millie 1d ago • 66%
They're certainly exposed to a very different living situation than would be typical for them in most cases, to their detriment. For example, bees that make their combs in frames lose substantial heat from their hives, which usually helps protect against disease and even predation. They're also often given a sugar water substitute to eat when their honey is drained off for human consumption, which is nowhere near as nutritious. They're also moved around on the bee keeper's schedule, which may be a substantial stressor compared with a hive that stays in one place. Never mind that they may be exposed to climates that substantially differ from where that particular variety of honey be evolved.
Given issues like colony collapse disorder, it's pretty clear that many forms of bee keeping aren't really great for bees. Does that constitute torture? That's hard to tell, but it certainly does put pressures on them in multiple aspects of their lives and the lives of their hives as a whole that they wouldn't be dealing with otherwise, and which probably aren't pleasant.
Would you consider it torture, or at least cruel, to forcibly relocate the population of a city to an area that's freezing cold, force them to live in poorly insulated homes, make them eat food that isn't healthy for them, and steal the product of their labor in exchange for their efforts?
millie 6d ago • 100%
Gotta push the island across the Atlantic I think. Vote on it, I'm sure the logistics will sort themselves out after.
millie 7d ago • 100%
The article is literally about you.
millie 1w ago • 100%
Are they? Seems to me like they're corporate leeches sucking the life out of every industry and offering nothing of value in return.
millie 1w ago • 100%
Be the change you want to see in the world. Start developing what people want and be responsive to suggestions. A handful of motivated developers can get a lot done, especially in the context of whatever niche they're focused on.
millie 1w ago • 100%
Tell that to the C-levels who literally are putting in orders.
millie 1w ago • 86%
Honestly, I think the bar for games these days is totally warped. People expect these cinematic masterpieces with ultra-realistic graphics in gigantic 3d landscapes with massive autonomy, extensive character creation options, full voice acting, juiced up complex mechanics, and zero bugs, and they want it yesterday. If it costs more than a full tank of gas they'll say it's too expensive, and if it isn't fully patched on day 1 they'll call it unfinished.
It seems almost obvious that simpler 2D games are a better and more satisfying alternative in this landscape. No wonder AAA studios seem like they're racing to the bottom.
How are you supposed to get all that and also have a decent story or a sense of cohesion? We need to simplify.
millie 1w ago • 100%
millie 1w ago • 100%
That's a really weird way of framing a hobbyist who isn't being paid using their free time to code what they feel like coding. It seems to me that people who show up and make demands about what someone else does are literally attempting to dictate how that person spends their time. Someone coding what they want, rather than coding what other people want them to code, is just.. independent? Autonomous? Do you really think that someone spending their free time how they want to constitutes being a 'mini dictator'?
It sounds to me like some end users like to have power over others and feel entitled to dictate how those who make the things they use spend their time.
Personally, my suggestion to people with that attitude would be that they learn to make what they want themselves rather than demanding that others do it.
millie 1w ago • 100%
You post so much that makes sense and seems rational and well thought out. I don't understand how you can expect anyone can think you're acting in good faith when you come out with this shit, though. It's so willfully divorced from reality that it's stunning. I literally don't understand how you could come to these conclusions if you're anything other than a state actor or someone being paid.
It confuses the hell out of me.
But I'll be voting for Harris. I'll be banging away at how terrible her stance on Israel is literally on November 3rd right next to you if it doesn't change, but not until we make sure Trump doesn't get the keys to our nuclear arsenal and to the White House.
But honestly? I'd be surprised if your account remains active at that point. It's really, really hard for me to imagine that you might actually be a real person who cares about anything rather than just a character being played by someone so incredibly cynical that you don't mind burning the entire world down for a few bucks.
millie 2w ago • 100%
Seems like obscurity is kind of an essential component to successful archival work. Art being preserved through capitalism's daily attempts to burn the digital library of Alexandria won't be achieved with flashing neon signs directing as many people as possible to the archives.
millie 3w ago • 100%
That sounds like grounds for some kind of legal action. Antitrust? Class action? I don't know the specifics of the best strategy for approaching it, but if Nintendo is showing a pattern of using their legal team to harass legally operating emulator developers that sounds like something that should be actionable.
millie 3w ago • 100%
Is the new one better than Tears of the Kingdom?
millie 3w ago • 100%
It literally only just now clicked that the guy who I was friends with before I transitioned who immediately flipped on me afterward has always been a big Joe Rogan fan. I don't know why that took so long.
Anyway, thanks Will Ferrell.
millie 4w ago • 100%
I'm not sure proffering apologetics for war crimes is appropriate for Beehaw. Especially not when you clearly label Hamas as a terrorist organization and specifically not a legitimate steward of the civilian population's will.
millie 4w ago • 100%
GTA Peace is kind of weirdly named for the content of the game. Maybe it's meant to be ironic?
millie 1mo ago • 100%
I have to be honest. Between this and the vegan thing a while back, I feel a bit of tone deafness in your "humor" posts.
millie 1mo ago • 100%
Honestly, if there were tight restrictions on how the footage is used and what cases it's allowed to be turned over for, these are probably less dangerous than actual armed human beings running around. Robots don't have a sense of egotism unless they're programmed to, and hopefully wouldn't be armed.
Knowing the kind of tech bros that seem to typically start companies like this, though? I could see it being an incredibly intrusive form of data mining. Seems like yet another case of technology that could be really helpful in the right hands, but a mess of enshittification in the hands of money-grubbing cap capitalists.
millie 1mo ago • 100%
Having played Palworld a bit, some of the monsters are distinct from Pokemon, but some of them are incredibly obvious clones.
But like, looking back at some of the knock-off toys I remember seeing in the 80s and early 90s? It definitely seems like copyright has gotten more robust in its attempted overreach.
millie 1mo ago • 100%
Someone ought to invert the colors, stick it in a jokey box, and call it a fair use parody.
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>Using the formulas from corollary 1 of Aronow and Green [2013], we find that untreated compliers have an implied turnout rate of 66.88%, whereas treated compliers have an implied turnout rate of 78.48%. Given the high base rate of voting among compliers in this study, it is interesting that friend-to-friend appeals elevated turnout so profoundly. The results of this study suggest that simply talking to your friends, even just through a text message, is *far more likely* to get them to go out and vote than organized but impersonal voter mobilization. If you want to secure the outcome of the election, text or call your friends about it, especially your friends in swing states. Moreover, *encourage them to do the same*. If a text will increase their voter participation, it'll probably also get a decent number of them to send a similar text themselves. Gloom and doom is not going to win the election. Endless panicked articles are not going to win the election. People going out and voting will, and you, person reading this, have the power to get more people to go vote. It will do more than a century of posting on Lemmy would.
In the past few weeks I feel like I've seen a lot more conservative comments being posted on Beehaw. Where before it seemed like occasionally some dazed right-winger would wander through now and then, it now seems a bit more like they specifically show up to any thread that brushes up against one of their pet issues. The most recent example I've noticed is around the stuff with the Ladybird devs being weird about being asked to use inclusive pronouns, but it seems like a pattern. Has anyone else noticed this? Any thoughts on a course of action other than blocking them all individually or reporting particularly grievous examples? I really would be disappointed to see every single thread here slowly inundated with pettiness and hate.
For years I was using Drupe, but they've thoroughly enshittified. What used to be a sleek, extremely functional dialer app with a fantastic UI has become a slow, ad-filled sack of garbage with a still pretty good UI. A few months back I had enough and I switched to FOSS Dialer. The biggest thing on my radar was looking for something that isn't prone to being turned to adware garbage for a quick quarterly profit, so it seemed like a good fit. But in the past few months I've probably made more accidental calls in a single week than in the years that I used Drupe. It's super obnoxious. Click once, and I call some random person. When I open my phone it literally just starts at the top of my contact list. Drupe was great because I could arrange which frequent numbers I wanted to use in which order along the left side of my screen and calling or texting just required me to drag it over to a spot on the right side of my screen. I could call people without looking at my phone, I hardly ever called the wrong number or accidentally dialed someone, and it was really comfortable and easy to use. If it hadn't turned to a bloated piece of crap I'd have used it forever. So my question: is there anything more along the lines of Drupe in terms of UI that is at least not at the moment packed full of ads, slow as hell, and collecting all sorts of data? I've kinda had it up to here with FOSS Dialer.
I've been looking more seriously at making a permanent switch to Linux, as I don't plan to ever upgrade to Windows 11. I'm currently running a dual-boot with Ubuntu Studio, and I've been trying to piece together everything I need to move my regular usage over. I *think* I've got enough of a grasp of Jack at this point to replace Voicemeeter, which was one of my big hurdles. The next, though, is Discord's incomplete functionality. For those who don't know, audio doesn't stream with screen sharing over discord on Linux. I do a lot of streaming with friends, so we kind of need this functionality. I know it's possible to run a discord client on Linux that fixes this problem, but given that it's technically against the ToS, I don't really want to risk my account. I have a bunch of stuff set up for game servers, including all sorts of webhooks and ticket tool configurations and the like, so it isn't really worth risking. I know there are some VLC plugins I can use to stream video files, but that doesn't help if I'm trying to stream a game or my DAW. Has anyone found solutions that work for them? The easier for the person I'm streaming to, the better.
Archive Link: https://web.archive.org/web/20240330224149/https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/28/ai_bots_hallucinate_software_packages/ This is fascinating. I've certainly seen AI hallucinating things like imaginary functions in gdscript. Admittedly, it does it a lot more with gpt3 than with gpt4 on a subscription, which is consistent with what 3 vs 4 has access to, but I'm sure the problems apply in a lot of other use cases that might have not had the benefit of more recent documentation. I suppose it's not surprising that a number of larger entities have been falling prey to this, as they keep trying to inappropriately jam AI into their production lines where it's incapable of doing the job. Pretty clever vulnerability to find, though. Ultimately, this is probably a good thing for human coders, imo. The more LLMs demonstrate that they're not effective without robust human intervention, the better.
I love this thing. Pick a key, it shows you where the scale is. One octave or whole fretboard, with notes or without. This makes learning scales and just picking a scale and composing in it so much easier!
A couple of months ago I started looking at composing some music for a game I'm working on. I started fiddling around with DAWs with just mouse and keyboard and a few weeks later I picked up a little 2 octave MIDI-keyboard to make it a little easier. That lead to diving into music theory, which made me want to pick up a bass. A few weeks later and a couple of cheapo guitars, and I feel like I've found an essential part of myself. I could literally sit here playing bass until my arms go numb. I don't even have my audio interface or an amp yet, I'm literally just playing it dry, and I'm absolutely in love. I can't wait for my interface to get here so I can start putting down just like, some bass lines and some simple power chords with some distortion. It's incredible how cheap it is to pick up a couple of instruments now and just dive right into music. With all the stuff on various instruments and music theory out there, why *not*? Nobody's going to gasp in awe at the quality of my pair of Glarrys, but it's plenty to get my fingers moving and let the music find its way out. Anyway, that's really all. I'm in love with bass and with how accessible music is. I kind of want to try violin. Or like, maybe a shamisen. I feel like instruments used to be *so* prohibitively expensive, even on the beginner end, and that seems to be much less the case now. Like, it also certainly seems like you could easily spend as much money as you might feel like spending on music stuff, but I actually feel like I can pick some different stuff up and try things without like selling my organs. While we're here, any recommendations for resources on getting further into music theory or composition? There's so much out there, I'm sure there's some great stuff I haven't even brushed up against yet!
I was trying to do a memory test to see how far back 3.5 could recall information from previous prompts, but it really doesn't seem to like making pseudorandom seeds. 😆