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naiveai commented on Show HN: Retool Mobile retool.com/products/mobil... · Posted by u/dvdhsu

ushakov · 3 years ago

Is it me or does the person presenting look uncanny, almost like a 3D avatar?

naiveai · 3 years ago

My guess is the combination of sort of sped-up audio and video plus lighting that is too even and "perfect", and the random blinks that don't seem to correspond to a regular human's average intervals (seriously, go look at it consciously, it's very weird) combine to land it straight in the uncanny valley.

naiveai commented on Social norms: The downside wyclif.substack.com/p/soc... · Posted by u/dash2

naiveai · 3 years ago

Framing the Gender Recognition Act as making it easier for "teenagers to choose their gender" is a particularly misleading spin. Most of this article is just a very erudite spin on very classical and frankly kind of boring right-wing talking points. It's one thing for someone to post their political views, and another for them to refuse to be honest about what they're doing and bury them in so many layers of philosophy as to make it unclear what actual points they're trying to make. Luckily this slip-up, driven by the modern conservative's Achilles Heel (trans people having agency), makes it particularly easy to unravel the rest of this given it gives you a good understanding of its motivations.

naiveai commented on Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11 neowin.net/news/here-are-... · Posted by u/thibautg

yjftsjthsd-h · 3 years ago

On the contrary, Linux is in a good position for the same reason you think it isn't. As the desktop/laptop market shrinks to advanced users, it loses the long tail of users who weren't technically capable enough to switch. At the same time, WINE/proton and even some native ports have vastly improved the gaming scene on Linux, and a decent chunk of non-gaming applications too. Sure, there will always be certain business applications that refuse to work on anything but actual Windows, but Linux works for a decent and growing part of the shrinking niche that is "real computers".

naiveai · 3 years ago

Until and unless Microsoft Office products are on Linux natively and are supported by Microsoft, Linux will never be a mainstream operating system. And that's never going to happen.

naiveai commented on Self-compassion is not self-indulgence psyche.co/ideas/self-comp... · Posted by u/nreece

naiveai · 4 years ago

I mean, only insofar as he literally defines what is inappropriate for this forum. It's a bit of a tautology to say that, I think.

naiveai commented on Shitbowl: The algorithmically powered in-home physical caching platform shitbowl.com/... · Posted by u/fallingfrog

bookmarkable · 5 years ago

This kind of sarcastic social critique well designed site reminds of better times for the Internet... before the dark times... before Facebook.

naiveai · 5 years ago

Oh no! The Internet is more easily accessible providing more knowledge and access to millions worldwide! It's not limited to our extremely exclusive clique of 1337 hackers who also all happen to be white, college-educated American men!

naiveai commented on Facebook testing notification to users about Apple privacy changes axios.com/facebook-notifi... · Posted by u/asimpletune

notyourwork · 5 years ago

Why would anyone agree to this? I don’t see a benefit to letting Facebook or any company track me across the internet. When did we ever decide this was what consumers wanted?

Every time this topic comes up I check Facebooks stock price and realize how detached people are from facebooks revenue driven by the advertisement market.

naiveai · 5 years ago

So that the ads are more personalized. I know this sounds weird, but if I'm going to get ads anyway, I'd like them to potentially be products I'm going to maybe have a use for and might make my life easier.

I get the privacy implications, but asking "why would anyone agree to this" is kind of narrow-minded.

naiveai commented on Twitter limits users interacting with Trump's tweets about 'stolen' election thehill.com/policy/techno... · Posted by u/1cvmask

tetrometal · 5 years ago

Challenging the validity of an election is not a "coup". We need these challenges to keep our elections secure. I cheered Hillary for telling Biden not to concede under any circumstances.

The left-biased media was worried about election fraud for months before the election (good!) and are now declaring it the "most secure election in American history" in spite of the broad introduction of mail-in voting.

People living in democracies should scrutinize the hell out of their elections.

https://spectator.us/reasons-why-the-2020-presidential-elect...

https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/23/5-more-ways-joe-biden-m...

naiveai · 5 years ago

They challenged the validity of the election, and they failed. Yet they continue to insist on fighting a losing battle and possibly refusing to leave the White House.

That's called a coup attempt. A pathetic one, sure. But a coup attempt nonetheless.

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