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Margot Robbie

@ MargotRobbie @lemmy.world

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On the internet, nobody knows you are Australian.

also https://lemm.ee/u/MargotRobbie

To tell you the truth, I don't know who I am either. Somebody sincere, perhaps.

But if you ever read this one day, I hope that you are as proud of me, as I am of the person I imagined you to be.

  • Sublinks Aims to Be a Drop-In Replacement for Lemmy

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  • Having a frontend rewrite seemed more critical than trying reimplementing the backend in a different language.

    Remember, Lemmy had 4 years of development to iron out bugs, and this is essentially promising to make something in months that has a fully compatible backend to support all the third party apps, while adding features on top of what Lemmy has, and with a better front end with better mod tools to boot, with a complete rewrite of everything.

    The scope of this project has planned for is already unviable. Suppose that Sublinks does reach feature parity to the current version of Lemmy, congratulations, the backend or mod tools is not something a regular user is going to notice or care about at all, all they will know is that suddenly, there are weird bugs that wasn't there before, and that causes frustration.

    And this project is going to get more developer traction because... Java?

    I'd like to be proven wrong, but I'm very sceptical about the success of Sublinks, because it look like a project that was started out of tech arrogance to prove a point than out of a real need, I don't work in tech, but the general trajectory of these kind of projects is that "enthusiasm from frustration" can only take you so far before the annoyance of dealing with mundane problems piles up, and the project fizzles out and ends with a whimper.

  • Nightshade, the free tool that ‘poisons’ AI models, is now available for artists to use

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  • And as I said there, it is utterly hypocritical for him to sell snake oil to artists, allegedly to help them fight copyright violations, while committing actual copyright violations.

  • Meta won't remove fake Instagram profiles that are clearly catfishing

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  • These pesky fake Instagram impersonators are getting sneakeir and more creative by the day, you just don't know if anyone is really who they say they are on the other side of the screen nowadays.

    Lucky for me, no one here has tried to impersonate me and shill cryptos... yet. I just really don't like cryptos.

    Also,

    ... while simultaneously blocking the authentic profile whose pictures they are misusing. This cuts off the possibility of contact with and being seen by the authentic user.

    This is why I think 2 way blocking as implemented here is a bad idea, because it really opens up the block function as a potential avenue for abuse.

  • And the 2024 Golden Lemmy for best Android device goes to...

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  • What a beautiful award acceptance speech.

    They should get you to host the Golden Globes next year.

  • And the 2024 Golden Lemmy for best Android device goes to...

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  • Dear lemmings:

    If this is the Golden Lemmy Awards, then why does the winner recieve a Lemmy Silver?

    Curious.

  • The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same

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  • I will offer an alternate explanation:

    Restaurants (and by extension, coffee shop) are inherently very risky businesses to start and operation, I think over 90 percent of them fail in the first year. So, to increase the chances of survival, you have to make sure your business is ran as efficiently as possible, things like rent and location is outside of your control, so you always want to maximize the value of every dollar you spend.

    The first people notice when they go into a new restaurant is cleanliness, nobody wants to eat at a new place that looks dirty, you can only get away from that if you are a decades old local hole in the wall. Ease of cleaning, therefore, is the number 1 priority over everything else.

    So, why the "industrial" concrete/tiled floor and metal chair? Because you can just hose them down at the end of the day. Same thing with big open wooden tables and sparce renovations, ease of cleaning.

    The second thing is you have to avoid major renovations, make the with the space you have and maximize the amount of interesting decorations for the minimum money/work.

    Why put subway tiles on white walls for decorations? Because you don't have to hire painters, and subway tiles are cheap and interesting looking.

    Why use big open windows and only dim Edison bulbs for lighting? Because hiring electricians to rewire the place you rent for lighting is a lot more expensive than using the big windows you already have.

    Why avocado toast? Because coffee is your main focus, the food is important but secondary, and a piece of fruit on a piece of bread pretty much doesn't require any cooking.

    It's really the operation efficiency, rather than some trend following "Instagram" asthetics that led to all these coffee shop looking the same, I think this is a better explanation than what this article proposes.

  • Margot Robbie Is Taking a Break From Acting After Barbie in Case People Are Sick of Her

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  • That position has been filled. Sorry.

  • Margot Robbie Is Taking a Break From Acting After Barbie in Case People Are Sick of Her

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  • I honestly did it because it's funny when the opportunity presented itself, if you know the backstory behind that.

  • Margot Robbie Is Taking a Break From Acting After Barbie in Case People Are Sick of Her

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  • To tell you the truth, no Barbie shilling or character actress or any of my other running gags here.

    Yeah, especially after the last weeks. I'm sorry.

  • Margot Robbie Is Taking a Break From Acting After Barbie in Case People Are Sick of Her

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  • Perhaps buying a copy of the collector's edition Blu-ray of the Golden Globe winning movie, Barbie, will cheer you up.

  • Margot Robbie Is Taking a Break From Acting After Barbie in Case People Are Sick of Her

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  • It's almost like pretending to be a character is what I do for a living or something.

    Might have been nominated for a few awards for it too.

  • Margot Robbie Is Taking a Break From Acting After Barbie in Case People Are Sick of Her

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  • That's esteemed Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie to you!

  • Margot Robbie Is Taking a Break From Acting After Barbie in Case People Are Sick of Her

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  • If you want to avoid me, Lemmy is like the last place you would want to be...

    I'm like, everywhere here.

  • Margot Robbie Is Taking a Break From Acting After Barbie in Case People Are Sick of Her

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  • I, um, had to deal with some things that has kept me very busy for the past 2 weeks.

    Yeah...

  • Instagram finds that AI Mr beast scams do not go against community guidelines.

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  • It is exactly because Instagram is at the scale that it is that caused moderation to be difficult. Facebook has relied on using bots to moderate for so long due to its scale, and using bots that are specifically designed to detect AI generated contents is really not possible without introducing a ton of false positives, since the Instagram of the 2020s at its core IS celebrity/influencer advertisement, and there is honestly very little that differentiate what constitutes as "content* and "spam" there.

    Since influencers will be the first to be automated by machines, I just don't really see a point in having an Instagram account any longer, the inevitable conclusion of creating a fake reality of your life on Instagram is being replaced by a machine that can fake it more efficiently.

  • X removes support for NFT profile pictures

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  • I would imagine the sheer embarrassment of having an really ugly monkey NFT profile picture is enough of an incentive.

    Credit to where credit is due, good for X Formerly Known as Twitter, though this is mostly because Musk only used crypto as a grift, whereas Jack Dorsey is a True Believer in crypto.

  • Well, it looks like verification photos might be useless now.

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  • The bokeh effect is surprisingly hard to fake, actually, because it has to do with the physical properties of the camera lens. I think with a light Gaussian blur it would be even less convincing.

  • Well, it looks like verification photos might be useless now.

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  • But then how will I astroturf (I mean, organically market) my current and future movies, like Golden Globe winning summer blockbuster, Barbie, now available on Blu-Ray and select streaming services, here if I get verified?

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  • Huh. Actually the first time I've seen this.

    Thanks!

  • Well, it looks like verification photos might be useless now.

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  • The idea of using a picture upload for automated verification is completely unviable. A much more commonly used system would be something like telling you to perform a random gesture on camera on the spot, like "turn your head slowly" or "open your mouth slowly" which would be trivial for a human to perform but near impossible for AI generators.