legs and 2 wings we're going to file a class action lawsuit and scream forever

[slutpoppers]

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