Sterile_Technique

…well fuck, I didn’t actually expect the former. This world would be so much better without that religious nonsense. -_-

But like… why? Does their religion actually have some angst with music, or is this another one of those “god told me so in a dream!” kinda bullshit?

“Do no evil.” …unless it’s projected as profitable, in which case, evil that shit up!

Nursing student here. Quizlet has an AI function that lets you paste text into it and it outputs a studyset.

Most of my classes provide a study guide of some kind - just a list of topics we need to be familiar with. I’ll take those and plug em into the AI thing: bam! Instantly generate like 200 flash cards to study for the next test.

It even auto-fills the actual subject matter. For example, the study guide will say sometime like “Summarize Louis Pasteur’s contributions to the field of microbiology” and turn that into a flash card that reads:

(front)

Louis Pasteur

(back)

Verified the germ theory of disease

Developed a method to prevent the spoilage of liquids through heating (pasteurization)

Developed early anthrax and rabies vaccines

So I take my list of AI generated cards, then sift through the powerpoints and lecture videos etc from class: instead of building the study set from scratch, all I have to do is verify that the information it spit out is accurate (so far it’s been like 98% on target, often explaining concepts better than the actual professor, lol), add images, and play with the formatting a bit so it reads a little easier on the eyes.

People always talk about AI in school in the context of cheating, but it is RIDICULOUSLY useful for students actually trying to learn.

Looking ahead, this tech has a ton of potential to be used as a kind of personal tutor for each student. There will be some growing pains for sure, but we definitely shouldn’t ignore its constructive potential.

Most of these aren’t really ‘hidden’ but there are some good deals on some of my favorites right now:
Skyrim - $10, which gives you access to:
Enderal - Free but requires Skyrim in library
Witcher III + DLCs - $15
Raft - $13.39
Grounded - $24
Satisfactory - $16.49
Subnautica & Subnautica Below Zero - $18
Valheim - $12
Age of Empires - $5
Halo: Master Chief Collection (7 Halo games) - $10

No amount of bbq sauce is going to make that palatable. Can we just compost them instead?

I’ve been here for about a week now, and still feel like there are features I don’t understand or completely overlooked. The concept of the fediverse is simultaneously really simple (e.g. email analogy) and confusing (still not really clear on what makes kbin different from lemmy; and I have to subscribe to like 8 iterations of what is effectively r/worldnews… and there’s a fed youtube-like that I haven’t looked into yet, but haven’t run into here so far… I can see lemmy content on kbin, but I can’t log into Jerboa with a kbin account…)

It’s a lot to take in.

…and honestly, ^that makes it kinda fun. Reddit gave me the middle finger, so I gave it right back by building my own theme-park with blackjack and hookers. Thoroughly enjoying the blackjack and hookers; but the “building my own theme-park” bit is a challenge - one that I (probably most of us here) find engaging and gratifying, but very much a challenge, and that isn’t what everyone’s looking for.

When I can show my tech-handicapped boomer mother a 2-minute video explaining the the whats and hows of the fediverse, it’ll give the reddits and facebooks a run for their money; until then the fed will remain fairly niche. Which isn’t a bad thing - finding and engaging with a niche you enjoy will ALWAYS feel better than engaging with generic shit built for mass marketability.

Subjective bit, but imo our branding also kinda sucks. “Fediverse” sounds like some clunky .gov message board that the FBI uses to share crime statistics with the CIA and ATF. Anything “-iverse” comes off as hyperbolic. “Lemmy” sounds like “lemming”. “Beehaw” sounds like an apiary manufacturer based in Alabama. “kbin” evokes imagery of a trash can for…‘k’. I mean, it’s all nit-picky shit, but the connotation of our chosen labels lean negative. It wasn’t a barrier to entry for any of us here now; but you know there are potential users who take one glance at the word “fediverse”, conclude that it sounds stupid, and move on without a second thought. All that said, I’m cool with folks like that staying on reddit!

I did install the official app juuuust long enough to give it a one-star rating and a scathing review. Unsure if that actually helps or hurts them, but it was cathartic just the same.

Denial
Anger
Bargaining <– they are here
Depression
Acceptance

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_stages_of_grief

This is all a reminder that Reddit was never anything special - the people on it were. The trending of malicious compliance by moderators to an abusive CEO really highlights how exceptional people can be. This whole following corrupt rules thing in a way that just lets the corruption burn itself out is fucking beautiful.

…it’s like a captain going down with the ship, while cracking Chuck Norris jokes all the way to the grave. This is what the internet was made for.

speedycat2014 > Settings > Blocked > Magazines > find the one you mis-blocked, go to their page, and click the block icon again to undo it.

Were there billboards with the ‘he gets us’ shit on them? I swear I remember seeing them all over, but my brain might just be conflating online spam with irl spam. /shrug

Damn, wish I saw that before deleting mine.