Silentiea

Silentiea , 2 months ago to technology in Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals

I would be very surprised if the population of “people upset by the use of a teapot/bunny as a test render” was even within a couple orders of magnitude of “people upset by the use of a porn photo as a test image”

Silentiea , 2 months ago to technology in Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals

I mean, yes you can? You can inform authors that papers that include the image will not be published. How is that not a ban?

Silentiea , 2 months ago to technology in Google Just Revealed When Apple Will Officially Adopt RCS: Northern Hemisphere Fall 2024

But what if someone accidentally changes the bubble and text colors to an unreadable combination? No. We must protect our users from this obscene nonsense.

Silentiea , 2 months ago to world in 'Oppenheimer' finally premieres in Japan to mixed reactions and high emotions

So, are you a stoned emo man, or a stone demoman, or what?

Silentiea , 2 months ago to funny in The man can't help himself

Sorry, but… “scientific”?

Silentiea , 2 months ago to funny in The man can't help himself

“I see,” said the blind man
to his deaf dog
who was sitting on the corner of the round table
on the third floor of their two-story building.

Silentiea , 2 months ago to gaming in Phil Spencer blames capitalism for games industry woes: 'I don't get [the] luxury of not having to run a profitable growing business'

And I get that the business maybe “has” to be run that way, because of the way it exists in the economic system it exists in, but I’m definitely taking issue with the language he’s employed here. He’s not a prisoner being forced to run things this way.

Silentiea , 2 months ago to gaming in Phil Spencer blames capitalism for games industry woes: 'I don't get [the] luxury of not having to run a profitable growing business'

Seriously. Everyone gets the luxury of not having to run a profitable growing business. You didn’t “have” to run that business at all.

Silentiea , 2 months ago to asklemmy in What is a dish whose component parts you all like individually, but put together as a dish you think is nasty?

Yeah, you shouldn’t use who’s for objects, as in the one “who is” doing something; that should be “that’s” or "which is. But for possession like this case “that’s” doesn’t work at all. “Of which” or “for which” might work in this sentence, but I don’t think any native speaker would be confused by whose here

Silentiea , 2 months ago to world in Canada’s population hits 41M months after breaking 40M threshold

The second rule of tautology club is also a rule.

Silentiea , 2 months ago to asklemmy in If a person from 1700 asked you your job, would they understand your answer, and if not, how would you explain it to them?

Exactly. We know what shape the land is even for the bottoms of the oceans. But that doesn’t mean we’re done making maps.

Silentiea , 3 months ago to technology in Majority of Americans now use ad blockers

Don’t forget the company serving the ads, and also the company paying for them

Silentiea , 3 months ago to world in Putin says radical Islamists carried out Moscow attack but maintains claim Ukraine was involved

Hey man, whatever puts more meat in the grinder.

Silentiea , 3 months ago to asklemmy in Lemmy Babies of the Rexodus - it's been 9 months, how has Lemmy changed you?

Some of the more niche communities I had on reddit don’t exist on Lemmy yet, and likely won’t for the foreseeable future. DPS chasing for a small MMO seems like a thing that could exist here, but for now the majority of the public would just use Reddit or whatever instead.

The custom mtg card community I joined is pretty much just dead. I did a card a day for a while in there, but then I ran out of cards is already made and now it’s just sitting again.

Other than that, the general purpose of it is doing exactly what Reddit did for me, so…

Silentiea , 3 months ago to technology in Video Shows First Neuralink Patient Playing Mario Kart With His Mind

If nothing else, mandate the opening of the standards must coincide with the end of support. I realize it would mean a service blackout while another company tries to pick them up, but it would be a lot better than nothing and it doesn’t hit the bottom line if a company operating now quite so much which would make it more palatable.