Syrup

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[–] Syrup@lemmy.cafe 5 points 2 years ago

It usually does, however, there are cases where a hole can have two openings. For example, there's a saying/idiom about digging a hole through the earth and ending up in china/australia/etc. It would be confusing to say that you "dug two holes" to China, you would only say that you "dug a hole" to China. "Tunnel" is definitely more precise here, though it would be odd to refer to the openings in a drinking straw as a "tunnel"

[–] Syrup@lemmy.cafe 5 points 2 years ago

In fairness, privacy issues have been a bit like a "frog in boiling water". Unless you pay a lot of attention to these things or are completely out of the loop, the average person won't see the issue.

At least my grandmother's vindicated now for not wanting to get on Facebook and share those sorts of things

[–] Syrup@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The website setup makes it look like a phishing link (the weird embedded PDF in the PDF). They should probably consider not having the website be a PDF.

[–] Syrup@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 years ago

I don't think I'd be able to do it w/o a keyboard. I'm too used to working in an environment where I can type at 60 wpm. Speech-to-text is an option, but it has its own difficulties.

An alternate path for this is sign language. Tacoma, a sci-fi game, had an interesting idea where in the future, folks use finger-spelling (sign language alphabet, but not all of the signs) to interact with computers. I think there's already been some research into using finger-spelling in VR that looks promising, but the entire ASL lexicon may be too complex for something like the quest. A lot of ASL relies on position of hand in relation to head, chest, etc. Additionally, although I think you'd be able to get buy-in to memorize the 26 sign language letters, ASL is an entire language and it would be difficult to get everyone on-board with it. Finger-spelling may not be quick enough to get to 60wpm, but it is better than using the virtual keyboard.

[–] Syrup@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If we're going really old school, then Space Invaders. Its way of leveraging the hardware at the time to make the enemies and music speed up after you defeat more of them is elegant. Back then, the more things a game had on screen, the slower it ran. So, destroying more enemies removes more things from the screen, causing both enemies and music to speed up.

This is something that's taken for granted today, but I think at the time, it was genius.

[–] Syrup@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wonder if this will go differently from Authors Guild, Inc. v. Google, Inc. ChatGPT likely qualifies as "transformative", but I'm uncertain if it qualifies as a "public service" or not given that it has a paid tier. How privacy/personal information ties into this should also be interesting.

[–] Syrup@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I imagine a lot of that is due to issues with liability. If a journalist says "X did Y", that opens them up to lawsuits. If they say "A alleges that X did Y", then that allows them to report without fear of a lawsuit.

The end of the article did talk about who may have sent them out there.

Two of the survivors said Greek authorities had asked them, through interpreters and lawyers, to give evidence against the nine Egyptians who have been accused of people trafficking.

But all four survivors said the nine Egyptians were passengers, seated among them on the journey. They say the ship's crew were masked and spent most of their time in the cabin.

"The crew jumped in the water when the coastguard approached and some of these nine Egyptians tried to sail the boat," one of them told us. "It seems to me they are not the ones involved in people smuggling," he added.

Relatives of Egyptians who fear their loved ones were on board have told the BBC that they paid $4,500 (£3,500) each for the journey.

[–] Syrup@lemmy.cafe 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I'm glad at least a few YouTubers are starting to mirror content on sites like Odysee though (Such as Louis Rossman). I think that, like Lemmy, it just needs to reach a critical mass of users before it's viable

[–] Syrup@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 years ago

If you're learning a language, netflix has good tie-ins with language reactor... but if the $9.99 option goes away, I'll just switch to the beta video + subtitle file upload for that

[–] Syrup@lemmy.cafe 6 points 2 years ago

I kind of hate that you're right

[–] Syrup@lemmy.cafe 3 points 2 years ago

I tend to agree. Something federated like PeerTube seems ideal for curating what kinds of content you want, but the data requirements for that are going to be much higher than mostly text and image-based things like lemmy or mastodon

[–] Syrup@lemmy.cafe 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I guess this is the kick in the pants to go over to odysee or somewhere else, huh

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