awooo

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With the stuff happening around YouTube and some people using different frontends, I thought it'd be nice to have a shared space to post interesting content and bypass the algorithm, which doesn't really work unless you have an account. Personally I'm also a bit tired of having awful videos recommended to me that impact my mental health.

So feel free to post anything cool you find here so we can have a more organic way to discover content!

[–] awooo@pawb.social 11 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Not sure myself, I'm trying to get into some IT jobs (not necessarily programming) that aren't anywhere near social media and are more focused on internet infrastructure, but getting any job is hard when you're starting out and I would like to avoid the evil ones at all cost.

But just as there is no ethical consumption in capitalism, there's no consensual work, so the values of wherever you end up working won't align with yourself or the other workers fully, it's just a question of degree.

[–] awooo@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yeeeh I fucking hate tankies...

They're just like nazis, but they're almost always competent trolls who know how to be annoying.

[–] awooo@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A fursona is a better investment, benefits include:

  • cute (even when you deny it)
  • everyone loves it
  • can be whatever you want, lots of choices
  • expression of your inner self
  • versatile
  • can't really be stolen
  • inner emotional support
  • increases in personal value as you grow with it
  • won't lie to you about making free capitalism coins™
 

drawing of Discord's UI

drawing of YouTube's UI

drawing of Mastodon's UI, not accurate at all, but includes 3 panels and different timelines

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by awooo@pawb.social to c/aiquirks@pawb.social
 

Meme

Object permanence

Successful CAPTCHAs

Failed CAPTCHA

Mirror test

Describing AI-generated images

(the privacy blur kicks in with this one)

Cat statue made by GPT-4 (through python code)

Creeper inside house

Bad depth perception, good planning based on tools in the hotbar!

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by awooo@pawb.social to c/tech@pawb.social
 

Really nice video on this, what are your thoughts? How can we turn it around?

[–] awooo@pawb.social 8 points 1 year ago

Hmm, you could probably extend the protocol to do eventual consistency across instances if that ever becomes a problem, remote instances could keep their own counts and only send aggregated updates.

 

The creators of Lemmy are tankies and have some pretty despicable views, maybe we shouldn't advertise giving them money.

I like the software, it feels cozy outside some communities from lemmy.ml, and I hope someone forks it eventually, but for now removing the link should be easy to do.

Relevant thread: https://mstdn.social/@feditips/106835057054633379

[–] awooo@pawb.social 3 points 1 year ago

Swapped bicycles with a classmate, it was a very old one and he wasn't familiar with how the brake handles were positioned, so he slammed into my side and the wheels got bent and locked up, sending me flying into the grass on the side of the road lol It wasn't that bad besides a few scratches and bruises, but the bikes were a bit worse off...

A more recent contender is when I slammed my right thumb into a door frame at full speed and almost broke it, I had to get an xray to confirm everything was fine.

[–] awooo@pawb.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Making tech thinner and sleeker doesn't always make it better, I think devices that follow their function look great!

Doesn't mean there should be no product design, but don't try to hide things for the sake of hiding them, leave the screws visible, show off the internals, try to complement them!

[–] awooo@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

I feel like that's where online payment systems really let us down. If there was an easy universal way to pay a few cents to view content and it wasn't a privacy and fee nightmare, I'm sure people would have no problem doing that. Digicash systems come to mind, I hope they could make a comeback one day.

But I also fear a lot of the damage could've been done already, kids who grow up with the internet now will probably only remember big tech platforms and may not be very eager to try out something more complicated.

[–] awooo@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

Not really (I wasn't using Google directly anyway), I think it fills a slightly different niche than search engines.

It's good as a fuzzy search for the sum of public knowledge, since it can understand quite complex queries and point you in the right direction, then you can go to regular search engines to find more specific stuff.

Bing was fun to exploit, but I don't really see why it's useful, it tends to always look up information which means it provides less of its own knowledge, I can do the searches myself better than an LM. Maybe it can provide more concise answers than all the SEO crap everywhere, but that can be avoided by searching on specific websites like reddit.

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