TehPers

Ironically, it felt to me like the post deified algorithms itself, but this is the main takeaway:

We should neither mystify, nor deify these systems, because it makes us forget that we have built them ourselves and infused them with meaning.

An “algorithm” is nothing more than a set of instructions to follow to complete some kind of task. For example (and closely related), a sorting algorithm might attempt to sort a list by randomizing the list, then checking if it’s sorted and repeating if not (bogosort).

Lemmy uses an algorithm to sort posts by “most recent”, for example, and I think that having a “most recent” sorting option is noncontroversial.

Where algorithmic feeds become problematic, in my opinion, is when they start becoming invasive or manipulative. This is also usually when they become personalized. Lemmy, Reddit (within a subreddit), and other kinds of forums usually do not have personalized feeds, and the sorting algorithms for “hot” are usually noncontroversial (maybe there’s debate about effectiveness, but none usually about harm). Platforms like FB, Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, YT, etc all have personalized feeds that they use personal data to generate. They also are the most controversial, and usually what is referred to as “algorithmic” feeds.

These personalized feeds are not magic. They often include ML black boxes in them, but training a model isn’t sorcery, nor are any of the other components to these algorithms. Like the article mentioned, they are written by people, and can be understood (for the most part), updated, and removed by people. There is no reason a personalized feed is required to invade your privacy or manipulate you. The only reason they do is because these companies are incentivized to do so to maximize how much ad revenue they make off you by keeping you engaged for longer.

Of note:

Mayor Zohran Mamdani stood with striking nurses, calling their fight a battle for dignity, fairness and the future of the city’s health care system.

“Stood” is, for once, used literally here it seems.

Chad move.

(Hence “probably” since IANAL and I have no clue what state charges they can prosecute)

Look, I know it’s off-topic, but Rust’s biggest benefit is that you only need to type “pub”. Far too many times has my finger slipped when typing it out in C# and other languages.

The EU can start by finding a way for full-time open source contributors to make a living off it. Solve that problem, and you’ll have plenty of open source projects, as well as open source devs who want to move there.

It’s used outside of UK too. I’ve seen it used in the US, for example. Usually it’s just a corporate term that says “you’re fired” but without saying that. They use terms like these all the time to try not to take accountability for fucking someone’s life up.

That seems incredibly unlikely. She wasn’t a part of the altercation at all, aside from being a bystander.

The real issue here is that the officer can probably just be pardoned even if something does happen to him.

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If you already know some programming languages, look for some kind of GUI or game library for it to see if you can use it. If not, something like Blender might be easiest to make in C++, Rust, C (if you’re a masochist), or maybe Zig. This may also influence the shading language you choose. Start with this.

You will need to know some shader language. You have a few options there, but the most popular are GLSL and OpenGL (though I’d prefer GLSL). There’s also WGSL and some others, but they aren’t as popular. Prefer whatever the graphics library you’re using wants you to use.

Math is very heavy on linear algebra. Look up PBR if you want to render realistic 3d shapes. Google’s Filament is well documented and walks through implementing it yourself if you want, but it’s pretty advanced, so you might want to start simpler (fragment colors can just be base color * light color * light attenuation * (N*L) for example).

The title had me super confused, but this clarified it:

MAGA influencers Jack Posobiec and Steve Bannon called for the arrests of Democrats after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good to death.

I don’t really have much to add. I don’t think anything needs to be said about how stupid and awful these people are.

The US envoy to the European Union spoke with the same tone last week, claiming that even the poorest US states, such as Mississippi or West Virginia, now enjoyed a higher standard of living than Germany.

Could have stopped here, to be honest. This statement by the envoy is so absurdly false that it can’t even be claimed to be hyperbole. A better comparison would be Mississippi and South Sudan.

It’s one of the major supermarket chains in NL, which I guess isn’t that obvious to most people, but I miss shopping there because the chains where I am have rotten, moldy produce and AH always had fresh produce and packs of relatively cheap stroopwafel.

Also, related to the post, I’d almost rather be sweeping the floor there. I don’t want to sweep floors, but it’d mean I live there, so yeah.

Ok, ignoring the rest of this comment…

i don’t use capitals by principle bc i am an anarchist and keep it to a minimum to level out all hierarchical systems of control and make you realise these language rules are all social conditioning.

This is wildly unhinged to me. Not the anarchist part, but that I’m supposed to somehow infer this all from the lack of proper capitalization.

Look, I don’t really care if people follow grammar rules or capitalization, and I ignore them on most platforms myself. But I really don’t think it’s this deep, at least for most people.

Anyway, the video is appreciated yes, but the post came across the wrong way since it basically read like keyword soup. It’s better to share videos with a description of the video or some personal commentary on it so that people know what they’re going to watch (or not watch, especially for Youtube links which some will avoid).

I’m not surprised at all that removing distractions like social media could “feel their focus sharpening”.

To answer the title, I could not go without my phone because I need it to authenticate to stuff.

The biggest issue with Youtube is that it has no real competition, at least for traditional long-form content. They have no incentive to improve the user experience.

Reminds me of Steel Leaf Champion, but +1 toughness, +1 mana value (but easier on the green mana), and with extra steps.

Secluded Courtyard at home.

It does let you play non-creature (kindred) spells, but that’s rare.

Odd they didn’t just make it the cost to activate the ability. There’s no real reason for the way it’s worded unless they’re worried about someone stifling this for some strange reason.

It doesn’t remove counters, so not sure how much it’d help against Vivi. I suspect it’s related to blight as well. It prevents the opponent from putting counters on the creature to, for example, play an additional blight cost, meaning they can’t just treat the tapped creature as a resource for blight.

My guess is this was built as a removal spell for limited.

Thank god it’s a legendary. Still seems good regardless, but at least you can only have one, unlike Mother/Giver of Runes.