I tried Bluesky a year or so ago, before this public opening. It felt like a mirror-universe version of what I imagine Truth Social is like: the vast majority of the posts were people approving each others' American left-leaning politics.
Even having gotten used to Mastodon - where every post has a chance of turning into a culture war and a good chunk of the posts are rants about politics that people don't agree with - I found it excessive as a non-American.
I have no issues with that kind of a site, I just didn't find anything there that would make the site interesting or worth returning to, for me. Spending some time on finding the "right" feeds and trying to curate my timeline didn't really help much either. Maybe the surge in popularity has helped with this issue though, with people actually posting stuff in other, non-political feeds.
It's plausible that the English vs Japanese toxicity difference also comes from this: political posts tend to be rant-y and negative even when people are agreeing with each other, and the English community developed from such a nucleus. Maybe the Japanese community didn't have any such initial influencing factors, and maybe developed more diverse, less toxic community overall.
Loads better than it being "Acer ZXGT423LV" which is the trend with smartphones and many other devices today. I'll happily take an "embarrassing" name over that mess.
Eh, knowing tech companies, we will end up with the worst of both
Acer Spectral MeatGrinder RPG Bazooka 16 ZXGT423LV-2024
Which should be unique enough, but then they just reuse the name and only change the code part
I write this as I look at an ROG Zephyrus G16 (2023) GU630HE (Last part is important, I think I had to check if it was the model with one of the RAM slots soldered)
There's a "inZOI: Character Studio" demo in the Steam page that just allows you to create a character. Beyond that, this page just seems to be a marketing page to get people to join their discord/newsletter and to wishlist the game on Steam.
Mod suggestion: change the title to "PUBG developer Krafton is developing a life simulation game inzoi"
Based on the main animation and the screenshots, it looks like this is a upper-class-American-life simulation game, specifically?
The cookie banner highlights the "Accept all cookies" button and makes the other option "Cookie settings" look pretty much greyed out and disabled, a dark pattern right away that doesn't set a great first impression.
The subtitle doesn't convey the content of the article nearly as well as the title does. Perhaps you can take a sentence like "PyTorch has been a net negative for scientific computing efforts" which the article does say, or some toned down versino of the original title, but the current title makes it sound like a very different article and felt like clickbait to me.
Can we get the title changed to the actual title of the post? "The future of Deep Learning frameworks" sounds like a neutral and far wider-reaching article, and ends up being clickbait here (even if unintentionally).
"PyTorch is dead. Long live JAX." conveys exactly what the article about, and is a much better title.
> That said, SponsorBlock has been around for years. I've been using it for as long as I can remember. Basically any decent-sized channel's videos already have the sponsored segment skipped. I'm not sure why someone just posted it but we're well beyond SponsorBlock "taking off".
I was gonna post a similar comment but with the opposite conclusion: SponsorBlock has been around for years, and the people who are really annoyed by sponsors are mostly already using it. Most of the rest of the population either doesn't mind sponsor segments (me) or isn't willing to go to the trouble of installing addons. Of course, there's always going to be people who become aware of it due to threads like this and start using it, but I'd venture that that's too small a number for worries about this suddenly "taking off".
I think, to some degree, this was my sentiment as well just not stated as clearly. I meant to say basically "SponsorBlock has been around and I know of a couple people who use it so it's taken off but hasn't caused any kind of revolution" but have been dealing with somethings in life and I think just was short with my explanation.
From someone who didn't finish it (ref. my other comment in this thread), the reason I dropped it was that it felt aimed at teenagers BUT not in the way (I presume) you mean: it didn't feel like a immature power fantasy trying to impress teenagers with flashy fights. More that it switched between "managing superhero powers" and "diving into teenage insecurity and typical American teen romance narratives" from time to time - and IMO not in a way that felt well-stitched together.
