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  • Most games, image processing libraries and other compute demanding libraries already use WASM in the browser. Have been for quite some time. It’s already widely used in every case where it provides a substantial benefit.

    But writing for GUI, which is what 99% of JS is used for, WASM provides little benefit. The speed bottleneck is mostly in DOM manipulation. And every web GUI framework uses 200 npm packages with something like webpack. Getting that to somehow work with your WASM code would be a nightmare if it’s even feasible.







  • But let’s just go even further. He was on the podcast of Shawn Stevenson. The first podcast episode I found of Shawn Stevenson regarding COVID cites in the episode transcript, among others, Geert Vanden Bossche, who advised stopping all mass-immunizations for COVID and has written all kinds of crazy, grammatically-and-factually erroneous content on COVID.

    I don’t care about Zach Levi whatsoever, but this has to be the biggest reach I’ve seen.

    So he was on a podcast, of which the host, in a different episode that did not include him, cited a person who has at some point advised stopping mass-immunizations for COVID (from what you said, I interpreted thats not the statement he cited).

    When you’re 3 levels of guilt by association deep, it seems like you’re just grasping at straws to support your position.


  • WAG can go fuck themselves for stealing the role of Angel Dust from Michael Kovach who has poured so much time and effort into bringing the character to life.

    But here comes WAG and stronghands away what he has worked so hard for, something that could have been a big career break for him, because he’s not part of WAG without offering to onboard him.

    Creating that level of injustice under the guise of protecting voice actors is one of the most disgusting things I’ve witnessed in my life.

    Michael Kovach is a saint for being graceful about it and having the restraint not to go nuclear on social media.

    WAG is not a union. It’s just another ultra corrupt Hollywood clique that fucks over upcoming independent creators. I sincerely hope WGA is blacklisted by every studio until every member is forced to leave and it doesn’t exist anymore.




  • Mastodon is a piece of software. I don’t see anyone saying “phpBB” or “WordPress” has a massive child abuse material problem.

    Has anyone in the history ever said “Not a good look for phpBB”? No. Why? Because it would make no sense whatsoever.

    I feel kind of a loss for words because how obvious it should be. It’s like saying “paper is being used for illegal material. Not a good look for paper.”

    What is the solution to someone hosting illegal material on an nginx server? You report it to the authorities. You want to automate it? Go ahead and crawl the web for illegal material and generate automated reports. Though you’ll probably be the first to end up in prison.


  • That would make sense if taxis weren’t basically a mafia-like organization in most places.

    Here, the taxi drivers are the absolute worst. They drive worse than student drivers. They don’t give two shits about the customers - if you order a taxi and they find someone more convinient hailing them they’ll just pick up that person and never come to pick you up with no notice. They can’t follow basic GPS directions from their device and you often have to guide them.

    The taxi companies send any complaints directly into the shredding machine. They have a legally enforced monopoly over a region and customers have no choice.

    And I’m talking about a major city in America.

    There is definitely a healthy middle ground, but just going back to taxis is not the solution.





  • It’s not a dark personality to misinterpret things. It’s just a poor grasp of the finer aspects of communication.

    For instance, Kathy Griffin made a controversial video holding a bloodied severed head of Trump, who was the US president at the time. That rightfully received a lot of backlash for being in poor taste. Making death threats against the president of the United States in a serious crime, however she was not arrested because it was correctly not seen as a threat by the law enforcement.




  • They can’t. Not without removing the part that makes reddit worthwhile, which are small dedicated communities.

    Sure, an AI can moderate shit like /pics /politics /funny /gaming. Those are basically just garbage article/repost feeds anyway.

    Can an AI moderate say… buildapcsales? Where you need a human moderator to verify if the deal is valid, add additional info to the flair and mark deals as expired? Technically yes, but it would require a specially trained AI, that knows how to scrape particular websites and avoid detection, which is not a great look for reddit and is also a ton of work.

    What about a TV show subreddit? There has been instances where episodes were leaked, and the moderators had to protect the community from spoilers. Can an AI do it? Again, if it’s manually trained on this new data it could. But are reddit employees going to illegally download leaked episodes to feed the to the algorithm?

    At that point, you’d be spending more time and money on babysitting each AI than if you just moderated manually.