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Cake day: July 10th, 2023

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  • You’ll find that most people on Lemmy are not super keen on AI, and using an AI summary to back up your points will pretty much universally be met with ridicule.

    I personally think it’s dangerous to use AI as a fact checker. It might be great a lot of the time, but you’re basically deciding that you’re fine with the random data and facts that it completely fabricates. To that end, “asking an AI if you’re right” is NOT functionally equivalent to “making sure you’re right.”



  • It just has the same energy as Roger Ebert’s weird essay about how video games can’t possibly be art. Do you also not think games, movies, tv, plays, dances, etc are not art?

    Hopefully you know that “pro wrestling” is an incredibly broad term, and if you’re only thinking about WWE, you’re only getting a piece of the picture. But even beyond that, even if every single CURRENT production of pro wrestling was actually this “kitche” term that you describe, can you maybe see the absurdity in thinking that it’s literally impossible for it to be art going forward? You can’t imagine a compelling narrative that also includes some people doing over-the-top gymnastics on top of each other?

    I guess… Why is it important to broadly dismiss an entire genre of performance as “not art”? Wouldn’t you rather describe your view as “so far what I’ve seen hasn’t been art to me, and I don’t really care to investigate further” and leave it at that?



  • What I don’t love about this narrative is that it kinda implies that all Democrats are the same and in on this shit.

    There definitely are a lot of corpo Dems that are willing to bend the knee when called upon, but pretending literally all politicians are in on this level of conspiracy is basically giving up. Figure out which Dems reliably fuck up votes and focus some fucking energy on them.

    And then also focus on implementing something like Ranked Choice or Approval voting locally.

    Fucking damn it, I know there are some really shitty rich people right now being absolute wads, but don’t let your awareness of those shitty people make you think that everyone in the world is like that.







  • Loving the game too! I’ve been telling people Dark Souls plus Links Awakening with some platforming in the too, but it’s a hard game to describe.

    I am pretty disappointed in the story. They feel like they kinda halfway committed to having an actual story, but completely forgot to make Mina an actual character. With how hard the game rubs the “twist” in your face, having a talking protagonist just ignore clear signs that something is wrong was… Annoying. I almost thought the game was hinting at me to go find/talk to Thorne but no.


  • Because I’m lazy and want to be able to watch my stuff from anywhere, and let my friends access my library easily across all their devices.

    Setting up Jellyfin for remote access is not trivial. Maybe for a lot of self hosting people it’s fairly simple, but it’s not nearly as simple as just downloading and running the Plex server software.

    I paid for a lifetime account when it was 250, and I felt like it was worth it. At 750 like it is now, I probably would actually have considered figuring out Jellyfin. As with everything, it’s a money/time analysis and it’s less of my time to host Plex.