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There’s so much great stuff on the modern net I never could have imagined then, but it doesn’t feel like a fun little playground anymore.

Lemmy is about the closest thing, but it still has that sense of always being watched that was just conspiracy talk back then.

on "Hopefully a meteor will strike the earth soon": Game devs talk genAI witchhunts and the importance of honing your visual literacy in c/games@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026
Thanks for all the info. The free translation is all I’ve ever used. I don’t want it doing anything more than a literal translation of text. The whole reason I want to read the papers is so I can generate my own summaries, opinions, and so on. The model doing that would take all the fun away from me.

on "Hopefully a meteor will strike the earth soon": Game devs talk genAI witchhunts and the importance of honing your visual literacy in c/games@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
Serious question - is there a non-AI tool that can translate biological research into something I can understand?

I’ll usually try the browser’s built in translation tool, but that is already an LLM anyway, isn’t it?

When I try to read serious research and not just photo captions often times it just becomes useless word salad since it can’t handle technical terminology. Someone once suggested I try the free Deepl translation, and that has been the most consistent thing to handle jargon.

I’m not a techie person, so I don’t know every option out there. A lot of what I want to read is studies about rare animals, and I’m stuck with what languages the studies are written in. It’s very niche stuff and nobody out there is in a rush to translate it by hand. If you’ve got a more ethical tool that can get the job done, I’d be more than happy to try it.

If you think I’m a garbage human for translating maybe 6 or 8 groundbreaking papers a year, you’re entitled to your opinion, and it is what it is, but if your solution for me is to just stay ignorant and not try to learn all I can about what I’m passionate about, then yeah, we’re not going to agree on this.

on "Hopefully a meteor will strike the earth soon": Game devs talk genAI witchhunts and the importance of honing your visual literacy in c/games@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
I don’t game much or know anything about game development, but that was a very interesting and timely article.

Most of my posting here is sharing wildlife photography. I work part time with animals at a rehab clinic, and every week I see them do things I never expected. One might think my experience would help me pick out AI generated or altered photos, and many times it does, but sometimes animals do really improbable stuff I would never expect to see, but that doesn’t mean they can’t do those things.

I made a post today about two really exciting photos I came across. I wanted to share them because I felt they were very unique, but one was flagged as AI by Meta’s AI, and another was being mildly brigaded saying “these animals would never do that” but both photos looked real to me. Both seemed to be legit photographers with large portfolios of pics in consistent styles.

Lemmings here get pretty rightfully angry at AI posts, so I addressed the community saying I’m over 90 percent confident these are real, is that good enough for you guys?

I felt so bad these photographers both captured images that people should be excited to see, especially the one with really rare animal behavior, but I felt they were being punished by a not insignificant amount of people by being falsely accused. Both offered some proof, but with me not knowing much about photography, I didn’t always know what is Photoshop or Lightroom style post processing vs AI manipulation. I want to share amazing pics, especially of really rare stuff, and I try to maintain a pretty respectable educational vibe to the community, so I worry about sharing fake stuff in times like this and losing credibility. If this was my job like as it is for these games devs, that would be really demotivational.

I use AI as a last resort for translations of text I really want to read, but other than that, I feel I see way more harm than good coming from generative AI. Add to that the environmental costs that seem to be growing exponentially, and it’s making me an unhappy camper all around…

on "Hopefully a meteor will strike the earth soon": Game devs talk genAI witchhunts and the importance of honing your visual literacy in c/games@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
I’m also a noob with tech anymore. My old faithful router started dropping this year, replaced it with the Flint 2 earlier this year because I also wanted OpenWRT. It comes with OpenWRT installed, but I don’t think it’s the plain old vanilla OpenWRT, so when I hooked it up and started setting it up, it needs a firmware update anyway, so I installed the actual OpenWRT from their site. It’s been great since, totally happy with it.

on Router recommendation for newbie in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026
I’ve been a bit stunned that Discworld doesn’t seem to have quite the following as Lord of the Rings, other than that it doesn’t take itself as seriously. The world building and character development has been so wonderful. And that one could really pick up nearly any book as their first read and not be lost while there is so much referential content really highlights how natural the world feels. And what you read has such actual value in real life. I’m affirmed some thoughts and feelings that I’ve had, but it’s also gotten me to think about things I hadn’t given much thought to or how to process some things I couldn’t come up with words for expressing.

Nobby and Colon are great examples of both character building, not just for themselves, but Vimes as well. Night Watch and Thud! showed how far they had come since Guards! Guards! and it’s not that they’re written differently to make them less useless, it’s that Vimes has taken account of what he has to work with and has become such a great leader that he can turn what would be a disadvantage to most into just the right thing the situation needs.

The other character that I really love that I wouldn’t have anticipated is Detritus. From when he temporarily gains intelligence from the cold weather to when he defends Cheery in front of all the dwarves, he’s become so much more than he started as. The vampires, golums, and zombies all shine too and bring so much to the stories. No one feels like a throwaway character.

I do want to see how it all wraps up. I don’t expect everything to end up all neatly settled, but that kind of thing, the books have shown me, is for stories, but the Disc is alive and likely won’t have a storybook ending. Or maybe it will. I love that I still don’t know what to expect after nearly 40 books.

on To just start dancing in c/lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026
I really loved Thud! and it’s up there with my favorites!

This is my first ever read through, and on one hand I’m kicking myself for waiting so long, but also now I’m taking breaks in between books because I’m afraid of getting to the end.

Wintersmith has been a pleasant surprise for me, because while I like Tiffany and the Feegles, the stories feel more small scale compared to many of the other book, but this one is really going into the in-and-outs of what being a witch in this world is all about, and I’m loving that. In the whole series, I have liked how while the wizards have real magic, most of it is much more trouble than it’s worth, while witches are more about the headology where they’re more just being exceptionally good neighbors 90% of the time and then the last bit is some of the most badass stuff in the entire series.

Pratchett just puts such a great spin on any expectation in each story and always keeps me surprised and laughing.

on To just start dancing in c/lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026
I dunno, I’m reading Wintersmith from the Discworld series, and doing that started a whole heap of supernatural trouble!

on To just start dancing in c/lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026