And it’s not like servers have gotten harder to run! Pirates serve terabytes of data that’s straight-up illegal! Your fuckin’ commercial connection should be plenty for any damn thing you want.

I don’t give a shit what children see.

They’ll live.

Stop spying on adults.

Ork behavior.

Advertising shits in your brain.

Let’s get rid of it.

Your business model is not my problem.

Especially when plenty of profitable services add this shit anyway.

Alan!

If ignoring them worked, we’d be fine.

peperony and chease

I think the majority of Lemmy users are American or expect American news to dominate. The thing you’re complaining about only happens because of that.

Given that everyone’s first assumption is that it’s about the US Supreme Court, obviously no. You have to meet people where they are.

Even for domestic US news, the same shit happens for state versus federal governments. Sometimes on websites that namedrop cities and politicians but don’t bother mentioning what fucking state they’re in.

As if misleading headlines are the audience’s fault.

That middle one is some anime shit.

I’d be interested to see if reddit has “peaked” since then.

Math isn’t the problem, when you search “tetris attack snes” and the results are all “tetris,” and then clicking “did you mean what you actually wrote?” returns “nothing on the internet resembles those three words, you freak.”

“Just” read documentation, says someone assuming past documentation is accurate, comprehensible, and relevant.

I taught myself QBASIC from the help files. I still found Open Watcom’s documentation frankly terrible, bordering useless. There’s comments in the original Doom source code lamenting how shite the dead-tree books were.

Due to some disagreements—some recent; some tolerated for close to 2 decades—with how collaboration should work, we’ve decided that the best course of action was to fork the project

Okay, that was always allowed!

Programming is the weirdest place for kneejerk opposition to anything labeled AI, because we’ve been trying to automate our jobs for most of a century. Artists will juke from ‘the quality is bad!’ to ‘the quality doesn’t matter!’ the moment their field becomes legitimately vulnerable. Most programmers would love if the robot did the thing we wanted. That’s like 90% of what we’re looking for in the first place. If writing ‘is Linux in dark mode?’ counted as code, we’d gladly use that, instead of doing some arcane low-level bullshit. I say this as someone who has recently read through IBM’s CGA documentation to puzzle out low-level bullshit.

You have to check if it works. But if it works… what is anyone bitching about?

The text also being soft indicates that’s a style choice.

This is misusing a pejorative to turn specific criticism into general prejudice. Say ‘I hate slop’ and you’ll get near-universal agreement, but people who mean ‘fuck all uses of AI’ are not even the majority. The pattern of retreating from ‘I hate how it looks’ to ‘quality doesn’t matter!’ is straight-up pretense.

It’s a low-stakes opportunity to examine how language escalates tension. People in that absolute extreme position are emboldened. People merely tired of shrimp Jesus or whateverthefuck get lumped with them. All nuance is stomped out of this important new term, originally for ‘uncurated spam.’

and that ways lies a poison pill to community engagement.

… mostly due to bias-forming rhetoric like calling any generated image “slop.” People had the same kneejerk attitude toward all CGI, long after CGI looked fine. At some point it’s the monkey ladder experiment: self-perpetuating behavior through performative distaste.

What specifically is wrong with this image?

Right, should’ve stolen a frame from a cartoon. Then the text would be funny.

Honestly, the comparison with the rest of those icons was the only part I respected. It’s a suite of cult minimalist bullshit. Which still doesn’t explain how nobody went, “that’s a sperm.”

Or at least, “why isn’t it blue or yellow?”