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• God, I’ve seen so much of this.

  Only reason I’m commenting is the movie thing, cause the “hard to pay attention” is wild to me, even as someone with severe ADHD.

  I don’t like going to, or sitting down for, movies most of the time because of dermatillomania (warning on images there) secondary to my ADHD resulting in me usually creating entirely new holes in my fingers/hands absentmindedly while I’m watching. There’s a secondary ADHD “itch” due to the drive for spontenaeity, but I get hooked easily on what I’m watching once I do – it’s more of a “but I could be working on X project or something” thought, but then I’ll sit and watch a 2 hour episode of Dimension 20 with no distractions like it’s nothing.

  I just… I don’t get how people could pivot to being so short-attention-spanned they don’t want anything like that. Those of us with ADHD are very used to how short attention spans feel, but they’re almost never that short. What the hell.

  on Social media addiction affecting boomers, BBC hears in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago

• And even when you do, it may not accurately respond with it. Companies are conflating complicated word-relationship math with “information”, and there’s no means by which these systems can actually verify that something that came out is accurate or not, since language models just don’t work that way. They can straight up point at sources that’re real but make the wrong conclusion because the word relationships lean that way in relation to what was quoted, and no “this new model is better!” can really solve that fundamental flaw with Large Language Models in general, or things that operate like they do.

  Watson was groundbreaking because of the way it worked as an information match model, designed not to be generative but merely to match one prompt “concept” with a target scored on relations. It was almost like how LLM scoring works but fundamentally still different, with a TON of hand-training done to get there. And I was just thinking about, the other day, how much I think these companies want people to correlated what Watson was doing on Jeopardy with LLMs.

  on Young users ditch Google for AI, with unknown consequences in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago

• When I worked for a healthcare software company one of my roles was technical support on a controlled substance monitoring program on a state-by-state basis.

  Cops had a separate login portal, and had to go through quite a process to get their account. Once they did, they could submit a search, but had to justify it with a reason that included the warrant number. And even then, it required secondary approval of the search request by a state-level employee.

  Why the fuck is that not the minimum for searching someone’s whereabouts?

  (To add, I think such programs are unethical when available to cops. For doctors, it was used to make sure a patient wasn’t doc-shopping for opiates, and even then I’m hesitant. It has a potential to save lives via intervention upon finding someone’s 'shopping, but I don’t think it’s usually used as a safe intervention.)

  on How Cops Are Treating Mass Surveillance As a Joke: Cops Search Flock Database Typing Reasons for Searches Such as "LMAO," "LOL," and Random Keyboard Mashing in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Sep 2026

• I have the X4, and I adore it. I wasn’t sure if I’d like it or not but got it on sale, and I’ve been thrilled with it and encouraging folks interested in something more portable than a typical larger e-reader. I just turn it on and read, no need to set a do-not-disturb mode, I just get to focus on that.

  “Smaller screen” also sounds bad unless you have flavors of ADHD that cause you to restart the page regularly, and this actually helped me in that regard.

  Like, I still have to strip DRM from books I buy if they aren’t DRM-free, but I don’t buy on the Kindle shop anymore, and most others use Adobe Digital Editions, which is fairly easy to rip using plugins for Calibre.

  on Tiny E-Reader Is the Best Piece of Technology in Years - The Atlantic in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026

• I think of it less as “combine”, and more “separate” on purpose. There’s the images pointing out how much stuff one had to carry before that a smartphone replaces as one slab but… it doesn’t do most of those things as well.

  I really like my X4 from that standpoint. It’s much longer battery than my phone screen grants, and I don’t have to open any menus to toggle anything to say “go away, notifications”, or anything like that. I’m separated from everything else on my phone while I read on it.

  on Tiny E-Reader Is the Best Piece of Technology in Years - The Atlantic in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026

• My only wishlist for Navidrome is SSO support besides reverse-proxy/forward-auth headers. I’ve got that setup with Authentik and Nginx Proxy Manager, but having to make specific path exceptions or duplicates with rewrites for apps/API, rather than just being able to generate an app password/token in Navidrome for an app to use, definitely is annoying. I don’t think I saw a write-up anywhere but I figured out what was needed.

  on My experience with Navidrome in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026

• If I recall, in the US, anything in a food advert photo that is meant to come with the product – IE, the toppings of the burger – must be real food, and cannot be paint or such or that’s false advertising. The milk in cereal is provided by the consumer, so they can use the glue there. And while the ketchup is applied via syringe, it is, in fact, ketchup: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIEhDSWXeF4

  What they get away with is the arrangement of the ingredients, things like splitting and spreading a pattie to make it appear larger, fluffing the choice lettuce pieces and tomato slices, using hidden toothpicks to arrange things.

  It’s possible the Japanese ad you presented isn’t food at all, and just model food, like presented in shop storefronts – looking like the real thing. That steam is definitely added after the fact. It also has a bit of a sheen in spots on the bread that makes me think it’s just plastic, but I don’t think the same “false advertising” laws apply in Japan.

  on Side of slop? Bizarre AI food images jump from online to IRL menus in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026

• I’m trying to figure out what leads someone to look at this and say “yes this is good” and then fucking print it, or pay to have it printed. Like, why would you just… print without even fucking looking?

  on Side of slop? Bizarre AI food images jump from online to IRL menus in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026

• My partner and I refer to the remote on that thing as “the bean”

  on Google TV Streamer gets $50 price increase in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026