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Cake day: June 21st, 2023
  • I mean if you want to interpret some shitty line drawings as CSAM, knock yourself out.

    The point I was trying (and clearly failing) to make is that judging images by the labels is stupid, but so is judging by leaving the appearance entirely open to interpretation.

    Hell, I hadn’t even considered LLMs where a text description alone would be a problem since an LLM could use that to generate an image.

  • Because it’s less real. The amount of harm and/or damage is proportional the realism. Using that shitty line drawing I made for an example: if I say the lines represent something objectionable, would that make it so? No, not really.

    The closer to real, the greater the psychological damage to the viewer. However it’s still no actual harm to anyone else.

    And then production of actual CSAM actually does harm children.

    Like, this seems like blatantly obvious stuff, no one is harmed by someone making lines on paper. (Or with modern tech lines on a screen but the idea is the same.)

  • Hmmm…

    I mean, purely on principle? Sure. No one would have been harmed apart from the environmental damage. Once that’s done, nothing will undo that.

    Psychological damage purely from exposure and normalization of that kind of content, probably not ideal.

    The muddying of the waters around Epstein guilt, also bad. (“That was fake, so any other news must also be fake”).

    Apart from the above sorts of things, (but maybe there’s others I didn’t think of off the top of my head): as long as no one watches it, it’s no more harmful than the sentence describing the idea in the first place.

  • Oh yeah for sure. If only we had “bag detection” I would agree.

    I’d argue that an overheating when the lid is closed not in a bag is a major design flaw.

    I’ve never seen it but I mostly see business laptops not gaming or consumer laptops so shitty designs are out there I’m sure.

  • If a laptop lid is closed, it needs to be sleeping, period.

    See, and here I feel the exact opposite. If it’s docked I don’t want it going to sleep just because I closed the lid. I still want to be able to use the two screens that are attached and in use!

  • I love filter views, no real complaints there except that other people can’t manage to figure out the difference between filtering the whole sheet and setting up a filter view.

    Tables seem kind of pointless but better than a separate database app I guess?

    Not sure about “little pills”, do you mean the drop downs? That’s in validation, and it’s a little odd but better both in interface and function than Excel. There’s really only one version and two ways to do it: “data validation” and “insert drop-down” (the latter is just a shortcut to the former, but with relevant options selected). Checkboxes are the same (both live in the insert menu).

    I’ve never known the “paste style” menu, I mostly use keyboard shortcuts when pasting. I might be misunderstanding what you’re describing there.

  • Some of it is just familiarity but I found Google sheets to be a breath of fresh air and still find Excel just painful.

    Although Google has really gotten pretty cluttered lately as they add features and slap them in whatever menu they pick at random.