monotremata

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[–] monotremata@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

In addition to "format shifting," which is a well-recognized use case, and game preservation, which is a huge and under-recognized public interest in emulator development, emulators are also used for the development of homebrew software. E.g., there's a port of Moonlight for the Switch, which lets you play Steam games streamed from a PC using your Switch, letting it serve many of the purposes of a Steam Deck. That's huge! It would be way less practical to develop this kind of software if you could only test on real hardware. Testing on real hardware is also essential, of course, but testing on an emulator is vastly faster for rapid iteration.

[–] monotremata@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or it won't happen when you're watching, because then they're thinking about what they're doing and they don't make the same unconscious mistake they did that brought up the error message. Then they get mad that "it never happens when you're around. Why do you have to see the problem anyway? I described it to you."

[–] monotremata@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My favorite is "and there was some kind of error message." There was? What did it say? Did it occur to you that an error message might help someone trying to diagnose your error?

[–] monotremata@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

They did them first. I still keep seeing ads for "free" turbotax, though, so I'm not sure what effect it's having.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/01/ftc-issues-opinion-finding-turbotax-maker-intuit-inc-engaged-deceptive-practices

[–] monotremata@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

I reject your premise that loving Israel means being unable to tolerate any criticism of Israel's actions. I'm a citizen of the US; I would argue that I'm critical of the US because I love it, and want to see it improve. That's why I'm so critical of our military and our foreign policy. We commit a lot of war crimes; it's a huge problem. I'm also critical of our shitty healthcare system, our lack of social safety nets, our institutional racism, and so forth. As an individual I don't feel like I have a huge amount of agency to affect those things, but I do try my best, including voting and communicating my views to those around me.

So yeah, I think it's totally fine to be Jewish, and totally fine to love Israel. What I don't think is fine is being okay with every aspect of Israel's current actions in Gaza--in particular, the multiple instances of the killing of journalists, health care workers, and children, and the extreme restrictions on supplies entering the country. Those aspects are all obscene. The level of suffering in Gaza overall right now is unbelievable.

If someone takes offense at my calling those actions by the military obscene, I would argue that's not a matter of Judaism. That's a matter of rather extreme nationalism.

[–] monotremata@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm not sure it's just on Reddit...

[–] monotremata@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago

I've heard his segments get rebroadcast on Russian TV fairly often.

[–] monotremata@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So say we, y'all!

[–] monotremata@kbin.social 21 points 2 years ago

The last time this happened, the deal was that the music was generated by bots, and also listened to by bots. Basically it was a scheme to get money out of Spotify.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/spotify-ejects-thousands-of-ai-made-songs-in-purge-of-fake-streams/

But also, folks will use AI to generate anything these days, like these books that suggested that a good way to identify whether mushrooms are poisonous is to taste them.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/01/mushroom-pickers-urged-to-avoid-foraging-books-on-amazon-that-appear-to-be-written-by-ai

[–] monotremata@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just adding a reply here to direct you to my other comment, which summarizes some of the options.

https://kbin.social/m/comicstrips@lemmy.world/t/791813/-/comment/4808661

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