Zagorath

Zagorath , 1 month ago

I had one of these with a new account recently. I forget what platform it was, but it wasn't anything from Meta. Didn't need to move your face in any specific way, but it was obviously doing some checks for signs of life so a simple photo wouldn't work. I found a video of some random dude on YouTube just staring at the camera, and I pointed my camera my computer screen while that played. Difficult, considering they only allowed the front-facing camera to work.

Zagorath OP , 1 month ago

I'm afraid I don't get it.

Zagorath OP , 1 month ago

And if the answer to that is yes...is it more or less gross than if the centaur borked a human?

Zagorath OP , 1 month ago

So if you grossly mispronounce the word, it becomes a pun? I don't think that's a very good pun, tbh...

Zagorath OP , 1 month ago

RP might use a similar vowel, but even most modern British people don't seem to pronounce these very similarly based on this pronouncing dictionary's advice and sample clips. And I can confirm as an Australian that Australian English accents don't pronounce them remotely similarly.

Zagorath OP , 1 month ago

Would a centaur have two navels?

Zagorath , 1 month ago

2 is already a thing. Product placement.

Zagorath , 1 month ago

Video game RPGs often have little minigames for things like this, with your stats helping you manipulate the game in some way. KCD, for example, doesn't have any stats which help you, but you can acquire cheat dice to improve your odds.

It could be fun to play a session like this at the table. Actually play a game of poker or blackjack or something against NPCs, and let players make rolls to help. Some thoughts (using PF2 skill actions):

• Palm an Object (thievery): swap your given card for one you've hidden on your body (requires establishing ahead of time that you've got cards hidden)
• Lie (deception): convince your opponent to bet big when you have a strong hand, or to fold when your don't (DC scales with how good their hand is)
• Create Forgery (society): if they use some unusual or non-standard cards that you couldn't just buy, use this to create your own set for use with Palm an Object. If you're bringing your own full deck you can also subtly mark the back of cards so you know what they are.
• Perception: spot the card that has been dealt
• Perception: read an opponent to see if they're bluffing

I might also allow some sort of intelligence check to do things like knowing your odds of winning, or to automate blackjack card counting, especially if the characters would be better at that than the players are.

Zagorath , 1 month ago

I like that this kinda inies Razira just needed to be trying harder in order to win. It's cute.

Zagorath , 1 month ago

mod, singular.

They were "active" at least as of 4 days ago, though before that one post their previous post is almost a month old, and they haven't left a comment in 6 months, so it's doubtful that they're active as a mod.

You're probably best off going to !firefox which seems more active.

Zagorath , 1 month ago

I downvoted because it's Kurzgesagt and I lost all respect for Kurzgesagt after the whole Addiction and Refugee videos debacle.

Zagorath , 1 month ago

Sure. There's a lot to it, so I'll copy/paste (with some minor modifications) an explanation from elsewhere.

It started when a YouTuber whose channel is called Coffee Break reached out to Philip of Kurzgesagt as part of a video he was doing into the flaws of popular science communication. Specifically, about some significant errors in K's video on Addiction. Instead of agreeing to collaborate, or even giving a simple "not interested, sorry", K took an instant accusatory tone, claiming CB must have been making a "gotcha" piece. CB and K agreed that they would talk more about the matter to try and assuage K's concerns, but K kept stalling while working on a retraction video, at which time K took down the video that was the impetus for this discussion (shortly after, as one of those aforementioned stalling efforts, having said "I never could bring myself to take it down", claiming it would be "cruel and unnecessary" to do so—funny, considering in his AMA attempting to spin the story, he said "I was really stressed out about the addiction and the refugee video for years. Being finally open about my mistakes and deleting them felt like weight leaving my body."). The Refugee video was also taken down along with the Addiction one that CB was interested in.

K claims to be interested in science communication. But here, he decided to make the selfish decision to do what he thought would protect his own personal brand through duplicitous means. He got ahead of the story that falsely assumed was coming, and put up a pre-emptive response to that. Now, CB isn't entirely blameless. In response to the above, CB put out a rather hot-headed reaction to the whole incident. He didn't follow up with K to try to understand what had happened; he lashed out in anger at K's self-righteous arse-covering video.

And then CB started getting harassed. K called out CB, and many of K's friends (other very large, powerful YouTubers such as CGP Grey and Philip de Franco) made very public statements to their audiences attacking CB. It ended up forcing CB into taking down his video, deleting a whole heap of tweets explaining what happened, and putting out an apology. Perhaps it was an apology that CB should have indeed made, but the need for an apology from K was much, much greater. And one never came. K used his larger platform to spin the narrative so that his large audience, and now also the general public who becomes aware of this, almost all take his side.

Incidentally, here's the video that CB was working on at the time. Hari, the scientist discussed in the video whom K worked with on his video discussed earlier, communicated very well with CB on it.

---

And as a separate thing that came out a while after this, Both Kurzgesagt and CGP Grey were early members of Nebula. Today, Nebula is fairly well-known as a creator-owned streaming service. Creators literally have an ownership stake in the business, and are paid out a slice based on their viewership (I don't think the exact formula is public, but presumably some function including number of views, view hours, etc.).

But early on, when it was still taking the shape we know it in today, Grey and Kurzgesagt were members with an ownership stake. They left it a long time ago citing "creative differences" (or some vague nonsense like that). From little pieces that have come out on the rare occasions that existing Nebula creators have said something about it, apparently those two were less interested in the vision of Nebula as a place where multiple creators support each other in growing their collective revenue; instead they wanted to take more of a parasitic approach where they could profit off of the backs of other, smaller creators. Because the then-co-owners weren't interested in that, Grey and Kurzgesagt ended up leaving.

Zagorath , 1 month ago

Yeah it sucks. Though for what it's worth, I'm definitely not suggesting other people should stop watching him. It would be hypocritical of me to do so.

I don't watch Kurzgesagt, but then I never did much. I watched a video of theirs here and there but never got really into it. But I was a huge fan of CGP Grey. The above was only a minor part of it, but some of Grey's other actions have upset me to the point I can't say I really like the guy any more. But I still watch his videos...when he actually puts one out. They're high production value and usually on interesting subjects.

Zagorath , 1 month ago

So, Democracy?

Zagorath , 1 month ago

Hamas isn't a group, it's an ideology*. An ideology created and reinforced by the actions of the Israeli government. And I mean that in the most literal way possible. Netanyahu himself is on record having helped prop up Hamas because having a more violent group helped to delegitimise the Palestinian democracy and weaken the parties they thought of as more likely to succeed.

The only acceptable response here is a total, unilateral surrender from Israel. For them to give back Palestinians all of their land to at least the 1967 borders (but ideally 1947) and to treat the nation of Palestine with the same respect they would give any other foreign country.

Anything less is just Israel continuing to perpetuate the violence that they created.

We look back at apartheid South Africa and say that yeah, violent resistance on the part of black activists was justified and fair. At the time they were called terrorists, same as Hamas today. The same is true of Irish independence movements, of American civil rights activists, and many other movements throughout history.

You can't oppress people for decades and then act all surprised and indignant when they lash out against that.

* yes, it is actually a group and its members are awful people who, ideally, would be stopped. But it is a group formed with an ideology and even if every current member is killed, an identical group will spring up as long as the conditions creating it exist. The idea of stopping the group is a complete fantasy.

Zagorath , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Sorry, but you think that war crimes committed by "individuals" who just so happen to go on to not face any serious punishment, is not evidence of a concerted effort to commit genocide? The indiscriminate bombing of civilians, ordered by the Israeli military's leadership is not genocidal?

How about comments from the Prime Minister himself comparing Palestinians to Amalekites, a group his religion said needed to be exterminated in their entirety

Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass

1 Samuel 15:3

Or how about when another high-ranking member of his party says that Israel's goal is

Erasing the Gaza Strip from the face of the earth.

Is that enough evidence that the goal here is genocide? Would anything suffice?

Zagorath , 1 month ago

The better question is why did the events of 7 October 2023 take place in the first place?

Again, you cannot put the blame on a victim of oppression for lashing out against that oppression. The blame lies squarely on the oppressor. Especially when the violent group which did the lashing out was propped up by the oppressor as a means to justify increasing that oppression.

Zagorath , 1 month ago

Why have 4 of the studies seemingly not used error bars at all‽ Like I get that different analyses will arrive at different results, but they should always have error bars, right?

Zagorath , 1 month ago

blahaj (I assume) uses Let’s Encrypt

Correct.

Screenshot of lemmy.blahaj.zone certificate details showing it was issued by Let's Encrypt.

Zagorath , 1 month ago

Saying that behaviour isn't "brigading" is the same type of logic neonazi influencers use when they say they can't be blamed for one of their fans committing an act of terrorism.

Stochastic brigading might not be the same in degree as stochastic terrorism, but it's the same in kind.

You've got an environment specifically set up, by the means you describe, to promote harassment. That's brigading and trollish behaviour.

Or being against the expansion of NATO as being pro Putin

When you side against Ukraine, you are being pro-Putin. Supporting Putin makes no sense on any level, because it's his warmongering actions that are causing the expansion of NATO. Finland and Sweden had no interest in joining except as protection against the threat posed by Putin's aggression. Ukraine's populace was pretty firmly against NATO membership until Putin first invaded Ukrainian territory in 2014, at which point support became quite mixed, leaning slightly in favour. And Russia's most recent invasion of Ukraine has caused opposition to NATO membership to drop off a cliff. If you're anti-NATO, you should be unequivocally against Putin's actions. Instead we regularly see your users support it. (And that's without going into the complete silence on Russia's domestic politics, considering your claimed "hardline LGBT inclusive" stance.)

Zagorath , 1 month ago

When you deliberately set up your front page in a way designed to encourage that? When you promote a culture of harassment rather than genuine engagement? Yup. You do yourself no favours by this sort of weak dismissal. It's the same logic a nazi would use to try and shift blame away from themselves for their fans being terrorists.

Zagorath , 1 month ago

without breaking Kayfabe

You can't just throw out terminology like that to explain something to someone who has already told you they don't understand rap culture…

Zagorath , 1 month ago

That second screenshot adding in more people to this out of nowhere. Aubrey? I have no idea who she is or why he hates her too. Just cos she supports Drake in some way?

Zagorath , 1 month ago

Right, so kayfabe is like…"don't break the masquerade"?

Zagorath , 1 month ago

Ah right, cheers.

Zagorath , 1 month ago

Going from Moscow is gonna take a LOT longer than from Vladivostok

In the flat Earth proposed by the above picture? Moscow should be faster, shouldn't it? Even if they're avoiding flying over other countries, enter the Baltic Sea near St Petersburg and navigate the Danish Straits; or if that's too close, fly North of Norway & Sweden, either way, much shorter than from Vladivostok.

If we're talking the real world, it depends on which part of Alaska you're talking about. To Anchorage, it's definitely "a LOT" longer. Along the northern coast of Alaska though, it's actually...well, still longer, but by a surprisingly small amount, thanks to Moscow being so much further north than Vladivostok and able to take the northern passage.

Zagorath , 1 month ago

I've used C but never C++. What does it mean for a variable's type to be int&? From when I've used it, & would be used to create a pointer to a variable, but the type of that pointer would be int*.

edit:

never mind, I looked it up. It's a "reference" instead of a pointer. Similar, but unlike a pointer it doesn't create a distinct variable in memory of its own.

Zagorath , 1 month ago

Jeanne de Florette and Manon des Sources are both astonishingly great films. But I'm not sure I get the connection here. It's been a while since I saw them, is there something I'm failing to remember?

Zagorath , 1 month ago

It can be used in bad ways, but if it's used in the right way you should never have the situation you just described.

Zagorath , 1 month ago

I don't think so. When I've seen it done it's usually not been random values injected (except when those values are secret keys which should absolutely not be stored in code to begin with), it's usually injecting a service. Another class, usually with a name that makes it easy to trace down. Like if you're building an OrderService, that might take as a dependency an IProductService, which would have injected into it the class ProductService (personally, I don't like the Hungarian notation that C# uses, but it's a convention and my preference for sticking to strong conventions for the sake of consistency outweighs my distaste for Hungarian notation). That's easy to find, and in fact your IDE can probably take you straight to it from the OrderService's constructor.

Zagorath , 1 month ago

Very interesting, if not surprising.

I wonder if this would remain true if you controlled for other highly correlated factors like age and political affiliation. Do young leftists who watch cable news (admittedly likely a very small population) still support Israel's genocide? What about old conservatives who use TikTok?

While on the subject though, why the emphasis on cable news? The article made no mention of traditional free-to-air TV.

Zagorath , 2 months ago

People telling you you're and arsehole and treating you like what arsehole is then expressing their freedom of speech.

It's also a consequence of your speech.

Zagorath , 2 months ago

Where the fuck did murder come from?

Zagorath , 2 months ago

I mean sure, if you leap all the way from 0 to 1,000 for no reason.

Zagorath , 2 months ago

Because "a consequence" doesn't mean "any and every possible consequence anyone could think up".

Zagorath , 2 months ago

I love the idea of the app, but I think some greater coordination with the BDS movement would help. Instead of a simple "yes/no", tell the user of the app which category the product/company is listed in by BDS and let them make up their own mind.

For example, currently products in the "pressure targets" are displayed exactly the same as "consumer boycott target". As BDS says, boycotts are most effective when they're more highly targetted. So there's no problem with boycotting the pressure targets, but there is if someone uses the fact that they're boycotting a pressure target as an excuse to feel good and not boycott a boycott target. Being clearer could only help.

Relevant BDS page.

Zagorath , 2 months ago

Gonna be honest, there's no price I'd be willing to pay for YouTube Premium.

I used to pay for YouTube Red. I didn't cancel it because it was too expensive, I cancelled it in retaliation for all the other shitty things YouTube has been doing. If YouTube wants me to return as a paying member, they need to reinstate the ability for small accounts to monetise their YouTube accounts; they need to stop demonetising/restricting educational content that might be related to war, weapons, sex, or sexuality; and they need to change their copyright policy to make it much, much harder to abuse false claims.

Zagorath , 2 months ago

He wasn't exactly subtle about it himself.

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

Zagorath , 2 months ago

No copyright intended

Zagorath OP , 2 months ago

A bit late to the party

Yes, well... 5 days later on a comment that was 7 days after the OP could be described like that 😅

But yeah, thanks for sharing! How did it go, moving your community? Do you reckon you get roughly the same amount of interaction now?

Zagorath , 2 months ago

The meme says "IRS", so it's obviously intended to refer to America.

But outside of that context, they'd fucking deserve it for their shitty dark pattern UX trying to export American tipping culture into the civilised world. If people want to tip, they can do it using cash (so the money actually goes to the person you intended it to!). Or at most, there could be a little "tip" button in the corner somewhere that then takes you to a page like this. It shouldn't be shoved in our faces like this.